yeah I’m admitting I have an irrational bias here! but this is also why I don’t like IX lol
yeah idk, we probably had some type of HP printer. wasn’t great for image quality (didn’t stop me from printing stuff and taping it to my wall, though), but regular text was mostly fine.
i seem to recall it eventually stopped working/printing. probably my fault.
I think, get down to it, the actual game here is answering these questions that’s the whole fun there’s nothing else to it other than maybe fighting and waiting for it to be over, the only thing to care about, if you keep playing it you almost certainly will memorize the whole map and figure out everything that you can do, but
some tips
Classes start at 9 and 12 M-F, the schedules for which classes happen on which days is on the first floor bulletin board, all classes are in the same room, 3rd/4th door to the right on the 3rd floor, you can get to class a little early or a little late and be fine, they net you 2% in their respective subjects for 2 hours of time, along with the possible short dialogs from your classmates hanging out in the room. You can also study at home at the rate of 1% per subject per hour. You can bump the classroom rate up to 4% and the home rate up to 2% by reading a certain book in the school library.
Saturday is test day, you can arrive I think anytime before noon?, your performance on the tests is what shows up in the GRADES submenu screen, and is based on the subject knowledge percentage values, you’ll need to keep adding to your knowledge to keep getting As (like, 5% first week, 10% second, etc. not sure what the actual numbers are per week to get the A)
After class or tests you can leave school. You don’t have to show up to class, you can just study at home for the same % in less time and go to tests on Saturday.
Getting good grades on your tests allows you to receive more money from your Scholarship Payments (2500y for Cs, 5000y for Bs, 10000y for As) which you can receive from the head teacher in his office on the first floor, starting the Monday after your tests (school is closed on Sundays). Also once you start getting all As you can tutor Aiko (talk to her in the library between 5-7pm) and the head teacher will allow you to become his research assistant. You can complete 2 individual research assignments in his office, once unlocked, these function just like reading a long book slowly and take multiple days. They each pay 10000y once completed.
The shops available are
- The burger joint/diner - no one can figure out exactly what eating FOOD does?, it doesn’t do much if anything you can STARVE the whole game
- The coffee shop/sit-down restaurant - FOOD, plus sitting at a table or bench allows you to read any books you have equipped from your bookcase at home
- The convenience store by the station - FOOD
- The cigarette vending machine outside of the convenience store - Smoking doesn’t affect anything it’s just for fun
- The pawn shop/2nd hand store - here you can buy a functional TV/VCR combo and a Famicom and a Gold Chain that does nothing
- The book store - You give a short one-line review when you finish a book and they sometimes trigger very limited and specific dialog if you are carrying a given one or have finished a given one (one girl in class ‘likes’ literature and will talk to you about them), the clerk will explain the plot of each before you buy them
- The movie store - Buy movies to play on your combo TV/VCR, watch them with your friends in your party to have additional sparse dialog when they finish, there is one (only one?) that teaches you a KICK move if you watch it twice. You can get a job here that starts at 12PM and pays 4000y iirc, you get fired if you don’t show up for a few consecutive days
- The bar - you can play video poker and pool here, buy a drink from the bartender, if you drink enough your screen will go blurry. There’s a Yakuza guy here that you can never voluntarily talk to but will have a short cutscene with near the end.
- Ken’s House - okay this is not a shop, but it’s on the way to the playground and Ken will be here at (random, sporadic?) times and you can have a little short chat with your bud
The teachers/stat/move merchants are
- The bench past the school or at the playground - sit and then press R to read your equipped book
- The pull-up bar and parallel bars at the playground - JUMP and then ACTION onto these guys, and then do reps with ACTION until Ringo is too tired to comply, netting you a small increase in maxHP that itself increases as you increase your level increasingly
- The boxing gym - have to talk to your friend Ken about not returning to the gym after breaking his hand, and show up a few days to exhaust the teachers dialog and then he teaches you PUNCH moves
- The weightlifting/bodybuilder guy - show up a number of days to exhaust the teachers dialog before he relents to teaching you for free, 25+ maxHP per session, no moves
- The Mechanic - this might only trigger later in the game, but discover him past the freeway underpass, down the stairs, past the broken fence, through the woods past the school; talk to him on a few consective days to exhaust his dialog, get beatup alone in a screen near him for him to rescue you and then teach you KICK moves
- The Judo Instructor - might have to unlock the weightlifter guy first, M/W/F in the school gym be there 2:30PM, teaches THROW moves
Other School Stuff:
On the ground floor all the way to the right is the gymnasium/theater, what room you enter changes on the time you enter and if there are cutscenes the game wants to show you, at the start the COACH will sell you a usable pingpong table that will appear on roof of the school where your hoodlum friends hangout. One of your friends gets involved in theater class to impress a girl and you will sporadically be shown cutscenes of this over here as well. Later, I think, Judo (M/W/F 3-5PM) and Karate (M-S 6PM) classes become available in the Gymnasium; you have to show up half an hour early for these. Based on forum posts Karate is not possible to learn you just get kicked out of the room if you stay past 6:30 or so.
