EXP instead of Money?

[♥♥♥♥♥ Prophet Adult Warhead]

Why did they switch from using Money to upgrade your skills to using EXP?

Now money feels useless in the game, and it's harder to farm too.

Will the following Yakuza games use money or Exp to upgrade skills?

[HyenaTron]

Zero is the only game where you use money to level up. I think it is a reference to the period in history the game is set in where the Japanese Bubble Economy is still strong before it burst in the 90s and everyone had lots of money. All of the other games have and EXP based leveling system although each one seems to be at least a little different.

[medion_no]

Money is not that hard to farm ,only grindier, you need much less to play around the story this time. You have to equip accesories that atracts foes with money and good financial luck charms and fight new riches (the gold suits) over an over for 100.000k or more. You can sell all the junk for saving people around too. In the lockers there are very expensive items to sell and the casino and the colisseum are more important to get money this time too.
And there is the CP reward Ebisu Socks that produce money when walking.

[Late Game Wonder]

Originally posted by medion_no:

Money is not that hard to farm ,only grindier, you need much less to play around the story this time. You have to equip accesories that atracts foes with money and good financial luck charms and fight new riches (the gold suits) over an over for 100.000k or more. You can sell all the junk for saving people around too. In the lockers there are very expensive items to sell and the casino and the colisseum are more important to get money this time too.
And there is the CP reward Ebisu Socks that produce money when walking.

she meant leveling up is harder which is not my experience but idk I also love to run around and do odd jobs

[medion_no]

The training gear multiply the exp. you gain and Majima gives tons of exp later on.

[dancingstar93]

Originally posted by KikiKunoichi:

Zero is the only game where you use money to level up. I think it is a reference to the period in history the game is set in where the Japanese Bubble Economy is still strong before it burst in the 90s and everyone had lots of money. All of the other games have and EXP based leveling system although each one seems to be at least a little different.

This so much. Zero is in large part satire on the bubble economy -- enemies on the street practically bleed banknotes when you punch them, characters dramatically open briefcases full of cash, literally throw money at others' faces &c.

The main plot of the first game involves 10 billion yen going missing from Tojo-kai funds, represented as a major financial hit for one of Japan's biggest organised crime syndicates which triggers an internal power struggle in which several high-level members are killed. In Zero you can spend this much getting an entirely useless decoration for your office & fully upgrading your standard skill wheels requires several times that.

6 and Kiwami 2 have a levelling system based on 5 different flavours of XP obtained from various activities, and a using those types to buy stat upgrades & skill unlocks. 3 and AFAIK the original 1 & 2 used a simpler system where you spend accumlated XP to level up 3 or 4 different categories, gaining additional techniques & stat improvements at each level. 4 & 5 changed things again & are also balanced differently owing to having multiple protagonists.

EDIT: spelling.

[Anon]

If you need easy exp level up majima everywhere. I got him in S rank now and he gives me something like 300 exp everytime, almost got all skilltrees maxed out and im in chapter 11.

[xBGLx狂犬]

I've got all 3 skill trees ( tech, body, soul) in like 20 hrs of the game or so , Majima is a gold mine of exp. At the endgame I 've had 9999 exp maxed out , and I can't even use it anyway cuz I 've already upgraded everything except Majima everywhere system lol

[♥♥♥♥♥ Prophet Adult Warhead]

Originally posted by xBULLETx:

I've got all 3 skill trees ( tech, body, soul) in like 20 hrs of the game or so , Majima is a gold mine of exp. At the endgame I 've had 9999 exp maxed out , and I can't even use it anyway cuz I 've already upgraded everything except Majima everywhere system lol

Yeah Majima makes EXP ez to farm, but I still prefer the Yakuza 0 system where u just farm Money and it's good for everything.

[medion_no]

Well the upgrades were much more expensive and the mr. shakedown farming was not that fun...

[xBGLx狂犬]

Yeah, I'll try Y0 on legendary soon , and it will be painful I think xd

P.S. Kiwami 2 experience system looks fun btw , at least in my 15 hrs for now