![]() With a main story that can get rather dark at times, the sub stories do offer some light relief from the heavy story driven main campaign missions. These felt very strange but they reflect the Japanese culture and are fully optional with the ability to back out of completing that sub story altogether if you choose. ![]() One thing I will say about some of the Sub Stories is that they are rather grown up in terms of the subject and tone of the story with some ranging from simply helping strangers when you can to some very saucy and at times kinky stories of a sexual nature. The freedom to just explore Kamurocho and other locations in the game in between main story missions is a real joy, not to mention all the side activities such as visiting the SEGA Centre to play retro SEGA games or doing some Karaoke. In a year of such impressive PS4 titles like God of War and Spider-Man, the Yakuza titles this year are right up there at the top of besting looking games of 2018 for me.Īs great as the main story is, the sub stories still serve as the side content to the game which allow for pause from all the action of the main and offers some very interesting tasks for Kiryu to undertake. On the visuals side Kiwami 2 using the same Dragon engine as Yakuza 6 but for me, this actually looks better with impressive character models and tremendous cinematic cutscenes throughout the main campaign and sub stories. The drama along with each twist will just carry players through the story itching to see what happens next and despite the fact that all the dialogue is still in its native Japanese with English subtitles, none of the emotion of the story is lost as the voice acting along with the visuals, convey every scene and moment in the story in a completely captivating performance. The strength in the writing of the story and characters is the foundation as to why these games continue to amaze and impress me. ![]() The twenty-five hours it took to complete the main story just shows yet again how much the Yakuza games have to offer and that time still left plenty of sub stories and side content to still do. ![]() But things are never as black and white as it first seems and as always with the Yakuza there are many twists and turns as this story unfolds putting Kiryu once again in the middle of everything. Terada’s final act was to ask Kiryu to step in to try and avoid a Yakuza Clan war despite of this assassination which forces Kiryu to return to the city of Kamurocho. Fair to say that the game starts with Kiryu and Haruka in a rather happy place.īut as the Yakuza series so often does, that happiness is cut short as Yakuza politics and drama following the assassination of the Tojo Clan’s Fifth Chairman, Yukio Terada at the very feet of Kiryu as he and Haruka were paying respects at a cemetery. Kiwami 2 picks up one year after the events of the first Kiwami games as Kiryu is now full guardian to Haruka and has walked away from his Yakuza life in the Tojo Clan. It is strange having played the possible end of this series with Yakuza 6 and knowing where the story may end for Kiryu but thanks to these remakes coming to the west, it is a real joy to experience the early chapters in his life and see all the memories and events that lead to that end. ![]()
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