What do you do right after you leave PlayStation after about 30 years of service? Well, if you're Shuhei Yoshida, you sign up for your first voice acting role, as a green duck guy in a game about mascots that's mostly about Kazuma Kiryu who doesn't really help with “a living finger working through her many anger issues”.
In case you missed it the party – sure enough my invitation got lost in the post – Yoshida left with the big blue brand earlier this week, getting a nice cake with what I think is his face, together to plenty of straw. He's been around since the early 90s, but now he's moved on, and he'll use all his experience to play a man dressed as a green duck.
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Yup, Yoshida was announced as part of the voice cast for Mascot Promise Group (many thanks, IGN), a 2025 release that is set to let players step into the shoes of former Yakuza Michi voiced by Takaya Kuroda – yes, that's the Japanese voice of Like A Dragon protagonist Kazuma Kiryu – as he help an angry finger to play Legend of Zelda and Honkai: Star Rail VA Ayano Shibuya.
Yoshida voices one of the many mascots these two encounter as they try to put together the “best group in Japan” in a cursed town – an ancient green mascot called MonouGe who opening a game center. In terms of writing, it's unclear whether the MonouGe game station will have a blue decoration and be called something like 'StationPlayers', but since Kuroda is playing Michi – a name similar to Onomichi Kiryu's famous Ono Michio mascot shape – no any chance there is.
You can get a taste of Yoshida, Kuroda, and Shibuya's gorgeous tones in the new trailer above, which also stars Deadly Premonition developer Hidetaka 'SWERY' Suehiro as Kannushi-kun, a good bird-priest guy who knows him. stuff about the curse of the city.
I don't know about you, but this game is now on my Steam Wish List. Here's hoping Yoshida's future plan is just as interesting.
