Where Yakuza 3 told an incredibly heartfelt story centering Kiryu, and Yakuza 5 explosively layered together a massive, multi-POV narrative, Yakuza 4 sits squarely in between. Which is all to say ...

The first game in the series released on PlayStation 3, Yakuza 3 starts with Kiryu far away from the yakuza lifestyle. Instead, in 2007, he’s taking care of the Morning Glory Orphanage in Okinawa.

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, the next game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, was originally a concept called Like a Dragon: Tuna where original protagonist Kiryu Kazuma was a fighting fisherman.

One starring the (Japanese) voice of Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu as its lackadaisical lagomorph hero, Rusty, who you can hear in the demo on Steam now. What we're looking at here feels a bit like a mash ...