This is an article you don't want to miss. Jake Adelstein gathers three current members of the Japanese mafia play through Yakuza 3 and talk about... everything. The fact that this is a review coming from three guys that don't normally play video games makes it quite a bit different from any other review I've read, and it's full of delicious quotes and back-and-forths. My personal favorite:
S: You got your salaryman in there, the delinquent school girl and her sugar daddy, Chinese people, and even those Nigerian touts. What's with all the fucking gaijin (foreigners) in the area anyway? It used to be just Japanese, Koreans and Chinese.
M: Don't say gaijin. Say Gaikokujin. It's more polite. Jake's a gaijin.
S: Yeah, I forget sometimes. What's with all the fucking gaikokujin in Kabukicho anyway?
the7k wrote:. What's with all the fucking gaikokujin in Kabukicho anyway?
Is this guy serious? When is the last time he's been to Kabukicho? It's all sleazy Nigerian, Filipino, and Iranian visa-overstayers selling drugs, women, and fake handbags. You can't walk 5 feet in any direction in Kabukicho after dark without running into one of these. Oh well, I don't blame him. The Koreans have been running Kabukcho for years and some Yaks best stay away from there. From Yoyogi to Shin-Okubo..it's strictly Korean mafia. Pretty soon they'll creep into Takadanobaba as well.
Of the three reviewers, only Kuroishi manages to play it all the way to the end. Two of the three are missing their pinkies — in the old days, when a yakuza or his subordinates screwed up, they chopped off pinkies as an act of atonement — and this seems to affect their gameplay.
Yeah, read it, really good. Lots of lol-worthy moments:
K: I like that you can grab things like ashtrays or billboards and beat the crap out of the punks bothering you. Or smash their faces into car windows. That's what you'd really do in a fight, grab something and use it as a weapon.
S: Why doesn't he just shoot them?
K: That would be unrealistic. Nobody is going to waste a bullet on some street punk, like the ones that keep bugging Kiyru.
M: Kiryu is the way yakuza used to be. We kept the streets clean. People liked us. We didn't bother ordinary citizens. We respected our bosses. Now, guys like that only exist in video games.
S: I don't know any ex-yakuza running orphanages.
K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy.
M: You sure it wasn't just a tax shelter?
K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.
favorite line.
MrPopo wrote:The life lesson here is jobs will come and go, but Earthbound will always be there for you.
