What difficulty are you guys playing?

[charliefigurefantasy]

This game seems more easy than others yakuza because of these cards, it's true? what you guys think

[DJ Professor K]

Playing on Legend and it feels right. I’ve had to retry boss battles quite a few times, and still have to respect random bandits etc in encounters. Feels tough but fair

[Zyppeler]

I played on legend and it was not really fun because most of the bosses will kill you in 1-3 hits (super fast hits so technicly its a 'oneshot' because you can't often even heal in that time) and one boss which you need to fight 3 times has a oneshot attack which he does after every 15 (?) seconds. After almost every hit you need to heal and this sucks because you need to open menu, then inventory and then confirm your heal item which is by default always first of 'no'. It is slow and annyoing. I would suggest playing on normal or hard, because legend was, atleast for me, not really funny and I don't think I will use this difficulty on the next RGG games...

[Velesianus]

Originally posted by DJ Professor K:

Playing on Legend and it feels right. I’ve had to retry boss battles quite a few times, and still have to respect random bandits etc in encounters. Feels tough but fair

The game is definitely vastly better at higher difficulties. If I didn't have access to Ishin mode, which rocks, I'd be playing on Legendary.

Originally posted by Zyppeler:

After almost every hit you need to heal and this sucks because you need to open menu, then inventory and then confirm your heal item which is by default always first of 'no'. It is slow and annyoing

Lol, healing? What's that?

Don't get hit bro. On Legendary and Ishin you'd go broke anyway if you tried to pot your way through battles.

If you're using a swordsman focused build (with their constant blow trading thanks to their hyper-poise) then I realize that not getting hit is easier said than done but that's sort of the trade off for the style's high DPS .

[May]

normal

[ImHelping]

Remember kids, most people saying "Pure skill" are relying on things you still need to unlock. Just take a moment and count how many steps into your brawler tree tiger drop is for example. Quite a ways in! Still never stops people from saying "Game EZ just use tiger drop" as if you have it right out of the tutorial.

Even on normal, not filing your MMO taxes makes fodder take longer to kill even when they spend 90% of the fight helpless on the ground.

Before you think about "The challenge", think about "How much longer do I want to hit people while they are down until I grind enough that skill matters again?". Much like Darksouls 2, skill only goes so far when you have not unlocked "My dodge isn't ♥♥♥♥ anymore" on your stats screen. (oh my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god why do some classes start with less I frames than a DS1 fat roll?)

Speaking of grind. I was pleasantly surprised that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bronze hammers you can get an infinite supply of fairly early (gun trainer has an easy repeatable rank 1 mission that hand them out) will still slowly elevate the ranks of your weapons if you start them out from the bottom tier nameless sword garbage "Wait how did I get a purple grade sword-ooooh. nice."

Which I was glad to learn when brawler started falling off in the zigzagging power curve. "okay that is five guys killed in 10-20 seconds with weapons. Now to switch to brawler and kill the last one. I have a +brawler loincloth on, it will be fine" *just a solid 30 seconds of punching to kill the ultimate challenge, random bandit in front of don quijote*

Hmm, maybe if I hit them with a chair .... nope, went through five chairs. Must be a hidden secret boss.... Stats screen are you SURE my brawler power is higher than my swordsman power?

[PsyEd]

First timer and Legend. Game mechanics are very diff to usual RGG games...and yes some boss fights have taken over 10 tries.

[Kazuma Kiryu]

Trying it on normal unless it gets too easy.

[Letty Whiterock]

Hard feels right to me.

[DikiDino]

Hard feels right to me too. Trash mod is easy. Boss fight does have some challenges. Not frustrating and easy to get by but at same time gives a little challenges. Play game to enjoy. Not to keep up with what others is playing on.

[Corinthas]

button masher difficulty.. and will cheat the hell out of some of the mini-games like karaoke and dancing.

[• dj rmelancia]

Playing on hard without the cards. I plan testing some cards (just for fun) and doing lots of sidequests so at some point the game will become easy for being overleveled and stuff.

Yakuza 3 on Normal (back in the PS3) was far harder than Ishin on Hard so far.

[FloRyu]

Played 99% of the game on Legend without cards, i was on last boss for 1h30 min or so and switched , now i'm on a save before the big fight and doing some side stuff to get better gear weapons and get max lvl

[Mav1122]

Just normal

[Corvis Cross]

Easy. It's what I play just about every game on these days, including Yakuza 0-6. Basically, mainly in it to enjoy the story and power fantasy with less time spent on grinding and retries.

I think it's pretty fun. Why not give it a try sometime?

[Velesianus]

Originally posted by Corvis Cross:

Easy. It's what I play just about every game on these days, including Yakuza 0-6. Basically, mainly in it to enjoy the story and power fantasy with less time spent on grinding and retries.

I think it's pretty fun. Why not give it a try sometime?

I'm the opposite, I generally play games to challenge myself and to dig for cheesy power exploits (I realize those things are often contradictory) but I absolutely get the story-only types of players.

Especially for a series as well written as this one .