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I finished Yakuza 5 today and I'm not sure the end of the game makes sense.Fumaofthelake posted:Am I the only one in thread who likes 4 more than 5? 5 felt so slow and disjointed to me and there was absolutely no pay off for Majima being married and the final boss was a wet fart narratively. Yeah, no, 4 is better no question. End of Yakuza 5 Person 1: I'm the man! Person 2: I'm the man behind the man Person 3: I'm the man behind the man behind the man, idiots! Person 4: I'm some jobber from earlier in the game and I'm the final boss, also I have ten health bars IGgy IGsen fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Mar 12, 2021 20:31
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:this is every other Yakuza game including 0 and 7 Honestly, yeah. But 5 did it so much worse than the games before imo. (Haven't played anything after yet, holding out for the PC Port of 6 before I play 7) I still enjoyed my time with 5 a lot I just think there's too much of the game and that hurts the story.
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Mar 12, 2021 21:14
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I started playing Yakuza 0 again waiting for 6 (after playing everything up to 5) on PC. And it just makes it all the clearer how good 0 actually is. I started New Game+ and actually did Mr. Shakedown. Previously I only beat him once and was like "been there done that" afterwards. But drat, it's easy to get dough quick, especially early on. Fucker even has a story and there's four of them. The only disappointment is that there's no hidden fifth Mr. Shakedown that shakes down all the others to fund his dream of becoming a protagonist in a Yakuza game. Now I'm doing the real estate thing even though I have no use for money at this point in time. But I gotta do at least some of it to get the Trouble Finder. But yeah, my favorite thing in Kiwami 2 was walking around in first person. I think I actually turned off the minimap for that one so I can soak in the world better.
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Mar 19, 2021 22:57
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I was playing more Yakuza 0 earlier, doing the real estate poo poo, becoming a capitalist so the poor may eat me. All of a sudden I found myself thinking of this man from Yakuza 3  He was always there in that street, contemplating the ground underneath him but not interactable (unless there's something I missed, I wasn't exactly thorough) I feel a strong sense of kinship with this person.
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Mar 21, 2021 02:21
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No, I'm too enamored with the Faile Bitch Goddess
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Mar 26, 2021 16:03
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If there was a side game where Kiryu just runs the orphanage and does mundane things there and around town with no Yakuza poo poo ever happening, just leading a happy life. I would play the poo poo out of it.
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Mar 27, 2021 15:14
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I just finished Yakuza 6 after playing all the Kiryu games when they came out on PC (though I played 6 on PS4 instead, currently downloading LaD of loving curse I'm gonna play LaD) After playing Yakuzas 0-6 my ranking is as follows 0 > K2 > 6 > K1 > 4 > 3 >>>>> 5 If you disagree with that meet me in Tenkaichi alley opposite children's park in the lot with the porno mag vending machine in it and if you bring coins we can look at the magazines. If you agree with me you can also come. several friends posted:downloading Yakuza 0 as a first timer to the series, for the PC platform. because why not. 
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Apr 3, 2021 18:16
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mycophobia posted:i like ordering drinks at the bar and listening to the bartender tell me anobut them And also, as a whisky drinker myself I found it really cool to drink whiskies that I already had in real life and pretend like I know my poo poo. There's this friendship / sub story in 0 where Majima gets drunk at a bar and listens to the Bartender talk about whisky. It's my favorite part of any of the games.
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Apr 5, 2021 02:27
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I finally made it to Yakuza 7 after making it a point to finish 0-6 first before digging into that. Yakuza 7 Trip report so far - Ichiban is an absolute dunce, I got no problem with him not being smart but he's straight up a dumb gently caress who doesn't understand that being outside of the world for 18 years actually doesn't mean that the world stands still, holy gently caress. They were REALLY pushing it with how idiotic they could have made him in this particular circumstance. Doesn't mean I don't like Ichiban, just means you should not let him make any decisions whatsoever. - I like the combat but I think I, despite making GBS threads on it, like the brawler combat more at this point. - Sidestories are fun, who woulda thunk - Really lukewarm on the bigger map. I thought they knew what they were doing by not having bigger maps in the past games. I also don't like that some areas have stronger enemies, disincentivizing you from exploring. I know it makes sense with a bigger map, but then again, I don't like the bigger map. - gently caress the generic jRPG dungeons. Like, the dungeons that don't feel like dungeons are fine but a loving four level absurdly spaceous sewer can go die in a ditch and rot there. - In fact, gently caress any dungeon that goes on for multiple long levels. Not sure if there's more of that but I hate it because it's always about two or three levels too long no matter what (I'm getting flashbacks to a particular dungeon from Persona 5) - Holy poo poo I got a new party member as a reward for completing the first leg of the management game. Weirdly, the thing that got me most excited about was the Karaoke song that comes with a new party member, and boy is it a good one, I love how over the top hyped the interjections for Butterfly are, the only one that comes close is Rouge of Love, which I'm not sure is in this game yet, but I wouldn't be surprised. - Having a story beat where you take a way a party member and then get me into four consecutive battles without the chance to change equipment is a dick move. That's it for now, I know there's some complaints in there, but those don't really have much of an impact. I think it's real cool
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Apr 6, 2021 22:17
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Akiyama's substories in 4 are basically just him sending people to do substories, like, you can just imagine it "A moneylending firm that charges no interest, huh? Sounds like a scam." then they walk past the office and it's like "Oh, isn't that this shady moneylending firm? Well I need a billion yen anyway it's worth a shot" And then Akiyama sends them out on wacky adventures we'll never see.
