I’ve played halfway through the game on PS4, but stopped once it was announced its getting remastered. From what I’ve played it’s very good and it’s def top 5 in series
I’d say that I can’t wait to get to it, but I do want to savor my last Kiryu game. If I can stop running back and forth between (Yakuza 6) the gym and the steakhouse…
With today’s announcement, every mainline Yakuza game is on Game Pass at the same time. Pretty wild!
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Congratulations to the team! Hope RGG continues to find success.
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Sega releasing Like a Dragon into Game Pass and I am trying to get through the series and still on Kiwami 
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Yakuza is the unofficial mascot of Gamepass. It’s hard to imagine them ever leaving the service.
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I have a take on it and yes, Yakuza is the japanese GTA.
Of course the games are completely different and, despite loving both, I would never reccomend one because someone told me that love the other.
With that said, I think GTA and Yakuza are both parodies of their countries lifestyle, through the lens of their own cultures using the crime as a perfect borderline to show their country problems and comedy like their origin countries use to do. In that way, they are build with the same ingredients, but they were planted in very different soil, resulting in a completely different taste.
The major changes from GTA 2 to III and from the the traditional Yakuza beat em up to LAD turn based RPG shows to me that these elements are more important for the games essence than its mechanics.
That said, I’m playing San Andreas for the first time after finishing all Yakuza mainline games in 3 months 
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Alright, you make a good point with that. And I agree with you, actually. But that’s pretty much where the similarities end besides some other minor elements. I still don’t like the comparison because GTA is more of a sandbox game while Yakuza is linear-ish, so when people get told that they are similar, they get disappointed after playing it even though Yakuza was never supposed to be like GTA in the first place.
Lmao this is amazing.
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100% agree with you. Yakuza doesn’t play like GTA and I’m very cautious on recommending one because someone likes the other. But for the reasons I posted before, I like the phrase “Yakuza is the Japanese GTA” like “Lamen is the Japanese spaghetti”
I’ve always thought of Yakuza as an “open” world Streets of Rage with lots of mini games.
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It’s definitively the next step the beat em up genre has taken. They even released Streets of Kamurocho
This is what I see it as too. Kind of a spiritual successor to Shenmue as well in some ways.
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Also, there’s a new interview video for Lost Judgment. I have no idea what they’re saying since it’s in Japanese, but there’s quite a bit of new footage. Yagami has a Master System in his office, for example! You can play stuff like Alex Kidd on it. We can also see skateboarding, boxing, dancing, parkour, and a bit of combat.
Good stuff, they also confirmed Sonic The Fighters will be playable in Lost Judgment.
I was controlling myself because I wasn’t doing anything except playing Yakuza in the last months, but I’ll have to start Judgment today.
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This is the best way to view it.
Just finished 6 a few days ago. It was a bit of a mixed bag for me. A big step up in many ways, but also felt very odd. Kind of short and full of compromises. I understand that a lot of mechanical things had to be jettisoned as part of the change to the Dragon Engine, but some of the story beats were just totally baffling, and it’s hard not to be disappointed by some choices.
Yakuza 6 spoilers: I feel like this should have been a victory lap for Kiryu, but it ended up kind of hamstrung. Sidelining old important characters like Majima, Daigo, and Saejima was certainly a choice, but then some things don’t make any sense at all. Where the hell was the Florist? He’s not my favorite character but boy could he have solved the plot immediately. I understand that that’s why he wasn’t involved but there wasn’t even a throwaway line about him retiring or being out of the country or something. Purgatory is gone without an explanation either. The Champion District is missing too, along with the Dragon Palace. A lot of the plot was focused on Onomichi, which is a fine enough location. I didn’t care for the Hiroshima yakuza at all, and they took up a ton of screentime. I actively disliked Nagumo, and actually kind of resented how hard the game tried to make him a foil for Rikiya and then Kiryu. They spent so much time banging on about the secret behind Haruto’s parentage and the secret of Onomichi and both ended up being pretty lame payoffs in my opinion… I also personally can’t stand the trope of “I have to go away to protect you” and Kiryu did it TWICE. Just let him be with his daughter, god damn. I also think that they wasted an interesting character in Joon-Gi Han.
This is my last mainline Yakuza game, since I had already played Like a Dragon, so I’m just looking forward to Judgment now. Can’t believe I’m almost done with this wild and amazing series!
Judgment may be coming to gamepass so hold on a little longer if you haven’t bought it yet.
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I bought in the last promo and I’m playing rn. No regrets, the game is very good
I liked Joon-gi Han in 6, maybe because I didn’t know he will appear in Like a Dragon.
Yakuza 6 suffered a lot from being the first game in Dragon Engine. They couldn’t create all the Kamurocho’s north area and lots of nightlife content are missing.
The plot is great like all yakuza games, the bosses are the chars I wish more I could punch up until now. But the empty Kamurocho really makes this game the more empty of all series.