Didn’t think Wukong was going to be this huge. Happy for all the players who are enjoying it!
Still grinding away at Yakuza 0 and I really mean grinding. Trying to level up Kiryu as much as I can but I accidentally went too far in the story and now I’m playing as Majima, which is fine because I do enjoy running the cabaret club and his Slugger stance is my favorite fighting stance in the game, but I was much stronger as Kiryu. Fitting since he loves to fight more than Majima does.
Each character has three fighting stances, which really changes up your fighting style and movesets. They’re all useful for different encounters, but for the most part if you focus on leveling one stance up a lot, it could be useful in pretty much all encounters.
Kiryu’s Rush stance is absolutely OP. It’s the stance I’ve been focused on leveling up the most. It’s Kiryu’s fast paced fighting style, with a really useful evade move and fast attacks that level enemies stunned. I managed to defeat Mr Shakedown for the first time using Rush stance. They’re multiple really huge men who have super strong attacks and lots of health that steal a lot of your money every time you get hit or are defeated by them. If you manage to defeat them yourself, you get a huge load of money. I finally got the achievement for defeating one and gained nearly 10mil Yen, which is decent in this game.
Another thing I was really focused on before moving onto Majima is the pocket racer circuits. They’re those race cars that follow premade tracks, but in this game you have to customize your racers to make sure they’re fast but don’t go flying off the course. I spent a lot of money buying parts and even going through the trouble of unlocking the black market dealer who has some illegal racer parts. I was struggling with my racer being too fast and flying off the course, so after a ton of tweaking and modifying, I finally beat the first few races. It’s so funny how in-depth this part of the game goes and it’s entirely possible to skip the whole thing. I played it a little last time I went through this game, but this time I’m so invested in it. It’s really fun modifying your cars trying to make them the best on the racetrack. As soon as I get to play as Kiryu again I’m headed straight for the circuits.
While I don’t want to rush this game too fast, I am really excited to get to the real estate part of the game. It’s in Chapter 5 and I believe I just got to 4 last night. In the story you take over a real estate business, because you know the main story is all about real estate wars, and you get to do things like property acquisition and manage a team of workers. You manage workers like assistants, security and property managers, and doing a good job will earn you passive income over time. It’s so strange if you just read about it, but actually playing this part of the game is a ton of fun.
Yakuza 0 has so many little side activities and such like that, but it’s done so well to the point where you can spend as much or as little time on side activities and still have a blast. The real estate part is kind of mandatory to a certain point but eventually you can keep growing it as much as you’d like to really grind out money in the game.
In top of all of that, I’m still playing a bit of Two Point Campus here and there. Yakuza really demands a bit of your time, it’s hard to play it for just 30 minutes at a time unless you are free from doing a mission and just doing side actives like bowling or billiards. Two Point Campus works better for me if I only have 30mins-1hr to play. It’s a lot easier to save your progress and jump back in when you’re ready. Still trying to 3-star all levels, and I’m still struggling to do that on the second level lol.