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Yakuza Complete Series
Includes Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Yakuza 3 Remastered, Yakuza 4 Remastered, Yakuza 5 Remastered and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza...
Yakuza Complete Series
Includes Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Yakuza 3 Remastered, Yakuza 4 Remastered, Yakuza 5 Remastered and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
The glitz, glamour, and unbridled decadence of the 80s are back in Yakuza 0.
Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka with protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and series regular Goro Majima. Play as Kazuma Kiryu and discover how he finds himself in a world of trouble when a simple debt collection goes wrong and his mark winds up murdered. Then, step into the silver-toed shoes of Goro Majima and explore his “normal” life as the proprietor of a cabaret club.
Switch between three different fighting styles instantaneously and beat up all manner of goons, thugs, hoodlums, and lowlifes. Take combat up a notch by using environmental objects such as bicycles, sign posts, and car doors for bone-crunching combos and savage take-downs.
Fighting is not the only way to kill time in 1988’s Japan: from discos and hostess clubs to classic SEGA arcades, there are tons of distractions to pursue in the richly detailed, neon-lit world.
Interact with the colourful denizens the red light district: help a budding S&M dominatrix learn her profession, or ensure a street performer can make it to the bathroom in time – there are 100 incredible stories to discover.
I've heard about Yakuza series over 10 years ago and got Yakuza 4 to my PS3, I played but it didn't hit me at all so I almost for got about this amazing game serie. But when this game Yakuza 0 came I tried it just because it got so huge hype.. And oh boy did it struck like million ton.
If you don't know what is so amazing about this game is, lemme tell you in a different way than its usually beem told. This game has film noir, nay, nordic noir style with story and characters, amazing voice acting (japanese), story and characters that you'll really going to like, humor oh dear the humor, tons and tons of things to do and fighting. This game isn't japanese version of GTA, its one heckable ride. Get this game if you like to enjoy tens of hours and you're old enough to miss 80's..
This game is basically a visual novel with token main story gameplay and a bunch of side content. The cutscene to gameplay ratio in the main story to gameplay is one of the highest I've seen in a video game, rivaling some of the earlier Xeno series. If you enjoy story, this game is for you. If not, I cannot recommend it.
So what is the story? You play two different MCs, one framed for murder and looking to clear his name, the other sent to find and murder a woman or he'll be offed himself. For being in the yakuza the pair are quite honorable, and the shadiest thing either of them do throughout the game is in the opening scene where one of them beats up a guy for not paying a loan shark. The rest of the yakuza the MCs end up in conflict with are far, far more scummy. Summarizing the story beyond the opening premise is difficult. The game is written like a TV drama: it's episodic, and there are a lot of twists and turns to the story with many different names dropped.
Overall, the writing has its ups and downs. Most of the high points are individual cutscenes -- the majority of the recurring antagonists are all well-developed badasses with great voice acting, and any scene with them is very entertaining. However, the Majima story has a lot less of this, and for that reason it is definitely weaker, especially at the beginning. At some places it felt like the story was padded too.
Combat is the only other component to the main story's gameplay. While it is interesting, it suffers from a lack of difficulty until near the very end of the game. You can get away with using the same combos for most fights and don't really benefit from digging into the system until things get harder. Side content includes quests with short stories and arcade style minigames in buildings throughout the city.
I enjoyed the game quite a bit, but the game was not what people typically characterize it as. Only buy it if the story and setting are appealing to you.
"Real yakuza use a gamepad"... That always made me smile. But controllers don't work on GOG Galaxy and the only way I've found to play the game was through Steam.
This is a crazy, hilarious game. Incredibly sexist, too (well, it's Japan in the 1980s)! It's a game by guys and for guys; even real adult film actresses, like Marina Shiraishi and Ai Uehara, are featured as characters.
Took me 124 hours to finish it with 58% completion rate. You can play this forever if you go for 100% or tackle the challenge levels.
There are 17 chapters in which you alternate, at every 2 chapters, between protagonists Kyryu Kazuma ("The Dragon of Dojima") and Goro Majima ("The Mad Dog of Shimano"), on 2 main maps with fictional portions of pleasure distritcs in Tokyo and Osaka. The maps are not huge, but there's a lot to do in them.
Combat feels a bit like "The Witcher": dodge, block, light attack, strong attack, plus QTEs. Not great but not terrible either.
The main story is pretty violent and dramatic, but the 100 smaller side stories are generally funny and even heartwarming. The tone varies greatly and it's all pretty nonsensical, but very entertaining.
Arguably, this is the best game in the series and also the best starting point, since, as the title implies, it's the prequel.
P.S. Don't watch the introductory video, it's full of spoilers!
For anyone new to Yakuza, I'd *highly* recommend playing the original Yakuza instead of Kiwami as this game that spoils one of Yakuza 4's main plot points/characters, starts with a game that has a combat system miles away from other Yakuza games, and (sort of) spoils the original game's plot. Kiwami in general's a pretty sub-par remake. Play 0 after Yakuza 5.
Ladies and gentlemen, the game that revived Yakuza for the western audience. With great Story, even greater Gameplay, and Karaoke. I can't say much without spoiling the game, but I can say with certainty, if you love RPGs and beat-em-ups, you'll LOVE Yakuza.
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