I finished the story a few days ago, and I’m currently tackling Dondoko. I was right in guessing it would’ve eaten a huge chunk of my time and is better reserved for premium adventure, it’s strangely addictive.
idk, it's fun the first time through but it becomes stale once you're done with the campaign, plus online is mostly the same minmax urban hellscape. Same with Sujimans.
Eh, that’s how it is with every Yakuza series minigame, unfortunately. After their dedicated storyline is completed, it’s simply no longer as engaging as before.
With that said, integrating Sujimon with Dondoko was a smart decision.
>integrating Sujimon with Dondoko was a smart decision.
I don't understand why they have to pause the farm when you exit the island. Seemed like the perfect place to make use of your high-friendship but weaker Sujimon.
Wait, really? Guess it’s to prevent exploits or bugs, but that’s a disappointment. I was willing to build a Sujimon team based on my favorite designs, because the Kiwami and Gold Sujimon are just too over the top.
Have you done Joker's gym yet? Sodachi and 2(or 3?) other Silvers can be promoted to their Gold-rank Murderous Heat forms They'll still be outclassed by Kiwami/DLC ones, and you kinda need the Kiwamis if you're ever using Sujimancer in late game.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Sujimancer is pretty unusable even with all the Kiwamis. Honestly what a waste of a class that should've been cool.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Oh, I’ve done literally everything related to Sujimon, but I genuinely don’t like how the Kiwami Sujimon look. I miss having the Silver Sujimon team because they have unique designs.
It becomes complete garbage once you realize decorating your town how you want it is unviable. You need to plop down the highest value buildings in all three sections you're gonna use and that's it. Actually decorating anything means your guests are going to the low value items, meaning they become less happy, meaning you get worse ratings from them at the end. It's better to stick a statue that's like 16x20 and gives one of the stats than use 1x1 objects 16 times. You also have to dedicate a part of the island just to the passive buildings so it becomes a dumping ground for your stuff.
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I mean, everything Kiryu talks about during it makes no sense because he implies the Amon are after him for besmirching their name when they're after him because he's the only one to have ever survived an assassination attempt. It's a half truth. It also makes zero sense because Shin was working with him in 7 but now Jo hates him again in 8? Why does Jo look like Shin? Are they gonna stalk him outside of his hospital bed to kill him since they won't let cancer do it? Jo had autism and refused to let Kiryu die after he realized he still had it in him so what happens after everything later in the game? Is he gonna pull a Daidoji and have Amon agents sitting outside the orphanage to pick him off?
> It becomes complete garbage once you realize decorating your town how you want it is unviable. You need to plop down the highest value buildings in all three sections you're gonna use and that's it.
Aw man, really? I thought people making mini-Kamurocho for their islands was just an account for their shit taste, but this paints a much clearer picture. The fact all the rich guests demand “extremely sleazy/elegant/rustic” should’ve made it obvious to me.
I’m only 3-stars now, but I had plans to make the top part sleazy/elegant, bottom part rustic/pop. Now I’m not sure if I can make it work.
While what he said is true, I just decorated my island however the frick I wanted throughout the whole thing and never had a guest leave unsatisfied once. I'm pretty sure you can do your thing and be completely fine
No. You don't need to even "Aloha" them unless you want to. Campfires will make it a bit more reliable if you've got a spotty area on the map you have people on.
3 months ago
Anonymous
how is your resort setup? do you spam satisfaction displays by sections or mix them up?
Most buildings seem to only have a slot for 1 user at a time, so if you want them to jerk off OR spend money then the ideal is to spam small statues OR vending machines respectively along the road. At least 1 for each guest in the area, they don't seem to like crossing areas.
Look at the minimap, these sheeple would rather line up at the vending machines next to their cabin all day than explore elsewhere on the island.
Am I dumb for putting on too many high ranked buildings on one section? Like I put like two carbarets and love hotels near each other
3 months ago
Anonymous
Doesn't matter as long as you meet the theme requirements and satisfaction metric. Interactable furnishings you put along road is only for maximizing passive guest happiness or income gains. (which is obsolete by chapter 8 or so anyway)
While what he said is true, I just decorated my island however the frick I wanted throughout the whole thing and never had a guest leave unsatisfied once. I'm pretty sure you can do your thing and be completely fine
You just need to meet the sleazy/elegant/rustic/pop metrics to satisfy the guests. The layout doesn't matter. If you haven't reach the style requirement, then plop some statues or benches with the "satisfaction UP" tag. The style doesn't matter, your guests will still use them to jerk off themselves to satisfaction.
I wanted extra income for my maxed island so mine only has "dokobucks UP" furnishings connected to the road. Not optimal because you still need the campfire to bring S-rank guests to full satisfaction levels.
Does it really not matter? I’ve popped some guests in the relatively barren northern area that just has four buildings, and the remaining guests were placed in the southern area that’s full to the brim with satisfaction/dondoko bucks items, and I can tell the north guests are slightly less satisfied than the south, but they’re still happy by checkout time.
Guess I’ll just put some more satisfaction furniture around.
Most buildings seem to only have a slot for 1 user at a time, so if you want them to jerk off OR spend money then the ideal is to spam small statues OR vending machines respectively along the road. At least 1 for each guest in the area, they don't seem to like crossing areas.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Look at the minimap, these sheeple would rather line up at the vending machines next to their cabin all day than explore elsewhere on the island.
3 months ago
Anonymous
> Most buildings seem to only have a slot for 1 user at a time
So I’ve been crafting these huge buildings that hog up tons of space for no reason?? I thought bigger = more customers, but I’m not surprised.
3 months ago
Anonymous
They give a lot of Satisfaction, as in the number beside the green heart at the top
Most buildings seem to only have a slot for 1 user at a time, so if you want them to jerk off OR spend money then the ideal is to spam small statues OR vending machines respectively along the road. At least 1 for each guest in the area, they don't seem to like crossing areas.
and also boost the style it's under so you'll still want to craft them. It's just that they aren't that optimal for your guests to interact with so you may want to cordon them off the path, into your island's own District Five.
3 months ago
Moose
The big buildings give enormous Satisfaction and Popularity when used.
They give a lot of Satisfaction, as in the number beside the green heart at the top [...] and also boost the style it's under so you'll still want to craft them. It's just that they aren't that optimal for your guests to interact with so you may want to cordon them off the path, into your island's own District Five.
I don't see why you'd use the vending machines or statues. The benefit you gain from them is extremely low and compared to a building it's night and day. Not to mention everyone just wanders off to the next open building so having them walk like two feet to gain 5x the benefit seems like a better deal than having them constantly occupying vending machines and statues.
3 months ago
Anonymous
You mixing up the "Satisfaction" stat and the guest "Satisfaction" or rather their happiness, i.e. the 🙂 🙁 face icon.
The stat along with popularity is needed to progress the island which is why you craft them. It does not affect the happiness of the guests directly.
Happiness is increased when the guest uses the furnishing, you'll see a message saying "guest was satisfied with XXX" and is equivalent to your daily greeting/gifting. As far as I can tell, the happiness/money gain from a small statue is equivalent to a large building regardless of the furnishing's stats. This means you can get the same Happiness (or money) with less path space using smaller furnishings. Less paths = more space to squeeze in your commieblocks = more stats without diminishing your guests' happiness.
3 months ago
Moose
Yeah, that's what I mean. As far as I could tell the big buildings net you more than the smaller objects. It seems to take it from your island rating paired with the object they're interacting with. I have a bunch of cars and the gold statues lined up next to each other and the people I stick in that region tend to underperform compared to people by the entrance who will be maxed out just from buildings like half a day before the guys where I have cars and statues.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>cars and statues.
.....did you join the length of the cars against the road? They are about the length as smaller buildings and are also 1 slot, so.
3 months ago
Moose
I have them vertically so they're basically 3x6 or whatever it is with the front facing the road. People will stop by them then walk like two feet to see another one and repeat with everything along that road. It's still worse than putting a handful of buildings next to each other from my experience, I just did it because I couldn't fit buildings in that area.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Well it works with Gachapin/Mukku statue spams. No surprise that nipponese don't like cars.
3 months ago
Moose
That's the thing, they're also along with the statues because they occupy more or less the same amount of width. The Majima/Ichiban/Kiryu/Gachapin/Mukku statues all gain points, but it still doesn't seem as much as someone wandering from one building to another.
>but I had plans to make the top part sleazy/elegant, bottom part rustic/pop. Now I’m not sure if I can make it work.
Unless you stick people who just want those attributes in those areas it isn't gonna work, and even if they prefer something they still go to other buildings. It's really really hard to piss a guest off so much that they're not at least tier 2 unless you intentionally stick them in an area with nothing in it.
While what he said is true, I just decorated my island however the frick I wanted throughout the whole thing and never had a guest leave unsatisfied once. I'm pretty sure you can do your thing and be completely fine
The guests won't leave unsatisfied but you're not gonna max them out unless you're making commieblocks meaning less Dokobucks in the end along with less EXP for that character.
a bit late but anyway:
he is right in some ways, the fastest and easiest way to upgrade your island is to shove big smile burger tier building and chain kamurocho arc entrances, but you have 3 giant places to build an most people barely use one for efficiency, if you build however you want you can, it would just take more than 20 days to max it out > but I had plans to make the top part sleazy/elegant, bottom part rustic/pop. Now I’m not sure if I can make it work.
it's not a matter of "balance" or anything, each category has a cap and raising one won't reduce the other, you'll be fine.
If you want to build it in a specific non-meta way, feel free to do so
I'm stuck on a LaD fight and I really, really, really, really, really don't want to leave and grind up stats for hours. turn based gameplay was a mistake and i hate that it exists
I'm surprised that they don't give you something that deletes the difficulty if you aren't feeling it like an inventory full of heath and heat potions does in the brawler games
The Koreans are burning down their counterfeiting operation, and I'm fighting against Nanba for the first time. I've pretty thoroughly burned myself out on the sidequests up to this point anyway, so facing the prospect of grinding my face against hordes of street gangs for an hour or so isn't very pleasant.
Recruit Eri and use her OP aoe attack to clear trash, and change Saeko to Idol for its aoe heal.
If you really need to level, get the job exp accessories and do a quick clear of the first floor of the underground dungeon. Don't try to grind street mobs.
Awakening Kiryu is easy, just progress the story.
And yes, there’s a dungeon in Yokohama. Kamurocho doesn’t have any dungeon, but it does have crown bosses, the Keepers of the City.
It's miles and miles better than 7 with far better balancing. The main issue now is you become overpowered so quickly that if you even breathe in the direction of side content you'll be overleveled despite all the rewards being for lower levels and completely useless at higher levels.
Dunno. It's hard to have dissatisfied guests post game, the most are S-rank guests being happy but not overjoyed. For all other tier guests, putting them in S-rank lodgings already gives them a daily boost.
they are notorious for doing this throughout the series, see interplanetary spark from Y0. it's somewhat a consequence of having a frickton of great tracks every single game, some are unfortunately going to get left out of the spotlight
Right… Seiryu Clan. I’m still confused as to why the Japanese populace and media are so braindead they fall for obviously fake and suspicious stories.
>“We good yakuza, they bad yakuza. We become big so we disband, which is why we good, but they already big and also already disband, which is why they bad. Upboats to the left. Also, we will bring back nuclear power and already did secret meetings with the government, kthxbai.”
Maybe Yokoyama just hates streamers and sees them as nothing more than virtual vultures and leeches, which is made obvious by the ending cutscene.
Housekeeper or Geodancer. If you absolutely have to use a physical class then use Night Queen, but there's no reason not to put Seonhee and Chitose as one of those two.
Night Queen's stats are better in terms of damage, its ultimate weapon can instakill the lower their health is (Assuming they're not immune to Death), and its ultimate outfit grants you MP on a kill while also giving you +20 ATK. I believe Seonhee's exclusive outfit gives AGI on kills so that would probably be better. Sure, Assassin gives her more AGI but its moveset is complete trash in comparison to Night Queen and several skills require you to be behind an enemy to even gain full advantage of said moves. Night Queen also has good ranged attacks and mobbing attacks in addition to charm capabilities from her best moves.
I would still advise you to opt for Housekeeper or Geodancer though. Bubble Bale is absurdly good, the ultimate weapons and stats buff magic damage even higher, and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
Tennis Ace if you have the DLC.
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Saeko is the better Geodancer. Maybe housekeeper since Seonhee has the only elec magic skill on the female side.
Saeko is bench fodder due to her AGI and 90% of the time the girls are doing one of four things: >Bubble Bale >Scum Scraper >Noisy Racket >Substitution Jutsu
I don't see why you'd use Saeko at all once you're in PA for example. Prior to PA she's "The second girl" so it makes sense at least.
>I would still advise you to opt for Housekeeper or Geodancer though. Bubble Bale is absurdly good, the ultimate weapons and stats buff magic damage even higher, and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
I already use cheetos and saeko as geodancers.
>and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
That's why you have Seonhee as a kunoichi or tennis ace for max AGI and substitution prostitution, you dumb dumb.
>Seonhee is more speed oriented
Yes, that's the point. Getting two Bubble Bales off before anyone can even move is worth far more to a general encounter than something like Spinning Queen. Then when you get to the 1v1s Grand Slam, Wicked Wall Drills, or Rapid-Fire Rally are fine, but you can also just pass that off to Ichiban (Who is in Aquanaut to ignore all resistances), Zhao (Who is in Gangster to ignore all resistances), or Kiryu (Who will outdamage any of the girls in physical attacks in Action Star or Desperado).
There's no real situation where keeping the girls in a physical moveset is worth it because all their best movesets are magic-oriented. Kunoichi is Musician but not as bad, Assassin's moves and spread are so-so, Night Queen is a good damage dealer but you're dealing less than their magic moves. It just doesn't make sense. Chitose and Seonhee are already moving multiple turns as it is.
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Then make her a Housekeeper.
Why use two subpar bubble bales when Geodancer Saeko can wipe the floor with just one?
What makes Scum Scraper better than Court Maintenance? Can't Court Maintenance remove debuffs from multiple enemies?
Use either depending on whether attack or magic is higher, though Scum Scraper is also a grapple and many female jobs don't have one.
Saeko as barmaid with her ultimate weapon upgraded with crit damage up, blunt damage greatly up, and blunt damage up does ungodly amounts of damage with israeliteel breaker.
Moose is an autist who literally and unironically cannot remember how to have fun. If you follow his advice you'll end up optimising the fun out of the game, which is at no point ever hard enough to justify doing that.
Moose-kun, no way, Geodancer and Housekeeper are better for the other two. Seonhee is more speed oriented, so wasting her on the magic/healing jobs is a colossal waste.
>Seonhee is more speed oriented
Yes, that's the point. Getting two Bubble Bales off before anyone can even move is worth far more to a general encounter than something like Spinning Queen. Then when you get to the 1v1s Grand Slam, Wicked Wall Drills, or Rapid-Fire Rally are fine, but you can also just pass that off to Ichiban (Who is in Aquanaut to ignore all resistances), Zhao (Who is in Gangster to ignore all resistances), or Kiryu (Who will outdamage any of the girls in physical attacks in Action Star or Desperado).
There's no real situation where keeping the girls in a physical moveset is worth it because all their best movesets are magic-oriented. Kunoichi is Musician but not as bad, Assassin's moves and spread are so-so, Night Queen is a good damage dealer but you're dealing less than their magic moves. It just doesn't make sense. Chitose and Seonhee are already moving multiple turns as it is.
>I would still advise you to opt for Housekeeper or Geodancer though. Bubble Bale is absurdly good, the ultimate weapons and stats buff magic damage even higher, and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
I already use cheetos and saeko as geodancers.
>Ichiban
Aquanaut is indeed very good, but I’ll say that it’s still fine to keep him in Hero because his fully upgraded weapon still deals tons of damage AND applies to all blunt skills. >Seonhee
I have her in Assassin or Kunoichi. With the ultimate Assassin weapon branded to increase success of restrictive status, charm and paralysis are MUCH more likely to occur. Or, you could go with the buff + substitution build for Kunoichi to make Kiryu and Zhao sweep everyone.
I gave Seonhee all the magic skills in Housemaid since she’s always the first to move, and she can immediately remove the enemy’s buffs.
>Kiryu >anything other than DoD
Dude, no, the style switching lets you deal a frick ton of damage. Nothing compares to Beast’s back attack.
All male characters exclusively use Essence of Showboating.
Housekeeper or Geodancer. If you absolutely have to use a physical class then use Night Queen, but there's no reason not to put Seonhee and Chitose as one of those two.
Saeko is the better Geodancer. Maybe housekeeper since Seonhee has the only elec magic skill on the female side.
Scum Scrubber + Debuffs + Healing + the Kiwami Skill for Housemaid that applies Scum Scrubber to all enemies OR the Geodancer skill that heals all and removes status ailments.
Grapple paired with the Frost element which many enemies are weak to. Blunt (Or whatever you want to call the fist) is just a neutral typing nothing is weak to. It's also extremely rare that more than one enemy is ever buffed, and when that happens it's usually some weak fodder that got crit buffed at best.
>Ichiban
Aquanaut is indeed very good, but I’ll say that it’s still fine to keep him in Hero because his fully upgraded weapon still deals tons of damage AND applies to all blunt skills. >Seonhee
I have her in Assassin or Kunoichi. With the ultimate Assassin weapon branded to increase success of restrictive status, charm and paralysis are MUCH more likely to occur. Or, you could go with the buff + substitution build for Kunoichi to make Kiryu and Zhao sweep everyone.
I gave Seonhee all the magic skills in Housemaid since she’s always the first to move, and she can immediately remove the enemy’s buffs.
>Kiryu >anything other than DoD
Dude, no, the style switching lets you deal a frick ton of damage. Nothing compares to Beast’s back attack.
All male characters exclusively use Essence of Showboating.
>because his fully upgraded weapon still deals tons of damage AND applies to all blunt skills.
Sure, but Aquanaut grants you a damage buff at full health which is incredibly easy to stay at and I believe a +50 deals more damage. Hero also means you can't ignore resistances because you can't wear the armor. There's just no point to be Hero because True Hero's Armor is worse than the Aquanaut outfit. >Dude, no
You haven't used DoD enough if you're arguing this. A back attack spin at 10 Body at level 60 with a DoD over 30 is only like 600-800 damage. You will deal more damage with potential weakness exploitation with Burning Arrow, and you're not stuck dropping your AGI to the ground by going into Beast. Beast is an abysmally terrible style because of the AGI drop. This is completely ignoring that you have no ultimate weapon to work off of for passives which drops your damage further into the ground.
