

In past games, you have to go on a wild chase to find the “Trouble Finder” item, which alerts you to nearby Side Missions. You still have to unlock the unconventional Heat Actions in your Skills List on the Menu, but that leads me to one of the best features of Yakuza Kiwami 2. With the Trouble Finder, you can find quality content like this! It’s also important to note that Komaki will be back at some point in the game to teach you more advanced techniques. I get it though, some of these are ridiculously strong. That tedious feature remains where you’ll have to repair or replace weapons that run out. That means you can equip them in your menu on one of those tabs, and swing till it runs out of strikes. In Kiwami 2, if you pick up a weapon before the fight is over and hit the down arrow, you’ll put it in your inventory. Now you just have your Dragon of Dojima style, and three tabs for weapons. In previous games, you had a few styles: Blue (Standard fighting), Yellow (Wild Swinging Madness), Purple (Rapid, Fist of the North Star strikes) and Red (The “Dragon of Dojima” style). However there are some changes from Kiwami and 0 to be aware of specifically, there aren’t stances to switch between. It’s honestly simple: You have Light Attack, Heavy Attack, Dodge, and Grapple. Then you have the standard fighting tutorial that helps players figure out how the combat works.

As you walk with Haruka Sawamura, who Kiryu has all but adopted, you can relive the events of the previous game, who the major players were, and what they meant to Kiryu, much like Yakuza 6 does in the beginning. Yakuza Kiwami 2 is pretty accessible to beginners, even if you didn’t play Kiwami 1 (but why wouldn’t you? It was wonderful). The Heat Actions are absolutely insane in this one. Ryuji Goda insists that there is no room in Japan for two Dragons, and he seeks to prove he is mightier than the Dragon of Dojima, Kazuma Kiryu. War is coming to Japan in the form of powerful Yakuza families. That is a trend in Kiryu’s life: people dying, and terrible, unfortunate circumstances. Kazuma Kiryu is just trying to say his farewells to the (many) friends who died in the last game. Yakuza Kiwami 2 takes place a year after the 10 Billion Yen Incident that was the central plot point in Yakuza 1/Kiwami.
YAKUZA KIWAMI MAJIMA IN PLAIN SIGHT SERIES
The Ryu ga Gotoku series is one I fell in love with back in Yakuza 4 when I first did my review of it. Yakuza Kiwami 2 is easily the best game I have played in the franchise, with a wealth of content, quality-of-life changes, and plus, it’s the second game (in the West) where you can play as everyone’s favorite lunatic, Majima Goro! There’s also “Yakuza: Dead Souls” in Japan, but since that wasn’t released here, it doesn’t count.īut what is Kiwami 2? It’s a remaster/remake of Yakuza 2, originally released on the Playstation 2 back in 2008 (‘06 in Japan).
YAKUZA KIWAMI MAJIMA IN PLAIN SIGHT PS4
I hope that Yakuza Kiwami 2 continues to grow the franchise here in America, because we need the rest of the games to be remastered and brought to the West on the PS4 and Steam.
