This is probably gonna get removed but I wanna show my appreciation for the series and this community. So here’s my story. Due to some personal stuff, I basically was turning into a massive incel. I hated everyone, I thought I was worthless and a nobody. I was turning 16 and I was tired of everything, but I at least had my video games. Then one day I hear about this game. Yakuza 0. I didn’t know what to think, until I see a video by a youtuber called TheGamingBrit, breaking down the fight where Kiryu rampages through the Dojima family office after Kuze expels him, and I was hooked. The style, the visceral combat, THE MUSIC. I bought the game and Yakuza kiwami soon after. I was having fun, thinking “Yeah I’m just like Kiryu! I try my best and bad shit still happens to me, it’s not fair!” But the more I played…. The more I realized. I’m not Kiryu. I never was. I was more like the thugs he beat up on a regular basis. The entitled fools thinking they own the world, the idiots with overinflated egos, the ones who’s story ends with “and then Kiryu kicked their face in”. I realized that I was just a fool. I thought I was bigger than I really am. I thought I was owed what never even belonged to me in the first place. I wasn’t Kiryu. I was Yakuza 1 Nishiki. Angrily lashing out at the world because I wanted to be in control and have what I want just this once… but I can’t do that. I need to be better. So little by little. I began to change. I didn’t want to start copying Kiryu. I wanted to be better. I slowly started wising up and being better. I began humbling myself. I improved my attitude towards people. I started taking things easier and being less of a dick. Im not Kiryu. I never will be. But I hope I’m better than I was before. And I have Yakuza to thank for that. So that’s my story.