7, 8 and Gaiden are the reddit entries. Literally turned the games into capeshit-tier writing.
>5, 7, and 8*
ftfy
Please do yourselves a favor and stop playing these games. You do not enjoy this wonderful franchise. Over 2 decades of great games, and you gays bicker like this, or actually believe 7, 8, Giden and 5 are dogshit? You gays have the most autistic nitpicks.
>Most mexicans despise cartels though
hah! no, you really have no idea how cartels work or how is to live with them, cartels protect themselves by buying entire towns with gifts and money, the cartel culture in mexico rules everything even the government, te most successful tv shows are about cartels and drug, and the music industry even created the narcocorridos to paint them as heroes.
I don't get how can it be that the whole Yakuza fandom is filled with Majima/Kiryu homoart but we don't have a single picture of this brat getting his guts rearranged
boomers who attach their personal value to being part of le sekrit club, it's pathetic really
0, 7, gaiden and both judgments are the best games in the series. boomers cope seethe and mald
It kinda doesn't even make much sense. Yakuza discussion pre 0 was literally the same shit. It's just one hipster that thought he was cool saying it and now everyone else does it.
>It's just one hipster that thought he was cool saying it and now everyone else does it.
lmao it's literally just this and people always think it's the same guy
>people always think it's the same guy
I'm inclined to believe it is solely because everytime someone uses that gay buzzword it's both out of nowhere and for the pettiest fricking reasons imaginable, absolute boogeyman behavior
I've imitated countless schizos on here over the years because it's fun. I wonder what it's like for the schizo himself to see his shitty insult already posted and replied to on a thread he was just about to shit up
If anything, I'm inclined to believe that some generals' OG boogeyman is gone but kept alive by morons like me impersonating them.
t.Barry and the I love my Vita! guy, among others
Nope. Despite them calling it "optional" like twice in that segment they're really beating it over your head it's not by saying you should do it like three or four times while in it.
it's a fricking stupid decision tbh, they should've just made the arena mandatory otherwise Majima is nearly impossible without some bullshit strat, I fricking hate the moronic idea of warning players before hand ingame like "OH YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY DO THIS THING NOW, YOU MIGHT NEED IT LATER *HINT HINT* " Fricking bullshit and ruins the immersion with this type of handholding
I actually struggled with Lost Judgment, the school stuff just felt unending, so much so I nearly forgot Sawa was murdered because I hadn't done the main story for so long.
>the school stuff just felt unending
The robotics club was the worst fricking thing.
You either struggle with it by being too moronic to understand exactly how it works or suffer through it being too long and grindy for how easy it is. I've done both
robo club wasn't too bad it was motorcycle club that sucked, not really because it was hard (even though they made it willfully obtuse with the terrible fixed camera angle) it just went on forever and ever and ever, same with boxing club, that really dragged on and on and on.
Now that you say it, the motorcycle club definitely overstayed its welcome the most. As long as you have money to get the best bike possible, you're just going through repetitive easy races and a storyline that just never ends.
I guess I'm biased against the robotics club because it's the one I had saved for last.
I actually enjoyed the boxing club tho. I didn't mind it being longer than it should've been and had fun beating Kaito's ass in the DLC, even
I wonder why trannies love this game so much. Looking at leddit, you'd think this game is Troon Heaven, but having played it, besides Kiryu being civil to the shemale masseuse in 3, I don't see anything that would be especially appealing to them, every instance of crossdressing is just done for laughs.
Like the ridiculous Pleasure King or Majima dressing up as a chick to piss off Kiryu into fighting him
It's all just "lmao buff guy in a dress = funny" or "lmao he got tricked and fell for a troony, he's gay now", do they just choose to not interpret it that way?
The Korean homosexual is Joon-Gi, the dude with the white hair. Zhao is the chinese homosexual whose personality has been reduced to "this silly guy loves to cook".
Your long haired homosexual of a boyfriend is shipping him with someone he barely ever meaningfully interacts with either way, which is curious
Just beat Yakuza 0. Gonna play 'em all eventually but taking a small break between now and 1.
It was pretty good but the whole "NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T KILL HIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!" shit was of course dumb but I expected it after hearing about the series over the years.
The ending also had insane prequel vibes in the wrong way with all the "UH YEAH I'M WEARING THIS NOW AND THIS IS HOW I'M GOING TO ACT FROM HERE ON OUT" type scenes.
