Yakuza Kiwami - Release Date Revealed
 

Sega has announced the release date for Yakuza Kiwami, or simply put the PS2 Remaster of Yakuza. So if you liked playing the prequel Yakuza 0, you'll like this game.


Link - https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/yak…se-date-reveal

I'm more excited about that one than on today's 11 RPGmyarse list.

I'm 90 minutes in to Yakuza 0. 15 of that was spent trying to figure out how to save and quit! Hopefully they will do a tad more with the menus this time around.

There is save anywhere option in ini files. It was the first thing I enabled while playing the game.
Later I've read it got disabled via some patch but can't confirm it. If that's true, phonebooth then quit.

But anyway, hidden save anywhere in a config file instead enabled by default plus mushrooms idiocy eventually made me not voting for it during watch's 2018 goty poll. Additionally, removal of cigarette from the physical cover rerelease was a huge disappointment. Who are they censoring it for - ingame characters smoke more than me.
In some other year I would probably still vote, but there were (at least) three awsome games in 2018 that didn't advertise plastic garbage and didn't have outdated checkpoint design integrated.

The game is now available on Steam.
Careful though:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/83453…5990061850138/
dafuq?

That's got to be something they overlooked, at least I hope it is. If this was just released it might have a few patches incoming soonish.

Sega has a bad track record with porting PC controls. They even posted a whole update on steam saying a controller is the correct way to play the game. Just ask Joxer.:p

I'm a fan of options, I'll hope this isn't a trend with Sega, and hopefully just an aberration.

Thought I would share the Reddit review thread.

Link - https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comme…review_thread/

Not quite as good as Yakuza 0 counts as pretty high praise in my book.

Gave this a brief shot and it's pretty terrible and I think I can predict exactly what happens in the game :)

I wonder what could that possibly be.
IIRC you refused to play Y0 so there is no way you can predict that everyone, except MCs, is pervy in those games.

It's a Japanese game, meaning something terrible will happen to innocent girls and honor will play a very big part of it. I'm guessing the main protagonist is super honorable.

The rest is just variables.

As for the gameplay, I found it utterly terrible and click-festy. To each his own, though.

I played the original PS2 version many years ago. It's the usual gangster story of love, betrayal, and vengeance just set in Japan, hence the games name Yakuza.:biggrin:

Exactly :)

Which wouldn't be such a bad thing except for the gameplay part.

If you want something like that done right, go play Mafia.

Mafia? The stupefying formula racing game? I'd rather die.

There is no "exactly". I said the game is about pervs. Nothing more and nothing less. There is no love, no betrayal, no vengeance and no gangsters. Only pervs.
That's why I loved Y0 and am on the fence on buying Kiwami - seems Kiwami has even more horrible k+m support than Y0 had.

Joxer must be playing the game wrong then as I wont go into plot spoilers.

Errr… Yea, I'm playing with k+m. That's wrong. :D

Nope I'm talking about the pervs comment. It's just side activities but they are not tied to the plot, and yes Japanese men and women actually use legal host services.

This game is basically about an ex-Yakuza Captain who took the blame for his friend. He gets released and finds his life is ruined, and a bunch of other shit happens.

Are K+M interface tolerable ?

I'm pretty sure joxer plays most games wrong :)

Not really, it's console-centric crap. You want a controller.

Playing it with a K+M would be like eating pizza with chop-sticks.

Games I do play cannot be played wrong.
In other words, I'm not playing mmos.

Except LoL, you mean :)

That doesn't really answer my question. Have you tried playing it with K+M and if so how playable was it without a controller ?

Let me help you:

Your question:

Are K+M interface tolerable ?

My answer:

Not really, it's console-centric crap. You want a controller.

If you don't believe I can give you an informed answer, then I will obviously not try to help you again.

Again you avoid the direct question. Have you personally tried to play it with K+M if so what problems did you encounter ?

I'll take that back. Kiwami isn't nearly as good as 0. The main story starts out great but then devolves into filler material that doesn't add a thing to the story. Then, all of the sudden, somebody sets you down and tells you all those things you would have been discovering in the main plot if only you hadn't been helping out some guy's son or retrieving a kidnapped daughter. Blah.

The side quests aren't half as fun, either. There's nothing to do with your money but blow it on weapons. The old SEGA arcade games are gone. Majima ambushing you and saying the exact same things every time gets really annoying… ugh. I would give 0 and 95/100 but this one… maybe 70/100… if I'm charitable.

2 is supposed to be a good bit better. I sure hope so.

I liked 0 and I liked Kiwami pretty much the same. Kiwami 2 is also great.

True.
Actually, Majima saves the game. No, not the appearances on the street. You'll encounter him where you least expect.
It is. While it took me cca 30 hours to finish Kiwami 1, and I believe only 1 sidequest is left unfinished, I'm 73 hours in Kiwami 2 and still have plenty of stuff to do!
The Club is back but also a certain tower defenselike storyline. On top that there are bouncer missions with awsome rewards.