>and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
That's why you have Seonhee as a kunoichi or tennis ace for max AGI and substitution prostitution, you dumb dumb.
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Why use two subpar bubble bales when Geodancer Saeko can wipe the floor with just one?
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Use either depending on whether attack or magic is higher, though Scum Scraper is also a grapple and many female jobs don't have one.
>That's why you have Seonhee as a kunoichi or tennis ace for max AGI and substitution prostitution
Yeah, you can do that if you want, but that's if you just want them as Substitution bawds. If you want them as usable members it's better to be using magic. >Why use two subpar bubble bales when Geodancer Saeko can wipe the floor with just one?
Because Saeko would require you to Substitute to her since she's middle of the road in speed so she'll never go first when everyone is grouped up, and you can typically clear an entire group with a Seonhee in Geodancer or Housekeeper herself while also moving more.
>Aquanaut grants you a damage buff at full health which is incredibly easy to stay at and I believe a +50 deals more damage.
Yeah, I’m not arguing with that. It’s just that hero seems more versatile and delivers much better electric damage. I always have Tomizawa with me since the charm that the final boss drops massively boosts all magic damage, which synergizes perfectly with his unique armor that increases damage to enemy weakness. Fire Arrow becomes fricking ridiculous. >You haven't used DoD enough if you're arguing this. A back attack spin at 10 Body at level 60 with a DoD over 30 is only like 600-800 damage.
Dude, I get over 2000 damage with it at level 60 and Body 10. I get its agility is bad and I can’t parry with it, but the rest of the party picks up the slack in the rare occasion Kiryu doesn’t do enough damage.
Moreover on Tomi: not only is his ultimate weapon ridiculously good, he trivializes everyone else if you brand it with the Blaze - Frost - Shock EX boosters. I had to make him a mortal again by having his magic crit instead, which is still ridiculous when it procs.
For a normal average joe, Tomizawa’s a GOD of magic.
>Dude, I get over 2000 damage with it at level 60 and Body 10.
How? I can go to guys 30 levels below me who are also super squishy enemy variants and not even deal that much with the +DMG. If I fight stuff in the 50s I'm only dealing 600-800 damage if I do that and also massively nerfing my AGI to unusable levels. If I use Rush I'm only dealing 400-600ish to guys 30 levels below me. If I go to DoD I'm dealing 800ish to guys 30 below me. This is with his True Dragon Outfit equipped too.
I honestly don’t know, the level 52 boss in Yokohama EX floor 5 dungeon showed me Kiryu giving him 2100-ish points of damage with a back attack Beast grapple. I’ll have to recheck later when I’m back home.
another reason why moose shouldn't be trusted on jobs in turn based
also Seonhee's assassin is amazing >whip is amazing room cleaner >gun coverage and single target one if used as a back attack deletes most enemies >blade coverage >grab
and I gave her a knockback kick from night queen for more crowd control
Moose is an autist who literally and unironically cannot remember how to have fun. If you follow his advice you'll end up optimising the fun out of the game, which is at no point ever hard enough to justify doing that.
Night Queen or Assassin for Seonhee? I can craft the ultimate weapon for both but I can't decide
muh "don't use Adachi as Enforcer" motherfricker he's the tankiest character in 7, giving him that makes him even better as he can take a hit, support with items or heal with that musician skill and dish out damage
>If you want them as usable members it's better to be using magic.
Cheetos maybe, if you want her to deal damage, but she has unique value at spamming her mass agi debuff and debuff-clearing heal.
For Seonhee, you're missing out on her back attack, autocrit gun skills. That's the real reason you should have her as a physical dmg dealer, preferably Tennis Ace so you can give her all the gun brands and accessory.
Moreover on Tomi: not only is his ultimate weapon ridiculously good, he trivializes everyone else if you brand it with the Blaze - Frost - Shock EX boosters. I had to make him a mortal again by having his magic crit instead, which is still ridiculous when it procs.
For a normal average joe, Tomizawa’s a GOD of magic.
Cabbie tomi carried Kasuga's finale for me, but I've since switched him to Chef for Big Swell. Chef has higher attack+magic stats and the skill dmg boost. Fusee Doozy and Cutley Crash can hit for 3k on weaknesses. Less MP and increased MP costs is becoming a minor problem though, maybe I'll switch him back.
>For Seonhee, you're missing out on her back attack, autocrit gun skills.
Which forces you to actually reach the back in the first place. Why even bother when Bubble Bale or Scum Scrubber will generally deal more damage than that without setup?
another reason why moose shouldn't be trusted on jobs in turn based
also Seonhee's assassin is amazing >whip is amazing room cleaner >gun coverage and single target one if used as a back attack deletes most enemies >blade coverage >grab
and I gave her a knockback kick from night queen for more crowd control [...]
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muh "don't use Adachi as Enforcer" motherfricker he's the tankiest character in 7, giving him that makes him even better as he can take a hit, support with items or heal with that musician skill and dish out damage
>whip is amazing room cleaner
Use Bubble Bale and deal more damage in an even larger range. >gun coverage and single target one if used as a back attack deletes most enemies
Again, you need to position yourself to their back in the first place. Why even bother with this when the damage isn't going to be any crazier than had I used Scum Scraper? Hell, sticking Blossoming 'Uli'uli is an even better option because it's a 100% chance to hit and deals like 1500 damage, or you can go lower for the Kumu Hula Corkscrew for like 1300 and lower WIL allowing your magic to deal even more. >blade coverage
Yeah, and how many enemies are actually weak to blades let alone something as weak as Empress Claw? >grab
Scum Scrubber. >muh "don't use Adachi as Enforcer" motherfricker he's the tankiest character in 7
I never said don't use Adachi as Enforcer since that is his best job, I said don't use Adachi at all. On Normal he serves no purpose because you never need to tank anything. On Legend he dies in two hits like literally every other character in the game so he can't tank anything meaning you're just gimping yourself. You will never once take advantage of that fact because you take so little damage everyone is basically a tank. As an attacker he's objectively one of the worst as any male, even Nanba, is better suited to using Enforcer than he is because they'll actually attack more than once per full moon, and Han is the best Enforcer because of his AGI.
I actually forgot to do the ex dungeon before Ichiban's finale. Who's the boss?
>Which forces you to actually reach the back in the first place.
It's not that hard to get a backstab, you can do it from range even with Joongi's knife version. Regardless, that's why you give her substitution prostitution so she can trade her turn when she can't backstab. You're not thinking big enough. >Why even bother when Bubble Bale or Scum Scrubber will generally deal more damage than that without setup?
Easy 3K dmg for 15MP. 'nuff said.
>It's not that hard to get a backstab
It's a complete coin toss if guys are gonna face you or not and if you can reposition yourself. More often than not you're not gonna have access to a back. >Easy 3K dmg for 15MP. 'nuff said.
What game are you guys playing? Seriously. This is a level 27 Assassin with an unupgraded ultimate weapon against an enemy 26 levels below me. It took four full turns passing just to actually get a position to do this at all and this was the damage. A +50 even with the gun damage buff is going to be like 300-400ish damage more which is only edging out either of Geodancer's neutral magics that require no setup at all by like 300 damage, and that's when I have no upgrades to my maracas at all.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Bro stop playing FF in a Yakuza thread, seriously.
3 months ago
Anonymous
moose is a personification of "if I don't 1 shot basic enemies then it's not worth using"
I just got back in Hawaiian ground as Ichiban on Chapter 13 and at the point of no return…how much longer do I roughly have left of playtime if I go to beat the game
Technically THE fight was the first time you fight him since that's the hardest version of the fight but like 99% of the people wouldn't be leveled for that and NG+ isn't the same at all since you wipe him easily. But yes, that's THE Amon fight for 8. You could argue the Big Swell boss is 8's Amon equivalent I guess.
It's a pain in the ass and requires a bunch of steps to do, but yes. As you can see Saeko was only 42 and the rest of my crew was only in the very early 50s. >You always have to have a minimum of two defense debuffs on him otherwise you only deal 1 damage. >The fight needs to start with at least one Leaping Gazelle and you need to get more of those than punch combos throughout the fight. >When he does buff his AGI you have to Scum Scrape it at tier 2 and 3 while ignoring it in tier 1 because it only starts being an issue in tiers 2 and 3. >You have to regularly ignore healing party members and just hope he pivots to someone with more health, but he's also seemingly programmed to do that and you can force him to target someone by attacking him with that character. >You need every single healing item Kashiwagi/Wesker can craft for you because they're the only way to do full party heals of HP and MP without using skills (I didn't have Geodancer at 24 on either girl yet). >You need at least one girl to have Substitution Jutsu, preferably both. >Both girls need to be either Kunoichi or Tennis Aces. >One girl needs to be a Tennis Ace so you get the most out of Wicked Wall Drills as that's the best way to deal damage in that fight from my experience. >Generally you have Nanba spamming Malodorous Stench or the girls using Noisy Racket. >Kiryu exists only to Poundmate, heal, and attack when he doesn't need to heal.
Webm took me like three hours of attempts and over a dozen returns to Hello Work to try and formulate a plan, and in the winning run Saeko didn't have Substitution Jutsu which would have helped.
3 months ago
Moose
Wait, whoops, bad memory. I had Geodancer at 24 but when I tried it the full heal didn't fully heal, it only did like 750 so I scrapped that idea since I didn't have anyone's bonds at 100 to pass it over and even if I did it was better to use items.
this isn't the real amon fight. although to be fair the real one isn't much better. even on legend all four amons are only 96 so you can outlevel them.
3 months ago
Moose
He's talking about the Yokohama Underground fight, not the one I posted. The one he's talking about is the super easy fight even if you aren't even prepared for it.
>Rape builds character stats.
wait does yakuza have r*pe? I am a big fan of the series and was planning on starting my first play through of the games with 0. I might not want to if a gross topic like r*pe is not addressed. yikes.
Show a screenshot of what you're missing. You're probably missing the vendor that shows up at the top-left that sells poop and seashells since he rarely pops up, and then the other two are probably someone you only see in the morning/evening so you might just be missing them based on time.
You're right, that guy is rarely shows up and I didn't buy from him last time we met. Tnx moose
An easy way to get him to spawn is to take the taxi to Lotus St. and run to Pearl Ave and tun the length of it until you reach the weapon shop on the corner then take the taxi back and repeat.
Another way is to take that same taxi, run down Pearl Ave. to the weapon shop, then run down all of Downtown St. until you reach the SS charger, then turn around and ride back to the taxi location, go past the hotel until you reach the building, then do a 180 and repeat that route until he shows up.
You can also reload your save at the taxi but I found that way worse.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I hope it was all worth it for secret kson sex scene
3 months ago
Moose
The 30 minute full frontal from Kson with Kiryu monologuing about how he's loyal to Yumi was a bit much but it's surprising how much effort they put into it. I was surprised to see Kaoru pop in though.
Show a screenshot of what you're missing. You're probably missing the vendor that shows up at the top-left that sells poop and seashells since he rarely pops up, and then the other two are probably someone you only see in the morning/evening so you might just be missing them based on time.
Is there like an actual dialog happening or does he say that in passing? I play the subbed version so I might not even understand if that's just an audio line in-game
>tormented Tomi in an attempt to make him develop thick skin >smiled when he fought back >held 0 grudges against him, all the people going after Tomi were doing so because they wanted to, not because Yamai told them to do it >everyone in his turf loves him, aside from the granny protecting Lani and Akane >charismatic, unintentionally funny, cunning, strong, has some of the best songs and dynamic intros in the series >has the Ichiban Seal of Approval™ >gets arrested >is now in limbo, only RGG knows whether or not he's actually coming back
YamaiGODS... I don't feel so good, are we ever going to see him again, now that he's warm ?
How long until we get a minigame where we pit mascots together with Ono Michio-kun, Fauxno Michio-kun, Robo Michio, Kamulop, and Alo-Happy fighting for the top spot?
I feel like RGG didn't know what to do with Ichiban in Infinite Wealth, after the party split I couldn't really say I wanted to go back to ichi's party
Unsurprising. Ichi's story post-split is just running around like a headless chicken trying to find Lani while Kiryu generally has an actual focus to his activites.
Same. Every time I've gone back to Ichiban this has been my reaction. I don't care about Lani like Kiryu or Ichiban do, Ebina and Sawashiro's side of the plot is way more interesting, Buraisu just takes me out of the game every time he opens his mouth, Chitose's drama is fine but it feels both too short and too long, and for both post-split chapters so far they're running around like headless chickens.
I am beyond surprised they didn't beeline to Dwight the instant they heard Chitose say it was him on Eiji's tablet and instead went "Duh, where could Lani be!? We have no idea!"
Speaking of Lani. Isn't Palekana chasing her simply so they can kill her? Why do they kidnap her instead of killing her the moment they have the chance?
I assume Bryce wants to murder her himself considering what she is and all. Having a goon do that is just asking for loose ends even if he trusts his zealots to a degree.
They had to give him autism like Aoki at the end of 7 (yes I know Ichiban is bluffing but I must personally send my hench to the Tower anyway) for the plot to keep going after ch9 so he has to kill her personally
It's just moronic writing to poorly justify the heroes victory since the writers couldn't bother to give them an actual logical shot or way out against the villains.
I feel like there was a motive behind IW to make Ichiban a lot less interesting of a protagonist compared to Daddy Kaz who had a far more engaging plot happening. Switching back to Ichi/Hawaii just made you want the story to progress so you can get back to Kiryu.
They clearly tried to compensate by having Kiryu constantly suck off Ichiban every time he's mentioned but it just feels off. I couldn't stop thinking about Ichiban abandoning Kiryu to die in the jungle with Yamai like a fricking NON-YUUSHA homosexual so it never worked for me. It is so fricking weird to me that they never have Ichiban or any of the other characters reflect on that.
Sujimancer would have been so cool if you could actually summon one of your Sujimon as an AI Support during battle. Then add some more skills that allow you to use your turn to command your Sujimon in some way (use a specific skill or attack a specific enemy), let them do combo attacks/follow-ups depending on your friendship with them, and buff the scaling on Sujimancer’s existing skills.
Maybe he could have wanted to torture and force her to proclaim him as the rightful Sage... yeah I don't know. His cult of personality was strong enough that she wasn't a serious threat to begin with. Guess they wanted to force that Haruka parallel
Thing is, outside of the note (Which is now gone and Akane is the only one who memorized it) he can very easily just lie his way through everything. >Oh, you have a duplicate of this pendant I have? Wow, you must have had Akane forge it to try and usurp my position. >Oh, you're the rightful Sage of Palekana? How can you prove that?
As it is all the proof lies on Akane's word and nothing else, and she's a newcomer to the faith compared to Bryce. What are his adherents going to do? They've all drunk the Kool-Aid and the people on Nele are executing randos for him before being brought back to Hawaii. Even Kalon and white chick were like a deer in the headlights after Ichiban dropped the truth bomb on them. Lani is a loose end for Bryce but realistically she can't do anything without Akane's context, and Bryce can just pull the "Foreigner trying to take my religious position" card or something equally accusatory enough to paint her in a bad light.
Wait, is there not a secret party member in Infinite Wealth...?
Nope. It's exactly what you see on the boxart. At best you get support characters like Eiji, Yamai, and the Tojo crew but those are just for that fight.
Ichiban's party is Eric, Chitose, Adachi, and Han.
Kiryu's party is Nanba, Seonhee, Saeko, and Zhao. Han doesn't join until chapter 13, one chapter from the finale.
They paint him as being super hungry for power and willing to do absolutely anything to maintain it and gain more. Akane didn't even fully believed the letter was even real when she called him, but even the slight possibility that it could be real made him show up to the orphanage in the middle of the night fully intent on killing Lani. As for not just killing Lani the moment dwight had her, i figure it's just trying to avoid any loose ends by having him see her die over trusting someone else to do it.
Is this game actually good? I only ever played Yakuza 0 and found it good but that was mostly because it was set in the 80s. Never played other games in the series. This one is turn based or something?
The gameplay is decent if you like turn based but the story is one of the worst. If you want good beat em up gameplay I'd say try Lost Judgment. For story, Like a Dragon Gaiden was much better than Infinite Wealth.
My thoughts are that the gameplay is fun but it peaks in the mid-late game. The beginning is a bit of a drag and the plot ending falls flat. Better than 7 when turn-based debuted but it's not anything crazy when it comes to JRPGs. It's an easy enough game
It got heavily advertised, that's what it did. Joking aside, it really did do a lot in terms of succeeding 7. >It's got more proper story dungeons (Though they really need to expand on them since they still pale in comparison to even basic JRPGs). >They made the actual dungeons at least something. >The combat was massively improved and it feels like a normal JRPG now with balance and everything. >There's a boatload of content and while it's not as much as 5 it's still massive. >Hawaii doesn't feel as restrictive as Ijincho and having all three maps really helps it as a JRPG even if Kamurocho is somewhat lifeless due to not much taking place there, whereas 7 felt highly limited since it was like 90% in Ijincho so you got bored more easily. >Boss fights feel more enjoyable than in 7 and like there's more gimmicks or surprises involved without pumping their HP to the sky. >Way more enemies and enemy types.
It's just a solid JRPG now. Its main fault is in how easy it is to overlevel if you touch side content and the story from Ichiban's side. I find it suspect so many people didn't dock the story for being boring though. The game is like 10+ hours before you even start having the story move, whereas with 7 you're moving very quickly and establishing stuff quickly even though it doesn't truly start until the end of chapter 4 or early chapter 5. 8 doesn't even start until chapter 5 and doesn't truly start until chapter 8 at which point it speeds through the story at breakneck pace.
