Anyone else like Majima far more than Kiryu?

[Randall Danger]

This is my first Yakuza game, and wow this is one of the best games I've ever played. I'm enjoying it so much. I'm finding that I enjoy the parts with Majima far more than the Kiryu sections though. Everything about Majima's story is better. The main story is really interesting, his fighting styles are more fun (I love the breakdancing style), the minigames are more fun, and the sidestories are all either very funny or heartwarming. Sometimes both!

I was kind of sad to learn that this is the only game where Majima is a playable main character and that apparently he goes a bit crazy after this game and becomes a very different person. He's so classy in Yakuza 0!

I want to play the other games when they release to PC, but I have a feeling that none of them will be as good as this one.

[BACKSTABUUU]

Originally posted by Laivasse:

Originally posted by BACKSTABUUU:

I like both the characters quite a bit and both of their stories, but man am I having a hard time enjoying playing as Kiryu.

He's so slow and I keep getting stunlocked, knocked to ground, then getting hit and stunlocked as soon as I stand up over and over again. Playing as him is beyond frustrating while playing as Majima is a lot more fun and feels a lot more fair.

Only time I've really had a problem getting stunlocked was when I had the autobiography equipped.

Yep, that was my problem. I didn't realize it makes enemies just spam attacks at you endlessly. Guess I should read the text more.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by Kazuma Kiryu:

Eh, Majima's story had good moments but for the most part it felt like a forced love story. I'm probably biased...

Yeah, your name and profile picture kind of gave us that idea... lol. All jokes aside, I do agree with you though, I kind of felt and thought the same way as well. Sure I loved Majima's gameplay and story as much as Kiryu's, but I liked Kiryu's gameplay and story just a bit more. You're not alone there.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by Fang:

Kiryu's brawler stance is garbage at first, but now that I've got it well upgraded I'd say it's the best of the three stances. Evasive enemies get caught thanks to the superior tracking, the damage is better than Rush, and you can use any attack (normal, heat, or grab) WHILE the enemy is hitting you to interrupt them. Combined with the powerful heat attacks it destroys everything.

Beast is still useful when surrounded by a ton of weak goons though.

I kind of agree with you, considering I just unlocked all of Brawler's upgrades and not the others yet, so I can't fully agree right now. Once you beat the leisure king, the new upgrades you unlock for it makes it super good. I almost beat mr shakedown with just the fight style alone, no weapons needed, but I was intentionally losing to him to do the shakedown x1.5 money exploit, so I gave up. I could have easily won, though, if I just kept trying.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by BACKSTABUUU:

I like both the characters quite a bit and both of their stories, but man am I having a hard time enjoying playing as Kiryu.

He's so slow and I keep getting stunlocked, knocked to ground, then getting hit and stunlocked as soon as I stand up over and over again. Playing as him is beyond frustrating while playing as Majima is a lot more fun and feels a lot more fair.

Kiryu is a MUCH BETTER money maker than Majima. While Majima is still good with money making, Kiyru has the real estate business which rake in money automatically while you do other stuff, AND the x1.5 money exploit with mr shakedown. If you're in a money bind, I suggest you could just use Kiryu. Reason why I say that is so you could stash him with Zap Guns, let mr shakedown beat you if you have the "shakedown's deeper pockets" CP ability, and kill him afterwards to get a lot more money than you originally lost. After that, just use Mr Moneybags to transfer the money to Majima

[pharmacist12]

Originally posted by Codester:

I like majima. But I like Kiryu farrrrr better. And this may be unpopular opinion, but I hate the break dance style and think it's literal garbage.

I don't like breaker style too, I thought that I would like majima more than kiryu, I mean the slugger style with the bat is my favorite of majimas, but I like thug also, still my most favorite style is beast, I like brawler, rush is lacking but it's ok I guess, I just prefer hard hitting slow styles like Kiryus Beast and the s,s,s,s combo pummeling from the grab stance in brawler stance, over Majimas finess styles like breaker and thug.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by pharmacist12:

Originally posted by Codester:

I like majima. But I like Kiryu farrrrr better. And this may be unpopular opinion, but I hate the break dance style and think it's literal garbage.

I don't like breaker style too, I thought that I would like majima more than kiryu, I mean the slugger style with the bat is my favorite of majimas, but I like thug also, still my most favorite style is beast, I like brawler, rush is lacking but it's ok I guess, I just prefer hard hitting slow styles like Kiryus Beast and the s,s,s,s combo pummeling from the grab stance in brawler stance, over Majimas finess styles like breaker and thug.

Beast combos feel really satisfying to land and they seem to do a lot of damage, I agree with you, but try this: beat the first of the five billionaires to unlock the rest of Kiryu’s Brawler abilities from the locked wheel. It might be your new favorite over beast after that. Beast used to be my absolute favorite, but now it’s brawler because of the new upgrades.

