>one hour in

That's a bummer. I've only just started Y5, but I thought each character has their own map and own separate story? And Akiyama's own chapter gets hijacked by Haruka? He's my favourite guy from Y4.

They let you have video-games in jail?

If by "peak" you mean it evolved into something entirely different and they dialed it back in subsequent games while keeping certain neat aspects, I guess so yeah.

The amount of content is nuts though.

>Awful story, nothing in the series matches it in awfulness
>Shoehorned character (Akiyama)
>Rushjob activities (Haruka's aidoru bs - literally like 3 events with the same songs no less on repeat for fucking hours)
>Generally the game is quantity over quality

Every character has their own city except Haruka and Akiyama who share Osaka. The 5th city is Tokyo and it's sort of shared by everyone.

Haruka's chapter gets hijacked by Akiyama actually. And from that point on it's a shared chapter, you still play as Haruka just as much as Akiyama.

It's still a good chapter though. I like them all equally but if I had to pick my least favorite it'd be Saejima's.

The hunting minigame is even better

>And Akiyama's own chapter gets hijacked by Haruka?
Other way around actually. Half way through Haruka's chapter Akiyama drops in and says the chapter is about me now.
But yeah after Kiryu is is not good.
Saejima is slow and dull as fuck.
Haruka is all dancing mini-games which I liked but generally is considered bad and leaves you wondering what she has to do with anything.
Akiyama helps redeem it but isn't enough.
4th chapter is a new character that literally 95% of the way through you will wonder why the fuck is the game showing this guy and then the answer is some off hand one line explanation. He doesn't even play that fun either.
Final chapter you're just either ready to end it or only care about all the side mini games.

No.

All of them have their own map and story but Akiyama's is shared with Haruka unfortunately.
End result is that you spend 80% of the time playing as Haruka doing her idol stuff, Akiyama only mops up mobsters at the end.
Chapter 1 is Kiryu in Fukuoka (Nagasugai).
Chapter 2 is Saejima escaping from prison again, then spending some very comfy time in a hunting village in the far north and then he finally goes to Sapporo (Tsukimino).
Chapter 3 is Haruka and Akiyama in Osaka (Sotenbori) with Haruka doing her idol stuff and Akiyama supporting her.
Chapter 4 is Shinada, the new guy with weapon-based fighting style, set in Nagoya (Kineicho). It's a more down to earth chapter and a bit of a "doomer" chapter but has a very cool supporting character and is overall feels like a welcome change of pace after Haruka's idolshit.
Chapter 5 is everyone meeting up in Tokyo (Kamurocho) for grand finale.

>but generally is considered bad
The real problem is that there are like, what, close to 20 songs for dance battles and all you get to do through her activities and main story are like 3. And if you do her activities you reach max level anyway so there's 0 point besides for shits and giggles to do random battles.

>This is a weapon, not a teleporter

Here we can see casual nigger plebs in their natural shitpost habitat filtered by hunting and comfyness of Saejima's chapter.

>Rememberu to respectu u aru kirru saejima-chan-kun-ching-chong
ok
let me go hunt granpa
pew pew weapon go shooty haha
>ok i dont caru

>play Yakuza from the start
>Haruka is our series super sweet kiddo we must protect
>she keeps everyone motivated and going
>in Yakuza 3 she takes care of the other kids
>in yakuza 4 she does even more of the same
>get to Yakuza 5
>.........
>never noticed how pretty her hair is before
>how tall she has gotten
>how those socks come right up to her knees or that she ever had such long legs
>her face. Can't stop noticing how her bottom lip has seemed to double in size out of nowhere
>can't stop looking at those fucking lips i swear they were never ever like this
w-what's happening bros? What's going on? This woman is not the Haruka i know, what the FUCK is happening??

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Thanks for proving you're ADHD zoomzoom, and the tutorial fucks off pretty quickly.

Oh well, too bad. Akiyama deserves another full part to himself. He was suave as fuck in Y4, and had the best substories out the four protagonists.

user, I hope you like NTR

Yep Akiyama gets sadly shafted in 5, which is unfortunate. Game would be better if the final boss had more scenes/leadup and Akiyama had his own chapter instead of popping up 3/4 into Haruka's chapter.

What's that?

>ADHD zoomzoom
There's constant preach about respecting kill and then you go on hunting trips where nothing matters. That's the story of Yakuza as a series as a whole actually. Nothing you do matters. Everything you do conflicts the narrative.

