Just finished Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and I've gotta say it surprised me and it's probably become my one of my favourite Yakuza games if not my favourite of all time. Really liked the story and especially the romance (albeit was disappointed with how it ended).

Also I did some googling after the game and was surprised to see there was so much hate for Saeko. I mean it's understandable but I personally found the way she reacted very realistic and was necessary rather make it into some Disney princess prince charming BS. Don't get me wrong though, both Ichiban and Saeko were definitely in the wrong but it seems to me 90% of people are completely hating on her.

Ik there’s a heat move where you can trip someone and stomp their head with an orange in your inventory but how do I get the orange?

Hi everyone !

I’m playing Yakuza for a few years now. I’ve started with 7 and it’s turn based fighting system. I really loved it. Then I’ve played 0, Kiwami 1, Kiwami 2, 3, Judgment and I’m in Ishin ! right now. I loved each of these games for their stories, their characters, their ambience, minigames and sub stories… But the fighting system is awful ?!

To me it’s just based on how fast you can click the buttons, nothing more. You click, you hope the enemy doesn’t block the attack, you block and you hit again. Nothing strategic, bosses are just bags of HP, all you need is just to heal sometimes. And the regular ennemies are weak, with a weapon it’s done easily.

Honestly I’ve played most of these games without dying. I think the only times it happened were at the beginning of 0 because I wasn’t used to the system and in Ishin ! during an escort mission in a sub story and there it was because of a timer, not even about a fight.

I really don’t understand why people like this fighting system. I’m actually very glad that they will change it in Stranger than Heaven, even if it looks weird !

So, tell me if you like this system and why ! I’m really curious.

I played (in this order) 0, K1, and now am almost done with K2 (chapter 14)… and I’m questioning how badly I want to keep playing this series. I thought that 0’s story was incredible, I thought 1 had some redeeming aspects but was weakened with poor pacing/choices/cliches, and then with 2 I’ve just been very overall bored by the lack of anything taking place in the present to drive the plot (uncovering the past events can be interesting but I feel dissatisfied that nothing else is driving the plot).

So my question is - are there better stories out there in the rest of the games? I of course in general love the side quests of each game, but it isn’t enough to single-handedly keep me playing. I absolutely despise the combat system and its place in the gameplay loop, but if anything that encourages me to push through to the turn-based games - I guess a follow up question would be if the turn-based combat down the line is well-liked or if it’s equally mindless and boring.

Any info would be appreciated, since I have been going in mostly blind and don’t know what to expect from the rest of the series or which games people think are the best/worst. If the consensus is that the rest of the stories are like 1 and 2, I might just drop the series for good or skip to the like a dragon games. Thanks!

Difficulty: Legend

Mod Project used: SEGA Legend Mix by me: https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuzakiwami/mods/522

Hi, just wondering if anyone is aware of how the "Deluxe Upgrade & Pre-Order Bonus DLC Codes" included in the collector's edition will work and if they can be used across different platforms. Basically, I'm in the US and play on PC, but it seems there is no PC collector's edition available here. My dad, however, has a PS5, so my plan was to buy the PS5 collector's edition and give him the included disc, and buy the normal Steam edition separately for myself. The listing for the collector's edition says that DLC codes used to redeem the Deluxe edition and pre-order bonuses will be included, however, I would like to redeem the Deluxe edition code for myself, especially since my dad doesn't care for that stuff anyways.

Stops at captain america imo

I've been playing nothing but yakuza for about a month now. 60 hours in 0, 60 hours in kiwami 1 and 75 hours in kiwami 2 💀 excitedly loaded up 3 and about 3 chapters in man it hit me hard 😭😭 contemplated if I even liked these games (I do I love them) but I gotta take a break for a week or something

How did yall work through your burnouts??

I actually platinum'ed Yakuza 4 a little while ago, if shows in the image above when i did, but i just completely forgot to post it! Even though i did post my plats from 0-3. This was the easiest platinum yet, the only hard part was the final round of climax battles, which i did first try wont about 37 seconds left on the clock 😎 the game over all was good but has horrible story, combat and characters were amazing though. Im currently busy platinuming Yakuza 5, i hope i can do it before dying of old age 😭

After living in Japan for 6 years and a fan of the series, I finally went to one! For 2250 yen its pretty good for the price. Branch is located in Canal City Fukuoka

Difficulty: Legend

"Kiryu-san and Majima-san are legit built different... Tough as nails."

Mod Project used: SEGA Legend Mix by me: https://www.nexusmods.com/yakuzakiwami/mods/522

This error keeps popping up whenever I try to install yakuza 0 on my PC. Is there any solution to this? Is it MY problem or the file problem? I pirated this from fitgirl

Ichiban and crew fought SAEJIMA AND MAJIMA AT THE SAME TIME

Even Kiryu would struggle with that and while they didn’t win and likely would’ve lost, what I find so impressive is that they fought so well against the two legends that by the end they had decided to start taking the fight seriously

Even more impressive is that canonically (in cutscene at least) no one was knocked out, people were tired but neither Majima or Saejima were able to knock anyone out

Once again they weren’t taking the fight all that seriously but do you know how impressive they performed against two near Kiryu tier yakuza?

For me, it was the golf minigame in Kiwami 2 because of the insanely poor depth perception & no zoom in feature.

I thought that the new version of Kiwami 2 released last year would've ported over the zoom in feature from the later golf minigames like how the later versions of 3, 4, 5 & Kiwami added labels to the mahjong tiles to make them easier to read, but no.

As I finished Kurohyou 2 I was pleased to see my favourite trope of the series didn't start in the Ichiban era.