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Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

finally getting a chance to play lost judgement this weekend, on chapter 2 now.

i have the "detective essentials" dlc with my basic ps5 purchase that added the dates, bonus items, and master system games. am i missing anything rn without having the $35 dlc that will eventually have a playable kaito story? kinda confused at the difference between the two

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Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

i've advanced as far as i can in the dance club storyline (won second competition) and apparently i have to increase my stats to follow through to the next step. the guide i googled recommended the robotics club, and amasawa herself suggested joining other clubs. the the robotics room is empty tho and nothing happens when i enter or leave. do i have to advance to a farther point in the main plotline or do it at a different time of day? it's late afternoon on chapter 4.

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

yeah i unlocked the esports club when i left school tho i still haven't unlocked the robotics club as i'm apparently supposed to be able to

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Stelas posted:

Did you do all the dances first time? I think I remember being in the same situation as you. I was expecting stat raises to be by quest completion but they're actually just 'every time you try the activity' so if you blow through the dances perfectly you aren't quite high enough level to unlock robotics.

at least the guide i read said that you just needed to beat the second compition tho it could be wrong. i'm level 2 in the two stats the dance club raises

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

i had a break of a couple months p early on after starting lost judgement before i went back to it. amazing game and i'm getting close to the end but how the hell do i throw smoke bombs in the stealth segments? i have a few in my inventory but can never figure out how to use them


edit: i figured out the trick necessary to advance in this storyline stealth section where i couldn't throw a coin but i still assume there's supposed to be some use for them. was also trying to figure that out during the last photography club mission

Thauros fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jan 24, 2022

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

what's the term in japanese they use in LJ for 'Public Security' and the real life analog intelligence agency? i can make out the 公/kou part which means public but not the other one. i assume it's something similar to the use of 'Citizen's Democratic Party' as a standin for the LDP in other RGG games?

edit:p sure it's 公安/kouan/public safety, i was mishearing it as こうはん at first. this must be the real life version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Security_Intelligence_Agency. expected it to be more indirect

Thauros fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 30, 2022

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Last Celebration posted:

You can freely swap right before the end of the game, yeah. Y4 is kinda bad about warning you wrt points of no return, I think Akiyama hits the “it’s raining, no substories” cutoff well before the end of his stuff in particular.

the rubber bullets make sense insofar as they’re transparently a way to absolve Saejima of murder so he can be around for Y5 onwards. But god almighty they are the absolute stupidest plot point in this franchise when you stop to think for a second. And more importantly, yeah, they just take all the punch out of his story in a kind of weak way cause he still tried to murder him, there’s some twists in LAD that are contrived but at least they actively make their stories better.

i got into the series when 0 was first released and proceeded to buy a used ps3 to play 4 and 5 as this was years before the remastered copies. 3 was physical only and i heard the localized version sucked so i skipped that one until the remastered. because of this my play order was 0-4-5-k1-6-k2-3-7. the saejima story was the stuff i was most invested in with 4 as it was the only thing i really had the background on.


it is indeed dumb as hell but more than as an excuse to let him return i think just like they'll never let the pc stay in the yakuza for more than the intro chapter they'll also never let the pc kill anyone no matter how contrived it gets even if the intent was there and it took place before the games.

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Last Celebration posted:

drat, who bullshitted you into thinking the PS3 version wasn’t the definitive edition*?

*aside from the trans stuff they cut in the PS4 version

i heard a bunch of side activities were cut out of 3 because they thought westerners wouldn’t undetstand them. no idea if that was the case or not but i’d certainly rather have those intact if so than questionable treatment of trans characters in earlier games.

on that note those are the most recently originally published works i’ve seen start with the “this work of fiction was made in an earlier time, not that certain views expressed should’ve been acceptable then etc” type disclaimer

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

not going to entirely disagree as the hostess management stuff was bad in in the earlier games and amazing in 0 and y2 but i guess i'd still rather see that stuff generally intact. mahjong owns

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Feels Villeneuve posted:

no cee-lo no buy

i wish i could play that in a casino

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

getting shades of the Kiwami 2 modem substory

this reminds me of a convo i had on twitter about how there should really be an nft scammer substory in the next one, tho kiryu would've been the best fit out of the protags

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

finding the squirrels becomes much easier once you finish the school stories, tho there was still one i needed a guide for

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

they still haven't brought back cee-lo in the new engine.....

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

finally started kaito files. kinda bummed at the lack of substories/minigames as the side poo poo is so much the point of these things to me. kaito's combat owns tho and the storyline seems solid if nothing particularly groundbreaking if you've played all of these as i have.

hope they can come to terms with yagami's va's agency and don't have to do a full protag switch but having both be playable in judgement 3 would be cool.

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Vikar Jerome posted:

holy poo poo, kazama prequel is coming. believe.

how are they gonna retcon it so that kazama never actually killed anyone?

