Yakuza's First Ever Good Platinum Trophy

[@floorwatching]

I can't believe Shinada got into Tekken before Kiryu did.

[@franciscor390]

😅

[@bon-btw]

Thats shinada-esque man hes using a bat

[@Matasuh]

​@@bon-btwWrong, it's shinada.

[@bon-btw]

shinada would never use a bat in combat@@Matasuh

[@diorama6945]

What if you wanted to take the platinum trophy, but God said: Complete a 1-Shot Challenge on normal difficulty.

[@PuggetronicsPioneer]

The RNG on the last shot makes my toenails curl backwards

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

Yep, worst trophy by far. Had to re-do it multiples times. The last shot is 100%, factually RNG-based. I tried the exact same shot five times and got five different results from it.

[@javiergiandinotto1053]

Did it without trying while doing Akame's mission

[@superiorfoe]

At least it's not the awful yakuza 3 remastered pool. That shit made me furious

[@jonathanbosak8581]

Still Beter than the 100% completion thropies or the true final milenium tower one

[@MrLemmy82]

Gaiden was my third Yakuza Platinum/all achievements, after 6 and Like a Dragon. The common point between them being no requirement to clear the completion list, which removes A LOT of the tedium and grind! I definitely hope games keep that direction in the future too.

[@MidnightLobster7]

Heads up, 3 and 4 don't require the completion list to be filled out either so if you like that approach you might be down for those, too.

[@coin2085]

@@MidnightLobster7 3 is kinda insane though

[@yusukeurameshi3768]

Yakuza kiwami 2 and the judgement series completion isnt too bad. Y0 and y5 is the annoying ones

[@MidnightLobster7]

@The_Princess_of_Kabukicho I found golf to he challenging but not that bad, Baseball on the other hand... that kept me away from the Minigame Master Trophy for a long time and caused worse struggle for me than anything in any of the games for completion.

[@kanyuphilmahar]

​@@The_Princess_of_KabukichoI found golf to be not so hard once you understood the gist of it like fishing, pool however is single-handedly the only thing keeping me away from the platinum, and I'm not sure if I'll even get it at this point because of how frustrating it is

[@3Guys1Video]

Fun fact, you don’t have to even play a match of poker, koi-koi, or even the arcade games Just hit start, exit the minigame and it still counts as you playing it

[@spaisik3984]

I platinumed Yakuza 0-4 and both Judgements and right now sit on 5th. When I first started this tradition at 0, I loved the game even when it drives me crazy with catfights and material shop in sotenbori. Because thanks to 100% I was pushed to try all the stuff game gives you - if I didn’t go for completion list, I’d skip lot of fun things. And usually after I get the platinum it just fills me with confidence and happiness, don’t know how to explain that further. Although I still don’t know why I did platinum in first borderlands - 8 hour arena grind solo is too much for anyone.

[@xkaosdark]

As someone who has done 100% for all yakuza games, i can confirm i'm insane.

[@GabenSnipez]

can back this statement

[@adamuchavez]

I can also back this statement 🥲

[@wantnotwant]

Now do it ALL over again through the Japanese version RyuGaGotoku

[@doomdude69]

I can confirm its not too bad.. 😂

[@DarkMetaKnight101]

Maybe a hot take/unpopular opinion, but I love doing the Completion List for platinum. It makes the Yakuza games stand out to me, and without that requirement the platinums are far too easy.

[@gentlemancharmander4411]

Strong agree. These dudes have no sense of accomplishment

[@mydogeatspuke]

Same. I'm actually waiting for Gaiden to go deep sale because it's so short compared to the others for the platinum. "Having to" spend 100 hours playing is part of the appeal, so being able to finish the lot in 25 is not a selling point for me.

[@MaybeGreg]

I think one good part of Gaiden is how it divorced Achievements and the Completion List. Achievements were less like chores in Gaiden compared to Lost Judgment Achievements "Obtain all equipment", "Obtain 50 pickups in Hama of the Dead", and the reason I stopped myself from trying... "Achieve 100% completion of TownGo" with by extension includes bullshit objectives like "fly the drone for a full hour", "Get 2 million points in Space Harrier", and "Defeat 3 Tigers in Dice & Cube". In fact, I specifically recall see some of the completion list in Gaiden and thinking "oh god, I am not doing that for Platinum" only to learn it was optional. And that's what caught my eye the most about Gaiden's completion list: It's worse than Lost Judgment, but isn't required for a genuine major achievement! To give an example, Lost Judgment and Gaiden both have Sonic the Fighters, and as such, have it in their completion lists... but not the same objectives. Lost Judgment merely asks you to defeat each playable character. This means you get all Sonic related completion list objectives in a single playthrough, and you don't even need to beat the Final or Bonus Bosses. Hop over to Gaiden, and there's less but more time consuming objectives. It asks you to win 20 matches total, which is two playthroughs. That's already double Lost Judgment... and that's not counting the objective that asks you to beat the mode as every character, which is 8x Lost Judgment's "beat every character". The bullshit of TownGo Master would be worse if Gaiden's completion list was there... but it isn't. There's not even an achievement for getting Akame Network to max level 30, stopping a full 10 levels earlier. Achievements in Gaiden feel like they want you to at least give everything a shot, but focus on the core of the game. Achievements in Lost Judgment are asking me to literally 100% the entire game within a single save file except for Legend difficulty. Lost Judgment is still my favorite RGG game though, missing 13 achievements after 140 hours isn't going to change that.

