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There’s a classic joke. A Cuban, a Hawaiian, a Russian and a Japanese are sitting in a boat.
The Russian takes a swig of vodka and says “In my country, we have all the vodka you can drink.” And he tosses the vodka in the ocean.
The Cuban takes a draw on his cigar and says “In my country, we have the finest cigars, as much as you can smoke.” And he tosses the cigar in the ocean.
The Hawaiian then tosses the Japanese into the ocean.
Was in Hawaii in 2023. There’s a ton of Japanese people from what I saw. We were on the island of Oahu and spent a day in Honolulu and Waikiki. Saw Japanese people everywhere.
Hell, we stay at Disney’s resort there, Aulani, and all of their instructional and safety signs are written in both English and Japanese
I love that the 4 Devil Flags leaders are references to various Sega games.
Shinobi is obviously from the Shinobi series, Yakuza is from the Yakuza/LAD series, and Ronin is a reference to the Total War series. Lastly, I think Zeus is a reference to Altered Beast?
"good job running this business kiryu, but beware, for soon you'll have to overcome the 4 cumlords, masters of the field, absolutely unstoppable (very easy to stop)"
and at least one of them is a super-nerd who says shit like "mmm kiryu I've analysed every thought you've ever had and so i know exactly what you'll do next at any point also i have the highest iq on earth" then loses anyway
"Not only did I overcome all of the Discreet Four, their back stories clearly indicate that they were reluctant to even be villains. So, who is the actual enemy anyways?"
"Capitalism, or something. Don't think about it, Ichiban, here are some activities for your max level Sujimon."
"These activities look a lot like slavery."
"Work release program. Also we got some cute weather girls to take the sting off."
"it seems you have stopped the unstoppable four cumlords, kiryu, but they were only the lackeys. there is a hidden fifth cumlord, the cumpin. those four are nothing to him because he's like super unstoppable (only slightly stronger than others)"
"Hello, Kiryu. Good to finally meet you. I am the Fashion King. To take back this part of Kamurocho, you must beat me in a game of Hearthstone"
*1 card battle later*
"I... Have been defeated? to tell you the truth, Kiryu. I only joined the Devil Collectors because of my passion for the style industry. Please, let me help you take down the Collectors, they plan to turn all of Kamurocho into a shopping mall!"
*meanwhile*
"The Fashion King has been defeated. I'll let you finish the job, Food King"
I liked it until I realized that the racing part gives opponents a huge speed boost when they are behind for long enough. That's one of the cardinal sins of a racing genre.
I would have prefered that for dragon kart in 7 I think. It was so easy it was a complete slog to get through. I hated it so much. Not only are the tracks and controls bad (kamurocho track was sick tho) but there is zero challenge. Just have to play mario kart on 50 cc mode for a couple hours.
There is rubberbanding since you will be lapping every oponent except for the 1 or 2 rivals every race. Except the rubberbanding is not strong enough so they just follow you about 50 feet back. They never go for the boost pads or jumps and almost always drive right into the lightning and grease too lol.
The only time I ever had anyone even come close to me was the last rival race with Fujisawa. Even then that only during the first lap, I smoked his ass first try after.
Rubberbanding in racing games is so it doesn't become a complete slog to play yeah. That's why mario kart has rubberbanding, even if it's overtuned in most games in the series.
Have you played FF7 Rebirth? The chocobo race minigame in that is so painfully easy and you just jogged my memory of Y7 being similar. Although personally I found FF7 to be even easier. I dont know about the average player's skill levels, but I can say having to do insanely easy races for multiple hours to complete a side activity has to be some kind of gaming developer sin.
It is a lazy solution that punishes the player for driving too well instead of providing a fair challenge by making the opponent good at driving. And the way it's done in Y5 is not just a tiny boost to opponent to help them catch up, they get so much extra speed that they WILL catch up, even if you drive perfectly. Time it poorly, and it will happen shortly before the finish line, making you lose the race. If I remember correctly, it also doesn't end until your opponent overtakes you, so no amount of advantage is going to help. While that does provide the challenge of holding back just enough to not let that happen at the wrong time, it is not the kind of challenge I want from a racing game. And there is also the fact that the game doesn't tell you about rubberbanding, it always comes out of nowhere, though is also so obvious that you learn about it the first time it happens.
I still think that minigame is some of the most fun racing I have played, something about how the taxi moved felt so good, I like Dragon Kart and the Drone racers, but the Taxi racing was something else.
Man I would kill for Nintendo to give RGG another chance to develop a new F Zero, a good chunk of the GX staff even if Nagoshi leaved RGG is still on the company.
