Oji-san!
>Becomes retarded and fucks over her and Kiryu's life because she somehow thought announcing her ties to the yakuza is a good ideaThis series hates competent female characters
>>748175646I got S rank in karaoke because of Haruka
>>748175646i like when she was a cute teen idol and not a teen mom
>>748175646Im gonna punt this cunt into the sun for making me play minigames for completion
>>748176360I BET YOU KNOW THE TRUE ESSENCE OF GOLF UNCLE KAZ!
>>748175859>This series hates competent female charactersIt's for the best, the last few games have started doing the "girl power" shit and the quality has tanked with them.
>>748176251I like when she was a cute teen mom and not a thirty year old talking about how she doesn't even want to meet Kiryu if he's alive
>>748176561That's a threat if I ever heard one.
If Kiryu hadn't have been such a fag and dicked her down she would've never become so retarded and would've lived a peaceful life in Okinawa with her instead
>>748176251i like when she was a loli
>>748176754>not a thirty year old talking about how she doesn't even want to meet Kiryu if he's alive8 was such a kick in the dick. Literally all they had to do was retire Kiryu after his "passing of the torch" in 7, what's the point of bringing him back and "reclaiming his name" and then literally doing nothing with it, they couldn't even be assed to aline the story with what was set up in TMWEHN. Yokoyama is a hack.
>>748175646Kiryu not marrying her was a mistake and you can't change my mind
>>748177289Yokoyama doesn't understand love.
>>748176561I actually did the golf request in like 5 tries but i've yet to get past the expert rotation in kiwami. Mister master is the only reason why im never getting the plat
>>748175646ATF > Booru > haruka_sawamura tag.
>>748175646Bitch shut up
>>748177061No one wants a rape baby
>>748177289Kiryu "Groomer" Kazuma
>>748178585Kiryu's a cuck.
>>748178714>changes the ending to Yakuza 3 just to avoid having to remake this scene for Kiwami 4
>>748175646I wanna fuck her
>>748182702Instead of making Kiryu avoid meeting everybody he ever knew he should've gotten a dating side game where he could Meet & Fuck™ any of his past flings, Kaoru, Mayumi, Haruka, Yumi from beyond the grave since nobody in Yakuza actually dies anymore
>>748180097Kiwami 4 is not needed.
>>748183038None of the Kiwamis were needed, but it WILL happen even though Yokoyama said it won't. He said the same thing about Kiwami 3 years ago when the Remasters were released.I'd expect it by 2028 to fill the gap between Stranger than Heaven and Yakuza 9.
>>748182702she looks like she might not be old enough to produce offspring though
>>748175646Would
>>748175859Reminder that in between 5 and 6 both her and Kiryu went out of their way to do anything possible just to get away from Sunflower orphans, including going to jail and getting rawdogged by random chinks
>>748183617>having to deal with 8 moody parentless teenagers all at onceWho wouldn't want to get away from that?
>>748175646>>748177289
are there any other examples of a single character ruining an entire series?
>>748184259Ciri in the books
>>748184259haha
>>748175646>Gets raped by Taiga in the most ackward scene.
>>748185820After all the kidnappings and that, it's no wonder she jumped on the first Yakuza cock she could without Kiryu's protection.
>>748186730She looks like she would suck your balls more than your cock
>>748175646I-I'm still an oni-san...
>>748187478
>>748176251Why didn't she just use a condom
>>748175646In Kiwami 3 this girl is clearly running drugs through the orphanage and Kiryu, being a dumbass just doesn't question it. No wonder she was confident in slapping Mine.
>>748188316From credit card fraud to drugs to prostitution, she does it all, literally a bigger criminal than Kiryu ever was.
>>748175646wtf
>>748175646Reminder that it was legal to do the you know what with you know who in Japan until last year so Kiryu is canonically a fag to not tap that
>>748191825She's basically his daughter you sick fuck.
Poor Park. All that work for her dream just for Haruka to let it fall and die like her
I am glad Mine lives now. Only fucking competent villain in the entire series, and it's funny how the smartest villain had the simplest and most idiot proof plan. He had 100% won and only waited for Kiryu and not dumped Daigo because he wanted to be stopped. Yakuza is generally just the story of idiots in general, and under Hackayama that's become more true except they are magical immortal idiots thanks to whale vomit.
