Since 2005, the franchise (formerly known as Yakuza), has seen nine mainline entries ... which initially followed the story of Kazuma Kiryu, a mild-mannered former gangster tasked with cleaning ...

Despite how sad his living situation is compared ... in each game until it reached perfection in Yakuza 5. With a fighting style as iconic as Kiryu’s, it should come as no surprise how often ...

Although it's not the first game in terms of release, or in the official series running order, Yakuza 0 delivers everything ...

as they do not want the Yakuza to rise to full power again. However, Majima's life is the most zany of any character in the series, and his ending is surprisingly sad. With Kazama Kiryu in the ...

Where Yakuza 3 told an incredibly heartfelt story centering Kiryu, and Yakuza 5 explosively layered together a massive, multi-POV narrative, Yakuza 4 sits squarely in between. Which is all to say ...

in 2023. In 2023, RGG released Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name, which takes place at the same time as Yakuza: Like a Dragon and explains what happened to Kiryu following the dramatic ...