>Just beat Yakuza 0. Gonna play 'em all eventually but taking a small break between now and 1.
Glad you liked it but we'll see. Your problem is that you started with the best one by far.
Hanging out in one of these threads having only played 0 will either get you spoiled on good stuff to come or insulted by some schizo, but I'm genuinely glad you got into this great series, anon
I'm not even hanging out, just wanted to post that and give my thoughts and read a few replies.
But now one of my replies will just be nothing but spoilers so yeah adios.
Not gonna lie, I grew to not like 7 as much. I used to think it was the best yakuza game, but now it's just alright. Infinite wealth is slightly better, but I don't like the change of format the games took up now.
The two unrelated babies placed in lockers at the same time for unrelated reasons plot twist is the most moronic thing in the entire series imo. What a moronic origin story for the new mc to have.
The substories were pretty good tho
I think it being functionally mundane, and just a massive coincidence, makes it land differently than if it was some totally insane bullshit that you couldn't begin to scrutinize.
>The ending of the game was absolute kino >takes place at Millenium Tower after it's been used so many times, missing its chance at creating Ijincho's counterpart, solidly making Ichiban's journey his own >please, guy who never gave a frick about me, be a good guy like the old days when I thought you were a good guy, look I'm crying >heh... I might just do that, man. I might just ACK-
I lower my expectations a lot with this series but this is the only game that did nothing to me emotionally at the end, except maybe 4
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>except maybe 4
Yakuza 4 is such a whatever game some times. The twists are ridiculous but I feel like people mostly like it just because of that. Tanimura was cool and having someone "on the other side" like that was genuinely a cool idea. Too bad his character got scrapped and replaced with another random grunt that just knows how to fight well.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Not to shit on Shinada, by the way. He was a fine character but the fact he replaced Tanimura is what makes me like him less.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Shinadas part in the story feels a bit forced, he was just okay. I agree that Tanimura was a way more interesting character concept.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Tanimura not appearing in 6 was moronic as shit. A lot of people parrot the fact that his VA and face scan got accused of doing drugs therefore he didn't appear in 6, but that happened way too close to the release of 6. I'm pretty sure they just forgot about him/didn't know how to write him in well.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
yeaaa i was actually half expecting him to show up the entire game but it just didnt happen
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I just liked the onslaught of insanity at the very end. >Have to fight Ryuji >Other guy comes out and reveals he's the actual bad guy. >Beat him. >Another guy comes out and reveals he's the actual actual bad guy. >That shootout scene with Ryuji before you have to fight him again.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>The ending of the game was absolute kino >takes place at Millenium Tower after it's been used so many times, missing its chance at creating Ijincho's counterpart, solidly making Ichiban's journey his own >please, guy who never gave a frick about me, be a good guy like the old days when I thought you were a good guy, look I'm crying >heh... I might just do that, man. I might just ACK-
I lower my expectations a lot with this series but this is the only game that did nothing to me emotionally at the end, except maybe 4
I don't know how but I thought you were talking about 7's ending and went off on a tangent, even overlooking the kino Osaka Castle image
kinda hilarious how my vague description of 7's ending matches 2's, even though I hated 7's and enjoyed 2's for the same reasons you listed though
I'm fine with this level of "out there" when it's contained within one game and completely forgotten about in the next, but this will forever be how the new MC's life started.
And it is much dumber than your examples, these are just the Yakuza universe bordering on fantasy to spice things up, like Mirror Face in the same game, not a stupidly unbelievable coincidence for the sake of an unnecessary plot twist It literally doesn't matter that Arakawa was Ichiban's biological dad.
This dude is one of the shittiest written character in the game.
I mean the whole game is a poorly written mess but this one takes the cake.
This supposed elite assassin failed to get rid of Kiryu despite having multiple opportunities to take him out, and when his boss told him to kill the girl he failed to do so as well.
For an elite professional assassins he missed shots in the game more than i could tolerate, he is basically a boogyman that does nothing, a paper tiger.
