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... Does it have mileage to it? Does it create intrigue about a future for the game? Because yeah, strong fundamentals, but a long way to go for marathon. So yes, now Matthew to talk about quite a lot of controversial games in this episode for whatever reason. But Yakuza Kiwami 3 plus Dark Ties, the remake of the third Yakuza game that released back on the PS3 has been remastered since then I think is genuine generally considered not a low point for the series, but not a high point. So what's the deal here? I hadn't…

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... watch. Okay, so yeah, that was marathon Matthew. I feel like I really rambled there. So apologies. I like you talk about these things because I have very little awareness of them. Yeah, it's still got, you know, it's I think a lot of it will be what is in that day one package. Does it have mileage to it? Does it create intrigue about a future for the game? Because yeah, strong fundamentals, but a long way to go for marathon. So yes, now Matthew to talk about quite a lot of controversial games in this episode for whatever reason. But Yakuza Kiwami 3 plus Dark Ties, the remake of the third Yakuza game that released back on the PS3 has been remastered since then I think is genuine generally considered not a low point for the series, but not a high point. So what's the deal here? I hadn't played Yakuza 3 before. So it was all new to me. I have played the other kawami games. So you know, I had an idea of what the process is that turns it into a kawami and how they they tend to kind of reshape it. It's the one where Kiryu goes to Okinawa and opens the morning glory orphanage and spends some time there before he is drawn back to Kamurocho by an assassination attempt on one of his friends by a seemingly deceased character. You know, which ...

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