Welp, guess I'm getting out my ps3 tonight. How lost am I going to be jumping into this first in the series?
All the Yakuza's after 1 include optional really well made summaries of the previous games, so you'll at least have a good idea of the story and major characters.
Those aren't in this one. They may have been cut to reduce download size, since it's digital only? I was kind of disappointed, because I remember almost nothing about the plot of Yakuza 4.
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