For Sega's 60th anniversary, they released a special Yakuza x Streets of Rage game called Streets of Kamurocho. It's a somewhat clunky recreation of the first level of Streets of Rage 2, but with Yakuza characters and enemies swapped in. That's it. The first level of Streets of Rage 2 is fun, so it's enjoyable enough. There's even three different characters (that all play the same) to choose from. But given that I was able to finish this game in like 10 minutes, there's not really much here to write home about. You can't even download this game anymore, but if you are interested in playing it, I would advise to just put it out of your mind and play Streets of Rage 2 instead.

Streets Of Rage 2, but with Kiryu, Majima and Ichiban! There's sadly little here; the game endlessly loops the first stage until you get a game over, and, with the fact that all 3 characters have their movesets copied over from Axel, it feels more like a proof of concept than anything else. Though, I suppose that was the idea, given this was only made available for a single day as a part of Sega's 60th anniversary celebration. Regardless, the Yakuza touch-ups make for a nice love letter to fans of both series, but if it were the entirety of SOR2, it'd be an easy 4.5.

Streets of Kamurocho was released as a limited time free PC release to celebrate Sega's 60th anniversary. It's a mixture of two franchises of Sega, Streets of Rage and Yakuza. (Kamurocho is the fictional area of Tokyo in which a large chunk of the Yakuza games are based, modeled on Kabukichō a known entertainment district of Tokyo).

It's a really neat little idea as both series cross well with their beat em' up style gameplay and underground aesthetics. It feels like a rom hack of Streets of Rage 2 added with a Yakuza skin because that is what it is really. You get three characters to play as with Kiryu Kazuma and Goro Majima available initially and a third unlocked after you beat it once....which takes about 10 minutes so that seems kind of needless. Whilst I love the idea of this it's only the first level of Streets of Rage 2 which goes on loop getting a little harder to build up your score. I just wanted them to go further and make a whole game of it. Underneath the Yakuza aesthetic the move set is that of Axel from Streets of Rage 2, but it's the same for all three characters. Majima should have been Skate surely? Why not add Kaoru Sayama from Yakuza 2 for Blaze and Taiga Saejima as Max? three characters with identical moves is kind of a let down.

The game looks nice and has lots of nods to the Yakuza series with Bacchus, Poppo etc. Each character has their own music and I certainly can't complain for something released entirely for free as a nice celebration gesture to fans, but the thing is I would have paid good money for a fully fleshed out game of this no question as a Streets of Rage and Yakuza fan....

Streets of Kamurocho It is a love letter to both the yakuza series as well as streets of rage combining both into a simple and small fun promotional game.
And as the title of the game implies, you pretty much go through the entirety of kamurocho fighting a bunch of yakuza henchman, as well as punks and Chinese mafia members.

Considering that the game mostly resonates and is in line with the 1st game/Kiwami, you fight a bunch of enemies with the background being a 16 bit rendition of the battle encounter theme, and fight 3 bosses from Yakuza 1/Kiwami being Lau Ka Long, Koji Shindo, and finally Akira Nishikiyama.

The levels are short and sweet and have essentially taken the area of kamorucho and made It into a beat em style game.

If I do have some critiques, in terms of it would have been cooler if they added more bosses from 2-6 rather than just the first game, they could repeat the round system but every new round would have a different final boss, like for example:

Round 1 -Akira Nishikiyama
Round 2 - Goda Ryuji
Round 3- Mine
Round 4 - Saejima (hes not a villian but would be a lit boss fight in terms of representation for Yakuza 4)
Round 5 - Aizawa
Round 6 - Iwami or Someya
Round Bonus - Kuze or Shibusawa

And then have the rounds repeat just having them get gradually harder.
Or they could've just had different bosses for Majima and Ichiban.
The 3 characters to play as are:

KIRYU KAZUMA
GORO MAJIMA
ICHIBAN KASUGA

Each play similary but all have unique sprites and voices and your basic punches and heat actions however the heat actions when use cause you to lose health upon usage so use them carefully.

The game is free (though unlisted if you search it via steam however if you search via Google and find the page you can still play it) so even though i have issues, I enjoyed my time with it 😁👍🏻