In the end he was nothing but glorified poser just like 90% of the characters in yakuza
Lao Gui is nothing. The Amon Clan are the most elite assassins you can hire in the entire world. They literally have satellites that can nuke people from orbit on demand, actual magic, technology so far advanced it's hundreds of years from the future, and extremely expensive items at their disposal. Because they are now main story canon 100% without any argument it now means that they haven't been able to kill >Kiryu even when he's dying of cancer and they're actually trying. >Akiyama who doesn't even have any sort of training in how to fight and is, for all intents and purposes, a civvy. >Saejima when he just got out of jail and wasn't in full shape. >Tanimura who is just a normal corrupt cop and at best knows like one martial art style. >Shinada who is a baseball player who literally does not even know how to fight and was winging everything. >Majima who didn't even realize he was fighting a hitman and was just dicking around. >Haruka, and she went up against someone who had the backing of pretty much everyone in the idol world due to her connections. >Musashi who made up his own fighting styles and was going up against a guy who had an automatic firing flintlock pistol and a magic sword.
Granted, he had training from a guy who uses magic so you make of that what you will. >Ryoma who also made up his own fighting styles and went up against a guy who had access to magic that could split him in three and a magic sword. >Yagami who made up all his fighting styles and is a lawyer turned PI. >Kaito who is just a buff ex-yakuza member and simply beats on people.
Ichiban is like the only one who hasn't really beaten an Amon since Shin was just faking it and I bet even he could do it.
Assassins in the Yakuza universe are incompetent. The guy in BP2 is like the only one I can think of who actually succeeded in killing Makoto.
Yes, they are. 8 outright confirms this. They are not only part of the main story, but how Kiryu gains Dragon's Resurgence which is reflected in the main story itself with how he's feeling more reinvigorated.
An overly silly thing happening during the main story to make you progress or gain an in-game skill isn't canon. If so, then it's canon that Kiryu got tough in his 20s by injecting literal money into himself because a drunk white dude taught him how to. Tutorial stuff like that isn't meant to be taken that seriously and I don't think they meant the intro to Dragon's Resurgence to also be the big announcement that the Amon family was canon all along.
3 weeks ago
Moose
>Tutorial stuff like that isn't meant to be taken that seriously
That depends if you consider it goofy, because they don't treat it as goofy at all. They take it completely seriously as if it happened, and stuff that happens afterward is because his friends are his power now. It as an event also shows you that Kiryu is learning to let his friends do more of the heavy lifting which isn't really covered until the tail end of the game before you go to the Millennium Tower. Ichiban doesn't learn Essence of Friendship in a goofy way either.
>Lao Gui is nothing >Game states multiple times that he is the most expensive assassin in all of Asia to hire, the most brutal and the most efficient. Personal bodyguard to the head of Dojima family.
Seems to me the game shit the bed and didn't know how to write him.
I know, I'm saying he's "nothing" because that's not the worst it gets in terms of incompetency, not that he as a character means nothing. Sorry if I confused you.
who is just a buff ex-yakuza member and simply beats on people.
hold on, there's an Amon fight in Kaito Files? I beat it like a month ago, how do I trigger it without any substories and the most linear story in the series since the Majima Saga?
You don't fight an Amon exactly, you fight someone they're training (Presumably to become an Amon or work for them). >how do I trigger it
You know those skills that cause tough enemies to spawn around the map? Unlock the skill, fight the guy, unlock the next one, fight the next guy, and when you beat the second or third (I forget how many there were, it was either two or three) you'll get a message to fight the Amon Clan guy.
>Lao Gui is nothing >Game states multiple times that he is the most expensive assassin in all of Asia to hire, the most brutal and the most efficient. Personal bodyguard to the head of Dojima family.
Seems to me the game shit the bed and didn't know how to write him.
I'm at the end of Judgement, and man, playing through this really made it hit home how poorly paced Yakuza 8 felt to me, both in main story and especially in side content.
Like I was constantly getting a good proportion of side content and main story content flowing in and out every single chapter. Somehow it felt like there was far more side content in Judgement than in IW. Like 10 of IW's "substories" were just mandatory introductions to minigames or mechanics, which means the entire substory wass just pressing X through one series of dialogue boxes and that 's the whole thing. No punchline or anything.
What happened with IW? Was it rushed in development or something?
It's such a weird decision in retrospect. Gaiden is one of my personal favorites, but I wouldn't have minded waiting for it if it meant 8's story didn't clearly feel rushed.
The chinese dude's son's kidnapping being resolved in a quick dialogue towards the end is insane.
