YAKUZA KIWAMI MAJIMA HIDING SERIES
When Kiryu gets paroled 10 years later, he finds that Akira has taken control of a family of his own, and has made a major shift from the overeager brown-noser of the previous game to an ice-cold schemer who may be more involved than Kiryu thinks with a series of murders up and down the yakuza chain of command.
To protect Akira, Kiryu takes the blame for the murder, goes to prison, and is expelled from his family. Those plans get chucked out the windows when childhood friend and fellow yakuza member Akira Nishikiyama kills a yakuza boss who tries to force himself on a dear friend. Yakuza Kiwami starts out in 1995, eight years after the events of Yakuza 0, with taciturn protagonist Kiryu Kazuma having risen far enough in the yakuza ranks to be on the verge of starting his own family operating out of Tokyo’s red-light district. One doesn’t have to peel back the 1080p/60fps wallpaper too far to see “Made in 2005” printed garishly on almost every aspect of the game. To its credit, Yakuza Kiwami performs both functions admirably, if not perfectly.
This has placed the latest entry in the series, Yakuza Kiwami, in the rough situation of being more than just a remake to the original Yakuza from 2005 but also, for those players who are new to this universe, an ostensible sequel to Yakuza 0. The Yakuza series has had a rough time finding a foothold with audiences outside of Japan-until, that is, the success of Yakuza 0.
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