I think Kiryu deserved Haruka fucking everything up for everyone because it was about time he felt how everyone else feels when he himself is fucking everything up for everyone. >>748192039I do like Mine for telling Kiryu to his face most of the Tojo's problems are his fault, and he was 100% correct.
>>748191979Majima Did Nothing Wrong
>>748192039>Only fucking competent villain in the entire seriesRyo Aoki
>>748192039>and it's funny how the smartest villain had the simplest and most idiot proof plan.Ebina got what he wanted technically by the end, and his plan worked too, even if it resulted in him taking a huge thrashing from Kiryu and company, but he managed to make life even harder for all former Yakuza during and after the events of 8, with the fallout of everything which will likely be followed up on more in 9.
>>748192613>Bleach Japan>competent he he he
>>748175646I'm not old, right?
>game is called yakuza>can't charge ugly bastards 10k yen for 10mins with her in the bathroom of the mahjong den
>>748183158Nah they might call it something else now and expand it into 3 Gaiden games, each covering the story of 4 fully from the perspective of one of the characters
>>748193081They are 100% not going to bring back Tanimura. They're going to replace him with Mine.
>>748188212bad writing
>>748193194>They are 100% not going to bring back Tanimura. They're going to replace him with Mine.this sounds like a great idea in theory because Tanimura is lame and gay but it will be written like such shit that it will not be a great idea
>>748193279Dark Ties is the only truly good part of Kiwami 3.
>>748175646Kohai not staying around hurts man.
>>748193393Should I pivot back to mainline yakuza after 3? I know all the story changes, but honestly the combat is nowhere near as engaging as zero and 1
>>748193837Wait, you don't like Dragon Engine combat?
>>748188440She killed all those people in Bacchus too.
>>748175646I wanna lick her butthole
I'd gladly play yakuza 4 if it had the option to save anywhere, i cannot stand those poorly placed fucking save spots
>>748193890I really don’t, honestly. Way too simple, 3 didn’t have enough destruction to justify it, and I really dislike the new weapons combat in 3. I love the yakuza series to death but haven’t made it all the way through yet
>>748178512I like her defiant look
Kiryu's story should've ended with 2, and 3 should've been 4 without Kiryu
>>7481958782's ending is perfect. That game is still my favourite in the franchise
>>748183158Yokoyama said it won't be called Kiwami 4 but it's clearly happening. The ending of K3 cannot lead into 4 in any way whatsoever.
Guys I am an expert and I can confirm it. OP indeed posted a child
Why are footfags always the ones that NEED to show off their fetish?
>>748191979Abortion whore is literally the worst character in the series and there's something poetic about Majima never getting her letter or reacting to her death. If that dumb bitch didn't manipulate Kiryu she might've lived, but oh well. Using Haruka in the place of the child she killed and pushing her worthless ambitions onto her was so fucking vile.
Why didn't they just make another game as good Lost Judgment?
>>748193837>Should I pivot back to mainline yakuza after 3?That's all you can do, it's not like K4 or K5 exist. You're gonna have to watch 3's actual ending if you want 4 to make sense at all. The PS3 versions are preferable due to not having issues due to the 60 FPS. Even then 6 onward is Dragon Engine combat and it's not the refined kind you saw in K2 or K3 since 6 came before K2 and lacked huge amounts of things that K2 added in response to 6's criticisms. JE was after K2 but still had bounce blocking despite it being despised in both 6 and K2. It wasn't until LJ that bounce blocking stopped but then at that point the combat was also significantly toned down and both 7G and 8G let you become unholy levels of broken.
>>748196016Yokoyama is delusional but not so delusional as to ignore K3's weak sales. We'll see how Stranger fares but either way I don't see SEGA just continuing down the same course.
>>748195531It what makes the scene.
>>748196290Because the honorary Bogdanoff brother is no longer there.
>>748196395Even with K3's weak sales it has to happen if he wants the story to make any sense, otherwise he has to consider K3 non-canon and we know how he's obsessed about turning the series into his weird plaything at this point with retcons out the ass.
>>748196483He'll have to go as far as remake Y6. Like half the people in spirit photos are magically alive at this point.
