{"id":90090,"date":"2026-09-24T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90090"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:39:21","slug":"stranger-than-heaven-studio-made-the-tupac-resurrection-less-weird-by-not-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90090","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Than Heaven Studio Made The Tupac Resurrection Less Weird By Not Using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RGG Studio&#8217;s Stranger Than Heaven is certainly living up to its title, as the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/stranger-than-heaven-gets-even-stranger-with-the-addition-of-a-very-alive-tupac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resurrect the late rapper Tupac Shakur<\/a> as a character in the game was perceived as odd when it was first announced at Summer Game Fest. In a new update on the game, RGG Studio revealed more details about the game&#8217;s cast, including a brief description of how it revived Shakur using traditional research methods. The main takeaway is that the Yakuza and Like a Dragon developer managed to avoid making the casting more controversial by confirming that no artificial intelligence technology was used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;RGG Studio is treating this integration with the utmost respect for his legacy, crafting every aspect in close collaboration and without the use of AI, including his character design based on archival footage and photographs,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/09\/23\/stranger-than-heaven-full-cast-character-reveal-xbox-sega\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the studio wrote<\/a>. More details on the character who uses Shakur&#8217;s likeness, Amaru, will be\u00a0shared at a later date.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1895340\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tupac-2.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1895340\" \/>The likeness of Tupac Shakur was used for the character Amaru. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to RGG Studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/tupac-casting-in-stranger-than-heaven-came-directly-from-snoop-dogg-rgg-boss-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Snoop Dogg himself<\/a> who suggested Tupac for the role. The rapper also appears in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RGG Studio&#8217;s Stranger Than Heaven is certainly living up to its title, as the decision to resurrect the late rapper Tupac Shakur as a character in the game was perceived as odd when it was first announced at Summer Game Fest. In a new update on the game, RGG Studio revealed more details about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90090","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\/90090"}],"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=90090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90093,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90090\/revisions\/90093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}