Yakuza: Like a Dragon new Game Plus free

A whole host of Yakuza games, including the Kazuma Kiryu saga and the most recent and highly acclaimed Yakuza: Like A Dragon are on the way to PlayStation Plus. The series will be gradually released for free for PS Plus subscribers, allowing players who have missed out on the JRPG series to sink their teeth into the bizarre, compelling, and highly criminal world of the Yakuza series.

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Yakuza: Like A Dragon joins the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup in August. Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2 will launch in the August Game Catalog for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members. At an unspecified time later in the year, Extra and Premium members will get to play through the rest of Kiryu’s story with Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 Remastered as well as Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.

While playing through a whole series of games can be intimidating, Like A Dragon is a fantastic starting point — it introduces Ichiban Kasuga, a grunt from a minor yakuza family who’s fresh out of prison. For those who enjoy Like A Dragon, they’ll find that the series is deeply interwoven (aside from Like A Dragon’s turn-based combat system), with shared characters and through lines.

The Yakuza games are a breath of fresh air because of their absurdity and tongue-in-cheek humor, but they also manage to consistently find gravitas. The series has been spun-off many times over the years, including a detective series called Judgment and even a cameo from Kiryu in Super Monkey Ball.

Home Guides Yakuza: Like a Dragon – New Game+ Changes Guide (What Do You Lose and Keep)

This guide will describe what New Game+ does to your game.

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You start from the beginning.
Hard/Legend difficulty mode unlocked.
Job XP on hard mode from fighting enemies is increased dramatically, it is +8000 XP per enemy character defeated (note, not %: if an enemy would’ve given you 50 XP, it now gives 8050 job XP). This increases to +16000 XP per enemy on legend difficulty. Regular XP is unaffected.

Enemies on hard mode will start off at level 1 like with the regular game, but hit much harder and have more health.

Things You Lose and Keep

Kept: level and XP on all characters as well as Kasuga’s personality-levels + XP.
Kept: job XP earned, but Lost: access to the jobs in question on companions. Note: the jobs will show that you’re inexperienced in all of them, but once you select them once, they revert back to their actual levels. Also keep in mind that your job at the beginning is different to the one Kasuga has after he goes to prison, so don’t panic if things seem off! Various cross-job skills will also not show up until accessed once at Hello Work.
Kept: Your inventory and money.
Lost: Bond levels with all companions and all levels of relationships with other NPCs.
Lost: Exploration skills (foreman’s breaking of walls and searching after items under vending machines – easily regained in the story and once you have access to new jobs at Hello Work).
Kept: Romance Workshop upgrade level.
Kept: Ichiban confectionery/holdings money currently in the bank, but Lost: all assets, employees and XP. Stock up a couple of billions to make your NG+ management to go smoothly. Note: if you have the management mode set, the characters from that will show up eventually.
Kept: Eco points (after doing can gathering for the first time, your eco points will look like they get drained to zero, but this is just an illusion).
Lost: all substory progress, but certain things remain such as access to special employees in management mode.
Kept: suijimon data.
Kept: part-time hero completions of all kinds.
Kept: what you’ve explored, including fast travel points.
Lost: gear configuration.
Kept: various forms of currency/point for various mini-games (I’ve not checked them all yet).

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You keep your progress on part-time hero, your poundmates, gear, money, items and levels. You start the business management from scratch, but with the management funds that you had on your previous playthrough. Also, all of your workers that you can get from substories or the ones you can find on the street can be contracted as soon as you start the minigame. Your bonds reset though, as do the substories, but you can do the ones that give the job exp boosting items again to ensure every job has a 100% increase in exp gain

Does Yakuza: Like a Dragon have a New Game Plus?

Nani!? This might be the most bizarre and suspect handling we've seen of a piece of DLC in quite some time. SEGA has stripped Yakuza: Like a Dragon of its New Game+ feature in Japan so that it can sell it back to purchasers at a later date after every previous entry had the mode packed in from launch.

Is Yakuza: Like a Dragon free on game pass?

Included with Game Pass Play Yakuza: Like a Dragon and hundreds of high-quality games for one low monthly price with Game Pass. JOIN GAME PASS ALREADY A MEMBER?

Can you keep playing after beating Yakuza: Like a Dragon?

Like A Dragon offers a diverse range of activities to keep you busy, which can be good news once you finish the main storyline.

Can you date Saeko in Yakuza: Like a Dragon?

Once you have a maxed out Bond with Saeko and a maxed out Style stat, you will be able to begin a romantic relationship with Saeko.