One of the best video games that has been released so far this year has been Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the most recent installment of the Yakuza saga, whose journey began almost 20 years ago. Since then, numerous titles have been published that have become increasingly popular and have gone on sale on a greater number of different platforms.
Instead, the first yakuza Of all of them, it only went on sale on the legendary PS2. Its popularity in Japan soared at full speed due to the way in which it combined its fully action-focused gameplay, its dramatic and exciting plot, as well as the way in which it showed the streets of Kamurocho and the streets of Kamurocho in the most realistic way possible. its level of crime, including the Yakuza clans.
In fact, SEGA originally wanted to go even further when it came to represent the behavior of the Yakuza, because the development team’s goal was to portray them with great accuracy, regardless of what that might entail. Therefore, that meant not omitting one of his most common punishments, such as cutting off his little fingers.
However, although very explicit scenes were created in which this practice could be observed, over time They were considered excessively brutal.so the most apprehensive would not feel very comfortable playing because of everything that was seen on the screen.
Believing that these sequences were very beastly, it was decided to eliminate them completely before the game was published. In short, all this allowed the first Yakuza reach a greater number of players. However, that does not mean that the saga has always been somewhat violent, but at least it has never reached those levels that were originally intended.
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