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I seent a meme that IW ignores Gaiden's story entirely, how true is that? Without going into specifics since I haven't played yet
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Feb 24, 2024 18:08
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I seent a meme that IW ignores Gaiden's story entirely, how true is that? Without going into specifics since I haven't played yet It doesn't like contradict it or whatever but nothing that happened really gets followed up on
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Feb 24, 2024 18:16
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I had too much of a good time to care about the story while playing but agreed with the above comments. Some great sub/side baddies though.
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Feb 24, 2024 18:37
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Dr. Cool Aids posted:It doesn't like contradict it or whatever but nothing that happened really gets followed up on That's kind of a bummer since it felt like it was setting up for something big. Oh well they'll just have to make Gaiden 2 now
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Feb 24, 2024 18:38
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Lmao the loving electric eel escavator sidestory. Kasuga lives on a cartoon world.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:05
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I seent a meme that IW ignores Gaiden's story entirely, how true is that? Without going into specifics since I haven't played yet I think it's more that Gaiden didn't really let that many plot threads hanging that weren't already wrapped up on LAD7 itself. It mostly only served to show what Kiryu had been up to from between 6 to 8. And I guess introduces Hanawa who just gets unceremoniously killed halfway through infinite wealth while we never got to find out whether he was one of the bad guys from 5 lol.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:11
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Lol I never actually went to the “cabaret” club in Hawaii. Don’t know what I expected but yeah, that makes sense.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:20
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Not huge spoilers but I'll tag them anyway, the thing that confused me about the Gaiden to IW lead-in is that at the end of Gaiden they make this huge deal about Kiryu taking a vacation to Hawaii, they talk about it before the final mission, afterwards you seem him packed, new passport with a new name, heading off to his Hawaiian vacation, then you see him on vacation leaving Yumi's ring at the Hawaiian church she wanted to go to. Then you meet him in Infinite Wealth and he's in Hawaii but on official Daidoji business and absolutely not on vacation lol. I'm still only in like chapter 5 or something so maybe they have a line later about how they called him while he was there for an urgent mission of something but it's kind of strange that he doesn't mention it at all at least in the first few chapters.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:22
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I think Gaiden was more to fill in the gap between 6 and 7 while letting Kiryu do sick spy poo poo than it was really setting up any arc for future games.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:42
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i pulled the kiwami green and kiwami violet back to back in the japanese suji pull and it made the last discreet 4 boss a joke the kiwami green has so much speed
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Feb 24, 2024 19:58
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It's really weird how irrelevant Gaiden is to this game lol, it's the first time in the series where I've felt like the two close release games were made by totally different teams that apparently just never talk to each other. Gaiden still does a great job filling the gaps between 6 and 7, and even improves on some narrative weak points in both games, but it's like they had no idea what 8 was even going to be about beyond the specific Hawaii setting. Like, it still makes no sense to me at all that Gaiden never mentions Kiryu's cancer and then it was just in all the trailers and previews for 8 anyway. Even dumb stuff like Hanawa telling Kasuga that he's unfit and doesn't fit, brother you had like seven health bars in Gaiden. I know Gaiden was originally DLC but they could have addressed this with a few dialogue lines here and there and just don't, so it ends up extremely odd.
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Feb 24, 2024 20:12
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*walks into tattoo parlor with $1 million in my pocket* "you think you can scrounge up ten grand?"
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Feb 24, 2024 20:46
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I mean more about the Daidoji stuff, is that just non existent?
