And now that I’ve wrapped up my Yakuza Kiwami and Kiwami 2 playthroughs, having spent roughly 100 hours with these characters thus far, I am entirely confident that I would be more invested in Yakuza 0’s introduction if I played it again. There is an intrinsic sense of needing to know more about the characters than the opening chapters provide in Yakuza 0.
While this prequel does an admirable job of situating itself within the pre-established canon of mainline Yakuza games, I had no idea why I was supposed to care about Kiryu and Majima at first. One of the biggest issues I felt early on with Yakuza 0 was a lack of connection to the game’s central characters, particularly the protagonists, Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima.
#YAKUZA KIWAMI MAJIMA ROLL TOGETHER SERIES#
I cannot overstate how wrong my first impressions with the Yakuza series were and how glad I am that I pushed through, for I fell in love with the entire experience by the end.
I was reluctant to sink my teeth into these characters and this world, but a friend gifted me this copy of 0 on Steam, so I felt obligated to at least push through my initial discomforts. That cynicism manifested in my first session with Yakuza 0, the prequel that published between the release of Yakuza 5 and Yakuza 6, and I nearly stopped playing after about five hours. The constant cheer pressure to play the game coupled with the abundance of absurd GIF memes from various entries in the series left me disinterested at best and cynical at worst.
I was severely turned off by the Yakuza franchise before I had even tried out a game in the series.
0 kommentar(er)
