Sentences with phrase «makes yakuza»

The fighting is what makes the Yakuza games cartoonish, despite the serious side of the stories, but Yakuza 6 dials things back a little.

Yakuza 6 Is Out Now, But You Should Play The Entire Series With the launch of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life for PS4, Michael, Ben, and Jean - Luc discuss what makes Yakuza so nice and why it's worthwhile to play this underrated sequence.

What makes Yakuza 6 so compelling is that it succeeds in making the insignificant seem significant.

I could go on for hours and hours about what makes Yakuza 5 one of the best damn games I've played in years, but really, you should just buy the game and experience it yourself.

Some games are fun because of the warm fuzzy feelings they offer, others are are engaging thanks to tight refined mechanics, so what makes a Yakuza game fun?

The curious mix of open - world adventure, JRPG and arcade brawler makes Yakuza a genre unto itself.

The story holds up, Majima Everywhere adds some much needed chaos, and the added distractions make Yakuza Kiwami the definitive version of Yakuza.

Long time fans will especially appreciate the exceptional effort put in to making Yakuza Kiwami a terrific experience that's both new and familiar at the same time.

Chasing The Dragon Recently, SEGA has put some serious effort into making the Yakuza series one of their flagship franchises in the West.

Recently, SEGA has put some serious effort into making the Yakuza series one of their flagship franchises in the West.

It's safe to say the same reasons that made the previous games great make Yakuza 5 a title that must be played by any fan of the franchise.

The new bells and whistles make Yakuza Kiwami a worthwhile time no matter if you've played the original or not.

While Yakuza 0 is still my recommended point of entry for newcomers, the included summaries of all previous Yakuza titles make Yakuza 6: The Song of Life a worthwhile way to dive into this modern - day gaming epic.

Not exact matches

You know, part of me feels that it has to be more difficult to make a boring movie about the yakuza than it is to make a good one.

The film is subsumed by the unshakable sense that Jared Leto is intended to make Martin Zandvliet's take on the yakuza underworld more palatable for American audiences.

The grand old director Sydney Pollack (besides «Condor,» he made «The Yakuza,» «Out of Africa» and «They Shoot Horses, Don't They?»

Having made appearances in international productions like Robert Aldrich's Too Late The Hero and Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza (written by Paul and Leonard Schrader) in the Seventies, Takakura continued to work with foreign filmmakers in Ridley Scott's Black Rain and with Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball, as well as with Chinese director Zhang Yimou in 2005's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, securing his superstar status in that country as well.

Yakuza was made in sixty days.

While it makes sense for any movie about the yakuza to peak the interests of curious American audiences, using a white person as the way into this world is a tired cliche.

(and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

by Walter Chaw 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's costume - period retro - cross-cultural updating of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

The fifth installment in SEGA's action - adventure series finally makes it to Western shores after three years — it's Yakuza 5!

Cop movies, horror films, ghost stories, yakuza flicks, sci - fi freak - outs: you name it, the king of Japan's New New Wave has made them all, sometimes in the same movie.

Indeed, seeing all three in quick succession can make it tricky to tell the films apart — a fact which made the relief of witnessing the lurid violence of Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster film Yakuza Apocalypse in the Quinzaine all the more welcome (Miike's work being the generic flipside to the national cinema developed by his compatriots).

Yakuza's cast is so often made up of sharp - dressed men from big cities that it's a pleasant change of pace to head to the countryside in this game and hang out with simpler folk who are lower — a lot lower — down the criminal family tree.

After making friends with the son of a respected crime boss, Rama is hired as an enforcer for the syndicate, only to find himself smack dab in the middle of a turf war between his boss and the Japanese yakuza.

But when starting off this new side story in the Yakuza universe, Sega did more than just make a PSP game: They made an eleven episode live - action TV series to go along with it.

Frankly, it was worth flying to Cannes just to witness the giant frog make an unexpected personal appearance during the closing credits of Yakuza Apocalypse.

«what about new titles and incoming games like Yakuza SOL, HZD, GOW, LOU2, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Code Vein, Death Stranding... I liked Monster Hunter World too» Okay but I specifically said major 3rd parties have been underwhelming... Why try to make me say PS4 exclusives have been underwhelming when I haven't tried to argue that.

Well, Sony dos n`t make MGS4, Tekken 6, Time Crisis 4, or Yakuza 3 themselves.

Debuting in the charts this month is also The Escapists 2, Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition, Knack II, Metroid: Samus Returns, Yakuza Kiwami and Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite, making it a grand total of 16 new entries in the charts this September.

Since 2005, Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, one of the few remaining legendary yakuza, has overcome trials and tribulations that would make lesser men crumple.

The city of Yakuza Kiwami consists of a very Urban environment made up of tall buildings, alleys, and tight crowded streets.

Yakuza 6 was released in Japan in December 2016, but it will finally make its way to the United States (for its worldwide release) on April 17.

People like Cloud, any Persona Protaganist (They've been on literally every PS system only and are hugely popular in Japan) even the damn Protaganist from Yakuza series Kazuma Kiryu would make this game WAY more appealing to the east.

We made 500 of these shirts to promote Yakuza 4, and just because they are more subtle than your average game t - shirt doesn't mean it's any less awesome.

I'm sure there are a lot of gamers out there (myself included) who didn't get to try out Yakuza when it originally released on the Playstation 2 back in 2005, so Yakuza Kiwami's release makes for the perfect opportunity to finally give it a playthrough.

Another announcement of an announcement came via Gematsu, Sega are making a surprise Yakuza announcement tomorrow.

It's not quite perfect and anyone who has played some of the newer releases in the series will be able to see where improvements have been made over time, but those who never got the chance to play the original game or simply want to re-visit it will certainly have fun with Yakuza Kiwami.

This latest addition to the series, which has been wildly successful in its native country, boasts even more characters, more fisticuffs, more karaoke and more hanging out at hostess bars than ever before, making this the ultimate Yakuza experience.

You know I didn't think Yakuza 5 would make an appearance during the show.

Yakuza 6 culminates with a fantastic finale dedicated to Kiryu's nobility, one that makes sure to reinforce the emotional tethers of its story outside of the series» trademark barrage of cutscenes.

Yakuza does this sort of alchemy a lot, turning quests that, by and large, should be boring into something interesting because the game goes to the trouble making the underlying nobility and emotional rewards explicit.

However, in Yakuza, you get something a little more fleshed out, like my favorite questline, which involves you befriending cats in order to fill a cat cafe, accomplishing the dual goal of making the cat cafe owner happy and giving stray cats a home.

In the fictional red - light districts in Osaka where Yakuza 0 is set, young criminals are making money in any way they can.

Though there are no current plans for release in the states, you can still enjoy the demo for Yakuza 3, which makes its Japanese PS3 debut tonight.

Preceded by the outstanding Yakuza 0 and Kiwami, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is the third game in the series to make its way to English - speaking players in the span of just over a year.

Yakuza 5 will finally make its way to Europe next year, Sony and SEGA has revealed.

He points to stylish and artistic Japanese games such as the «Yakuza» series and «Shenmue,» which offer interpretations of Tokyo and Yokosuka that make a gamer want to visit those cities in real life.

Last week we looked at the Nintendo Switch and the history of Nintendo, going back all the way to the company's days making playing cards for the Yakuza's favorite game.