Even his Mad Dog persona in the later games isn't this mad. Speaking of completely nuts, there's his assault on the Dojima HQ.The cold, almost mechanical efficiency with which Majima takes them down is almost scarier than if he had gone completely nuts. and when they don't take the hint, he brutally lays them out one gets punched in the face and goes flying from a kick after hitting the ground, another gets an agonizing-looking gut shot, and the third tries to beg for mercy and receives a kick to the kisser in response. Instead of brushing them off with a one-liner or simply walking away, Majima gives them a Death Glare as images of the beating flash on the screen. We first get a hint of the sheer wrath bubbling under Majima's surface when the punks who beat Majima back in Chapter 16 show up again and demand that he start licking their boots.While it's undeniably badass to watch them tear through the forces of the people who have been making their lives hell for the entire game, the Unstoppable Rage Kiryu and Majima display during the finale is almost disturbing to watch:.Probably one of the bloodier scenes in the franchise. Yoneda then gets Laser-Guided Karma for that when Kuze crunches his skull to the floor in response. And then when it seems like Kuze is finally going to ease up on the torture so their target doesn't die, Tachibana seems to laugh ever so slightly at Yoneda - who responds with a fatal blow via the same hammer upside Tachibana's skull. Tachibana's Cold-Blooded Torture, where Yoneda crushes the man's toes with a sledgehammer and takes a sadistic glee in it.The few times Lao Gui smiles, it feels like the Grim Reaper gleefully staring down his next victim. Whenever he makes an appearance, the atmosphere becomes way more tense. His appearance is way out-of-place compared to the rest of the game's cast, looking like a dried-up corpse with deep, sunken eyes and a stone-cold stare. Lao Gui: considered Asia's top hitman, and a cold, sadistic one at that.Succeed, and Awano craters the goddamn wall like he's a superhuman! It begs the question of how strong he really was in his prime, and even Majima is spooked! Fail and you take an absolutely nasty amount of damage from his attack. Awano also gets to fight it out with Majima, mano-a-mano with the shirts off tradition - and then the QTE happens as Awano goes for a straight punch.When Kiryu doesn't fall for it and leaves, we're briefly shown the woman's corpse with Awano casually taking a smoke break, who's more annoyed that Kiryu wasn't intimidated. In an attempt to intimidate Kiryu as he's leaving, Awano shoots said woman dead in cold blood and makes a bluff of an ambush waiting for Kiryu outside. Then he turns everything off to try and make a deal with Kiryu, who refuses to bite. Kiryu's confrontation with Awano, immediately after the former's second fight with Kuze, starts off rather silly: Awano's disco dancing alone with a woman.After Majima rescures the daughter, she reveals that her father is dead and her mother had been grieving over him, and the cult made promises of bringing back the dead, so she joined not realizing at the time that it was a scam group led by a Dirty Old Man. It's then revealed that the leader of the cult uses it to profit (hence the 100,000-yen donation that was asked of the daughter) and to groom and sexually assault young women, something that could've happened to the daughter had Majima not intervened. The cult engages in brainwashing members to purge them of memories of their families, requiring them to make steep donations, and anyone who tries to leave gets dragged back in, including one hapless victim that Majima sees on the way inside. A relatively mundane example, but one of which can strike a chord with parents: One of Majima's substories has him trying to help a mother reunite with her daughter, the latter of which joined a cult.
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