I'm still fuming to this day in regards to the relatively poor reception Lost Judgment got in the west >most outlet reviews gave it 7 or 8, which might as well be their own way of saying MID >Skill Up has one of the most viewed reviews, where he's very negative towards the game >this same fricking butthole goes on to suck the dick of Ishin Kiwami, even having the balls to say that its combat is great >the game never made an impression outside of the hardcore fan base
I'm afraid that this series could fall into a pitfall similar to SMT, where the least popular "spin offs" are actually the best games, but no one buys them
yes, I'm talking about the DDS duology and Strange Journey
i remember marathoning yakuza 3-judgment/yakuza 7, and i told myself i wouldnt touch lost judgment for awhile due to some of the negative press ive heard about it when it launched. I ended up playing it 5 months after my yakuza marathon and it ended up seriously being one of my favorite games. i still need to check out kaito files
What negative press? The worst thing it’s done was lock a fighting style and four girlfriends (like they’re that important) behind DLC. It’s not as bad as Yakuza 8 locking NG+, difficulties, and an entire post-game dungeon behind a deluxe edition.
Ah, I see. In my opinion, Judgment has a better story since it’s narrative-driven, while Lost Judgment is more character-driven, but all the good moments were reserved for the newer characters while the pre-existing characters are less active and slightly flanderized.
I miss how social and alive Judgment’s Kamurocho felt, and the city feels neglected in LJ. Hell, the same story goes for Infinite Wealth’s Kamurocho, there’s literally nothing to do there.
3 months ago
Anonymous
i remembering looking at the judgment map screen and being shocked by how many icons there were lol, that game felt pretty big for only being set in one city.
3 months ago
Anonymous
It all had a purpose, too. You couldn’t complete the Keihen Alliance story without maxing all 50 friendships.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Kino moment, I was mad how the Keihin stuff got played for laughs with Koga literally blasting off and swearing revenge like a team rocket grunt
3 months ago
Anonymous
I wish they'd go back to small and dense maps. Already sick of Ijincho it's too big and sparse, and only worked for Y7
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Hell, the same story goes for Infinite Wealth’s Kamurocho, there’s literally nothing to do there.
I honestly think they're trying to move away from Kamurocho by making it less relevant in every new entry in the series. The huge nostalgia trip in 8 may be the last time we see Kamurocho so they can focus on Ijincho, Hawaii or new areas.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Kamurocho still feels more alive than Ijincho and Honolulu, but at the same time, it feels “empty”, in the sense that it filled in the gap that Kiryu left behind when he “disappeared”, as if it moved on.
It was weird to me that when IW first came out and reviews started dropping there were people even here getting hyped about awards talk and stuff. I get wanting the series to get more recognition etc. but I would've thought if any group of people would be aware of how little bearing award shows have on the quality of something it'd be fans of a series which has routinely been ignored by them until very recently and significantly grown in popularity regardless. Gaiden's a very recent example of this even, it's just barely in the green on Metacritic and yet if you ask most people they'll probably say it's one of the best ones.
Sega was probably paying off journo scum this time around. They obviously put a lot into advertising. I'm not really sure why journos or normies liked it. It was a throwback to the Kiryu era while making Ichiban look silly half the game. There's a lot of new problems with it. one being it's so long. I guess if you just dabble in some side stuff here and there, it feels enormous. Maybe that's enough. but the story was paper thin.
At least Akiyama's was cathartic. You can feel how pissed off he was about the entire situation considering he felt like one of Kiryu's closest friends only to have both him and Date lying to his face for like half a decade despite constantly going out on a limb for Kiryu ever since 5.
At the same time, Akiyama was also trying to drag back Kiryu into Kamurocho in 6 because you're le dragon of dojima you're the legend you should act like the legend! please save Kamurocho again when that's the last thing Kiryu wanted to do. Kiryu fricking hates Kamurocho and being the dragon.
Akiyama never understood Kiryu in the way Date or Haruka did. Akiyama has a lot of respect for him, and that's the reason they can't be true friends.
They're allies, but not comrades.
Huh? He goes from Ed attacking him in the sewer to trying to get Kiryu to not kidnap Haruto who he should technically should be a legal guardian for, then it's his 007 information moment at the hotel, and then it's him teaming up with Kiryu because Kiryu is insisting on killing Someya. When did he pressure him to save everyone? Was it during the Ed stuff or something?
Nevermind, I completely misremembered this moment, I remember him being more insistant. I take it back.
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There's also that part where he says to Kiryu to not kill Iwao and Sugai becaue think about your legacy, which I think is Akiyama not understanding Kiryu, that's the wrong angle to try and convince him otherwise.
>that's the wrong angle to try and convince him otherwise.
It's the wrong angle, but it's also how he perceives Kiryu. To him Kiryu is his hero which 8 doubles down on, and even in 8 Kiryu respects Akiyama for that perception of him. Akiyama might be a bit off on his assessment of Kiryu, sure, but 8 makes it pretty clear they're pretty tight all things considered, it's just that circumstances are ruining their friendship.
>Read the Life Links entries. >"Date-san really stuck his neck out for me. If I'm going to pay him back for this, I can't keep running from my reason to live." >"Even said he wouldn't give up on me. It would be nice if I could just... pick up my feet, struggle harder, longer, to be with my loved ones." >Actually listen to the dialogue Kiryu is spouting out of his mouth. >"But... I'd spend the rest of my life as someone else. Is that really something worth fighting for?"
So did they not communicate with their teams or something? Why the massive disparity in diary Kiryu and cutscene Kiryu? They're worlds apart in their beliefs. Diary Kiryu is full of hope, cutscene Kiryu is a defeatist. I also agree with , what is this bullshit?
The world knows Kiryu is alive. Your contract is null and void now because the Daidoji couldn't stop it. Why the hell does Kiryu not only "renew the contract" but throw Date into the Akiyama limbo? It makes zero sense with what has happened in the main story. There is zero hold the Daidoji has on Kiryu at this point outside of his Hawaii job. Everyone knows he's alive now and has for "several days" according to Date's discussion with Kiryu. How hasn't Haruka heard? Do none of the orphans watch the news? Did they miss their crime lord dad coming back to life which would be national news considering the coverup to keep him dead in the first place?
Everything regarding Kiryu's side content feels like it's been slapped together just to make you sad and ignore thinking about anything. Komaki saw him face to face and knows he's alive. Akiyama met him and had a drink with him. Nakajima outright said he saw the video. Kashiwagi knows who he is and said so to his face in a roundabout way. Sawashiro knows who he is and that he's alive. Every single party member of Ichiban's knows who he is and his pedigree. How are the Daidoji okay with this?
Daidoji in Gaiden was tightly written. We know how strong they are, the extent of their intelligence and surveillance, their cruel ways, etc.
In 8, the Daidoji are as strong and as weak as the plot requires them to be. It's weird.
>so the main plot doesn't reflect them.
The problem is that they went out of their way to not only stagger the LLs until after Tatara's video, but they have an entire LL dedicated to talking about that having happened. You can't have Date and Kiryu directly talk about this then immediately forget it happened when it's convenient to you.
I think you're putting way too much stock in what are still basically rumors at that point of the story, it only really gets credibly confirmed at the end of Chapter 12 when he's filmed by multiple people and appears on national news. Rumors of Kiryu surviving and taking part in the Dissolution have also probably been circulating for years. His deal with the Daidoji still stands until they release him from it at the start of the finale, which again is only after he appears on national news.
Nakajima only brings it up because literally nothing else connects him and Date. Most of the other life links are people who know Date well enough that him wanting to meet doesn't appear odd and also know enough about the underworld to know most of what Tatara spouts is bullshit, so why would the Kiryu rumor be any different? Others like the Hiroshima boys immediately figure out what is going when they see Kiryu but they play along. The only outlier is Kaoru but her inclusion was probably an afterthought and only at the request of the localisation team.
>in what are still basically rumors at that point of the story
Not really. They have video footage of him speaking to Ebina with Ebina and Sawashiro both confirming his identity live on Tatara's channel. It's not rumors anymore. Chitose says Tatara Channel was massive at that point with everyone paying attention to it due to their major scoops so it has massive credibility in the public eye.
The Seiryu HQ stuff in chapter 12 just solidifies it, but Tatara's expose is already enough to pretty much show it's there.
The only list I didn't complete 100% was the body. I could not find the Paradise Bikini and I wasn't about to run that fricking dungeon for the 100th time to try to find it. I figured by the time I play it again, someone will tell me if its level 26-29 or level 36-39. But everything else was done. Including weapons. Some of which were extremely painful to get like the Dice Cane and the 100k can quest mop.
Paradise Bikini is EX only in the HH.
Safes from 31-39 can all spawn them, you're just guaranteed a safe on 34 and 39 at the end. That's why you need to check every room since some of them are safe rooms. I've got all the HH/YU armors personally so I can confirm these are all correct.
The reason I was running the last parts of HH was because I just completely stopped seeing chests that didn't have spooks popping out. I was checking though. I would blast music and just grind through all the enemies. Everyone's jobs is over 90. but I couldn't be arsed to do it anymore after 350 hours.
3 months ago
Moose
If you want to know how the safes work: >Safes with the two guys carrying it will always be an item. >Safes with the safe in the middle of a bunch of fences with paper will always be an item. >Safes with the safe in the middle of a bunch of cardboard box shelves will always be an item. >Safes where two safes are in the room in the corners will always have one safe be an item safe and one is a creep. >Safes where it's just one in a corner with another opened should always be a creep, it's always been that way for me. >Exit room safes are always safe.
Hey Moose, you had any trouble with the low level sujimon from the beginning of the game that become very rare once you go to Hawaii? Basically I'm missing two because I rushed through the beginning on both normal and legend. I know Hammered Man is in the bar district and Turncoat Titillator only appears at night but for the life of me I can't find either of them.
I'm personally still trying to get #25 who should be in the same situation you're in with Hammered Man but that's the only one I'm stuck trying to get. Besides him I only need the tier 1 Pier Reviewer somehow and the rest is story bosses.
3 months ago
Anonymous
y-yeah bro I ran those fricking dungeons so many times, but the problem is the RNG. I stopped getting chests. Almost every time I ran the dungeons looking for items, I couldn't find hardly any chests. The only ones that were there had spooks.
3 months ago
Moose
Really? Every time I ran even five floors I'd get bare minimum at least two rooms that had at least one with an item. Man, sorry you're having such trouble. If you don't get lucky that's what, 15 minutes per safe check?
3 months ago
Anonymous
thus, why I did not complete the body list. If I had known Paradise Bikini was in the EX section, I probably would have powered through it.
3 months ago
Moose
Well, you can think of it this way, you still need 10 of the Riverie Shoes, right? They're the best soes for everyone after all. Or did you already grind that out?
3 months ago
Anonymous
I had like 30 pairs, so I have enough for everyone, sold the rest.
3 months ago
Anonymous
thus, why I did not complete the body list. If I had known Paradise Bikini was in the EX section, I probably would have powered through it.
If you ever feel like getting it again, know that you can hug the walls and run past most enemies in dungeons. Or walk around them if their sole viewcone is not facing the door. Go straight to HH B34 if you only need the armor.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Now I'm waiting on Yokoyama's big 2024 announcement. Hoping for more Gaiden games or a new spinoff or a new Judgment. Gonna be interesting to see where they go from here.
3 months ago
Moose
Akiyama Gaiden feels way too likely after the Life Link. He was hinting at way too much going on in his life and that doesn't feel like something they'd just throw out there.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I felt the same, and also during Adachi's sexy date with Ichiban they casually talk about Okinawa, of all places given they're in Hawaii. Idk, I'm not holding my breath for any of it because RGG likes to tease.
3 months ago
Anonymous
How long ago was this posted? it could just be that Monkey Ball game where it still seems they have no idea what people liked about the first two.
3 months ago
Anonymous
The tweet is december 29th, 2023, I saw it originally some time around then as well. so not too long ago. He was speaking in the context of talking up IW, so it would be weird to say they have an announcement and it not be LAD related.
3 months ago
Anonymous
btw, I do not want to wait four years for more LAD games. plz. A game every 3 months would work for me, thank you.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Hey Moose, you had any trouble with the low level sujimon from the beginning of the game that become very rare once you go to Hawaii? Basically I'm missing two because I rushed through the beginning on both normal and legend. I know Hammered Man is in the bar district and Turncoat Titillator only appears at night but for the life of me I can't find either of them.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Hammered Man shows up randomly on Carriage Highway north of the large gated building. TT shows up north of restaurant row on Ijin street, in the far north east corner. grind around those areas and you'll find them.
3 months ago
Anonymous
i'll give it another go, thank you.
3 months ago
Anonymous
HH EX sector Safes spawn on 34 and 39 only. At least one on those floors, sometimes 2 and 1 creep.
3 months ago
Moose
>Old lady.
If these are what a mid-50 year old woman is in the RGG universe send me right at them. I will be the Yamai of RGG GILFs. She's ready to pop out a dozen kids and ask for more, what kind of vampires are these people?
HH EX has the cardboard box shelves spawn as well as the dual safe room. The fence and the oiled up guy safes are in YU.
3 months ago
Anonymous
They are just lazy as frick and use the same old female models from the old games.
EXP? Get to the final chapter and bump into any of the flashy Yakuza (Silver suits). They give like 2-3K exp a fight and by endgame you should be able to kill like 10 before having to run over to Doc Emoto.
Money? It's the same method as 1 and 2. Save, go to the Dragon Palace, go to roulette, bet on 1-18 and every single overlap for the highest amount, and then reload until you win. Start off on 1-6 with overlaps or try to win 0/00 and then work your way up.
If you're fine with glitches then anything you buy from the mahjong point shop won't cost you any tags if you go over to Ebisu straight from it and sell the items you just bought.
I always fricking hated whenever Kiryu would have a unique outfit for a game, like in 3 or 5, and then he changes back into the old suit at some point.
8 was the only time where I felt that moment was earned.
In fact, it's so good that it makes me retroactively hate that he wore it again for the boss fight in 7, so the moment in 8 wasn't the first time he wore it for real again since "dying".
They should make a SOL Yakuza game where there's no major villain or series plot going on and all the story stuff is just the characters hanging out and there's still combat and stuff but it's just thugs on the sides of the street and optional dungeons and substories and stuff.
How do I reduce stuttering in this game? DLAA is pretty blurry but looks halfway decent but I still get stutters. DLSS removes almost all the stutters but turns the game into a total blur fest, especially the hair.
>Be able to lift 500 lbs worth of equipment >Drink 30 bottles of alcohol and smoke 50 packs of cigarettes an hour >Look exactly like Kiryu Kazuma >Have Takaya Kuroda's voice
Aquanaut. >Amazingly versatile moves. >Its ultimate weapon means you can guarantee a 3500+ damage Essence of Friendship on every single enemy with all the free buffs that come from that, and if you're not Ichiban it's still beyond busted that you gain a buff for every single physical attack as long as you're at max HP. >Its 7* armor means you can ignore all resistances allowing you to always hit for neutral damage even if the enemy resists Frost damage, and this also carries over to the Poundmates so no one can resist anything. >Essence of Showboating gets even stronger when it's already the best Essence to share between every male party member. >Essence of Surf Twister when you just have to give an entire group of enemies the middle finger. >If you carry over Wild Sweep from Desperado you now have an even more broken physical sweeper.
What's that? You want to Relentless Dragon's Dance to add even more insult to injury? Don't mind if I do.
Dokodokodko
Once you get to five stars you will never get downgraded, so get to 5 stars and then you can demolish everything and build whatever the frick you want.
>finished Dondoko story, just have to get the 100 guests for the cheevo >leave the game running in the background, decide to test if you can just end the day halfway in >go in, nope, leave >trigger a cutscene where I unlock upgrading the house
what the frick
I never would have gotten this naturally, What were they thinking?
>I never would have gotten this naturally
You would have if you read the tooltips. They said that you can go in in the evening if you want to turn in early and night forces you to, not to mention they expect you at multiple times to upgrade your house even outright stating in the final fight that you should place some stuff inside.
Lad, did you read my post? I'm astonished that they locked a mechanic behind going into the house before the evening, which is something you would never do naturally.
Yes, I did, and I'm saying they expected you to at some point go inside to place stuff into it during your time there. The best time to edit your house would be during the day because if you needed to craft something you'd be able to run out and gather your items without worry of time being up like you do at night. That's their thought process.
Did you truly 100% the list? As in, get one of every piece of equipment? The list only requires x % of collectibles but the detailed checklist view still tracks all available items. I'm still missing like 10 CDs and a couple weapons you can only get from prize point exchanges plus a few party chats.
The only list I didn't complete 100% was the body. I could not find the Paradise Bikini and I wasn't about to run that fricking dungeon for the 100th time to try to find it. I figured by the time I play it again, someone will tell me if its level 26-29 or level 36-39. But everything else was done. Including weapons. Some of which were extremely painful to get like the Dice Cane and the 100k can quest mop.
I have it but I have no idea which floor I got it from. I'm also missing like two of the job body armors but I do have 15 duplicates of the Kunoichi armor.
yeah the rng is obviously broken. I've read a lot of comments to that effect. I have 40 copies of some shit that was in every single chest in the entire dungeon but some people still can't find the ones I have.
>I don't know what to do now
Actually 100% the lists if you haven't. Do all 80 raids, get all the weapons in every category, get all the armor in every category, get all 53 CDs, etc. This means lucking into the drops on Sectors 1 and 2 of both the HH and YU and Sector 3 of the HH but it's pretty easy to do that as there's only three or so per floor.
> 100% unfinished business
How many hours of playtime do you have? I finished the game at the 44% mark. Must have been one huge grind.
I'm getting close and I'm at 180 hours currently. Only need a couple weapons for Hitman, 200 kills in DoD, 100 more kills in Rush, have to call in 8 more Poundmates when I have the disposable income, and then Table Talks across both Ichiban and Kiryu since I'm waiting on PA. Otherwise I have 100% on both lists. So 190-200 hours seems about right, on par with 5, a bit more than 7 if you count a NG+ run as part of the 100%.
I did all the aloha links my first run, turning all but 3 pink. I got all of the Sujimon, which took 707 rolls to get one of the last sujimon. I did every list except body, missing the paradise bikini. I know it's in Hawaii Haunt but I refrickingfuse to go through it again. I did it all or near enough.
I balked at needing to do every mahjong parlor across 3 cities, especially when there's no cheat items.
Also that arcade progress doesn't carry over between characters. This game is already a huge time sink just getting all achievements.
I did get it all for Gaiden, though.
