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480 Like a Dragon: Yakuza season 1 review - an emotional, skull-cracking saga with no time for messing around

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Graeme Virtue @ Eurogamer.net · 10/24/2024 11:00 EDT

Like a Dragon: Yakuza season 1 review - an emotional, skull-cracking saga with no time for messing around

To a casual observer, adapting Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's swaggering action-RPG looks like a much more straightforward, greenscreen-free proposition. No need to build clanking mech armour or deploy CGI sleight-of-hand to convincingly remove your leading man's nose. The Yakuza brand started out as a contemporary street-level Tokyo crime saga, albeit one capable of reaching operatic heights of melodrama. Thanks to an obsessive amount of architectural and anthropological detail, its fictional setting of Kamurocho.

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