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Apr 7, 2021 06:10
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I mean, I get why some people vastly prefer 4 and others vastly prefer 5. They are very different. In 4 you have Four Protagonists all in one city, although it's not much each of these characters has access to at least something the others don't In 5 you have Five Protagonists in five cities (imo two of them are blandness incarnate, and they've done Sotenbori dirty) So you have five environments (and then some) total, that alone makes it feel very different from any other game in the series I'm in camp 4 and not too fond of 5. I feel like 5 tried to bite off more than it could chew. There was really no need for any of Baseball dude's arc it added nothing that couldn't have been accomplished in ways that didn't take several hours. But it was nice having a playable version of Hot Fuzz only instead of a Buddy Cop Duo you're a washed-up baseball player and a loan shark I'll say this though, the finale of both games is kinda weak. Anyway, I don't wanna be too negative in this happy thread. I still enjoyed them both. It's just in the landscape of seven games that freaking rule there just has to be one that's not my cup of tea even though it still mostly rules like holy poo poo there's a heat action that's just throwing up a downed opponent by the leg then doing a sick Rainmaker as the victim is flying in the air upside down and then you do a loving elbow drop to the throat as the poor gently caress is still falling down holy gently caress.
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Apr 7, 2021 16:31
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I played Yakuza 7 today and basically spent the entire day in Chapter 12. Doing the business, finishing up sub-stories I'd left open and that took me a few hours of having a good time. Then I decided to advance the story and I went to Sotenbori, which is cool but the loading screen kinda spoiled it. THEN I go to Omi HQ. For I while I thought they forgot to write Ichiban as an absolute idiot but they started again. Then motherfucking Majima and Saejima show up and I lose my poo poo. Then I get my rear end kicked by Majima super hard to a point where I thought this fight was a mandatory loss. But then it turned out I have to win. I had no trouble with anything in the game so far and I thought I was at a normal level for where I was in the game. I hate when games do this. So I came back trained up and more powerful, got some new gear too, even switched some jobs (pretty much did the entire battle arena to get the jobs up to speed and gain like ten levels until I was 50), and everything's cool. Until Saejima joins the fight they do a combo heat action without a discernible telegraph and I die instantly and curl up to a ball and cry. This is the part of the jRPG experience that I really could do without. Everything else loving rules but I had to take a break here.. Anyway, the thing I was the most excited about every time a new party member joined is the Karaoke song that comes along with them.
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Apr 11, 2021 00:29
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I finished LaD now. I liked it. And I'm curious to see where the series goes moving forward. Internal intrigue in the clans, as well as the rivalry between the Tojo and Omi, have basically had their fingerprint on every Yakuza game and for them to essentially go forward and be like "Not gonna be a thing anymore" really feels like saying goodbye in a way and a passing of the torch. Not a big fan of Kiryu showing up at all, though. It's like... "I'm pretending to be dead and no one knows I exist anymore but here I am showing everyone that I exist, being in a room with people who know me." I hope he loving said hi at Morning Glory before pulling that at least. C'mon, stop getting roped into this Yakuza poo poo that you try to escape via more and more extreme means every time. Hell, you made everyone think you're dead and yet here you are, idiot! Absolute buffoon! But they really have to iron out some kinks with the combat. It's usually good. Nothing groundbreaking but I enjoy it. But in the moments where it's bad, it sucks. Positioning of enemies and party members should not be a factor to the gameplay if you don't have meaningful control over that especially not if they move around while you choose commands. Arranging enemies like bowling pins and then they move around before I can act and do a Reckless Charge through all of them should be a crime. Geometry also gets in the way sometimes, though I'd rather have that than a separate battle screen. When enemies charge super ultra murder attacks they shouldn't get multiple turns in a row so they can charge and unleash their one-hit KO before there's time to react. There's other things too that detract in certain moments but if they go forward with more jPRG style games with turn-based combats those should be easy to remedy Also: Heat Actions as Limit Breaks are a loving no brainer, why didn't you do it? I do kinda want more brawler games, though. I dunno what it is exactly but I think they suit the stories more.
