Free stuff is cool, I think we can all agree on that. And when said free stuff comes from a large studio like the Jack Bros metroidvania and this, that's also cool. It shows that in the nighmarish world that is AAA game development, there are some people who care about the games themselves. Maybe this whole thing was made by Satoshi from accounting when he was bored. In that case, we love you Satoshi from accounting.
It's basically just a streets of rage level changed to have Yakuza characters. That's it, you can finish it in under ten minutes. You can do it as Kiryu, Majima, and then Ichiban if you beat it as one of the other two. They all play the same only Kiryu has red effects and Majima has purple ones, which is probably my biggest issue. I know SoR games have multiple playable characters with different styles, so having three guys that all fight the same felt weird. Just Kiryu would be fine, but this felt like a tease. Only thing that changes is the background music, which is pretty good 16-bit remixes of the battle themes from the characters respective games, which was cool.
So if you like Yakuza and have 15 minutes you don't know what to do with, give this game a shot. It's discontinued, but pretty easy to get running on Steam (I'd link it but maybe Backloggd would think I'm running a scam or something)
It's basically just a streets of rage level changed to have Yakuza characters. That's it, you can finish it in under ten minutes. You can do it as Kiryu, Majima, and then Ichiban if you beat it as one of the other two. They all play the same only Kiryu has red effects and Majima has purple ones, which is probably my biggest issue. I know SoR games have multiple playable characters with different styles, so having three guys that all fight the same felt weird. Just Kiryu would be fine, but this felt like a tease. Only thing that changes is the background music, which is pretty good 16-bit remixes of the battle themes from the characters respective games, which was cool.
So if you like Yakuza and have 15 minutes you don't know what to do with, give this game a shot. It's discontinued, but pretty easy to get running on Steam (I'd link it but maybe Backloggd would think I'm running a scam or something)
it's cute for what it is.
I mean, there's no meat on the bone here at all, just the scent of where meat once was. It's one Streets of Rage level but with Yakuza sprite edits. But it does make me happy, and I like that when you unlock Ichiban, it uses the Like A Dragon battle theme! Points knocked off for all three characters being Axel variants, though. Majima would never rapid punch without a knife, he is 100% a spinning bird kick super kinda guy.
Its a game, and it works, for the most part