Talk:Yakuza/@comment-46133453-20200619181530/@comment-44590610-20200619203414

Well the Yakuza are very different in the Cyberpunk media in general since it goes for the more cinematic Yakuza rather than the 'alternative good' Yakuza. I've actually seen and spoken with yakuza, not knowing of course, and they tend to be either friendly enough or just set in their ways of tradition. They still do illegal things, and I'm glad yakuza are struggling, but they also help to keep the streets clean from other criminals. Obviously I'm not for yakuza, neither is anyone I know, but ask anyone here in Japan they'll tell you the same that the yakuza don't hurt common people really.

In response to Esparza suggesting a 'rebooting of the franchise' I disagree, because then a lot of the stuff that makes the Cyberpunk series interesting would be completely gone. I mean it's awesome how the Soviet Union still kind of exist rather than the real world struggling of ex-soviet nations and Russia just being another country. I like having all these different crime organizations becuase it adds more variety rather than the biker, latino, black street gangs that games set in the US always have anyways. Cyberpunk by R. Talsorian has a dated look on the world that adds to the charm.

In modern day the world is much better than Cyberpunk shows it to be, and it's cool to see the 80s view of what the future would look like.