>The chinese dude's son's kidnapping being resolved in a quick dialogue towards the end is insane.
The funniest part is that Ichiban and co. had no idea what Chitose was talking about until they themselves were reminded by her that he was taken. Meaning the entire cast except her forgot about him.
Majima did literally nothing wrong.
kys 0gays
seethe 7gay
7, 8 and Gaiden are the reddit entries. Literally turned the games into capeshit-tier writing.
>5, 7, and 8*
ftfy
Gaiden not worth it?
Gaiden is worth it, the gameplay is solid enough and the bosses are good. One of the best final bosses in the series.
Gaiden is great but is much shorter than any other entry as it is a side story, I would wait for a discount if I were you.
Seethe homosexual
Kys y7 troony, accept your inferiority
Please do yourselves a favor and stop playing these games. You do not enjoy this wonderful franchise. Over 2 decades of great games, and you gays bicker like this, or actually believe 7, 8, Giden and 5 are dogshit? You gays have the most autistic nitpicks.
0gays like you ruined this series
please leave
0chads saved your dogshit series
nagoshi was right you ruined yakuza
he said in his 5million dollar payout
Literally every yakuza game before 0 (with 5 maybe being an exception) is ass. You’re welcome
>Literally every yakuza game before 7* is ass.
Fixed it for you little man
ok explain why then
>0gays like you ruined this series
>please leave
0 wasn't what ruined the Yakuza fanbase
It was 0 coming out on PC that did that.
He hit his wife
Did I stutter?
when are we getting 0.5 to show what majima was doing while kiryu was in jail
he was thinking up elaborate ways to frick with him when he got out.
I assumed he probably tried to fight Nishiki, and either won or lost which caused him to jump down the slope even more.
>imagine worshiping the mafia as heroes
this is literally mexican tier behavior, I thought japan was better than anyone
Most mexicans despise cartels though. I don't know how most japs feel about the yakuza though.
>Most mexicans despise cartels though
hah! no, you really have no idea how cartels work or how is to live with them, cartels protect themselves by buying entire towns with gifts and money, the cartel culture in mexico rules everything even the government, te most successful tv shows are about cartels and drug, and the music industry even created the narcocorridos to paint them as heroes.
The Yakuza in this are Kingdom Hearts tier. They're good fun characters. Nobody likes them because they cut out hearts, which they don't.
All of the main characters are ex-yakuza. The series doesn’t portray the mafia as heroes, it portrays orphanage owners as heroes.
>Sunflower is an orphanage for the children whose parents I killed...
kino
Kazama is a side character.
don't the yakuza leave you alone unless you frick with them? it's not like they're shaking down innocent people
I don't get why people say Goro got ruined with 0. I'm playing Kiwawi and he's the same silly bastard.
He got ruined by Kiwami if anything.
Yeah, he got turned into a silly bastard. In OG 1 he comes off a lot more unhinged, with his motivations being a lot more unclear.
Majima peaked with 0
0 was more a Majima game than it was a Kiryu game.
We'll never have something like that again.
MAJIMA!!! DOKEEEE!
I don't get how can it be that the whole Yakuza fandom is filled with Majima/Kiryu homoart but we don't have a single picture of this brat getting his guts rearranged
Hope they haven't forgotten about him and make him Ichi's komaki (got so pics that are so much more risqué)
>Hope they haven't forgotten about him
They definitely have.
This dude should have been a party member or something in 8. Hope that they don't forget about him completely.
Lurch had an interesting career as the best hitman in all of Asia.
Why do people act like such insecure redditors about this series now?
>Heh, I-I played it before everyone else did!
boomers who attach their personal value to being part of le sekrit club, it's pathetic really
0, 7, gaiden and both judgments are the best games in the series. boomers cope seethe and mald
You forgot 4
>he didn’t list the YAKUZA FOUR
A SERFRISH DEED
IS NOT FREEDAHM
It kinda doesn't even make much sense. Yakuza discussion pre 0 was literally the same shit. It's just one hipster that thought he was cool saying it and now everyone else does it.
