Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition
Step into Japan's criminal underworld in this explosive action brawler starring legendary yakuza, Kazuma Kiryu, who is hellbent on unraveling the truth around his daughter's tragic accident. The Essence of Art…
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 8 December 2016 on PlayStation 4.
What Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition is
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Yakuza 6, Kazuma Kiryu will find out exactly how much people are willing to sacrifice for family - be those ties through blood or bond - when he investigates a series of shadowy events that involve the ones he holds closest to his heart. Fresh out of a three-year prison sentence, an older and weathered Kiryu comes to find out that his surrogate daughter, Haruka, has gone missing from the orphanage he looks after. The trail leads him to his old stomping grounds in Kamurocho, where he discovers that she has been struck by a car and now lies in a coma. To make matters worse, Kiryu learns that Haruka now has a son that he must look after. With baby in hand, Kiryu journeys to the seaside town…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition is the 20th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Yakuza 0: Digital Deluxe Edition in 2017.
What it launched against
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - Essence of Art Edition launched on 8 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Pokémon Moon and Pokémon Sun. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Pokémon Moon, Pokémon Sun.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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