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"Sometimes good things do come to those who wait. It's been well over a year and a half now since Japan was treated to SEGA's follow-up to their original little action-oriented crime drama (and our poor friends in Euroland will have to wait more than two years before the game hits there), but the wait was most definitely worth it.
The storyline takes place a year after the first game with Kazuma oh so close to finally leaving his mob days in the past and starting a family just as he originally intended, but, of course, that wouldn't make a terribly entertaining story. No, Kaz is pulled right back into the thick of things when what should have been a brokered truce starts to go sour, and when the head of a rival clan is kidnapped and a mysterious influx of Korean troublemakers further complicates things, suddenly Kazuma has to go back to doing what he does best: caving in the skulls of those who would try to stop him from getting to the bottom of everything.
It really is a fantastic story, one that regularly invites themes of honor and respect and good old-fashioned crime drama to the party. Though much of the core game hasn't changed since the previous entry, the way the writers were able to weave together the events of that first outing with a prologue that blows the story out into a decades-wide tale of deception and buried pasts is absolutely fantastic. By going back and tapping the same characters and setting of the first game, but building on it, Yakuza 2 simultaneously gives newcomers something to chew on, but fans of the series will have even more to digest as the story unravels."
Dragon of the Dojimaaaaa!
