![]() ![]() RELEASE DATEĬompleted the game in roughly around 25 hours.ĭo you miss those other things? Different perspectives, building friendship with Officer Kikuchi or whoever else? ![]() Some extra features feel tacked on, lacking sidequests. ![]() And yet it’s also changed a lot, in that despite the technical makeover, there’s no upscaling the fact that Yakuza 1 is a game that’s lacking in a lot of the things that really appeal to fans who have come into the series through its later games.Įngrossing setting, expanded narrative. You run around Kamurocho, you punch a lot of people, there’s a lot of talking. Like, you can see here that in some ways the series has barely changed. So in that way it’s really interesting, both as a “historical” game, but also as a yardstick for how much the series has changed since it first began. This remake, aside from being technically beautiful (by Yakuza standards, anyway), is now very different, because it’s a 2005 game being experienced in 2017. And even then, I was obviously playing the game in its own time. Plunkett: I can barely remember the original, a game I played briefly at the time but never got around to finishing. What do you make of it as our resident Yakuza fanatic? The original Yakuza released in 2005 and when I look at the two games side by side, it’s really neat how much this seems to capture the feeling of the original. I think to start I want to get a sense of how you felt about Kiwami as a remake. #Yakuza kiwami majima racing fullGive me a good old baseball bat and a full heat gauge and I’ll work some wonders. Plunkett: Joining me for this review will be Heather Alexandra, who is as much a fan of smashing dudes over the head with bicycles as I am.Īlexandra: It’s true. Heather Alexandra, Kotaku: Which one of us is Majima? Keep reading to find out! Yakuza Kiwami, out this month on PS4, doesn’t have this feature, so we thought we’d implement it for the review of the game instead. Luke Plunkett, Kotaku: Yakuza games have become renowned lately for telling their story from the viewpoint of multiple characters. ![]()
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