Like A Dragon: 11 Details In Yakuza Games That'll Blow Your Mind

1. Majima Learned A Lot From Nishitani

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Nishitani Homare is a yakuza family head in the prequel game, Yakuza 0. He deals a lot with Majima Goro and is part of the reason that Majima turns into a wildman; the 'Mad Dog' as he is eventually called.

Just to drive home the point of how much influence Nishitani’s personality had on Majima, the former's introduction animation from his boss battle against Majima in 0 has parts and motifs reused as Majima’s boss battle music later on.

Even Nishitani's fighting style is shared heavily with Majima's own Mad Dog style, cementing the influence and showing exactly where it came from.

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