>It's just one hipster that thought he was cool saying it and now everyone else does it.
lmao it's literally just this and people always think it's the same guy
>people always think it's the same guy
I'm inclined to believe it is solely because everytime someone uses that gay buzzword it's both out of nowhere and for the pettiest fricking reasons imaginable, absolute boogeyman behavior
nah I caught onto him spamming that shit early and joined in for fun, no doubt others have done it, it's just the easiest bait possible
I've imitated countless schizos on here over the years because it's fun. I wonder what it's like for the schizo himself to see his shitty insult already posted and replied to on a thread he was just about to shit up
If anything, I'm inclined to believe that some generals' OG boogeyman is gone but kept alive by morons like me impersonating them.
t.Barry and the I love my Vita! guy, among others
you forgot 6 my friend
I cried
Yakuza and GTA san andreas share the same universe
>get to him in Y7
>he's 15 levels higher than my party
i guess the battle arena isnt optional, huh
Nope. Despite them calling it "optional" like twice in that segment they're really beating it over your head it's not by saying you should do it like three or four times while in it.
it's a fricking stupid decision tbh, they should've just made the arena mandatory otherwise Majima is nearly impossible without some bullshit strat, I fricking hate the moronic idea of warning players before hand ingame like "OH YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY DO THIS THING NOW, YOU MIGHT NEED IT LATER *HINT HINT* " Fricking bullshit and ruins the immersion with this type of handholding
10 years
I actually struggled with Lost Judgment, the school stuff just felt unending, so much so I nearly forgot Sawa was murdered because I hadn't done the main story for so long.
>the school stuff just felt unending
The robotics club was the worst fricking thing.
You either struggle with it by being too moronic to understand exactly how it works or suffer through it being too long and grindy for how easy it is. I've done both
robo club wasn't too bad it was motorcycle club that sucked, not really because it was hard (even though they made it willfully obtuse with the terrible fixed camera angle) it just went on forever and ever and ever, same with boxing club, that really dragged on and on and on.
Now that you say it, the motorcycle club definitely overstayed its welcome the most. As long as you have money to get the best bike possible, you're just going through repetitive easy races and a storyline that just never ends.
I guess I'm biased against the robotics club because it's the one I had saved for last.
I actually enjoyed the boxing club tho. I didn't mind it being longer than it should've been and had fun beating Kaito's ass in the DLC, even
I want to frick the photo club girl
>Muh Sawa
Still annoyed that was Yagami's only argument to Kuwana
Best Yakuza song, coming through.
blessed 0kings
Majima gaiden soon
my troony gf loves this game, should i try it
I wonder why trannies love this game so much. Looking at leddit, you'd think this game is Troon Heaven, but having played it, besides Kiryu being civil to the shemale masseuse in 3, I don't see anything that would be especially appealing to them, every instance of crossdressing is just done for laughs.
Like the ridiculous Pleasure King or Majima dressing up as a chick to piss off Kiryu into fighting him
It's all just "lmao buff guy in a dress = funny" or "lmao he got tricked and fell for a troony, he's gay now", do they just choose to not interpret it that way?
i dunno but in her case she's shipping kiryu and that korean homosexual, zao or smth
The Korean homosexual is Joon-Gi, the dude with the white hair. Zhao is the chinese homosexual whose personality has been reduced to "this silly guy loves to cook".
Your long haired homosexual of a boyfriend is shipping him with someone he barely ever meaningfully interacts with either way, which is curious
Just beat Yakuza 0. Gonna play 'em all eventually but taking a small break between now and 1.
It was pretty good but the whole "NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T KILL HIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!" shit was of course dumb but I expected it after hearing about the series over the years.
The ending also had insane prequel vibes in the wrong way with all the "UH YEAH I'M WEARING THIS NOW AND THIS IS HOW I'M GOING TO ACT FROM HERE ON OUT" type scenes.
>Just beat Yakuza 0. Gonna play 'em all eventually but taking a small break between now and 1.
Glad you liked it but we'll see. Your problem is that you started with the best one by far.
Hanging out in one of these threads having only played 0 will either get you spoiled on good stuff to come or insulted by some schizo, but I'm genuinely glad you got into this great series, anon
I'm not even hanging out, just wanted to post that and give my thoughts and read a few replies.
But now one of my replies will just be nothing but spoilers so yeah adios.
Not gonna lie, I grew to not like 7 as much. I used to think it was the best yakuza game, but now it's just alright. Infinite wealth is slightly better, but I don't like the change of format the games took up now.
The two unrelated babies placed in lockers at the same time for unrelated reasons plot twist is the most moronic thing in the entire series imo. What a moronic origin story for the new mc to have.
