Any fans of the Yakuza games?

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It's my new favorite game franchise. I love the story and characters in each game and getting to explore a recreation of Tokyo's red light district is pretty cool.

Playing Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 4 right now.

I bet you'll like Yakuza 4 it's one of the best games in the franchise.

I also recommend Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2. They are good remakes of the first two games for the PS2.

Definitely, it's one of Sega's few modern gems! They just even released a kind of pseudo spin off in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise that I'll hopefully be playing soon.

You know I really don't understand why people compare the Yakuza games to games like Grand Theft Auto? They really aren't anything alike. You don't even get to drive cars or commit crimes in these games.

Which reminds me I wonder what caused Kazuma Kiryu to want to join the Japanese mafia when he's probably the most moral and big-hearted man on earth? You never see him committing crimes as a gangster in fact he always stops other criminals from commiting crimes or picking on innocent victims.

Obviously being a yakuza was a poor career choice for him.

They actually do talk about that in the games. Kiryu was raised at the orphanage by one of the family heads. It's kind of common practice take in orphans as a means of recruitment for the Yakuza.

I guess that's true.

I really like Kazuma Kiryu as a character because he's not like the typical sociopathic protagonist that we tend to get in these type of crime games. He has a strong concious and a big heart and I admire the way he cares about people including children like Haruka and the kids at Sunshine Orphanage. He's not even the type to hold a real grudge against his enemies and after he kicks their butts he tries to talk them into changing their ways.

The guy is practically a saint.

I also really like Shun Akiyama. Not only was he a great guy too but I liked his sense of humor and his secretary Hana was such a funny and likable gal. I wish that he and Hana would hook up.

I'm partial to Goro Majima. While he comes across as a complete psycho he has some surprising depths that are hinted at in 1 - 5 along with Dead Souls and shown explicitly in 0. For all the seeming insanity he's quite intelligent and knows how to run the Majima family as well as the construction business that time he got fed up with the Yakuza life.

kane mo mibun mo
nai otoko wa
kore mo sadame to ukeirete
hataraite shinu no mi

minikui ukiyo wo
iji de ikiru zo
asemizu tarashi mi wo kezuri
ari tsukan
toutoku mo hakanaki meshi

aa iji hatte iji hatte sakasemaseu[1]
moyuru hanabira chizome moyou
doromizu sodachi no sono hana wa
ijizakura

kane mo mibun mo
nai otoko wa
kore mo sadame to ukeirete
hataraite shinu no mi

minikui ukiyo wo
iji de ikiru zo
asemizu tarashi mi wo kezuri
ari tsukan
toutoku mo hakanaki meshi

aa iji hatte iji hatte sakasemaseu[1]
moyuru hanabira chizome moyou
doromizu sodachi no sono hana wa
ijizakura

Played and beat every game except 3. There was a chase sequence I hated and couldn't get past.

Currently playing the 7th entry Like A Dragon.

Yazkua games are near to the top of my list for my favourite games ever. So, so good.