Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
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The Yakuza series has long been attracting a community of players who appreciate its off the wall flavor, and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life really streamlines a beloved gameplay formula into a super package.
It is the way in which every segmented aspect of Yakuza 6’s design comes together to produce a really compelling overall experience that makes it such a brilliant game. There’s the engaging story to rival the industry’s best narrative adventure games, scintillating beat em’ up action, and an awesomely detailed open-world to explore. Not to mention, the hours one can spend enjoying a myriad of awesome mini-games games that are genuinely really entertaining. Oh, and if all else fails, you can just go and befriend some cats…
From the sublime to the downright mad, there really isn’t anything quite like the Yakuza series out there, and what might seem on the surface like a whimsical crime story is actually so much deeper.