Legendary Booster Pack !?

[kurosawa]

are you serious? reminds me of AC Odyssey. it was also very grindy unless you spend some money to speed up the leveling.
at least the boost worked all the time in odyssey ... not just for only 1 lvl up. that stinks and looks like you designed the game grindy to make some extra cash...

[Kapika96]

Don't worry about it. The game isn't excessively grindy. You can end up overleveled quite easily without any boosters just by doing some side missions.

[kurosawa]

that would be nice. haven't started the game yet, so i dont know it for sure but i read about the game in many reviews that it gets annoyingly grindy.

[SHINRA-CORP]

I haven't had to grind once yet. But I have been doing the side missions as I go so that might be helping me to level up. Its nowhere near as grindy as LaD7 but I'm only on chapter 6

[iKo]

don't buy those booster, it will ruin your experience more than anything else.

[JCKLNTRN]

Those items trivialize the game.

It's basically an easy mode in the form of DLC consumables.

[kurosawa]

still playing yakuza: like a dragon, which i stopped in chapter 12 2 years ago. now i remember why i stopped playing the game i liked very much. i am in osaka and have to grind for hours in the battle arena, to raise my level from 34 to 50... wtf. thats what i am afraid of for infinity wealth

[JCKLNTRN]

Yeah, I remember there were a couple of big difficulty spikes in the previous game. I put that down to it being their first attempt at developing (and balancing) a turn-based RPG, so it was a bit janky in places.

I'm still a long way from finishing IW, but from what I've heard, the difficulty curve is much more natural this time around.

[Ka-mai19]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

Don't worry about it. The game isn't excessively grindy. You can end up overleveled quite easily without any boosters just by doing some side missions.

While this is true, the game does try to instill a sense of FOMO (fear of missing out) in the player by presenting an absurd of amount of options that the can only access right away if they spend real money.

I'm talking about areas that are locked behind personality levels, party level, and shops that require a ton of money and materials that you can't easily get at the start. Not to mention gating easier ways to get money and whatnot with story progress.

In the end I agree that it's on the player to ignore the lure of paying to access things you will eventually access by playing regularly, but I can also see how the game design is conducive towards making players feel like they should spend money to progress faster. Intentionally or unintentionally.

[kurosawa]

so, just used wemod to avoid the grind and leveled up fast in yakuza: Like a Dragon. my four lvl 51 against one of the two lvl 50 bosses in osaka... still no chance... holy moly, what's Goin on?
now I switched to GOD mode just to finish this game in the hope infinite wealth is better balanced.

[Titan]

Originally posted by kurosawa:

still playing yakuza: like a dragon, which i stopped in chapter 12 2 years ago. now i remember why i stopped playing the game i liked very much. i am in osaka and have to grind for hours in the battle arena, to raise my level from 34 to 50... wtf. thats what i am afraid of for infinity wealth

You do not need to be level 50 to beat the Chapter 12 fight in Yakuza 7. You can beat it while being quite a bit underlevelled compared to the bosses. It's a big difficulty spike, but grinding is just a way for you to sidestep actually being smart with the fight. You do not ever need to grind in Yakuza 7 until after the main story has already concluded.

[Lokaror]

Grinding is not needed imo. Don't need to buy those things.

[H0b0t]

It is about the way you are playing the game.

By doing the side quest, some mini game (social + photo(damn we are only5%)) and picking up items, you are easily overpowered for story quest.
There is still some "hard" fights with side quest when you are below IA level:
- Asakusa is a one on one fight and he's hitting hard.
- Sojimaru can also be hard because of its good pool of HP
- Early Tomisawa last friendship quest

Poundmates, rockets (expensive but worth it if you know whre to find the pnj) and all those grenades I picked up were really helpful.
When it is flashing red ! Guard is a good option.

Don't forget accessories that boost leveling and items (can be purchase with money game or trade during mini games).

If other players doing only story quest found the game too hard or grindy, feel free to express yourself :)