#YAKUZA KIWAMI MAJIMA EMAIL SERIES#

We were prioritizing regaining our ground with the series in the West from Yakuza 0, so time just flew by without an ideal time to release these games. Personally, I would like for these titles to be localized and enjoyed by our Western fans. Those have now been joined (or replaced) by technical issues, as we covered just last year, when director Daisuke Sato said: The first was an understandable fear that, if nobody was buying the main Yakuza games, why would they bother with these spinoffs? As that was slowly nullified by the series’ increasing popularity in the West, though, there remained concerns that much of the vibe of the games would be lost on a Western audience, who wouldn’t be as familiar with the nuances of the time period (it’s telling here that another Yakuza spinoff, the gun-heavy Dead Souls, was given an English-language release, which says a lot about Sega’s perceptions of the Western market). Sega and developers Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have long had multiple reasons to keep these games in Japan. These look great! I really want to play them! Inshin even has, if you’re a fan of the karaoke sequences in the main games, its own historical take: Check out the Japanese trailer for Inshin and you’ll see what I mean: While set in different time periods and with a sword-heavy, historical slant, these were still Yakuza games through and through. Then in 2014 Sega released Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! for the PS4, which did the same thing-only now set during the end of the Shogunate in the mid-19th century-and introduced more cameos from the main series, with appearances from favourites like Majima and Daigo. Set in Kyoto in 1605, it was a Yakuza game sent back in time, with players still controlling Kazuma Kiryu, only now he’s called Kazumanosuke Kiryu, and instead of being a gangster he’s a retired swordsman now working as a bodyguard. In 2008 Sega released Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! for the PS3, which I guess you can best describe as a Yakuza holiday special. I know this sounds absurd given the number and prominence of Yakuza games around these days, but it’s true! Folks were so anxious about it, in fact, that every tiny little change that Sega made to Yakuza 3’s English release was scrutinised to hell and back, with fans terrified that any little thing that could potentially hurt sales would mean the end of the series in the West.Īll that fear counted for nothing, of course- Yakuza 3 did just fine and the rest is history-but all that trepidation over low sales helps set the stage for why, around the same time, a different Yakuza game was released in Japan (later followed by a sequel) that we still to this day have not been able to play in English. But it wasn’t always this way! Between the release of Yakuza 2 and 3 things were looking incredibly dicey for English-speakers, and there were real fears that if Yakuza 3 didn’t sell well, it would be the last game in the franchise we’d ever get to see here. Order everything on the menu at Kyushi No.In 2022 Yakuza is a pretty big series in the West, as we saw yesterday when eight games made it to PlayStation Plus. Order everything on the menu at Cafe Alps Order everything on the menu at Akaushimaru And Kazuma Kiryu is released from prison to a world he no longer recognizes. Ten billion yen has gone missing from the Tojo Clan's coffers, putting the organization on the brink of civil war. Akira Nishikiyama has become a changed man. Sending Nishikiyama out of the room to look after Yumi, Kiryu picks up the gun as the police arrive to arrest the culprit.

Kiryu makes a decision that will change his life forever. Kiryu arrives to find Nishikiyama holding the smoking gun over Dojima's dead body, and Yumi in shock from the trauma. In an effort to save her, Kiryu's sworn brother, Akira Nishikiyama, rushes after them.Īs the thunder claps, gunshots ring out from the Dojima Family office. Sohei Dojima, Patriarch of the Dojima Family, kidnaps Kiryu's childhood friend, Yumi.

A Lieutenant Advisor in the Tojo Clan's Dojima Family, his hard work has nearly earned him his own sub-family in this prestigious group.īut one rainy night, the unthinkable happens. The year is 1995, and Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, is an up-and-coming yakuza.

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