Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth – Yakuza Story Recap

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth appears set to offer franchise followers and motion RPG gamers alike with the largest sequence entry thus far, boasting an enormous recreation world, a reliably entertaining forged of characters and an virtually overwhelming quantity of quests, side-quests and different actions to get caught into. 

On condition that Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is technically the ninth core entry within the sequence, excluding the varied last-gen variations and the nineteenth century set Like A Dragon Ishin!, there’s a whole lot of story to compensate for. Fortunately, we’ve cobbled collectively this useful abridged recap to just do that.  

Yakuza 0 

Unfolding in opposition to the neon twilight of Japan in the course of the tumult of the Nineteen Eighties, Yakuza 0 introduces us to a recent confronted Kazuma Kiryu who instantly finds himself framed for homicide in an empty lot inside Kamuorocho’s improvement district, forcing him to flee the Dojima household as a way to safeguard his adoptive father, Shintaro Kazama. Shortly after, Kiryu joins forces with Tetsu Tachibana, an actual property mogul who guarantees to clear his title, bringing Kiryu in direct confrontation with the sprawling Dojima Yakuza household and extra particularly, Dojima lieutenants Hiroki Awano, Keiji Shibusawa and Daisaku Kuze. Realising the hazard, Kiryu’s oath-brother Akira Nishikiyama severs their ties as a method to guard them each as Kiryu units about defending Tachibana and taking over the Dojima lieutenants that need to see him lifeless. 

In the meantime over in Sotenbori, disgraced Shimano Yakuza Goro Majima is tasked with managing a hostess membership as a method to work off his punishment for getting concerned within the Ueno-Seiwa assassination which befell in 1985. Below fixed surveillance by Tsukasa Sagawa, a member of the Omi Alliance and rival to the Tojo Clan, Sagawa duties Majima with assassinating Makoto Makimura, a blind girl who additionally occurs to be the sister of Tachibana and the unwitting proprietor of the seemingly profitable empty lot. Refusing to do that, Majima quickly discovers that one other excessive rating Yakuza, Sera, has captured Makoto and handed her over to Kiryu who in flip finds himself betrayed by Oda, spy beneath the make use of of Shibusawa who ultimately captures Makoto and holds her prisoner on a personal boat.

Racing in opposition to time, Kiryu discovers that Kuze has imprisoned Tachibana and although Kiryu defeats Kuze it isn’t earlier than he tortures Tachibana to dying which results in Kiryu storming Shibusawa’s boat, defeating him and rescuing Makoto. Earlier than he can kill Shibusawa his oath-brother Nishikiyama seems and dissuades him from doing so, at which level Kiryu rejoins the Dojima household and begins a journey as a brand new Yakuza. Elsewhere, Majima discovers that Chinese language murderer Luo Gui has not solely murdered Dojima lieutenant Awano, however can be answerable for the empty lot homicide that kicked all the things off within the first place. After killing Gui and refusing to assassinate the pinnacle of the Dojima household on the orders of Sera, Majima returns to the Shimano household and leaves Makoto in peace to stay together with her new associate. Completely traumatised by occasions, a wild-eyed Majima meets Kiryu in Kamurocho as Yakuza 0 attracts to an finish.

Yakuza Kiwami

Framed for the homicide of Sohei Dojima, the patriarch of the Dojima household, (truthfully, can this man catch a break?) Kiryu takes the hit and subsequently spends a decade in jail, throughout which period his longtime pal and oath-brother Nishikiyama ascends and turns into a feared Yakuza crime boss in his personal proper. After leaving jail, Kiryu not solely discovers that it was Nishikiyama that had him framed, but additionally that Yumi, his former lover, has gone lacking together with ten billion yen from the Tojo Clan. Moreover, Kiryu additionally encounters a younger lady referred to as Haruka and learns that her father is none apart from Kyohei Jingu, a corrupt politician that can cease at nothing to take down the Tojo Clan. 

After being defeated by Kiryu atop the Millenium Tower and subsequently sacrificing his life to kill Kyohei Jingu, Nishikiyama’s dying additionally leads to the lacking ten billion yen being showered throughout town. With Yumi succumbing to a gunshot wound, Kiryu turns into Haruka’s adoptive father and subsequently leaves the Tojo Clan. 

