>>8280858I'm powering through, I've had maybe 2 days where I haven't been grinding away at the series. I'm also not doing any of the Japanese board games, I'm not learning Shogi or Mahjong for this challenge.
>>8281020I don't like Akiyama, loveSaejima, and Tanamura grew on me. Akiyama is supposed to be the lifeline of Kamurocho but his tests bug me because they're very subjective to his moods; Yasuko got a piss easy test and Akiyama gave her a ton of help meanwhile a woman with her kid in tow asked for 1/200 of what Yasuko asked for and was given a 3 hour time limit to find a job and predictablycouldn't accomplish it. He's always dropping lines like he wants his clients to succeed and have money to help them but at the same time it also feels like he likes making people jump through hoops to amuse him. Also he's pretty stupid
hiding 100 billion yen in a vault that could be opened by a single push of a button.Saejima was really cool and I think he's the strongest character in the Yakuza series so far. He's the only one so far not to be btfo by Kiryu and fought him to a standstill before he passed out from his injuries. I think Saejima is stronger then Kiryu because this is a Saejima that's been locked up longer then Kiryu (this was the entire plot point in Kiwami, that Kiryu lost all his fighting prowess because he was in jail for so long), he was malnourished and had just washed up ashore from the ocean so there was no way Saejima was anywhere close to being healthy yet he fought Kiryu to a draw.
Tanamura feels like I'm playing a young Date, a renegade cop that plays by his own rules and doesn't get corrupted by money or power. His fighting style is mechanically the best and he's got a neat side plot where he's trying to solve his father's murder and how it gets tied into the overall Yakuza 4 plot, I just don't see how he'll be relevant in Yakuza 5.