The expectations for Gaiden weren't very high. They outright said it'd be a short game, and it's sandwiched between 6 and 7, not a lot of suspense since you know a lot of what's gonna happen.
What we got instead was a surprisingly good set of new characters, the Daidoji faction were intriguing, excellent gameplay and sidecontent, and one of the most emotional endings in the series.
Then you've got the total opposite with Infinite Wealth, a huge game years in development in which the new characters on average aren't as good, the story shits itself halfway into it, the Daidoji are a bunch of inconsistently written jobbers, Ichiban's character didn't develop much and the gameplay is better than 7's but still wears out its welcome kind of quickly,
Oh my PC can run the DE games at High/Ultra just fine, I just don't care to play on PC. This is a console series so I play it on console. PC is for triple dipping for mods.
Come to think of it, do the PS versions still use the clunky Playstation save interface? I was playing 5 on PS4 when 6 was announced for PC, so I jumped ship.
no but I wish it did they have their own save screen now and it always defaults the highlight on a new slot so if you're mashing you will accidentally create a new save. I have seven slots now and you can't delete them.
>I have seven slots now and you can't delete them.
Go to Application Save Data -> Delete Save Data off PS4 -> Pick the game and the slots. You can delete them it's just you have to jump through hoops.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm on PS5, when I checked it was all grouped together into one entry in the save settings menu, I couldn't figure out how to delete an individual save slot.
3 months ago
Moose
I guess they must have changed it for the PS5 version then. For the PS4 version it's got them individually.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, for PS4 games there’s an expand button next to the game name and you can still do that, but for PS5 games that isn’t there so if the game doesn’t let you manage saves you’re boned.
3 months ago
Anonymous
This thingy’s missing.
3 months ago
Moose
This thingy’s missing.
Shame. I could have sworn I saw such an option on a couple of my PS5 games but maybe I'm thinking of add-ons and not saves. I guess if you happen to pay for PS+ maybe it'll let you upload them individually then download it all back? Just an idea.
3 months ago
Anonymous
It uses the same interface unfortunately. Maybe they'll patch in a delete save function while the launch support is still going but I won't hold my breath.
3 months ago
Anonymous
You can delete individual saves on ps5, I did that a few days ago, you have to select the entire folder and somehow I managed to select individual saves
What chapter do I go back to playing Ichiban. I never played any of the previous Yakuza games just 7 and 8. Well I did finish 0 but I didn't retain much of it. I'm sick of Kiryu
I'm debating if I want to replay 1 Kiwami or 5 since I feel like I didn't give those games a fair shot. 2 Kiwami is also on the map at some point, but that's more for a Silly Mod playthrough and I'll wait when it goes on sale.
You're right, I'll go ahead and do 5 again. I remember doing a good chunk of stuff, but I was so burnt out of it at the end (did the mistake of doing the 3-4-5 marathon) that I didn't even get to Amon and I just kinda rushed through Shinada's part, so I'll go through and finish it again (though I'll probably skip most of the cutscenes because I'm not sitting through 2 consecutive hours of cutscenes on Saejima's part again).
I think Yong did a decent job, but Kuroda will always be better. Even if Daryl remained Kiryu’s English VA, no one can top Kuroda.
That said, my main issue with the sub is Bryce’s Engrish. I wish there was a Tekken-like option where everyone speaks their native language, but they understand each other.
Oh, I get it, Infinite Wealth’s theme is about rehabilitation vs punishment, it’s why Ichiban was willing to forgive Eiji and have him atone for his sins in peace instead of throwing him to the wolves.
It's about forgiveness, Ichiban forgives Eji hoping that Saeko would finally forgive him too so they can get married, while Kiryu hopes Ebina could forgive the Yakuza so he can in turn forgive himself and get married to chemo treatment, then you have Yamai meeting his old crush looking to get married only find out that she has severe forgetfulness not forgiveness someone mixed up those words.
>evil female
The wife of Yamai’s patriarch suffered bankruptcy because of her scheme, and even worse, she got Alzheimer’s. Nothing cures it, you can ask Yagami on that one. >cheeto
She’s not a villain? She was blackmailed into doing Eiji’s and Ebina’s bidding, but Ichiban’s kindness gave her the bravery she needed to go against the threats and reveal her own identity anyway. She sacrificed Tatara Hisoka, her own persona that she developed to cope with the isolation and loneliness, as in she figuratively sacrificed “herself”.
What's the strongest essence or skill on the female side to spam? I've been running a breaker alongside chitose and her armor is giving infinite MP from the buffs.
Bubble Bale if you want magic, Night Queen's 50 MP spin if you want physical.
For Essences I believe Tennis Ace's second one was worth it if you're looking for an attack one? Realistically it's better to just have the girls with healing Essences since they work really well in support roles. Geodancer's typhoon thing is decent as an Essence.
>Saeko: “Ichiban, you literally nutted in me, it’s our fricking kid.” >Ichiban: “Nah, who’s to say he’s my kid or not? I have no idea, and I don’t really care, it makes no difference to me. I have a son, and his name is Jiro Kasuga.”
>Ichiban, I've worn a chasity belt for 9 months before you nutted in me, took it off once to have sex with you, and put it back on until I gave birth. It's a special kind that is unpickable and undestroyable, and look, I have taken a picture of the lock everyday and there is no sign of tempering. There is simply no way this isn't your kid! >scene transitions to a smug older japanese politician who has a lockpick on his desk, alongside a note with "Experimental lockpick" written on it
>"Whatever Jiro is my son or not... I'll raise him like a proper father would... Just like how my father, Jiro Kasuga did... He was my real father..." >it's revealed the Japanese politician (post bossfight, he commits suicide later just from the sound of Date's helicopter) didn't use the lockpick >Ichiban had an experimental rubber condoms to stop him from shooting bullets >Comedy scene where Ichiban said he didn't have it equipped because he hit "optimize" in his "inventory" so it took it off
Title drop.
I want a Watase Gaiden since he’s a rather interesting character and present an opportunity to know what he did after his security company went bankrupt, but knowing RGG, Akiyama Gaiden is far more likely.
Basing off "yakuza 4/gaiden all cutscenes" video, both yakuza 4 and gaiden have 10 hours of cutscenes (including text boxes for both, gaiden has some gameplay), other videos have 4 at 5 hours, and gaiden at 6.
Based on the 10 hour videos, Akiyama's part ends around 3 hours in, and he does not show up again until 5 hours later, where he shares the last 2 hours with everyone else. So we'll say 3 hours (that's counting textbox as voiced) + 1 hour of random voices (combat lines and the like) + 30 minutes (1/4 of the remaining hours), and he's still short 1h30 of Gaiden's shortest "all cutscenes" video.
It sucks that Gaiden is essentially an afterthought in terms of the overall plot. Its continuity with Yakuza 7 and 8 is heavily severed by the lack of continuity.
Kiryu doesn’t get referred to as Joryu, Kiryu doesn’t ask Ichiban to refer to him as “Taichi Suzuki” around people other than Ichiban himself and maybe Seonhee since she already knows who he is, Kiryu shrugs when Hanawa dies, Hanawa dies for no good reason and is treated like a pencil pusher who doesn’t know how to fight, so on and so forth.
Gaiden was written after Infinite Wealth so I imagine the Daidoji and whoever “the Boss” is will be the villains in 9 and will take their anger out on Ichiban for costing them their two best agents. I also don’t think Hanawa is really dead either.
Emily sucked, Tsukino sucked, Minato was cute but way too autistic and reliant on Yagooner and I don't even remember the last one. Amane and her voluptuous body should've come back instead.
Ichiban should’ve been, at most, 34 years old in yakuza 7.
>born in 1985, so he’s 34 in Yakuza 7’s time period and 39 in Yakuza 8’s time period >arrested in the NYE of 2005, so he gets one last look at his childhood home soapland before Majima wrecks it at the end of the same year >still relates to Adachi’s boomer nostalgia because he grew up watching old movies and playing old games on retro consoles that his adoptive dad (Jiro Kasuga) gifted him
Why did the story take such a nose dive after Chapter 8? They did so much right before that. Why can't they just get a good story writer to go with their good character writing?
Because Ichiban already figured out the big bad of Hawaii early. Usually, in previous games, this reveal is reserved to the penultimate chapter, hence why his later chapters feel stagnant, and time needs to be made for the Japan big bad + Kiryu’s reflections on his own life.
I hate how modern games are rated solely on how much specific game wastes your time.
"Oh, this game forces me to do shit I already did in the previous game for 2 hours, and then do the same sub-stories but instead of ice-cream there is lemonade! Surely this is the best game ever!" - repeat for 120 hours because of some arbitrary bullshit 100% completion checklist grind instead of actually having fun and playing solely for the gameplay.
if you’re referring to textboses. i was dissapointed that yakuza 6 tried getting rid of textboxes for seamless cutscene-like NOT text boxes. i remember with the ps3 game i would listen to ALL the dialog before progressing, however DE games have ruined this for me with the psuedo-cutscene shit they added, so now i just skip mid-sentence in their dialog.
I know they did. And the change in animations between 7 and 8 imply that he got really good at using it. But every time we get a glimpse of how the fight is going outside of his fantasy, he's fighting with his fists and most of the times he's getting his ass kicked.
Don't think too much about it. Most of the things in modern yakuza are le epic maymay reference without too much thought put into it. The whole bat shit and his so called "schizophrenia" is just a minor reference to dragon quest, just like the trashcan enemies and few other types are a reference to some DQ specific enemy types.
If you do thunk about it, the game is implying that Kiryu needed a hit to the head and probably whatever opioids he's taking for cancer to reach the same level of schizovision as Ichiban.
So to complete the substory from ounabara you need to gift the desk girl stuff. Is there any reason to gift other characters like Miss Match, Juliet or Bartender? What do I get from them?
kek I now did desk girl, miss Match and Alo-Happy. Poor Ichiban can't take a rest. Am I the only one who got weirdly aroused from Alo-Happy girl? Her voice does something to me bros...
>yakuza 9 finally drops, freelancer and hero are merged into one job where they work like dragon of dojima, with your set of skills changing completely depending on which style you're using as a new feature
if only
In general I really hope they just merge Freelancer and Hero at this point. Freelancer feels redundant and in both 7 and 8 its only real good move is Release German Suplex.
>Freelancer as an offensive style, uses Ichi’s wrestling and Asakura’s MMA, very good at breaking guards, single-target damage and applying debuffs >Hero as a defensive/support style, has the buff skills, good AoE and an enhanced perfect guard with the bat
i wish we had more over the top boss fights like that, the squid, and the crane operators i just kinda want them to go full schizo im surprised they held back so much this game
Actually, I’m glad this game still has ridiculous moments but is still a lot more brutal. The Barracudas gutting the homeless pickpocket and Roman firmly cemented them in my mind as a threat, and Dwight was menacing. Too bad he, uh, becomes a literal piss stain and a joke after the fight.
>>Too bad he, uh, becomes a literal piss stain and a joke after the fight. >Tries to be menacing multiple times after. >Doesn't work and just comes off as a patsy for someone else.
Yeah, I had no respect for him whatsoever. Wong had a backbone and was always planning on toppling Bryce, despite Bryce being a 4D chess grandmaster who puts Kurosawa’s keikaku to shame.
Dwight, though? Nothing more than a pawn, always listening to Bryce’s orders until it became obvious he’ll be killed for failing a third time. I felt zero emotion when the shark ate him.
What a disingenous c**t, hiding behind RGGs sales and scores. Even if you ignore the dogshit localizations these games have gotten recently, there are at least 3 typos per chapter in Gaiden when I can count on one hand how many there were in the frickhuge script of Y5. But at least on top of that now you get the privilige to pay for content that used to be included for free.
>went back to Gaiden >colors and graphics and character models are so much better >combat feels crisp >side activities are just right and not overwhelming >secret agent Kiry- er, “Joryu” feels more immersive to control than Ichiban
Man, I love Gaiden so much. I also love Infinite Wealth, but Gaiden really scratched that yakuza itch for me.
>oh there's a new dungeon in Yokohoma lets try it out >end up clearing everything and get out overleved rich as frick with a bunch of class exclusive end game equipment >mog Sawashiro in under a minute
Oops
Adachi having fantastic physique at his age is both a motivator and a demotivator for me. I’m still in my 20’s and I go to the gym, but I half-ass my efforts for poor reasons like “my stomach hurts” or “my knees are sore”.
Think if it happened to Chitose or any of the other female party members it would've gone over as well?
She can take it, she can take on the world.
Saving the yakuza bread.
I finished the story a few days ago, and I’m currently tackling Dondoko. I was right in guessing it would’ve eaten a huge chunk of my time and is better reserved for premium adventure, it’s strangely addictive.
idk, it's fun the first time through but it becomes stale once you're done with the campaign, plus online is mostly the same minmax urban hellscape. Same with Sujimans.
Eh, that’s how it is with every Yakuza series minigame, unfortunately. After their dedicated storyline is completed, it’s simply no longer as engaging as before.
With that said, integrating Sujimon with Dondoko was a smart decision.
>integrating Sujimon with Dondoko was a smart decision.
I don't understand why they have to pause the farm when you exit the island. Seemed like the perfect place to make use of your high-friendship but weaker Sujimon.
Wait, really? Guess it’s to prevent exploits or bugs, but that’s a disappointment. I was willing to build a Sujimon team based on my favorite designs, because the Kiwami and Gold Sujimon are just too over the top.
Have you done Joker's gym yet? Sodachi and 2(or 3?) other Silvers can be promoted to their Gold-rank Murderous Heat forms They'll still be outclassed by Kiwami/DLC ones, and you kinda need the Kiwamis if you're ever using Sujimancer in late game.
Sujimancer is pretty unusable even with all the Kiwamis. Honestly what a waste of a class that should've been cool.
Oh, I’ve done literally everything related to Sujimon, but I genuinely don’t like how the Kiwami Sujimon look. I miss having the Silver Sujimon team because they have unique designs.
those are trash fighters bro
It becomes complete garbage once you realize decorating your town how you want it is unviable. You need to plop down the highest value buildings in all three sections you're gonna use and that's it. Actually decorating anything means your guests are going to the low value items, meaning they become less happy, meaning you get worse ratings from them at the end. It's better to stick a statue that's like 16x20 and gives one of the stats than use 1x1 objects 16 times. You also have to dedicate a part of the island just to the passive buildings so it becomes a dumping ground for your stuff.
I mean, everything Kiryu talks about during it makes no sense because he implies the Amon are after him for besmirching their name when they're after him because he's the only one to have ever survived an assassination attempt. It's a half truth. It also makes zero sense because Shin was working with him in 7 but now Jo hates him again in 8? Why does Jo look like Shin? Are they gonna stalk him outside of his hospital bed to kill him since they won't let cancer do it? Jo had autism and refused to let Kiryu die after he realized he still had it in him so what happens after everything later in the game? Is he gonna pull a Daidoji and have Amon agents sitting outside the orphanage to pick him off?
> It becomes complete garbage once you realize decorating your town how you want it is unviable. You need to plop down the highest value buildings in all three sections you're gonna use and that's it.
Aw man, really? I thought people making mini-Kamurocho for their islands was just an account for their shit taste, but this paints a much clearer picture. The fact all the rich guests demand “extremely sleazy/elegant/rustic” should’ve made it obvious to me.
I’m only 3-stars now, but I had plans to make the top part sleazy/elegant, bottom part rustic/pop. Now I’m not sure if I can make it work.
While what he said is true, I just decorated my island however the frick I wanted throughout the whole thing and never had a guest leave unsatisfied once. I'm pretty sure you can do your thing and be completely fine
do you still need to buy campfires and souvenirs to get S rank guests to be fully satisfied?
No. You don't need to even "Aloha" them unless you want to. Campfires will make it a bit more reliable if you've got a spotty area on the map you have people on.
how is your resort setup? do you spam satisfaction displays by sections or mix them up?
Am I dumb for putting on too many high ranked buildings on one section? Like I put like two carbarets and love hotels near each other
Doesn't matter as long as you meet the theme requirements and satisfaction metric. Interactable furnishings you put along road is only for maximizing passive guest happiness or income gains. (which is obsolete by chapter 8 or so anyway)
You just need to meet the sleazy/elegant/rustic/pop metrics to satisfy the guests. The layout doesn't matter. If you haven't reach the style requirement, then plop some statues or benches with the "satisfaction UP" tag. The style doesn't matter, your guests will still use them to jerk off themselves to satisfaction.
I wanted extra income for my maxed island so mine only has "dokobucks UP" furnishings connected to the road. Not optimal because you still need the campfire to bring S-rank guests to full satisfaction levels.
Does it really not matter? I’ve popped some guests in the relatively barren northern area that just has four buildings, and the remaining guests were placed in the southern area that’s full to the brim with satisfaction/dondoko bucks items, and I can tell the north guests are slightly less satisfied than the south, but they’re still happy by checkout time.
Guess I’ll just put some more satisfaction furniture around.
Most buildings seem to only have a slot for 1 user at a time, so if you want them to jerk off OR spend money then the ideal is to spam small statues OR vending machines respectively along the road. At least 1 for each guest in the area, they don't seem to like crossing areas.
Look at the minimap, these sheeple would rather line up at the vending machines next to their cabin all day than explore elsewhere on the island.
> Most buildings seem to only have a slot for 1 user at a time
So I’ve been crafting these huge buildings that hog up tons of space for no reason?? I thought bigger = more customers, but I’m not surprised.
They give a lot of Satisfaction, as in the number beside the green heart at the top
and also boost the style it's under so you'll still want to craft them. It's just that they aren't that optimal for your guests to interact with so you may want to cordon them off the path, into your island's own District Five.
The big buildings give enormous Satisfaction and Popularity when used.
I don't see why you'd use the vending machines or statues. The benefit you gain from them is extremely low and compared to a building it's night and day. Not to mention everyone just wanders off to the next open building so having them walk like two feet to gain 5x the benefit seems like a better deal than having them constantly occupying vending machines and statues.
You mixing up the "Satisfaction" stat and the guest "Satisfaction" or rather their happiness, i.e. the 🙂 🙁 face icon.
The stat along with popularity is needed to progress the island which is why you craft them. It does not affect the happiness of the guests directly.
