A team like the Dragons certainly didn’t get much sleep this week

As good as the Like a Dragon (formerly known as Yakuza, of course) games are, without a doubt, they all have two fairly consistent traits: they’re long and they’re largely the same. Leave a thought for developer Ryu ga Gotoku Studio, then, who, not content with just making games, has decided to stream the entire series back-to-back.

It began the challenge on March 17, and completed it a week later, totaling 170 hours. To be clear, it didn’t play every The game in the series, starting with Yakuza 0 and ending with Yakuza 6 only, is the main one. Nevertheless, this one very much Kamrocho – and A very much Battles to reach the roof of the Millennium Tower.

With the livestream going on for so long, there were some memorable moments: Takaya Kuroda, the voice of Kazuma Kiryu, moved at one point – as did Goro Majima star, Hidenari Ugaki. Next week, it’s back to business for the Ryu ga Gotoku team – after all, like a Dragon 8, isn’t it going to build itself?