“Around the time Goro Majima appears suddenly over your shoulder dressed as a policeman and wanting a ruck while smiling and shouting in his eccentric voice, that’s when you’ll first understand what kind of game Yakuza Kiwami is. Hard shifts from ridiculous, borderline nonsensical things (stab someone in a fight, watch them rum away unharmed), to the most sincere, heart-wrenching scenes that show such depth to the characters mean it’s hard not to fall for this universe in a big bad way.”

Read the full review in OPM Issue 140.