Shinada is a former baseball player, and although the thought of playing as a baseball player reminded me a lot of Majima’s stupidly entertaining bat-oriented combat style from Yakuza 0, his fighting mechanics are nowhere near as interesting. You can already imagine that the combination of the words “Sega”, “ Yakuza” and “taxi” mean that this game features a taxi driving minigame, and it’s almost as ridiculous as any other title in the Crazy Taxi series.įurthermore, there are two new playable characters. The lovable loan shark Akiyama and the broody convict Saejima reprise their roles as supporting acts for the main man Kazuma Kiryu, who’s trying to live an honest life as a taxi driver. In Yakuza 5, you can play as three returning characters from Yakuza 4, and also two newcomers. This is easily the longest and meatiest of all Yakuza games, surpassing even current-gen titles like Kiwami 2 and Yakuza 6. All in all, if you’re crazy enough to try to 100%, you’re looking at more than 120 hours of content. Yakuza 5 has five characters to play as, and a whopping five towns to explore, each one filled to the brim with story missions, sidequests, and a ton of minigames. Yakuza 4 had four playable characters and only one town to explore, good old Kamurocho. The developers took the concept of playing as a multitude of characters and expanded this concept to a much more ludicrous degree. Yakuza 5 is basically Yakuza 4 on steroids.

No other Yakuza game has as many ridiculous minigames as this one.

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