Strichart once described the Yakuza games as a form of “virtual tourism,” and with Kiwami 2’s stunning and meticulous rendition of Osaka’s famous Dotonbori neighborhood, it’s easy to see why. (Look, I don’t think I can explain the appeal of these games very well if you’re new here, you just have to trust me that the bathroom minigame is amazing.)īuilt in Yakuza 6’s Dragon Engine, Kiwami 2 is a feast to look at, and I’m not just saying that because you can see every individual pore on Majima’s beautiful, tired face.
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Sega indicates that Majima’s story runs about four hours, and in the full game he’ll be able to do most of the same things that Kiryu can, including karaoke and peeing in urinals. It offers a tiny cross-section of both the main storyline, in which former yakuza chairman Kazuma Kiryu squares off with Ryuji Goda from a rival syndicate, and Majima’s side-story, which is new to the Kiwami remake. Obviously, there was no way I was leaving E3 without taking the new English demo for a spin. I got what was going on, for the most part, but only insofar as “Kiryu and his angry marshmallow son go to Osaka to pick a fight with that kid we last saw trying to steal Majima’s pants.” I mean, it was still a good time! But it certainly drove home that what I appreciate most about the recent Yakuza games isn’t so much the characters as the amazing job Scott Strichart and his localization team have done in bringing them to life for an English audience.
So I gave up somewhere in the third or fourth chapter. This turned out to be a Mistake, because while I understand a little Japanese, that doesn’t mean I was at all prepared to understand yakuza Japanese, with all its slang and slurring.
Reader, a confession: I was so excited to hear that Kiryu and Majima sang a karaoke duet in Yakuza Kiwami 2, I imported the game from Japan.
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