Blackjack Yakuza Kiwami is a port of the original Blackjack Yakuza game that was released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3. The game was ported by 8-4 Corporation, who also ported the original Yakuza game.
The game was released in Japan on December 7, 2017 and in the west on December 14, 2017. The game is available for the PlayStation 4.
The game is set in Kamurocho, Tokyo, and Sotenbori, Osaka. The player can play as one of five characters: Goro Majima, Kazuma Kiryu, Kenichi Matsuyama, Takashi Nishimura or Ryuji Goda.
A sixth character, Akira Nishikiyama, is available as downloadable content. Each character has different strengths and weaknesses.
The objective of the game is to win money by playing blackjack against other players. The player can win money by either beating their opponents or by taking their opponents’ money.
The player can also lose money by being forced to leave the table with less than they started with.
The game is played on a table with nine cards. There are two kinds of hands: a standard hand and a bonus hand. In a standard hand, the player must beat the dealer’s hand using only cards that are face down. In a bonus hand, additional cards are added to the deck and are face up.
A player can win money if they have a better combination of numbers (e.g., two queens) than their opponent in a standard hand or if they have a better combination of face up bonus cards than their opponent in a bonus hand.
The dealer starts by dealing two hands of cards to each player and then sets down another cardface up as a “house” card. Players take turns playing cards until one player either has no more cards or has played all nine of their cards. At this point, the dealer reveals their hand and any player who has less chips than the dealer loses the match (or any other predetermined rule).
If both players have equal chips at this point (or some other rule), then the match is tied and additional hands are played until one player has more chips than the other. If there are no more hands to be played, then the match is won by either player who has more chips at the end of play (regardless of which hand they had).
