Ryu ga Gotoku 8": Initial character jobs, including exclusive jobs for Kasuga and Kiryu, & some of the various new jobs! Release on 1/26/2024

Yakuza8" for PlayStation5, PlayStation4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and PC (Steam), scheduled for release on January 26, 2024 (Friday), the "Job Change System" to create the ideal party An overview of the "Job Change System" was released.

Yakuza8" for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and PC (Steam) is a dramatic RPG featuring Kasuga Ichiban, the main character from "Yakuza7," and Kiryu Kazuma. Yakuza8" depicts the best drama of the series with two main characters, "Kasuga Ichiban," a man who crawls up again from the bottom, and "Kiryu Kazuma," a man who challenges the last battle of his life.

⇒ Yakuza8", the story of the unluckiest and happiest guys in the world, will be released on January 26, 2024 (Friday)! The main cast is also revealed at a glance!

The outline of the "Job Change System" for "Yakuza8" to create the ideal party has now been revealed.

Battles have evolved into a "new live command RPG battle" with more action and strategy. The addition of new jobs, extensive customization, and training elements allow players to create the strongest party possible.

Job change system.

This title allows players to change their basic abilities and usable skills by taking on a variety of jobs.
The game's job change system allows players to take on a variety of jobs, changing their basic abilities and the techniques they can use.

Initial job for each character
＜Initial job for Kazuma Kiryu: Dragon of Dojima
The "Dragon of Dojima" job, exclusive to Kazuma Kiryu, boasts overwhelming offensive power that sets it apart from other jobs, as befits a legendary man. It also features the ability to switch between three battle styles during battle.

Style Introduction "Yakuza
This style can be said to be the royal road to Kiryu's fighting style, in which he furiously strikes the enemy. When he approaches an enemy and attacks, he can perform heat actions depending on the situation.

Style Introduction "Rush
This is a speedy style in which the fighter can make two normal attacks and deliver a barrage of high-speed blows. The range of movement is wider and the attack turn comes around faster.

Style: "Breaker
This is a power style in which the wielder grabs and swings at enemies and other objects with great force. It increases attack and defense power, and is strong against opponents who guard against it.

<Haruhi Ichiban's exclusive initial job: Brave warrior.
Extreme Technique: Ground Liner
With a bat in one hand, this versatile battle style is capable of producing a variety of attack techniques. It is a job worthy of the name "hero," as it can also encourage and heal its comrades and inspire them to improve their abilities.
The ground liner is a technique that maintains a distance from the enemy and becomes more powerful the longer the distance is between the ground liner and the enemy. When it hits, it also reflects the characteristics of the weapon being equipped.

＜Eric Tomizawa's exclusive job: Taxi Driver.
Extreme Technique: Tire Throwing
This battle style uses a wrench as a weapon and specializes in attribute techniques such as electricity and cold air. This is a technical job that allows one to dominate the battle situation by taking advantage of special skills to exploit the enemy's weak points or weaken them.
Tire Throwing can run over enemies in a straight line in front of it, and is effective against densely-packed enemies.

＜Exclusive job for Chitose Fujimiya: Zaibatsu Ryojo.
Extreme Technique: Grande Jouette
A battle style that uses a variety of ballet dance and other lessons to taunt the enemy. This job has techniques that lower the enemy's attack power and instantaneous force, and can be used against strong opponents.
Grande Jutte blasts away enemies with her dance jumps, and depending on where she stands, she can also expect to hit walls, pillars, and other objects for additional damage.

＜Exclusive job for Yuu Namba: Homeless
Extreme Technique: Continuous Hot Air Breath
This is a wizard-like battle style in which a variety of techniques are performed with an umbrella or staff in hand. This job also has many techniques that are unique to the homeless and accentuate the battle situation.
The continuous hot breath allows the direction of the breath to be adjusted at will, and inflicts damage on multiple enemies.

＜Exclusive job for Koichi Adachi: Detective
Extreme Technique: Jigoku Tomoe Throw
A powerful battle style with a baton in one hand and attack techniques that break through even the opponent's guards. With its outstanding durability, this job also serves as a shield for the party and is the key to offense and defense.
The Jigoku Tomoe Throw removes the enemy's guard and inflicts even more damage.