[@Remoxe]

The minigames and Haruka trust stuff broke me for a while on my 100% journey. Having Haruka be sad that I couldn't wipe a table in poker and get a billion yen or not getting a single completion list item because I was forced to fight the bullshit Virtua Fighter AI over and over until I either get a brain hemorrhage or win every fight broke me spiritually and mentally. You really hit the nail on the head with Lost Judgment though, having to play as every Virtua Fighter 5 character and ESPECIALLY the Fighting Vipers shit really made my blood boil. If you are gonna make me play your old, coin hungry arcade games that have shit AI then at least make the completion of it not terrible.

[@gentlemancharmander4411]

Getting 2 million in space harrier isn’t bullshit, it’s literally asking you to just have a modicum of skill in a mini game. Honestly it’s pathetic how wimpy y’all are. “Nooooo, this game i paid money for wants me to actually take time to play it and invest myself in it! I just want to do the bare minimum and get a bright shiny trophy for doing nothing to make me feel happy”

[@CabaretGrand]

There was no achievement for eating at all the restaurants in this one (very sad, I always like getting that one), but I was relieved to see that the 100% was straightforward for once. This was also my first 100% for a Yakuza game, though I’m closing in on Lost Judgment as well.

[@hyperN1337]

While I do enjoy that they made the 100% for Gaiden a lot less tedious, I do think they may have pulled it down just a bit too far, and surely there could be some sort of middling ground between 'grind these side games until your head hurts' and 'open a minigame for half a second and closing it immediately'.

[@kelvinc]

This was also my first RGG platinum, for pretty much all the reasons you described. I've K2, 6 and Y:LAD at around 85% and honestly not having some weird difficulty spike for one last trophy made me much more interested in playing everything I needed to plat in Gaiden.

[@vipset87]

10:49 i miss that dude. The baseball player. His character and story was very heart warming. Him and akiyama had most of the funny scenes in Y5

[@RadJordy]

The sync of the kick with the trumpet in Changing Seasons was great(and the other one with Changing Seasons Reload). I always love the care and attention you give to the music in these games, and especially in your videos. It goes a long way to adding a degree of depth and attention to detail. Good stuff.

[@BlakeTheDrake]

I've foundered on specific Completion List requirements on some Yakuza-games - either because there was some minigame I just could NOT get into, or because the grind wore me down - but in most cases, I've got every trophy *except* the 'Complete the Game on Legendary Difficulty' one. By the time I finished 100%ing everything, finishing the Completion List and all that, I'm *sick* of the game, and absolutely do not want to start a new playthrough! So I step away, going "Well, I can just jump back in when I feel like it... oh, what's this? A *new* Yakuza-game I haven't played yet? Don't mind if I do!"

[@HProtagVtuber]

Might be just me but Yakuza Like a Dragon and Like a Dragon Gaiden were two of the easier games in the series to plat. Not as much bs.

[@johnnyvincent69]

Final millennium tower?

[@HProtagVtuber]

@@johnnyvincent69 cleaned it 👍

[@swaggymungdaal]

​@@johnnyvincent69 TFMT is really easy it just takes quite a bit of grinding to get to that point, it's really not that bad though i've done it on the xbox version, as well as both playstation versions of the game

[@Remoxe]

They really were the easiest to plat, I'd grind for Final Millennium Tower all over again over doing all the mahjong in Lost Judgment or doing any of the shit in Yakuza 5

[@pocketmonsterhuntr]

That's because they are on the simpler side to do along with 6

[@Agent-wi7hu]

I got the cat achievment my first playthrough of judgment! didn't even know it was an achievment, as soon as I heard the meowing I went into full search mode lol, it was one of the best parts of the game.

[@sharif47]

Back in the day, we had to complete perfect minigames just to appease Haruka... even the minigames that are RNG heavy gambling

[@KarmaSkyHighG]

10:00 funny enough, in Kiwami 2, beating Jo would make all four amon brothers to appear at the Coliseum, for a rematch.