Yakuza Kiwami 2

Happening one 12 months after the occasions chronicled in Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Kiwami 2 sees Kiryu referred to as again into motion after the Fifth Chairman of the Tojo Clan, Yukio Terada, is assassinated by hitmen employed by the Omi Alliance. Enraged by this, Kiryu returns to Kamurocho solely to find that Ryuji Goda, the Omi Alliance’s deadliest fighter and self-styled ‘Dragon of Kansai’, is gunning for him. After a titanic battle by which Kiryu defeats Goda, the latter succumbs to his wounds whereas Kiryu helps to determine Daigo Dojima as the brand new Tojo Clan chairman. 

Yakuza 3

With the Tojo Clan now stabilised beneath the management of Daigo Dojima, Kiryu opens an orphanage to honour the sacrifice of his adoptive father, Shintaro Kazama. Six months on, Kiryu is as soon as once more pressed into motion as Daigo informs him that the land the orphanage is constructed on has been focused for acquisition by Protection Minister Ryuzo Tamiya, who needs to swallow the orphanage as a part of a “Navy Base Enlargement Invoice”. Two years after Kiryu seemingly secures the orphanage, Daigo is shot and left comatose which additionally leads to the theft of the deed to the orphanage.

It’s quickly revealed that Yoshitaka Mine, the chairman of the Hakuho Clan, has not solely ordered the destruction of the orphanage however can be meaning to kill Daigo in his sleep and take over management of the Tojo Clan in consequence. After a prolonged battle, Kiryu defeats Mine who in flip sacrifices himself by tackling Andre Richardson, the chief of an arms smuggling gang, off the hospital roof earlier than he can kill Kiryu. After being stabbed by Goh Hamazaki, a bitter Yakuza that stood to revenue from the sale of orphanage’s land, Kiryu retreats to the newly rebuilt orphanage and rests as Haruka takes care of him and sees to his accidents. 

Yakuza 4

After constructing his mortgage firm with the cash from ten billion yen that fell from the sky in Yakuza Kiwami, pleasant mortgage shark Shun Akiyama encounters a girl named Lily who asks to borrow 100 million yen for unknown causes. Quickly Lily goes lacking and Akiyama encounters Goro Majima, who can be in pursuit of Lily. Elsewhere, Taiga Saejima, former buddy of Goro Majima and perpetrator of the 1985 Ueno-Seiwa assassination, escapes from jail and is washed up on the seashore outdoors Kiryu’s orphanage. After being nursed again to well being by Kiryu and Haruka, Kiryu and Saejima converse to Majima who confesses that he was prevented from backing up Saejima on the day of the assassination, leading to Saejima taking the complete brunt of the jail sentence. 

Detective Masayoshi Tanimura in the meantime meets Lily and discovers not solely that she is definitely Yasuko, sister to Saejima, however that she has been blackmailed into handing over 100 million yen to deprave police officer Isao Katsuragi who has promised to reexamine Saejima’s case, unaware that he has already damaged out of jail. At this level, Tanimura returns the cash to Akiyama and along with Yasuko start to suspect that the rot of corruption runs deep within the Kamurocho police pressure. Compelled again into motion as soon as extra after the dying of Yasuko by the hands of the corrupt police unit, Kiryu unites with Akiyama, Saejima and Tanimura atop the Millenium Tower as they face down the forces of Police Chief Seishirō Munakata and handle to defeat all of them, inflicting Munakata to take his personal life within the course of slightly than be arrested. 

Yakuza 5

Working as a taxi driver beneath the alias Taichi Suzuki, Kiryu hears that Tojo Clan chairman Daigo Dojima has gone lacking and units off again into the neon jungle of Kamurocho to seek out him. Again behind bars as soon as once more, Saejima learns that Goro Majima has been killed and subsequently makes his escape to Kamurocho to trace down the killer of his oath-brother. Now a lot older, Haruka seeks to make a profession for herself as an idol and is promptly taken beneath the wing of Mirei Park, who it seems was not solely answerable for forcing Kiryu into hiding to guard Haruka’s repute, however can be the ex-wife of Goro Majima besides. With Mirei turning up lifeless shortly after in a pretend suicide, Shun Akiyama takes Haruka beneath his safety and the 2 head to Kamurocho.