Happiness is increased when the guest uses the furnishing, you'll see a message saying "guest was satisfied with XXX" and is equivalent to your daily greeting/gifting. As far as I can tell, the happiness/money gain from a small statue is equivalent to a large building regardless of the furnishing's stats. This means you can get the same Happiness (or money) with less path space using smaller furnishings. Less paths = more space to squeeze in your commieblocks = more stats without diminishing your guests' happiness.
Yeah, that's what I mean. As far as I could tell the big buildings net you more than the smaller objects. It seems to take it from your island rating paired with the object they're interacting with. I have a bunch of cars and the gold statues lined up next to each other and the people I stick in that region tend to underperform compared to people by the entrance who will be maxed out just from buildings like half a day before the guys where I have cars and statues.
>cars and statues.
.....did you join the length of the cars against the road? They are about the length as smaller buildings and are also 1 slot, so.
I have them vertically so they're basically 3x6 or whatever it is with the front facing the road. People will stop by them then walk like two feet to see another one and repeat with everything along that road. It's still worse than putting a handful of buildings next to each other from my experience, I just did it because I couldn't fit buildings in that area.
Well it works with Gachapin/Mukku statue spams. No surprise that nipponese don't like cars.
That's the thing, they're also along with the statues because they occupy more or less the same amount of width. The Majima/Ichiban/Kiryu/Gachapin/Mukku statues all gain points, but it still doesn't seem as much as someone wandering from one building to another.
>but I had plans to make the top part sleazy/elegant, bottom part rustic/pop. Now I’m not sure if I can make it work.
Unless you stick people who just want those attributes in those areas it isn't gonna work, and even if they prefer something they still go to other buildings. It's really really hard to piss a guest off so much that they're not at least tier 2 unless you intentionally stick them in an area with nothing in it.
The guests won't leave unsatisfied but you're not gonna max them out unless you're making commieblocks meaning less Dokobucks in the end along with less EXP for that character.
Just stick to one theme and max it out to the highest building ranks put them down with pop up signs get lvl5 and never go back to dumpdoodoo island.
a bit late but anyway:
he is right in some ways, the fastest and easiest way to upgrade your island is to shove big smile burger tier building and chain kamurocho arc entrances, but you have 3 giant places to build an most people barely use one for efficiency, if you build however you want you can, it would just take more than 20 days to max it out
> but I had plans to make the top part sleazy/elegant, bottom part rustic/pop. Now I’m not sure if I can make it work.
it's not a matter of "balance" or anything, each category has a cap and raising one won't reduce the other, you'll be fine.
If you want to build it in a specific non-meta way, feel free to do so
Etika
Adachi’s Arrest move is busted, it’s guaranteed to work on every non-boss enemy.
What does it do? I never used Adachi
Instantly KOs enemies.
Yuki is 59 years old, but hasn't aged at all
i platinumed the game and didnt know these were a thing. oops
I'm stuck on a LaD fight and I really, really, really, really, really don't want to leave and grind up stats for hours. turn based gameplay was a mistake and i hate that it exists
I'm surprised that they don't give you something that deletes the difficulty if you aren't feeling it like an inventory full of heath and heat potions does in the brawler games
Which one? Kiryu? Final tower?
Naw, the 'original' Like a Dragon.
The Koreans are burning down their counterfeiting operation, and I'm fighting against Nanba for the first time. I've pretty thoroughly burned myself out on the sidequests up to this point anyway, so facing the prospect of grinding my face against hordes of street gangs for an hour or so isn't very pleasant.
Recruit Eri and use her OP aoe attack to clear trash, and change Saeko to Idol for its aoe heal.
If you really need to level, get the job exp accessories and do a quick clear of the first floor of the underground dungeon. Don't try to grind street mobs.
Wait till you fight THEM for the first time.
I'm at chapter 8 trying to get Kiryu awakened and it's taking forever.
Also is there a dungeon for yokohama and kamurocho?
Awakening Kiryu is easy, just progress the story.
And yes, there’s a dungeon in Yokohama. Kamurocho doesn’t have any dungeon, but it does have crown bosses, the Keepers of the City.
Is the combat in this any good? I didn't have a problem with the series going turn based, but I do think 7 just had bad turn based combat.
The new positioning feature is quite fun
It's miles and miles better than 7 with far better balancing. The main issue now is you become overpowered so quickly that if you even breathe in the direction of side content you'll be overleveled despite all the rewards being for lower levels and completely useless at higher levels.
Combat is a direct upgrade in every sense of the word. Characters were “rebalanced”, some were made useful and some were made… less useful.
Does it matter if guests are dissatisfied if you're already post game and don't care about money?
Dunno. It's hard to have dissatisfied guests post game, the most are S-rank guests being happy but not overjoyed. For all other tier guests, putting them in S-rank lodgings already gives them a daily boost.
My ISP still banned from posting images.
im always range banned even if i don't post anything so when ip gets changes i try to get the ban before my neighboors do
Looks like 8's already dropped to $40 on consoles. Amazon has physicals for that much.
What song plays during the first Yokohama battle with Kiryu? The one where he becomes schizo like Ichiban.
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This track was really good, was a little disappointed when I found out it wasn't the main battle theme
Thanks. Seems like a waste to make these song for it to only be heard once or twice throughout the game.
they are notorious for doing this throughout the series, see interplanetary spark from Y0. it's somewhat a consequence of having a frickton of great tracks every single game, some are unfortunately going to get left out of the spotlight
Doesn’t this play during the Barracuda fight on Yamai’s territory, or am I mistaken?
Yeah, and a battle with some Seiryu members.
Right… Seiryu Clan. I’m still confused as to why the Japanese populace and media are so braindead they fall for obviously fake and suspicious stories.
>“We good yakuza, they bad yakuza. We become big so we disband, which is why we good, but they already big and also already disband, which is why they bad. Upboats to the left. Also, we will bring back nuclear power and already did secret meetings with the government, kthxbai.”
Maybe Yokoyama just hates streamers and sees them as nothing more than virtual vultures and leeches, which is made obvious by the ending cutscene.
Bro... kson??
An exception was made for her because:
A) her presence attracts more fans to Yakuza
B) she is a massive fan girl of the series
It’s why RGG promoted the game through fricking xQc of all people just because he’s a popular streamer who hasn’t touched the series before.
>Maybe Yokoyama just hates streamers
lol no look at how happy he was here.
Ichiban will befriend Ryuji in RGG9.
here me out
sawashiro as a party member
I have a concerning amount of Chitose screenshots, but it still doesn't compare to how many Amasawa screenshots I have saved.
My kyoudai
Lost Judgment? More like I want to **** Amasawa simulator
Night Queen or Assassin for Seonhee? I can craft the ultimate weapon for both but I can't decide
Housekeeper or Geodancer. If you absolutely have to use a physical class then use Night Queen, but there's no reason not to put Seonhee and Chitose as one of those two.
You sure? Assassin has an interesting weapon. Applies cold and charm. Looks much better than NQueen's?
Night Queen's stats are better in terms of damage, its ultimate weapon can instakill the lower their health is (Assuming they're not immune to Death), and its ultimate outfit grants you MP on a kill while also giving you +20 ATK. I believe Seonhee's exclusive outfit gives AGI on kills so that would probably be better. Sure, Assassin gives her more AGI but its moveset is complete trash in comparison to Night Queen and several skills require you to be behind an enemy to even gain full advantage of said moves. Night Queen also has good ranged attacks and mobbing attacks in addition to charm capabilities from her best moves.
I would still advise you to opt for Housekeeper or Geodancer though. Bubble Bale is absurdly good, the ultimate weapons and stats buff magic damage even higher, and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
Saeko is bench fodder due to her AGI and 90% of the time the girls are doing one of four things:
>Bubble Bale
>Scum Scraper
>Noisy Racket
>Substitution Jutsu
I don't see why you'd use Saeko at all once you're in PA for example. Prior to PA she's "The second girl" so it makes sense at least.
>I would still advise you to opt for Housekeeper or Geodancer though. Bubble Bale is absurdly good, the ultimate weapons and stats buff magic damage even higher, and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
I already use cheetos and saeko as geodancers.
>and the AGI both Seonhee and Chitose have is absurd.
That's why you have Seonhee as a kunoichi or tennis ace for max AGI and substitution prostitution, you dumb dumb.
Why use two subpar bubble bales when Geodancer Saeko can wipe the floor with just one?
Use either depending on whether attack or magic is higher, though Scum Scraper is also a grapple and many female jobs don't have one.
Saeko as barmaid with her ultimate weapon upgraded with crit damage up, blunt damage greatly up, and blunt damage up does ungodly amounts of damage with israeliteel breaker.
Moose is an autist who literally and unironically cannot remember how to have fun. If you follow his advice you'll end up optimising the fun out of the game, which is at no point ever hard enough to justify doing that.
Moose-kun, no way, Geodancer and Housekeeper are better for the other two. Seonhee is more speed oriented, so wasting her on the magic/healing jobs is a colossal waste.
>Seonhee is more speed oriented
Yes, that's the point. Getting two Bubble Bales off before anyone can even move is worth far more to a general encounter than something like Spinning Queen. Then when you get to the 1v1s Grand Slam, Wicked Wall Drills, or Rapid-Fire Rally are fine, but you can also just pass that off to Ichiban (Who is in Aquanaut to ignore all resistances), Zhao (Who is in Gangster to ignore all resistances), or Kiryu (Who will outdamage any of the girls in physical attacks in Action Star or Desperado).
There's no real situation where keeping the girls in a physical moveset is worth it because all their best movesets are magic-oriented. Kunoichi is Musician but not as bad, Assassin's moves and spread are so-so, Night Queen is a good damage dealer but you're dealing less than their magic moves. It just doesn't make sense. Chitose and Seonhee are already moving multiple turns as it is.
Then make her a Housekeeper.
>Ichiban
Aquanaut is indeed very good, but I’ll say that it’s still fine to keep him in Hero because his fully upgraded weapon still deals tons of damage AND applies to all blunt skills.
>Seonhee
I have her in Assassin or Kunoichi. With the ultimate Assassin weapon branded to increase success of restrictive status, charm and paralysis are MUCH more likely to occur. Or, you could go with the buff + substitution build for Kunoichi to make Kiryu and Zhao sweep everyone.
I gave Seonhee all the magic skills in Housemaid since she’s always the first to move, and she can immediately remove the enemy’s buffs.
>Kiryu
>anything other than DoD
Dude, no, the style switching lets you deal a frick ton of damage. Nothing compares to Beast’s back attack.
All male characters exclusively use Essence of Showboating.
Sonhee is best suited for assassin or night qween
Tennis Ace if you have the DLC.
Saeko is the better Geodancer. Maybe housekeeper since Seonhee has the only elec magic skill on the female side.
Assassin. Try getting Kunoichi as well, it’s absolutely busted when paired with her unique armor.
Assassin has a ridiculously broken skill electric skillset that's worth leveling to get the skills for that alone.
Can you guys just post the hot girls already
women are just substitution jutsu slaves
you guys actually use the women to fight? for me they are speedmaxxed constantly just feeding turns with substitution
Scum Scrubber + Debuffs + Healing + the Kiwami Skill for Housemaid that applies Scum Scrubber to all enemies OR the Geodancer skill that heals all and removes status ailments.
What makes Scum Scraper better than Court Maintenance? Can't Court Maintenance remove debuffs from multiple enemies?
It does, but scum scraper deals heavy frost damage.
Grapple paired with the Frost element which many enemies are weak to. Blunt (Or whatever you want to call the fist) is just a neutral typing nothing is weak to. It's also extremely rare that more than one enemy is ever buffed, and when that happens it's usually some weak fodder that got crit buffed at best.
>because his fully upgraded weapon still deals tons of damage AND applies to all blunt skills.
Sure, but Aquanaut grants you a damage buff at full health which is incredibly easy to stay at and I believe a +50 deals more damage. Hero also means you can't ignore resistances because you can't wear the armor. There's just no point to be Hero because True Hero's Armor is worse than the Aquanaut outfit.
>Dude, no
You haven't used DoD enough if you're arguing this. A back attack spin at 10 Body at level 60 with a DoD over 30 is only like 600-800 damage. You will deal more damage with potential weakness exploitation with Burning Arrow, and you're not stuck dropping your AGI to the ground by going into Beast. Beast is an abysmally terrible style because of the AGI drop. This is completely ignoring that you have no ultimate weapon to work off of for passives which drops your damage further into the ground.
>That's why you have Seonhee as a kunoichi or tennis ace for max AGI and substitution prostitution
Yeah, you can do that if you want, but that's if you just want them as Substitution bawds. If you want them as usable members it's better to be using magic.
>Why use two subpar bubble bales when Geodancer Saeko can wipe the floor with just one?
Because Saeko would require you to Substitute to her since she's middle of the road in speed so she'll never go first when everyone is grouped up, and you can typically clear an entire group with a Seonhee in Geodancer or Housekeeper herself while also moving more.
>Aquanaut grants you a damage buff at full health which is incredibly easy to stay at and I believe a +50 deals more damage.
Yeah, I’m not arguing with that. It’s just that hero seems more versatile and delivers much better electric damage. I always have Tomizawa with me since the charm that the final boss drops massively boosts all magic damage, which synergizes perfectly with his unique armor that increases damage to enemy weakness. Fire Arrow becomes fricking ridiculous.
>You haven't used DoD enough if you're arguing this. A back attack spin at 10 Body at level 60 with a DoD over 30 is only like 600-800 damage.
Dude, I get over 2000 damage with it at level 60 and Body 10. I get its agility is bad and I can’t parry with it, but the rest of the party picks up the slack in the rare occasion Kiryu doesn’t do enough damage.
Moreover on Tomi: not only is his ultimate weapon ridiculously good, he trivializes everyone else if you brand it with the Blaze - Frost - Shock EX boosters. I had to make him a mortal again by having his magic crit instead, which is still ridiculous when it procs.
For a normal average joe, Tomizawa’s a GOD of magic.
>Dude, I get over 2000 damage with it at level 60 and Body 10.
How? I can go to guys 30 levels below me who are also super squishy enemy variants and not even deal that much with the +DMG. If I fight stuff in the 50s I'm only dealing 600-800 damage if I do that and also massively nerfing my AGI to unusable levels. If I use Rush I'm only dealing 400-600ish to guys 30 levels below me. If I go to DoD I'm dealing 800ish to guys 30 below me. This is with his True Dragon Outfit equipped too.
you playing new FF?
I honestly don’t know, the level 52 boss in Yokohama EX floor 5 dungeon showed me Kiryu giving him 2100-ish points of damage with a back attack Beast grapple. I’ll have to recheck later when I’m back home.
another reason why moose shouldn't be trusted on jobs in turn based
also Seonhee's assassin is amazing
>whip is amazing room cleaner
>gun coverage and single target one if used as a back attack deletes most enemies
>blade coverage
>grab
and I gave her a knockback kick from night queen for more crowd control
muh "don't use Adachi as Enforcer" motherfricker he's the tankiest character in 7, giving him that makes him even better as he can take a hit, support with items or heal with that musician skill and dish out damage
>If you want them as usable members it's better to be using magic.
Cheetos maybe, if you want her to deal damage, but she has unique value at spamming her mass agi debuff and debuff-clearing heal.
For Seonhee, you're missing out on her back attack, autocrit gun skills. That's the real reason you should have her as a physical dmg dealer, preferably Tennis Ace so you can give her all the gun brands and accessory.
Cabbie tomi carried Kasuga's finale for me, but I've since switched him to Chef for Big Swell. Chef has higher attack+magic stats and the skill dmg boost. Fusee Doozy and Cutley Crash can hit for 3k on weaknesses. Less MP and increased MP costs is becoming a minor problem though, maybe I'll switch him back.
>For Seonhee, you're missing out on her back attack, autocrit gun skills.
Which forces you to actually reach the back in the first place. Why even bother when Bubble Bale or Scum Scrubber will generally deal more damage than that without setup?
>whip is amazing room cleaner
Use Bubble Bale and deal more damage in an even larger range.
>gun coverage and single target one if used as a back attack deletes most enemies
Again, you need to position yourself to their back in the first place. Why even bother with this when the damage isn't going to be any crazier than had I used Scum Scraper? Hell, sticking Blossoming 'Uli'uli is an even better option because it's a 100% chance to hit and deals like 1500 damage, or you can go lower for the Kumu Hula Corkscrew for like 1300 and lower WIL allowing your magic to deal even more.
>blade coverage
Yeah, and how many enemies are actually weak to blades let alone something as weak as Empress Claw?
>grab
Scum Scrubber.
>muh "don't use Adachi as Enforcer" motherfricker he's the tankiest character in 7
I never said don't use Adachi as Enforcer since that is his best job, I said don't use Adachi at all. On Normal he serves no purpose because you never need to tank anything. On Legend he dies in two hits like literally every other character in the game so he can't tank anything meaning you're just gimping yourself. You will never once take advantage of that fact because you take so little damage everyone is basically a tank. As an attacker he's objectively one of the worst as any male, even Nanba, is better suited to using Enforcer than he is because they'll actually attack more than once per full moon, and Han is the best Enforcer because of his AGI.
Robo Michio Sentai. They're easier than the 1v1.
>Which forces you to actually reach the back in the first place.
It's not that hard to get a backstab, you can do it from range even with Joongi's knife version. Regardless, that's why you give her substitution prostitution so she can trade her turn when she can't backstab. You're not thinking big enough.
>Why even bother when Bubble Bale or Scum Scrubber will generally deal more damage than that without setup?
Easy 3K dmg for 15MP. 'nuff said.
>It's not that hard to get a backstab
It's a complete coin toss if guys are gonna face you or not and if you can reposition yourself. More often than not you're not gonna have access to a back.
>Easy 3K dmg for 15MP. 'nuff said.
What game are you guys playing? Seriously. This is a level 27 Assassin with an unupgraded ultimate weapon against an enemy 26 levels below me. It took four full turns passing just to actually get a position to do this at all and this was the damage. A +50 even with the gun damage buff is going to be like 300-400ish damage more which is only edging out either of Geodancer's neutral magics that require no setup at all by like 300 damage, and that's when I have no upgrades to my maracas at all.
Bro stop playing FF in a Yakuza thread, seriously.
moose is a personification of "if I don't 1 shot basic enemies then it's not worth using"
I just got back in Hawaiian ground as Ichiban on Chapter 13 and at the point of no return…how much longer do I roughly have left of playtime if I go to beat the game
Depends… how much content do you have left?
