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Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline.
Yakuza 0 takes place in late 1988, during the bubble era of Japan, in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated. The two central protagonists of the game are Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda), a junior Tojo Clan yakuza in KamurochÅ who is forced out of the clan due to a murder accusation, and Goro Majima (Hidenari Ugaki), a disgraced former Tojo Clan yakuza who works as a ...
Yakuza 0: In December 1988, many years before the original Yakuza, a young Kiryu is framed for the murder of a civilian, leaving him stripped of his place in the Tojo Clan and forcing him to rebuild his reputation from scratch.
Like a Dragon, formerly titled Yakuza outside Japan, is a role playing video game series developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku and published by Sega. The series debuted in 2005 with the release of Yakuza on PlayStation 2.
Yakuza 0, being a prequel, made it an easy jumping-in point for new fans as well as the expertise of recently merged Atlus USA, were factors in its success. This also led to the previous games getting remasters and remakes in the form of the two remakes Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 and remasters of Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5.
The spin-off also incorporates allusions to other Like a Dragon Games, such as Yakuza and Yakuza 5. Like a Dragon Gaiden was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 9, 2023 and received generally positive reviews from critics.
The name yakuza originates from the traditional Japanese card game Oicho-Kabu, a game in which the goal is to draw three cards adding up to a score of 9. If the sum of the cards is 10 or more, the second digit is the score. So a sum of 13 is a score of 3, a sum of 14 is a score of 4, etc. A sum of 10 or 20 is a score of 0.
Kiwami improved the resolution, framerate, textures and loading times compared to the original game, and additional content was added to resolve some of the more confusing plot points and establish connections to the prequel title Yakuza 0. [66] Yakuza was the first and (until the release of Judgment) only game in the series to feature an ...