platypotamus
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I apologize heartily, I apparently had the wrong chapter it was chapter 9. I'm gonna miss my pinkie
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I apologize heartily, I apparently had the wrong chapter it was chapter 9. I'm gonna miss my pinkie
wild wild rice
Member
Well, I didn't win the free giveaway, but I just ordered it from Best Buy. Looking forward to joining the fray as soon as I finish Zelda!
PsychoSoldier
Banned
It makes a little more sense with Majima because his job is essentially managing the women in his club(s), which forces him into a dad-like role whether he likes it or not. And given his struggles with sleep I can't imagine him being emotionally available for a normal relationship.
The Artisan
Member
I apologize heartily, I apparently had the wrong chapter it was chapter 9. I'm gonna miss my pinkie
it's all good bruh, if ya kept reading my posts you'll see that later on that night i passed both chapters 9 and 10 =]
(i also didn't know who you were talking about either so i was fully surprised when it was revealed)
Im glad you bought it.
Welcome to the Yakuza community. These guys are quality people.
chrominance
Member
(the below contains a spoiler for Majima's backstory, but I'm pretty sure you learn all of it by the end of Chapter 3, so arguably not a particularly big spoiler)
Oh, for sure. Given the role he has, it makes total sense. I guess it's more a testament to how fucked up his life is on the one hand, and how resilient he is on the other, that he's managed to be a hot-headed yakuza thug,
get thrown out of the family after being tortured for a year
Gai Murakumo
Member
Majima's chimming in during the Karaoke Song "Rouge of Love" makes me burst into tears laughing, his Voice Actor is just too good.
It is so addicting.I spend way too much time dressing on the dressing up part that it is somewhat of a blessing that you're only allowed to change the appearance of platinum hostesses.
I had to just set a short term goal for myself such as getting x amount of new hostesses and force myself to trigger the next main quest.
PsychoSoldier
Banned
My only issue with the dressup is that I feel like I have to min/max the outfits to get three maximum stats.
Yuki looks very silly right now for this very reason.
You know that plan almost went tits up because who
planted the bomb that killed Lee? It couldn't have been Sera because he was clearly after Makoto alive, it couldn't have been Nishitani's group either because he was willing to take in the girl alive... So that just leaves Sagawa's group that Shimano hired, almost screwed yourself over just because he left his brother out of the plan.
Hey now, I consider The Myth and Recieve and Slash You some of his finest works!
Yeah but that
Mine freeze frame tho.
I owe you my life, kyodai.
Shift Breaker
Member
Thankfully you don't need to change hair or outfits, three double circles and one X are all possible only with accessories. You don't even need to wear any glasses either, the most obvious item I have equipped are the bunny ears for Ai, and even they're not necessary. Messing with costumes and hair might change that last X to a triangle or circle, but even with club moon customers its not necessary.
platypotamus
Member
Sweet, I tried to be vague even in my spoiler specifically because I wasn't positive on the chapter number but couldn't come up with an easier way to specify which spoiler I was reacting to, so I'm glad that at least kind of worked out.
Peroroncino
Member
Haha, that song is bananas, I always feel weird whenever I'm changing hostesses' appearance and its playing in the background.
DC1
Member
Yeah... I had to release my girls into the wild and commit myself to never play the cabaret game again
that is.. until I play my legendary playthrough 😎
semiconscious
Member
done!...
great yakuza game! favorite aspects:
1.
2.
thank you, nagoshi-san, & thank you, team yakuza. looking forward to the summer! ...
btw: completed both the real estate & club stuff (& enjoyed every bit of it!)...
great yakuza game! favorite aspects:
1.
the way makoto not only centered the story, but also kinda served as a surrogate haruka. was wondering how they'd deal with her absence, & the humanity/decency she imbues kiryu with, & this was a clever & excellent way to go...
2.
loved the 'tojo trio' (& really loved the chinese assassin ), but sagawa? the guy's just in a class of his own, & up there with the very best secondary characters of the series. so perfectly under-played, & so memorable...
), but sagawa? the guy's just in a class of his own, & up there with the very best secondary characters of the series. so perfectly under-played, & so memorable...thank you, nagoshi-san, & thank you, team yakuza. looking forward to the summer!
...btw: completed both the real estate & club stuff (& enjoyed every bit of it!)...
Teb-Tengri
Neo Member
Oh, Yakuza!
Will do, probably tomorrow though. I stopped to go to bed last night, and tonight I'm working late because we're having an event.
DC1
Member
done!...
great yakuza game! favorite aspects:
1.the way makoto not only centered the story, but also kinda served as a surrogate haruka. was wondering how they'd deal with her absence, & the humanity/decency she imbues kiryu with, & this was a clever & excellent way to go...
2.loved the 'tojo trio' (& really loved the chinese assassin
thank you, nagoshi-san, & thank you, team yakuza. looking forward to the summer!
btw: completed both the real estate & club stuff (& enjoyed every bit of it!)...
Very happy you enjoyed it.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Chapter 14. I don't know how much longer I can take this escalating...
The Artisan
Member
word what chapter are you on now?
semiconscious
Member
Yes, one of the best communities I've been apart of on GAF. Very friendly, helpful, and respectful!
I am going to try to finish the cabaret stuff tonight and then focus on only the story. How much do i have left after the cabaret stuff? I think I remember reading that there are 13/14 chapters.
semiconscious
Member
chapters?
16, to be exact (followed by the finale).
...Planisphaerium
Member
ok. can you guys explain what this game is like? Im almost done with Nioh and im quite interested in picking this up. is it rpg style with quests? like what kinda game is it. I just dont wanna look up too much for spoilers.
