A new trailer for Yakuza prequel game Stranger Than Heaven premiered at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. It ended with a perplexing announcement: Tupac is in it.
That’s Tupac, as in Shakur, as in the legendary rapper who has been dead since 1996. His likeness is the last thing we see in the trailer with zero explanation. The character doesn’t speak, but his actor is simply credited as Tupac.
Game director Masayoshi Yokoyama took the stage alongside rapper Snoop Dogg, an actual living and breathing person also appearing in Stranger Than Heaven, to talk about the creative…uh…choice.
Snoop’s elaboration was not illuminating.
“The Tupac estate and my son and myself, we work very closely together. It just made sense to put him in this game because his likeness and his spirit still lives on, and I feel like it was so connected to what we’re doing. What do y’all think?”
Snoop then gestured to the crowed, which responded with medium applause.
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