The game opens with an explosion from the top of Millennium Tower, and yen rains down on everyone in Kamurocho (Play Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami to find out why). There are more chapters than usual in comparison to the past few games, but each one is shorter in length.

Each character has four chapters, followed by the usual finale. Instead, he’s joined by three other individuals with their own story primarily set under the lights of Kamurocho. Shark, Tiger, Detective, Dragonįor the first time in the series, mainstay Kazuma Kiryu isn’t the main focus here. Regardless, a port is a port and new players to the franchise benefit from rereleases on a current-gen console.ĭeveloped by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA, Yakuza 4 Remastered released on February 11th, 2020 physically as a PS4 exclusive. This might be part of the reason the games included in this collection ( Yakuza 3-5) were not considered for the ground-up Kiwami treatment, seeing as the PS4’s successor is on the horizon. With the release of the Yakuza Remastered Collection, players have the chance to round out their library from start to finish on a single platform. But by this entry, it’s pretty obvious that they wanted to do a little branching out with the storytelling while keeping true to the gameplay that works. Mind you, it’s obviously not my first exposure to open world games or games with an exaggerated focus on Japanese life. Were it not for writing for Gamer Escape, I probably wouldn’t have fell as hard for the Yakuza franchise as hard as I did after I started off with 0 and had the chance to review Kiwami afterwards.

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