So, yes, it doesn't exactly represent the state of modern gaming art – but even those cut scenes are so lovingly crafted that you won't resent watching them. Yakuza 4 (4 Ry ga Gotoku f: Densetsu o Tsugumono, lit. Yakuza 4 accurately represents This game is a 'Japan Simulator'. There's a stupendously convoluted plot examining the minutiae of yakuza life and its codes of honour, which unfolds in the form of long cut scenes. You'll find Tadashi on the northeastern side of the lot. Again, it's an action-RPG, set predominantly in an ache-inducingly evocative rendition of modern Tokyo through which you wander, performing often offbeat plot-forwarding missions and fighting random thugs. Pay 1,000 yen to one of the homeless guys at the end of the Mall to learn that Tadashi ran into the underground parking lot. If you're one of the few who played Yakuza 3, you'll find Yakuza 4 agreeably familiar. Through four acts and a short finale, I played as a loan shark, an escaped convict, a jaded cop and that reformed yakuza I mentioned a while ago. Yakuza 4 has three new protagonists in addition to Kazuma Kiryu, the main character since the original Yakuza game: Masayoshi Tanimura (Hiroki Narimiya/Toshiki.
#YAKUZA 4 MOVIE#
The Yakuza games are uncannily Shenmue-like, which is unsurprising given they were developed by much of the Shenmue team. Yakuza 4 is a mafia movie in a JRPG/brawler hybrid.
#YAKUZA 4 SERIES#
Perhaps Sega's Japanese gangster series fell victim (at least outside Japan) to the company's withdrawal from the console race, which in turn decimated a once-healthy fan-boy culture that revered no game more than the rambling, evocative Shenmue. The narratives that explore Kiryu and Majimas backstories before the events of the first game made for a great entry point into the series. Set in a fully realized, authentic recreation of Tokyo's 'Sin-City District' the deep and interweaving crime drama of Yakuza 4 unfolds through the eyes of four unique and dangerous characters. T here are plenty of very good games that slip under the radar before eventually being accorded cult-classic status, but Yakuza is the only franchise I can think of that has been awarded that dubious distinction. Yakuza 0 is one of the most important games in the series, with this prequel finally opening the doors for one of Japans most over-the-top and entertaining series to make a massive mark in the West. Yakuza 4 recreates the real underground world of Tokyo and lets you thrive in an intensely deep crime action game where four men cross paths over a woman and dead man.
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