Yup. I can't actually think of a game that straight up lets you play as a criminal. Maybe Saejima in 4? But even then when you see the ending...I feel like they barely do, you're pretty much always playing as someone who's not a yakuza or just got thrown out of the yakuza, and you spent the entire game beating up criminals left and right, while making friends across town, helping out the townsfolk.