[@hello_i_dont_know9636]

7:36 ...Yes you can ? I did my Legend playthrough with New Game +

[@slygentleman5123]

I think you equate easy with good going by the title. I haven't watched the video yet but I thought this games plat was WAY too easy. It tied all the side content together nicely and I like that you can finish the story and get the platinum together on a first playthrough, but there was no major challenge in this one and I played it on Profession as well. Other than the One-Shot Challenge on Normal, which I don't think is required, nothings that bad this time around

[@jreyes9005]

There’s a trophy for the one shot challenge so def required. Was the most annoying trophy but not even that bad.

[@KirbyN64]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but i really liked Gaiden's game size. I mean, as an adult, i don't have that much time to play a game. A game that finishes under 20 hours is a good ride for me. Not only that, but story was a lot more direct. Sometimes i feel the story on Yakuza games take waaaaaaaaaaay too much turnarounds. One or 2 is great, but there are games that the bad guy is good, then bad, then good again, and then holy crap he's the final boss. And the Platinum was also such a good challenge for me. I didn't feel overwhelmed at all in the whole experience. Yakuza 0 in the other hand i specifically remember being stuck for 2 weeks trying to finish the last 3 trophies.... TLDR: I hope RGG start delivering these shorter experiences again. Maybe with other characters that didn't receive much love in recent years. Maybe keep the 'Gaiden' name since it's literally 'side story' in English and deliver us some good stories that didn't get too much explained in the mainline games.

[@mydogeatspuke]

Games shouldn't be made shorter because "adults" don't have much time to play games. We should accept that they're long and decide if we want to play them. Plenty of us have the time and enjoy spending it.

[@gregperianayagam4522]

So far the only games I have 100% ed is Like a Dragon, and Yakuza Giaden, and I felt so much more satisfied finishing Like a Dragon, mainly because the final acheivement I did was the hardest series of fights in the game.

[@m7mdhake]

I literally just got the platinum The hard trophies are two : 1. Pocket circuit Just search a guide for what parts to use on every race 2. Finish 1 shot on normal Just search them on KZbin and try to Mimic the moves in the video

[@RoffleHB]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was the first and currently only RGG game I've obtained all the achievements in. While I originally had no intention of 100% completion, I felt motivated to pursue it after realising that I only had 6 achievements left to unlock after beating the game. That being said, I really hope LAD8 doesn't have a mind numbingly boring grind just to even beat the first room in the dungeon. The most fun I've had in obtaining all the achievements in a game (and imo should be the gold standard for achievements) is Risk of Rain 2. While some are normally unlocked as you learn the game, most of the achievements generally revolve around specific challenges and discovering secrets within the levels, and completing them will either unlock a new character, or a new item that could allow for new creative builds. Both these rewards help keep the gameplay fresh while giving the player an incentive to unlock the achievements. Also, after spending 3 hours learning mahjong just so I could fight Shin Amon, I actually like the game now and no longer relate to the people who complain about it (I still suck ass at it though).

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Risk of Rain 2 mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥 *synth guitar riffs*

[@RoffleHB]

​@@SnowiestAngemanThe transcendental experience that is reaching stage 5 and hearing The Rain Formerly Known As Purple 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@yukaritakeba]

Warning you now about LAD8, has one trophy that is VERY VERY VERY grindy. Grindy to the point where RGG is expecting you to shill out for the dlc dungeon to even achieve it in a sane amount of time. It is possible to grind without paying but it will take a loooooooooong time.

[@elizar7678]

@@yukaritakeba i've spent 2 evenings to complete The Big Swell

[@SuperERC]

Just letting you know I appreciate the quality of your videos and yes I read the descriptions

[@jaysanj152]

Every time Shinada appears in your videos, It's like a cry for help. Please SEGA, Listen to this man.

[@BukaKEK]

Laughs in Judgment: puyo puyo mean bean machine challenge.

[@janni9479]

I did K2, 4,5,6, Gaiden, Ishin Kiwami and Both Judgements platinum. And honestly I dont regret doing them they can become mind numbing ( running Ishin dungeons, slow ass saejima hunting, mahjong, Judgement Mario Party) but overall they enhanced my enjoyment of these games

[@altareego5368]

I do really hope this isn't the standard moving forward. Yakuza platinums are very satisfying to get (i have all of them) but Gaiden felt like a spit in the face to those who do enjoy going for the platinum trophies in the rest of the series, which are who they should be tailored to. In an already bite size entry, they really should've given completionists something more substantial.

[@mydogeatspuke]

I'm playing 6 at the moment and it's way too easy. Knowing Gaiden is even shorter is upsetting.

