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a-c-a-b posted...

Is Yakuza 0 a stand alone game in terms of story?

I'm almost done Like a Dragon and want to play more. But I have no idea where to go from the series after LaD.

0 is the beginning of the story of the main characters of Yakuza. There are hints to events of future Yakuza games. It's pretty much the game to start the series from, unless you plan on playing the original Yakuza and Yakuza 2, on PS2. 0's events don't get referenced to in 1 through 5, since it wasn't made before those games, but it does in the remakes (Kiwami and Kiwami 2), and in Yakuza 6.

After playing 0, Kiwami and Kiwami 2, starting 3 felt like a chore because you can really feel how dated that game is. But once you get passed through that, 3 is just as great as the others.

I loved playing 0, K1 and K2 and then climbing up to 5, and seeing how much more polished the newer games are.

So yeah, if you play 0 without having played the others, you won't feel lost at all.