<Initial job for Saeko Mukoda: Chi-mama
Champagne Splash
This battle style wields a handbag and uses attacks that inflict abnormal conditions to gain the upper hand. This is a highly flexible job that allows the user to make a variety of choices even when fighting strong opponents or in long battles.
The Champagne Splash is a magical attack with a cold attribute that inflicts damage while also putting surrounding enemies into a cold state.

<Initial job for Songhee: Assassin>.
■Polar Technique: Electric Swing
A battle style that allows a variety of attacks using various assassination weapons such as sharp needles and bow guns. This job excels in tricky battles in which the enemy is deprived of the opportunity to attack, such as by disabling the enemy with a technique using a whip or hand grenade.
The electric swing is a powerful blow with a whip that paralyzes multiple enemies.

<Han Jungin's exclusive initial job: Hitman
Extreme technique: Killing Slash
This is a one-hit kill style of battle that makes full use of the blindingly fast assassination technique.
This job uses a variety of attacks, including blows, slashes, and ranged attacks, to strike the enemy.
With the Killing Slash, the player can come up behind the enemy and unleash a blow that will bring the enemy's heart to their throat.

＜Exclusive job for Zhao Tianyu: Mafia.
Extreme Technique: Healing Drinking Tea
This is a super-aggressive style of battle in which the player manipulates a blue dragon sword and slashes down the enemy with overwhelming power. This is a job in which the player plays an active role both offensively and defensively, weakening the enemy while attacking, and strengthening himself while playing tricks on the opponent.
In the healing "Grand Drinking Tea," he can heal his allies by serving them his specialty, dim sum.

＜ New Job
A variety of new jobs are available in this title, including jobs that match the new setting of Hawaii. Here are just a few of the new jobs!

New male job: Samurai
Extreme skill: Iai, Gale Slash
The Samurai is skilled with both sword and bow, and specializes in ranged attacks.
Techniques using swords easily cause enemies to bleed, and enemies in a bleeding state take more damage. This job allows for flexible attacks depending on the battle situation, such as using bows and arrows to attack multiple enemies.
In iai and gale slashing, he cuts through enemies with a high-speed iai slash.

New male job: Marine Master
Extreme Skill: Around Wave
This battle style uses sea creatures and marine goods to deceive opponents.
The Marine Master has a full array of techniques unique to the sea, such as blinding opponents with squid ink and paralyzing them with electric jellyfish. The job has a good balance of abilities, and is very user-friendly as it can both attack and heal.
Around Wave runs over enemies in the direction of travel and inflicts damage.

New male job: Western Man
Extreme Skill: Wild Hunt
This battle style excels in multiplayer battles, armed with two guns, dynamite, lasso, and other weapons.
This job can also learn a variety of abnormal techniques, and has the strength to reliably kill its prey.
The Wild Hunt uses a lasso to capture the enemy and block their techniques.

New female job: Kunoichi
Extreme Technique: Separate Body Slash
This is a battle style in which the ninja uses their incredible speed and ninjutsu to taunt their opponents.
She can switch turns with her allies by using her mutable body technique, or she can split her body to inflict heavy damage on her opponents. This job allows one to increase one's speed to deceive the enemy and use a variety of ninjutsu to transform the battle situation.
The more instantaneous the split body cutting is, the more split bodies you have and the more damage you can inflict.

■New female job: Housekeeper
Extreme Technique: Bubble Wash Tornado
A battle style that applies cleaning techniques to unleash attacks and wipe out enemies in spectacular fashion.
This job excels in multiplayer battles, magically manipulating mops, vacuum cleaners, and other tools to attack a wide range of enemies.
The Bubble Wash Tornado swings a wet mop to wipe out enemies in a wide area.

New female job: Tropical Dancer
Extreme technique: Dancing Kick
This battle style uses a mysterious dance to attack and support allies. With her extremely high magical power, she can also unleash powerful magical attacks. It is a well-balanced job that is also excellent at strengthening and recovering allies.
Dancing Kick can magically blow away enemies when it hits.

Title information.

■" Yakuza8 "
Compatibility ： PlayStation5 / PlayStation4 / Xbox Series X|S / Xbox One / Windows / PC (Steam)
Release Date ： January 26, 2024 (Friday)
Price ：
Standard Edition 9,680 (tax included)
Deluxe Edition 10,780 (tax included )
Ultimate Edition 12,760 (tax included)
Genre : Dramatic RPG
Player : 1 player
Publisher ： SEGA Corporation
CERO ： D (for ages 17 and up)

(C)SEGA Corporation