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Yakuza KIWAMI |OT| Translator's Note: "KIWAMI" means "EXTREME"
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Don Draper's Hat
Member
And there's the simple answer. For fuck's sake, use your head, Do Draper's Hat!
Thanks.
Legit the hardest fight in the game for me. Kept being stunned and attacked by one guy while I was attacking the other. In the end I cheesed it with some Heat drinks and a masterwork dagger because I was getting a bit frustrated.
You can buy anti-stun headgear (i forget where, possibly from the casino) its still a pain, but its not that bad.
Human Trashcan
Banned
leave my hat alone please
sotojuan
Member
Really? I admit I barely look into gear or weapons in Yakuza games aside from what I immediately get. I feel like I would've saved myself a lot of frustration if I had explored that mechanic.
Yu Narukami
Member
Is it me or the main story is much shorter than in 0? I'm already at Chapter 4 after a little more than 2 hours.
SolidChamp
Banned
So does someone who is completely new to the series start with this and Yakuza 0? Which would I play first?
Spieler Eins
Member
Zero.
lucebuce12
Member
sotojuan
Member
Yes. About 20 hours if you don't rush, perhaps.
Given that it's the first in the series that's just how it is, I hear later games are much longer like 0 though.
And there's plenty of side stories.
Search the area, I don't remember where the construction site is, but after a while you'll hear noises everywhere if he's in an area, usually small area.
Just got finished up with the campaign. 40 hours 60% completion on Hard mode.
Hard mode was fun (considering i normally alternate between easy and normal) although i do greatly regret inadvertently ignoring the Majima everywhere stuff. It made the final boss much harder then it should have been.
If i do decide to go for the platinum i'm definitely going to grind away at the fight club for that Rush booster on easy before attempting it.
Hard mode was fun (considering i normally alternate between easy and normal) although i do greatly regret inadvertently ignoring the Majima everywhere stuff. It made the final boss much harder then it should have been.
If i do decide to go for the platinum i'm definitely going to grind away at the fight club for that Rush booster on easy before attempting it.
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
About the bug-girl game...so far it seems like most tells for which attack your opponent is going to use are how long they take to choose their attack, right? Seems to work most of the time at least. That some of the symbold randomly flash from time to time doesn't seem to actually matter.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
the special kind of despair when you hit 890 points 4 times on otometal my life.
That song man is kicking my ass hard.
That song man is kicking my ass hard.
The Artisan
Member
yay!! I finally
met Haruka. Now to get some damn dog treats
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
This is one of these "In hindsight..." missions. As in,
the next time I'm going to play this I'm going to get everything she'll eventually ask for straight away.
Aenima
Member
Im usually kinda good at the Karaoke minigame, was suprised to see a metal song there, my brain just not adapted to the much faster pace of the song, ended up scoring 770 points in my 1st try.
Usually i score 850- 900+ in my 1st try in all other songs.
In my game right now, i have all other songs with 900+ scores, only otometal my life is still at 770 as i never tryed it again
Will go back to that one when im in a mood for a challenge.lucebuce12
Member
OJI-SAN
Shadowman16
Member
Im usually kinda good at the Karaoke minigame, was suprised to see a metal song there, my brain just not adapted to the much faster pace of the song, ended up scoring 770 points in my 1st try.
Usually i score 850- 900+ in my 1st try in all other songs.
In my game right now, i have all other songs with 900+ scores, only otometal my life is still at 770 as i never tryed it again
Just keep in mind when doing the Haruka's trust challenge (in Premium Adventure mode) she'll ask you to get 900+ on the song again, so it might be worth waiting until your at that point so you only need to do it once.
The timing threw me off the first few times as well, since its so much more difficult than pretty much any song in the series (bar Majima's Get to the Top in Dead Souls). I think I changed up my timing to press the correct buttons a hair earlier than usual and that smashed the score target, but I do remember having to try a few times before I got to that point!
JoeyJungle
Banned
I was wondering how directly Kiwami follows from Yakuza 0? I actually beat Yakuza 1 on the PS2 a few years ago, so I'm not worried about learning anything I didn't already know about the Yakuza 1 plot, but I'm not sure if any of the additions would spoil Yakuza 0.
Not compatible with the game because of additional content that was never dubbed/animation adjustments out of sync, etc. It would just be switching between english and japanese, which is a pretty janky experience that would just get them the complaint of "Make the dub work right/be on all the time", and then they'd have to get different english voices because they don't want to pay for celeb actors again, etc.
Not compatible with the game because of additional content that was never dubbed/animation adjustments out of sync, etc. It would just be switching between english and japanese, which is a pretty janky experience that would just get them the complaint of "Make the dub work right/be on all the time", and then they'd have to get different english voices because they don't want to pay for celeb actors again, etc.
