Oh for sure, totally.
Run in any direction by pressing X, there are tons of goons to farm everywhere. Yeah you can grind but changing fighting styles generally helps me more.
Fill your inventory with Staminan Royale that can be bought from the pharmacy, and five firearms. That was my strategy for the whole game (at least in Kiwami) and it worked pretty well for me.
I don't see any substories, and, as I said, nobody wants to pick a fight with me. I ran around for over an hour last night. I did stumble upon the shrine, though, and ended up with 100+ million yen. Bought some moves and gonna give the boss another shot in a bit.
Learn the attack strings of the bosses, dodge (R1 and X) when they are ending their combo to get behind them, then attack from behind. Bosses aren't like the regular enemies you fight, they are actually dangerous so if you attack from the front or side they'll break your combo and beat you up. They can't readily break out from a combo if your behind them. Brawler and Rush stances are the best for this - use small combo's with Brawler and if you have the chance to do a heat move (at this point its probably only when you've knocked them down, grabbing can be dangerous if they break out of it) then do so for extra damage. This works for practically every boss in the series, though its easier said than done on some of them! Avoid using Beast style unless there are tons of large weapons (chairs, tables, signs etc.) to instantly grab. Its too slow to be of any real use in the beginning. When you get the counters for beat mode though... your opponents won't stand a chance!
Substories aren't on the map by default in 0. They're location bound by a radius set to where you are relative to the quest at the time. You get close enough to them, they pop up. Just run around a bit and eventually you'll run into something and have it pop up on the minimap.
I was so surprised when I played Yakuza 5 and saw that most substories are shown on the map. Why the hell did they change that again in 0?
Yeah that wouldn't shock me. Pretty sure most games in the series do that now that I think about it.
Y is a weird series when it comes to qol features. Things will leave in one game to come back again later, or be worse the next game only to be back again game after next but still worse than it was before, to be back again the way it was originally again by game after next (minimap implementation STILL isn't as good as it was in 4, was the worst in 0, then back to 5's system in k???). It's just odd, and feels like they have different dudes doing the UI every game.
I feel obligated to do them regardless :s I ultimately end up just looking up the locations of missing substories anyway, so I personally prefer them showing up on the map, I guess. I see your point though.
I thought the same when I first played it, this is the peak of gaming for me. Legend difficulty unlocks after beating the game, go for that after finishing.
The item basically makes all the enemies hyper aggressive in most games. But in some games (Kiwami 2) it ups the encounter rate instead. The champion ring in Kiwami 2 ups the enemy strength though, so that's something to make it a bit harder (still wish it was harder myself!)
Yeah. Nioh smacks you about in the beginning but bosses and Yokai all have telltale signs when they use moves and all have weakspots so its really not that hard in the end, aside from a few tough missions which are pretty much all double team boss battles (and even most of those can be cheesed by leveling up loads). I'm doing my second run on Nioh (on the NG+ difficulty) and am not really having that many issues at all. I've got a nice thing going with several power ups so as long as I'm careful its not too bad.
If they made everything have loads of health bars the complaints would just switch to that of the first Shimano boss fight (aka bosses go on too long!). Only issue I have with healing is that its explained poorly in the game, introducing the gimmick than snatching away your upgrades without really telling you. So if your not careful you get caught out on the first couple of bosses. Really they should have done what Kiwami 2 does - wrap the unlocking of the first Kiwami move into a tutorial fight, just to hammer home the point better. Otherwise there isn't really all that much wrong with it, as its straight forward when you know how!
Odd decisions like requiring specific moves to deal with regenerating health aside, I think their biggest problem is that they weren't completely redesigned. To be honest 0 is the first game where I found bosses genuinely well done, with less "turn based" combat where you have to take turns because otherwise they keep breaking your combos and instead making them little puzzles that account for you using your entire arsenal of moves.
Good, I just unlocked Kiryu's legendary fighting style and a song played during that scene. Is that song from Yakuza 1?
I played the beginning of Yakuza 1 like 11 years ago but get goosebumps everytime I listen to it. Glad devs put this into 0.
Haha I feel you, the song is so iconic. It's a shame that newcomers will miss the references to it in 0, and even worse, not hear the song at all after it because Sega couldn't license the cover they used in Kiwami and had to replace it in the western release :(
Exactly. That and 0 elevates the story of 1/Kiwami a lot by fleshing out characters and plot points that were very lacking in the original.
Kiwami is best viewed as an expansion for 0. I would not play it without playing 0. K has additional cutscenes that directly play off Nishikiyama's character from 0. There are also sub-quests and dialog that directly play off 0, and (if you look at my prior posts) even boss fights. The difficulty even sorta ties into this, with normal in K being harder than hard in 0.
Absolutely. Unlike Yakuza 0 where you could breeze through the game using one or at most two styles, I feel like the game really encourages you to utilize all the styles in Ishin. Also helps that there are some INSANE heat actions tied to each style.
KK! Will start leveling others! Thank you. Legit thank you v.v
It's a game I will import regardless. Fist is my favo anime prop by far. I will /not/ miss this game. Price is no problem. I will pay 80$ I have to, but if I cantake the asian copy for 20$ less I will.I know shadowman16 is gonna import it
Most online walkthroughs will be based on the JP version. I think it's a bit easier to find a solution when you need a guide. And Kokuoh amulet is included in the first edition of the JP version. I don't know if it is in the Asia version as well.
