![]() ![]() What makes The Witcher 3 a masterpiece is in part Geralt’s narrow worldview, one that sometimes forces the player out of their comfort zone in a way you don’t get with the generic Good Option/Bad Option/Neutral Option paradigm. I make no secret of the fact I think well-defined characters are infinitely more interesting than the blank slates used by most RPGs. That consistency is what makes Yakuza so fascinating to me, so far. And it also, by extension, follows the evolution of the city he calls home-Kamurocho, modeled after Tokyo’s Kabukicho district. It primarily follows one protagonist, Kazuma Kiryu, from his earliest days as a mobster across three decades of his life and the challenges he faces. The series as it stands stretches from 1988 (in Yakuza 0) all the way through 2016 ( Yakuza 6). So yeah, maybe if I’d tried Yakuza back in 2006 I would’ve walked away.
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