New Ryu Ga Gotoku Game Project Century Rerevealed as Stranger Than Heaven

Ryu Ga Gotoku's shiny, mysterious caller alt-history enactment game, Project Century, got a caller trailer astatine Summer Game Fest that contained a batch much information, a batch much questions, and a marque caller name: Stranger Than Heaven.

Stranger Than Heaven was archetypal revealed astatine The Game Awards past December arsenic Project Century, but with precise small accusation arsenic to what the crippled really was. We cognize it's being developed by Yakuza creator Ryu Ga Gotoku studio, and features similar-looking enactment combat to what we've seen elsewhere successful the series...albeit dramatically upgraded. For instance, the menus are sleeker, the humor and warring is much brutal, and the prime to "Show Mercy" oregon "Show No Mercy" isn't an enactment ever offered successful Yakuza.

Though this caller trailer has shed a spot much airy connected what to expect, it's besides raised much questions. For instance, the archetypal Project Century trailer was acceptable successful 1915 successful Japan. This 1 is seemingly acceptable successful 1943. Why are determination 2 antithetic clip periods? Is this a clip question game, oregon conscionable a crippled with a truly elaborate flashback/time skip? And wherever successful Japan is this? Is this Sotenbori, arsenic suggested by the bridge? Or Kamurocho? Or determination new?

Then there's the fusion successful some trailers of accepted Japanese imagery mixed with classical Americana, similar immoderate benignant of alternate world wherever aggregate eras and cultures crashed together. We've seen that dissonance successful some trailers for their respective eras, and though it's wide the crippled takes spot successful Japan, it's unclear precisely what alt-history is going connected here. Fans already person theories, and they're definite to signifier adjacent much successful the aftermath of this caller trailer.

Finally, we learned the sanction of astatine slightest 1 character: Mako Daito. He seems to beryllium the protagonist, but the mode things are going, who adjacent knows? He's got immoderate chaotic bluish eyes and suggests successful the little spot of dialog that there's thing unusual astir him, but it's unclear precisely what. Last year, an unusual tease suggested that Snoop Dogg mightiness beryllium successful this crippled too. That's...an absorbing cast.

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