![]() ![]() He finds himself back to where he started, struggling to look after a lost kid and trying to piece together what’s happened to all of his friends since he got put away. During this time, his skills fade, his once-energetic outlook on life is replaced by a more cynical, hardened one. But then, in a whirlwind series of cutscenes and plot twists, Kiryu finds himself in jail. He’s a rising star in the family, he’s a force to reckoned with in a fight, everything’s coming up Milhouse. The game begins as though you’ve loaded up a save from the end game of Yakuza 0 in which the player has 100%-ed everything. Series protagonist Kiryu Kazuma, a trusted lieutenant in the Dojima family is at the highest point of his young life. Your ability to look past these moments of inconsistency will dictate the amount of fun you have with it. I was initially surprised to see Kiwami releasing so soon after Zero but having played them both I can see why - they are almost two halves of the same story, their plots both intersecting with and flowing on from one another.įor fans of the original Yakuza, notoriously oddball and most definitely niche as it was, Kiwami‘s dogged insistence on preserving it in amber while also work in its new material means its a game filled with strange eccentricities. This also lets them reference events from its prequel, this year’s Yakuza 0. It’s also given the game’s writers the opportunity to go back to the script, filling in a few glaring plotholes, and adding subplots that allow the game to foreshadow the events of later titles. What Yakuza Kiwami can’t quite do is bring itself to be better than any of them.įar beyond a simple remake of the original 2005 PS2 beat ’em up Yakuza (or its original Japanese title Ryu ga Gokuto, “Like A Dragon”), Yakuza Kiwami upgrades the experience with visuals befitting current gen hardware, a number of modern mechanical overhauls and a few changes just to sand down the rough edges that have accumulated with the passage of time. I don’t know that it would exist without every other game that has preceeded it (though I guess, if you want to be pedantic, most come after it in the greater series timeline). Yakuza Kiwami is the sum of every other game in the series. ![]()
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