You mean Chp14? Anyway you still have Kiryu's last free time and dungeon after that.
> 142 hrs in
> only now I found out homeless racing had 2 smt V tracks
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
john judgment and raising canes were partners once
Why do Japanese actors dye their hairs so much?
>sub jutsu glory awaits x3
>nuke the field
who even needs magic lol
I'm at the last chapter. How do I fight Amon?
Yokohama Underground EX Sector. He's the final floor's boss and way easier than 7's.
> He's the final floor's boss and way easier than 7's.
He was already piss easy in 7. I basically spammed Darts Airstrike.
That was THE Amon fight for this game?
Technically THE fight was the first time you fight him since that's the hardest version of the fight but like 99% of the people wouldn't be leveled for that and NG+ isn't the same at all since you wipe him easily. But yes, that's THE Amon fight for 8. You could argue the Big Swell boss is 8's Amon equivalent I guess.
lol its beatable?
It's a pain in the ass and requires a bunch of steps to do, but yes. As you can see Saeko was only 42 and the rest of my crew was only in the very early 50s.
>You always have to have a minimum of two defense debuffs on him otherwise you only deal 1 damage.
>The fight needs to start with at least one Leaping Gazelle and you need to get more of those than punch combos throughout the fight.
>When he does buff his AGI you have to Scum Scrape it at tier 2 and 3 while ignoring it in tier 1 because it only starts being an issue in tiers 2 and 3.
>You have to regularly ignore healing party members and just hope he pivots to someone with more health, but he's also seemingly programmed to do that and you can force him to target someone by attacking him with that character.
>You need every single healing item Kashiwagi/Wesker can craft for you because they're the only way to do full party heals of HP and MP without using skills (I didn't have Geodancer at 24 on either girl yet).
>You need at least one girl to have Substitution Jutsu, preferably both.
>Both girls need to be either Kunoichi or Tennis Aces.
>One girl needs to be a Tennis Ace so you get the most out of Wicked Wall Drills as that's the best way to deal damage in that fight from my experience.
>Generally you have Nanba spamming Malodorous Stench or the girls using Noisy Racket.
>Kiryu exists only to Poundmate, heal, and attack when he doesn't need to heal.
Webm took me like three hours of attempts and over a dozen returns to Hello Work to try and formulate a plan, and in the winning run Saeko didn't have Substitution Jutsu which would have helped.
Wait, whoops, bad memory. I had Geodancer at 24 but when I tried it the full heal didn't fully heal, it only did like 750 so I scrapped that idea since I didn't have anyone's bonds at 100 to pass it over and even if I did it was better to use items.
I wonder how many people got to this part and had no idea who Amon was.
>Amon fight is now easy
Yakuza has...fallen, billions must die
this isn't the real amon fight. although to be fair the real one isn't much better. even on legend all four amons are only 96 so you can outlevel them.
He's talking about the Yokohama Underground fight, not the one I posted. The one he's talking about is the super easy fight even if you aren't even prepared for it.
Yeah that shit was easy. I think the hardest boss was robomichi x5 - died once on this homie
I actually forgot to do the ex dungeon before Ichiban's finale. Who's the boss?
Hawaii Ex sector = Robomichio Sentai
Ijincho Ex sector = Amon being a softie
Robo Michio with four other less strong class-based Michios.
OP why are you the way that you are? Stop, plz.
EVOLUTION IS A MYSTERY
FULL OF CHANGE NO-ONE SEES
worst fricking yakuza ever
the series peaked there
Best yakuza
Tanimura is the jindrak of the group
the what
>Rape builds character stats.
wait does yakuza have r*pe? I am a big fan of the series and was planning on starting my first play through of the games with 0. I might not want to if a gross topic like r*pe is not addressed. yikes.
ichiban get raped multiple times in the game
Ichiban can get viciously raped by women but it's optional side content
oh it's ok if the male get raped
jesus dude at least put some effort into it this is pitiful
> chick from exams
> babaa from alohappy
> master from revlover
who else can you gift a shit?
julie
I forgot. Who is that?
Chitose Buster Holmes
Julia from the Workshop
That old lady from dating minigame
Oooh.. tnx bro
You're right, that guy is rarely shows up and I didn't buy from him last time we met. Tnx moose
An easy way to get him to spawn is to take the taxi to Lotus St. and run to Pearl Ave and tun the length of it until you reach the weapon shop on the corner then take the taxi back and repeat.
Another way is to take that same taxi, run down Pearl Ave. to the weapon shop, then run down all of Downtown St. until you reach the SS charger, then turn around and ride back to the taxi location, go past the hotel until you reach the building, then do a 180 and repeat that route until he shows up.
You can also reload your save at the taxi but I found that way worse.
I hope it was all worth it for secret kson sex scene
The 30 minute full frontal from Kson with Kiryu monologuing about how he's loyal to Yumi was a bit much but it's surprising how much effort they put into it. I was surprised to see Kaoru pop in though.
Also I have 197/200 friends and last 3 are missing around china town section/night alley areas.. any idea?
Show a screenshot of what you're missing. You're probably missing the vendor that shows up at the top-left that sells poop and seashells since he rarely pops up, and then the other two are probably someone you only see in the morning/evening so you might just be missing them based on time.
This chilly chap is the best character in the game.
Weren't his goons in Hawaii expecting him to return?
Yeah he wants them to wait for his entire prison sentence.
>Don't die before I come back
Yea let's just forget the fact that he put a forest on fire.
so? its fricking lit
if you invite Yamai on dondoko and satisfy him enough, he apologizes for that episode tbh
really?
_No
Is there like an actual dialog happening or does he say that in passing? I play the subbed version so I might not even understand if that's just an audio line in-game
>all his underlings love him
>except Tomi
What's Tomi's problem?
Having common sense.
>tormented Tomi in an attempt to make him develop thick skin
>smiled when he fought back
>held 0 grudges against him, all the people going after Tomi were doing so because they wanted to, not because Yamai told them to do it
>everyone in his turf loves him, aside from the granny protecting Lani and Akane
>charismatic, unintentionally funny, cunning, strong, has some of the best songs and dynamic intros in the series
>has the Ichiban Seal of Approval™
>gets arrested
>is now in limbo, only RGG knows whether or not he's actually coming back
YamaiGODS... I don't feel so good, are we ever going to see him again, now that he's warm ?
He's definitely coming back.
>Rape builds character
Yeah I know.
so how long did it take for your uncle to cum
He just doesn't like being raped, nothing to do about it.
Why is their mascot a topless girl and will she be fighting Alohappykun for mascot dominance?
How long until we get a minigame where we pit mascots together with Ono Michio-kun, Fauxno Michio-kun, Robo Michio, Kamulop, and Alo-Happy fighting for the top spot?
Am I the only one who likes Yagami's fighting styles better than Kiryu's?
Maybe in LJ since crane is actually useful and snek is basically Tanimura's
I feel like RGG didn't know what to do with Ichiban in Infinite Wealth, after the party split I couldn't really say I wanted to go back to ichi's party
Unsurprising. Ichi's story post-split is just running around like a headless chicken trying to find Lani while Kiryu generally has an actual focus to his activites.
Same. Every time I've gone back to Ichiban this has been my reaction. I don't care about Lani like Kiryu or Ichiban do, Ebina and Sawashiro's side of the plot is way more interesting, Buraisu just takes me out of the game every time he opens his mouth, Chitose's drama is fine but it feels both too short and too long, and for both post-split chapters so far they're running around like headless chickens.
I am beyond surprised they didn't beeline to Dwight the instant they heard Chitose say it was him on Eiji's tablet and instead went "Duh, where could Lani be!? We have no idea!"
Speaking of Lani. Isn't Palekana chasing her simply so they can kill her? Why do they kidnap her instead of killing her the moment they have the chance?
Bryce must have wanted her alive. It's why Eiji didn't kill her when he had the chance. It's not sure why he wanted her alive.
Bryce has been holding people hostage to blackmail others like Wong, so I guess he'd be using Lani to blackmail Bryce
I assume Bryce wants to murder her himself considering what she is and all. Having a goon do that is just asking for loose ends even if he trusts his zealots to a degree.
They had to give him autism like Aoki at the end of 7 (yes I know Ichiban is bluffing but I must personally send my hench to the Tower anyway) for the plot to keep going after ch9 so he has to kill her personally
That isn't "autism" on Aoki's part, it's paranoia, and completely in-character for him. He was never a genius.
It's just moronic writing to poorly justify the heroes victory since the writers couldn't bother to give them an actual logical shot or way out against the villains.
8's story is really bland in general. 7 and 0 still have the best stories (shout out to 1 as well).
I feel like there was a motive behind IW to make Ichiban a lot less interesting of a protagonist compared to Daddy Kaz who had a far more engaging plot happening. Switching back to Ichi/Hawaii just made you want the story to progress so you can get back to Kiryu.
It's about the same for me because Ebina's keikaku was equally dumb, something he admitted himself.
They clearly tried to compensate by having Kiryu constantly suck off Ichiban every time he's mentioned but it just feels off. I couldn't stop thinking about Ichiban abandoning Kiryu to die in the jungle with Yamai like a fricking NON-YUUSHA homosexual so it never worked for me. It is so fricking weird to me that they never have Ichiban or any of the other characters reflect on that.
Wtf is up with Saeko in IF???
She's a women
as much as the gameplay improves upon 7, I really wished they went full schizo with the rpg shit
If only Sujimancer was not a joke class.
Sujimancer would have been so cool if you could actually summon one of your Sujimon as an AI Support during battle. Then add some more skills that allow you to use your turn to command your Sujimon in some way (use a specific skill or attack a specific enemy), let them do combo attacks/follow-ups depending on your friendship with them, and buff the scaling on Sujimancer’s existing skills.
bump, not off the catalog yet, there were some good posts here
The ones about rape?
> muh Sawa san
> muh Lani
yeah that shit was dumb
LJ was better
Maybe he could have wanted to torture and force her to proclaim him as the rightful Sage... yeah I don't know. His cult of personality was strong enough that she wasn't a serious threat to begin with. Guess they wanted to force that Haruka parallel
Thing is, outside of the note (Which is now gone and Akane is the only one who memorized it) he can very easily just lie his way through everything.
>Oh, you have a duplicate of this pendant I have? Wow, you must have had Akane forge it to try and usurp my position.
>Oh, you're the rightful Sage of Palekana? How can you prove that?
As it is all the proof lies on Akane's word and nothing else, and she's a newcomer to the faith compared to Bryce. What are his adherents going to do? They've all drunk the Kool-Aid and the people on Nele are executing randos for him before being brought back to Hawaii. Even Kalon and white chick were like a deer in the headlights after Ichiban dropped the truth bomb on them. Lani is a loose end for Bryce but realistically she can't do anything without Akane's context, and Bryce can just pull the "Foreigner trying to take my religious position" card or something equally accusatory enough to paint her in a bad light.
Nope. It's exactly what you see on the boxart. At best you get support characters like Eiji, Yamai, and the Tojo crew but those are just for that fight.
Ichiban's party is Eric, Chitose, Adachi, and Han.
Kiryu's party is Nanba, Seonhee, Saeko, and Zhao.
Han doesn't join until chapter 13, one chapter from the finale.
They paint him as being super hungry for power and willing to do absolutely anything to maintain it and gain more. Akane didn't even fully believed the letter was even real when she called him, but even the slight possibility that it could be real made him show up to the orphanage in the middle of the night fully intent on killing Lani. As for not just killing Lani the moment dwight had her, i figure it's just trying to avoid any loose ends by having him see her die over trusting someone else to do it.
Wait, is there not a secret party member in Infinite Wealth...?
Nope
Is this game actually good? I only ever played Yakuza 0 and found it good but that was mostly because it was set in the 80s. Never played other games in the series. This one is turn based or something?
This one is one of the worst and relies heavily on nostalgia bait
eh frick that so
The gameplay is decent if you like turn based but the story is one of the worst. If you want good beat em up gameplay I'd say try Lost Judgment. For story, Like a Dragon Gaiden was much better than Infinite Wealth.
8 is okay but its plot is one of the worst in the whole series and I say that as a massive Yakuza simp
The other games have better plots overall
My thoughts are that the gameplay is fun but it peaks in the mid-late game. The beginning is a bit of a drag and the plot ending falls flat. Better than 7 when turn-based debuted but it's not anything crazy when it comes to JRPGs. It's an easy enough game
alright the scene where Kiryu gets mad no one is listening to him sing and he preemptively queues up another song is funny as frick
Kiryu's part was the peak of the game when it was just his buddies rekindling his will to live.
Unironically one of the best scenes in the game, no joke.
why was the game called infinite wealth?
Unironically because the real wealth was the friends we made along the way.
I find it funny that people said ichiban has way more personality than Kiryu yet it’s the opposite in 8
never trust a 90+ metacritic game
What the frick did 8 do that’s suddenly so much better, because it’s pretty par for the course
Not a 9 or 10 by any means
sega heavily marketed lad8
8 was heavily pushed as Kiryu's final game, and he's still a ridiculously popular character
It got heavily advertised, that's what it did. Joking aside, it really did do a lot in terms of succeeding 7.
>It's got more proper story dungeons (Though they really need to expand on them since they still pale in comparison to even basic JRPGs).
>They made the actual dungeons at least something.
>The combat was massively improved and it feels like a normal JRPG now with balance and everything.
>There's a boatload of content and while it's not as much as 5 it's still massive.
>Hawaii doesn't feel as restrictive as Ijincho and having all three maps really helps it as a JRPG even if Kamurocho is somewhat lifeless due to not much taking place there, whereas 7 felt highly limited since it was like 90% in Ijincho so you got bored more easily.
>Boss fights feel more enjoyable than in 7 and like there's more gimmicks or surprises involved without pumping their HP to the sky.
>Way more enemies and enemy types.
It's just a solid JRPG now. Its main fault is in how easy it is to overlevel if you touch side content and the story from Ichiban's side. I find it suspect so many people didn't dock the story for being boring though. The game is like 10+ hours before you even start having the story move, whereas with 7 you're moving very quickly and establishing stuff quickly even though it doesn't truly start until the end of chapter 4 or early chapter 5. 8 doesn't even start until chapter 5 and doesn't truly start until chapter 8 at which point it speeds through the story at breakneck pace.
I'm still fuming to this day in regards to the relatively poor reception Lost Judgment got in the west
>most outlet reviews gave it 7 or 8, which might as well be their own way of saying MID
>Skill Up has one of the most viewed reviews, where he's very negative towards the game
>this same fricking butthole goes on to suck the dick of Ishin Kiwami, even having the balls to say that its combat is great
>the game never made an impression outside of the hardcore fan base
I'm afraid that this series could fall into a pitfall similar to SMT, where the least popular "spin offs" are actually the best games, but no one buys them
yes, I'm talking about the DDS duology and Strange Journey
>Strange Journey
Actually based post, I kneel.
i remember marathoning yakuza 3-judgment/yakuza 7, and i told myself i wouldnt touch lost judgment for awhile due to some of the negative press ive heard about it when it launched. I ended up playing it 5 months after my yakuza marathon and it ended up seriously being one of my favorite games. i still need to check out kaito files
>bringing her dog to korea town
What was she thinking?
What negative press? The worst thing it’s done was lock a fighting style and four girlfriends (like they’re that important) behind DLC. It’s not as bad as Yakuza 8 locking NG+, difficulties, and an entire post-game dungeon behind a deluxe edition.
i just remembered waking up one morning and listening to spawn wave and hearing reviews mentioning that it wasnt as good as the original.
Ah, I see. In my opinion, Judgment has a better story since it’s narrative-driven, while Lost Judgment is more character-driven, but all the good moments were reserved for the newer characters while the pre-existing characters are less active and slightly flanderized.
I miss how social and alive Judgment’s Kamurocho felt, and the city feels neglected in LJ. Hell, the same story goes for Infinite Wealth’s Kamurocho, there’s literally nothing to do there.
i remembering looking at the judgment map screen and being shocked by how many icons there were lol, that game felt pretty big for only being set in one city.
It all had a purpose, too. You couldn’t complete the Keihen Alliance story without maxing all 50 friendships.
Kino moment, I was mad how the Keihin stuff got played for laughs with Koga literally blasting off and swearing revenge like a team rocket grunt
I wish they'd go back to small and dense maps. Already sick of Ijincho it's too big and sparse, and only worked for Y7
>Hell, the same story goes for Infinite Wealth’s Kamurocho, there’s literally nothing to do there.
I honestly think they're trying to move away from Kamurocho by making it less relevant in every new entry in the series. The huge nostalgia trip in 8 may be the last time we see Kamurocho so they can focus on Ijincho, Hawaii or new areas.
Kamurocho still feels more alive than Ijincho and Honolulu, but at the same time, it feels “empty”, in the sense that it filled in the gap that Kiryu left behind when he “disappeared”, as if it moved on.
It was weird to me that when IW first came out and reviews started dropping there were people even here getting hyped about awards talk and stuff. I get wanting the series to get more recognition etc. but I would've thought if any group of people would be aware of how little bearing award shows have on the quality of something it'd be fans of a series which has routinely been ignored by them until very recently and significantly grown in popularity regardless. Gaiden's a very recent example of this even, it's just barely in the green on Metacritic and yet if you ask most people they'll probably say it's one of the best ones.
Sega was probably paying off journo scum this time around. They obviously put a lot into advertising. I'm not really sure why journos or normies liked it. It was a throwback to the Kiryu era while making Ichiban look silly half the game. There's a lot of new problems with it. one being it's so long. I guess if you just dabble in some side stuff here and there, it feels enormous. Maybe that's enough. but the story was paper thin.
Don't forget it's the first game in the series to ever get a simultaneous worldwide release.
Alright the final life link actually pissed me off why can Kiryu not see her despite his face being plastered all over social media
The Daidoji would unleash their wrath*.
*The Daidoji don't actually have the resources to do anything
At least Akiyama's was cathartic. You can feel how pissed off he was about the entire situation considering he felt like one of Kiryu's closest friends only to have both him and Date lying to his face for like half a decade despite constantly going out on a limb for Kiryu ever since 5.