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Feb 24, 2024 20:50
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I mean more about the Daidoji stuff, is that just non existent? they exist still
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Feb 24, 2024 21:09
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Nah they're a pretty constant undercurrent to the whole thing, especially when you get into Kiryu's side stuff. Speaking of which, about the post credits scene... I get the reveal and how it's supposed to be a triumphant moment for him and the series, but isn't Date basically a dead man walking now because of it? If you do the last Life Link they make it pretty clear that they're done loving around and Date will be the first target if Kiryu ever resurfaces. I can't imagine them making any more Kiryu games after this but it really feels like that might be the kickoff for 9. Daidoji starts taking down people close to Kiryu as penalty and you gotta go and blow up the whole thing. ----------------
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Feb 24, 2024 21:12
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All of that said, Kiryu has apparently completely forgotten about Agent Style
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Feb 24, 2024 22:19
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:All of that said, Kiryu has apparently completely forgotten about Agent Style US customs took his spider gadget and exploding cigarettes
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Feb 24, 2024 22:53
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Ah okay that's a relief then cos that cliffhanger seemed really interesting Agent style is the most chaotic fun I've had in these games. Instantly flinging 12 guys around at the start of a fight, using Agent Heelies to blast thru the rest, do a 180 and fling them again Man Gaiden owns so hard
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Feb 24, 2024 22:56
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:Ah okay that's a relief then cos that cliffhanger seemed really interesting I grinded levels for the coliseum by doing the platinum weapon fight because you could throw the guys and do exactly this
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Feb 24, 2024 23:16
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Eventually I am going to stop being sick or working myself to deatha nd advance beyond this chapter but it appears that it was not this weekend.
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Feb 26, 2024 16:02
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ill issue...
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Feb 26, 2024 17:37
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lol at the point in the middle of sujimon where kasuga inevitably has to beat the two minions before challenging guy number three and he wearily says "same as it ever was."
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Feb 27, 2024 05:12
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American McGay posted:Nah they're a pretty constant undercurrent to the whole thing, especially when you get into Kiryu's side stuff. I'm assuming that Kiryu and co stopping Ebina and Bryce's scheme made the Daidoji relent and let him go I guess
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Feb 28, 2024 02:46
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yamai's theme ftw https://youtu.be/aktLRiWXfqg
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Feb 28, 2024 19:03
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Dongicus posted:yamai's theme ftw https://youtu.be/aktLRiWXfqg lol
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Feb 28, 2024 19:04
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Dongicus posted:yamai's theme ftw https://youtu.be/aktLRiWXfqg lol
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Feb 28, 2024 19:10
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Dongicus posted:yamai's theme ftw https://youtu.be/aktLRiWXfqg Lol
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Feb 28, 2024 22:06
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This feels like very late in the game to give me a final party member and now I feel compelled to fill out his entire bingo board
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Feb 29, 2024 14:58
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:This feels like very late in the game to give me a final party member and now I feel compelled to fill out his entire bingo board Yeah bot sure why the gently caress they have Joongi join on the penultimate chapter
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i think it's RGG trying to account for Joongi being busted as hell in Y7 and encourage you to use more of the new people with Ichiban
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Plutonis posted:Yeah bot sure why the gently caress they have Joongi join on the penultimate chapter Apparently Zhao and him were added late in development because they're fan favourites, but that just raises the question of why Zhao gets introduced with a couple of full Kiryu chapters to go and Joongi... doesn't join at the equivalent time for Kasuga lol
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the bat that you get for finishing the sujimon league feels so overpowered that i just switched kasuga's job for awhile so it wouldn't feel like i was obliterating everything, lol. just got to the point where nanba and adachi are back in last night but it still isn't daytime in hawaii so probably i'll just be pushing the main story and/or taxi-ing to some of their bond bingos for awhile. once a bunch of substories open up i'll be back to walking the mini-game loop.
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thinking about it during this one and a half hour teams meeting i'm in and i know the group splits up eventually. how does the bond stuff work? is it shared or does each leader have to do bonds separately?
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Mar 1, 2024 17:58
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Shared
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Brass Hand posted:Shared awesome. thanks.
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im almost done with the basic yokohama dungeon. i still feel like my homies in japan are way weaker than their hawaiian counterparts and i dont know what i can do to fix that.
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Get Seonhee to whatever level it is where she learns the spider web attack.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:im almost done with the basic yokohama dungeon. run it again
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i pulled a shark fin and squid tentacles back to back fishing in yokohama and it's the most excited i've been all week lol
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:im almost done with the basic yokohama dungeon. I'm the opposite but maybe because for some reason I decided to train up this new dickhead instead of just using my main crew. My Japan crew were all level 50+ by the end of chapter 12
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