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Message: [QUOTE="Aziamuth, post: 6026, member: 16"] I consider myself an expert in the series as I have beaten plenty of games. To keep things simple, there are currently 9 mainline games, 6 spin-offs and a Japan only gacha game. The games follow a chronological order and are part of an overarching story, which means that characters tend to come back from time to time. From 0 to 6 the games are beat em up in 3D enviroments, while 7 and 8 are turn based RPGs. The spinoffs are also beat em up, except Dead Souls which is a third person shooter. All of the spin-offs are canon except Dead Souls (chronologically that one happens after Yakuza 4). One can question the canonicity of Kenzan and Ishin, but it doesn't matter since they are set in the past. While I'm not too fond of the direction the series took (don't really mind the change to turn based RPG, but how they market the games, the length and sometimes the writing irks me), they are still fantastic games. As for the beat em ups, the quarity varies but at the very least they tend to be fun. What's important is that to enjoy them properly you have to play one after the other (that is, start with 0 and then go up numerically). You COULD start with 3 like I did (in my defense the original PS3 release had a recap of what happens in Yakuza 1 and 2), but it might sour your experience. [/QUOTE]

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