{"id":910868,"date":"2025-12-25T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1851602899"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:31:16","slug":"yakuza-0-is-rough-around-the-edges-and-that-makes-it-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/yakuza-0-is-rough-around-the-edges-and-that-makes-it-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakuza 0 Is Rough Around The Edges And That Makes It Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/yakuza-0-is-rough-around-the-edges-and-that-makes-it-great.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m fairly late to the <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/total-recall-like-a-dragon-infinite-wealth-yakuza-1851289847\">Like a Dragon<\/a> party. To date, the only games I\u2019ve played are Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, Gaiden, and the spinoff, Judgment. They\u2019re all great games and I\u2019ve enjoyed sinking hundreds of hours into the series across all of them, but I think the most interesting of the bunch is the\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/yakuza-0-friction-new-game-features-mechanics-1851602899\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/yakuza-0-friction-new-game-features-mechanics-1851602899\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fairly late to the Like a Dragon party. To date, the only games I\u2019ve played are Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, Gaiden, and the spinoff, Judgment. They\u2019re all great games and I\u2019ve enjoyed sinking hundreds of hours into the series across all of them, but I think the most interesting of the bunch is the\u2026 Read more&#8230; Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6632,8887,13255,2349,13257,8881,9303,13256,13254,34,36,6639,6577,39],"class_list":["post-910868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","tag-action-adventure-games","tag-beat-em-ups","tag-gaiden","tag-judgment","tag-kamurocho","tag-kazuma-kiryu","tag-like-a-dragon","tag-like-a-dragon-prologue","tag-rgg","tag-rpg","tag-ryu-ga-gotoku-studio","tag-single-player-video-games","tag-video-games-developed-in-japan","tag-yakuza"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yakuza 0 Is Rough Around The Edges And That Makes It Great | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019m fairly late to the Like a Dragon party. 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