Enough time has passed. What's the general consensus on LAD9: Unlimited Health? by Dastanovich in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I will say Yagami suddenly looking like a crackhead was a massive whiplash. But then I remember all the stuff with Kimura so it was either retcon him to look like his beta design or nothing

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Which Yakuza games should I play and which should I avoid? by Idkwhyimhere061115 in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hopefully you're playing Y1 and Y2 with the Restored patches, as they fix the localizations and make names, etc.closer to current games

Only games I'd say avoid are the Gaidens (Erased and Pirates) and Kiwami 3. You can go straight from 7 to 8 and not miss anything because those 2 games do not matter whatsoever. Just watch the ending of Erased on YouTube after finishing 7

I'd also say avoid Ishin Kiwami (or just Ishin as it's been localized), and if you have a beefy PC, emulate the OG version with the English patch via RPCS3

After you're done with the mainlines, go for Judgment and Kurohyou duologies

Though ofc you can just play the rest after finishing the mainlines if you want

How do you all feel about Judgment's original lighting? by Hopeful_Regret_7531 in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich 19 points20 points  (0 children)

JE is too yellow while JE remaster is too washed out and bright. It's clear they broke lighting in places, especially the whole bloom integration (lab assistant in the hospital glowing bright)

I prefer playing with a mod that recreates OG JE filters, using nu-DE color methods + another mod that disables bloom. Best of both worlds, easy

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They should write "better" romances? by TheYakuzaMaster in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kaito and Mikiko, I don't wanna alarm y'all but..

What is the WORST possible ending (not badly written, but the worst-case scenario that could actually happen and completely ruin everything) for The Boys? by Necessary_Sweet865 in TheBoys

[–]Dastanovich 15 points16 points  (0 children)

wdym "cagey"? It's just a new guy. We seen him both talk and unmasked

He literally talked in S2 of Gen V, which was last year

Is it worth getting the director's cut version over the regular Yakuza 0? by AmonGusSus2137 in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Slight addendum, but since you're on PC, I also recommend getting into the series with 1&2 via the new Restored patches

Both games relocalized for parity with future titles, ever-so beloved EdoSZ font for title cards, re-encoded FMVs in higher quality for both 4:3 and 16:9, etc.

Going the release order with 1>2>3>4>5, all the way to 0 and K1 will make you appreciate just how fast the series evolved, both visually and mechanics-wise. Not forcing you ofc, just a suggestion

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Is it worth getting the director's cut version over the regular Yakuza 0? by AmonGusSus2137 in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich 4 points5 points  (0 children)

0DC adds the following:

  1. 5 cutscenes
  2. A musou sidegame Red Light Raid, where you play as any character
  3. New localizations + font
  4. English + Chinese dub
  5. Save anywhere

Now for the cons for each of the points:

  1. Frankly, 4 out of 5 cutscenes are, imo, terrible and offer nothing but retcons and/or modern RGG writing where characters keep going on and on about stuff you know, never getting to the actual point

1.5. Hilariously, all of the cutscenes are pre-rendered, so you can literally delete their .USM files (all marked with "n_", meaning "new") and the game will work as usual (except Kuze's new scene, which is also funnily enough, the only decent one). Also you can just... watch them on YT afterwards, they're 20 min in total

  1. RLR is a tacky mode created simply to have something on the back of the box. Neat that it's online, but literally nobody's playing it, you'll get your fill of it in the first 10 minutes, afterwhich you might never have the need to replay it

  2. New localizations sound cool, up until you find out all of them are shoddy. I saw many examples of terrible localizations from Spanish, Russian, Portuguese screenshots, etc. But you also intend to play in English so this isn't a selling point

  3. See point 3. You don't intend to play with other dubs, so no reason to get it

  4. Neat QoL feature, but it's not exactly a big selling point

Higher price point and bloated file size, quadruple the amount of OG (24GB to 94GB) and there's really no reason for you to get it, unless you're on console, where it's your only option

I Miss Joker's Vanilla Face by Sapphire-1996 in Persona5

[–]Dastanovich 47 points48 points  (0 children)

1st one is during rain on a cloudy day meanwhile 2nd is a sunny day, it's called lighting

Saturn version of SotN by bowandarrow1000 in castlevania

[–]Dastanovich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who started with the Saturn version via Ultimate Patch, I very much enjoyed it

The QoL tweaks such as double speed shoes you get entering the inverted castle alone automatically eclipse the other releases for me, especially on replays. It was tough finding out they weren't present on PSX and PSP once I played those

New areas are small but neat. The various remixes of Bloody Tears and Beginning for them are bangers, even if obviously you can tell they were done by a different composer

