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Daigo is one of the worst written characters in the series and from what I hear things don't improve much with 3. 4 in particular is especially poorly regarded ( there's a plot point involving a character who unknowingly fired rubber bullets at a bunch of assassination targets that were than killed immediately after by someone else anyway, just so that all the playable characters can lack body counts.) in terms of writing and story.
They're all fun games, don't get me wrong. And the stories are entertaining the way a kind of campy seinen anime is. They're just not that good.
I dunno, I though Yakuza Kiwami was pretty damn awesome in terms of its complicated crazy political conspiracy. The plot isn't really any that weirder than the Jack Reacher or Tom Clancy novels, only they have a Japanese Hitman with a Heart as its protagonist.
Mind you, it's bullshit that Haruka and Kiyru survived that explosion. They should have had him shut the door to the bomb.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
The side quests are one of the best parts though. Even Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise realized that.
I think Kiwami 2 works better after playing 0 first, mainly because of majima's side story and how kiwami 2's carbaret story is a sequel to the first game's.
Also Majima is great haha.
Also confession, I actually died against Daigo twice in Kiwami 2. Mr. Shakedown and 1st Kuze in Zero were the only bosses I died against in that game(just once for Kuze) so losing to the first boss in Kiwami 2 twice in a row was kind of demoralizing lol. Haven't lost since except against the jerk with the white suit and fedora in the coliseum who kept tiger dropping me.
Well, I decided to play Kiwami 2 and I'm undecided as I just finished the first fight against Ryoji (I think that's his name) and that was a Difficulty Spike beyond my wildest imagination. Everything previous had been very easy so I hadn't put an investment in lots of teas and drinks. I ended up having to redo the level beforehand to stock up and then "Skyrim Potion Spammed" the battle.
So far I'm not entirely sold on this game's story as I don't really have much of an attachment to the Tojo clan due to the fact, well, they were a bunch of scumbags who tried to murder me with the exception of Kazama. It's also probably one of those Values Dissonance things that I'm supposed to be nice to Daigo versus telling him, "Yeah, I probably would have murdered your dad for trying to rape my girlfriend but my best friend got to him first."
Mind you, headcanon or not, I think Daigo is fully aware what kind of piece of crap his dad was.
The game so far hasn't really lit up the way the previous one did even if it is pretty damn gorgeous.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Can't stress enough how much Daigo drags the story down.
I wanted to chalk him up to values dissonance, and that's a big part of it, but even Japanese stories follow basic principles like character development, which never happens to Daigo in at least this game. What you see is what you get.
Including his being Ryuji's apparently years long punching bag.
So, I downloaded the remake of Yakuza 1 about last year and I'm about to get back to playing it since the last time I played it, I only got as far as the mosh-pit in the host's club.
So, does anybody have any advice for a person who has not touched Yakuza 0?
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.I actually don't hate daigo that much? So far he's relatively inoffensive.
I think the story gets better later on(especially when an old favorite shows up in one of my favorite scenes) but so far none of its high points have hit the highs of 0 or 6. Still the story at is paced better than 0's, which for kiryu's portion felt like it took a long time to get interesting and I found outright boring even until awano took stage. Majima's sections were always good even if sawawhatever is one of the most unlikable characters in the franchise IMO.
Ironically so far out of the 3 games I've played I've kinda enjoyed 6's story the most? Even if the last say 4th of it was a bit off rails a bit in being believable it felt the most consistently engaging and has the best cast.
Edited by Vertigo_High on May 23rd 2019 at 6:46:07 AM
http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2019/05/yakuza-kiwami-review.html
Here's my review of the first game.
Really enjoyed it.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Initial reviews are coming in for Yakuza spin-off Judgment and they seem pretty positive.
Also, Fighting Vipers as a mini game.
OOO Oh fighting vipers? Huh fun fact, but I think that game had the first black woman in a fighting game. I used to like Picky and Candy the most when I was little, and Mahler even though he was an SNK Boss. He was still pretty darn cool at least to like, 6-7 year old me.
Actually I recall liking most of the cast, except Sanman, and usually used them over the VF dudes in Fighters Megamix. Oh and actually I remember Tokio sucking HARD but it could be a case of being a skill gate character.
Also Bahn was my first exposure to Jojo before I even knew Jojo existed lol.
Edited by Vertigo_High on Jun 22nd 2019 at 6:36:04 AM
Edited by tclittle on Jun 24th 2019 at 4:09:14 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Since I don't reccomnend trying to hunt down the PS 2 originals unless you have the console (And I wouldn't reccomend playing the original 1, it's rough) I would say 0, then Kiwami. It gets a bit trickier from there. Play Kiwami 2 to continue the story, but know that it's the second entry on RGG Studio's next Gen engine, and that the subsequent games you'll play will be on the previous one, and in Yakuza 6's case is more unrefined. Japan has gotten remastered re-releases of 3-5, but we don't know when they'll be coming west. And Judgment is completely isolated storywise from the mainline series, so you can just jump straight into that.
Edited by Emperordaein on Jun 24th 2019 at 8:52:07 PM
A corpse should be left well enough alone...So a heads up, if you have not finished Judgment, do NOT look at the Nightmare Fuel page, because the picture someone put as the page image is a huge spoiler for the end of the game. Hell, I should probably remove it.
A corpse should be left well enough alone...
Hell, I should probably remove it.
Just spoiler it. Heck, add a caption that says "Darker and Edgier than your average Yakuza game".

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Wait which is the drop off, after 2 or at 2?
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