Ryu Ga Gotoku Website Launched
by Vladimir Cole 
{ Aug 23rd 2005 at 3:00PM }
Sega has just launched the website for their marquee PS2 title of the 2005 holiday season. The game is titled Ryu ga Gotoku, and both the site and the game media featured on it look fantastic.
Writes reader Yong Fook, "It is another example of Sega foraying into darker themes. This game is about Yakuza, the Japanese gangsters. It is set in an area that resembles Kabukicho in Shinjuku, an area notoriously over-run with gangsters, and it looks as though it plays a bit like a more adult-oriented Shenmue."
The site's all Japanese right now, which means that you'll have to click around for a bit to discover all of the goods, but really, that's true for most game sites these days, whether they're in a language you know or not. To save you a bit of trouble, here's a direct link to the trailer.
What does Ryu ga Gotoku mean, anyway? Yong Fook translates it as "Enter The Dragon" or "The Dragon Goes" which seem kind of contradictory. Maybe it's really, "The dragon doesn't know if he's coming or going, but he's a dragon and he knows martial arts, so that's his prerogative."
_thumbnail.jpg "Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (Ryu)")
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
marlo @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
all i saw in that article was "yong fook" hahaha
Alkaiser @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
That game looks pretty nice. I like the batting cage mini-game shots, and the crate throwing.
It's nice to see Sega not just going back to the well, and doing awful, awful things with their known properties. At least they're finally trying something new, and guess what? It's actually generating POSITIVE word of mouth.
Funny how that works, isn't it, Sega?
David Craig Oshel @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Ryu ga Gotoku is similar to another expession (involving clouds and mists instead of dragons) which means "in swarms", so the title might mean "Dragons! They're Everywhere, They're Everywhere!" (like Fists of Fury, etc.) I'm just an ignorant gaijin, though. Considering the denotative sense only, it could mean "Like a Dragon."
Chris Norman @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
I prefer them venturing into darker themes this way rather than giving Shadow the Hedgehog a frickin' glock.
quahog_convo @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Seriously... that Shadow game looks pretty stupid... but this definitely looks interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this for sure. I hope someone is smart enough to pick this up... AND THEY BETTER NOT DUB IT! hehe.
arg! @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
This seems like a nice place to post this: http://games.kikizo.com/news/200508/141_p1.asp
Shenmue 3!! Yes!