lucebuce12
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You're missing one I think since the Media King is also an advisor.
Probably from a substory that you haven't completed yet.
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Yakuza 0 |OT| Yes, you can start with this one!
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Probably from a substory that you haven't completed yet.
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
Ruka!!
lucebuce12
Member
Oh yes.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
What warmed my heart is
is how good her mum is at hostessing, she's 2nd only to the platinum hostesses.
Mookie1515
Member
Yakuza 0 is one of the best and more balanced games in the series. Every game is great, but each have their own highs and lows.
For example, the original Y1 and Y2 have great stories, but their combat is outdated and the games are missing QoL improvements that came on more recent entries.
Y3 in considered the weakest of the mainline games, but even then it's a good game. Just worse than the rest of the series.
Y4 and Y5 have multiple protagonists and insane amounts of content, even more than Yakuza 0, especially 5. However, the pacing of the story suffers a lot.
I would recommend you playing them eventually because going through Yakuza games usually leads to burnout.
Dangansona
Member
I guess I actually need to do it. Wasn't compelled after getting her first two dolls.
toastyToast
Member
All my real estate royale money is going straight back into real estate royale. Yet to crack 2 billion with Kiryu meanwhile Majima is on 10 with mostly completed skill trees.
Would have been nice if there was a payday after beating one of the 5 billionaires
Would have been nice if there was a payday after beating one of the 5 billionaires
poipoipoi9
Member
Be sure to get all the Shrine CP upgrades relating to business and buy all the properties. Aside from that, hope you like seeing bars fill up!
Also Kiryu's money fan is priceless and way better than a meagre 3 billion salary.
http://www.khhsubs.com/rggzero/moneyisland.html
djSyndrome
Member
If I recall it's actually rigged in your favor. More time on the clock than when you normally play it at the arcade. I finished it easily when I normally have trouble clearing the third stage.
Holy Order Sol
Member
lol
reminds me of Yakuza 5 in which I get yelled at endlessly yet see no one actually coming to catch these hands
Oh? I guess that's why they don't allow for the score to carry over to your CP. I wonder why not just set the score to beat lower, though, and keep the game/time the same, so that it can still qualify.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Absolutely. It's one of the most heartwarming side missions in any game.
Due to my backlog getting increasingly big, I decided to go ahead and finish the game yesterday. Now I'm sad, because there is no more Yakuza for me to play until Summer D;
I honestly think this game's story is on par with the original trilogy (I understand the love for Yakuza 4, and of course I love it too, just for different reasons). It might actually have the best ending in the series. It is so bittersweet, everyone wins a little, everyone loses a little.
Time for the ranking:
Yakuza 2
Yakuza 1
Yakuza 0
Yakuza 5
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
I honestly think this game's story is on par with the original trilogy (I understand the love for Yakuza 4, and of course I love it too, just for different reasons). It might actually have the best ending in the series. It is so bittersweet, everyone wins a little, everyone loses a little.
Time for the ranking:
Yakuza 2
Yakuza 1
Yakuza 0
Yakuza 5
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
lucebuce12
Member
It was stories like that that drive home that Majima is just as honorable as Kiryu and that fact doesn't necessarily change even as time goes on.
It's just that Majima's ambitions for being a Yakuza are much more
selfless than Kiryu's (who admittedly, doesn't stay a Yakuza for THAT long)
I can respect that. I guess we're doing lists again. The thread mostly went by with the charistmatic autobiography, those assholes with the guns, and the lists
Mine is:
Yakuza 2
Yakuza 0
Yakuza 4
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 1
Yakuza 5
The Artisan
Member
it looks like yakuza 6 gives a recap of all the previous games, why doesn't include a recap of yakuza 0?
Mookie1515
Member
It was stories like that that drive home that Majima is just as honorable as Kiryu and that fact doesn't necessarily change even as time goes on.