[@mariofluffy219]

I kinda wish it was somewhere in the middle. Some Yakuzas are way too grindy while the more recent ones are just way too easy.

[@fluke7506]

great video! that new persona 3 music at the end it goes hard.

[@Darthsmith10]

What if i enjoy side activities in Yakuza? I 100%ed yakuzas from 0 to 4 so far and it was satisfying for the most part lol

[@elijahfyffe5176]

I like Koi Koi. The funny thing is, I get so hooked on it, I started to memorize what cards each deck had, they’re not random. In fact, the AI will ALWAYS get the same suit of cards if you pick certain cards.

[@8BitWalugi]

Spent like 2 months straight this year replaying Y3-5 on both PS3 and PS4 just to have the playing of both versions. Yes I’m insane, yes I also finished Gaiden’s completion regardless of necessity.

[@HProtagVtuber]

Yeah I felt that was silly when you defeat the hardest optional boss and get some really good item that you have no one stronger to use it on

[@mydogeatspuke]

It's meant for NG+

[@berserkguts6212]

You take the grind in the castle and the pocket circuit trophy where you have to win like 7 races away and I would say its a pretty easy plat.( also 100 % completion is a whole other beast enterly 😈)

[@jaysanj152]

See I got this brilliant idea for achievement hunting for the PC version and that being finishing the entire game on legend difficulty with Mouse and Keyboard and name the Achievement "You're not a Real Yakuza" . This way everyone will get the motivation and the pure experience of playing a yakuza game on PC.

[@Mr_G87]

The Yakuza 7 True Final Millennium Tower dungeon really burned all my bridges with the game, not because of the challenge itself, but because of the necessary grind to get to that point were you're able to even try at it without getting constantly one-shot by regular grunts. LaD 8 was more tolerable (sort of as it still got that grind aspect to it), but I've still got that sour memory from it.

[@jekw23]

That’s my only achievement left. I’ve grinded for ages and still get my behind handed to me. Have you got it yet? Infinite Wealth was not hard to plat.

[@Mr_G87]

@@jekw23A while ago yeah. Honestly I’ve kinda thrown up the towel and just maxed every job level. After that you use peerless resolve and hope for the best (watch a guide for Amon as you might need Mr Masochist to cancel out his death ray).

[@jekw23]

@@Mr_G87 I was kinda hoping I could brute force my way through but I got demolished and I’d been grinding for days. I need to use at least one tactic….which is a pain. Congrats for getting it though.

[@Mr_G87]

@@jekw23 it also took me days of grind. If you really want to you can watch a guide for which gear to use. However when having maxed your jobs using the homeless grind (the weird looking homeless that only take 1 damage per hit), the end dungeon is infinitely more bearable. Abuse enemy weaknesses and Peerless Resolve. You can keep Ichiban as the healer (hero’s embrace?). Call Mr Masochist as soon as Amon summons his ghosts (don’t worry, they should have less health). You could maybe use Endless Desire (musician heal), but it ain’t absolutely necessary, as long as you can reliably heal.

[@Bulkynemesis4534]

The original Persona 5 that came out in 2017 had some really tough trophies, especially Futaba's navigation lines trophy, but then it got moved to an Ingame achievement list.

[@River015]

Tbh I do like how LAD does the Amon fight, just tying it behind another final tower which is much harder so it feels more like a natural progression than something like Judgment or LJ

[@ReiReiFoxy]

Honestly, I'm not a fan of how so many people are praising Gaiden's platinum for being attainable by everyone and not requiring you to complete everything. The whole thing about platinums was to be there for completionists essentially. There's no benefit to having or not having a platinum on any platform really, and the fact that the last few yakuza games have just nuked any rewards for actually interacting with the completion list, aswell as nuked the actual requirements for completion list things really hasn't helped matters. For me personally, if it hadn't been for the platinum and the completion list, I would never have learned how to play mahjong, shogi, koi koi, oichu kabu and so on. I would have just ignored them entirely. Having them be required was the only reason I touched them, and I've gone on to love playing several of them, to the point that the moment I see them in a new title, the rest of the game ceases to exist because its now just mahjong time. This effect isn't going to happen as much if they continue to insist on things like Akame Network / Part Time Hero, and how there's no benefit to filling them out.

[@jordan20910]

Gaiden was indeed the easiest to plat and yet I still went 100% of the completion list making roughly 135 hours which the closest other Yakuza game was yakuza 6.

