About to head to Kamurocho in RGG3, story finally caught up to the intro.
I'm enjoying the story a lot and I like the new Okinawan bro Rikiya. It's good to be back in a mainline Yakuza/RGG story with the whole continuity and all that. Barely remember 1/2 though at this point.
Bosses seem to have way more health and be more bullshit than I remember but I haven't played a traditional Yakuza/RGG in like 10 years. Now I remember to stock up with lots of items.
The fishing is like the hardest fishing mini-game I've played in any rpg. I've tried a bunch of times and never been able to catch a fish. Fuck this minigame
Game definitely feels dated in a lot of ways. Compared to the last one I played, the PS4 Samurai one which was post RGG5, there's a lot that feels a step back in combat, upgrades, city, UI, etc...it's still really playable but feels kinda like playing SoTC remake where it's definitely an older game. Guessing the full remake of RGG1 & RGG2 play a lot better.
Okinawa part is the best part of the game. The rest is old, boring, tired yakuza. Seeing Kiryu interact with the kids and the Okinawa setting in general were a fresh breath of air for the series. Of course they had to rehash what had came before and made a non sensical story surrounding the orphanage. Game would have been better if it were just in Okinawa. My opinion.
Fuck Kamurocho past Yakuza 2 and fuck it hard. Let’s take the same location and put it in 7 games with the same places and the same stores and the same same same same. Kamudogshit.
I like Okinawa but the city seems pretty tiny compared to my memory of Osaka and Kamurocho. Is there more than just the 1 map?
The kid stuff is fine when it's voiced cutscenes moving the story, when it's not it feels like forced sidequests for the kids to move the plot along and get back to the story. Kinda has pacing issues.