French website Gameblog recently posted a Yakuza interview with series producer Daisuke Sato. The interview went all over the place, from asking about Yakuza on non-PlayStation hardware, to the interviewer even asking if a Binary Domain 2 could happen. Luckily, if you don’t speak French, Gematsu has some translation for the meatiest chunks of the interview.
Regarding Yakuza 6: The Song of Life being the end of Kazuma Kiryu?s story?
Daisuke Sato: ?He is not dead, and that does not mean he will disappear completely, we may see him again one day.?
Regarding a Yakuza 0-2?
Daisuke Sato: ?We are still completely in the dark as there is no particular [Yakuza 0-2] project [in development]. But if we were to make it, it would be about young Kiryu and Majima again.? Regarding a Yakuza-style City Hunter spin-off or other spin-offs?
Daisuke Sato: ?This is a question that I get asked quite regularly. Technically, that would be possible. After all, the story of City Hunter takes place in Shinjuku. We have a common point and that would be potentially possible. Now, knowing whether to do it or not is another question because what?s important is that the two universes stick together perfectly. In the case of Fist of the North Star, we certainly had relatively different worlds, with a real world on one side and a post-apocalyptic world drawn from a manga on the other, but it worked very well at the character level. When we look at the characters of Yakzua and the char...