At the same time, Akiyama was also trying to drag back Kiryu into Kamurocho in 6 because you're le dragon of dojima you're the legend you should act like the legend! please save Kamurocho again when that's the last thing Kiryu wanted to do. Kiryu fricking hates Kamurocho and being the dragon.
Akiyama never understood Kiryu in the way Date or Haruka did. Akiyama has a lot of respect for him, and that's the reason they can't be true friends.
They're allies, but not comrades.
Huh? He goes from Ed attacking him in the sewer to trying to get Kiryu to not kidnap Haruto who he should technically should be a legal guardian for, then it's his 007 information moment at the hotel, and then it's him teaming up with Kiryu because Kiryu is insisting on killing Someya. When did he pressure him to save everyone? Was it during the Ed stuff or something?
Nevermind, I completely misremembered this moment, I remember him being more insistant. I take it back.
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There's also that part where he says to Kiryu to not kill Iwao and Sugai becaue think about your legacy, which I think is Akiyama not understanding Kiryu, that's the wrong angle to try and convince him otherwise.
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Wait, timecodes are fricked I forgot.
first link is 6:20:23, second is 11:37:00
>that's the wrong angle to try and convince him otherwise.
It's the wrong angle, but it's also how he perceives Kiryu. To him Kiryu is his hero which 8 doubles down on, and even in 8 Kiryu respects Akiyama for that perception of him. Akiyama might be a bit off on his assessment of Kiryu, sure, but 8 makes it pretty clear they're pretty tight all things considered, it's just that circumstances are ruining their friendship.
He can't get over his autism
>Read the Life Links entries.
>"Date-san really stuck his neck out for me. If I'm going to pay him back for this, I can't keep running from my reason to live."
>"Even said he wouldn't give up on me. It would be nice if I could just... pick up my feet, struggle harder, longer, to be with my loved ones."
>Actually listen to the dialogue Kiryu is spouting out of his mouth.
>"But... I'd spend the rest of my life as someone else. Is that really something worth fighting for?"
So did they not communicate with their teams or something? Why the massive disparity in diary Kiryu and cutscene Kiryu? They're worlds apart in their beliefs. Diary Kiryu is full of hope, cutscene Kiryu is a defeatist. I also agree with , what is this bullshit?
The world knows Kiryu is alive. Your contract is null and void now because the Daidoji couldn't stop it. Why the hell does Kiryu not only "renew the contract" but throw Date into the Akiyama limbo? It makes zero sense with what has happened in the main story. There is zero hold the Daidoji has on Kiryu at this point outside of his Hawaii job. Everyone knows he's alive now and has for "several days" according to Date's discussion with Kiryu. How hasn't Haruka heard? Do none of the orphans watch the news? Did they miss their crime lord dad coming back to life which would be national news considering the coverup to keep him dead in the first place?
Everything regarding Kiryu's side content feels like it's been slapped together just to make you sad and ignore thinking about anything. Komaki saw him face to face and knows he's alive. Akiyama met him and had a drink with him. Nakajima outright said he saw the video. Kashiwagi knows who he is and said so to his face in a roundabout way. Sawashiro knows who he is and that he's alive. Every single party member of Ichiban's knows who he is and his pedigree. How are the Daidoji okay with this?
Daidoji in Gaiden was tightly written. We know how strong they are, the extent of their intelligence and surveillance, their cruel ways, etc.
In 8, the Daidoji are as strong and as weak as the plot requires them to be. It's weird.
Life Links are optional, so the main plot doesn't reflect them.
>so the main plot doesn't reflect them.
The problem is that they went out of their way to not only stagger the LLs until after Tatara's video, but they have an entire LL dedicated to talking about that having happened. You can't have Date and Kiryu directly talk about this then immediately forget it happened when it's convenient to you.
I think you're putting way too much stock in what are still basically rumors at that point of the story, it only really gets credibly confirmed at the end of Chapter 12 when he's filmed by multiple people and appears on national news. Rumors of Kiryu surviving and taking part in the Dissolution have also probably been circulating for years. His deal with the Daidoji still stands until they release him from it at the start of the finale, which again is only after he appears on national news.
Nakajima only brings it up because literally nothing else connects him and Date. Most of the other life links are people who know Date well enough that him wanting to meet doesn't appear odd and also know enough about the underworld to know most of what Tatara spouts is bullshit, so why would the Kiryu rumor be any different? Others like the Hiroshima boys immediately figure out what is going when they see Kiryu but they play along. The only outlier is Kaoru but her inclusion was probably an afterthought and only at the request of the localisation team.
>in what are still basically rumors at that point of the story
Not really. They have video footage of him speaking to Ebina with Ebina and Sawashiro both confirming his identity live on Tatara's channel. It's not rumors anymore. Chitose says Tatara Channel was massive at that point with everyone paying attention to it due to their major scoops so it has massive credibility in the public eye.
The Seiryu HQ stuff in chapter 12 just solidifies it, but Tatara's expose is already enough to pretty much show it's there.
Paradise Bikini is EX only in the HH.
Safes from 31-39 can all spawn them, you're just guaranteed a safe on 34 and 39 at the end. That's why you need to check every room since some of them are safe rooms. I've got all the HH/YU armors personally so I can confirm these are all correct.
>Hawaiian Haunt EX 31-40F
- 7* Geodancer Armor
- 7* Aquanaut Armor
- 7* Desperado Armor
- 7* Pyrodancer Armor
- 7* Action Star Armor
>Yokohama 21-30F
- 7* Samurai Armor
- 7* Kunoichi Armor
- 7* Chef Armor
- 7* Night Queen Armor
>Yokohama EX 31-40F
- 7* Breaker Armor
- 7* Housekeeper Armor
- 7* Host Armor
- 7* Idol Armor
The reason I was running the last parts of HH was because I just completely stopped seeing chests that didn't have spooks popping out. I was checking though. I would blast music and just grind through all the enemies. Everyone's jobs is over 90. but I couldn't be arsed to do it anymore after 350 hours.
If you want to know how the safes work:
>Safes with the two guys carrying it will always be an item.
>Safes with the safe in the middle of a bunch of fences with paper will always be an item.
>Safes with the safe in the middle of a bunch of cardboard box shelves will always be an item.
>Safes where two safes are in the room in the corners will always have one safe be an item safe and one is a creep.
>Safes where it's just one in a corner with another opened should always be a creep, it's always been that way for me.
>Exit room safes are always safe.
I'm personally still trying to get #25 who should be in the same situation you're in with Hammered Man but that's the only one I'm stuck trying to get. Besides him I only need the tier 1 Pier Reviewer somehow and the rest is story bosses.
y-yeah bro I ran those fricking dungeons so many times, but the problem is the RNG. I stopped getting chests. Almost every time I ran the dungeons looking for items, I couldn't find hardly any chests. The only ones that were there had spooks.
Really? Every time I ran even five floors I'd get bare minimum at least two rooms that had at least one with an item. Man, sorry you're having such trouble. If you don't get lucky that's what, 15 minutes per safe check?
thus, why I did not complete the body list. If I had known Paradise Bikini was in the EX section, I probably would have powered through it.
Well, you can think of it this way, you still need 10 of the Riverie Shoes, right? They're the best soes for everyone after all. Or did you already grind that out?
I had like 30 pairs, so I have enough for everyone, sold the rest.
If you ever feel like getting it again, know that you can hug the walls and run past most enemies in dungeons. Or walk around them if their sole viewcone is not facing the door. Go straight to HH B34 if you only need the armor.
Now I'm waiting on Yokoyama's big 2024 announcement. Hoping for more Gaiden games or a new spinoff or a new Judgment. Gonna be interesting to see where they go from here.
Akiyama Gaiden feels way too likely after the Life Link. He was hinting at way too much going on in his life and that doesn't feel like something they'd just throw out there.
I felt the same, and also during Adachi's sexy date with Ichiban they casually talk about Okinawa, of all places given they're in Hawaii. Idk, I'm not holding my breath for any of it because RGG likes to tease.
How long ago was this posted? it could just be that Monkey Ball game where it still seems they have no idea what people liked about the first two.
The tweet is december 29th, 2023, I saw it originally some time around then as well. so not too long ago. He was speaking in the context of talking up IW, so it would be weird to say they have an announcement and it not be LAD related.
btw, I do not want to wait four years for more LAD games. plz. A game every 3 months would work for me, thank you.
Hey Moose, you had any trouble with the low level sujimon from the beginning of the game that become very rare once you go to Hawaii? Basically I'm missing two because I rushed through the beginning on both normal and legend. I know Hammered Man is in the bar district and Turncoat Titillator only appears at night but for the life of me I can't find either of them.
Hammered Man shows up randomly on Carriage Highway north of the large gated building. TT shows up north of restaurant row on Ijin street, in the far north east corner. grind around those areas and you'll find them.
i'll give it another go, thank you.
HH EX sector Safes spawn on 34 and 39 only. At least one on those floors, sometimes 2 and 1 creep.
>Old lady.
If these are what a mid-50 year old woman is in the RGG universe send me right at them. I will be the Yamai of RGG GILFs. She's ready to pop out a dozen kids and ask for more, what kind of vampires are these people?
HH EX has the cardboard box shelves spawn as well as the dual safe room. The fence and the oiled up guy safes are in YU.
They are just lazy as frick and use the same old female models from the old games.
>Japan gets to watch 4D movies about giraffes and we're here living in squalor with Godzilla.
Is there a way to grind in kurohyou 2?
EXP? Get to the final chapter and bump into any of the flashy Yakuza (Silver suits). They give like 2-3K exp a fight and by endgame you should be able to kill like 10 before having to run over to Doc Emoto.
Money? It's the same method as 1 and 2. Save, go to the Dragon Palace, go to roulette, bet on 1-18 and every single overlap for the highest amount, and then reload until you win. Start off on 1-6 with overlaps or try to win 0/00 and then work your way up.
If you're fine with glitches then anything you buy from the mahjong point shop won't cost you any tags if you go over to Ebisu straight from it and sell the items you just bought.
I always fricking hated whenever Kiryu would have a unique outfit for a game, like in 3 or 5, and then he changes back into the old suit at some point.
8 was the only time where I felt that moment was earned.
In fact, it's so good that it makes me retroactively hate that he wore it again for the boss fight in 7, so the moment in 8 wasn't the first time he wore it for real again since "dying".
They should make a SOL Yakuza game where there's no major villain or series plot going on and all the story stuff is just the characters hanging out and there's still combat and stuff but it's just thugs on the sides of the street and optional dungeons and substories and stuff.
I'd probably fall asleep.
8 put me to sleep
Completely redundant when you can get that exact experience for hours at a time by just ignoring the main plot.
That's Yamai's tat.
A lot of people ask for this, but a story without conflict is a boring one.
How do I reduce stuttering in this game? DLAA is pretty blurry but looks halfway decent but I still get stutters. DLSS removes almost all the stutters but turns the game into a total blur fest, especially the hair.
RTX 3060 and Ryzen 5 3600x btw
Usa frame gen.
We're gonna get a Daidoji agent as a party member in 9 and it'll be glorious. No, Kiryu doesn't count.
Yeah, probably the worst thing Kiryu did in this game is get the idea in the Daidoji's heads that Ichiban could be a useful idiot for them.
Sure seemed like 8 was another universe shifting moment. Goodbye Yakuza, hello international 007 shenanigans starring lovable idiot Itchy Balls.
how to find Japanese rgg gf
>Be able to lift 500 lbs worth of equipment
>Drink 30 bottles of alcohol and smoke 50 packs of cigarettes an hour
>Look exactly like Kiryu Kazuma
>Have Takaya Kuroda's voice
I could manage the alcohol part.
what's the best job
Aquanaut.
>Amazingly versatile moves.
>Its ultimate weapon means you can guarantee a 3500+ damage Essence of Friendship on every single enemy with all the free buffs that come from that, and if you're not Ichiban it's still beyond busted that you gain a buff for every single physical attack as long as you're at max HP.
>Its 7* armor means you can ignore all resistances allowing you to always hit for neutral damage even if the enemy resists Frost damage, and this also carries over to the Poundmates so no one can resist anything.
>Essence of Showboating gets even stronger when it's already the best Essence to share between every male party member.
>Essence of Surf Twister when you just have to give an entire group of enemies the middle finger.
>If you carry over Wild Sweep from Desperado you now have an even more broken physical sweeper.
What's that? You want to Relentless Dragon's Dance to add even more insult to injury? Don't mind if I do.
Approved bro surfer
Dokodokodko
Once you get to five stars you will never get downgraded, so get to 5 stars and then you can demolish everything and build whatever the frick you want.
lol DSP is still doing first chapters on Hawaii
I wasn't aware he plays Yakuza games. Which of the past entries has he played, I wonder?
pretty much every one of them. I remember he was starting with dead souls back in a days
This series needs more crossdressing
>finished Dondoko story, just have to get the 100 guests for the cheevo
>leave the game running in the background, decide to test if you can just end the day halfway in
>go in, nope, leave
>trigger a cutscene where I unlock upgrading the house
what the frick
I never would have gotten this naturally, What were they thinking?
Dondoko island is a colossal waste of time.
>I never would have gotten this naturally
You would have if you read the tooltips. They said that you can go in in the evening if you want to turn in early and night forces you to, not to mention they expect you at multiple times to upgrade your house even outright stating in the final fight that you should place some stuff inside.
Lad, did you read my post? I'm astonished that they locked a mechanic behind going into the house before the evening, which is something you would never do naturally.
Yes, I did, and I'm saying they expected you to at some point go inside to place stuff into it during your time there. The best time to edit your house would be during the day because if you needed to craft something you'd be able to run out and gather your items without worry of time being up like you do at night. That's their thought process.
I 100% both lists, and got all the achievements. damn. I don't know what to do now. I started Jan 25th, ended on Feb 25th. I need more.
> 100% unfinished business
How many hours of playtime do you have? I finished the game at the 44% mark. Must have been one huge grind.
In game timer was like 250 iirc. so i don't think it counts if your in menu or paused or something.
Jesus Chirst.
there's literally nothing to do for 350 hrs, ur retrarded. Probably a Hispanic too
Did you truly 100% the list? As in, get one of every piece of equipment? The list only requires x % of collectibles but the detailed checklist view still tracks all available items. I'm still missing like 10 CDs and a couple weapons you can only get from prize point exchanges plus a few party chats.
The only list I didn't complete 100% was the body. I could not find the Paradise Bikini and I wasn't about to run that fricking dungeon for the 100th time to try to find it. I figured by the time I play it again, someone will tell me if its level 26-29 or level 36-39. But everything else was done. Including weapons. Some of which were extremely painful to get like the Dice Cane and the 100k can quest mop.
I have it but I have no idea which floor I got it from. I'm also missing like two of the job body armors but I do have 15 duplicates of the Kunoichi armor.
yeah the rng is obviously broken. I've read a lot of comments to that effect. I have 40 copies of some shit that was in every single chest in the entire dungeon but some people still can't find the ones I have.
>I don't know what to do now
Actually 100% the lists if you haven't. Do all 80 raids, get all the weapons in every category, get all the armor in every category, get all 53 CDs, etc. This means lucking into the drops on Sectors 1 and 2 of both the HH and YU and Sector 3 of the HH but it's pretty easy to do that as there's only three or so per floor.
I'm getting close and I'm at 180 hours currently. Only need a couple weapons for Hitman, 200 kills in DoD, 100 more kills in Rush, have to call in 8 more Poundmates when I have the disposable income, and then Table Talks across both Ichiban and Kiryu since I'm waiting on PA. Otherwise I have 100% on both lists. So 190-200 hours seems about right, on par with 5, a bit more than 7 if you count a NG+ run as part of the 100%.
I did all the aloha links my first run, turning all but 3 pink. I got all of the Sujimon, which took 707 rolls to get one of the last sujimon. I did every list except body, missing the paradise bikini. I know it's in Hawaii Haunt but I refrickingfuse to go through it again. I did it all or near enough.
I balked at needing to do every mahjong parlor across 3 cities, especially when there's no cheat items.
Also that arcade progress doesn't carry over between characters. This game is already a huge time sink just getting all achievements.
I did get it all for Gaiden, though.
Gaiden was fun and perfectly sized for a an inbetween game. I'm just a bit miffed they didn't give us a NG+ for it. or achievement for Legend.
Gaiden was so much better
What went wrong?
The expectations for Gaiden weren't very high. They outright said it'd be a short game, and it's sandwiched between 6 and 7, not a lot of suspense since you know a lot of what's gonna happen.
What we got instead was a surprisingly good set of new characters, the Daidoji faction were intriguing, excellent gameplay and sidecontent, and one of the most emotional endings in the series.
Then you've got the total opposite with Infinite Wealth, a huge game years in development in which the new characters on average aren't as good, the story shits itself halfway into it, the Daidoji are a bunch of inconsistently written jobbers, Ichiban's character didn't develop much and the gameplay is better than 7's but still wears out its welcome kind of quickly,
>That mouth.
>That Boneitis hand.
>That other lanky hand.
Could skinwalkers walk among us?
Moose, please just invest in your PC. You're just hurting yourself at this point.
Oh my PC can run the DE games at High/Ultra just fine, I just don't care to play on PC. This is a console series so I play it on console. PC is for triple dipping for mods.
Come to think of it, do the PS versions still use the clunky Playstation save interface? I was playing 5 on PS4 when 6 was announced for PC, so I jumped ship.
Nope. They've had a native save menu since I'm pretty sure 6. I can't remember if Ishin Kiwami was native or used the PS4 menu, I think it was native.
no but I wish it did they have their own save screen now and it always defaults the highlight on a new slot so if you're mashing you will accidentally create a new save. I have seven slots now and you can't delete them.
>I have seven slots now and you can't delete them.
Go to Application Save Data -> Delete Save Data off PS4 -> Pick the game and the slots. You can delete them it's just you have to jump through hoops.
I'm on PS5, when I checked it was all grouped together into one entry in the save settings menu, I couldn't figure out how to delete an individual save slot.
I guess they must have changed it for the PS5 version then. For the PS4 version it's got them individually.
Yeah, for PS4 games there’s an expand button next to the game name and you can still do that, but for PS5 games that isn’t there so if the game doesn’t let you manage saves you’re boned.
This thingy’s missing.