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Apr 11, 2021 20:15
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I literally just want the final boss fight from Metal Gear Solid 4 only with Kiryu and Majima instead. I don't think that's too much to ask.
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Apr 11, 2021 20:24
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Saejima is loving rad. He has a heat action where he pulls some poor gently caress up by the leg throwing them up and they do a flip and then Saejima does a Lariat as the opponent is upside down in the air and they do another flip, then on the way down Saejima elbow drops them in the throat. And yeah, Tanimura sucks. He might have had some appeal in Japan before they changed is face model and VA due to some poo poo. It's a good thing Tanimura never shows up again after 4 (unless there's an easter egg or something I dunno) so we can take that has him dying somehow
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Apr 15, 2021 21:22
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Fungah! posted:i feel like i need to go back and replay 0 after i finish the series, i feel like i really missed some stuff the first time through lol Yea, I played it a second time after finishing 5 but before starting 6 and there was a ton of stuff I missed. Also 0 actually came out after 5, so it's a good place to hop in, because at that point everything that 0 will reference has happened and right after in 6 they start referencing stuff from 0. It's good.
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Apr 15, 2021 21:51
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Majima respects the kayfabe. I definitely wouldn't say no to a Majima game where you just have to gently caress with Kiryu all day. E: Kinda random, but my favorite Karaoke backups are for Rouge of Love and Butterfly.
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Apr 16, 2021 00:22
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mycophobia posted:lol at the scene before it where kiryu uses a dude as a body shield while a machine gun riddles him with holes There's also this moment in 5 where he does the same thing in a cutscene and it's followed by this: (spoilers for Yakuza 5, naturally) https://i.imgur.com/uFHjiZk.png That moment made me laugh.
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Apr 17, 2021 20:01
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Fungah! posted:apparently the writer who took over after 2 really wanted kiryu to be a man alone which is why sayama bails immediately in 3. And then she never shows up again, which is the weirdest. Like, in 6 I was expecting more blasts from the past since it's supposed to be the end of Kiryu's story and thought she'd show up for sure. But we didn't even get Majima to interact with Kiryu. Game still rules of course, but I expected a little more fan service Re: Baseball dude in Yakuza 5: Yeah, I absolutely agree that his story didn't need to be there. It's in fact one of the biggest reasons I'm so down on the game. He's a completely new character introduced in the 11th hour of the game, he sucks to play as and the city you get to play in is only marginally better than what Saejima has to gently caress around in. They could have resolved the story in a better way without adding the wrinkle of an additional arc imo Maybe one day I'll go back to Yakuza 5 and love it but my first playthrough wasn't that.
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Apr 22, 2021 15:22
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Finding out who's in the picture in Baka Mitai every game is something I really looked forward to every time.
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Apr 24, 2021 01:39
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If you want a bad ending play Yakuza 5! Then again, I witnessed someone in this thread saying it was great. Maybe... in this world... different people like different things. Interesting. Am I on to something? Feel free to give me your thoughts and we can discover that phenomenon together.
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Apr 28, 2021 20:56
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There's also this scene from the Ending of 0 that I found really entertaining it's when Kiryu puts on his gray suit with a dark red shirt underneath and Nishiki comments on how it looks like poo poo. I can't help but feel this is a direct response to that one interview with Yakuza members reacting to Yakuza 3 where they all trashed the suit.
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Apr 28, 2021 21:02
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extremebuff posted:i stopped doing the bouncer missions cause they like to spam those fat boys holding a weapon that just stand there and are immune to everything lol The fact that those are in almost all of the games is baffling to me. It's like they went '"Hell yeah, a big dude holding a sofa who just stands around and whacks you with said sofa if you get close, we got something going here, let's hardcode this into the Yakuza Series DNA and make sure everyone who suggests not having these will get fired." But I don't think they were in 6. So maybe they did learn something eventually. Or maybe I'm forgetting they exist.
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May 1, 2021 21:56
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symbolic posted:⚪️ I never cared about anime Nothing happens when I click on these options. You should probably get that fixed.
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May 11, 2021 17:18
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Wow, I can't believe I'm loving dead.