Kiryu arrives in Kamurocho shortly after and discovers {that a} cellmate of Saejima, Shigeki Baba, is a part of an elaborate operation by the Omi Alliance to entice and kill Kiryu and Saejima, thus leaving the best way clear for the syndicate to take over the Tojo Clan’s operations in Kamurocho. Quickly, it’s revealed that each Daigo and Majima faked their disappearance and dying respectively as a way to examine Tsubasa Kurosawa, the terminally in poor health kingpin of the Omi Alliance. After defeating the forces of Kurosawa, Kiryu finds himself drawn into fight with Masato Aizawa, who reveals himself to be the son of Kurosawa. Getting ready to dying, Kiryu defeats Aizawa and is helped to his toes by Haruka, who declares that she is now not an idol and can as a substitute spend her time with Kiryu.

Yakuza 6

Launched from jail in 2016 after agreeing to serve a sentence for his previous crimes, Kiryu finds out that Haruka has secreted herself away in Onomichi to keep away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi after she stepped down from her profession as an idol three years earlier. Worse nonetheless, Kiryu learns that not solely is Haruka in a coma on account of a success and run accident, however she additionally has a son referred to as Haruto that Kiryu takes with him on his journey to Onomichi, discovering within the course of that Onomichi has its personal highly effective Yakuza group often called the Yomei Alliance. Not lengthy after, Kiryu discovers that Yuta Usami, Captain of the native Hirose household, is definitely the daddy of Haruto and it isn’t lengthy earlier than Haruto is kidnapped by the Jingewon Mafia who delivers them into the clutches of the Yomei Alliance.

Yuta and Kiryu, along with different members of the Hirose household storm Millenium Tower (seemingly the place the place all scores are settled within the Like A Dragon/Yakuza video games) and handle to rescue each Haruto and a freshly recovered Haruka, who was kidnapped as quickly as she awoke from her coma. It’s revealed that an aged and extremely corrupt politician named Minoru Daidoji was the mastermind behind not simply these occasions, but additionally a plot to co-opt a secret battleship to be used in opposition to the American forces that occur to be garrisoned inside Onomichi. 

After Daidoji passes away of previous age, Kiryu is visited in January 2017 by his successor who calls for his silence about Daidoji’s slightly shady dealings. Kiryu accepts, however solely as long as the imprisoned Daigo Dojima is launched to stabilise the Yomei Alliance, Haruka is left alone and Kiryu’s personal dying is faked to make sure that Haruka can by no means once more be used as a method to get him. With the settlement in place, Yakuza 6 ends with Kiryu paying one final go to to the Sunshine Orphanage to make it possible for Haruto and Haruka are nicely after which leaves simply as one baby sees him disappear into the space.  

Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Marking the debut of latest sequence protagonist Ichiban Kasuga, Yakuza: Like A Dragon begins in 2001 as Kusaga is satisfied to admit to a homicide that Masumi Arakawa’s captain has seemingly dedicated. After being launched 18 years later, it seems that the world has vastly modified. Not solely was Arakawa not current to greet him on his launch, however the Omi Alliance has taken Kamurocho from the now defunct Tojo Clan. Shortly after, Kasuga runs into police officer Koichi Adachi who informs him that Arakawa was the reason for the Omi Alliance takeover as he betrayed the Tojo Clan, resulting in their damage. Livid, Kasuga and Adachi beat their manner into an Omi Alliance get collectively just for Kasuga to be shot by Arakawa and Adachi to be arrested.

