Things get a bit more diverse from there, with joining Saejima in jail before escaping to head to Tsukimino, with a stop over in a mountain village the involves some Red Dead Redemption style of hunting and dealing with a nasty bear. Naturally, Kiryu’s masquerade is undone as he is drawn back into the yakuza lifestyle. We catch up with Kiryu masquerading as a cab driver in Nagasugai, where Sixth Chairman of the Tojo Clan, Daigo Dojima, goes missing after meeting with the head of the Yamagusa Clan. The overarching story line takes place in 2012, with a potential war brewing between the Tojo clan and the Omi Alliance. Engaging fully in everyone’s side stories and side activities can easily balloon your play time to over 100 hours, and it’s a testament to the game’s strength that not one hour of that feels wasted or like padding. Just focusing on the primary story lines, my playthrough took me a little over 43 1/2 hours. Each of the five playable characters- Kazuma Kiryu, Shun Akiyama, Taiga Saejima, newcomer Tatsuo Shinada, and the finally playable Haruka Sawamura- gets their moment to shine over 21 chapters spread across five parts. While the story for Yakuza 5 does unfold at a slow burn, it never feels dragged out or downright slow as it did in the previous two entries. While Yakuza 6: The Song of Life proved to be a fitting end to the tale of the Tojo’s clan fourth Chairman, Kazuma Kiryu, it’s this penultimate chapter that really raised the bar for the series. It’s the largest game in the Yakuza franchise. The stories are bigger and more diverse, connecting characters in unique ways, making the gameplay and mini-games more varied from previous entries. And it did, increasing the number of playable characters from four to five, and giving us three new areas in Japan to explore- Nagasugai, Tsukimino, and Kineicho- in addition to previous seen locales of Kamurocho and Sotenbori. First released in Japan in 2012 and then later for North America, Europe, and Australia in 2015 for the PS3, Yakuza 5 had to follow up its predecessor, which had multiple playable protagonists, in a spectacular way.
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