>>748196483Someone at SEGA is bound to tardwrangle him eventually. His internal position is nowhere near as strong as what Nagoshi had. If SEGA doesn't think K4 will sell it just won't happen.
>>748196596>Remakes 6.>Tokugawa is suddenly just there as part of a substory and Kiryu confuses him for Daigo.
>>748196483Lets not pretend Nagoshis writting was any better, that scene from 4 where everyone betrays each other was fucking stupid. Actually the entirety of 4's story is fucking stupid
>>748176360>Haruka's Request for Billiards>Have to basically perfect the table because the opponent AI will sweep everything up if they ever get a turn.I can't recall the last time I was so mad at a videogame.
>>748196793...Yokoyama wrote 4
>>748196853You can cheese it with an exploit once you reach the baccarat stage, but for that you still need to beat an expert four ball cpu and i just cant be asked
>>748196636They promoted him in February, from one of the regular executive officers to a senior executive. There's 10 of them, all heads of various business divisions including foreign branches. He's getting up there. Unlike Nagoshi, he studied marketing too.
>>748175646What a terrible character
>>748197263>Unlike Nagoshi, he studied marketing tooAnd I studied Latin and Ancient Greek in uni, Yakuza has not had a big marketing success since 7
>>748196793Yokoyama wrote 4 and even outright stated he had no idea what he was doing in 5. You can put the golden Osaka Castle on Nagoshi because that was his idea but that's basically it. He was Yokoyama's tard wrangler for the most part and 8G in particular was his scrapped idea for 3 minus the pirate ships.>>748196853Get ready for the 50 years from now when Kenzan gets a translation patch because you'll need to know how to read Japanese upside down or backwards AND the AI cheats on top of it if you want to fight Amon since yuujo are mandatory and raising their friendship requires beating them at ridiculously frustrating minigames.
>>748197472Really speaks volumes that they begged Mumbaisoft to handle the global marketing of Stranger Than Heaven.>>748197473There's minor news on Kenzan translation. They released a trailer and a longer showcase video. It's supposedly ready and they're doing some final testing before pushing it out. I'm not expecting to see it very soon but probably going to happen before the end of the year.
>>748188016They gave her the lolicon bikini/underwear, they knew what they were doing.
https://youtu.be/3n27i5le6qc
I really hope they don't have some retarded government agency or conspiracy in Stranger Than Heaven
>>748197852>Takes place when Japan is trying to build itself back up from WW2.>With the Tojo Clan founder.>Doesn't somehow already expect the Daidoji to be a major part of the story when they were literally the government at that point in Japan's history and Daidoji was at the height of his power.If Ogikubo, Daidoji, or some brand new unmentioned major member of the group don't appear I will be genuinely shocked because it makes the most sense.
She grew up to be a responsible young woman.
>>748197473>Minigames are a mandatory requirement if you wanna fight amonWhat a piece of shit era of yakuza games. From the dancing mini game in 0 and mesuking in kiwami. Oh cant forget the dogshit golfing quest and arbitrary claw game substories
>>748177460I winged it but you should be able to pretty reliably do it if you get out a straight edge and measure it against your screen, I've seen people do that.I just spent ages doing it without that because one of the devs must have done it or why would it be in there, was not worth the time I wasted.
>>748197653>>748197847This is something but unless the person can read へ easily on the card and see it in the furigana people are not gonna have fun with this. They should have just changed the cards to be the romaji of each kana and then just shown the romanization of the sentence instead of the kanji and furigana.>>748198041You also have to guide game as virtually everything is missable in Kenzan on top of having incorrect dialogue choices locking you out of Amon as well. So even with a translation patch you have to guide game.They also lock you out of Gion arbitrarily in the last chapter so you can't even do the yuujos, gambling minigames, or Gyoutensai's inventions anymore. Premium New Game also wipes your entire completion list minus your crafted swords and substory list meaning you have to do everything all over again including the minigames.
>>748198135I did every golf requirement in lost judgment in less than 10 minutes, its insane how much the aiming reticle helps. Picture my surprise when i play kiwami 2 and theres no aiming reticle
>>748198186Holy shit its like they made every wrong choice on purpose, makes me appreciate the ishin remake
>>748198225People whine about the newer games in regards to certain things, but at least they definitely improved in terms of QOL and gameplay for a lot of things too.
