Tofu Injection posted:

Is this a translation thing?

Chapter 9
Tachibana just expressed that he envies Kiryu, because he has real friends. He says he could never risk his life for someone else.

He said this after driving through a pack of Yakuza to rescue me, running over Kuze, one of their bosses, in the process. He says it's like the second time he's ever driven a car. And he has one loving hand.

Cause if not, holy poo poo.

Jimbot posted:

Which abilities carry over to the legendary stances? Is there a list of them somewhere online?

Section Z posted:

I finally started taking the fight to extortionists (Thanks, encounter finder). I have come to respect them as wonderful people. Hopefully past this chapter 9 stuff, I'll have a chance to do it with Majima before the main plot train goes too off the rails.

You can do it buddy. You can make it to space


I wish I knew as well, yeah. It's a real bitch to figure out for Majima because high speed knife combat doesn't really have the same concept as bare hands or even baseball bat based combat.

At least with Kiryu who I've recently unlocked it for in Chapter 9, more things pop out. "Oh hey, the forward front flip kick I finally unlocked for Brawler now happens with Dragon style:".

PS: Everyone talking about how "Well Majima's upgrades cost less!". It would be nice if that also applied to his legendary grid (Not that I've got the CP to uncap the billion yen edge for either of them yet )

Oh right, this reminds me. Give your main ability grids some love before investing in the legendary grid too much. Filling out every initially available legendary health bubble, gives you about the same health as a single normal style final health upgrade, for example. I expect similar results apply for the damage boosting nodes, where splurging on your expensive 4th power up in the main grid is as good by comparison.

Gaz-L posted:

Kiryu's is also helped by the fact that it's literally just "how he plays in the other games" so if you've played a previous game you'll have a decent grounding in how that works (I had forgotten that the dropkick used to bounce him back to a standing base, for instance, but it quickly came back).
Majima was only playable previously in a game where his main mode of attack was "shoot in head with shotgun", so it's harder to parse what moves he 'should' have unless you were obsessive about watching his boss patterns in the other games.

Can I also, on a totally different note, point out how great the localisation job Atlus did is? It's so nice having pretty English graphics for the enemy intros instead of just the kanji and a bland subtitle, and they even romanised the karaoke lyrics so you can sing along!

Section Z posted:

I've not played the older Yakuza games, but at least Kiryu's callback style is intuitive so has effectively replaced Brawler for me so far.

I will admit I'm pretty underwhelmed by Majima's ultimate style. An infinite durability knife with it's own set of special moves is sweet, but being at the far end of my base styles I'm more familiar with has just been so much better for me. "Okay, I could stab this random street encounter enemy god knows how many times with a KNIFE... Or I could one, two, three strikes you're out swing three fodder at once with Slugger".

I imagine that style gets far more impressive than the worst equippable knives once you've ground up enough CP and money to loop the ultimate grid a few times though. And it's super fun to just zip around stabbing everything. But I get way more mileage going back to what I know with the other styles for Majima.

My first big showing of Majima's style being bringing a knife to a Nishki fight probably did not help my initial opinions of it, either "Man, he's so much better with knives than I am. Time to show them why rock beats scissors... Because bat's are blunt, and-gently caress it HOME RUN MOTHER FUCKER!"

Ryuga Death posted:

Majima's Mad Dog style is best used for the 3 person heat takedown available at one heat bar or higher (despite the in game screen showing you need to be at the 3rd heat bar) and for the counter knife attack (R1 stance + triangle when enemy attacks) available at any amount of heat meter, which you can get just by quick stepping.

The Mad Dog counter attack does a stupid amount of damage. I only had to counter Nishitani about 4 or 5 times to end the fight even on legend difficulty. Kiryu's 's Dragon style has two different counters which are both great but the elbow counter is only available at the 3rd heat bar while the grab sweep counter (R1 + circle when enemy attacks) is available at any point. Both do a high amount of damage.

Section Z posted:

I'm just finally entering chapter 10 myself. But if you have not found it yet, there is an Unmarked Tiger and Dragon (And it remains unmarked) in the north west branch of that odd X criss cross alleys area which has the Vacant Lot™ So you can stock up on your own supply of affordable weapons for when the going gets rough. You cant send out agents with Kiryu, but you can Buy/Sell/Repair based on what Majima has unlocked.

Lord_Pigeonbane posted:

Edit: Is there any way to transfer weapons between characters? Kiryu has a SPARK 15000V which he can't even equip.

Lord_Pigeonbane posted:

Thank you! I'm playing NG+, and I wasn't aware of this until you pointed it out!

Edit: Is there any way to transfer weapons between characters? Kiryu has a SPARK 15000V which he can't even equip.

The Diddler posted:

Can't you put them in Mr. Moneybags' shared item box? I haven't used it, but I thought it gave me the option when I looked at it.

Section Z posted:

Perfectly undestandable. I found it on accident, and like I said it never gets marked on your map even once you can use it. The fact it doesn't seem to unlock as a place that even exists until after you've played Majima some also doesn't help matters. It's off in it's own little corner that you never ever need to visit in particular even when returning to that area to visit the Empty Lot or the password guy vendor at the opposite end to the south.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

I'm downloading Yakuza 5 on my Demon's Souls box and I was wondering what I should look out for in terms of missable stuff.

CitizenKain posted:

It shows on my map after I found it.

CharlestonJew posted:

Kiryu seems to have a new kind of counter where if you block at the exact moment an enemy attacks and press Triangle you do this jumping knee attack that does a ridiculous amount of damage

Managed to take down the final boss' last health bar just by accidentally mashing that one out

precision posted:

After unlocking a bunch of the fighting trees, I actually find Brawler to be the least useful. Beast is good fun for wrecking a whole group of randos at once, and once you get things like the Feint Punch and mid-combo dodges, Rush is great for tougher enemies.

Gaz-L posted:

Question for goons who've played RGG6 already, very important: Can Kiryu learn to do the Rainmaker from Okada?

Gaz-L posted:

Awww The NJPW tie-in seemed like the obvious way to get new moves by Kiryu defeating each guy and learning one of his big moves in return.

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Lord_Pigeonbane posted:

I'm replaying the part where I need to gather information about the Odyssey, and I'd like to get the trophy for gathering all the info before negotiating. So far, I've talked to the guy on Bishamon bridge, and I've eavesdropped on the two guys just south of the Odyssey. There should be one more conversation that I need, but I haven't found it. Could anyone point me in the right direction?

TheLoser posted:

Has anyone cracked the code for using items to help with the gambling minigames?

KingShiro posted:

I had on one of the belly warmers, mew shoes, and a wallet and seemed to do better at cee-lo and cho-han. I saw a weapon with financial luck on it but couldn't make it.