The game also features both turn-based and real-time combat, with these battle systems being pushed to their very limit in fights against ridiculously powerful bosses.

If you’ve played Yakuza games before, then you’ll immediately recognize Saejima. He’s one of the earlier bosses here, and there’s no real bad blood between you and him.

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Some stories are best told from the end. This story ends with the suicide of Kenzo Arai, A.K.A. “Ken-chan,” aged 56, a yakuza boss. Yakuza are Japan’s organized crime families. They make ...

Yakuza and the 1980s: it always looked an ideal fit, and so it proves. The series that never does anything by halves enters the decade of excess in a pulverising bombardment of bone-shuddering ...