This may be the most first-world complaint I’ve ever made, but there’s no denying it: There just aren’t enough hours in the day to experience everything that Xbox Game Pass has to offer. Team Green’s successful subscription service may have started out with an entirely okay library, but the current crop on offer is astonishing stuff especially if you’re looking to play catch-up with some of the biggest hits of this generation.

Yakuza shouldn’t be as popular as it is today, when you compare it to the trends of the industry. It’s a series of games that requires you to spend more time watching its story unfold than actually steering it, it has little to zero DLC after each game ends and the core mechanics between the various sequels barely change, even when they’re given a fresh face-lift with the Kiwami upgrades. And yet, Yakuza does gangbusters in the West.

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