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Raka_Putra posted...

I've only played 0 and 7 so far which funnily enough makes me completely oblivious to the 'actual' mainline story with Kiryu and Majima.

Interestingly I think 6 is the only Yakuza I'd put in this topic. Most of the rest definitely have connections and recurring characters but not to the point you couldn't feasibly start with them.

Yakuza games tend to be self-contained stories with the real continuity being in clear character development from one game to the next, not payoffs of hanging plot threads not being resolved like some others in the topic.

Basically they're more like something like the Die Hard movies or a season of 24. Completely possible to use any given one of them as an entry point, you just won't get quite as much out of it as if you did them all in order.

This is compared to something like Trails where if you don't play them all before Cold Steel 4 you will just be completely and utterly lost on many major plot threads and character arcs.