PlayStation 2 User Reviews

伝説の始まり。 極みにおいてはどこでも真島とかいうトンチキコンテンツが増えたことで整合性が取れなくなっているところががだいぶあって、雰囲気がどうしても良きPS2から離れているから、オリジナルの必要最低限の要素で面白くさせようというところが素晴らしい。

ten years in the joint made you a **** **** would recommend, hilarious dubbing and fast gameplay.

The game, which was the beginning of the Yakuza series, was truly one of the top quality works of its time. Even now, when I play it, the game is really an 8-9 out of 10 game, with its very good story, characters and action system.

Прошел оригинальную yakuza на эмуляторе пс 2. Я играл ранее в ремейк и ремейк мне показался конченой хуетой, дэбильный кринжовый японский сюжет, такая же режиссура, все затянуто до невозможности, боевка – просто пиздец, в общем не понравилось мне и более 2 часов я в это выдержать не мог. А ведь это, по сути, единственный более-менее наследник Shenmue, других индустрия нам не дала. Но как же нынче принято наяривать на якудзу, все эти мемы с бакамитаем, и я решил попробовать оригинал. В этот раз я игру прошел полностью, что уже показатель. Оригинал намного менее растянут, нет каких-то дэбильных дополнительных квестов, где нужно бегать за кольцом или другой сранью (понятия не имею зачем и так затянутую игру было растягивать еще жёстче, еще одно доказательство того, что японцы тотальные ретарды), сюжет подается шустрее + есть атмосфера пс 2 и середины 2000х, что очень решает на самом деле, позволяет окунуться в то время (а то время на самом деле чуть ли не святое). Сюжет – абсолютно типичная японская кринжовуха с клоунадой, однако за ним хотя-бы не скучно наблюдать, стоит отдать должное. Боевка – полный пиздец, как и в ремейке, однако ее меньше, она проще и менее комплексная (что абсолютно правильно, так как ты не можешь исправить говно сделав его комплекснее, какие же ретарды делали ремейк!). Однако, то что ее меньше не означает то, что ее мало, ее все еще дохуя (слишком много!), это худший аспект игры, пожалуй. Музыка хорошая, японцы всегда делалаи годный саунд. Открытый мир прикольный, можно бродить и собирать какую-то эротику, играть в казиныч (ебучие азиатские лудики и тут насрали), в общем для эпохи пс 2 – хорошо. Атмосфера присутствует, не смотря на кринж и клоунаду. Прошел и не жалею, наверное, буду и в следующие части играть, однако 5/10 так как слишком уж много у нее минусов.

This game has a really good story and the missions is good and the characters conversations is good too I'm satisfied with game

Yakuza 1 was a blast, yeah the english dub makes it ironically awesome, but i played undub just for the feeling, and it feels weird playing the first game, its one of those "first game of the franchise" so it aged not very well, but its still a great game, i could actually play the remake Yakuza Kiwami but i decided to play the original PS2 version just to see how things was back in the PS2, fixed camera, fighting encounters like in a RPG instead of the fight happen instantly in the open world, not too many options but its very understandable, its the first game and its PS2, but the low colors, the atmosphere, its damn good, its recommendable to play Kiwami because it has everything the series has learned but PS2 Yakuza worths a shot

While the remakes really showed how much better the series was, the first 2 games in the franchise are still quite fun and enjoyable. While the fixed camera wasn't my favorite, I still had a lot of fun with the combat even though it felt more clunky than later games. Enjoyable game and really cool to see the start of a fantastic franchise. Hope this helps

7/10

English dub. That's it English dub. English dub? English dub! Too bad they didn't have the English dub in yakuza 2.

Juego que no conocía y me encantó en su momento. Una especie de GTA pero en Japón, con una ambientación e historia super interesantes. Muy recomendado.

**** game and i still give it a 4 because the fights were fun but that's all because the rest of the game is just walking around the small map chat and watch cutscene, when I bought it in 2010 I thought this crap would be a beat em up. the graphics and map interaction was great

Ten Years In The Joint Made You A F*cking P*ssy Ten Years In The Joint Made You A F*cking P*ssy Ten Years In The Joint Made You A F*cking P*ssy Ten Years In The Joint Made You A F*cking P*ssy Ten Years In The Joint Made You A F*cking P*ssy Ten Years In The Joint Made You A F*cking P*ssy Overrated game

Yakuza is a mix of Shenmue and Final Fight with a terrific narrative and a ton of fun side activities. While the game's battle system would be refined in sequels, it's a bit imbalanced in this game while boss fights are more tanky endurance matches than a fun challenge. Despite its flaws, Yakuza is still a very enjoyable game and a solid start for what would become a fantastic franchise.

A good stepping stone to a fantastic game series but you can feel that it's the first one, it's still holds of even if the Combat is very stiff and you are gonna hit the air more times then you like, and the English dub is good and hilarious, I would recommend that you start with this game if you want to play the franchise

Quizas uno de los juegos de PS2 que a día de hoy (2020) me pongo a jugar y me sigue pareciendo entretenido, no es un GTA5, pero es muy divertido.

