{"id":42525,"date":"2024-01-26T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/yakuzas-forgotten-spinoff-deserves-more-love\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:15:00","slug":"yakuzas-forgotten-spinoff-deserves-more-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/yakuzas-forgotten-spinoff-deserves-more-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakuza\u2019s Forgotten Spinoff Deserves More Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kazuma Kiryu is the face of <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/infinite-wealth-like-a-dragon-review-kasuga-yakuza-1851190269\">Yakuza<\/a>. With such a legacy, it\u2019s easy to see why Yakuza has struggled to move past its steely protagonist, but even before the introduction of the charismatic Ichiban Kasuga, an obscure spinoff proved that the franchise could do just fine without the Dragon of Dojima. Fourteen years later,\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/yakuza-spinoff-black-panther-tatsuya-1851198051\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; kotaku.com<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazuma Kiryu is the face of Yakuza. With such a legacy, it\u2019s easy to see why Yakuza has struggled to move past its steely protagonist, but even before the introduction of the charismatic Ichiban Kasuga, an obscure spinoff proved that the franchise could do just fine without the Dragon of Dojima. Fourteen years later,\u2026 Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42526,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[2526,9218,9219],"class_list":["post-42525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","category-reviews","tag-face","tag-kazuma","tag-kiryu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yakuza\u2019s Forgotten Spinoff Deserves More Love | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Yakuza\u2019s Forgotten Spinoff Deserves More Love for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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