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It's honestly a very tough call.

0 was the perfect picture of its time, with extremely memorable characters, an unmatched aesthetic, and an incredibly tragic story in Majima's tale that definitely makes up for the fact that Kiryu is mostly there as an observer rather than a character.

Like a Dragon had an optimism all its own, and made Ichiban truly his own style of protagonist. It emphasized more than anything the themes of found family and being stronger together. It also tackled real social issues that the Yakuza games have stumbled on in the past.