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Stop playing Yakuza out of order!

How are you even supposed to find an arcade and play Virtua Fighter in a game set a million years ago. Ridiculous.

(Good review. This is on my annual Yakuza rota for something like 2029. Be interesting to see if I live long enough to catch them all)

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I really enjoyed this one when I played the PS5 version for another outlet. It definitely had a smaller space than I was used to navigating for its main activity hub, but there was still enough to do that I had a blast. I think it's possible I am a hopeless Like a Dragon addict.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world2

EmP: My "in order" tends to be "whatever might be on PS Plus assuming I am in the mood for one". Which is why my order has been: Judgment, Yakuza 0 and this. I think 1-6 and Lost Judgment were all there for a while, but I wasn't in the mood for one during that time. And got Yakuza: Like a Dragon when it was one of the freebies given at the beginning of the month a ways back. Guess a side story one (Man who something something His Name) is up now, but I tend to like to stretch out playing this series. Do a game, take a long break, do another one. Because I can get bored with any formula if I play it exclusively.

Jason: It didn't really feel like a small area to explore, but the lack of the modern pleasures like those arcades and certain other places made it feel a bit more barren. Lots of restaurants and shops, but also a lot of streets and little parts of town where there wasn't much to inspire a person to travel that way any more than necessary. Like, because of the "crime fighting" sub-plot, I was regularly walking to the slum section of town and, taking the north entrance where you bribe the guard with sake in order to go in and out, there wasn't much to do on that walk other than get into 5 or so fights.

It was a really cool game and I do like this series' cinematic style of game than most that try to be so story-oriented (probably because I love mob movies and Yakuza at heart is a mob movie in game form). Not the best in the greater series, but a lot of fun.

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