Ryu Ga Gotoku's shiny, mysterious new alt-history action game, Project Century, received a new trailer at Summer Game Fest that contained a lot more data, a lot more questions, and a model new identify: Stranger Than Heaven.
Stranger Than Heaven was first revealed at The Game Awards final December as Project Century, however with little or no data as to what the game truly was. We realize it's being developed by Yakuza creator Ryu Ga Gotoku studio, and options similar-looking action fight to what we've seen elsewhere within the collection…albeit dramatically upgraded. For occasion, the menus are sleeker, the blood and preventing is more brutal, and the selection to "Show Mercy" or "Show No Mercy" isn't an option ever provided in Yakuza.
Though this new trailer has shed a bit more mild on what to anticipate, it's additionally raised more questions. For occasion, the initial Project Century trailer was set in 1915 in Japan. This one is outwardly set in 1943. Why are there two completely different time durations? Is this a time journey game, or simply a game with a actually elaborate flashback/time skip? And the place in Japan is that this? Is this Sotenbori, as urged by the bridge? Or Kamurocho? Or someplace new?
Then there's the fusion in each trailers of conventional Japanese imagery combined with traditional Americana, like some type of alternate actuality the place a number of eras and cultures crashed collectively. We've seen that dissonance in each trailers for his or her respective eras, and although it's clear the game takes place in Japan, it's unclear precisely what alt-history is occurring right here. Fans already have theories, and so they're sure to kind even more within the wake of this new trailer.
Finally, we discovered the identify of at the very least one character: Mako Daito. He appears to be the protagonist, however the way in which issues are going, who even is aware of? He's received some wild blue eyes and suggests within the transient bit of dialogue that there's one thing unusual about him, however it's unclear precisely what. Last 12 months, an odd tease suggested that Snoop Dogg is perhaps on this game too. That's…an attention-grabbing forged.
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