>>748198186So this game is find the first syllable somewhere on the table before the opponent does? If they explain it in game then that's not so bad.
>Inb4 they kiwami kiwami
>>748198281Chapters also have missable substories and bounties so if you don't do them in the chapter they appear you also miss Amon. There's also four or five Heat Actions that can only be done once in the entire game (Webm is one of them from a substory) and every boss Heat Action is missable because every time a new chapter starts you have to play watermelon cutting to get it. There's also unique boss Heat Actions (Only for specific bosses while in a specific style) and general boss Heat Actions (Based on what style you're in) which sort of requires you to pray you did some generics prior to the style-specific boss-specific ones.>makes me appreciate the ishin remakeThe only things Ishin Kiwami did that were good compared to the original was allow you to play any difficulty from the start, you could take screenshots outside of PA, PA didn't lock your save to it, and you didn't need to obtain an item to craft it thus saving you time grinding the arena.>>748198384It's the first kana of the poem and then you find the card in the pile. You have to recognize the kana which they're trying to assist you with with the added furigana in the translation patch, but if you don't know hiragana it's going to be much harder because you have to look at the furigana (The kana above the kanji) and then find that on the card (Which are stylized instead of something cleaner like へたのながだんぎ). You also have to do this in like two seconds because the AI cheats, see the aforementioned webm >>748197473 where a native Japanese speaker was playing it and could already understand the kana.If you lose during a game with a yuujo it's another 10 minutes of talking to the yuujo from a reloaded save before you can try it again and three of them want to play it with you to upgrade their relationship tier that I can recall.
>>748197968>>748197852Daidoji (the man) is just one big dogwhistle for Nobosuke Kishi, class A war criminal, founder of LDPJ and Abe's grandpa. Of course he's gonna be there.
>>748175646what does her butthole smell like? and why bubblegum?
>>748198823I hope they remake kenzan eventually
>>748198823>You also have to do this in like two seconds because the AI cheats>three of them want to play it with youI don't think I'll bother then, especially not with the way save states work on RPCS3. I didn't think there would be anything worse than hostess grind and looking up the right answers.
>>748198823Im gonna go ahead and glaze ishin kiwami some more and say that it had the golden standard for challenging mini games with 0 rng, dancing, the shmup and the noodle dlcs were fun to master without the usual rng bullshit you see
>>748199225They also play a fan throwing minigame (Which they also cheat in and sometimes play perfectly), bowling (Which is easy and you can win every time guaranteed just by doing the same throws), and then a traditional Japanese game where you have a stone and you either tap or grab the stone and whoever makes a mistake like tapping the stone or grabbing thin air loses (This one's slow enough that it's actually fun and fairly simple).Honestly, Kenzan is either a "I am just going to do the story" game or "I am going to follow a guide" game because you have to make your decision from the start. The very first chapter in the Suburbs when you finally start the actual game (Chapter 4) already has like five missable substories and if I remember right two missable bounties and outside of the missable substories you can't make a mistake in any dialogue choice in any substory or you miss Amon. That only stopped being a thing starting from either 3 or 4, I want to say 4.>>748199345Fan dancing was made way easier in Ishin Kiwami, it's borderline impossible to lose now compared to the original where the timing was much stricter. Noodles and the shmup feel identical to the original though.
>>748199458Oldfags on /famicom/ say that the original buyo dancing was easily the hardest minigame they ever made. It was definitely made for playing on a couch with TV across the room.
>>748199458>AI cheatsWhy do they do this? Is it a Japanese thing?
>>748196469>Nagoshi leaves>series immediately nosedives in qualityHmm...
>>748199776Yakuza 8 has the best gameplay
What happened to the rest of the orphans?
>>748199803And was pure shit in every other aspect.
>>748199948>Best mini games>Best characters >Best party moments The only shit aspect is the story which is all over the place
>>748199929They got actual jobs iirc.
>>748185675>"Didn't play to the end" awardRean is the simultaneous deconstruction and reconstruction of the Trails protagonist. He's presented as the world conquering hero who can do it all himself, so that he can fuck it up and ultimately reinforce that no one, not even Chad Thundercock with his ancient super mech and cursed demon powers can solve all of societies woes on his own. Because no one can. Not a genius Military general turned small town militia member. Not a little homunculus girl who can rewrite history. And not Rean Schwarzer, either. He reinforces the core theme of the trails series harder than any MC before him.
