What do you do instantly after leaving PlayStation following about 30 years of service? Effectively, if you happen to’re Shuhei Yoshida, you join your first voice appearing position, as a inexperienced duck man in a recreation about mascots that is principally a few not fairly Kazuma Kiryu serving to “a dwelling finger work by her many anger points”.
In case you missed the occasion – my invite definitely acquired misplaced within the publish – Yoshida departed the massive blue model earlier this week, being given a pleasant cake with what I assume is his face on it, together with loads of strawberries. He’d been there because the early 90s, however now he is moved on, and will likely be utilizing all of his experience to play a man dressed as a inexperienced duck.
Yup, Yoshida’s been introduced as a part of the voice forged for Promise Mascot Company (thanks, IGN), a 2025 launch that is set to let gamers step into the sneakers of ex-Yakuza Michi voiced by Takaya Kuroda – sure, that is the Japanese voice of Like A Dragon protagonist Kazuma Kiryu – as he helps out a really offended finger performed by Legend of Zelda and Honkai: Star Rail VA Ayano Shibuya.
Yoshida is voicing one of many many mascots these two meet as they attempt to put collectively the “greatest company in Japan” in a cursed city – a inexperienced duck-looking ex-mascot referred to as MonouGe who’s opening up a recreation middle. As of writing, it is not clear whether or not MonouGe’s recreation middle may have blue decor and be referred to as one thing like ‘StationPlayers’, however given Kuroda’s enjoying Michi – a reputation just like Kiryu’s well-known Onomichi mascot guise of Ono Michio – there is a non zero likelihood.
You may get a style of Yoshida, Kuroda, and Shibuya’s dulect tones through the contemporary trailer above, which additionally stars Hidetaka ‘SWERY’ Suehiro, the developer of Lethal Premonition, as Kannushi-kun, a bird-priest kinda man who appears to know stuff concerning the city’s curse.
I do not learn about you, however this recreation’s now on my Steam wishlist. This is hoping Yoshida’s long-term future plan is simply as fascinating.