Minigames and side activities avaliable.

[Gabrinius]

I've played nearly all of the Yakuza titles, even kenzan, just didn't play ishin and the PS4 ones, and each one of them adds some minigames and take out some other minigames.

i really liked golf game in yakuza 3 and table tennis in yakuza 4, also liked the chicken race we have in 5 (it was turtles in kenzan).

well, let's make it short, i'd like to know which mini games are avaliable in zero.

sorry the bad english.

[Yuga-Suggah]

Western gambling: Black Jack(High Stakes, Low Stakes, Hidden Variation), Texas Hold em(3 variants plus bonus games), Roulette(+House mode and Survival Mode), Baccarat(2 versions)

Japanese and Chinese Gambling: Mah Jong(with tournment mode), Cee-Lo(with different gambling modes),Cho-han(also with guess one or both dice and let it ride mode), Oicho-Kabu(with variations),Koi-Koi(with variations)

Arcade:Fantasy Zone, Out Run, Space Harrier, Super Hang On, UFO Catcher

Bar games: Darts, Pool

Other: Fishing, Bowling, Batting, Karoke, Telephone Club, Cat Fight(Female Wrestling, trust me not as fun as it sounds if you are going for plat), Hostess Club, Shogi, Disco Club, Pocket Racers, Dragon and Tiger weapon creation club(I guess this counts as an activity) Real Estate and Cabaret Club, Battle Royale

No golf, no table tennis and no chicken race.

[Gabrinius]

thank you, friend, i see there is a lot of additions, well, i'm sad a lot got wiped out, but well, that's how life is.

[Yuga-Suggah]

It's also important to not that this game does not have any cheat items for gambling. Because you get sooooo much money in Yakuza 0, there really is no point in cheating unless you are going for 100% Completion Points. So if you don't know how to play Shogi(or know about the AI exploit) or Mah Jong, you are in for a rough time.

Honestly though, I am kinda glad they got rid of cheat items because I actually was forced to learn how to play most of the "tougher" games. Almost all of them are easily learnable, I just wish the instructions for stuff like Mah Jong were a little more localized, but you can still learn Mah Jong if you pay attention closely.

The one game that you will HATE is the Cat Fight. Female Wrestling is fun to watch, and at first it seems like there is some sort of skill component to picking the winning fighter. The problem is that you have to gamble correctly three times in a row 10 times to get the CP point for it, and something like 100 correct gambles. It's really annoying.

[Yuga-Suggah]

Sort of the draw for the Yakuza series are the mini games unique to the game. And some of the added minigames can be real gems or real duds.

5 had neat mini games like Kiryu driving, or "realitisic" batting cages. And it had some not good mini games like Bear Hunting, or whatever Akiyama did.

I think Yakuza 0 has the most well rounded mini games of the bunch, but there aren't as many unique mini games.

And some of the new stuff does stick around for Yakuza Kiwami. Pocket Racers is important to the side story plot in Yakuza 0 and Kiwami. And for some reason, Cat Fight is also in Kiwami, but it gets repurposed into a children's card game.... And yes, even Kiryu gets weirded out by this game.

[pharmacist12]

Originally posted by Yuga-Suggah:

Sort of the draw for the Yakuza series are the mini games unique to the game. And some of the added minigames can be real gems or real duds.

5 had neat mini games like Kiryu driving, or "realitisic" batting cages. And it had some not good mini games like Bear Hunting, or whatever Akiyama did.

I think Yakuza 0 has the most well rounded mini games of the bunch, but there aren't as many unique mini games.

And some of the new stuff does stick around for Yakuza Kiwami. Pocket Racers is important to the side story plot in Yakuza 0 and Kiwami. And for some reason, Cat Fight is also in Kiwami, but it gets repurposed into a children's card game.... And yes, even Kiryu gets weirded out by this game.

But I liked hunting minigame, and it was Saejimas activity, Akiyama was the only character that had no activity in that game.

[Gabrinius]

also, i hope someone makes a mod or something putting the numbers in mahjong tiles, at least the ones with numbers characters.

most of them is simple, you just count them, but the character ones are really hard to know.

[Yuga-Suggah]

Originally posted by Gabrinius:

also, i hope someone makes a mod or something putting the numbers in mahjong tiles, at least the ones with numbers characters.

most of them is simple, you just count them, but the character ones are really hard to know.

Lol you might incur the wrath of neitzen if you say that. But I agree that I had a lot of trouble remembering the mahjong numbers in the older Yakuza games.

In Yakuza 6, numbers are added to the mahjong tiles, so who knows, the numbers MIGHT be in the PC version of Yakuza 0.

[Gabrinius]

i don't know what is neitzen, but i hope it can forgive me. :)

character tiles is the only problem, i learned up to four cause four is a square with something inside, but all the numbers beyond that are very similar.

the other problem is my ability and luck, but thats another story.

played yakuza 5 again yesterday just to play mahjong, lost my 25.000, ended last and didn't manage to call a single "riichi". XD

hey, SEGA, it might be simple to code the numbers to appear in the minigame (maybe just edit the tiles images?), please consider it, even if it comes in some later update.

[Mazdalopitek]

If I remember correctly, numbers are added on Mahjong tiles in Yakuza 0 too.

[Yuga-Suggah]

Originally posted by Mazdalopitek:

If I remember correctly, numbers are added on Mahjong tiles in Yakuza 0 too.

Nope. Just Yakuza 6.

Tho who knows. Numbers may be added to the pc versions and may have been added in a patch for the ps4 version.

[Gabrinius]

you won't believe me (even i don't) ... i won a match in mahjong

[Chuck P]

I remember doing the mahjong side quest in Yakuza 2, I had to pull up a guide from the internet in order to learn, and it took me around 30 tries until I eventually won. It was hell, but nothing compared to the mini-golf or pachinko side quests, those were the real nightmares. And those were just the side quests, the mini-game completion requirement were WAY worse, like win 10000 chips in pachinko (in one go), when it took me an entire day of tedium just to get the 3000 for the sidequest. I didn't even try.

Yeah, completion requirements got a lot more lenient in the newer games, but there are still some mini-games I dread to touch. They can be very hit or miss; for every fun one like the batting cages or darts there's a tedious one you have to slog your way through, like pool or... ugh, cabaret club management *shudders*

[cowbell]

What is that censored word?

[Hirate Yurina]

Originally posted by cowbell:

What is that censored word?

"ch1nk" gets censored, he's talking about pach1nko.