Yakuza 0 (Part 1): Neo Decides Being a Law-Abiding Citizen is Boring & Decides to Join the Yakuza

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You what the inherent problem of being a law-abiding is? It's boring, because you gotta follow all the rules the government, society, and your parents impose on you the second you show enough cognitive development to utter your first word as a baby. Sure, there are a CRAP ton of positives in life to being a law-abiding citizen (if the place you live in isn't some kind of totalitarian hellhole or something. Or France.), but it would be too long to list all of them. But the bottom line is, if you follow all the rules to the best of your ability, you MAY have a relatively comfortable life, but the monotony of it all, if you can't handle monotony, will get to you eventually.

And one day, it got to Neosekken. It got to him PRETTY hard. He decided he needed some excitement in his life, and so he decided to look into organized crime and, being the weeb that he is, felt that the Yakuza from Japan would suit his tastes perfectly.

Only there was a couple problems: Not only does Neo NOT live in Japan, but he's too much of a boy scout at heart to actually go through with joining a mafia group in real life.

So Neo, refusing to let his boring itch go unscratched, instead decided to do the next best thing: live the life of a Yakuza member vicariously through the "Like A Dragon" video game series, "Yakuza 0" specifically, which will be the first game in the series he'll play! And so that brings us to this very series you see before you!

Join Neosekken as he gets to experience a taste of the life of a Yakuza as two different characters: Kazuma Kiryu, and Goro Majima, two men who have ties to the "Tojo Clan", which, in the story of this very game, seeks to gain control of a prime piece of real estate and thus tip the balance of power in the world of the Yakuza in their favor: a vacant lot that is the centerpiece of the "Kamurocho Revitalization Project". Although given the nature of an underworld power struggle taking place, Neo suspects that there will be..