Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is not simply a long game, it is a deep game, and by that, I mean the game does not take shortcuts on anything. This is not a bloated game, filled with activities for the sake of activities. It provides countless activities, but each one has an individualized story or is literally a game within a game. Although the game can feel uneven at times and a bit scattered – mostly from flipping back and forth between protagonists and locations, it never sinks into a rut – and maintains its uncompromised joy of its source material and the Yakuza series. Like a Dragon’s greatest strength and weakness is the main plot. At times it is a touching narrative holding up a mirror to our Digital Age and Post-Cold War liberal capitalism, but instead of providing satisfying commentary the storytellers pull their punches and settle on bullheaded optimism and tropes about revenge and redemption.
