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Welcome to the first of 7 posts detailing my thoughts on the Yakuza games from Sega. The first entry will be detailing my thoughts behind the 2016 remake of  Yakuza , or better known in Japan as  Like A Dragon , originally released in 2005 on the PlayStation 2. I played this on a PlayStation 4 as I will the rest of the games. I just beat  Yakuza Kiwami , and I have a lot on my mind. This is easily without a doubt, one of the most enduring video games I have ever had the chance to play, and probably one of my favorites, of all time. There's so many ideas that go into it, whether it'd be the story, the random substories, the mini-games, etc., it's all done with a clear level of passion by whoever was developing the game, and it brightly shines as the in-game indicator for a MesuKing Card or a random locker key. It all culminates into this brilliant package that I absolutely can't stop being obsessed with it. I might as well get the negatives out of the way first, and the ...

Something interesting happened yesterday, not really but that's a good opening sentence to catch someone's attention. I started to read Uzumaki by Junji Ito and, to be honest, it's possibly some of the best media I have ever read. Presumably I don't really read much, even though I'm a writer. Junji Ito's art style has always been visually appealing to me for some reason, the way he draws the characters and the area surrounding them is always fascinating to look at, on top of a thrilling and exciting story (in terms of Uzumaki , that is), it ties it all together to be a really great read in general, and I'm pretty excited to finish it today. I've only read 12 chapters out of the 20 published, so I'm gonna do a little speed reading later this morning. It's all visually appealing though and keeps me intrigued, I really wish western media incorporated more manga elements... I'm thinking of graphic novels aren't I? Yeah, I am. Either way, it...