Yakuza Kiwami, the HD remake of the PlayStation 2 classic, is available now in Australia as a PlayStation 4 exclusive. If you've never played a title in the series before, think of it as Shenmue meets Double Dragon. A lot of story, and a lot of fighting. Plus, you get to explore Japanese night-life circa the flip-phone era of 2005.

Perhaps the greatest compliment that one could lay on this and the Yakuza series as a whole is that when playing you’ll feel like a tourist. A tourist that also happens to be in the midst of a Japanese gangster film. The story, which once again focuses on series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, opens up considerably once he’s released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence for killing his family’s patriarch. And that’s Yakuza family. Of course, he didn’t do it, and thanks to the many lengthy cutscenes the strange story filled with honour and revenge is one that stands the test of time. As a remake, in addition to the revamped visuals, Sega spent the extra time flesh out some of the narrative beats with new sequences that were created specifically to better explain the intricate goings on.

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