Within the first hour of Yakuza 0, Kazuma Kiryu has to re-evaluate most of what he s come to believe in. The crime family he s been loyal to actually has no problem with selling him out, and Kiryu has to somehow prove his innocence in a murder plot, as well as stop a large-scale turf war.
Over the course of many conversations, Kiryu is quickly established as a man you don t want to cross he s principled, highly idealistic and built like a tree. Unlike his friend Nishikiyama, he didn t join the yakuza for the money, he just does as he s told in order to repay what he sees as a debt to the people who took him in and gave him a home. Kiryu could well have been the stoic, hyper-masculine protagonist of so many games, but then comes the moment that shatters it all.
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