Also, the irony is that this series REWARDS being ADHD and not paying attention to anything but flashy shit. That's why you have people praising the stories when they're full of holes and flawed as shit.

What the other user said, I hope you like NTR cause Y6 is cuck the game

Fuck no. 4 was better, and 0 is honestly the best.

you mean GTA, the most profitable piece of media ever created?
Yes, it can work.

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you can't be "cucked" by a video game character user, im simply stating that all of Harkua's secondary sexual characteristics seem to have come out in one game. Out of nowhere she is really attractive in the way that a woman is. She looks like a woman now, it's strange after all these years.

I don't think anyone seriously praises the stories for good writing, rather they get praised for their entertainment value, they're dumb but they're 80's action B-movie fun kind of dumb.
And going by "nothing matters" argument, technically nothing you do in life matters because you are fated to die anyway and even if you became world emperor and conquered the world, said empire will crumble eventually and your effort would've been for nothing anyway.
That's why you should just get as much enjoyment as you can, carpe diem my friend, chill out and hunt some bears.

Playing all of them now and not even close, 0 is easily the best one and 6 doesn't look like it's intent on changing that. 2 is easily my second favorite for having the best antagonist.

She was plenty attractive to me in Y3.

Well, Kiryu is the most cucked man in video games then. Anyways.

Wash your hands with soap bro
Your hands look very dirty

>hurr durr le epin
You know what i mean user. Your preferences aside im so used to seeing Kiryu mentor kids that to see the same character sit next to him as what seems to be a fellow adult is fucking bizzare, and also that she is such an absurdly classical idea of Japanese beauty, the dark long hair, pale skin, slightly bigger nose bridge, the big bottom lip. Odd feeling to me.

seeing haruka become a typical roastie is the worst part of yakuzy 5. at least the rhythm game is fun

Kiryu didn't raise Haruka to fuck her when she became a woman user. What is this meme?

She'd look better with a a proper hime cut than the shitty hairstyle she has in 5 and 6.
Anyway they prettied her up from 1 and 2, because she looked like female gollum in those.

>only guys are allowed to make their genitals feel nice
I prefer these video game characters become real people when they are adults rather than just muh pures.

No, but he is raising his wife's daughter's son

>I don't think anyone seriously praises the stories for good writing, rather they get praised for their entertainment value
You should pay attention then. Especially with 0 people constantly praise its story, look beyond Yas Forums at the very least.

>technically nothing you do in life matters because you are fated to die anyway
Come on dude, you know that's a very dumb argument to make. The least Yakuza could do is have some consistency with the narrative and gameplay but sometimes even the narrative is just conflicting itself (Kiryu never kills anyone for example) so it's clearly impossible.

Yakuza is like watching the wheel turn, because each entry leads nowhere. There's no progress. There's nothing.

In 1 and 2 she was like9 user....

he fucking should have

People's facial structures don't magically change from pre-teen to teen. Her face was deliberately prettied up, same with Kiryu, Majima, Date and others. Almost all returning characters had a plastic surgery in Y3. Even Kaoru but her plastic surgery made her deliberately ugly so you would be less salty that she's being written out of the series.

Not his wife and Haruka is like any other kid at the orphanage she just happened to be the first one under his wing. The fact that so many anons transplant their lust for her attractiveness onto kiryu makes me feel like they don't understand his character at all. Haruka might as well be a guy to him as far as how he would ever even notice her in "that way". Does't exist for him like that.

0 babbys are pathetic. 5 objectively have best combat in series.

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There was progress between 1, 2 and 3 which is why I call the series a trilogy.

>if a character doesn't fuck he isn't believable
the horror as I watch the whole Resident Evil cast retroactively lose their personality

So what are you saying? That they changed her? Or that she was always going to look like she does now? I mean, she at least looks like a Japanese girl, her mother looked fucking weird with almost zero Japanese traits, Haruka at 16 cannot be put next to the character model for her mother from Kiwami's 1995 segment and people go "oh, they were so clearly related closely"

Oh I'm guessing they aren't real people if they aren't alcoholics who swear all the time either

Technically 0, 1, 2, 3 and 5 all had progressing plot.
0 Kiryu's, Nishiki's and Majima's rise to who they become in 1.
1 is about capping off Nishiki's life and Kiryu moving on from Yakuza business.
2 is Kiryu reforming Tojo to be a better organization and cleaning up the sins of the past.
3 is about Kiryu finally settling down and handling an orphanage, the only reason why he even gets involved is because his orphanage is about to get bulldozed and because the assassin happens to look like his father.
4 is literally filler.
5 is about Kiryu's death, 6 is a fever dream.