[pharmacist12]

I unlocked all the abilities already on ps3 including secret styles, but still I like Beast more simply because its a savage style, you can just knock enemies weapons away, you can bear hug em, or roll and throw them. I like brawler too its my second favorite kiryus style after beast. Rush feels lacking, like it was underdeveloped or something in comparison to these two styles.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by pharmacist12:

I unlocked all the abilities already on ps3 including secret styles, but still I like Beast more simply because its a savage style, you can just knock enemies weapons away, you can bear hug em, or roll and throw them. I like brawler too its my second favorite kiryus style after beast. Rush feels lacking, like it was underdeveloped or something in comparison to these two styles.

Yeah I know what you mean. I feel like it’s pretty useless in my opinion. I just used it to evade Mr Shakedown’s attacks while I spam 5 zap guns in his face, which worked 95% of the time. My favorite Beast move is the double arm breaker and toss, but I was only able to pull it off once. It seems like I can’t do it anymore for some reason... I haven’t fully upgraded beast yet because I still gotta beat the corresponding billionaire. Maybe my opinion might change and I’ll agree with you more.

[pharmacist12]

Originally posted by Punk Buster:

Originally posted by pharmacist12:

I unlocked all the abilities already on ps3 including secret styles, but still I like Beast more simply because its a savage style, you can just knock enemies weapons away, you can bear hug em, or roll and throw them. I like brawler too its my second favorite kiryus style after beast. Rush feels lacking, like it was underdeveloped or something in comparison to these two styles.

Yeah I know what you mean. I feel like it’s pretty useless in my opinion. I just used it to evade Mr Shakedown’s attacks while I spam 5 zap guns in his face, which worked 95% of the time. My favorite Beast move is the double arm breaker and toss, but I was only able to pull it off once. It seems like I can’t do it anymore for some reason... I haven’t fully upgraded beast yet because I still gotta beat the corresponding billionaire. Maybe my opinion might change and I’ll agree with you more.

To pull it off you gotta be in 3rd gear and hold the block button and lock on button at the same time. I use Dragon of Dojima parry for shakedowns, but before unlocking it I just bought a bunch of knives and stamina royales, and it worked just fine.

[DynamiteBonaparte]

i thought majima was more interesting aswell. i thought he was a bit more of an antihero or tragic hero and the storyarch was overall more powerful. i really felt for majima. kiryu seemed to have it easy by comparison. kiryu was also a bit more of a stoic type. and we get a lot of those protagonist in games already. majimas personality was more.. human. he was more relatable. likeable. by the end of majimas story you know why he says "nobody knows whats right or wrong in this town.." i thought all of the fighting styles had something. never bothered with rush tho. liked slugger the best. mad dog is fun but a bit too easy.. the realestate stuff wasnt nearly as interesting imo as the cabaret club stuff. both had great substories. but yeah majimas story was just better.. for me... the antagonist in his story were better aswell. both characters were great but majima got my vote. i can understand why he was voted to be the most popular character. its a bit sad that hes more on the sidelines later on.. but he seems to be more than just some sidecharacter in most yakuza games. but i dont know for sure.

oh and yeah the ending was heavy. i mean i get it lovestories in games are such a trope but still...

all in all a great game with great characters across the board. but nothing beats eyepatch man.
one thing that we all should agree on is
we need more majima.
i mean after playing him in zero you cant just let him sit on the bench ya know?

[-V-]

Majima 2 sexy
Could hardly even play so sexy

[Cake]

Team Kiryu. But wth is with majima when doing karaoke on rouge of love vs when kiryu does it? He's just screaming nonsense the entire song

[Duckilous]

Originally posted by Cake:

Team Kiryu. But wth is with majima when doing karaoke on rouge of love vs when kiryu does it? He's just screaming nonsense the entire song

You think that's bad?
Wait 'til you hear him sing GET to the Top! in Yakuza: Dead Souls: https://youtu.be/wM3d266_QWw He's having a time of his life.

[Bankai9212]

Well this is the only game where he's fleshed out most character growth for Kiryu is from 1 all the way to 6. So it's light in that regard.

[Varstahl]

I don't. Majima has it easy in this game, Kyriu is where it's at. I've played most of the game with Kyriu's brawler stance, and I love sending people flying off their arses with him.

Majima's ok, but his stances are a bit on the garbage side. Breaker is flashy but uneffective, Thug is the poor man's version of Kyriu's Brawler stance, MdoS is quite ok for group clearing but a bit low on damage. The Slugger, on the other hand, I love the most in Majima's. Weapon swapping for interesting heat actions, beating people up with kali sticks at a rhytm of 200 bpm? WHY, YES PLEASE!