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Why would you do that to yourself lol

[@EnergyTK]

we can weaponize this autism

[@jordan20910]

@@SnowiestAngeman when you have completed all the RGG games 100% completion on steam, having Gaiden not 100% would stick out like a sore thumb. I know when IW will come out and even the devs said that it won't be good for my health I went "challenge accepted" and in case you want to know my steam time from most to least amount of hours here it is : Ishin : 308.1 hours (I did it before they put the patch that gave easier drop) LAD : 286.9 hours Lost Judgment : 274 hours Yakuza 5 : 266.1 hours Yakuza 0 : 223.4 hours Judgement : 218.5 hours Yakuza 3 : 187 hours Yakuza 4 : 170.7 hours Gaiden : 138.4 hours Yakuza 6 : 136.9 hours Kiwami 2 : 116.1 hours Kiwami 1 : 103.1 hours Which in total I spent 2429.2 hours in total for the RGG games help me.

[@xStanyyx]

What the hell have you beeinf doing in 7 to come out with 286hours? Nowhere near you need that much hours I got the Plat in both 7 and 0 and both have way less then 150 hours

[@jordan20910]

@@xStanyyx True Millennium tower, I went the extra step to grind all jobs to max lvl also just being generally unlucky in the gambling mini games

[@spikestone11]

I platinumed K2 and I gotta say that I’m glad that they’ve made the plat for Gaiden easier

[@HunterForHire422]

Only sort of completion i do in these games is whatever is needed to fight amon. After that, everything else acts as a bonus whenever I'm bored. Usually, getting to amon means you've seen the majority of the content the game has to a reasonable extent and got all the major rewards.

[@enemystand2981]

I dunno if this is Stockholm or whatever but I actually really like the plats in 0,1, judgment etc. only ones I didn’t like were 4 cause of the numerous files, 5 cause it overstayed it’s welcome a little, and 3 because of the minigame that shall not be named

[@conget]

Did the Kiwami 1 & 2, Y0, 6,7, Gaiden, Ishin and both judgment. Still on my way to finish 8 and then come back to plat 3-5

[@friedteto]

ahm, someone forgot LAD 7.

[@mikgenta]

After platinuming 14 RGG titles, I can honestly say I would’ve preferred a 100% completion trophy. IMO it makes the journey so much more gratifying! However, I do acknowledge that it’s a huge undertaking. So I also wouldn’t mind them streamlining them to be more easier and smoother experience.

[@gaxim7279]

Got platinums in 0, 1 and 6 and don't regret a single minute of it. It was a very fun experience

[@Lynxyam]

Even Mahjong?

[@frate2727]

​@@LynxyamMahjong is actually really fun, once you understand it.

[@ms0342]

Good for you

[@mydogeatspuke]

@@frate2727 it's fun even when you just barely understand the most basic aspects of it, ie make sets of 3 and a pair

[@Tybell702]

The only thing i hated in gaidens 100% was pool, fuck normal pool puzzle. Should play Mahjong tho

[@wildicedemon9926]

At least we know Amon in Infinite wealth is gonna be good if it's anything like Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon's Amon.

[@henrysmith5343]

I feel like you just don't like the side content in these games lol.

[@shadowmamba95]

More like on how it is executed. He enjoys them, but only in small doses. Problem is that most games' platinums involve going deep into the minigames, which would be bad if you can only enjoy them for a while, and worse if you hate them. At least Gaiden just makes you play them just once at most, and it is up to you if you wanna continue.

[@bencritterson640]

Maybe he doesn’t but I spent 200 hours in yakuza 0 and 100% the completion list but I still can’t get the platinum because the climax battles are too hard for me. I love the side content and it doesn’t change that those platinums are notoriously frustrating.

[@Hezzadude12]

100% agree with everything you said man. The Amon stuff in particular bothers me. Like in FF7 Remake specifically, you can use the Götterdämmerung for your hard mode playthrough, which significantly helps you but also rewards the players who did a very difficult challenge. And then later they added the additional challenge with Weiss, but you couldn’t use Götterdämmerung, so it added like another layer of challenge for everyone in a unique way which you could then also use in a hard mode playthrough if you wanted. And, ya know, you could fight those bosses again if you wanted to, unlike Amon lol.

[@mydogeatspuke]

NG+ exists.

[@blondeboi2132]

They pussified the yakuza plats

[@potato_nugget]

Gaiden's platinum felt like I lost all purpose to play the game rather than any sense of achievement

[@mydogeatspuke]

Participation trophies for people who want to be able to say they platinumed a Yakuza game

[@greybigfoot1722]

Yakuza 6 was a godsend, since you only have to do 100 different things. Being able to choose what you want was nice, I'd probably die if I had to do advanced PuyoPuyo.

[@ntrg3248]

I've been replaying the series lately and I've mostly been focusing on the main stories, and side content when I feel like it. The only platinum ive got so far is like a dragon but I havent played gaiden yet so possibly that'll be the next one, again only if I feel like it, which I probably won't. The only reason I platted 7 (almost twice now cause I frickin love the side content in 7 specifically) is because I just like grinding so it was (mostly) fun. Fuck part time hero though. Maybe when 8 comes out I'll plat it since I'll be grinding my balls off in that game too. It depends on the achievements you have to get for it. Throughout the years I've only got a few plat trophies anyway because it really depends on the game.

