Heading into the final last lil bits of the game but first...!
Training ground rankings!!
Sakuragaoka Park - This is super close to home for quick access most of the game, usually gets the camera stuck in a sideview position to not fudge your inputs, but on the downside ya often can't get started training there cause people hanging around prevent it.
Dobuita Parking Lot - Alil further from home but Dobuita's the place to be plus its next to the arcade!, unfortunately the cameras at its most wild here, but its always open to train in without delay.
Warehouse No.4 - pretty outta the way when ya first get access to it but then its basically your lunch break and "please get to 8 oclock so I can leave the harbor" spot, the camera here's the middle of the pack, and its always accessible when ya got time to kill.
Park = Warehouse > Parking Lot
See? I am the crate master! A few weeks of harbor work an ya could easily earn enough money for a ride to Hong Kong! Got 60,000 Yen in a week of work. If only Ryo weren't so darn impatient! btw whats up with the town getting Christmas decorations just a week or two before the big day? Was that what it was like in the 80's, and the rush to Christmas immediately after Halloween ends something that happened later?
Notebook Nonsense: "2 foreigners I rarely see" dude you've run into them at least as many times as you have Nozomi!
I dun get how Master Chens business and the Mad Angels get in the way of one anothers? They ain't exactly going after the same market. I nominate finding the motorcycles ta be the most directionless part of the game. Sailors ain't got nothing on this. Ya got a limited time to find out the usual method of getting to the harbors not available, then to comb a usually avoided part of town, then find Naoyuki? More like NauWHOki! One of Ryo's friends who ya may or may not ever interact with until this point, and who even knew Ryo had a motorcycle licnense in the first place?
edit! And done! Just a tiny bit past 16 hours. Short an sweet!
Ah the epic 70 man battle in which ya stand behind Gui Zhang so he deals with all the grunts while Elbow Assaulting anyone that does get near you. Good times. Now what isn't good is leaving town days before Christmas, what a jerk Ryo is! Not sure how I won the final fight on my first try but I'll take it. In total I ran into only 11 fights in the whole game. I could get that many in like a half hour of any given Yakuza game lol. So many moves learned and trained and for what I ask. I know the sequels abit heavier on the action but to what end.