Yakuza Kiwami picks up where Yakuza Zero left off, upholding its dramatic storytelling, offbeat humor, and flashy yet frustrating combat.
Yakuza vividly portrays modern Japan and its organized crime families, but it pulls its punches before delivering a truly great action game or a completely satisfying story.
Paraphrased. This game freaking rules! It's the bastard child of Shenmue, GTA and River City Ransom - complete with buying wacky food at restaurants for healing, XP, and getting armor & stuff at pawn shops. I coul... Read Full Review
7 of 7 users found the following review helpfulChronologically, this seems to be the second Yakuza game in the series, and having played other ones I could have guessed the back story. Yet, this game is a blast from start till finish. Kiryu is a great character, and... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulThis is my introduction to the Yakuza series (I'm so excited to continue through these games,) and overall I thought this was a very solid remake that maintains everything good about the original, while making it a more... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulThe game's story is its only saving grace. However the combat mechanics are definitely aged out, and most certainly from a time that equated challenge with repetitive grinding. The controls are unresponsive and dictated... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulYakuza: Kiwami ReviewYakuza: Kiwami is most likely what fans of Yakuza 0 were hoping it would be. A similarly developed/played Japanese JRPG/Adventure game (compared to Yakuza 0) that started it all back in 2002 for the ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulYakuza Kiwami"Here is the remake of the first game of the character Dōjima in Ryu aka Kiryu Kazuma."+ Consistent and solid history | Voice acting exceptional | Soundtrack very good | Intensity of the fights and it is alw... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulFor more visit Iamllamapie @ YouTube. When I first read about Yakuza in an issue of GamesMaster in '06 all about its western release it caught my attention but not long enough when there were games such as Oblivion ar... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpfulMost video games we've seen over the years have always been Mafia games based on the Italian Mafia through various parts of America. But we never hear much of other Mafia games until Sega released Yakuza which was releas... Read Full Review
4 of 4 users found the following review helpfulOne of the biggest mistakes I commited was to play Yakuza 3 right before I even touched the first game of the series. After digging out my Playstation 2, let's just say that a couple of things in this game didn't exactly... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulFirst of all i enjoyed playing yakuza. I liked the story and fighting. So here my review: Graphics: Well im gonna start with graphics. Graphics are good on this game, every character is well animated and they look gre... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpfulYakuza was the first in the series and it is the only one with terrible english voice acting. But with a great story and great gameplay I don't really give a crap. The story talks about how a man who covered up the m... Read Full Review
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