It's just that Majima's ambitions for being a Yakuza are much moreselfless than Kiryu's (who admittedly, doesn't stay a Yakuza for THAT long)
I can respect that. I guess we're doing lists again. The thread mostly went by with the charistmatic autobiography, those assholes with the guns, and the lists
Mine is:
Yakuza 2
Yakuza 0
Yakuza 4
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 1
Yakuza 5
All this praise for Y2 makes me happy I got that reprint on Amazon a few weeks ago. Gonna play it after I play Kiwami this Summer.
lucebuce12
Member
Because the events of Yakuza 0 serve as a good set up for the events of
Yakuza 1 for Kiryu and Majima, and Yakuza 4 for Majima and Saejima's arc.
It's not relevant in the long run to the events of Yakuza 6.
Just remember to be a bit forgiving of the fact that it's a PS2 game. I emulated it on my PC at a high resolution and used turbo mode sometimes to get to one side of the city to another or to get through some loading screens so my experience was a lot better but if you're playing it on a PS2 then you NEED to be patient as you'll encounter a lot of loading screens.
potatohead
Member
2 is magnificent.
Huh, bonkers. That would explain why I got as far as I did, but maybe they adjusted the score to compensate or something.
It has the strongest story and antagonist in the series for me.
If they ever remade it I know it'd be my favourite in the series.
lucebuce12
Member
Just imagining the boss fight intros from Yakuza 2 with the graphics and particle effects from Y6.
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Oh god thank you, much appreciated!
davidwhangchoi
Member
speaking of yakuza 2 i'm going to be on it this week. grabbed a copy: now i got all the US releases including....
Dead Souls =P
I agree some of those boss fights were just crazy, also had a solid female protagonist.
Laevateinn
Member
I'm looking forward to playing Yakuza 2 after I finish Kiwami.
Dead Souls is great by the way, especially how they explain away what happened to Majima.
Yep you can, after completing the game you'll unlock a mode called 'Premium Adventure' which will let you go through all the side content without the story.
The Artisan
Member
well considering how all these games are standalone stories, none of the games in the long run are relevant to Yakuza 6 with the exception to the ending of Yakuza 5, yeah?
chrominance
Member
There is a Premium Adventure mode that unlocks after you finish the game. It uses the clear save you make at the end of the game, and puts you back in Kamurocho with your current completion level/open quests/etc. and the ability to change time of day, protagonist and city. You can do all the available side content through this mode.
Patrick Bateman
Member
That's great to hear.
Gai Murakumo
Member
If I was trying to pick a fight than saw someone like Kiryu coming towards me I would back out as well.
SkylineRKR
Member
Thing with Real Estate is, it takes ages. Unless you farm shakedown perhaps. But then there is no need to do it for the cash. Every media king property costs like a billion. I need to wait, grab money and wait again. I did all style trainers and a handful of quests inbetween.
With cabaret I had fun, got a billion after each boss and 10 billion at the end.
The only rival minigame I didn't beat was the telephone club, lol.
Also finally managed to complete Rush style, it was easy as fuck in fact.
She was my worst, somehow. The best in my run were
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With cabaret I had fun, got a billion after each boss and 10 billion at the end.
The only rival minigame I didn't beat was the telephone club, lol.
Also finally managed to complete Rush style, it was easy as fuck in fact.
First 2 just run away. For the third, hold R1, walk back to the edge and hold block for a minute. For the fourth, keep max distance and wait till he is within striking range, evade 2 or 3 times. He mostly does a thrust thats easy but sometimes a 2 hit combo. He's rather slow and has a huge tell. The fifth I lost but doesn't matter it seems.
She was my worst, somehow. The best in my run were
the Platinum girls, the first 3 which were highest level at the end, the Obetarian and Erranda
Son Of Sparda
Member
I see that we ranking the series again.
Yakuza 0 > Yakuza 4 > Yakuza 1 > Yakuza 3 > Yakuza 5
And the thing that made that sub story even more emotional is our knowledge from Yakuza 5 that [Yakuza 5 spoilers]
Yakuza 0 > Yakuza 4 > Yakuza 1 > Yakuza 3 > Yakuza 5
Yep.
