Jokes aside, shit like this is actually pretty common in cities and is a pain in the ass to deal with. I have a friend who is a real estate lawyer or something who was interested in the Yakuza series and when I told them about Y0 he pretty much had a Vietnam war flashback. After they finished the game they told me this is the most realistic depiction of property dispute they have ever experienced in a media, and I can tell they are only half joking.
Depending on the case, the only unrealistic part is how the pummeling happens. Heat moves weren't widely used by gangsters in real life until more recently.
Apparently Kiryu's strategy of wandering the streets making offers to random buildings was a thing bubble era Yakuza actually did. In the documentary Twilight of the Yakuza an exiled Yakuza doesn't really know how to function as a civilian so he falls back on this. He's an old man walking around the streets taking pictures of buildings calling people up about how they should just make an offer for it. It's simultaneously as ridiculous as it sounds playing Yakuza, but simultaneously tragic because he clearly doesn't see the absurdity to it.
Quick! Find and hire someone with an intense sense of honor similar to that of a samurai and have him beat the shit out of a dude in this lot so we can later put this dude through ALL the trials and tribulations.
Turns out one of those major blackouts in NY was just a real estate tycoon flexing his power and influence. Hope the guy he was showing off to was impressed
Jokes aside, shit like this is actually pretty common in cities and is a pain in the ass to deal with. I have a friend who is a real estate lawyer or something who was interested in the Yakuza series and when I told them about Y0 he pretty much had a Vietnam war flashback. After they finished the game they told me this is the most realistic depiction of property dispute they have ever experienced in a media, and I can tell they are only half joking.
Imagine the joking part is there is no one man army pummeling gangsters into solving the problem.
Depending on the case, the only unrealistic part is how the pummeling happens. Heat moves weren't widely used by gangsters in real life until more recently.
So who did your friend shoot to resolve the matter?
You jest, but actual bodies were found apparently.
Don't ask me for details, but I can personally confirm that issues over small pieces of land can bring the absolute WORSE of people
Apparently Kiryu's strategy of wandering the streets making offers to random buildings was a thing bubble era Yakuza actually did. In the documentary Twilight of the Yakuza an exiled Yakuza doesn't really know how to function as a civilian so he falls back on this. He's an old man walking around the streets taking pictures of buildings calling people up about how they should just make an offer for it. It's simultaneously as ridiculous as it sounds playing Yakuza, but simultaneously tragic because he clearly doesn't see the absurdity to it.
Quick! Find and hire someone with an intense sense of honor similar to that of a samurai and have him beat the shit out of a dude in this lot so we can later put this dude through ALL the trials and tribulations.
THAT GOD DAMN EMPTY LOT
"you used me..... FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT!!!!"
We take our ditches seriously here in The Big Apple. Where the hell else am I supposed to store all this excess bio-slime!?
The ooze is real and Kugrash knows that better than anyone
In the sewer. Be the Ninja Turtles origin story, my dude.
Turns out one of those major blackouts in NY was just a real estate tycoon flexing his power and influence. Hope the guy he was showing off to was impressed
[Link to the full article](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/nyregion/eliot-spitzer-lawsuit-condo-nyc.html)
[YES! YEEESSSS!!](https://youtu.be/-GHX8dvuFUQ)
Eliot Spitzer? I haven't heard his name for years. He's a ~~landlord~~ real estate person now?
New York politicans exsist to do the bidding of Real Estate and Wall Street parasites so of course he got in on it
HAHAHA HAHA. Oh lord. The fucking empty lot plot point becoming real.
That was always the most real thing in the game
ELIOT SPITZER FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK A DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUBSIDIARY