Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ends the only way a game fully starring Majima can really only ever end.
WITH A BIG OL' DANCE NUMBER FEATURING THE THE CAST!!<
The game was a blast from start to finish and even ended on the requisite >!heartwrenching plot of life making Majima sad. And even tied back to Yakuza 5 somewhat with all the talk of Dreams and such. It was all quite nice!!<
It also gave me so much >!internal monologue and post-and-side-plot fodder for my Persona 5 x Yakuza fic where Joker is the son of Majima. Noah becomes like a surrogate nephew to Majima and he gets all those good fatherly feelings! Plus with Joker being like 24 or 25 by the time Majima goes to become a pirate it will just be really funny having a moment where Amnesiac Majima learns he's got a son in his 20s in a random conversation with Saejima, Nishida, and Minami.!<
Other highlights I found amazing:
!Majima getting tiger dropped by a giant squid.!<
!Holy shit Minami is back, after going completely missing after Yakuza 4 (Nishida also but he didn't feel as gone because of all the remakes and the Majima Side stuff in Kiwami 1 & 2.)!<
!Didn't expect that "White Whale" to be quite as... literal as the finale was making it out to be.!<
!Can't believe whales are actually dragons.!<
!I was constantly doing the DiCaprio Pointing meme at the screen whenever Majima pulled off a familiar move he remembered off pure muscle memory.!<
I do wish there was a "rememberance" mechanic like Kiryu had in Infinite Wealth, but I guess they couldn't justify a lot of them, plus they worked in >!Majima not WANTING to remember!< quite well into the plot.
Posted Mar 16, 2025, 1:10 AM UTC