Yakuza / Like A Dragon Megathread

Penn wrote: »

Yeah the game is very slow for the first few hours, but as you progress it gets a lot better and more varied.

As for combat, you unlock different fighting styles as you go along and new moves for the fighting styles. It does still stay quite basic, but a lot of fights can get very hectic and enemies start having weapons, and there will be some very tough enemies and bosses throughout.

It definitely takes a while to properly get going in the game, enough to put a lot of people off, and almost put me off too. But it's worth sticking with. The story gets really great as you go along, the side missions are usually fun, and a lot of the mini games are addictive as hell.

Some right oddballs in some of the substories.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Definitely Zero.

Definitely Zero, great game and it is only €20 or less now seeing as it is in the new budget Hits range.

I'm playing Yakuza 0 at the moment. I'm loving just running around doing side missions. Mr Libido is the greatest game character of all time.

Edit: I stayed up till 6am playing this and got up at 10 to play more. I'm hooked!!

Yeah first time for me. This may be the greatest game i have ever played

Those Yakuza games do put a big smile on my face

The Specialist wrote: »

Finished Kiwami 2 last night, absolutely brilliant game. Still have the Majima chapters to play but will leave them until the weekend. Now just another year or so to wait for Yakuza 3 remastered to get over here

Playing Kiwami 1 at the minute. I'm glad I left a decent break between Yakuza 0 and this, as I think you need it, especially with the games essentially being the same maps, shops, many of the same minigames etc.

This made me laugh...

Playing Yakuza Kiwami 1. Trying to get through the story, but all I want to do is chase Majima around the place.

Me walking round Kamurocho and hearing a faint "Kiryu-channnn"

Since I decided to get AC:Odyssey, I figured I better just plow through the story missions for YK1 and get it out of the way. Thought I'd read there were 16 chapters in the game so presumed it'd take me most of the rest of the week, but it's only 13 and I was on 10 last night anyway, so finished it off last night.

I enjoyed it for what it was. Story and characters weren't as good as Y0, weren't a lot of side activities I was interested in (maybe Y0 was still too fresh in my mind so they just felt like a rehash, plus there were fewer minigames than Y0 anyway), and I'd still have a few complaints about the combat system.

In particular, for the second game in a row, the game screams at you that Dragon style is the most powerful style, yet you barely get to use it. You have to jump through so many hoops in YK1 to make it in any way useful, but by that point you're just so tuned in to your other styles that it's almost pointless trying to get skills for it. I even said at one point I'd focus on doing all the Komaki training and get all those moves, but he then told me he wasn't ready to train me further at that point and come back to him later (and this was maybe Chapter 9 with about 8-10 of his training skills still to try and unlock). And as enjoyable (though oftentimes frustrating) as Majima Everywhere was, the time you'd have to devote to constantly tracking him down, minigames etc to unlock a lot of the skills for the climax of the game outweighed the benefits.

And yet in the final fight, you pretty much definitely have to use Dragon style to be able to do enough damage or use Kiwami heat moves.

I got through it reasonably okay, but compared to Y0, the balance just seemed off. I get that it's a remake rather than a new game like Y0, but I thought they could have adjusted that.

Still though, I'm going to continue working my way through the series, as I still enjoyed the game overall. But definitely going to take a longer break before playing the next one.

Finished Kiwami last night. Great story and all but not as polished as Zero (understandably so). Found the boss fights to be a chore for the most part with the exception of the last fight which was enjoyable and seemed fair unlike the other bosses towards the end of the game.

Picked up 6 in the sale and looking forward to seeing what the new engine looks like. Anyone know if I need to play Kiwami 2 before 6 or does it have any hugh impact story-wise if I do 6 first? I'm not sure how much of a link there is between events seeing as there are a few games in between that I won't get to play either way.

The Specialist wrote: »

If you are following the story so far then yeah, there will be a big jump between Kiwami 2 and 6 in terms of story and characters. I'm resisting the urge to buy 6 myself as they are remastering 3-5 at the moment and we will get them eventually (Kiwami 2 will also give you a good look at the Dragon engine used in 6 and it's a savage game as well).

I'd prefer to do Kiwami 2 first but its full price at the moment. Its a pity they didn't release remakes in sequence. Realistically it'll be a few weeks before I get started into 6 anyway so kiwami 2 might be on sale in the meantime, if not I reckon I'll just plough on.

tuxy wrote: »

I completed Yakuza 0 a few months ago and if anything I found it a little bit easy.
I'm now playing through yakuza kiwami and I can't beat Futoshi Shimano. I understand that it's meant to be a slow fight but whenever he grabs me I can't escape no matter how fast I mash the button. He usually gets two hit in when he grabs me, once when he throws me and then his stomp.
IN 0 I had no problem escaping grabs, is there timing involved rather than just button mashing?

Are you playing on PC with a gamepad? Steam has very advanced (albeit not user friendly) customisation for them. For any button-mashing games, I immediately assign a mashing macro and use the PS4's touchpad as the modifier. I loathe button mashing in most games.

tuxy wrote: »

Hi yes I am on pc with a xbox360 pad. I'll try that thanks.
I did beat him in the end, just ran around until he did the move that make him fall over and attacked 2/3 times. Took a while and it was a very boring fight.

Most of the bosses telegraph the grab moves I found so it's a matter of getting used to patterns and dodging around and getting a few hits in. I used Brawler most but if I found I was having trouble getting around a tanky enemy I used Rush, just upgrade it so you get more damage from combos. Be prepared for some arthritis in your fingers with later bosses though which for the most part are pain in the hole.