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Yakuza 0 is in my top 10 of best games off all time.
Is THAT good. Story, characters, gameplay, music,sub missions, all its great (the sub mission are very fun to play, very)
I knew the series but didnt played any game before, and when i saw 0 in 2018 , i started playing it because i like beat em ups and it looked like one in an open world. But i was not prepared for such an amazing game.
Kiwami 1 is not a bad game, but 0 is so great that it makes kiwami looks like a bad game. Plus i didnt liked the story in kiwami 1, some very forced situations that changed some characters...
In my head only yakuza 0 is cannon, and the rest of the games of the saga are "what if" games (yakuza kiwami 2 is the second best yakuza)