Regardless of being on Steam for years, the Yakuza video games have simply made their DRM-free debut on GoG.com. This is able to not be particularly notable information have been it not for the gorgeous absurd deal that GoG has managed to attain to have fun. It is providing Yakuza: The Full Collection for simply over $34 (£27), a bundle of seven video games within the sequence that, and we counted this scientifically*, our Yakuza-liking UK editor-in-chief Phil Savage has spent 456 hours enjoying. That is, like, seven cents an hour.
That is most likely as a result of Yakuza is nice, and every entry within the sequence does simply sufficient to tell apart itself whereas serving up precisely the identical OTT slapstick violence, sombre and emotional smoking scenes, totally byzantine and good minigame-slash-sidequests, and fortune cookie homilies by the truckload. “The Yakuza sequence taught me the way to be a Japanese mobster,” wrote PCG’s Jorge Jimenez, “every single day I rise up, suplex 25 guys who have been impolite to me on the road, hit the batting cage, eat cheeseburgers and sing karaoke”.
Now there may be one oddity about Yakuza: The Full Collection which is that, how can I put this, it is not the entire sequence. This bundle contains Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2, Yakuza Remastered 3, 4 and 5, after which Yakuza 6: Track of Life. It doesn’t, nonetheless, embody Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon. The rationale for this may be, firstly, it is not on GoG but and, secondly, this was the primary mainline recreation to maneuver past Kazuma Kiryu. So in case you squint a bit, that is Yakuza: The Full Collection (starring Kiryu).
Oh and do notice that, in addition to the enormous pack with the largest low cost (70%), there is a pack with the primary three video games for 66% off, and one with the remasters of 3-5 on the identical low cost.
It is arduous to think about extra bang in your buck than this, and in case you ever did work your manner via all of them it will be the deal of the century. However it needs to be mentioned that these video games do typically see steep reductions and, in case you’d slightly simply check the waters, it is best to possibly begin by searching for deal on Yakuza 5 (66% off): And grasp the methods of the taxi driver.
(*Phil counted a complete of 456 hours. Nevertheless, his Yakuza Kiwami 2 save was misplaced when a PS4 arduous drive failed, god’s manner of telling you to play these items on PC, so completionists could wish to add one other 10 hours or so.)