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Stranger than Heaven has been garnering plenty of interest since its debut at 2024’s The Game Awards as Project Century. While other short teaser trailers have been shown since, today we got our first look at the broader game in the Xbox Presents: A Special Look at Stranger than Heaven presentation. We now have a more concrete look at what Stranger than Heaven is, how it plays, what sort of story it tells, and how it potentially leads into the greater Yakuza/Like A Dragon series.
That last bit’s not really a spoiler, either, considering that Yakuza’s Tojo Clan is mentioned in the very first scene we saw.
Stranger than Heaven follows the life of Makoto Daito (voiced and modeled after actor Yu Shirota), a youth born to an American father and a Japanese mother. When his father passes away, he finds himself an outcast in early-1915 America. Makoto stows away aboard a vessel in a San Francisco harbor bound for Japan, where he believes he may be able to be accepted–beginning a saga that spans 50 years and five distinct periods in Japan’s history.
The presentation introduced us to a variety of characters, including Orpheus (Snoop Dogg), a
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