As Kiryu is a good-hearted guy, he never starts a fight, but he's always up for brawling, as long as he can teach his enemy a lesson after it's over. The game is generous about the timing here, so it's hard to fail.Īside from story-driven fights, you'll also get into random encounters while walking down the streets of Okinawa and Kamurocho.
Knowing when to use a Heat move is important in many situations, and they are performed by pressing the correct button that appears on your screen. This meter increases as you deal damage and decreases as you receive.
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You have a series of punches, kicks, and throws which can be punctuated with fairly brutal special moves that are executed when your Heat Gauge is full. It's not as deep as a true fighting game, but it's deeper than an arcade beat-em-up. The game's combat is largely hand-to-hand. It's essentially a soap opera mixed with The Three Stooges with a hearty dose of punching thugs to teach them manners. Kiryu taking them all in so straight and learning something useful from even goofy events like seeing a business man leave a strip club and attempt to pole dance on a streetlight (watching him gives Kiryu insight into developing a new wrestling move) makes the game even funnier. There's a great, silly sense of humor that flows throughout this series, and some of the events you encounter are completely outlandish. The tone of the main story is melodramatic and the tone of the substories you encounter is largely comedic. Outside of trying to remember a few too many names, I had no problem following the plot. For players new to the series, the game contains about thirty minutes of recap videos explaining the events of the first two games, and as Yakuza 3 was my first time with the series, I was grateful. The whole series has a fairly relaxed pace, both in the way cutscenes are played and the way you explore the city, so it's not what you're looking for if you want a heavy action game. The story is slowly paced and there's nothing wrong with that. The head of Kiryu's former Yakuza family is shot, his father seems to have returned from the dead, and international conspiracies begin to unfold. The story later expands beyond Okinawa and into Kamurocho, a seedy district of Tokyo that served as the setting of the first two games in the series. If that sounds boring to you, you're going to hate the first three hours of the game, because that's the main content of the opening act. Their peaceful life is uprooted when a land development project threatens to purchase the land Kiryu's orphanage is on. The star of the series is Kazuma Kiryu, a former Yakuza member who now lives a quiet life running an orphanage in Okinawa with Haruka, who is essentially his adopted daughter. What you do while wandering couldn't be more different. The only similarity between the two series is that both set you down in a large, crime-ridden city and let you wander freely. When he does, the game makes a very big deal out of it. You don't drive cars, you can't terrorize people on the streets, and it's extremely rare that the hero kills anyone. If anything, the series is a spiritual successor to Sega's own Shenmue series.
Some people see "open-world game about mobsters" and assume the Yakuza series is a Grand Theft Auto knockoff, which couldn't be further from the truth. There was alo some controversy from fans around its release, as Sega announced in advance that certain content would be cut from the North American release. Yakuza 3 was released in Japan in 2009, and it wasn't until a whole year later that a translated version was released in North America. Negative comments from Sega of America didn't help matters.
Yakuza 1 and 2 received Western releases (the first game is the only one to receive an English dub), but Kenzan never left Japan, leading some to worry that the series was dead internationally. It follows 2008's Kenzan, a spinoff set in early 17th Japan. Yakuza 3 is the third main-series installment of Sega's open-world tough guy games.
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