Yakuza, or Like A Dragon, or whatever you call it, has a lot of fans at TheGamer. The Judgment spinoff series is similarly beloved. Thus, it gives me no pleasure to report that a third Judgment game - which already felt decreasingly likely following years-ago legal issues between Sega and lead voice actor Takuya Kimura's talent agency - is almost certainly never coming.
In fact, there were rumours even before Lost Judgment released in 2021 that a prospective threequel had been internally canceled following those aforementioned legal issues. But the talented folks at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio remained fairly tight-lipped on it all until, of all things, an alleged interaction with a fan... way back in January.
Indeed, the interaction occurred a full seven months ago, during a franchise-themed event in Japan. By all visible accounts, the Like A Dragon fandom in the West was largely oblivious to the depressing tweet in question until today. First, here's the tweet:
"Wrapped up for now" might be some cause for vague hope (and it's worth bearing in mind that this is an AI translation, so there might be missing nuance), but I wouldn't recommend clinging to that. "They might...
