Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, a video game adaptation of the manga franchise Fist of the North Star by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, features some thematic links to the Yakuza franchise, with many of its characters like Kenshiro voiced by the same voice actors who play recurring characters in the main series games.Īll Yakuza games feature a mixture of combat, story and exploration. The Kurohyō: Ryū ga Gotoku subseries features its own protagonist, street punk Tatsuya Ukyo, while the Judgment subseries follows private detective Takayuki Yagami. The samurai-era titles Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! and Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! are based around fictionalized versions of historical figures Miyamoto Musashi and Sakamoto Ryōma respectively, both of whom are modeled after Kiryu. Other characters have appeared as the protagonists of various spin-off titles. Ichiban Kasuga became the new lead character of the main series games beginning with Yakuza: Like a Dragon, with up to six of his companions available as playable characters during combat sequences, though Kiryu continues to appear in a non-playable capacity.
Some games, such as Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5, feature multiple playable characters, with players switching between them at predetermined points in the story. The primary protagonist of the Yakuza franchise is Kazuma Kiryu, who is playable in every numbered entry of the main video game series through Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. Main article: List of Yakuza (franchise) characters However, specific stores and buildings are often different or carry fictionalized branding compared to their real life counterparts, replacing them with real-life product placements or plot-important locations. The appearances of the in-game districts and towns are based on their contemporary actual locations from the year each game came out, and are often renovated and remodeled in newer games. Other actual locations reproduced in the game series include Dotonbori and Shinsekai, Osaka (as "Sotenbori" and "Shinseicho" in-game, respectively, for Yakuza 2, 5 and 0) Kokusai Dori and the surrounding downtown area of Naha, Okinawa (as "Downtown Ryukyu" in Yakuza 3) Nakasu, Fukuoka (as "Nagasugai" in Yakuza 5) Susukino, Hokkaido (as "Tsukimino" in Yakuza 5) the Nishiki district of Sakae, Nagoya (as "Kineicho" in Yakuza 5) Onomichi, Hiroshima (in Yakuza 6) and Isezakichō, Yokohama (as "Isezaki Ijincho" in Yakuza: Like a Dragon). The Yakuza game series is set primarily in the fictional district of Kamurochō (神室町), which is based on Kabukichō, an actual red-light district of Tokyo. Strong sales of the games in its original Japanese market has led to the franchise's expansion to other media, including film adaptations.
The franchise has become a commercial and critical success, and as of 2021, Sega has reported that the video game series has sold a combined total of 17 million units in physical and digital sales since its debut in 2005. The gameplay of Yakuza has the player controlling Kiryu (or another character, depending on the title) in an open world where he can fight random groups of punks and gangsters, take on side missions and activities to earn experience and money, learn new moves from non-player characters (NPC's), eat and drink at various restaurants, visit hostess and cabaret clubs, craft items, and engage in a variety of mini games such as golfing, bowling, hitting baseballs, video arcades, karaoke, and gambling games including poker, blackjack, Cee-lo, and Koi-Koi. While Kiryu often finds himself working with the leaders of the Tojo Clan to thwart conspiracies aimed against them, the primary theme of the series is his desire to leave the yakuza for good and start over by raising orphans and trying to assimilate into civilian life. The most frequently featured protagonist is Kazuma Kiryu, a reformed gangster associated with the Kanto-based Tojo Clan. The storyline premise for each franchise installment is typically a crime drama, with plot lines inspired by yakuza films. The franchise incorporates elements of the beat 'em up, action-adventure, open world, turn-based strategy and action role-playing genres. "Like a Dragon"), is a Japanese media franchise created, owned and published by Sega. Yakuza, known in Japan as Ryū ga Gotoku ( 龍が如く, lit.
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