I've made it just past the halfway point (Chapter 7: Dragon and Koi) and color me unimpressed. I've played the remake of this game with Kiwami and would honestly recommend sticking to that superior version rather than slogging through the antiquated original release that Yakuza purists seem to hold in the most favorable of a light. The combat system is clunky and not up to par considering how much the game relies on it as its primary form of gameplay. Doesn't feel too bad when you first boot up the game, but as time goes on you really start to feel where it's lacking. First, when fighting big, aggressive groups of enemies they can easily wear you like an oven mitt as you can get locked into a series of hits without much recourse other than getting knocked down with some distance between the two of you so that you can recover or for there to be a break in the barrage of fists for you to strike back. There is a “lock-on” functionality called “shifting” that is meant to hone in on an enemy and let you dodge, but it also isn’t up to snuff as Kazuma will lose it entirely at times and you’ll be left with a rousing round of shadow boxing with a ghost while the enemy combatants queue up to bugger you. Also, the camera just can’t seem to be able to keep up with the action as you dodge around and whatnot, but the camera thinks the wall to your back is particularly interesting rather than the three thugs in front of you with knives brandished. This becomes especially annoying when you go up against Majima at the batting cages and thanks to how much he dodges around good luck keeping him in the frame for more than a split second or the GB Holmes fight where you’re in an octagon with no one other than Holmes present and he doesn’t move fast and the camera still can’t manage to keep the guy in view. Hope you enjoy getting **** punched by a freight train because I lost this fight so much the game actually offered to drop to “EASY Difficulty” I bested him without needing to, but I wasn’t losing because I hadn’t grasped the mechanics of the game and, therefore, wasn’t utilizing them properly, but because the mechanics haven’t been refined enough. I also hope you are an individual who pines for commitment because when it comes to dishing out a combo and you miss the guy your swinging at you can’t adjust midstream to the direction he currently is in; however, you do get a move that’s meant to compensate for this by allowing you to swing in the opposite direction with your final hit, but it doesn’t make too much a difference on top of the previously mentioned shortcomings of the combat system which in time does get to be pretty samey. Oh, if you're expecting some of those glorious HEAT actions that the series is known for I’d go ahead curb your expectations right now as they’re pretty limited and unexceptional to the current repute of the series. Now let’s toss some shade at the localization and how lacking it is. You won’t have a choice between an English or Japanese dub so you’ll be stuck listening to the mediocre English actor's drone their way through the script, but hey, at least, you get Mark Hamill doing a withheld Joker impersonation with Majima so there is that. In all seriousness, no one brings their A-game to this project with Haruka’s voice actress phoning it in hard as can be. Also, Kazuma’s voice actor seems to be no prize himself as he repeated just one tone throughout only slightly raising it if Kazuma becomes uncertain. At the best of times it gets the job done, no more no less, other times you’ll think “I’m not a voice actor, but I could give a more enthusiastic performance than these twits!” Oh, and the script holy jumping **** Jesus this script. I’ve played other Yakuza titles so I have a definitive feeling towards how the scripts are structured with the odd expletive here and there for some added emphasis, but this script feels as though they handed it a thirteen-year-old and really emphasized the aspect that it pertains to criminals as it is especially “try-hard”. Multiple instances of the word **** are liberally peppered throughout the script with **** thrown in for good measure. If you’ve any familiarity with these characters or world then you know how off-model this is for them. I got nothing against profanity, but it needs to be used properly and with some care or otherwise, it starts to sound less like believable, engaging dialogue and more akin to Timmy just learned about swearing and he thinks it’s just **** Pro-tip: Stick with Yakuza Kiwami for experiencing the first game of the series as this one doesn’t hold up much at all. Kiwami not only being superior in the gameplay department, but it added an additional story beats like the fall/rise of Nishikiyama which really gives much more depth to his character rather than coming off as more of a rival to Kazuma.

A masterpiece. The beginning of a legendary saga. To bad that it is so underrated in the Western public...

Impressive game with a good story my only gripe is the combat its stiff well what else can i say oh it has a good amount of content for a ps2 game so its worth a while

Incredible game with incredible story. Nowhere near to 10 point but because of the "professional review" I increase the overall. I looking forward to play the next installments.

The start **** series, the cut scenes were good as were the characters. I think I had the most fun playing this in any of the other games in the series.

this game is freaking awesome its a spiritual successor to Shenmue and man did it surpass shenmue already amazing story and a unique gameplay for an open world game like this was just genius if sega ever plans to make Shenmue 3 then they should leave it in the hands of the people who made Yakuza 1-5

this game was okay, combat wasnt that great, and story was so melodramatic, really wanted to like this one too.

this game does not have a name or the packaging like god of war or devil may cry that easily acttracts gamers and so it's often overlooked. And who can blame us,i mean who really cares about yakuzas (i know i don't) but after a friend recommended it to me i finally got the game and i was so glad i did. The story in this game can only be found in a great movie or a best seller novel for it's that damn **** involves love,betrayer,honour and even tragedy.after taking the fall for his best friend,our hero gets out of prison only to find out his girlfriend is missing,betaryed by bestfriend and yakuza world in **** must protect a mysterious little who would lead him to the truth. With awesome characters,great combat system,free roaming gameplay and great looking cut scenes i must say yakuza is a master piece. A game for only hardcore gamers,casual gamers be warned

The camera is a bit wonky and the dub coupled with a westernized script is so full of F-bombs that the cool and collected yakuza sound more like foulmouthed, drunken suburban teens. Other than that, though, the game delivers an excellent story, memorable characters, and plenty of optional stuff to discover in a sandbox of Tokyo's seedier district.