The substories were pretty good tho
The Yakuza series has always been out there that doesn’t seem much dumber than Korean body snatchers or a concentration camp for Yakuza
I think it being functionally mundane, and just a massive coincidence, makes it land differently than if it was some totally insane bullshit that you couldn't begin to scrutinize.
That part of the game was the jumped the shark moment for me. The ending of the game was absolute kino though which saved it.
>the series jumped the shark two entries in
That part of the game was absolutely insane compared to everything else before it, yes.
>The ending of the game was absolute kino
>takes place at Millenium Tower after it's been used so many times, missing its chance at creating Ijincho's counterpart, solidly making Ichiban's journey his own
>please, guy who never gave a frick about me, be a good guy like the old days when I thought you were a good guy, look I'm crying
>heh... I might just do that, man. I might just ACK-
I lower my expectations a lot with this series but this is the only game that did nothing to me emotionally at the end, except maybe 4
>except maybe 4
Yakuza 4 is such a whatever game some times. The twists are ridiculous but I feel like people mostly like it just because of that. Tanimura was cool and having someone "on the other side" like that was genuinely a cool idea. Too bad his character got scrapped and replaced with another random grunt that just knows how to fight well.
Not to shit on Shinada, by the way. He was a fine character but the fact he replaced Tanimura is what makes me like him less.
Shinadas part in the story feels a bit forced, he was just okay. I agree that Tanimura was a way more interesting character concept.
Tanimura not appearing in 6 was moronic as shit. A lot of people parrot the fact that his VA and face scan got accused of doing drugs therefore he didn't appear in 6, but that happened way too close to the release of 6. I'm pretty sure they just forgot about him/didn't know how to write him in well.
yeaaa i was actually half expecting him to show up the entire game but it just didnt happen
I just liked the onslaught of insanity at the very end.
>Have to fight Ryuji
>Other guy comes out and reveals he's the actual bad guy.
>Beat him.
>Another guy comes out and reveals he's the actual actual bad guy.
>That shootout scene with Ryuji before you have to fight him again.
I don't know how but I thought you were talking about 7's ending and went off on a tangent, even overlooking the kino Osaka Castle image
kinda hilarious how my vague description of 7's ending matches 2's, even though I hated 7's and enjoyed 2's for the same reasons you listed though
What was nagoshi smoking
I'm fine with this level of "out there" when it's contained within one game and completely forgotten about in the next, but this will forever be how the new MC's life started.
And it is much dumber than your examples, these are just the Yakuza universe bordering on fantasy to spice things up, like Mirror Face in the same game, not a stupidly unbelievable coincidence for the sake of an unnecessary plot twist It literally doesn't matter that Arakawa was Ichiban's biological dad.
>NOOOOOOO IF YOU HECKIN KILL HIM YOU'LL BE JUST LIKE HIM MAJIMA-SAN
This dude is one of the shittiest written character in the game.
I mean the whole game is a poorly written mess but this one takes the cake.
This supposed elite assassin failed to get rid of Kiryu despite having multiple opportunities to take him out, and when his boss told him to kill the girl he failed to do so as well.
For an elite professional assassins he missed shots in the game more than i could tolerate, he is basically a boogyman that does nothing, a paper tiger.
In the end he was nothing but glorified poser just like 90% of the characters in yakuza
Lao Gui is nothing. The Amon Clan are the most elite assassins you can hire in the entire world. They literally have satellites that can nuke people from orbit on demand, actual magic, technology so far advanced it's hundreds of years from the future, and extremely expensive items at their disposal. Because they are now main story canon 100% without any argument it now means that they haven't been able to kill
>Kiryu even when he's dying of cancer and they're actually trying.
>Akiyama who doesn't even have any sort of training in how to fight and is, for all intents and purposes, a civvy.
>Saejima when he just got out of jail and wasn't in full shape.
>Tanimura who is just a normal corrupt cop and at best knows like one martial art style.
>Shinada who is a baseball player who literally does not even know how to fight and was winging everything.
>Majima who didn't even realize he was fighting a hitman and was just dicking around.
>Haruka, and she went up against someone who had the backing of pretty much everyone in the idol world due to her connections.
>Musashi who made up his own fighting styles and was going up against a guy who had an automatic firing flintlock pistol and a magic sword.
