The reviews are in for Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, debuting to a respectable "Strong" on OpenCritic with an aggregate score of 81.
Executive Editor Meg Pelliccio, our resident Majima expert at TheGamer (who owns not one, but two construction hats), scored it 4.5/5 stars. She highlighted its brilliant characterisation of the Mad Dog of Shimano, the wild, arcade-y ship battles, and its action combat, which she argues is the "peak" of the entire series
Its Metacritic sits a bit lower at 79 right now.
VGC scored the game 3/5, describing the experience as an "amusing, if underwhelming way to kill time before Yakuza 9".
Eurogamer argues in its 4/5 review that this is a "first-rate Yakuza game despite the leftfield setting and delightfully unhinged plot".
The 3D action brawling combat of classic Yakuza is back in style, according to XboxEra's 8.4/10 review, now with "fun pirating sections" and even more "intense set piece battles".
In GamesRadar's 4/5 review, it says that Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a "sillier adventure with no less heart", describing it as a "fan game above all".
Game Rant, one of our sister sites, scored Yakuza in Hawaii 8/10, writing...
