Yakuza 2
| Ryū ga Gotoku 2 | |
|---|---|
| North American boxart | |
| Developer(s) | Sega Entertainment R&D #1 |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Designer(s) | Toshihiro Nagoshi (producer) Hase Seishu (writer) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Release |  December 7, 2006 2008 |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Yakuza 2 (known in Japan as Ryū ga Gotoku 2 (龍が如く2)) is the sequel to the video game Yakuza (Ryū ga Gotoku). The title was released on December 7, 2006, for the PlayStation 2 video game console in Japan.
On September 20, 2007, Sega announced the game would be released in North America in 2008.[1]
Reaction
In Japan, Famitsu has given the game a score of 38 out of 40, a highly positive and praiseworthy score considering that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess received the same score.
The intro of the game starts in the early 1980s, a detective is chasing after somebody and wittinesses a murder of a Korean mob boss who says in Korean "Even if you kill me, our organization will live on." And the murderer happens to be Kiryuu Kazuma's foster father, Kazama Shintarou. After Kazama runs off, the mysterious detective checks on the man and tells him in Japanese that just ahead that his child is in danger and then dies. The man heads in that direction and notices a fire and finds the room where a Korean woman is along with a baby. The woman is contemplating suicide (in Korean) and taking the child with her. However, the detective successfully convinces the woman not to kill herself and the baby.
Then the game comes back to the present and the detective is still at awe at what happened.
The sequel takes place one year after the events of the first game. Since then, the Toujou-kai has been falling apart and they are on the brink of war against the Osaka based gang, the Oumi-rengou. With no resort left, the Toujou-kai requests their former leader, Kiryuu Kazuma for their help. Kiryuu and Haruka are living a peaceful life and they visit the graves of Yumi, Nishiki, and Kazama. There, the appointed Kumi-chou, Terada, asks for Kiryuu's aide. However, the Oumi-rengou assassinate Terada in front Kiryuu and Haruka's eyes and Kiryuu heads out for Osaka to find a peaceful solution and prevent an all out Japan gang war from happening.
While in Osaka, Kiryuu meets his Kansai equivalent and new rival, Gouda Ryuuji, the son of the head of the Oumi-rengou, Gouda Jin. Ryuuji also has a nickname that he hates, "The Kansai Dragon." He hates the name because he doesn't like the kansai part and that he hates the idea of having two dragons with Kiryuu around and feels that he'll be a true dragon once he eliminates Kiryuu. During his visit there, Kiryuu meets a new love interest, a yakuza hunting female detective, Sayama Kaoru, a fellow orphan and may have also lost her parents to the Toujou-kai like how Kiryuu and Yumi did.
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