Yakuza

I really dislike Ai's "EH HEH-HEH" laugh, maybe that's her revenge for me turning her into a Goth princess.

fufufu

I have gotten better at the Miss Isobe substory and can get 6000+ points consistently now, but is that enough to beat her?

Not unless you get lucky. You’re better off doing the song on hard mode as she’s far more likely to fuck up on that level. I beat her on 8200 or thereabouts but I came within like 2 points of beating her on a few occasions and it was enraging.

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm trying on hard already! I haven't been able to swing a perfectly clean run through Koi No Disco Queen yet, so I guess that's an obvious area for potential improvement.

Are you getting three bonuses per run?

Just two, I think, but sometimes I sit on the fever if I'm close to the chorus.

This is maybe where you’re going wrong - use fever as soon as you get it, otherwise you’re wasting time you could be accruing another chance at it.

OK, I'll give that a shot!

Using that strategy I was able to break 7K points, but the one time she scored less than that, I biffed horribly and ended under 6000.

Aside from pure stubbornness, I'm not even sure why I'm still trying to beat her since I've already beaten Club Moon.

Practice at disco? One of the hardest bosses but the self satisfaction you get there is immense.

Done! My second attempt yesterday she made a load of mistakes while I had reasonably clean run. 7000 to 6000.

Woo! Well done.

EVERYBODY SAY ROUUUUUGE OF LOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEE

Kiwami 2 is on sale for PS4.

Mild spoiler for 0:

I got to the part where Oda speaks Chinese and my god it's awful. The devs at least sprung for an actual native Chinese speaker for one of the other other characters, thankfully.

haha! i wondered about that. also, something i noticed in 6 (didn't notice in 0)... if a character speaks two languages, i am pretty sure they use two voice actors, one for each language?! and there was one character, i forget which one, where his japanese voice and his other-language voice aren't even CLOSE! (not mentioning the language in case it's a spoiler, idk)

xp omg seriously? Makes me wonder if they dubbed him better in the Chinese version.

Ok I searched for one of the “other” language speakers but can’t find it on YouTube (is it the guy who’s been uhhhh recast?) but I did find that Oda clip and I’m dying, i don’t know any Chinese but what the fuck was this & why did I not notice it
https://youtu.be/dhPR_K4uCBw

Did Sega dub Zero into other languages??

later in the game there's another chinese character that in the jp/us/eu versions is played by a (presumably) japanese va and whose 3d model is (presumably) made up for the game but in the chinese version is played by and modelled after an actual chinese actor and... well, you'll see

The version of 0 released in China had one big change which I won’t mention as it’s spoilery(?)

lol xp ty

What's a good way to kill time in between Real Estate pickups? I tried doing the phone club but got discouraged with my first repeat date. (I'm supposed to differentiate the voices of all the actresses???)

pocket circuit?

+1 pocket circuit, also mahjong (❤️) and disco (❤️❤️). And outrun!

Re: telephone club - http://www.khhsubs.com/rggzero/chatline.html

lol I loathe the Sega arcade games, when I had to beat the Electronics King's high score I was perfectly content to lose and give him back that 10%.

Pocket Circuit is pretty much just getting better components for your car and not so much a game of skill (aside from knowing when to use a turbo)?

Disco might work! I still have a bunch of songs that I still need to 3*.

Pocket circuit will get you a ton of CP though & it’s fairly repetitive yeah but it’s the kind of thing you can chip away at. You’ll also get the pocket circuit building as one of yours once you befriend pocket circuit fighter.

...is yakuza 6 generally similar to the other yakuza games?

Yes, though there are some mini games that aren’t in the others and ofc the setting. Why?

yakuza is the first game in the newest engine and in some ways combat is significantly toned down compared to something like 0 or 5

kiwami 2 which came out later also uses 6's engine but has caught up a fair bit

NUGGET!

I LOVE YOU.

So I'm in the middle of the Media King real estate stuff and something I'm still not quite clear on yet is which advisor (I have them all unlocked) to use for a specific property. For example, if I'm trying to level up a restaurant, should I use Miracle (5*, O proficiency) or Mama-san (3*, OO proficiency, and a fraction of MJ's price)?

Mama san. Double circle = the best rating & star is just a multiplier? Think MJ is the best for levelling entertainment venues.

These people seem to say to always use Miracle: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/816306-yakuza-0/75652469

I'm not yet at the point where I can throw ¥50m at every property I want to upgrade, so seeing the bar move up by only 1/10th keeps leaving me with buyer's remorse.

Meanwhile, in the rough-and-tumble world of the high-level, high-stakes pocket circuit: I love the animation when Kiryu loses! His disappointment and sadness is so heartfelt!

yakuza 7 is a JRPG

https://gematsu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Yakuza-7_2019_08-29-19_010.jpg

badass

fuck yes i love jrpgs in nontraditional settings

Nah, not into it tbh, I’m not mad about street fights as they are but they are something you just get over as fast as possible if you’re not in the mood; this looks like it takes much longer.

Side note: judgement is AMAZING

Yakuza 7 Demo enemy//

And the award for best random encounter enemy goes to WHATEVER THE HECK THIS IS.
I couldn't even attack him because i was on the floor laughing. pic.twitter.com/wMg5c0AXzR

— Tony "Kiryu in yakuza 7" Perez (@VenomDeathNinja) November 13, 2019

Despite what I said above, I’ll probably end up buying this

This is how I dressed up Mana:

#PS4share pic.twitter.com/AfgK2hIPU4

— Leee (@plechazunga) December 28, 2019

Lol, nice. Ioved the little caption they gave dressup in Kiwami 2 (“you know you love it”).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ABgVXnrbs

Yakuza 0 on sale for $10 on PSN store right now. I picked it up.

So far I beat up a bunch of idiots, played in the batting cages, won a cute creature that apparently is a reanimated corpse from a crane game, got handed a pocket pack of tissues, and now I have to investigate the shady real estate company that’s buying up a bunch of neighborhood businesses

enjoy the yakuza experience at its finest

actually they improved the batting cage game in recent ones but other than that 0 has the best slate of side activities

Jesus Christ @ Judgement, fucking gang leaders want to fight me like every five minutes, can't get anything done like this. And if I ignore them I get the passive agressive text messages.

Just ignore them, nothing bad will happen