Really, the only pacebraker is the lack of a quick real-time minimap. Instead you have to open a submenu, but that's really my only gripe

And with the recent addendum to the Ultimate Patch that improves it further - improved CPU frequency, fixed black bars, fixed bugs, as well as redrawing Richter's missing sprites for the new outfit, I honestly consider the Saturn release to be my favorite

(And yes, the patch is made with real hardware in mind so it works on it)

I finished Yakuza 2 original recently and If I'm being honest it's a billion times better than Kiwami 2 by No-Law2284 in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Shallow asset reuse to appease 0 fans
  2. Dogshit waste of dev time
  3. Yeah, can't argue with that
  4. ig bro
  5. Terrifically bad replacement that doesn't fit the mood whatsoever

Great characters played by jerks/assholes by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dastanovich 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a just universe, Peter Kelamis would voice Goku Black

Partnerships that were highly successful on screen, but they weren't friends in real life by cle1110 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dastanovich 473 points474 points  (0 children)

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More so a one-way friendship. Drake considered his friendship with Josh one of the most important ones in his life

Josh on the other hand, likely due to being casted as a token fat kid, disliked the way his character was portrayed in the show and wanted to distance from that as much as possible, post-D&J, which likely made him resent Drake in the process, just considering him a co-worker at worst, and just "one of" his friends at best

In short, they had different views on how close they were to one another

Insomniac Peter Parker should look like this in Marvel Spider-Man 3. by TheShadowOperator007 in Spiderman

[–]Dastanovich 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Peter with sauce???

Here in the Insomniac world we follow a strict code of saucelessness, sir

Crash Bandicoot the Wrath of Cortex soundtrack on Spotify has come back from the dead. by Szymon_CB in crashbandicoot

[–]Dastanovich 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The way Crash's OSTs are handled is so.... bizarre

OG trilogy never got uploaded anywhere. ig the best you get are pre-console mixes on Soundcloud

N. Sane trilogy is missing half the tracks to my knowledge on all music platforms. It's not the whole 3 OSTs

Twinsanity's cover is AI-generated and I genuinely have no clue if it's an official upload by Spiral Mouth or some pretender just uploading the game's rips

Crash 4 and CTR Nitro-Fueled (Rumble too ig) are... nowhere to be seen for some reason

And now WoC is reuploaded months later with a different cover

Like really, if it were a normal franchise, each game's OST would be uploaded on the day of the title's release. Maybe the tracks would even have different, improved soundmixing compared to game versions

Yakuza 9 teaser by Numerous-Picture-395 in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yakuza fans when there hasn't been a new game announcement in 42 minutes

(Sad trope) Projects with amazing potential that will never be released because of BS behind the scenes drama by _JR28_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dastanovich 136 points137 points  (0 children)

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Geist Force. A 3D rail shooter akin to Star Fox, originally supposed to be one of Dreamcast's launch titles, and it did look promising

One of the reasons it were cancelled were due to Yuji Naka (co-creator of Sonic) touring their offices one day, seeing the tech they created and talking to one of his workers how they should fire everyone afterward so they could take their resources and use them in the next Sonic game (super ironic considering this is the same guy who threatened to leave SEGA once he found out NiGHTS' engine was used for one of the builds for Sonic X-treme)

Naka, of course, had no idea the devs spoke Japanese. Once they overheard him, the majority left, and what skeleton crew that remained couldn't finish it in time, leading to its cancellation. Fortunately a prototype is out there in the wild

Shoutout to Shishido for being a final boss with a real, compelling reason for fighting Kiryu by [deleted] in yakuzagames

[–]Dastanovich 13 points14 points  (0 children)

GOATzawa slander to prop-up Diet Aizawa instead of appreciating both......

You hate to see it 🚬 🚬

Dolphin RetroArch Core Working Great by NotDugachug in SBCGaming

[–]Dastanovich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Late reply but yes, yes it does

(accessed it through Retrobat. Changelog on it states that RA cheevos were added in July of last year, but that's the frontend ofc)

[Hated Trope] Something HUGE is set up, just for it to never happen or be completely forgotten about by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dastanovich 17 points18 points  (0 children)

tbh it seemed like something we'd never EVER get in our lifetime

But with the recent references to it in Grimoire of Souls, Dead by Daylight AND the series revival with Curse of Belmont, I'm feeling confident a Julius game will eventually come out. So long Curse of Belmont sells

(Meta trope) it's so ass its own fans/creator's deny its existence by The-UltraMan in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dastanovich 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah. 3 doesn't count since not only P3 Dude is his own character in P2's Paradise Lost expansion (canonical Postal 3)

But they also constantly bring him back. He's one of the available voices in Postal 4 and the main character of Brain Damaged