I think I am one of the 5 people that played this on wii u. Yeah that wii u. Why? Because yakuza 1 had an additional new game plus mode in it. So yeah that reason was enough to replay it for me(I also played it on 480i damn ps2 so I wanted to see it hd). So yeah. It was still as fun and atmospheric as ever and also this is it's BEST version of this 1&2 dualogy pack in my opinion if you know japanese. Also I already reviewed these games before, so I am just gonna talk about differences and what I didn't experienced before.

While playing the wii u version I realized that they removed slot machine minigame(so volcano slot house doesn't exist) from yakuza 2 but stays on yakuza 1...? I don't know why they did this and kind of bothered me for a bit until realizing that I can actually fully complete yakuza 2 for the first time. (also meant I won't be able to complete yakuza 1 because slot machine completion with haruka's trust sucks doo doo)

I didn't fully completed the yakuza 2 but %90 of it is done(encounter bosses, every substories, tournaments, amon etc.). I didn't do the minigame completion also heat completion left on %99(I didn't know amano building long battle had exclusive heat action). But yeah. I did it and don't recommend to anyone.

Why? Because minigame substories suck. Baseball and golf are like... unbelievable levels of hard and cheap with their bullsh#t timings. Oh also there is a mahjong substory.

This is a whole topic by itself so I decided to jump to an another paragraph.

I thought I could do the mahjong substory because I did it at judgment and said why not here also? What I didn't know that is, mahjong is rigged on the damn yakuza 2. How can I know that? Because in every one of mine mahjong tries, there is always one garbage opponent that is selected by the "game" itself to win and gets riichi(equals saying uno) in every two turns in every round. Like every every time. That is near impossible because getting a near perfect beginning deck is a super low possibility. But that opponent always does it of course "somehow". Oh also I forgot to tell you about your beginning point is 10000 rather than 25000? So losing one round equals you are defeated. Also means that you have to at least win 3 times in every round back to back so you have enough points to maybe have a shot at winning. That is near impossible and yeah it was. I spent 12 damn hours and barely won in the last one. How do you ask? Randomizer gods decided to give me a super good beginning deck back to back for 4 turns somehow and also I got what tile I need in 5 turns somehow before that rigged opponent did. So yeah, in conclusion, fu#k this substory. This is the worst substory I had ever played in a yakuza game. Pure randomness and cheapness. Heck no.

Another thing I realized with playing yakuza ps2 games are, not locking on actually a better option for the most of the time, because lock on easily breaks in these games

Tbh both yakuza 1 and yakuza 2 still have it's clunkiness(especially yakuza 1 with it's nonexistent lock on) but their hazy blurry atmosphere with it's dark colors also cinematic fixed camera angles feels just... perfect and the reason that they are still worth playing again and again and the reason I play them again and again compared to the later titles. Some indie studios needs to bring back cinematic fixed camera angles in my opinion. They really up the atmosphere.

One thing weird to me in this wii u version is, they put quick map and completion list options at the gamepad, but... why not quick inventory option as well like all of the zelda games? I guess maybe old inventory system designed to pause the gameplay but at least still it would be a handy option...

Other than that, yeah. Best way to play this lovely games I guess. If there is gonna be a translation than it will be the best.