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Yakuza KIWAMI |OT| Translator's Note: "KIWAMI" means "EXTREME"

jacobeid

Banned
Tonight sucks :(

My order from Best Buy (along with Mario+Rabbids) didn't ship until 10pm last night and won't be arriving until tomorrow. I was so excited to play this tonight too!

Guess I better buy Windjammers and revel in my sadness...
 

Hasney

Member
Has anyone seen the glowing butterflies? What do you do to them?

There's one in a tree and I can't figure out what it does.

They're the cards for the battle arcade game. Most of them are on the ground to pick X to pick up. The tree ones, go into first person with R3 and look at it. Once it zooms in slightly you can pick it up.
 

Peroroncino

Member
Can I get some help finding
Majima? He is supposed to be in some alleyway with props.

Try one of the southern main streets, especially check that one big ass traffic cone.

Has anyone seen the glowing butterflies? What do you do to them?

There's one in a tree and I can't figure out what it does.

Press R3 and try looking at it, then press X to pick it up, the one on the tree can be a bit tricky to get, I had to change my position ~5 times before it clicked and prompt to pick up appeared.
 

Hasney

Member
Can I get some help finding
Majima? He is supposed to be in some alleyway with props.

Need help, i've got a mail telling me that an hostess absolutely wants to meet "kiryu-san" and that she's waiting at Shine Club!

I did go there but there was the regular hostess.... do i need to do something special?



same here!

Man... so far it's a Majima Nowhere system. Plenty of rnd fights, but I'm just not seeing him all that much.

Oversized traffic cones, garbage bins and cars that are rocking.

You may also enjoy the great taste of Smile Burger to eat in.

Surprise y'all having trouble. Got it to A without even trying and he was getting annoying.
 

Sephimoth

Member
Pre-ordered months ago from Zavvi (uk) and just realised it released today and I don't have it yet. Not even a dispatch. Constantly having to chase up places regarding pre-orders- Simplygames, Game collection, always the same.

From now on I stick with Amazon...
 
Need help, i've got a mail telling me that an hostess absolutely wants to meet "kiryu-san" and that she's waiting at Shine Club!

I did go there but there was the regular hostess.... do i need to do something special?

Oversized traffic cones, garbage bins and cars that are rocking.

You may also enjoy the great taste of Smile Burger to eat in.

Surprise y'all having trouble. Got it to A without even trying and he was getting annoying.

i was going through the whole map doing sidequest, still didn't encountered him hiding sadly! Will try again

Also try to heat up a bento in a conveniance store :p
 

ghibli99

Member
Just finished. They didn't fix some of those original bullshit fights, huh? Easy, but long and frustrating because of health items unlike later games where it feels fair if you know what you're doing.

Still so worth it though, what an amazing game. And I appreciated the ending even more without Eliza Dushku sounding kinda sexy but acting awfully.

Roll on 6 and Kiwami 2.
I've barely even looked at the beautiful packaging and you're already done. LOL
 

Opa-Pa

Member
The game has a survey that among other things specific to Kiwami, includes the mini survey Sega made for Kiwami 2, the Hokuto no Ken game and the F2P Yakuza game. Would be great if we all answered it at some point to show interest!

(some answers to the questions are pretty funny too, especially one about why we chose to buy the game haha).
 

Opa-Pa

Member
Is Hard mode in Kiwami moreso difficult than in 0? Most Yakuza games are too easy unless played on hard.

Yes, but not overwhelmingly so. It's about as hard as I wanted 0 to be on hard, pretty much.

You can switch difficulty settings on the fly though.
 

jwhit28

Member
Are there more arcade games than that kiddie pokemon clone? Also being on the other side of Majima's nunchuk bat move is not fun.
 

nickgia

Member
Just got it! What the heck is with Majima? His personality is so different from 0.
I get the "let loose" part at the end of 0, but even his internal thoughts weren't this batshit.
 

LeleSocho

Banned
Can i get some help?
Majima wanted to skip a fight because i didn't have any weapon on me, does that mean that that particular fight is lost forever and i won't get anymore that Dragon style level up?
 

MYeager

Member
Man... so far it's a Majima Nowhere system. Plenty of rnd fights, but I'm just not seeing him all that much.

Well get yourself ready because you'll easily fight him 50 times by the end, or more depending on how high you want to level the Dragon of Dojima style (his fights give a lot of great experience points as well, especially once everything starts costing 50 points)


Need help, i've got a mail telling me that an hostess absolutely wants to meet "kiryu-san" and that she's waiting at Shine Club!

I did go there but there was the regular hostess.... do i need to do something special?