The Artisan
Member
the folks here will probably do a better job breaking it down but the best way i can explain it is imagine tekken being a 100% story driven game with 2 characters you can play as instead of 30+, and the story being a crime drama.
the way I explained it to my casual friend is that it is a mixture of uncharted for being a story driven game and tekken for fighting your enemies instead of shooting them.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Nice tidbit about
Kuze, I didn't fully realize his motivations changing as I played.
The Shimano one seems egregious to me because of Sagawa specifically.
The Shimano one seems egregious to me because of Sagawa specifically.
Basically this. I know Yakuza is known for
pulling at least one zany twist in each game and in this one, this is the twist that made the least sense.
It's like a beat em up like River City Ransom taking place in a city, except it's a current gem game so it's more in the action gamey DMC-light-ish sense of mechanics and while not open world the district of the city is filled with tons of activities to do and people/sidequests to entertain you, without that empty wasted space forcing hours of traveling.
It's core gameplay is a 3 D beat em up, but it has a couple dozen mini games of varying depth, a lot of side stories that play out as dialogue options, and a core story that is a very compelling crime drama. It has RPG elements such as leveling up your fighting abilities, but combat is real time brawling.
It's a modern day River City Ransom. Or it's a blend of Shenmue and Dynamite Cop/Die Hard Arcade/Streets of Rage if SoR was 3-D and had a legit great story.
It's really got its own thing going on tho.
Planisphaerium
Member
very interesting. what catches my eye is the setting. having just been to Japan I really wanna go through this and kick ass in the areas ive actually been to. Kinda like with Nioh. I just love Japan.
Thanks for the reply. I think im gunna pick this up. How is it for replayability? Is there a multiplayer of any kind?
platypotamus
Member
Still 10 then, I guess. I keep getting home too late for turning on Yakuza to be a good idea. About to be off work for a week, so that'll help
I mean, technically you can online versus the minigames, there's arcades, bowling alleys, and all sorts of stuff you can actually do. But the real replayability is 100+ side questlines, the activities, both characters have fufilling manager simulator games for currency, and for the not weak hearted, 100%ing the huge scale of game is kept track of decently well with basically a completion checklist.
Planisphaerium
Member
Yeeesss! I don't want it to end! Haha. If I were to do nothing but story stuff, do you have an idea of how many hours roughly? Im at 55 hours currently.chapters?&, from my experience (after completing the real estate & club stuff as soon as it was available), the game really, seriously roars along once you move on (tho it'll still take you a number of hours)16, to be exact (followed by the finale).
Well, as someone previously said, there are others who can summarize the game better than I can because I'm a newcomer to the series... But! What I can tell you is this: Dark Souls was my favorite game of all time, and I was eagerly waiting for Nioh to come out to scratch that Dark Souls itch, but that all changed when I picked up Yakuza. I was truthfully just buying Yakuza to hold me over until Nioh came out but it has unexpectedly grabbed me and won't let go. I have never played anything like it, and I have not been this engrossed in a video game since I was a child. It's a very, very special game, and one that should be played by anyone who considers themselves to be a "gamer." I still bought Nioh on release date, but I haven't even taken the plastic wrap off of it yet because I don't want to put Yakuza down. At 55 hours, I can almost definitely declare it be my new favorite game. It's that good.
Every side mission basically has a unique little condensed story, some are nothing mindblowing, some are amazing but all of them are worth it because they all bring something to the table, in that regard, it's a little bit witcheresque where I am glad to see the next crazy little thing to happen since it is definitely not a rehash, also this game specifically does a good job of having most sidequest giving you an additional reward that actually helps with long term activities later in the game.
The idea that Kiryu doesn't kill people is even more ridiculous than the Nathan Drake is a psychopath shit
'you cant cross that line'
uh dude were you watching the game when i shot a pistol at dudes in a car and blew up a helicopter? you think those dudes are still alive?
uh dude were you watching the game when i shot a pistol at dudes in a car and blew up a helicopter? you think those dudes are still alive?
Remember how A-Team handled it? It's like that but only with yakuzas.
They'll be fine after a Stamina X!
ShadowgeistX
Member
You ranked all the games he was involved in lower than the games he wasn't involved in and I take major issues with that lol.
Regarding Sagawa,
It was clearly Sagawa. You can't appear with perfect timing after a car bomb explodes unless you totally planted it. I think Sagawa has the most shit in this game that I simply cannot buy into. Guy looks like a major bitch, and watching him choke hold Majima against the wall is just...not believable.
They are alive and sorry for messing with you. Suddenly Kiryu gets a ton of presents in the mail saying Sorry
DC1
Member
Oh mybeen a fan of the series since the release of the first game. &, while i've enjoyed some games more than others (with kenzan! being my favorite), i've never been disappointed with any of'm (dead souls included!) - there's always some authentic genius/brilliance in every one!
.. you and I have kindred souls!
davidwhangchoi
Member
I feel ya - i only can play at new night for few hours.
No official sales numbers
oh nice update
DC1
Member
100% Hardboiled Manhood.
Peroroncino
Member
I feel ya - i only can play at new night for few hours.
No official sales numbers
Nice. This alongside with Yakuza twitter account, limited reprints of older Yakuza games and recent accolades video: https://youtu.be/Cxn6N9NrRpw really shows that SEGA is committing to the series.
SuperSaiyanAkuma
Banned
Going for platinum and just started playing mahjong for the first time ever.
How? What? I have no clue what I'm doing!
How? What? I have no clue what I'm doing!
Planisphaerium
Member
Son Of Sparda
Member
Hahaha, I would've absolutely loved it, if they had straight up said that in the game lol