SEGA's Yakuza 6: The Song of Life isn't just a game with excellent voice-acting. It's an excellenty-acted game overall thanks to its A-list cast of Japanese talent.

The Dragon of Dojima returns for one more adventure, with the stakes higher and more personal than ever in this touching farewell to a Yakuza legend. With a tale that closes the book on a long-running saga, Kiryu’s farewell results in a story that is as satisfying to watch as its gameplay is as underwhelming to consume.

It’s the stories and characters, which really define the Yakuza series. Something that SEGA wants to highlight with a few new videos leading up to the western release of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.

Honour, civil war between gangs and a life behind bars. Yakuza is all that and so much more. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life however? One thing is for certain: It’s the end of the Dragon of Dojima. Is it a touching farewell song or a drunken karaoke ballad in its construction however? Apparently, it’s a damn fine farewell to arms as critical reviews have been mostly positive so far.

You’re walking down the streets of a Japanese red light district. Minding your own business, possibly thinking of grabbing a drink when all of a sudden a random group of ruffians demands that your face becomes best friends with their knuckles. In any other sandbox game, such an encounter would be a sloppy fight of note. Basic, sluggish fisticuffs, right? Not in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life.

Bad news for anyone looking to walk the streets of Japan and introduce the faces of local ruffians to the emergency wing of a Japanese hospital: You won’t be doing any criminal activity of that sort until April.

The streets of Kamurocho have never been safe in SEGA’s Yakuza franchise. More often than not, asking for directions usually requires smashing a face into a brick wall as hoodlums and con artists try to make a quick buck off of you. What’s a Yakuza dude to do, when he needs to unwind and de-stress from the day-to-day life of rearranging faces? Run a cat cafe of course. Or maybe something else. No wait, running a cat cafe still sounds like the best thing ever.