I'm guessing you've already started seeing a hostess at that club? Happened to me, you can either try going when she's not in the club after she sends you a text to meet her for one of her side diversions, or try later. If you have the Majima finder (unlocked pretty early) you'll know he's in there if you walk past and hear the 'kiryu-chan' chime.

Goromi is waifu material.

There will be times when you might have to do finish a sub mission in order for him to reappear in an area. But otherwise if you hear 'kiryu-chan' and see something shaking, he's hiding there, or in the area, and if he's not on the map it means he's inside a nearby building like a bar, bowling, Shine, etc.

While number of characters, town and side stuff is reduced from Zero and one of the reasons I felt people should play this one first, I've changed my mind. Majima is one of my favorite characters but I don't know if you would've been way back when I played the first game if I fought him what feels like every 5 minutes in some areas. He's not very difficult to beat and it gets really repetitive. While I love it because I love the character if this was my first introduction to Majima Goro I don't know if I'd like the characters as much. People should play Zero to at least get familiar with him before fighting him all the time.
 

Opa-Pa

Member
Just got it! What the heck is with Majima? His personality is so different from 0.
I get the "let loose" part at the end of 0, but even his internal thoughts weren't this batshit.

This is what he's always been like in the rest of the series. I think they aimed to make him super miserable and feel humiliated in 0 to justify the change.

Personally I think he's a bit "loose" but most of it is just a persona he puts up to not get taken advantage of ever again and gain respect inside the yakuza (this gives his conversation with Kazuma early in the game more weight too).
 

MYeager

Member
Can i get some help?
Majima wanted to skip a fight because i didn't have any weapon on me, does that mean that that particular fight is lost forever and i won't get anymore that Dragon style level up?

No just have a weapon in your inventory and go by that same spot later. You don't even need it equipped. If you have some locker keys see if you can just find one in a locker since it's nearby.
 
So no Mark Hamill then? haha

Man, when I bought the first Yakuza a little over ten years ago, I never thought the series would get this far. Kind of amazing!
 
Just started it up, really hyped to get deep into this game tonight.

First thoughts, it was awesome getting to see Sera the legend again. Also, really glad we got to see Shinji in Y0, I had kinda forgotten about his character.
Does Yuya from Stardust look really strange to anyone else? Oh and the save in the menu system is very weird.

I'm curious to hear the thoughts of people who started with 0, or are starting with this title.
 

MYeager

Member
Some of the call backs to Zero are quite nice.

People who are starting with this game will sadly miss out on those.

Eh, the people who play either this or Zero first are going to miss out on the 3, 4, and 5 easter eggs.

They'll just have to play them all twice.
 
Yeah I thought it was just me, but Yuya looks off... Like his face is oddly detailed and his head too big.

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He looks kinda bad in Yakuza 5 too, but he was only in a sidequest if I recall
 
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Yeah, Yuya looks weird in this game.
Eh, the people who play either this or Zero first are going to miss out on the 3, 4, and 5 easter eggs.

They'll just have to play them all twice.
While that's true, those easter eggs in Zero were mostly in sub-stories. In Kiwami they are talking about some of the events from Zero during the main story.
 

MYeager

Member
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Yes, Yuya looks weird in this game.

While that's true, those easter eggs in Zero were mostly in sub-stories. In Kiwami they are talking about some of the events from Zero during the main story.

Only a little bit in order to provide extra context, some of which is to make it fit more in line with Zero. Even if they play Zero after they'll probably just have more moments where they realize where that's all heading. It's not as bad as I feel for those who played 3 first without having an idea of the history of the characters connection to the orphanage or Fuma/Kazama.

I feel torn about it though, as a game Zero is more expansive than Kiwami, as an introduction to many of these characters Zero is a better start.
 

Darknight

Member
Anybody buy this from Amazon and preordered the Steelbox case one and get the regular version today???

WTF Im sure I preordered when the tin case one cost the same as the standard edition!!
 

Aki-at

Member
Just started it up, really hyped to get deep into this game tonight.

First thoughts, it was awesome getting to see Sera the legend again. Also, really glad we got to see Shinji in Y0, I had kinda forgotten about his character.
Does Yuya from Stardust look really strange to anyone else? Oh and the save in the menu system is very weird.

I'm curious to hear the thoughts of people who started with 0, or are starting with this title.

To be fair, Yuya has always looked a bit weird.

But the characters are a lot less stylished now so he looks even more out of place.
 

Stuart444

Member
I think the very first time you are kind of supposed to lose to him. I don't think I did any damage and he wrecked me in seconds.

While it's been a while, I'm pretty sure I beat him somehow when we first see him back when I played the JP release.

Though maybe I'm remembering wrong but I'm sure I did.
 
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