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Yakuza: Like a Thread
Mr. G
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The Yakuza series is what would happen if Shenmue was funDEPICTION OF THE YAKUZA
Author's note: A heated discussion takes place as to whether the game is stereotyping the yakuza, which is resolved when Midoriyama points out that the stereotypes about the yakuza are more or less correct, with the exception of their alleged prowess in martial arts.
M: The corporate yakuza guys get a thumbs up for realism. Nice suit. Smart. Financially savvy. Obsessed with money. Sneaky and conniving. Ruthless.
S: There are a lot of guys whom I feel like I know. The dialogue is right too. They sound like yakuza.
K: Braggarts, bullies, and sweet-talkers. I agree — it feels like I know the guys on the screen.
M: Kiryu is the way yakuza used to be. We kept the streets clean. People liked us. We didn't bother ordinary citizens. We respected our bosses. Now, guys like that only exist in video games.
S: I don't know any ex-yakuza running orphanages.
K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy.
M: You sure it wasn't just a tax shelter?
K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.
FASHION
Author's note: Kuroishi and Shirokawa are both wearing dark green suits, the former by Armani and the latter handmade in the posh Ginza district from local fabric. Midoriyama is wearing gray sweatpants and a faded sweatshirt emblazoned with a drawing of Doraemon.
M: What's the deal with Kiryu's scarlet red shirt? He's supposed to be a former boss of the Inagawakai--and he dresses like a chinpira (low level yakuza punk). He's a yakuza, not a host.
S: Except for Kiryu's crappy shirt, it's realistic. The top executive yakuza are all wearing good suits. They look like businessmen. The cabaret girls have incredible outfits.The hosts in the game are dressed like hosts. Somebody did his homework.
K: The lady cop, her outfit is perfect too. The boring black suit with the white blazer. That's what a woman yakuza cop dresses like.
M: Except for Kiryu's shirt, good. And his tattoo.
S: Not much of a tattoo.
K: Only on his back as far as I can tell. Maybe he ran out of enough money to get it finished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xThhJ0zltUYakuza 0, the 2015 prequel to the entire series, is finally coming to America next week
Yakuza Kiwame is a PS4 remake of the first game, coming to America this summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfabOXyWkJcand Yakuza 6 is the latest entry in the series, to be released in America next year
It sure seems these games are dope as hell but I've never gotten to play one because they either didn't come out here, or were released only on the PS3 well after the launch of the PS4
Yakuza 0 will be my, and I assume many others', first taste at the series that has seemed super cool for a long time
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Steam
I read it years ago and loved it
I have not been paying attention
Thank you, thread
https://www.google.com/amp/boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html/amp
In the Giant Bomb thread I caved and ordered my first Yakuza game, I still remember @Mysst describing the game series at what had to have been a PAX South scouting trip by Khoo and the desire to play one has always been kinda lurking in the back of my mind since but this will be the first one I can actually play.
Steam
But I beat the HELL out of it
And continued to return to it just to run around in that world
I don't know why I haven't.
I will be remedying this.
Riki Takeuchi, Hideo Nakano and Hitoshi Ozawa.
oh fuck, I forgot this was Jake Adelstein
if anyone hasn't read Tokyo Vice, they should, because it's fascinating
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Look, I know these guys are all predatory scumbags
but this is kind of adorable
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Yakuza games have previously only ever drifted around the periphery of my attention, and also for some reason I always thought they were micro management sims???
Steam ID - VeldrinD
These games are fantastic and ya'll been missing out.
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I thought the combat was amazing, but the hostess thing was weird and off-putting
Actually putting them out in a timely fashion helps
They completely overhauled the hostess stuff in 0. It's now an actually super fun arcade diner dash style minigame. It's fantastic, and much better than the strange half baked micromanagement and training stuff they put in previous games.
Yakuza 0 is set in the 80s, during Japan's economic bubble, so money plays a huge part in the game. Instead of it simply being a key part of the storyline or flavour they make huge amounts of money a core part of the game's systems. Money actually replaces experience points, you level up and unlock new skills with cash (and as an example of how absurd the wealth in the game is the late game upgrades cost up to a billion yen). Instead of gaining xp when you defeat an enemy you literally punch money out of them, coins and bank notes flying out of KO'd foes in a showering spray. In fact you earn such a ridiculous amount of money that the game highlights it at the end of chapters, comparing your current wealth to a number of different factors such as "yearly salary of the Japanese Prime Minister" or the cost of aircraft carriers etc.
I mean, it is weird and offputting
BUT
I helped a young man woo a hostess by dressing him American style. American style, in this case, being a 40 gallon hat and a giant sheepskin coat
If it's doing the bad guys exploding into money thing
Kinda crazy that they've had the same protagonist with a serialized story for over a decade now
Plus, he's a very good character
Steam
Yeah, I was REALLY interested in Kenzan, partly because there are basically no slow-paced open-world games set in that era.
It's all copy-pasted musou stuff and abstracted turn-based strategy.
Well I mean
Way of the Samurai...
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If all qtes were like yakuza's, they would not rank alongside escort missions as the worst thing ever
I get that money by beating faces in step 1. Glory to Y0.
Giant Bomb has put up their quick look of Yakuza 0 and boy this game is totally a Shenmue descendant.
Steam
Yakuza is Shenmume, if Shenmue was good.
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Maybe after the next few months if I hit a game dryspell.
Plus they like including every cutscenes from every Yakuza game in the hideout menu.
You've got a lot of avenues for catching up if you feel lost.