Granted, he had training from a guy who uses magic so you make of that what you will.
>Ryoma who also made up his own fighting styles and went up against a guy who had access to magic that could split him in three and a magic sword.
>Yagami who made up all his fighting styles and is a lawyer turned PI.
>Kaito who is just a buff ex-yakuza member and simply beats on people.
Ichiban is like the only one who hasn't really beaten an Amon since Shin was just faking it and I bet even he could do it.
Assassins in the Yakuza universe are incompetent. The guy in BP2 is like the only one I can think of who actually succeeded in killing Makoto.
The amon aren't canon
Yes, they are. 8 outright confirms this. They are not only part of the main story, but how Kiryu gains Dragon's Resurgence which is reflected in the main story itself with how he's feeling more reinvigorated.
An overly silly thing happening during the main story to make you progress or gain an in-game skill isn't canon. If so, then it's canon that Kiryu got tough in his 20s by injecting literal money into himself because a drunk white dude taught him how to. Tutorial stuff like that isn't meant to be taken that seriously and I don't think they meant the intro to Dragon's Resurgence to also be the big announcement that the Amon family was canon all along.
>Tutorial stuff like that isn't meant to be taken that seriously
That depends if you consider it goofy, because they don't treat it as goofy at all. They take it completely seriously as if it happened, and stuff that happens afterward is because his friends are his power now. It as an event also shows you that Kiryu is learning to let his friends do more of the heavy lifting which isn't really covered until the tail end of the game before you go to the Millennium Tower. Ichiban doesn't learn Essence of Friendship in a goofy way either.
I know, I'm saying he's "nothing" because that's not the worst it gets in terms of incompetency, not that he as a character means nothing. Sorry if I confused you.
I only played Yakuza 0
who is just a buff ex-yakuza member and simply beats on people.
hold on, there's an Amon fight in Kaito Files? I beat it like a month ago, how do I trigger it without any substories and the most linear story in the series since the Majima Saga?
You don't fight an Amon exactly, you fight someone they're training (Presumably to become an Amon or work for them).
>how do I trigger it
You know those skills that cause tough enemies to spawn around the map? Unlock the skill, fight the guy, unlock the next one, fight the next guy, and when you beat the second or third (I forget how many there were, it was either two or three) you'll get a message to fight the Amon Clan guy.
>Lao Gui is nothing
>Game states multiple times that he is the most expensive assassin in all of Asia to hire, the most brutal and the most efficient. Personal bodyguard to the head of Dojima family.
Seems to me the game shit the bed and didn't know how to write him.
The gangster formerly known as Kiryu.
imagine having a built in biological sensor that alerts you when one particular man is nearby
I don't play Yakuza, what is his problem?
Yakuza games are shit. Nip soap opera movie garbage for women.
I'm at the end of Judgement, and man, playing through this really made it hit home how poorly paced Yakuza 8 felt to me, both in main story and especially in side content.
Like I was constantly getting a good proportion of side content and main story content flowing in and out every single chapter. Somehow it felt like there was far more side content in Judgement than in IW. Like 10 of IW's "substories" were just mandatory introductions to minigames or mechanics, which means the entire substory wass just pressing X through one series of dialogue boxes and that 's the whole thing. No punchline or anything.
What happened with IW? Was it rushed in development or something?
The A-Team moved onto Gaiden while the B-Team was left with 8
That doesn't sound accurate. You'd think the B-team was on Gaiden.
It's such a weird decision in retrospect. Gaiden is one of my personal favorites, but I wouldn't have minded waiting for it if it meant 8's story didn't clearly feel rushed.
The chinese dude's son's kidnapping being resolved in a quick dialogue towards the end is insane.
>The chinese dude's son's kidnapping being resolved in a quick dialogue towards the end is insane.
The funniest part is that Ichiban and co. had no idea what Chitose was talking about until they themselves were reminded by her that he was taken. Meaning the entire cast except her forgot about him.
I haven't played a yakuza game in a decade now (Last one being 5). Was I missing out?
Gaiden is a nice ending (kind of) to Kiryuu's story, otherwise not really
Play 6 and Gaiden if you must, but stay the frick away from 7 and 8 if you don't want to see the series killed and raped, in that order.
I will never stop seething over 7 being turn based. That is my one and only complaint with that game