The cutscenes just happen while you’re doing this stuff as far as I can tell.
If only I had known this when I was a kid
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Authentic law school experience
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The Way remastered is totally worth a dollar. I might actually finish this
Oh huh, I played a little of this, I’ll definitely get back to it because as much as I found ‘Press X: her grave’ amusingly on the nose it seemed like a potentially fun Flashback homage and I just got distracted.
Later Dynasty Warriors games introduce more mechanics into the main modes and more varied objectives to the missions, and then you have expansions games like Dynasty Wars 3 Empires, which adds a strategy RPG and empire sim layer, and Dynasty Warriros 3 Xtreme Legends, which is about growing a custom character.
I’ve generally found I enjoy the Samurai Warriors lineage of musou much better than games that follow the Dynasty Warriors style of gameplay (I had never played Samurai Warriors until Samurai Warriors 4-II but I can see the musou-series divide in retrospect). Samurai Warriors is a bit more wild in its character moveset, focusing on more unique combo sets and special abilities that really make characters stand out in ways the mainline Dynasty Warriors hasn’t for a while after it switched to an equipment based system. I’d say most of the licensed spin-off games felt a bit more like Samurai Warriors than Dynasty Warriors.
Meanwhile I’d say stuff like Gundam Musou and Warriors Orochi, and to an extent Fist of the North Star musou are more like mainline Dynasty Warriors (though I still really like the first Fist of the Norse Star game).
A lot of the licensed spin-off games also experiment with things that’s fun to see. Arslan musou and Fire Emblem musou hasve strategy RPG layers akin to Kessen (so does Bladestorm from what I understand). Dragon Quest musou has a bit of a mix of RPG field exploration and tower defense, depending on the mission. Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada is an interesting game as well.
But also make sure to at some point check out the Sengoku Basara series, Capcom’s take on the musou genre. Capcom’s historic action game chops really shone through in the series with it’s wildly creative and diverse cast of the characters. For a long period there Capcom wasn’t make a ton of 3rd person melee based action games but a lot of that energy went into Sengoku Basara instead. The third game was localized into English as Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes. I much prefer Sengoku Basara to the Dynasty Warriors series overall. My other favorites are First of the North Star musou 1 and the One Piece Pirate Warriors series.
Musous catch a lot of flack for how samey they can seem but there’s a lot more breadth to their nuances than people realize.
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As noted in the spring cleaning thread I’ve started playing Yakuza Kiwami which is my first Yakuza game, and I’m a bit of the ways into the second chapter it was asking me if I wanted to go to a funeral next. It’s a rather odd thing! It is impressive how much detail has been put into everything, walking into a convenience store and it actually looks like a believable one, people’s clothes don’t look painted on, and there is a lot of everything.
My only slight problem is that I am terrible at it. Combat it this point feels both rather basic and like I am really missing some aspect of it. Part of that is likely due to seemingly losing a bunch of stuff after the opening chapter, but the harder enemies seem to enter a glowy mode when they are down to about half health and just start wrecking me in ways I don’t really have a grasp on how to counter. One guy kept slamming and suplexing me when I thought I was supposed to hammer X to escape but I didn’t. I recall talk of using some kind of finishing moves on them at a certain point but I don’t know if I even have those any more, really I think the whole “depowering” deal has really confused me as to what I can and can’t do at the moment.
Also I will catch hell for this but I’m a real dub over sub fellow and this is the second straight “big” game I’ve played (previous being Steins;Gate) where it is sub only and it makes me sad.
Odallus giving me a boss battle after a minecart section is the point where I click uninstall.
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The first Yakuza combat isn’t great. You want to buy as many healing items as you can at the pharmacy and I can’t remember if in Kiwami you can hoard weapons but also do that.
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theres a part about… 90 minutes in? that’s incredibly infuriating. probably should at least turn the voice off.
i deleted a heated post last night and id just like to tell everyone that nintendo actually still cannot make a non fucking worthless singleplayer adventure mode for smash bros
Kiwami has the best combat in the series (can’t comment on Fist, Kiwami 2 and Judgement yet), what?
Probably just thinking of Yakuza 1 original (which btw if you want a dub, by all means revisit this insanity). Kiwami 1 and Zero do have the best combat but by and large the series’ fighting is extremely Extremely basic, there for you to smile at Heat actions but not a huge amount else. Way more streets of rage than something like dmc or bayonetta.
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The latest leg in my journey to Colonia in Elite: Dangerous consisted of 73 jumps over roughly 3,000 light years
It’s frightening being so far out into the black.
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i hope there’s like giant cosmic beasts out there with a tiny chance of being found, that no-one has seen yet
Would not really say it’s extremely basic, it’s above most beatemups as well as all the Simon Says bullshit of majority of western games.
if you compare it with dedicated character action games, then yeah.
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Every system I’ve entered so far has already been discovered by others, so doubtful.
I probably won’t try heading out into unmapped space until I make it to Colonia first.
ah, you’ve articulated a big problem western games have in a nice little way here
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