this makes me want to go digging for an old swedish gaming mag @tokyovice.bsky.social appeared in, interviewing some yakuza and getting their take on the "realism" of i believe yakuza 3. it was very surreal and the kid in me assumed it was all make believe by the magazine.

If you look at the cover of the last yakuza, the boss on it was one of the yakuza I got to review the game. He was once a professional baseball player so he actually was able to master the PlayStation controls pretty well. Good reflexes. Kanazawa Nobuyuki