Shame. I could have sworn I saw such an option on a couple of my PS5 games but maybe I'm thinking of add-ons and not saves. I guess if you happen to pay for PS+ maybe it'll let you upload them individually then download it all back? Just an idea.
It uses the same interface unfortunately. Maybe they'll patch in a delete save function while the launch support is still going but I won't hold my breath.
You can delete individual saves on ps5, I did that a few days ago, you have to select the entire folder and somehow I managed to select individual saves
>PC is for triple dipping for mods.
Which mods do you try?
Simple stuff like restoration patches and model swaps or full on combat overhauls?
What chapter do I go back to playing Ichiban. I never played any of the previous Yakuza games just 7 and 8. Well I did finish 0 but I didn't retain much of it. I'm sick of Kiryu
9, 11, 13.
Kiryu is 8, 10, 12.
I'm debating if I want to replay 1 Kiwami or 5 since I feel like I didn't give those games a fair shot. 2 Kiwami is also on the map at some point, but that's more for a Silly Mod playthrough and I'll wait when it goes on sale.
5 is more deserving of a fair shot than Kiwami.
You're right, I'll go ahead and do 5 again. I remember doing a good chunk of stuff, but I was so burnt out of it at the end (did the mistake of doing the 3-4-5 marathon) that I didn't even get to Amon and I just kinda rushed through Shinada's part, so I'll go through and finish it again (though I'll probably skip most of the cutscenes because I'm not sitting through 2 consecutive hours of cutscenes on Saejima's part again).
You vill experience ze entire prison section again
a hui hou
>dub
go back and kys
Aside from Kiryu's voice, I like the dub better.
A hui hou >>> bon voyage
I think Yong did a decent job, but Kuroda will always be better. Even if Daryl remained Kiryu’s English VA, no one can top Kuroda.
That said, my main issue with the sub is Bryce’s Engrish. I wish there was a Tekken-like option where everyone speaks their native language, but they understand each other.
japanese game with japanese characters. kys racist
0->K1->3->6->7->Gaiden->8
The only games you need to play AND in that order
why is he like this
He's setting that b***h straight he only has eyes for Saeko
Oh, I get it, Infinite Wealth’s theme is about rehabilitation vs punishment, it’s why Ichiban was willing to forgive Eiji and have him atone for his sins in peace instead of throwing him to the wolves.
Very clever, Yokoyama-sensei.
It's about forgiveness, Ichiban forgives Eji hoping that Saeko would finally forgive him too so they can get married, while Kiryu hopes Ebina could forgive the Yakuza so he can in turn forgive himself and get married to chemo treatment, then you have Yamai meeting his old crush looking to get married only find out that she has severe forgetfulness not forgiveness someone mixed up those words.
Its theme is just strong woman who can do no harm.
Not a single evil female in the entire game. Even if they are like cheeto it's forgiven.
Yes even when they gangbang rape ichiban
It’s dumb Japanese “““humor”””, don’t read too much into it.
>evil female
The wife of Yamai’s patriarch suffered bankruptcy because of her scheme, and even worse, she got Alzheimer’s. Nothing cures it, you can ask Yagami on that one.
>cheeto
She’s not a villain? She was blackmailed into doing Eiji’s and Ebina’s bidding, but Ichiban’s kindness gave her the bravery she needed to go against the threats and reveal her own identity anyway. She sacrificed Tatara Hisoka, her own persona that she developed to cope with the isolation and loneliness, as in she figuratively sacrificed “herself”.
I think you just have a persecution complex.
en dub is not canon
when did you realize it was your game of the year
When I don't have any money left to buy other games this year.
Wouldn't even care if everything didn't have Denuvo these days. At least I've got some games installed I've yet to play since upgrading my GPU.
That’s dragon’s dogma 2
When I realized there's nothing else coming out this year
When I realized Genesis wasn’t coming back in Final Fantasy
smtvv and lad 8 will likely be the only 2024 games i buy this year. smtvv will probably be my game of the year as i had more fun in smtv than lad8
it's not even the best game of late January imo
Does Ganker like Saeko's new AWAKE song? It's like 50-50 on me, sometimes it hits the spot but other times it's a bit ehh. Depends on my mood.
The version with Ichiban cheering is funny.
Kiryu and Ichiban songs were the only ones I replayed at all, the rest weren't that captivating. The whole cheering thing feels tacky.
Ichiban's HONOLULU SHITTY LAIGHTS, DAN DAN DAN and HO NO LU LU during Chitose's song were great though
Saeko and her goth persona kissing at the end justify it's existence.
kiryu's WHOA WHOA WHOA is uncomfortably loud relative to the song itself and i have to turn the volume down whenever he does it
What's the strongest essence or skill on the female side to spam? I've been running a breaker alongside chitose and her armor is giving infinite MP from the buffs.
Bubble Bale if you want magic, Night Queen's 50 MP spin if you want physical.
For Essences I believe Tennis Ace's second one was worth it if you're looking for an attack one? Realistically it's better to just have the girls with healing Essences since they work really well in support roles. Geodancer's typhoon thing is decent as an Essence.
What will 9’s theme be?
Saeko has a kid but Ichiban still doesn't know that DNA tests exist.
>Saeko: “Ichiban, you literally nutted in me, it’s our fricking kid.”
>Ichiban: “Nah, who’s to say he’s my kid or not? I have no idea, and I don’t really care, it makes no difference to me. I have a son, and his name is Jiro Kasuga.”
>Ichiban, I've worn a chasity belt for 9 months before you nutted in me, took it off once to have sex with you, and put it back on until I gave birth. It's a special kind that is unpickable and undestroyable, and look, I have taken a picture of the lock everyday and there is no sign of tempering. There is simply no way this isn't your kid!
>scene transitions to a smug older japanese politician who has a lockpick on his desk, alongside a note with "Experimental lockpick" written on it
Please go masterbate
>"Whatever Jiro is my son or not... I'll raise him like a proper father would... Just like how my father, Jiro Kasuga did... He was my real father..."
>it's revealed the Japanese politician (post bossfight, he commits suicide later just from the sound of Date's helicopter) didn't use the lockpick
>Ichiban had an experimental rubber condoms to stop him from shooting bullets
>Comedy scene where Ichiban said he didn't have it equipped because he hit "optimize" in his "inventory" so it took it off
Title drop.
RGG Summit 2024
>Judgement 3 (potentially starting Kaito)
>Dead Souls remake
>Gaiden game starring Goda/Majima/Akiyama/Shishido
>Spikeout revival
Take your pick
All taking place in Hawaii
I want a Watase Gaiden since he’s a rather interesting character and present an opportunity to know what he did after his security company went bankrupt, but knowing RGG, Akiyama Gaiden is far more likely.
>You want me to voice a full game?
>I'll send you an estimate.
I don't see how a Gaiden game would be more expensive than what he must've pulled for 4.
Basing off "yakuza 4/gaiden all cutscenes" video, both yakuza 4 and gaiden have 10 hours of cutscenes (including text boxes for both, gaiden has some gameplay), other videos have 4 at 5 hours, and gaiden at 6.
Based on the 10 hour videos, Akiyama's part ends around 3 hours in, and he does not show up again until 5 hours later, where he shares the last 2 hours with everyone else. So we'll say 3 hours (that's counting textbox as voiced) + 1 hour of random voices (combat lines and the like) + 30 minutes (1/4 of the remaining hours), and he's still short 1h30 of Gaiden's shortest "all cutscenes" video.
Dead Souls remake with Coop and extra Dead Rising styled Odaiba mall map
No judgment
A new IP since they said it’s underway a few years ago
it's not-judgement with Kaito as mc
I'm not sure where they can go with Kaito. They've already speedrun through his life by introducing his kid and his kid's mother.
no yagami, (sadly) buy
They really wasted this scene by just randomly having him wear his outfit for no reason in 7.
It sucks that Gaiden is essentially an afterthought in terms of the overall plot. Its continuity with Yakuza 7 and 8 is heavily severed by the lack of continuity.
Kiryu doesn’t get referred to as Joryu, Kiryu doesn’t ask Ichiban to refer to him as “Taichi Suzuki” around people other than Ichiban himself and maybe Seonhee since she already knows who he is, Kiryu shrugs when Hanawa dies, Hanawa dies for no good reason and is treated like a pencil pusher who doesn’t know how to fight, so on and so forth.
Gaiden was written after Infinite Wealth so I imagine the Daidoji and whoever “the Boss” is will be the villains in 9 and will take their anger out on Ichiban for costing them their two best agents. I also don’t think Hanawa is really dead either.
The most jarring is that Kiryu doesn't have his magic gadgets and didn't just webswing to Nele Island then harass Bryce with a hundred drones.
Now that it's been revealed that Seonhee is a fangirl, she probably got Kiryu to wear it during 7.
Who is the best Judgment/Lost Judgment girlfriend? I'm partial to Kyoko (nurse from LJ) and Minato (Kamulop girl)
Yagami puts DiCaprio to shame.
For me, it's Amasawa.
Pedo.
Would be fun if she is playable in Judgment 3 and part time works for Yagami's agency.
18 is legal everywhere besides America it seems.
In burgerland you're not an adult until you're 30, pity them
>Amasawa.
minato or tsukino, both cute but i think minato is the cutest. For some reason i didnt touch the non dlc girlfriend.
Emily sucked, Tsukino sucked, Minato was cute but way too autistic and reliant on Yagooner and I don't even remember the last one. Amane and her voluptuous body should've come back instead.
Yamai is good, but it’s humiliating to be a yakuza who’s weaker than Ichiban.
Ichiban’s not weak though
He jobbed to Kiryu
Everyone jobs to kiryu
Yagami didn't job to Kiryu
Yagami jobs to third-rate yakuza family footsoldiers.
Yeah, I know, Ichiban’s strong and intentionally nerfs himself by “taking turns” when fighting someone.
When the frick are we gonna get Ichiban in an action game?
Next game
Should they update Ichiban's schizovision to some other game? Maybe Chitose can get him into Fortnite.
I want a game set in the 90s or before 0
also making Ichiban only 10 years younger than Kiryu was a mistake
I think they deliberately locked Kiryu up and cut out the 90s to mirror:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
I'm talking about new/other protags
>starring young Yagami and his boyband MAPS
Ichiban should’ve been, at most, 34 years old in yakuza 7.
>born in 1985, so he’s 34 in Yakuza 7’s time period and 39 in Yakuza 8’s time period
>arrested in the NYE of 2005, so he gets one last look at his childhood home soapland before Majima wrecks it at the end of the same year
>still relates to Adachi’s boomer nostalgia because he grew up watching old movies and playing old games on retro consoles that his adoptive dad (Jiro Kasuga) gifted him
It doesn't matter in the Yakuza universe. Look at fricking Komaki.
Does Hawaii really have a dedicated radio station for tourists?
Why did the story take such a nose dive after Chapter 8? They did so much right before that. Why can't they just get a good story writer to go with their good character writing?
The good story writer was working on Gaiden please understand
Because Ichiban already figured out the big bad of Hawaii early. Usually, in previous games, this reveal is reserved to the penultimate chapter, hence why his later chapters feel stagnant, and time needs to be made for the Japan big bad + Kiryu’s reflections on his own life.
I quite liked the Byrce bossfight. Suicide bombers as an attack is just peak.
what if they announce Yakuza 0 remake for game's 10th anniversary and series' 20th anniversary
Its gonna be Yakuza -1 where Elementary School Kiryu beats up bullies
for me it's when Ichi making a proposal to Chitose on a beach
Chitose should've been Ichiban's child he didn't know about from a one time thing he didn't remember. Hire me, RGG.
Is there no way to buy iron/steel using money?
there's cheat mod on PC that allows to buy them
nope, but you can buy fragments and geodes and crystals, which are ridiculously abundant in late game anyway.
I recommend you equip some characters with the fairy lei, you’ll now get two bits of steel instead of just one when grinding dungeons.
Bros why doesn't Yakuza have an infinite gameplay loop like helldivers 2...
I hate how modern games are rated solely on how much specific game wastes your time.
"Oh, this game forces me to do shit I already did in the previous game for 2 hours, and then do the same sub-stories but instead of ice-cream there is lemonade! Surely this is the best game ever!" - repeat for 120 hours because of some arbitrary bullshit 100% completion checklist grind instead of actually having fun and playing solely for the gameplay.
is kaito files as long as gaiden or closer to majima saga in length?
8-10 hours, so closer to Gaiden.
>old engine games
>play the game methodologically
>Dragon Engine games
>just mash the buttons
I have no idea why.
if you’re referring to textboses. i was dissapointed that yakuza 6 tried getting rid of textboxes for seamless cutscene-like NOT text boxes. i remember with the ps3 game i would listen to ALL the dialog before progressing, however DE games have ruined this for me with the psuedo-cutscene shit they added, so now i just skip mid-sentence in their dialog.
I mean the combat.
Replaying Y4, since I never bothered with remastered collection, and the difference in my playstyle is drastic.
I think the ragdolling makes it too easy to just wail on enemies.
>Tomi's VA and model is a singer
>Doesn't get any karaoke tracks
What the actual frick
There are extra licensing fees if they are pro singers, same reason why Gachapin didn't do karaoke this game.
It's dumb as frick that they didn't pay up. How are you going to try to promote your game with big names and not let them do what they're known for
too costly, goes above their small budgets
Is the bat part of Ichiban's imagination? Why does he never use it in the intros or transitions?
Nanba and Adachi saw him literally pull it out of the ground in Y7 and on his shelf in Y8.
I know they did. And the change in animations between 7 and 8 imply that he got really good at using it. But every time we get a glimpse of how the fight is going outside of his fantasy, he's fighting with his fists and most of the times he's getting his ass kicked.
Don't think too much about it. Most of the things in modern yakuza are le epic maymay reference without too much thought put into it. The whole bat shit and his so called "schizophrenia" is just a minor reference to dragon quest, just like the trashcan enemies and few other types are a reference to some DQ specific enemy types.
If you do thunk about it, the game is implying that Kiryu needed a hit to the head and probably whatever opioids he's taking for cancer to reach the same level of schizovision as Ichiban.
>87 IPs
>443 posts
holy shit just get a general going at this point
you're just the same handful of people circlejerking it
Why are threads actually having a discussion between the same people instead 1 post shitposting so vilified on Ganker?
gotta make as much room as possible for eceleb threads!
Yakuza threads are always comfy as fawk.
So to complete the substory from ounabara you need to gift the desk girl stuff. Is there any reason to gift other characters like Miss Match, Juliet or Bartender? What do I get from them?
See OP
So you get skills? Neat
And rape
kek I now did desk girl, miss Match and Alo-Happy. Poor Ichiban can't take a rest. Am I the only one who got weirdly aroused from Alo-Happy girl? Her voice does something to me bros...
>Yokoyama is tired of Majima
>creates a similar character for Ichiban
>shelves him in the same game
wow, it really is dead.
Well it has been a month now
why the frick are you still supporting this series after the dogshit that was infinite wealth?
Yakuza 7 had such a good soundtrack what the hell happened
Fell for the wub wub memes
I really think they should give Ichiban stances like Kiryu, it was such a fun little mechanic to use it made me just want to keep playing the JP party
>yakuza 9 finally drops, freelancer and hero are merged into one job where they work like dragon of dojima, with your set of skills changing completely depending on which style you're using as a new feature
if only
In general I really hope they just merge Freelancer and Hero at this point. Freelancer feels redundant and in both 7 and 8 its only real good move is Release German Suplex.
They really should done that in 8. Frick I dunno make a excuse that ichiban canonically maxed out freelancer and already knows all the skills
>Freelancer as an offensive style, uses Ichi’s wrestling and Asakura’s MMA, very good at breaking guards, single-target damage and applying debuffs
>Hero as a defensive/support style, has the buff skills, good AoE and an enhanced perfect guard with the bat
How did you guys feel about the giant shark?
i wish we had more over the top boss fights like that, the squid, and the crane operators i just kinda want them to go full schizo im surprised they held back so much this game
Actually, I’m glad this game still has ridiculous moments but is still a lot more brutal. The Barracudas gutting the homeless pickpocket and Roman firmly cemented them in my mind as a threat, and Dwight was menacing. Too bad he, uh, becomes a literal piss stain and a joke after the fight.
>>Too bad he, uh, becomes a literal piss stain and a joke after the fight.
>Tries to be menacing multiple times after.
>Doesn't work and just comes off as a patsy for someone else.
Yeah, I had no respect for him whatsoever. Wong had a backbone and was always planning on toppling Bryce, despite Bryce being a 4D chess grandmaster who puts Kurosawa’s keikaku to shame.
Dwight, though? Nothing more than a pawn, always listening to Bryce’s orders until it became obvious he’ll be killed for failing a third time. I felt zero emotion when the shark ate him.
I will never get over the cranes roaring at you. It's still extremely funny.
What a disingenous c**t, hiding behind RGGs sales and scores. Even if you ignore the dogshit localizations these games have gotten recently, there are at least 3 typos per chapter in Gaiden when I can count on one hand how many there were in the frickhuge script of Y5. But at least on top of that now you get the privilige to pay for content that used to be included for free.
>went back to Gaiden
>colors and graphics and character models are so much better
>combat feels crisp
>side activities are just right and not overwhelming
>secret agent Kiry- er, “Joryu” feels more immersive to control than Ichiban
Man, I love Gaiden so much. I also love Infinite Wealth, but Gaiden really scratched that yakuza itch for me.
Gaiden it's still a Yakuza game.
"Like a Dragon" it's the actual spin-off
>People now cling to the localization name as the "true" title of the series
ironic
How many FF7 references are in this game and the previous one?
>oh there's a new dungeon in Yokohoma lets try it out
>end up clearing everything and get out overleved rich as frick with a bunch of class exclusive end game equipment
>mog Sawashiro in under a minute
Oops
damn, Adachi's body hair looks terrible in menus on lower quality FSR settings
>60+ year old retired cop
Main characters in these games are all born with gym subscriptions.
Well Kiryu did became a fitness gym model in 6....
Adachi having fantastic physique at his age is both a motivator and a demotivator for me. I’m still in my 20’s and I go to the gym, but I half-ass my efforts for poor reasons like “my stomach hurts” or “my knees are sore”.
Going to pick the game back up today after taking a break for a couple weeks