{"id":84351,"date":"2026-06-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84351"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:36:30","slug":"stranger-than-heavens-combat-system-makes-both-your-hands-play-separate-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84351","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Than Heaven\u2019s Combat System Makes Both Your Hands Play Separate Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like a Dragon and Yakuza\u00a0developer RGG Studio has built its gangland dramas around a very distinct combat core over the years, but with its upcoming game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/stranger-than-heaven\/\" id=\"590967\">Stranger Than Heaven<\/a>, the studio is introducing a brand-new way to bang knuckles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/summer-game-fest-live-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">Summer Game Fest<\/a>, we got to go hands-on with the Yakuza prequel, which spans 50 years and five distinct periods in Japan&#8217;s history. Yakuza and Like a Dragon games have a very arcade-inspired approach to their beat-&#8217;em-up action, but in Stranger Than Heaven, RGG Studio wants players to put more thought into every fist thrown or attack parried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is the team doing this? By introducing a combat system where the\u00a0left and right sides of the protagonists are controlled independently. For example, you&#8217;ll use the right shoulder and trigger buttons to throw out attacks from the right side, and vice versa for the left side. In practice, this creates a dynamic sense of action, allowing you to chain attacks together organically, parry enemies, and stun them long enough for you to follow up with a knockout blow.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/hvySwE-Kiu0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don&#8217;t have to rely on just your fists, either, as weapons can also help even the odds when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a Dragon and Yakuza\u00a0developer RGG Studio has built its gangland dramas around a very distinct combat core over the years, but with its upcoming game Stranger Than Heaven, the studio is introducing a brand-new way to bang knuckles. At Summer Game Fest, we got to go hands-on with the Yakuza prequel, which spans 50&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":84353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84354,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351\/revisions\/84354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}