Yakuza’s Cabaret Minigame Is Making A Triumphant Return

I am very into the whole retro (from a design perspective) thing they’ve got going on here with The Man Who Erased His Name! Like a Dragon, aka Yakuza 7, made some pretty big changes when it shifted an action-centric series to more of a JRPG, so it’s nice to see the developers continue catering to a more traditional Yakuza experience, first with the Judgment games and now this.

While the English-language cabaret announcement simply said “The cabaret mini-game will be returning in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name!”, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Japanese account had a lot more information, primarily because—as is series tradition, both for the cabaret club but other games with hostess sections as well—many of the cabaret models are going to be based on real people like idols and Japanese adult video stars.

For this game in particular they’ll be holding auditions open to the public as well, with winners scoring $8,000 in cash, a job promoting The Man Who Erased His Name and an appearance as one of the hostesses in the game itself.