Oh, I realize the politician’s logo is, save for the colors used, an exact copy of the Demon Slayer logo. My point is that - unless an ink-style circle with kanji inside is a far more common approach to Japanese logos than I realize - even the Demon Slayer logo appears to be cribbing from Ryu ga Gotoku.

Aren’t both kinda ripping off the Ryu ga Gotoku logo? I mean, when I saw that header image - in those colors - my very first thought was ‘Yakuza’.

Japan Studio needs to remake Chase the Express.

No worries. Enjoy! It’s low key one of the best and most consistent series in gaming.

Nope. That pretty much covers everything.

Kid me - I would’ve been ten or eleven at the time - tried and failed so many times to rent DuckTales from the local video store that my parents just up and bought me a copy. Happy days.

Tough call, because there are a bunch and some have evolved over the years.

And that’s great! I’m glad so many people are playing and enjoying the game. And it’s not like I feel it’s impossible to do so.

The man’s gameography is lowkey one of the most unassailable in the medium. As long as he’s allowed to continue working his magic, everything is good.

No problem.

A little of Column A and a little of Column B.

Yakuza 5 and Song of Life (Yakuza 6) are what Like A Dragon pulls from almost exclusively in terms of prior narratives. (Barring a few minor references.) Granted, you’re definitely going to be kinda lost jumping straight into Yakuza 5, as both it and Song of Life act as a culmination to both the broader Tojo Clan saga…

It felt like starting a Comic Book series that had been going on for a long time at the start of a new plot arc.

Unless playing for trophies is your thing, 3 is probably best experienced on either easy mode or with a greater reliance on weapons.

As a side, Yakuza 5 is the first game to use the engine that Zero, Kiwami, Ishin, and Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise all ran on - and indeed feels very much like all of those, but particularly Zero and Kiwami.

especially if you’re a newcomer to the series who has been able to leap effortlessly from 0 to the Kiwamis to Like a Dragon.

Well, cost is only going to become a bigger factor, I’m afraid, as AMD’s gone on record as saying the shortages currently being experienced across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC aren’t ending anytime soon. And I think Phil Spencer may have suggested in an interview that the Series S basically exists in lieu of any…

I just can’t get behind the attitude that ‘first-party exclusives (which are the majority you listed) are bad’. It’s an extreme stance which has no practical place in the real world.

Based on their earnings report from a few days ago, I’d say it’s a foregone conclusion those games aren’t appearing anywhere but on Xbox and PC. They’re making every conceivable effort to push people towards GamePass - as if that brief debacle over the price of Xbox Live wasn’t proof enough.

I don’t mean the retroactive removal of existing releases (which, to answer your question, has not happened to the best of my knowledge) but the removal of all future release from other platforms. Sorry, I could’ve done a better job phrasing my previous comment.