Can the Cat Fight Club return and not be simulated bullshit?
Well, it did in Kiwami as MesuKing.
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Yakuza.
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^ Apparently with the essentially the same Rock,Paper,Scissors gameplay the made the original not very fun.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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^ Apparently with the essentially the same Rock,Paper,Scissors gameplay the made the original not very fun.
Yeah, but since it was card-based, it had less RNG bullshit/meaningless button mashing then Y0's version, so it wasn't as bad.
Oh, also I forgot. Ijincho, the place in Yokohama where the majority of Y7 takes places, is apparently three times as large as Kamurocho. That's pretty damn crazy.
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Can't wait to see how all that goes underutilized.
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Small update: Doing certain minigames like Shogi, Mahjong and that quiz thing in the gameplay trailer above allows Kasuga and his party to do an Auto-Battle function, allowing you to breeze past random encounters much quicker.
Also, besides Ijincho and Kamurocho, Sotenbori is also confirmed as a visitable location.
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Famitsu has released some bios about the other characters, and confirmed:
! A returning character is Han Joon-Gi, the Jingweon Boss from Yakuza 6 who was killed by Hirose, is the figure we saw fighting with Kasuga the trailer. Pretty curious how that works, as we saw him shot in the head.
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Could be like the twist from 3 or they could pull a Dead Souls.
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MAJOR spoilers from the latest story trailer:
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And yup, that is George Takei voicing your traitorous oyabun.
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I still have to play 3-6 & Judgement before, but from what I saw so far it seems Like A Dragon incorporates humor a bit more in the main plot of the game than the ones before, where it was more in the side content. But looks like a lot of fun again and the english dub sounds pretty great - although I would only use it on a second run-through.
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I still have to play 3-6 & Judgement before, but from what I saw so far it seems Like A Dragon incorporates humor a bit more in the main plot of the game than the ones before, where it was more in the side content. But looks like a lot of fun again and the english dub sounds pretty great - although I would only use it on a second run-through.
Yes, and no. Ichiban is a lot more emotional and easy-going then Kiryu is, but the story itself is no less serious, dramatic or tragic as others. In particular, even without speaking Japanese, you learn how utterly terrible Ichi's entire life has been, and empathize a lot with him.
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I still have to play 3-6 & Judgement before, but from what I saw so far it seems Like A Dragon incorporates humor a bit more in the main plot of the game than the ones before, where it was more in the side content. But looks like a lot of fun again and the english dub sounds pretty great - although I would only use it on a second run-through.
4 and 0 incorporated some humor in some of the standalone parts of the main story like Akiyama’s interaction with his secretary and Majima’s introduction. But otherwise it was pretty straight laced and depressing at points.
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Also, here's a new contender for the best karaoke song in the series.
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A longer trailer for ISHIN!
A side-game, Like A Dragon Gaiden, focusing on Kiryu after he faked his death in Y6:
And the main course......Like A Dragon 8, still a turn-based RPG, but now with Ichi and Kiryu leading their own parties!
Also, from here on out, the series will be called Like A Dragon as it would be in Japan.
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And the main course......Like A Dragon 8, still a turn-based RPG, but now with Ichi and Kiryu leading their own parties!
If true the butthurt is going to be delicious.
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As someone who played all the mainline Kiryu games, the ending of 6 was such a perfect sendoff and Ichiban held so well on his own too.
I guess the commercial success of Yakuza in recent years is one big reason or THE big reason they brought back Kiryu. No one really cared about the series (not to this extent of popularity it enjoys now) until the remakes and zero. Ichiban can easily carry the series too but I guess $$$ is where it is at.
They could easily remake 3 if they want to capitalize on Kiryu instead of pulling him back in despite saying 6 is the closure. I don't particularly like this direction.
In terms of power scaling....this doesn't even make sense. Kiryu don't need a party, he is THE party. Like, he's the top of the food chain that you basically need superhero-level strength to match him. -
Has nothing to do with exposure it’s simply RGG being both lazy and someone on that team really not liking the ending of 6.
