Brutal and vicious though he is, Ryuji is not without a moral code, and this distinguishes him from some of his associates within the Omi. Known as the “Dragon of Kansai”, Ryuji’s antagonism with Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, is inevitable, and shapes the events of Kiwami 2’s story. Though not without political ambition, his main goal is to prove himself the most fearsome yakuza in Japan. Ryuji is something of a Blood Knight, wo values honorable combat above all else. Visiting Osaka as a diplomatic envoy for the weak and depleted Tojo, Kiryu meets Ryuji Goda: the enormous, physically imposing, blonde-haired son of the Omi’s chairman. Although he has left the yakuza, Kiryu’s sense of responsibility to the Tojo clan has not abated and indeed, his entire identity and personal history is bound up with it, for good and for ill. The Omi’s predations quickly put the Tojo under intense pressure, and it falls on Kiryu to come to their aid. After a momentary reign as clan Chairman, series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu handed over the reigns to Yukio Terada but Terada’s inability to return the Tojo to a sound footing has invited unwanted attention from the Omi Alliance, an enormous Yakuza coalition centred on Osaka, Japan’s second city. Yakuza Kiwami 2 is set one year after the events of the first game, which ended with Tokyo’s dominant Yakuza clan, the Tojo, in disarray. The hard-boiled, masculine storytelling associated with the Yakuza series isn’t exactly de rigueur in Western gaming at the moment and so the several refreshing entries in the franchise have filled a gap in the market, and been well-received. In the run-up to that game’s release, publisher Sega devoted significant support to promoting the legacy of a franchise which continues to attract new fans both in Japan and the West. Yakuza 2 was first released for the PlayStation 2 way back in 2006, and the venerable franchise finally came to a conclusion last year with Yakuza 6. Released in summer 2018, Yakuza Kiwami 2 is a remake of the second game in the Yakuza series.
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