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The primary protagonist of the Yakuza / Like a Dragon franchise is Kazuma Kiryu, who is playable in every numbered entry of the main video game series through Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. Some games, such as Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5, feature multiple playable characters, with players switching between them at predetermined points in the story.
Dealers of card or dice games often displayed these full-body tattoos shirtless while playing. This eventually led to the modern yakuza tradition of full-body tattooing. [1] [4] Bakuto were also responsible for introducing the tradition of yubitsume, or self-mutilation as a form of apology, to yakuza culture. [3] [4] [5]
The game was heavily acclaimed in Japan for combining innovative gameplay with cinema-like story telling and character development on the back of Japan's criminal underground. [55] Yakuza received generally positive reviews among Western critics earning a 75 out of 100 in Metacritic. [43]
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.
Many yakuza have full-body tattoos (including their genitalia). These tattoos, known as irezumi in Japan, are still often "hand-poked", that is, the ink is inserted beneath the skin using non-electrical, hand-made, and handheld tools with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel. The procedure is expensive and painful, and can take years to complete.
Although Kiryu is the player character for Yakuza, Nagoshi refrained from calling him the protagonist as the narrative was focused on the character Haruka Sawamura who has a character arc instead in the game. The same basis was used for Yakuza 2 where the narrative focuses more on the new character Kaoru Sayama rather than Kiryu. [4]
A teenage yakuza leader and strongman with a large X-shaped scar on his face. He has scars from multiple bullet wounds on his chest, and his full back tattoo looks like a jigsaw puzzle due to the many scars from blade wounds. When his father died he was adopted by his uncle who saw great potential in him.
A screenshot of a cutscene in Yakuza: Like a Dragon which shows the game's main cast of playable characters. From left to right: Joon-gi Han, Saeko Mukoda, Ichiban Kasuga, Yu Nanba, Koichi Adachi, and Tianyou Zhao. Japanese video game developer Sega's Yakuza media franchise, known as Ryū ga Gotoku (龍が如く, lit. "Like a Dragon") in its ...