FINAL FIGHT STREETWISE YAKUZA FREE
So what kind of game it is, exactly? Well, it’s kind of like River City Ransom in Yakuza‘s setting, with a few twists of its own: a beat-’em-up/RPG hybrid, divided into chapters, with multiple possible paths and endings.Īt the start of each chapter, you’re free to roam around town, shop, talk to NPCs and fight punks for money. By the third chapter, as enemies start packing weapons and the story gets into gear, is when Yakuza Fury really shines. Said clothes can not only increase you power and defense, but your speed and ease of movement, too before long, if you know what’s good, you’ll have purchased a Grey Suit, improving gameplay considerably. But stick with it long enough to finish the first level, and you will gain access to a shop that sells clothes and weapons. You might be tempted to turn it off right then. Reputation and packaging aside, things don’t immediately look up once you start to play your character is slow, the controls awkward, and you seem to be getting knocked down a lot. Who’s that gun-toting lady in a red dress, standing next to a pile of loose change and a tiny plastic gun? Could she be the first gaijin woman to make it in the ranks of the yakuza? Who knows she’s not in the game. The cover art to 505 Gamestreet’s European release is hideously cheap. It may be odd to state this going in, but it seems necessary to establish this before anything else, because this is a game that does not make the best first impression.įor one thing, it’s a budget game, originally released as part of D3 Publisher’s ill-reputed Simple 2000 line.