10 Video Games With Unimaginably Complicated Lore

Kamurocho, a fictional version of Kabukicho, is the main setting for the Yakuza series and appears in every single game, sometimes alongside other cities. Unlike other games that are set in the same worlds, the map of Kamurocho's streets rarely changes from game to game. However, as the series is set across a period of time spreading from the '80s to present day Japan, the contents of those streets certainly does.

For long term players, this helps to put them in the head of Kazuma Kiryu, the main protagonist of the games. Like Kiryu, players of the series will come to know their hometown as they spend time in it, learning shortcuts and which alleyways can be dangerous at night, as well as where to go for a meal, which places offer interesting and entertaining activities, and even where your friends hang out. But then you'll go to jail or hospital for a while and, when you're released, you'll find shops you once knew will have folded while new ones have risen in their place.

After playing just a couple of the games, you'll feel as much a long-term resident of Kamurocho as Kiryu does, and that's genuinely fascinating.