Maybe they’re not so different after all. The two even shared a voice actor, as David Hayter also voiced Lupin in the Manga Video dub of The Castle of Cagliostro. For every serious quip (“I’ll die after I kill you!”), there’s one about the women (“Yeah! You’ve got a great butt!”), or one at his expense (“What’s wrong with you, Otacon?!”). He described how, in the original Metal Gear Solid, “Snake became this sharp-tongued, Lupin the 3rd-like guy who flirted with women and told lots of jokes”. But in a 2010 interview with 1UP.com, Hideo Kojima drew the comparison between the two himself. Lupin deals with the law and corrupt oligarchs while trying to nab valuable treasures. Snake deals with giant, nuke-firing bipedal tanks. The former is a special operative who laments his fate as both a hero and a killer, and the latter is a gentleman thief with an overactive libido. If Ichiban and Luffy seem like two peas in a pod, Solid Snake and Lupin the 3rd don’t look like they’d be sold in the same store. Players use high and low vertical and horizontal attacks to damage opposing player characters and can block incoming attacks or parry enemies' moves to gain a tactical advantage. He'd continue to say it was, to him, the closest they could get to a " Yakuza: One Piece" game. Like the previous games in the series, Soulcalibur V is a weapon-based fighting game. And around him, there’s Zoro and Nami and basically the rest of the party". In an interview with Crunchyroll, series’ producer Masayoshi Yokoyama revealed these contrasting sides of Ichiban's personality came from One Piece. But he could still be deadly serious when things got heavy. Unlike Kiryu, he was more emotional, wild, and a bit of a goof. Yakuza: Like A Dragon brought in new JRPG-style gameplay, and a new hero in Kasuga Ichiban. But there are also some odd standouts, like Yakuza Kiwami 2 having a substory based on the time Kazuma Kiryu’s voice actor Takaya Kuroda worked on BL drama CDs, and Lost Judgment having one based on the TV show Old Enough! Japanese crime movies like Sonatine and Hanabi are obvious standouts, as are martial arts movies, urban legends, Shenmue and House of the Dead. The characters from Sega’s Yakuza/Like A Dragon series draw from a lot of sources.
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