Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth set 2024’s bar absurdly high | Kaser Focus

As of today, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is one of the best-selling games of January, according to Circana’s report. This once-niche Japanese crime series has completed its evolution into a wacky action-RPG, and I want to take this space to stress that this is the game for every other 2024 title to beat. I’m a mite overdue for a proper review, but I put that down to the fact that Infinite Wealth is lousy with sidequests and I’m an easily distractable person.

In Infinite Wealth, Ichiban Kasuga is living his best life when it’s ripped from him in as bizarre a manner as possible. Now, left with little else to occupy himself, he decides to follow up on one of the unresolved plot threads from the previous game: Namely, what happened to his birth mother. Upon being tipped that she’s in Hawaii, Ichi hops a plane to the island, where he unexpectedly meets up with none other than his predecessor, Kazuma Kiryu. Our once-stalwart street-brawling king is battling lung cancer, and this time he’s not winning. Fading and regretful (not that you’d know it from the way he can still throw down) Kiryu’s trying to wrap up his complicated life with the time he has left.