Set in late 80s Tokyo, it takes place in a period of time in Japan known as the Bubble Era: a period of highly inflated stock and real estate prices where money was in plentiful supply and the fashion was suitably flamboyant.
It’s an origin story for both characters, as it is a prequel to the main series of games. Lastly, there may be some minor spoilers, nothing major but be aware if you have never played the game.)Ġ once again reunites us with long term protagonist Kiryu Kazuma and this time also lets us play as his adversary “Mad Dog” Majima Goro.
Likewise, I will stick with the original Western title of the series as opposed to the direct translation of the Japanese title 龍が如, Like A Dragon, which will be adopted outside of Japan moving forward from the post Kiryu arc. In English we would tend to reverse this but as the dialogue in the game is Japanese I feel it is more appropriate, and accurate, to use the native name system. In the course of this review I will use the Japanese way of naming people – family name first then given name. The PS3 version was only released in Japan, but I do own it and have played through it as well as the PS4 game so this review will make reference to both – there is essentially no difference other than visual quality, and language, between the two releases.
The American and European PS4 releases followed in early 2017. Yakuza 0 is the sixth entry in Sega’s (now) famous Yakuza series, released in Japan in March 2015 on both PS3 and PS4, the year of the original Yakuza’s tenth anniversary.
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