[@DerpySnake]

I have to agree wholeheartedly with the Amon point - only 2 times I can say I don't agree is (spoiler technically) The robot Amon fight in Gaiden and lost judgment - Gaiden one was just a normal coliseum team fight but with robots and lost judgment felt like I was actually playing the game and not going into the menu 20 times a minute to heal.

[@Koalalover70]

I am one of those few that has the platinum to FOTNSLP. And yes, I do have PTSD from the experience

[@NBDeception]

At this point after getting the platinum in 0-7, both judgments and Ishin it's just a matter of habit to 100% Gaiden (and then IW, and then another new game, and another, and another....💀)

[@kaiserkreuz4155]

Having platinum'd all the mainline games + both Judgments (first Judgment, 0, Kiwami 1/2, Y:LaD and Ishin Kiwami twice) I didn't really get burnt out of any of these games, and god forbid how grueling were 3 to 5 remastered... I guess I'm just at a level of nerdiness where I can tank all they have me to do and still enjoy it. I think it's not inherently bad to tie some trophies to minigames and completion lists, but then every minigame needs a cheat item and less grindy requirements (fuckin' baseball in 3 amirite...)

[@TheChicaNugget]

I completely understand your feelings on the platinum trophy on the Yakuza franchises. The easiest platinums are Yakuza 6, Yakuza 7 and Gaiden. Im currently going back to some of the games to tie up loose ends. I like doing the platinums because im poor and cant buy new games so this keeps me occupied til i get extra money to buy a new game lol

[@CLUMSY101]

You explain all why Yakuza series has 23 entries and I ONLY HAVE 1 PLATINUM (YAKUZA 6)

[@MikeJr9284]

Gaiden gives out trophies like candy. The perks of being a short game.

[@reissyboi7527]

I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to Platinum Gaiden, it still felt like an achievement because I always had fun doing the content. The only other game I’ve come close is Y7, but I really cba to grind all my characters to the max level doing the same dungeon fight for hours on end just to beat the true final millennium tower. I have every other trophy apart from that one

[@rodolfo7988]

I got 100% on Y6 and the only bit I didn’t enjoy was Puyo Puyo, which wasn’t required for the platinum trophy. There are good reasons why it’s my only RGG plat though

[@mariofluffy219]

Idk i kinda want something in the middle. Like I dont like having to hella grind some of the minigames to get 1 step closer to completion, but it also feels kinda lame when the completion is just to look at the minigame, and for some you dont even need to ever play it.

[@mijofalco6355]

So what I'm getting from this is that you like extremely easy platinums that require no effort behind them whatsoever. Which is fair since I'm the same way. Gaiden was my first ever yakuza platinum because it was just so simple. I haven't finished infinite wealth yet, and I haven't looked at the trophy list, but hopefully it's just as simple.

[@cyrus2395]

Yakuza Like A Dragon's Legend difficulty literally does start every enemy at level 60 like you asked, it's just in terms of stats and not the actual number of their level lol

[@zed4807]

Just Got The Platinum (My First Yakuza Plat) i Gotta say it's ez and doable it doesn't have the bullshit grind certain minigame (mahjong 🤬) type trophies and no missable ones. Hopefully they keep trophies more simple like this in future games.

[@Eonymia]

So far the only platinum I have for the series is from Like a Dragon. Took me around 70 hours according to the in-game counter. Thankfully it lacked all the stupid minigame completionist stuff from the log. No, I am not learning Mahjong well enough to win consistently in it just to get 100 % in Yakuza.

[@GuruFromEHRPG]

the interesting thing about Persona 5 royal Is that they pretty much made the achievements in the game disgustingly easy compared to the original THE amount of nonsense you have to do in the first game is AGONIZING One of the ones I LOATHED getting was the passionate listener trophy. Trying to find out what lines you heard from Futaba was just.......well it WAS NOT FUN O_O They removed a lot of those type of achievements from Royal in large part because we already did this once before. NO need to torture us again

[@Remoxe]

Honestly I agree with the Amon part; Amon has always been either boring or extremely fucking annoying. I'm still pissed about restarting 20 thousand times in Judgment just so I could try to stop my phone from getting stolen. I think the only time I had an alright time with an Amon fight was Kiwami 1, for me it was just "How well can you Tiger Drop" since from what I remember he doesn't do his stupid healing or reduced damage shit. EIther way, I'm insane and 100%'ed every Yakuza/LaD game :)))))