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May 11, 2021 21:02
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extremebuff posted:i went to 6 and will definitely go back and play 5 at some point. the games even have story recaps in them, 6's intro re-introduces every major character exhaustively lol. ive heard nothing but bad things about 3 & 4 and just wont bother 3 and 4 are good. 3 lets you live by the beach for a while 4 introduces a bunch of cool and recurring characters and existing characters are fleshed out. I'd say both are worth playing despite some of the complaints people have.
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May 21, 2021 11:45
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Scythe posted:started k2 last night. the dragon engine upgrade is huge after y0/k1, wow Yeah, the best part is that you can now walk around in first person. Going from K2 two 3 is very painful, though, because 3 is just a straight up remaster instead of a whole-rear end Kiwami remake. I think they should have done one for 3 at least. 4 and 5 would have been cool but those are fine, actually.
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May 24, 2021 18:20
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mkvltra posted:Question for Yakuza gamers- I finished 7 a couple weeks ago (first entry into the series), I'm a couple hours into Majima's storyline in 0. What should I know about character progression? Is there any way for me to severely, epically gently caress myself over? What did you guys wish you knew before yous tarted playing? You can't really mess anything up. If you feel like you did just get more money and invest in yourself. But seriously, it's fine, follow your heart.
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May 28, 2021 21:57
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mkvltra posted:I got a rainbow gearbox from a dream machine. Where / when do I initiate pocket circuit. I'm in Chapter 10. It's in the top left corner of the map right next to Children's Park. E2: nvm I used a map for a later game forgetting that there's a big fat spoiler on it but it's in fact next to Children's Park. I trust that you are able to find it. IGgy IGsen fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 20:00
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Professor of Cats posted:Early Yakuza 5: yo I can drive?...and race?? Hell yea I love that They make you follow some basic traffic rules too. I died a little when I realized I'm playing a video game where I enjoyed the most boring things about actually driving. Driving being an activity I hate so much I prefer public transit despite having a license.
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Jun 3, 2021 16:55
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I do appreciate that in 4 onward they just make Kiryu an unstoppable demigod rather than sticking with "oh, he got rusty and needs to relearn everything" every time. Had a hearty lol when I got to his skill menu in 4 and most of it was already unlocked Yeah, it's also amazing how many of the problems in the series could be solved immediately if he just said straight out the gate "By the way I'm this legendary badass." instead of pretending he's not all the time for lame reasons.
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Jun 5, 2021 11:57
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Saejima chapter in 5 kicks rear end so far. Saejima punching a motherfucking bear is easily the high point of 5. It's all downhill from here and I'm not even kidding.
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Jun 12, 2021 11:35
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I hate Shinada mainly because This is the fourth time in the game we get a cliffhanger ending to a chapter only to change protags, this was just one too many. I also don't feel like he adds too much. His claim to fame is that he's the only Yakuza character who fucks
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Jun 14, 2021 07:09
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mkvltra posted:You should switch Ichiban to Demolisher so you can unlock the ability to remove obstacles in the overworld / in dungeons. You don't need to keep him as Demolisher, you just need to switch to him for a second so the passive ability can unlock. Yeah, it's super loving annoying that you have to do that. Because I had no intention of ever switching him to the Foreman job so I just didn't know that you had to do that to even finish one of the grind dungeons.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:46
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American McGay posted:I went my entire first playthrough of the game not knowing what the gently caress was up with those walls in the dungeons and thinking it was probably a NG+ thing. I learned about it in the post-game after looking up how to get rid of those walls. So yeah, same.
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Jun 16, 2021 18:58
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Where's Saejima when you need him.
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Jun 18, 2021 17:11
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Jun 19, 2021 13:56
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I think all the drinks are real, the whisky definitely is. As a whiskyhead I always appreciate the details and descriptions, one of the developers knows their stuff and it's cool. They especially love Macallan for some reason lol Macallan is just one of the most popular Scotch whiskys. It's also a brand with some really well-known and sometimes famous bottles. I pop much more when they rep Laphroaig because I love Laphroaig. But yeah, I love that the games put so much work into showcasing these whiskys and that one substory in Yakuza 0 where Majima just listens to a bartender gush about whisky is one of my favorites in the series.
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Bicyclops posted:i keep waiting for the other shoe to drop because so far it's way better than 3 I think it's better than the non Okinawa parts of 3 but worse than the Okinawa parts. In my very humble opinion at least. Okinawa was great. I just want a game where Kiryu lives a happy live running the orphanage and does no Yakuza poo poo whatsoever. E: RE: Whisky talk. Yeah, I've been meaning to check out Ardbeg but I never had a bottle. Maybe I should find one I heard good things.
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