Is there any way to skip the Haruka section?

[PlevisVesel]

Why the hell are we being forced to play this horrible QTE nightmare?
What was SEGA thinking with this bit?
It feels like I'm being punished for something

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by Ghigi:

Originally posted by Titan:

Everything she has is boring. There is not a single entertaining thing you can do with Haruka.

I find every dance battle to be a good challenge. Once you unlock the "special" dancers via the job missions and finishing the main side story, you will face a lot more challenging ppl and regardless the progress you made on Haruka, you won't be able to win if you are not at least good at the rythum game. A very challenging mode, if you love that genre, you gonna love Haruka's career.

Not really, inputs are quite easy and only ability I've ever used was a "punch" thingy which lowers opponent's health.

It's not that I hate rhythm games, it's just that her gameplay is way too easy and there's no way to be creative. Even the arcade drumming game has more depth and is actually challenging.

[Ghigi]

Inputs are actually harder since they are labeled "hard". Previously met dancers will come at you with hard inputs system, if you take Araki she will be okish, but if you take the leaders, they will wreck you if you are not at least good....as I said.

[Exist]

Originally posted by Kukuth:

the haruka part is such a welcome change after 5 games of very similar brawler gameplay...why would you want to skip it?

This is why I love Yakuza 3 so much because the orphanage parts were such a nice change of pace and refreshing from the heavy story/combat

[Irrapture]

Originally posted by Exist:

Originally posted by Kukuth:

the haruka part is such a welcome change after 5 games of very similar brawler gameplay...why would you want to skip it?

This is why I love Yakuza 3 so much because the orphanage parts were such a nice change of pace and refreshing from the heavy story/combat

Same, this is the major reason that I love 3 and 6 so much.

[Tomoda]

Just gun straight for the competition and you'll be through it in no time. A lot of Y5 is optional but the game doesn't tell you. I feel your pain.
And for the record I also love Y3 and Y6. There's really not a bad title in the series but 5 does feel like they tried to shove too much into one title sometimes.

[KILLER D]

Originally posted by StarDragon2020X:

Just gun straight for the competition and you'll be through it in no time. A lot of Y5 is optional but the game doesn't tell you. I feel your pain.
And for the record I also love Y3 and Y6. There's really not a bad title in the series but 5 does feel like they tried to shove too much into one title sometimes.

you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ right

[Irrapture]

Originally posted by StarDragon2020X:

Just gun straight for the competition and you'll be through it in no time. A lot of Y5 is optional but the game doesn't tell you. I feel your pain.
And for the record I also love Y3 and Y6. There's really not a bad title in the series but 5 does feel like they tried to shove too much into one title sometimes.

Yep. Back when I played months ago, I didn't know Saejima's hunter stuff was optional. I knew I could leave and go to the city, but I didn't think it would actually let me continue the plot or complete it unless I did the snow village. So I did all of it. That took up like half my day. I don't regret it since I wouldn't have felt right leaving them all to get eaten by bears, but man am I never doing that again on a replay. As for Haruka, I mostly only did her story missions only and easily got through it. The rythm minigame is too easy to fail.

[Ghigi]

Originally posted by StarDragon2020X:

Just gun straight for the competition and you'll be through it in no time.

Not to mention that you can also drop out from the finals and avoid playing the last song.

[big urethra]

haruka's dance battles and her buddy cop story with akiyama saved the game from the utter slogs that is saejima's and shinada's stories. good job SEGA

[Sckarton]

Originally posted by big urethra:

haruka's dance battles and her buddy cop story with akiyama saved the game from the utter slogs that is saejima's and shinada's stories. good job SEGA

shinada is the real slog part and really not suited for yakuza game. heck, his story stops after we finish his chapters especially how little his story actually has. you could remove him from plot and barely a thing changes maybe beside the forced fight between him and baba.

[ketrub]

yeah but ya'll are forgetting shinada's story is the best story in the game

[KILLER D]

Only story i love it's Shinada

[JimmyT]

The other Yakuza games have some weird Japanese stuff but Haruka's story pushes 5 into weeb territory. I don't mind the gameplay and some of the music is catchy, but if you took this kind of game and sold it on its own, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot stick for my pride as an adult American male. It's especially bad because Haruka only goes off into the entertainment industry cause Kiryu gets talked into it by some stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ even though they already did this in Yakuza 2.

[Titan]

Originally posted by DT Scurvy:

pushes 5 into weeb territory.

bro im sorry to tell you but every Yakuza game is firmly weeb as ♥♥♥♥

[JimmyT]

Originally posted by Titan:

bro im sorry to tell you but every Yakuza game is firmly weeb as ♥♥♥♥

The Yakuza games I've played didn't have Sailor Moon transformation sequences - if my memory serves me, at least