Yakuza Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi Talks About the Popular Series, His Career, & Sega’s Future

Today Sega released a video interview with Toshihiro Nagoshi, know as the creator of the Yakuza series.

During the interview, Nagoshi-san goes in-depth into a variety of topics, including his long career in the gaming industry and the Yakuza series itself.

We also hear his insight on Sega and its future, which is rather relevant considering that besides his role on Yakuza, he’s also the publisher’s chief creative officer, with a say in pretty much every game the company creates.

You can check it out below, while we wait to hear more about the future of the Yakuza series in a few days.

If you’re interested in the Yakuza series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is now available in the west for PS4, Xbox One, Xbox One Series S/X, and PC via Steam. The PS5 version will release later, on March 2, 2021.

You can read our review and watch the launch trailer.

If you’re interested in hearing from the English cast, you can check out the trailers featuring George Takei and Kaiji Tang, one starring Greg Chun, one focusing on Elizabeth Maxwell, one on Andrew Morgado, one on Will Yun Lee, and another showcasing the cast as a whole.

If you’d like to see more about the game, you can check out the previous trailer, an epic music video, a bunch of recent commercials, another trailer, the previous promotional video, some gameplay from a few days ago, more gameplay showing all the jobs, some focusing on minigames, a batch of screenshots introducing the men of the Seiryukai, more showing the Omi Union crew, a few female characters that will help Ichiban Kasuga, a look at some inevitable product placement, one the at battle mechanics,  another showing enemies and summons, one focusing on making money at the beginning of the game,  one showcasing more advanced money-making activities, another on the new town Isezaki Ijincho, one on the Human Power stats, one on the Dragon Kart minigame, one showcasing the Bleach Japan organization, one featuring the Sujimon feature, one showcasing the return of old heroes, another focusing on how they will be summonable in battle, one showing fresh faces, and one focusing on photo mode and more.