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I think it would have been interesting if it were Daigo instead, since he's now a part of that ex-Yakuza security firm he and Watase founded. As I'm sure there will be a plot point of a power vacuum in Kamurocho now that the Tojo is gone.
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They could have just used Majima instead. He never really got the sendoff like Kiryu did and shares the same popularity due to 0.
@Time-Control-Magician They are capitalizing on the exposure that Kiryu had in recent years. The company has said many times that 6 was the end. Even if someone on the team didn't like it, Kiryu's story is still something that one of the core producers, Nagoshi, holds close to heart. and he had recently left.
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Why would you need to capitalize on exposure for a character that’s overexposed?
Kiryu’s been the central focus in virtually every game bar the PSP spin-offs and the Judgment duology.
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Because that's the problem? Sure, he's not the Mario to Mario games or the Link to Zelda game but he is THE most prominent character and the instant association when you think about the Yakuza series. By that logic, Mario is overexposed too. None of the companies I mentioned ever said anything about retiring their characters or create a new mainline series without them but the crew over at Yakuza explicitly said that 6 was the last story AND wrote an entire new character and cast AND rename the series name.
..And then decided not to stick with the heart of the decision. Why do you think that? Is it because, Kiryu, with 7 (9 if you count remakes) games under his belt, still has a story to write for and there's more potential there to develop him over, I don't know, the gallery of 20 over new and old characters? Or is it because just bringing him in will bring me fans of games 0-6 who didn't play my new game with a new character but would be interested in him if I were to bring him back? That's what I meant by capitalizing on him instead of having the creator integrity to retire him (and let him do what he does in 7 if they really want to) and focus on carving out a path for a new character. It is $$$, lol.
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@zeltrax225 said in Yakuza.:
Because that's the problem? Sure, he's not the Mario to Mario games or the Link to Zelda game but he is THE most prominent character and the instant association when you think about the Yakuza series.
I mean Yakuza has a number of other characters who are just as iconic as Kiryu but either underutilized or barely used at all some of them are even still alive. But the guy that’s been in the most games and whose death has been teased twice in series needs more exposure.
By that logic, Mario is overexposed too.
Well sure if you ignore the fact that the key difference between Kiryu & Mario is that Mario’s series & games are named after him. That and as far as I know the Mario games have never tried to officially write the character off.
..And then decided not to stick with the heart of the decision. Why do you think that? Is it because, Kiryu, with 7 (9 if you count remakes) games under his belt, still has a story to write for
As I said before someone on the dev. team likely didn’t like the ending of 6 or is simply a Kiryu fan as otherwise I can’t really figure out the decision to being Kiryu back. Anything and Everything they could’ve did with his character has been done to various degrees of success.
Finding Romance? Did that with 2 and fucked it up with 3.
Covering his early days in the Tojo? Covered that in 0.
His history with Majima? Covered that in 0 too and didn’t have them officially meet each other til the end credits
His non Yakuza life?….covered in 3,4,5, & 6.
Literally the only thing they can do with Kiryu at this point even though it’s technically not necessary is resolve the plot line from 6 with him being dead. Otherwise there’s literally nothing else to do with his character. Especially as 7 pretty much ends his obligation to the Tojo Clan with it’s plot twist after that literally being a crutch for most of the games he was the protagonist of.
Like I said elsewhere I’m cool with this so long as
A. This is the definitely last the mainline game featuring Kiryu narratively or gameplay wise.
B. Doesn’t turn into a Gyakuten Saiban thing.
It is $$$, lol.
It can be both for money and because the developers are on some coward shit.
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@Time-Control-Magician "It can be both for money and because the developers are on some coward shit" That's all we need to be in agreement. I mean, I get where you are coming from. I'm not cool with it because I don't think A. is gonna happen B. Definetly is gonna happen. But other than that, I'm mostly in agreement with your post.
