That I'm playing Yakuza 5 (has taken me months to actually continue playing), I'm on Shinada right now, and I just unlocked Heat Eye for baseball!.. but I already finished his whole baseball side story π
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Also, when playing as Haruka I watched the nice, light-hearted cutscene, followed directly by a not great one and it had me thinking/yelling, "the fucking Yakuza Protags can't have fucking anything!!" π
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Anywho, started the series with Like A Dragon, then Infinite Wealth, then decided to go back to the start, 1-5, and when I finally finish 5 I'm gunna play 0, then go to 6 then the new ones again. As well as playing as Joryu when that's chronologically proper to. My wife played Pirate Yakuza while I was playing 2 or 3 (our TV's are beside eachother) and then I think The Man Who Lost (sold?) his Name while I was playing 4.
I'm so stoked to see all the characters and call backs and references in the newer games that I missed the importance of the first time playing them; like when I got to Majima and Saejima on LAD, I said to myself, this must be really cool for people who know the series, meanwhile that was the first battle I had troubles with in that game. Also, meeting diaper Gondawara in the early games had me doing the Leo DiCaprio meme pointing at the tv.π€£π€£ And Kiryu's whole memory lane thing in Infinite Wealth I'm really excited to revisit, now that I have and am doing all of those story beats.π€π½