And the thing that made that sub story even more emotional is our knowledge from Yakuza 5 that [Yakuza 5 spoilers]
he actually wanted to have a child and was furious when he realized that his wife had aborted the child without even telling him that she was pregnant. I think that was the reason that they even got separated.
Kaoru is the character I
miss most in this franchise, really set everything up well for her.
My experience in general with real estate, if I invested my earnings into the best possible advisors I had at the time I generally had enough profit to buy 1 new property each cycle/payout in the next area, working in order (leisure, electronics, pleasure, gambling, media). The timing also worked out that if I did 1 side quest/activity, by the time I finished my payout would be ready.
So I just did this in a loop:
collect
invest
buy 1 new property
sidequest
repeat
and I probably spent 5~6 hours doing it all, but I also have half or more sidequests completed, maxxed out health, all brawler abilities, etc. so I don't feel the time was wasted, or I was sitting around waiting. Helps though if you buy the most profitable property first (since they are only marginally more expensive) then work your way back down to keep up with the price increases.
MiniBossBattle
Member
Took my a lot of tries to defeat Am Om. Probably the toughest fight.
eyeball_kid
Member
I think it's just a well-crafted little game, with stats management, recruitment, and strategy sim aspects, wrapped up in a fun little underdog story, along with some lite RPG elements. I also love the little details such the cutscene you get when you help out a Platinum hostess. And there's something about having to interpret the physical hand signs of the hostesses that's really cool, it helps feel more organic and personal, instead of some on-screen text prompt saying "Shizuku needs a towel". (are people in Japan familiar with these hand signs?)
chrominance
Member
Honestly, the part in your spoiler is one of my favourite things about Yakuza 3. Like, solving
the little kids' problems
everyone's well-meaning yakuza dad
Yeah, it's weird that Real Estate brings in so much more money than the cabaret club on a minute-by-minute basis, but the bonuses from beating each club are so high and the required money investment so low that I ended up with way more money on the Majima side than the Kiryu side. I made tons of bank on real estate but 95% of it went back into buying more real estate.
One of the things I love about the series is how many side activities could basically be their own game with a relatively robust story of their own. I could see playing standalone cabaret club and pocket circuit racer games, there's that much stuff going on. Same with Kiryu's taxi missions in 5 and (almost but not quite) Saejima's dojo training in 4.
davidwhangchoi
Member
hey Laevateinn, great to see a fellow retroGAFer rockin Y0. i feel bad bc i haven't done much in the Genesis club though i brought comix zone =/
Laevateinn
Member
I hear ya. I only played it for an hour. With the Switch coming out, retro plans are shot for a while!
Finished the main story. This was my 2nd Yakuza game, after 4 which I liked. This game I loved. The balance between the legitimately great main story and hilarious side quests is perfect.
Only have 2 real complaints. Firstly I wish you got unlocks faster because they make the combat significantly more fun, and I didn't wanna invest all that time in the real estate/cabaret games.
2nd is Kiryu. He's just so bland and lacking in personality and the game really puts a spotlight on that by setting him against Majima who is much more fun and they actually give some great depth in this game.
Still though I had an absolute blast and am thoroughly looking forward to Kiwami now. A+ goty contender.
Only have 2 real complaints. Firstly I wish you got unlocks faster because they make the combat significantly more fun, and I didn't wanna invest all that time in the real estate/cabaret games.
2nd is Kiryu. He's just so bland and lacking in personality and the game really puts a spotlight on that by setting him against Majima who is much more fun and they actually give some great depth in this game.
Still though I had an absolute blast and am thoroughly looking forward to Kiwami now. A+ goty contender.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
It's not that stuff that most people dislike (although some people definitely do). I quite liked everything related to
the orphanage and the kids
The stuff with Kazama's brother largely just feels pointless to me, and the villains for the game are pretty unmemorable as a whole.
lucebuce12
Member
You're not wrong. I guess it's mainly there to catch newcomers up more than anything, it's only really the events of Yakuza 5 that matter.
It's been discussed previously in this thread and I agree that in regards to story, the lows of that game are real low but the highs are REALLY freaking high.