Kiryu's New VA Asks Yakuza Fans to Wait for Like a Dragon to Come Out Before Passing Judgment

Long-time Yakuza protagonist Kazuma Kiryu has a new English voice actor for Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, and fans are unsure about Yong Yea's performance.

[lptmg]

I am pretty sure that playing Yakuza games in English is a violation of the Geneva convention.

[FallenAngel1984]

I love Judgment for reintroducing English dub to the series

[LOGICWINS]

I can't imagine playing the Yakuza games in Japanese anymore. The English VAs for Like A Dragon 1 and both Judgment games are fantastic!

[porkChop]

Bro Like a Dragon's English dub was excellent. They even got Will Yun Lee. Not sure why they changed voice actors for Kiryu though. I like Yong Yea but he'll have to really knock it out of the park for people to accept the sudden change.

[Ashunderfire86]

He will knock it out of the park on this one. That means more subscribers to his Youtube channel. It’s great Youtubers are involved in the industries they are reporting.

[DarXyde]

He did a great job as Father Pucci. He's definitely got enough range where, if you don't see the credits, you'd never know it's him.

[RedDevils]

Who care, as long as they have Jap audio and I'm ok so switch between dub or sub.

[plmkoh]

Complaining about English voices in a game where the characters are supposed to exclusively speak Japanese is like complaining you ate a terrible shit burger but not because of the literal shit but because there wasn't enough cheese.

[goldwyncq]

What is it with people making food metaphors and always using shit as an ingredient?

[Tankbusta40]

Bunch of Shooter McGavins!

[CDbiggen]

Most of us won't even have to think about it, Japanese has always been the way to go for these games.

[VersusDMC]

Here is the comparison video between the english voice actors

https://m.youtube.com/watch...

Yong's is inferior in my opinion.

But i don't really care that much as i will always go with Japanese VO as their voices are ingrained in my mind after so many entries...i don't even want to hear the english VO for majima say kiryu-chan as i suspect i will die of cringe.😆

[RaveTears]

Yong kiryu voice doesn’t fit very well for this older kiryu but could have work in Yakuza 0, and 1.

[SimpleSlave]

Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name? Insta buy.

Like a Dragon: Turd Based Shenanigans? Pass or on a deep and I do mean deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ep deep deep sale. And only if I feel that $20 burning a hole in my digital wallet and I have nothing else to buy...

[andy85]

Yakuza 7 was probably my favourite one in the series. Turn based fits great. As proven by the reviews and sales (best reviewed in the series I think?)

[SimpleSlave]

I know Yakuza 7 was your favorite bud. And I know you like to use payed opinions and sales to validate your own opinions and arguments. Good for you kid. I only see good things in your future for sure...

But here's the thing, and do try to keep up. The Yakuza series was never a Turd Based game now was it? No it wasn't. It was always about having control of your character. Then they took that away to cater to...well, people like you. I would ask you to imagine something so mediocre, heinous, horrifying, and retrograde happening to your favorite IPs, especially after you stuck around and supported them since the beginning, but something tells me it would fly over your head and it would just be a big waste of my time to even try.

Sooooo...Anyways!

Hopefully SEGA comes to their senses and start developing Yakuza games into Pay to Win, Lootbox riddled, Online only, Season stained, Pachinko only, Looter Shooter, GAAS games. It'll probably sell even better. But we won't know until they try now would we?

So here's hoping...🤞🤞

[andy85]

I mean not really? The User score is really good and there are loads of 0 and 1/10 scores which reference the new combat which is nonsense. And I can't believe people still think games only score high because their review is paid. If that was the case MS with 10x the money of Sony wouldn't have let Redfall be a review disaster.

No it was never a turn* based game. ..They tried something new and guess what? It works. Game was fantastic and a success. I've been a fan of Yakuza since Yakuza 3 in 2009 and have platinumed 9 of the games, so yeah I guess you can say it's one of my favourite IPs considering I've put more effort into it than 99% of people. You seem incredibly triggered by my simple comment 😂😂 "kid"...I'm nearly 40 years old and there's only one person here who sounds like one.

[RedDevils]

Yakuza 7 should be it own series, Kiryu Yakuza should stay action as all other Yakuza.

[TheColbertinator]

Excited for the new Like A Dragon games

[goldwyncq]

He'll do great.

[jznrpg]

Most English dubs are bad. But most Japanese made games I play in Japanese if I have the option.
There are some good dubs out there but I’ve probably missed most of them.

[Psychonaut85]

I wish I didn’t know it was him. I like YongYea but i cant associate him with being a badass in any way. Probably will play in Japanese if I play it anyway though, so I guess I’m just happy for him; I’m sure it’s a dream come true.