[@garryhlambert]

on tha yakuzillionaire grindset

[@SMT_Enjoyer69]

I payed my way through some Yakuza trophies (mostly last 10% of the 100%)

[@SMT_Enjoyer69]

This only backfired once 🤣 bc some idiot I hired got some trophies out of order in lost judgment 🤦 how ? I have no fucking clue

[@cowien]

Amon has an extra cutscene with Kiryu in the true final millenium tower in LAD. And you can rematch him and get a unique 2nd reward :) It's pretty cool

[@RedAnime]

While making the platinum more accessible in terms of time dedication and grid is always a good thing, I wouldn’t necessarily call this the best platinum trophy. I have got the platinum for Yakuza 0 and on my way for Yakuza 1 (Kiwami), and for all the work putting into both, it’s something I feel proud of doing, not just having it as a thing I did.

[@joestaen]

as someone who has 100%ed all the yakuza games; I'm the top dog. You're NOTHING. you are an ANT beneath MY BOOT and you ALWAYS WILL BE

[@infamous6283]

Like you I had an easy time doing the one shot challenge the first time. But then I went back to do it for the akame mission and just couldn't do it, that 3rd shot is absurd, seriously screw that pool mini game

[@anatoliasmercenary.]

I remember having to play 15 hours worth of pure Koi Koi just to get the hang of how it works, and then 5 more hours trying to win in Yakuza 5, or the absurd AI in pool. Yakuza 5 genuinely sucked all energy out of me trying to 100% it. Compared to THAT, Gaiden's platinum is a gift from God himself.

[@hamlindigo_blue]

I have every platinum except for Yakuza 3. I got really burnt out from the minigame master trophy.

[@foxhound8468]

A classy man who played and completed Metal Gear Solid V. Well done son.

[@chrisrockett5897]

Mahjong ain't that hard, but 50 games is fucking ridiculous. All I really did to win Mahjong was just build one of the several hands and spammed square until the prompt came up randomly.

[@WinonyRyder]

Yea I'm a psycho this plat was an entrée and I insta went back to 6 and then Kiwami in which spent a whole day numb playin mahjong before i finally understanding what i even needed to do to void the hardest part of that game's list after that it become "fun" so you ain't wrong (imworkingon3now)

[@colepuryear2271]

I wouldn't be offended if they kept the platinum viability to something of this level, because they still have all the in-game achievements in every game. It'd be pretty easy to make the platinum easier to get, but still give some type of reward for players that went to the trouble of 100% the game. I'm one of the psychos that actually enjoys 100% every LAD game, so I'm probably going to do it regardless, but it would be nice to not have to grind for specific trophies like the seals in Ishin. That was actual hell. Even the 100% list in Gaiden doesn't require you to do/collect everything, so there's still wiggle room in that aspect which was really nice.

[@hanakoisbestgirl4752]

Gaiden is my third yakuza/like a dragon plat with infinite wealth looking like my 4th. First was kiwami 2, 2nd was 6. I dont remember either being too too bad but its been awhile. I remember kiwami 2 being tedious though. Gaiden was by far the easiest though.

[@Hunterese123]

Yakuza 6 was an easy platinum compared to the other Yakuz gams too. I look at the other Yakuza Platinums and am terrified. It felt good getting the Yakuza 6 Plat lol

[@bebrasmachnayq5691]

Wish me hope, I gonna platinum Yakuza 3 remastered

[@CabaretGrand]

Good luck, Kyodai

[@Boyzby]

The fact that I have them means the Yakuza 6 and Kiwami 2 ones aren't that bad-6 is especially easy. I think it even requires beating Amon, but you can just switch the difficulty to easy if you wanted and then change it back for both games. The one for 7 isn't so bad. That is, until you have to do the grind to get enough stats to do the True Final Millennium Tower and boy do I never want to finish that even though it's the last thing I need...

[@Spalfos]

I love a little bit of Persona 5 slander. It’s a rare treat

[@demonangelking148]

This video was perfect timing for me I got Yakuza 0 platinum yesterday so lol. I didn't expect a Yakuza platinum video on my notifications right after.

[@Anon893]

I have never platinum any of these games because i refuse to even look at Mahjong, let alone play it. (Glad to hear the experience isnt as miserable in Gaiden though )

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

The real issue with 100% all the RGG games are: 1) Getting over your fear of Mahjong. (Love the Mahjong. Embrace the Mahjong. ) 2) Actually having to learn enough Shogi to be decent enough to beat the lowest level AI shogi player RGG studios has made. 3) Having a LOT of patience to earn the amounts needed in the gambling games for the games that don't have gambling cheat items. 4) Figuring out how the physics/controls broke depending on the framerate for Pool in whatever version of the Remasters you have. 5) Drink however much caffiene is needed to see the frames individually to beat the small number of mini-games that require insane reflexes on their highest difficulties (like Buyo in Ishin, the Boxcelios Schmups, or the Disco in Zero). 6) Learn to be good at Virtua Fighter 2.