Aenima
Member
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
This majima thing is kinda bullshit.... i'm only missing two ablilites and they are locked under IDOL MAJIMA... problem he really never show up, no matter how many times i go into a building and go out again to see if he changed...
what's that haruka trust challenge? Is it necessary? do i miss a lot? I rarely do new game+ (and never did on past yakuza games i played)
what's that haruka trust challenge? Is it necessary? do i miss a lot? I rarely do new game+ (and never did on past yakuza games i played)
sotojuan
Member
It's for trophy and completion.
lucebuce12
Member
None of them, far as I've seen. And I've done most of the substories and am pretty close to the end (I've also played Y1 before)
Though with that being said, I'd still suggest playing Y0 before Y:Kiwami.
dont hate me guys but i really dislike the majima system
i guess i didn't do it correctly because i didn't see him for like 5 chapters, so i looked up how to trigger him, now literally every 2 minutes hes coming for my ass
yeah its kinda my fault for always going to his green quest but i cant help it, really slowed my game down a ton
so annoying
i guess i didn't do it correctly because i didn't see him for like 5 chapters, so i looked up how to trigger him, now literally every 2 minutes hes coming for my ass
yeah its kinda my fault for always going to his green quest but i cant help it, really slowed my game down a ton
so annoying
How do you trigger him?
lucebuce12
Member
Can't help but agree with you. It's fantastic the first time he pops up in new ways but having to fight him over and over just to unlock the best style in the game (yeah I said it) is really tiresome.
It's in the north west part of the map, near the large homeless park. I just constantly hear clanking around and patrol the ranges of where the sound well begin and end on each surrounding block. Look for little alleys to go into, and nothing. Just endless clanking. Sounds metallic.
also majima and kiyru barely talked at all in yakuza 0 so their "friendship" makes zero sense to me as well
i had to do Yakuza Kiwami Majima Everywhere Guide – Rank Up Events, Level E, scroll down to see it
"hiding in plain sight"
you have to manually trigger it and i wouldn't have known without a guide
http://www.gamersheroes.com/game-guides/yakuza-kiwami-majima-everywhere-guide/
i had to do Yakuza Kiwami Majima Everywhere Guide – Rank Up Events, Level E, scroll down to see it
"hiding in plain sight"
you have to manually trigger it and i wouldn't have known without a guide
http://www.gamersheroes.com/game-guides/yakuza-kiwami-majima-everywhere-guide/
Peroroncino
Member
I usually encountered him jumping at me in narrow alleys.
lucebuce12
Member
Yakuza 0 definitely.
Aenima
Member
I think the 1st game to have real Jav Idols was Yakuza 3 or 4. After that they all had Jav idols partnerships.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
While true, there are like 7 years from 0 to Kiwami beginning (1995).
lucebuce12
Member
Generally, yeah.
But Yakuza 1 and 2 had voice actors that didn't have their likenesses copied, only voiced the character. I believe all the protagonists the series has had (with the exception of Tanimura in 4), and Nishiki are voiced without their likenesses based on their performers.
Most of the villains and major characters from 3 onwards are usually real actors with their likenesses based on them. Yakuza 0 has the best "cast" out of all of them. Yakuza 6 has Beat Takeshi.
Some substories in Kiwami build on substories that begun in Zero but you won't spoil anything about Zero's main plot by playing Kiwami first. You could also argue that Zero adds some weight to certain characters and their actions but nothing that's a spoiler or necessary.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Don't worry, you've just unlocked the "real" Yakuza.
lucebuce12
Member
I know that the EU/UK PSN had a pretty good deal on it, but the US PSN had a pretty shitty deal. Maybe by Black Friday? I can't say for sure.
Spieler Eins
Member
On sale this moment in EU, -50%.
The Artisan
Member
Indeed, it's one of those RPG things you just remember after the first time. I had a lot of this with Digimon World 2.
Anyways, that girl
Mai...conned the shit out of me and took 1,000,000 yen...is that the end of her or will I ever get to see her again to get my money back somehow?
lucebuce, I thought I'd catch you hanging around this thread more often
stargateheaven
Member
My friends: I wont play that, its all in chinese and i hate reading
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Im usually kinda good at the Karaoke minigame, was suprised to see a metal song there, my brain just not adapted to the much faster pace of the song, ended up scoring 770 points in my 1st try.
Usually i score 850- 900+ in my 1st try in all other songs.
In my game right now, i have all other songs with 900+ scores, only otometal my life is still at 770 as i never tryed it again
Yeah same I generally don't struggle a lot with songs since my first yakuza plat. For kiwami I first tried all of them but am at 15 tries on this song. My biggest issue is the changing tempo.
Damn I probably have to do it twice I want to carry over 100% cp for the legend run.
Still probably better than climax battles lol.
I finished 2 majima battles and gave up after trying the zombie one and the first 2 of the other categories once. My heart can't take that kind of cheapness right now. I still enjoy chipping away at all the other stuff at least I don't have to do arcade game highscores those were really painful in 0 for me.