Yakuza series now on GOG

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Hey, I haven't played this game yet, but it was highly recommended to me...so if anybody needs a break from SC (who doesn't now & again?) and you like open world games that have a Japanese mix of seriousness & wacky, this might be something to check out:

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Yakuza Complete Series

Yakuza Complete Series includes: Yakuza 0 The glitz, glamour, and unbridled decadence of
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NaffNaffBobFace said:
Is that the one where you could beat kids at a slot car raceing mini-game?
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I haven't found the slot car racing yet, but yes, it is in the game:


To see Kiryu lose:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQq_V7gQqQ


Here as a video of *most* of the mini-games. Some are, uh, very Japanese (if you get what I mean). For my part, right now, I like the batting practice...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71rZSh0ipM
 
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Radegast74 said:
I haven't found the slot car racing yet, but yes, it is in the game:


To see Kiryu lose:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQq_V7gQqQ


Here as a video of *most* of the mini-games. Some are, uh, very Japanese (if you get what I mean). For my part, right now, I like the batting practice...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71rZSh0ipM
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Lol that's massive fun.
 
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Here's the other wacky thing about the game...a while back, a reporter got a few genuine yakuza to review the video game (Yakuza 3 at the time)...they seemed to think it was a pretty good representation overall, with some noted discrepancies...the article is funny on several levels:

boingboing.net

Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza

Jake Adelstein, a fearless Jewish-American reporter who spent 12 years as a crime reporter in Japan, was joined by high-ranking gangster bosses to conduct an experiment for Boing Boing: evaluate the credibility of Sega's Yakuza 3 video game. — Lisa Katayama
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Tried Yakuza 0 a while back after seeing a mention on https://crackrelease.com/yakuza-0-directors-cut/—CrackWatch just tracks crack status, doesn’t host anything. Got hooked on the mix of serious story and completely wacky side stuff. Spent an afternoon just messing around with mini-games and side missions, ended up laughing way more than expected.
 
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