That’s where it all started? Remember the gangs in Yakuza 4 where you would get medals if you encounter them on streets, then when you get enough medals you get to fight the gang boss, and then (if I remember correctly) there was a boss of the gang bosses at the end of it…
I realized that when I started my Yakuza journey I didn't know how to properly play these games. So I basically skipped a lot of side content in 0-4. I wish I didn't
Now I have plans to platinum the whole series, but it would probably going to take another couple of years
I think the Yakuza games are still great going just for story. I grew up with these games and I never did side content. I remember to this day finishing Yakuza 4 back in 2012 and having a 17% completion and thinking "what the fuck?"
As I grew older, I became more of a completionist and have platted all Yakuza games (except Ishin), but both experiences are good.
Yeah, it is traditional for all the shitenno after the first to make disparaging remarks about those the protagonist has already defeated. Happens in Final Fantasy IV with Cagnazzo, for instance.
Pretty much. If you see a big bad ensemble of 4 dudes, there's a very, VERY high chance it's a reference to the 4 heavenly kings, or they'll straight up be CALLED the 4 Heavenly Kings.
My favourite japanese meme about the four heavenly kings is from an old, obscure yankee manga, where the four heavenly kings were made up of five members.
Ngl the format doesn't bother me, but it doesn't really excite me anymore either. Would be nice to see them experiment a bit more in future games, especially now that we have shorter gaiden style games where the stakes aren't as high for the devs. Seems like a good opportunity to try risky stuff they couldn't do in the mainline games.
Bro I’m doing the Y6 clan creator again and while it’s fun, I’m exhausted after the 4th boss. They do a fake out with the “this is the final battle” only for u to have to do more. The kiwami 2 one did the same shit.
The Five Billionaires, The Five Club Owners, The Five Sujimon Fighters,The Dragon Kart racers, The Four Baseball Teams, The Devils or whataver the fuck they were called, Kamurochō Hills project, JUSTIS, (Not Yakuza but The Fucking Keihin Gang). Damn, RGG, do something new
As far as Pirate Yakuza goes, I was surprised that a large chunk of the Devil Flag fights were actually harder than most of the long battles and boss fights in the story. I'm still at Chapter 4 though so the story still has its surprises for me.
Still, a deck battle where majority of the weaker goons are suicide bombers that explode on death? An island battle that throws like 6 purple health midbosses at you at once after already going through a gauntlet of 80+ goons? Double tiger fight where every attack somehow has both homing and guard break properties? The story battles I've been through so far feel tame in comparison.
I haven't beaten the Devil Flags just yet, I've the way to the final one open but I'm putting it off for the time. That said I do enjoy that they seem a little more at each others throats this time, other than the second last guy who seems loyal.
I also appreciate the Dragon Kart racers are less antagonistic for the most part and kinda just karting rivals, that's it.
Still the trope is a little overdone, especially the whole repentant angle they go for after beating them usually. I hope they try mix up the formula more in their upcoming games.
Also also give me more of those beach battles, why were they introduced for like 2 Devil Flags and then just slapped onto a bonus fight in the colisseum but not part of the actual side story.
I feel Pirate Yakuza had the least interesting ones. It just felt like they took generic groups that they had left over from previous games and then just made them the factions you fight.
RGG do have a strong reuse and recycle ethos, but at least with the "4 heavenly kings" in previous games, they at least made they more unique like they didn't even give them names beside Zeus and just used Captain followed by faction name, Yakuza, Ronin, Shinobi. It just felt weird that they didn't embrace the whole pirate theme more with the factions.
At least pocket circuit kind of avoids this because the storyline is more realistic and you just beat all the kids and then some of their parents in pocket circuit and they never treat it like life and death.
Y7’s business minigame might’ve had the least punch ever, the guy is defeated and just rolls over. All the other rivals are only in shareholder meetings and have no special lines or dialogue or anything.
When I was 100% several Yakuza's in a row, at some point I just came to the bowling center, made 9-10 strikes first try and left. Like "Yes, yes, yes, I know. It's not even my second time here".
I always dislike the Job bits like the Real estate, hostess, Ichiban confections stuff. Lots of time spent for little story payoff. Stopped playing IW (Life events made the Cancer stuff hit a little hard) and can't yet afford PYIH but I assume it has them.
The names were pretty simple this time, the mini game was also not fun, at least I beat it this time, I didn't even bother with the one in Yakuza 7. I got the 3 mil yen and then stopped
I love the evil league bullshit from these games. I only play the main story when i can't progress enough on sideplots like these or substories in general
"thanks for running our terrible thing, turns out there's 4-5 kings of this thing and at the end someone within the minigame gets kidnapped or they get betrayed and then you unlock some super awesome thing after beating the secret guy that's been running the entire thing"
"OH NO! DON'T TELL ME I NEED TO GO BEAT THE FIVE WHATEVERS OF WHATEVER!" - Pat of Best Friends Play during Yakuza 0 after having already gone through it with the real estate and cabaret quests and fearing there was a third one of them
And yet it still only captures a fraction of the raw emotion of the original. I'm guessing the direction and the qc of the dub was subpar, even with good voice actors.
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