Stranger Than Heaven trailer reveals RGG’s latest will span 5 time periods and cities

In the trailer, our heroes ride a trolley car, rip through a few cigs, flirt with a lovely geisha, do some arm wrasslin’, and get into a brawl in what appears to be an active steel mill. At one point, one of the protagonists wields a very large knife and shoves it right into some poor shlub’s ACL. Zoinks! “Break through Japan’s underworld,” the trailer says in boldface as a jazzy drum riff plays. We don’t know for sure at this point if Stranger Than Heaven will give us insight as to the origins of the Yakuza saga’s Tojo Clan, but it’s definitely looking that way.

Stranger Than Heaven won’t be the first game from RGG to take players to this many locations. Yakuza 5 also featured five cities, adding Fukuoka, Sapporo, and Nagoya to the roster alongside series staples Tokyo and Osaka. However, judging from the latest trailer, Stranger Than Heaven‘s environments will differ radically from one another due to the shifts in the game’s timeline.

A few weeks from now, Xbox will host “A Special Look at Stranger Than Heaven,” a deep-dive broadcast that will offer more insight into the game’s story, setting, characters, and mechanics. That event will take place on May 6 at 7 p.m. EDT, and you can find out more on Xbox Wire.