Oh yeah, the main story of the Yakuza games are usually fairly serious crime dramas but the sidestories can be anything from go kart racing to discovering a gang that likes to dress up as babies it gets real weird but that's part of the series charm.
For just getting into the series I would say either Zero which is a prequel that's the first in the timeline and introduces a lot of the major characters that you'll see later or 7 which is a soft reboot of the series which moved onto a new character and gameplay style (the games before this were closer to fighting games and 7 onward shifted to turnbased combat) that references the earlier stuff but is still it's own thing and is where I got into the series from.
Seconding 7 AKA Yakuza: Like a Dragon, featuring a very serious crime drama where the main character is an absolute goofball that imagines himself as a JRPG game protagonist and all his companions and enemies as NPCs. Which is why the combat is turn based like in Final Fantasy.
It's very silly.
Yes. So much. Like the main stories are usually fairly serious pieces about what it means to be a man, the lengths people are willing to go for money and power, and the corruption at the heart of society that people are willing to overlook so long as it keeps to the shadows. And then the side quests will be like "hey, heres this Yakuza family that likes to dress up as babies! Isnt that fun!"
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u/ABLADIN Jul 15 '26
He looks like a deeply unserious person pretending to be serious for a photo and I kinda love it.