{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "playing the new Yakuza game and noticing as always they're remixing elements of previous characters/plots together, not sure how...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/639803517357506560/", "html": "<p>playing the new Yakuza game and noticing as always they&rsquo;re remixing elements of previous characters/plots together, not sure how much they were just Yakuza movie tropes all along</p><p>is striking how they mixed the &ldquo;Japan still has backwaters, y'know&rdquo; of 6 with the homeless stuff from earlier to make an episode in Yokohama, the Newark of Japan, about how being Japanese isn&rsquo;t any protection anymore</p>"}