After a homeless fella by the title of Yu Nanba discovers Kasuga and nurses him again to well being over the course of three days within the city of Isezaki Ijincho, Nanba and Kasuga reconcile with Adachi and newcomer Saeko Mukoda and set off to uncover why the Tojo Clan collapsed within the first place. Ultimately the group uncover that the Seiryu Clan and Geomijul Mafia had been working a cash counterfeiting racket that Yutaka Ogikubo, a profession politician, was utilizing to bribe the native police pressure to maintain the peace. Akira Mabuchi, second-in-command of the Liumang group in the meantime, catches the group and divulges that all the things till this level had been engineered to border the group as Seiryu Clan members that wished to disrupt the peace. Freed by Joon-gi Han, the second-in-command of the Geomijul group, the social gathering enterprise to the headquarters of the Geomijul to attempt to cease the Seiryu Clan and Geomijul Mafia from going to battle.

Ultimately, it’s revealed that Kasuga is the respectable son of Arakawa and after encountering an older Kiryu who makes use of intel from his Daidoji faction to disclose that Tokyo governor Ryo Aoki is the de facto chief of the Omi Alliance (now working beneath the title ‘Bleach Japan’), the group handle to tempt out Aoki and Yosuke Tendo, a bloodthirsty member of the Omi Alliance. After studying that Tendo has killed Arakawa, Kasuga enrages and defeats Tendo in battle whereas Aoki escapes. Nevertheless, Aoki in flip is killed by his proper hand man who feels betrayed by Aoki’s use of the Omi Alliance. After incriminating proof found in Arakawa’s workplace leads to jail time for each official who took Ogikubo’s bribe cash, Kasuga is final seen on the funerals of Aoki and Arakawa and resolves to remain in Ijincho.

Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Identify

Presumed lifeless by family and friends alike, Like A Dragon: Gaiden sees Kiryu residing a secret life as a particular agent for the Daidoji faction, utilizing the codename ‘Joryu’ to undertake missions chosen by his handler Kihei Hanawa. Crucially, finishing these missions pays cash that’s in flip used to finance the Sunshine Orphanage. Quickly after in 2019, Kiryu has a gathering with Watase Household captain Yuki Tsuruno, who tells him that his group will free him from the Daidoji and return to the Sunshine Orphanage if he pledges his allegiance to them – as long as Kiryu’s fixer, Hanawa, is killed as a part of the cut price. Clearly one thing of a non-starter for Kiryu, he refuses the provide and later tracks each Tsuruno and Watase Household lieutenant Kosei Shishido to Sotenbori the place after an prolonged battle with the Watase Household, Kiryu rescues Hanawa. On the finish of the battle, Tsuruno reveals that he wished Kiryu’s assist to destroy each the Omi Alliance and the Tojo Clan utterly. Kiryu refuses, nevertheless it quickly transpires that the Daidoji have made a take care of the Watase Household, one that enables them to utilize his providers for an indefinite time frame. 

Every week or so after, Kiryu meets up with the Watase Household in an deserted building website solely to understand that the Shishido has betrayed the household’s management and as a substitute turns the Watase Household in opposition to Kiryu and Tsuruno. After the battle, Kiryu, the elder Watase and Tsuruno are accompanied by Hanaway to the Omi Alliance headquarters the place it’s introduced that each the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance might be disbanded. Predictably an enormous brawl kicks off, with Kiryu, Tsuruno and Ichiban Kasuga securing the security of each Daigo Dojima and the elder Watase – guaranteeing that each organisations live on. Ultimately, a hostile faction of Omi Alliance remnants led by Shishido assault the group, just for themselves to be headed off by Daigo and the returning Taiga Saejima and Goro Majima. Lastly, Kiryu confronts and defeats Shishido, who’s stored alive by the Daidoji for attainable use as an agent sooner or later. 

One 12 months later, Hanawa and the Daidoji reward Kiryu for not solely securing the liberty and lifetime of the elder Watase, but additionally in serving to Kasuga in his mission to cease the corrupt Tokyo Governor Ryo Aoki. This reward shouldn’t be solely a tear-jerking recording of Kiryu’s two adopted youngsters, Ayako and Taichi visiting his grave together with a drawing from Haruto, however he’s additionally given some a lot wanted day without work outdoors of the nation – on the situation that he takes on a brand new title, Taichi Suzuki. Later in 2023, a a lot older Kiryu is seen in Hawaii honouring Yumi, his former lover, because the occasions of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth start.