Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

[h1]This game should have been called Yakuza 6: The Song of Depression :( (Watch out for spoilers in the spoiler tag!)[/h1] After playing 7 games in the Yakuza series, from 0 to 6, we finally reach the "end" of Kiryu's saga. And my god, if you are even somewhat attached to the characters and the whole world around them, this game is going to leave you with a massive void. What I really appreciated about this Yakuza compared to the other entries is that the story is mainly focused on Kiryu and the people close to him. No more games with 5 protagonists and 200 different plotlines. We go back to a more "classic" format with a much shorter runtime than Yakuza 5. And in this game, I had a feeling that I hadn't experienced since maybe Yakuza 0 or even Kiwami. You really feel like Kiryu has gotten himself into some serious ♥♥♥♥. It goes beyond the usual conflicts between Yakuza clans. It goes even further than that, and the payoff really confirms that feeling of "gravity" surrounding what Kiryu is facing. WARNING: Everything below this point contains major spoilers. If you haven't played the game, do not read this section! I warned you! [spoiler]To be honest, at first I didn't fully u…

Kiryu is such a paradox. He's so selfless that its almost selfish what he considers to do that sets the story of 6. Y6 helps me understand that Kiryu is not some badass character but a man so deep in his ideals that it makes him a hypocrite. It makes the ending much sadder with Kiryu ultimately paying the price to keep his family safe. 9.3/10

gave me life

Mahjong is literally the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game ever made and I hope the people who invented it were made brides of Genghis.

This game is all right. There's parts I don't like, but I think in an overall sense this was a decent experience and I wouldn't mind going for the platinum (even if it included the completion list, which this one inexplicably doesn't) - something I do NOT feel about Yakuza 5. 6 is worth your time and worth playing, but is incomprehensible without context and shouldn't be your first, second, or third Yakuza game... if that needed saying. PROS: - Dragon Engine returns, it has its problems but holy moly after the trainwreck of anti-QoL from 4 & 5, I could kiss the ground DE walks on. - The story rides the line between jumping the shark and regular over-the-top Yakuza things, but it's more good than bad, something I did not feel about the last THREE games. There's a moment that rivals the Osaka Castle transformation from 2, but I found most of the story beats neutral/tolerable with only a few pissing me off (for once) - The side content is mostly fine, there are some pretty good substories and lots of normal ones, very few I'd call bad or tedious. Business minigame wise, Clan Creator is more bare bones than the K2 version but is also easier so that makes up for it a bit, Spearfish…

Best Yakuza game of the series