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Thauros posted:

how are they gonna retcon it so that kazama never actually killed anyone?


easy now that i think about it for a couple minutes given the studio. kazama is forced into exile from the tojo clan due to shibusawa and/or awano framing him. the antagonists hire a hitman who undergoes plastic surgery to look like kazama and take his position to conceal internal strife from the omi. kazama eventually clears his name and shimano kills the body double after the climatic fistfight.

kazama agrees to protect the clan's secret and pretend it was him all along but out of guilt for being unable to stop the murders in his name from occurring forms the orphanage to ensure that the children are taken care of.

if they actually do this 75% of my semi-joke post is gonna happen, i love those games so much but certain things are kinda predictable by this point

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

i stayed in kabkicho in 2019 as it was cheap and would recommend. you really can navigate it if you have kamurocho ingrained in your memory as i'm sure everyone here does. the real life golden gai is exactly where the champion district is and is cool as hell. if you're a single male traveler you will get regularly propositioned by sex workers and touts at night but that's true of a lot of places.

and if you do get suckered into a clip joint or something, just wait for a dude in a grey suit to save your rear end and then hand him a ¥2000 yen bill or an energy drink. easy!


Ulio posted:

I thought Japan still doesn't give tourist visa? I was traveling a lot in Asia before covid and Japan is definitely the country I want to visit the most.

he may be an expat or posting old photos. good news on that front tho:

edit:given that only one person is wearing a mask i bet it's an old photo

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/05/06/japan-reopen-tourists-in-june/?sh=58171bd567a7

Thauros fucked around with this message at 17:34 on May 9, 2022

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

i just got past the introductory chapter of ishin and woke up in the inn room. i still don't have the preorder and optional download weapons, does that come later or did i screw something up

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Carlosologist posted:

It’s funnier to use the regular series names instead of the historical ones

Kiryu and Shibusawa being bros is totally not okay with me

i just came here because it was bugging me that he looked familar but unlike the others it wasn't super obv and i figured out who that was after googling. wonder if it's going to be a spoiler for later developments..... although you'd think they'd have gone with nishiki for that....

on a similar note i was wondering why the father figure wasn't kazama esp with the orphanage angle before quickly figuring it out lol

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Ville Valo posted:

I’ve waited SO long for the Sotenbori boat to come by to snap a photo, in both chapter 3 and 4. Is there a trick to getting it to come by? Or does it not run at night?

EVGA Longoria posted:

It does not run at night, no.



yes it does i was jthere and caught a picture at night a couple weeks ago.

https://x.com/thauros_/status/1720405185405874471?s=20

in all seriousness i picked up the game as soon as i got back and its great so far. gently caress, it makes me miss japan tho

Thauros fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Nov 18, 2023

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

i thought y7 was excellent and the turn based thing was cute for one game but i wish we could get a normal combat ichiban game and do the turn based for the offshoots.

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

just unlocked the actual coliseum stuff and wow, i had no idea they let you control the other guys including majima/saejima/dojima

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

when does tomiawa's first drink link or drink links in general get unlocked?

i did a bynch of side stuff in chapter four and have his bond at level 35 at the start of chapter 5. "Drink Link:Tomizawa Episode 1" is still listed as "Unable to Progress" under tasks.

do i still need to progress in the main story or is there something else i missed

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

History Comes Inside! posted:

Progress the main story

ok just wanted to make sure i wasn't missing something dumb. would've held off on some of the side stuff if i had known a new party memeber was joining

Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

tracecomplete posted:

news from the ground: there is not actually a PC store, let alone a sujimon dungeon, in the Ala Moana Mall. I’m uninstalling Hawaii right now and going home

also no Jeff’s taco truck, which I feel like should have been a place of honor

overall it’s crazy how well they captured the vibe, though. I walked by the square where you get your Segway and was kind of blown away

never been to hawaii but i went to kabubicho in 2019 during a trip to tokyo and dotonbori last year when i hit osaka/kyoto/nara plus a couple days in tokyo surrounding flights. could navigate both thanks to these games without needing to look at a map


Sapozhnik posted:

Sotendotonbori is also very unrealistic because none of the games depict the absolutely Times Square levels of butt to nut overcrowding that it has irl as I found out today and yesterday

not too crowded in november

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Thauros
Jan 29, 2003

Last Celebration posted:

cast a popular western live actor for one of the antagonists,


i'm playing the japanese version with subtitles since its an rgg game and it was just weird to me when i tried the dub for 15 minutes. when i got to that point i thought "that guy looks so clearly based on danny trejo that he could probably sue" assuming that trejo wasn't actually involved since his english language lines in the japanese voiced version aren't said by him. only learned a week ago of his involvement and how guys like him and bryce have completely different VAs even when they speak english.

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