I Played Yakuza 5 for the First Time... And It Was Beautiful.

After the release of Yakuza Dead Souls, we would see the start of one of RGG’s most interesting development cycles to date. The team wanted the next mainline Yakuza title to serve as a sort of soft reboot for the series, as they all felt that Dead Souls was the end point of everything they had developed for the series up to that point. This soft reboot approach would see them doing things like making a whole new engine for the game to run on, writing the largest scale story in the series’ history, and just generally making a game that greatly eclipsed the ambition of everything that came before it. This game would even have the longest development cycle in the series up to this point, with the team giving it a whole two years in the oven rather than their typical one year. And on December 5 of 2012, Yakuza 5 would finally be released. The game would quickly become notorious among the community for its insane scope and sheer amount of content packed in, with it still being regarded as the most difficult game in the series to 100% to this day simply due to how long it takes to complete every piece of content available. And over the last couple weeks, I’ve sat down to play through Yakuza 5 for the first time in a whopping 60 hour playthrough, and I’ve come out of that experience with a ton of opinions on this one. So was Yakuza 5 the biggest and best Yakuza game yet? Or did it end up like many other RPG’s that aim for this sort of scale and become an overly bloated mess? Well, let’s talk about it.

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Yakuza 5 (Japanese: 龍が如く5 夢、叶えし者, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku 5: Yume, Kanaeshi Mono, "Like a Dragon 5: Fulfiller of Dreams") is a 2012 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The game is the fifth main entry in the Yakuza series. The game was released in December 2012 in Japan, and localized for North America, Europe and Australia as a PlayStation Network download in December 2015. A remaster with improved resolution and frame rate was released for the PlayStation 4 on June 20, 2019 in Japan, and worldwide on February 11, 2020 as part of The Yakuza Remastered Collection. Versions for Windows and Xbox One were released in January 2021.

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