
Bloodless Carnage: Saejima's murderous rampage at the start of his story has a surprising lack of gunshot wounds on his victims.Mostly justified in that he became a yakuza in the first place as a result of a (successful) effort to save her life. Big Brother Worship: Yasuko to her stepbrother Saejima, to the point where she visited the prison where he was being held every day for 25 years, and was willing to take out a loan of 100 million yen and kill members of the Shibata family in order to have a chance at freeing him/seeing him again.He gets killed by Arai when the latter has no more use for him. In the climax of the game, all of the playable characters sport black suits that they wore to Yasuko's wake. Badass in a Nice Suit: Kiryu (natch) and Akiyama.It's only proof that we walked on this earth.' The idea behind the Tojo Clan drives the actions of various characters, both past and present, from motivating Daigo to betraying his men so he can secure the organization's financial future to being used as a rallying cry by Kiryu near the end. And Now for Someone Completely Different: Instead of controlling Kazuma Kiryu, the game begins with its newcomers, starting with Shun Akiyama, followed by Taiga Saejima and Masayoshi Tanimura.Absurdly Spacious Sewer: In Saejima's story chapters, he uses Kamurocho's sewers to avoid any police presence due to him being a wanted man.AB Negative: While the specific blood type is never mentioned, this resulted in Saejima locating Lily's biological father when she had kidney failure, and doing whatever it took to get him to donate one of his to her.Yakuza 4/Ryū ga Gotoku 4: Successor of the Legend includes examples of: The game was followed up by the spin-off title Yakuza: Dead Souls, a Third-Person Shooter where Kamurocho suffers from a zombie outbreak following the events of this game.
