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If you love one, you'll love the rest. Plus, Mafia only loosely connects the 3 games. While in Yakuza every game is a direct sequel from the previous one. So get Yakuza, play from 0 and enjoy the ride. And if you want, you can get Mafia remastered as a standalone at some point. Well worth it too.
- The Romantic Yakuza
- The Yakuza Outside of Yakuza
- Finding A Home For Outcasts
This struggle between a romanticized version of Japanese organized crime and its reality is a fitting theme for the final Kiryu-starring Yakuza game. Throughout every entry, no matter who he's up against, the series' protagonist has always fought against those who let greed or sheer brutality define their criminality. He, as opposed to the people h...
It makes sense that the Yakuza games would have a hard time balancing the romantic and grim realities of the gangs. These difficulties afflict even the yakuza themselves. In Tokyo Underworld, Whiting describes how the post-war Kanto Ozu-gumi, which "was the largest crime syndicate in Western Tokyo at the time," believed that they were somehow more ...
Family is everything in Yakuza 6. Kiryu finds himself growing older, moving from stand-in father to Haruka and the members of his orphanage to stand-in grandfather to her infant son Haruto. The Hiroshima gang he lives with have a similar relationship, forged through crime with their boss, the traitorous Toru Hirose (played by the great Beat Takeshi...
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3) Yakuza have connections to politics, particularly right wing political figures. Of course the American mafia had many connections to the government as well, such as infamously working with US government during WWII and the CIA/mafia connection in the 1960s with regard to Cuba.
Apr 17, 2011 · The dialectic ink of the tekiya-yakuza world with mainstream Japanese culture may be illustrated by comparing it with the American mafia. The traditional cultural context which determines the mafia’s code of behavior is dominantly foreign; that is, Sicilian-Italian.
Dec 20, 2017 · Fight Like Hell – Kiryu and Majima can each switch between three brutal hand-to-hand combat styles on the fly to create the most fluid beatdowns ever experienced in a Yakuza game. Use Heat Actions to trigger violent special attacks, or pick up environmental objects to whale on enemies.
- Yakuza 0
Kazuma Kiryu and Ryuji Goda: Honor vs Image. I absolutely loved Ryuji Goda, mainly because not only was his a giant pants thieving badass, but he was a distorted reflection of Kiryu. Kiryu maintained his stoicism and black and white perception of the world and himself out of a sense of honor instilled by the Yakuza way and Kazama.
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Mar 8, 2024 · The image of the Italian Mafia may come to mind when one thinks of organized crime. However, in Japan, the Yakuza play an important role in society. The Yakuza, often known as the “gokudo” or “Japanese mafia,” is a well-known criminal organization in Japan with a long and complicated history.
