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Goro Majima (Japanese: 真島 吾朗, Hepburn: Majima Gorō) is a major recurring character in Sega's Like a Dragon video game series, previously known as Yakuza outside of Japan. He is the main protagonist of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii and one of the main playable protagonists of Yakuza 0 and Yakuza: Dead Souls , as well as the ...
Kiryu is the only playable character in Yakuza 6, while an additional story played from Majima's perspective was added to the remake of Yakuza 2, Yakuza Kiwami 2. [5] The 2 most recent mainline instalments , Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth , features a new cast of characters.
Yakuza 2 was followed up by a spinoff, Yakuza Kenzan, in 2008, and then by a direct sequel, Yakuza 3, in 2009. A PlayStation 4 remake of the game that utilized the engine of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, named Yakuza Kiwami 2 (a sequel to the remake of the original Yakuza), was released in 2017, and later ported to Windows and Xbox One.
Yokoyama thought about writing a story depicting Goro Majima as a follow-up to Infinite Wealth, and chose the pirate angle as a way to do things differently than how the team usually did. [ 4 ] Development started shortly before the release of Infinite Wealth , and was first hinted at by Yokoyama in December 2023. [ 7 ]
The remake also adds The Majima Saga, a new prequel story that feature Goro Majima as a playable character, continuing stories of his that were previously established in Yakuza 0. Kiwami 2 was released for Windows on May 9, 2019, [62] and for Xbox One on July 30, 2020. [63]
Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline.
For the prequel Yakuza 0 Sega wanted to make Goro Majima stand out from Kiryu as in this title the two share the role of protagonists. Sega described Kiryu as a "straight man trait – tough but honorable and keeps to himself a bit" implying there are not too many difficulties in writing him.
“The Quiet Yakuza,” is one of two late additions made by Japanese indie sales firm Free Stone Productions to its slate of films being pitched at TIFFCOM, the film rights market attached to the ...