Yakuza 6: The Song of Life on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Step into Japan's criminal underworld in this explosive action brawler starring legendary yakuza, Kazuma Kiryu, who is hellbent on unraveling the truth around his daughter's tragic accident.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is a action, adventure and open world game
developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
and published by SEGA.
Released on March 25th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 7,095 reviews of which 6,610 were positive and 485 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 10.99€ on Steam with a 45% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 | AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 40 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a CPU which supports the AVX and SSE4.2 instruction set
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I'm going to start off by saying ignore the playtime it shows for this game, as I played most of it on offline mode and apparently that doesn't count. That being said, I did complete the game and did tons of side quests. Yakuza 6 is a game that I put off for a long time because I did not want to burn myself out, having played Yakuza 0 to 5 in a short period of time due to how hooked I was to the franchise. I saw that some people like the game, and others consider it to be mediocre - and I always found latter a strange thing because I didn't think they would just drop the ball like that after such consistency. When I finally played the game, however, I began to see why people feel that way. But do I agree with it? That's a different question. Yakuza 6 is the perfect example of how uniquely fun a franchise can be, where even something that's not amazing can still be better than most of what else you can play in the genre. The drama is there, the characters aren't boring, the gameplay is serviceable, and there's a lot to do in terms of spending dozens of hours into the experience. However, it does fall short as a Yakuza game, compared to its own predecessors. The story lacks a hook and you don't really feel engaged until the very last act. The combat is perhaps the most underwhelming in the series besides 3 and vanilla Y1/Y2. It's not bad, but there's not a lot of variety and it begins to feel same-ish. The physics are glitchy as well, and the bosses are easily cheesable. It clearly met a deadline and the results can be seen. But the game does have its highlights too. Last act of the story is pretty fun, the characters grow on you even if they aren't as cool as what we had for the last 3 games, and the second city in the game is very calming to explore. I certainly recommend this game both for itself and for the importance that it has in Kiryu's saga - given that it later continued.
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Edit - Make sure if your using controller you enable it through game>properties>controller>enable steam input. To avoid the fps lag bug, was abit shocked when starting up the game thinking i would not be able to continue my adventure through Kiryus saga. This took me a bit of googling but it works. I have been playing these games continuously from 0 to 6 and still have like a dragon, gaiden and ishin to complete after this. Let me just say this game takes off directly after yakuza 5, and its graphics are enhanced with the dragon engine much like kiwami 2, once again cinematic genius. I am devastated much akin to kiwami 2 this game does not have an epic cinematic montage start of the game but rather enters the games story with a massive cutscene. As all dialogue is voice acted you can skip sentences after reading if you prefer a faster pace, also a setting you can hide the "skip" buttoin that annoyingly pops up every spoken line without losing its function (should be default tbh). I also wish some of these games would remain consistent with how substories and things are tracked but this could be because i am playing them sequentially one after the next without long breaks.. None the less this is still an amazing game and worth making your way through the series to this point. These games have been helping me through a hard time in my life and i am thankful i discovered them when i did and would recommend them to anybody after a crazy dramatic action packed story. A massive time investment but very much worth it.
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highly recommend installing the Licensed Music Restoration Patch I couldn't believe my ears when I suddenly heard Yamashita's voice in his beautiful song Soubou How dare they cut it from the global release 😭
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Yakuza 6 is the "final game" on the original saga of Kazuma Kiryu, and it remained as such for several years before RGG picked it back up on Gaiden. Even so, I'm pretty sure at that time they were treating this game as the final game to be telling the story or the Dragon of Dojima. It also released after Yakuza 0 was made, as such, this game aims to wrap up the entire story arch they had built up prior. The game uses the "Dragon Engine", a new engine that revamped and replaced the base framework they were using before, and it is immediately noticeable how different it is. If you've played Kiwami 2 then it won't be as much of a surprise, but the jump from 5 to 6 is very drastic (even though 5 already showed many great advancements). Now unfortunately I'm not sure of the exact reason but Y6 is a little bit polarizing when taken as a whole. On one side, the graphics revamp and story are fantastic, almost every single dialogue is voice acted (besides some minor inner thoughts by Kiryu). All of these are great factors. Unfortunately in the side content department it lacks a lot that earlier entries had as a default. While it has a few new minigames proper to it, a lot of classic side activities are missing. I still greatly enjoyed the game but I did feel like part of the usual Yakuza fun factor was missing. Perhaps its due to the tone of the game? Though this had not stopped them before. Also, there's a distinct lack of interactable NPCs, I suppose due to them aiming to voice most characters, a bit of charm is lost due to this in my opinion. Besides the previous point, the game is still highly enjoyable. The new city of Onomichi has a completely different vibe from previous cities in the series, its a more relaxed town that tells it's own story, despite not sharing many facilities like one is used to, it's still very enjoyable to roam around in. Sharing a final topic about the completion aspect, overall its nowhere near as hard nor long like some of the previous titles, however there are a number of activities which require a LOT of grinding for no apparent reason. It's not just doing a certain activity until you get good, but rather repeating the same thing over and over to meet a certain number of times executed. I found it quite annoying and not many previous titles ask anything similar to this degree, given that this type of grinding is needed for a number different activities. Overall, of course I love it and I appreciate it in somehow closing the story arc for Kiryu, the ending not being all painted pink adds to the struggle that the series hopes to convey, Knowing that it was made as a send of fills me with emotion with the ending. Of course, playing this on 2025 I know the story is not quite over, so I'm eagerly awaiting to get to the next games soon enough.
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One of the best and most important chapters in the Yakuza / Like A Dragon series. You are going to cry.
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Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is currently priced at 10.99€ on Steam.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is currently available at a 45% discount. You can purchase it for 10.99€ on Steam.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life received 6,610 positive votes out of a total of 7,095 achieving an impressive rating of 9.02.
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Yakuza 6: The Song of Life was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is not playable on MacOS.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is not playable on Linux.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life is a single-player game.
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Yakuza 6: The Song of Life does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Developer
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Publisher
SEGA
Release
25 Mar 2021
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