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If I hadn't been bored and watching Angry Joe I would have never found this gem.
What an excellent magnificent game series. Does everything right that Sleeping Dogs did plus doing right everything Mafia 3 did wrong plus a touch of Saints Row.
Story, fights, side missions, climate, WOW.
Not a truly open sandbox but close enough.
It's a fist fighting game series so no miniguns but I love that (btw Japan has two digit gun homicides, yes, as in 15 people killed by guns in a country of 80 million a year)
If you liked Sleeping Dogs, then this is what you will love (and yes I know the Yakuza game series is legend).
Like watching a classic Beat Takeshi movie with some off the wall JRPG madness.
Edit:
Okay, quick edits because my first post was deleted by my pocket.
The Yakuza is an awesome awesome series. It’s GTA for people who aren’t sociopaths.
A long long tale of honor and blood.
Big bad Kiryu is more macho than Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris combined.
His best friend and best enemy is Mijama who is a Freddie Mercury who is straight and will beat your ass with a baseball bat and then drink whiskey all night with you.
Along the way you will be doing RC car races, driving taxis, doing dating games, fighting bears, riding snow scooters, running a cabaret , buying real estate and fighting real life Japanese wrestling legends as well as famous Japanese film stars.
If you want to get into the series, start with Yakuza Zero.
Then Yakuza Kiwami 1->5. Plenty of packs and bundles with epic remastered editions (I have 4-5 on PS3 but will buy Yakuza 3 PS4 for Xmas.
Chill out with Judgment next as a sorbet and finish withYakuza 6.
Don’t play Yakuza 6 until you go through the series. The game engines change during the series and Yakuza 6 and Judgment are the most advanced.
Judgment was the current Kamarucho installment and has a lawyer turned detective running around. It’s out and it’s awesome but not Yakuza Zero or 6 awesome. Some of it reminds me of GTA 3 difficulty stupid rubbish.
Then we got Yakuza 7 which was an rpg combat game...
https://dailygamingreport.co.uk/lat...new-story-and-gameplay-change-details-emerge/
Personally I like to Kiryu into people and not to a turn battle BS which is so stale JRPG. The combat here was pretty boring. The gameplay outside of combat was cool apart from the utterly atrocious dungeon levels which are a serious and bad grind. The story is not on the level of the other games but that’s like saying prime Fox wasn’t as hot as prime Jolie. I think going into dungeon territory was a serious mistake though, making it the worst entry in the series (let’s ignore the zombie game) but still a great game.
But now we have Judgment 2 which already has my hairs prickling at being back in good old Kamurocho, a fictional part of Tokyo which actually looks so much like it that if you’ve played enough you can walk that part of town according to people who have visited.
What an excellent magnificent game series. Does everything right that Sleeping Dogs did plus doing right everything Mafia 3 did wrong plus a touch of Saints Row.
Story, fights, side missions, climate, WOW.
Not a truly open sandbox but close enough.
It's a fist fighting game series so no miniguns but I love that (btw Japan has two digit gun homicides, yes, as in 15 people killed by guns in a country of 80 million a year)
If you liked Sleeping Dogs, then this is what you will love (and yes I know the Yakuza game series is legend).
Like watching a classic Beat Takeshi movie with some off the wall JRPG madness.
Edit:
Okay, quick edits because my first post was deleted by my pocket.
The Yakuza is an awesome awesome series. It’s GTA for people who aren’t sociopaths.
A long long tale of honor and blood.
Big bad Kiryu is more macho than Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris combined.
His best friend and best enemy is Mijama who is a Freddie Mercury who is straight and will beat your ass with a baseball bat and then drink whiskey all night with you.
Along the way you will be doing RC car races, driving taxis, doing dating games, fighting bears, riding snow scooters, running a cabaret , buying real estate and fighting real life Japanese wrestling legends as well as famous Japanese film stars.
If you want to get into the series, start with Yakuza Zero.
Then Yakuza Kiwami 1->5. Plenty of packs and bundles with epic remastered editions (I have 4-5 on PS3 but will buy Yakuza 3 PS4 for Xmas.
Chill out with Judgment next as a sorbet and finish withYakuza 6.
Don’t play Yakuza 6 until you go through the series. The game engines change during the series and Yakuza 6 and Judgment are the most advanced.
Judgment was the current Kamarucho installment and has a lawyer turned detective running around. It’s out and it’s awesome but not Yakuza Zero or 6 awesome. Some of it reminds me of GTA 3 difficulty stupid rubbish.
Then we got Yakuza 7 which was an rpg combat game...
https://dailygamingreport.co.uk/lat...new-story-and-gameplay-change-details-emerge/
Personally I like to Kiryu into people and not to a turn battle BS which is so stale JRPG. The combat here was pretty boring. The gameplay outside of combat was cool apart from the utterly atrocious dungeon levels which are a serious and bad grind. The story is not on the level of the other games but that’s like saying prime Fox wasn’t as hot as prime Jolie. I think going into dungeon territory was a serious mistake though, making it the worst entry in the series (let’s ignore the zombie game) but still a great game.
But now we have Judgment 2 which already has my hairs prickling at being back in good old Kamurocho, a fictional part of Tokyo which actually looks so much like it that if you’ve played enough you can walk that part of town according to people who have visited.
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