Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Holy fucking shit this is good.

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What in the actual fuck is up with this move, it consistently does super high damage and destroys everything and it costs shit-all MP. Did I accidentally break the game? It does more damage than the "super" tag team moves.

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I feel like the first half was fucking fantastic but the game start getting worse once you get to the second half and your party members start losing relevance with what's going on in the plot.

Just got the game ; playing ps4 version on my ps5. just 3 hours in and it is amazing

SEEEEI REEY YAAA

Remember before it came out everyone was screaming about how awful it was because it was turn based

actually enjoying the turn based combat

People always reject new things when they're unsure of the implementation.
But RGG did good by us and made sure it was enjoyable and in-depth
Shit like this makes me remember how much I liked turn based RPGs when done well

whats good about this?

Normies won't get past all the long cutscenes, especially at the beginning.

>tfw your favorite was never relevant

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The cutscenes at the beginning actually interested me. I had an issue with that time you captured the Bleach Japan guy and he plotdumps the game's entire conspiracy onto you.

yeah, just finished it after 68h, 55/62 achievements

>get into fight in Kamurocho
>30 seconds in
>AYYYYYYYYY SEXY LADAY

She is too pure.

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the entire series is too cutscene heavy, it's the only thing that stops it from being a 10/10. This is a fact and you can go fuck yourself if you think Yakuza cutscenes aren't too fucking long and have redundant useless dialogue in them.

When will we have a mod that replaces the Yokohama battle theme with Persona/SMT battle themes?

The actual cutscenes aren't too long but the low budget dialogue scenes take too much time AND have too much exposition in them.

Not with those ears

Paused my Yakuza 7 playthrough to play Cyberpunk.

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Is this a good game for someone who never played the Yakuza series before? I love Dragon Quest and turn based RPGs if it helps.

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waiting for crack

god i wanna play so bad

>in-depth

Enjoyable, sure, but it is basic ass JRPG combat. Attacks, defend, item, skill, summon, all basic shit. Poison, bleed, paralysis, again, basic bitch status effects. It is a very basic Dragon Quest game, can be fun, sure, but is shallow as a puddle compared to other job based games like Bravely Defauly, where you get extra/less turns with the Brave/Default system AND you get better synergy between jobs. They really needed a Yakuza-style gimmick if they wanted to make it more in-depth.

Yeah, you won't get the significance of the Tojo Clan officers, but it's a new character's first story so it's not THAT reliant on knowing the prior games.

awful taste

Not really, no. Better start with Zero. Or enjoy all of the jank of the first one on the PS2 if you are truly manly. If you start with this one there are serious spoilers that can hamper your enjoyiment of all previous mainline games when you go play them, so be warned.

I haven't played a turn based RPG since Final Fantasy 10 when it first came out, so for me it was a nice nostalgic change of pace

It's kind of a soft reboot of the series so it's designed for newfags to jump in. If you want to catch the majority of the references and callbacks to older games just play Zero.

Thumbtack Scatter is the best AOE, love the sound it makes when you take out like 6 fucks at once. Especially great because Eri seems to be super fast and usually gets first move.

>turn based yakuza game
>good game

Its moves like this and paralysis prongs that show that team is still getting used to balancing the turn based system. If they tweak the damage output of these things and the majority of AOE attacks and adjust boss health so they're not overly spongey we're looking at one of the best JRPG's made. Hope they continue down this route and keep adding to it.

Waiting for a crack to try it out before I potentially buy it. I'm curious about it because I love Yakuza and I have some small hope that they know what they're doing. But I also don't want to just jump in and feel like I wasted money.

am i missing something? from the screenshots, i seems like your party members are pretty generic looking NPCs

Thanks. I think I'll just start with the PS2 one, I usually prefer older games anyways, and I'm curious to see how the series evolves.

She'll be a party member in the next game, right?

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Ichi, I love ya but good God stop saying you killed that guy. You are betrayed and they shot you.

She'll be my wife too, hopefully.