[@PitH0und]

LaD wasn't bad. Apart from a few achievements, it didn't feel like a chore at all.

[@real_szop4692]

I did the platinums for 0-5 currently playing 6 and I really sometimes think why am I doing it for myself

[@ag_abdulaziz7153]

The only Yakuza game I got platinum in is Yakuza 6. Because no Arcade or Japanese mini games are required to get it. Was relatively easy

[@KaleBennett]

My biggest gripe with getting platinums in Yakuza games isn't necessarily having to do 100%, but just how a lot of the side content in the game isn't fun. There are minigames I enjoy like karaoke and Boxcerios (best Sega Arcade minigame) and I'll go out of my way to play mahjong regardless of if it's platinum-mandatory (I spent 20 hours in my first Yakuza game playing mahjong), but a lot of the minigames either feel luck based like the gambling minigames, trial and error like Pocket Circuit, can be fun but take way too long like some of the Lost Judgment school clubs or Yakuza 0 investment/cabaret campaigns, or combine all these issues while also having half-naked women moaning and rubbing against each other which after a while stops being funny or "hot" and starts being obnoxious like the Catfights in Zero. I'm sure there are people who like these minigames, but with how varied the minigames are, I doubt there's anyone who never got frustrated at a single one of them. And there can be so many minigames to beat where each new one added feels like there's a 1/5 chance I'll like it. After a while I stop thinking about the platinum and start thinking, "Why does Lost Judgment have four different fighting minigames?" "Why did they get rid of cheat items when half these minigames are luck based?" "Why does every minigame involving women revolve around them either being sexy or falling in love with you?" Something I think Gaiden does to help with this, besides not requiring 100%, is by rewarding you with Akame points. Sure, prior games have given you XP for completing tasks, but the Akame points feel like they have more use than traditional XP because of Akame's shop, as well as how many opportunities there are to earn both money and Akame points meaning grinding for one also benefits the other. At least for minigames, I think 100% for a platinum trophy can work, but only if they either streamline the minigame list to the most fun games, lower the requirements for luck based games, offer benefits for beating them beyond personal satisfaction, or just replace every minigame with Mahjong and Boxcerios. Regarding other stuff like substories or max stats, I will say I also prefer how Gaiden handles those over the other games, and wouldn't have minded if you needed to 100% everything Akame-related to get the platinum since I'm already almost at 100% just because of how satisfying and convenient it's been.

[@mydogeatspuke]

Why would you want a platinum trophy in a game you don't enjoy the side content of? And why should that mean they take away all the need to complete side content so that you get participation trophies?

[@philistine3141]

I almost have the yakuza 7 plat, but the true final tower one means 20+ hours of grinding hobos in the sewers for class exp and relearning a game i haven't played in like 3 years. Got judgements plat, ended up actually enjoying mahjong but getting absolutely 100% on everything is tedious and im struggling to get into lost judgement because of that. Ishins plat was a bit more fun because it forced a lot of combat, the rng stuff sucks ass, but I enjoyed the combat, so redoing missions for material was still somewhat enjoyable but still tedious.

[@philistine3141]

@@The_Princess_of_Kabukicho oh shit, for real. I may have to investigate that thanks

[@herusetiawan5399]

Trophy idea for "Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth" : Pick English dub and listen to all Kiryu's dialogue without skipping them.

[@mydogeatspuke]

I'd never play Yakuza games again if you had to use the English dub.

[@herusetiawan5399]

@@mydogeatspuke There will never be any new Yakuza games anyway

[@mydogeatspuke]

@@herusetiawan5399 Yakuza/ like a dragon/judgement is all the same franchise. In fact Yakuza games were already called Like A Dragon in Japan.

[@MinervaFFXIV]

Its a shame completionism in these games isn't for you. Personally, the vast wealth of stuff in these games is the appeal for me. I love all of it, and in my eyes the best way to experience these games is to get immersed in everything they have to offer. For me, RGG doesn't have one single main gameplay style, and the combat is one of the many side dishes the game has to offer, just one required to see the story to its end. I personally can't fathom liking the games as much as you do without enjoying every piece of content in them, but you do you.

[@MinervaFFXIV]

That being said, I'm usually someone who tries to finish the completion log as that appeals to me. I could understand Platinum trophies being more accessible like they are with Gaiden if the completion log still fits my needs.

[@roxases]

Are you going to beat YaD:IF and platinum it in a week and make a video about it just so you can play P3R and make a video about that too tho?