With Melodrama and Memes, a Yakuza Game Series Charms America
It all started with a chicken named Nugget. For about a decade, American audiences had largely overlooked the Yakuza role-playing games that follow the exploits of Kazuma Kiryu, a gangster with a heart of gold, and a sprawling cast of characters through facsimiles of Japanese cities. When the first Yakuza came to the United States…