>>7481996760>the original buyo dancing was easily the hardest minigame they ever madeIt's up there, yeah. I'd say ignoring Esper Itou's cheating ass the hardest have to be>BP1 and BP2 baseball because there's zero way to skillfully do anything in it and it's borderline luck let alone doing a perfect game.>BP2 slot machine as there's no way to influence your luck at all yet they require 2000 chips in profit which is not happening legitimately as there's no system like in the normal games to guarantee chain jackpots while in a jackpot state.>Puyo Puyo in 6 and JE because if you're not good at it enjoy praying you can grasp stairs and beat 30 NPCs in a row.>Fan dancing in Ishin because of how tight the notes are and how it follows the same rule as 0's disco where you can't use fever at all due to it actually being a major point loss if you do due to not having the combo multiplier.>Fan throwing in Kenzan because of how precise you have to be to actually hit the thing and the AI just sometimes clean sweep you as if they're the Tiger Woods of throwing fans and hitting the doll on the first try.>Ranked mahjong on the higher tiers and the Easy/Normal tables in pre-LJ because they pull double riichis and yakuman out of their ass.>Shogi because you're playing against grandmaster-tier AI that they barely even lower the difficulty and even actual grandmaster AI bots lose to sometimes.>Oicho-kabu because just look at this webm and it happens all the time in every game.Those are the worst I can think of in the series. The rest are either easy to do or have ways to cheese them.
>>748192039>I am glad Mine lives now. Only fucking competent villain in the entire seriesThe based department would like to make you CEO
For me it's Haruka-mama
>>748175646how come even when she admitted that Kiryu was pretty much her dad she kept calling him oji-san till the end?
>>748202191>grow older>fish lips vanishthat is not how things work
I got to play K3 for free through family share and I didn't hate it. I just accept the retcon shit because the story has always been retarded (Kiryu shooting down a jet in the middle of Tokyo with a rocket launcher laying on the floor) and it's been double gay and retarded since 7. I understand people being mad about everyone living now, but Richardson and Kashiwagi have been alive since 7 and 8 so there's no sense in getting mad over it now. It was retarded when it happened and a game confirming what already happened years ago is not a big deal. The new mini games made me care about the orphanage way more and although the story was extra bonus retarded, the biker gang minigame was very fun. The localization was complete dogshit. From changing words that are already in English to something else, to having to read 'baddie' and 'bad bitch' roughly 6000 times, I can't believe how much worse it is now that Scott left SEGA. The game has more content than the original 3. I do hope they don't redo 4 and 5, but they're going to and we all know it.
>>748175646Made for papa-katsu.
This character was so fucking badly written I can't even begin, people say other characters ruined the series tone or vibe. No this "character" did>Y3 sticks her nose in things doesn't belong>wants to hold down the orphanage>1 fucking job, ONE fucking job>fucks it up>learns nothingokay well Y4 she'll be better>gets told basically to her face HEY WE NEED TO LAY LOW PLEASE!>nope lolY5>okay well no way she'll fuck it up and oh she's a country famous idol now>I BETTER TELL EVERYONE ABOUT KAZ HE SURELY HAS NO ENEMIESY6>really? Really? I meanYakuza LAD shit>oh she's indirectly responsible as to why Kaz has cancer...What the FUCK were they thinking when they wrote this abomination?
>>748203472she really is a piece of shit and by the time they wrote her as a teen mom I guess they had just decided it was okay for the player to hate her and leaned into how people felt about her in 5I like 6 a lot btw, I know people hate it but damn Onomichi is comfy
>>748197750and they gave him the lolifucker boomer shirt
>>748203564I just can't for the life of me remember why she decided to nope and leave the orphanage AGAIN when in the last game she up and told everyone and basically spoke into the camera about how she wanted that simple life.IIRC she missed Kaz? but instead of just saving money she was being sent and working a local job she just goes a few towns over and gets knocked up? I literally lost my shit at than like how bad do you have to write a character.
>>748175646Did the kenzan translation drop yet?
