"Just your bad luck, to run into me"
Yakuza is the best PS2 game I have played since Lego Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI.
The storyline is very well-written (even if I wish there was a "here's what has happened so far" because I forgot some plot points/characters). I really liked Date, Haruka and Kazuma.
The combat is very fun. There are lot's of move sets and ways to beat up street hoodlums. The random encounters are a little annoying in the late game but the fun combat makes them a little bearable. The camera can be an enemy sometimes but it happens so rarely, it's not a complaint.
The open world had a lot more things to do than I expected. Granted, some of the activities are annoyingly stupid like the slot machines and claw machines but most of them were fun. (my faves were BlackJack, fighting and batting cages and visiting the hostess bars.)
Overall, I wasn't expecting the first game to be this good and if this really is not the series high point, I have high expectations for Yakuza 2 and beyond.
Yakuza is the best PS2 game I have played since Lego Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI.
The storyline is very well-written (even if I wish there was a "here's what has happened so far" because I forgot some plot points/characters). I really liked Date, Haruka and Kazuma.
The combat is very fun. There are lot's of move sets and ways to beat up street hoodlums. The random encounters are a little annoying in the late game but the fun combat makes them a little bearable. The camera can be an enemy sometimes but it happens so rarely, it's not a complaint.
The open world had a lot more things to do than I expected. Granted, some of the activities are annoyingly stupid like the slot machines and claw machines but most of them were fun. (my faves were BlackJack, fighting and batting cages and visiting the hostess bars.)
Overall, I wasn't expecting the first game to be this good and if this really is not the series high point, I have high expectations for Yakuza 2 and beyond.