Yakuza 3 (Review)
How to describe Yakuza 3? Well it’s an RPG beat ‘em up stuffed with a huge variety of mini-games to distract you from the games story that involve multiple Yakuza gangs and government conspiracies in Tokyo and Okinawa. Oh and you look after an orphanage too.
Players new to the series are welcomed by detailed compilations of cutscenes from the first two games that make a decent effort of bringing you up to speed. Long story short, Kazuma (that’s you) climbed the ranks to become the 4th Chairman of the Tojo Clan of the Yakuza, didn’t fancy it and went to start an orphanage on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
You’ll need a lot of patience if you just want to crack heads as Yakuza 3 doesn’t really get going for around eight hours. For the first five hours you’re pretty much doing errands for the orphanage and helping the kids out. To be fair there are some decent stories here that make you feel quite bad for these kids. It probably goes on a bit too long though. The orphanage comes under threat and Kazuma is slowly (so very slowly) drawn back into the Yakuza’s world.
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