duke_of_jukes
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2 days
Last played
December 17, 2023
First played
August 24, 2023
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Picked this back up after getting stuck before a wall of difficulty in Chapter 9. I heavily dislike grinding, so the fact that it feels like the pacing of the game has built-in sections where they expect you to grind up to 10 levels at a time (up to 5 hours of mindless gameplay) feels like straight-up padding. Which is a shame, because there's already so much quality here that there's no need to pad it out. This is my first Yakuza, so I have a feeling I'll like the original series a bit more if it avoids my primary qualms.
Really fun time! Got to chapter 9 and got soft-soft-locked at too low of a level to beat the boss with no side quests to easily gain XP. Got tired of grinding after like 3-4 hours and put it down. If that didn't happen I would have finished! Maybe I'll pick this up again later but I'd rather try out the core Yakuza series instead of grinding my levels.