9 2018 Video Games That Wasted Their Biggest Selling Points

7. Ending The Kiryu Saga - Yakuza 6

What's an "appropriate" ending for an ex-gang member who's maintained a heart of gold, but stacked up a small island's worth of bodies along the way?

Yakuza 5 initially sought to let Kazuma Kiryu bleed out in the snow with adopted daughter Haruka by his side, but then Sega decided to do the "one more instalment" treatment, proclaiming Yakuza 6 would in fact be The One instead; the game to tie off Kazuma's story in grand fashion.

For the vast majority of the game, this totally seems to be the case. Yakuza 6 is all about Kiryu's placement in the Japanese crime underworld, and what it will be like when he departs.

This all culminates in a shootout where Kazuma dies taking a number of bullets protecting various friends and family - a more cutting end, sure, but a logical conclusion to everything he's been building towards since Yakuza 3 and the establishment of his orphanage.

Only... then he's alive again.

Done in a way that means all who knew him think he did perish (even all the children he was raising), we open back up on Kiryu on a hospital bed, making a deal with the feds so he can disappear altogether.

It obviously means Yakuza 6 wasn't the final instalment, and everything laid out in Yakuza 6 essentially didn't matter after all.