What's the deal with this games cost?

[Ashley]

It just came out and it's only $50. Why? The newer one coming out next month (Infinite Wealth) is $70 and so close together. I'm not hating or anything i'm just curious if this is a smaller scope game or reusing assets to give it a lower cost.

I'm a fan of the Yakuza games and i'd like to buy it. But really just wanting to know what the reasoning is from anyone who has played it.

[Seb | セビ]

all yakuza games reuse assets. its a smaller game

[็]

This is a filler game. Infinite Wealth is their main project.

[Ashley]

So is it any good? And which style is it in? The newer rpg style? Or the other one?

[็]

It's a beat-em-up like the classic games. For a game that was made in roughly six months, I think it's a great game. You'll only get the most out of it if you've been following Kiryu's journey though.

[retsa2b]

For what it's worth, although Gaiden gave me the smallest total playtime out of RGG's entire library, Yakuza 6 only beat it by like 3 hours, and that one is considered a full game. I think Gaiden had more things to do in it, pound for pound.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Main story's fairly short in this one. It's at least quite focused, and by series standards actually pretty sane.

Played it via XBGP. According to that, I reached the ending in 23h (completed the main story; not remotely a completionist, but I did do most of the 'Akame Network' substories and did enough grinding to be able to afford all the upgrades except the 'Kiwami' ones to maximize health/attack).

The side content was... not particularly interesting this time around, but you don't *need* to do it all or to do a lot of grinding to go through the main story at least.

[Ashley]

Thanks for the answer folks. I'll wait on buying it since I haven't gotten around to playing all of Kiryu's games.

[Bons]

Originally posted by Ashley:

Thanks for the answer folks. I'll wait on buying it since I haven't gotten around to playing all of Kiryu's games.

Same here, i need to complete all my pending yakuza games first, then hit this one up. By the time i am ready with that, this one will be at a great deal :)