Official chapter rating:
Saejima > Kiryu > Akiyama > baseball nigger > Shitruka

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I dunno man, I had the opposite experience with Y5. The minigames got old really fast for me, and the overall plot was really bad even by Yakuza standards, even coming from 4's Rubber Bullets (tm).

Maybe because I played it back to back with 4 which is where the series was already going downhill and getting ridiculous with the shitty minigames? Seriously though, in 5 they managed to make eurobeat fueled car races feel boring as fuck. The Taxi thing got old after like 3 times, I just kept coming back for the autistic as fuck conversation you have with your customers. The other minigames are absolutely worthless as well, like the hunting was absolutely dreadful, the whole Haruka part was a nightmare to go through (also how could Sega fuck up the rhythm game so badly especially after making shit like Project Diva which is unironically pretty decent), oh god it was so fucking bad just thinking about it makes me cringe.

That being said, I dropped the game at the part with Shinada or whatever his name was, I was bored out of my mind and hating the game hard at that point. Definitely the worst one by far next to 6.

I'm saying that they changed her, she wasn't conventionally pretty in 1/2 (even by Jap standards). They prettied her up in 3 and her model in 5 is just what a naturally grown version of her face from 3 would be.

uh that is kind of correct user, relationships and sex in the modern world, especially in a game about city life in Japan and the miniature of life details that come with this sort of series kind of requires it. The entire series kind of spawned with Haruka's existence as pivotal to it's existence and she exists because a Yakuza character moved on with her life, fell in love and had sex with a man. Haruka's story is just brining that story of life full circle.

Seek help user. You are talking about a game series about the fucking Yakuza, drinking and swearing are pretty common in these games.

No, she is the kid of the woman he loved and got cucked out of because Nishiki is an incompetent piece of shit. He then goes on to treat Haruka as his own, making him a LITERAL cuckold raising another man's child.

You mean 60s-era mafiosos walking around challenging each other to bowling alley games?

>Seriously though, in 5 they managed to make eurobeat fueled car races feel boring as fuck.
You have shittiest taste

Kiryu is a saint, but you're both wrong. user just doesn't understand Kiryu isn't really being a cuck he's just acting honorably the way hardened men are expected to act taking responsability for everything.

>They prettied her up in 3 and her model in 5 is just what a naturally grown version of her face from 3 would be.
Still seems like a huge jump. It's as if during the year of Y5 her ovaries went into overdrive and pumped a metric fuckton of female sex hormones into her. She has changed incredibly from the one year period of Y4 to Y5. She looks like a woman out of nowhere.

>try to emulate 4
>it runs great but freezes randomly once an hour
>there are no save states in rpcs3 so you have to restart at save points over and over again with no guarantee it won't freeze until the next one
I don't think I can do it brehs...

If Y4 is filler, then it was a good one. Y3 was horrid.

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Wait for HD ports of 3-5, they're coming.

Honestly, 3 was a complete reset button. By the end of 2 Kiryu had a qt and shit but 3 was just return to status quo and beginning of the endless bad guy appear kiryu must defeat bad guy and maybe not-die in the end

I kind of like the jankiness of the PS3 version though, I'd rather play that if they can ever fix the flipping freeze bug

Are you serious? It was super boring and janky as hell. It literally felt worse to play the races in this game than some random free to play phone racer like Asphalt. It didn't help that it had only 3 identical looking tracks and just a couple of heat actions so not even the QTEs were entertaining because you would always see the same ones.

Ah you seem to have missed the point of Kiryu entirely. His life is not his own, by his one admission. He was ready to die a long time ago for others and has never let that go. When it wasn't his brother, it was her, when they were both gone, he honors his brother and love by keeping Haruka going. It's never been about what he wanted for himself ever. I don't think Kiryu would have ever snuffed himself out, but without the people linked to his own orphanage he has nothing.
Im just saying he doesn't ever keep existing for his own benefit and he made peace with that as a very young man when he joined the Tojo.

You sound really annoying user.

But wouldn't the person who noticed before be the actual gamer?