#but rgg is healing me from this its good

[kokoinupi]

ive been noticing the rgg fandom is EXCEPTIONALLY talented in fanart, like y'all are making rly good shit over here... and this is just my own observations in my own art since getting into the series, but i believe it comes from a mix of a fanbase that primarily consumed animated media in the past (which taught them to understand exaggeration, stylization, and whimsy) being brought this realistic media (which teaches realism along with differentiating facial features in a way anime doesn't do, especially wrt showing age). ive ofc been in a LOT of anime fanbases before and while there's a lot of creativity and skill there, many anime characters are similar in facial structure just by virtue of the styles of the medium, so it's easy not to push yourself and grow into sfs. on the other hand, ive also been in a few live action fanbases, and ive seen artists there get too caught up in realism and capturing every facet of an actor's appearance that it ends up lacking in stylization and creativity. but the rgg community blends those two outcomes and we end up generating a lot of broadly unique styles that incorporate the semi-realism and variance in features that the source provides, with the skills of creativity in design, color, and style that come from animated media. so we end up portraying these characters in our styles, but with their defining facial features, which ends up just leveling up your art overall and lends itself to better anime fanart and character design as well. not to mention it teaches us how to draw muscles right lmao

[todayisafridaynight]

[funkfuck]

I hope this addition is not too annoying, but i agree with everything you said except that the majima saga is a masterpiece.

Now dont get me wrong I loved it too, i loved the new characters, i loved that majima finally returned to sotenbori, i loved the kashiwagi content we got i love that man and of course i loved that i got to play as majima again (man i wish i could play dead souls) my favorite part was how these 3 chapters, to me, served more of as an exploration of how majima learnt to move past and accept what had happened in 1988, how he realized that despite all the pain and suffering, good things did happen to him in sotenbori too, how he saw how makoto remembers these events as something worth remembering and that it’s part of her and made her the person she is today, how even though she suffered so much in this city, she still came back to live here because of her good memories with him. It was kind of like going through his own zetsubouchou pride moment about learning yeah life is shit but that made me who i am today so you can all suck it. it was an amazing closure to the whole majima/makoto story imo i wouldnt have it any other way.

However the majima saga is… kind of messy. I feel like the story couldve been only slightly longer, couldve explored some of its moments a little better but at the end of the day i know this is just a small side story so i cant expect much of it. Still, sometimes the endings of each chapter shocked me a little, like i was sitting there just like “wait. This is it? Thats the end of this chapter?”

How limited it is annoys me so much but, once again, i know its just a small sideplot so i cant really expect more. I didnt want a full fledged combat system for majima like it was yakuza 0 but it just felt like i was taking the mad dog out for a walk in the park on a leash but the mad dog was just like a pissed off chihuahua. The fact that street enemies were just casually strewn around the city instead of moving like in the main story was a little annoying because its not like theres much to do in this side game im just trying to get to my next objective and these guys are in the way and wont budge unless i pummel them. (I know weird complaint to have with a fighting game but its not like the combat was that fun) The eating system was just Bad what do you mean i cant eat more i need to heal idgaf if majima is full already. But thats not really that serious of a gripe.

One issue that i know is not with the game but because of the innate nature of prequels is that the characters introduced in the majima saga were so FUN i loved ibuchi and uematsu was so cool i wanted more of them but obviously because it takes place before the main story they cant just be retconned back in, they had to die. Burying them in the graveyard of characters who wouldve been SO COOL if we got to see them in more games, right next to nishitani and the dojima lieutenants.

My biggest issue is… the entire majima saga is kind of unnecessary. We already had a good explanation for why majima left the tojo, terada didnt care about the old guard guys so majima got bored and left. (And majima construction is just a totally majima thing to do and its not like the majima saga gave insight as to why his plan b if this yakuza thing didnt work out was to start building shit. If anything the goromi date did that) its really just fanservice, rgg studios realizing after yakuza 0 that people fucking love majima and so they need to do more with majima. (which is not a bad thing!!! I love majima everywhere i love the majima saga i think theyre all fun)

Thats one observation i had with this game, that i felt like a lot of the side content hinges on that you have played 0 and get all these references and callbacks. I dont know how grounded in reality that is because its been a while since i finished kiwami 2 but i remember i did feel like that while playing, that it was just Look!!! You remember this thing from 0!!! You loved this in 0!!!! 0 was a good game so now this game is good too!!!!! I didnt complete majima construction but i assume theres lots of references in there, cabaret club grand prix was just a slightly worse rehash of cabaret club czar with WAY worse hostess training segments, sometimes they were a genuine slog to sit through (and i mean they even copied the one of the hostesses gets kidnapped thing from the ccc plot line!! Like cmon guys you really couldnt think of any other reason koyuki might not be available rn have her visit family or something)

The whole majima saga exists just to have that one scene with majima and makoto for the sake of a yakuza 0 reference and more majima content to appease the fans, the among us ass murder mystery story (which is a story type we all get so familiar with in yakuza 3 for better or for worse) was enjoyable sure i liked ibuchi but it was barely held together by some scotch tape at points. The ending fucks supremely though i have zero problems about that.

Im SO SORRY idk why im rambling so much about something that was so insignificant in the original reply i totally derailed this post im so sorry still i hope my thoughts and ideas are comprehensible

so this was a tag i just got on the TO WHOM⁉️⁉️ response to the rgg summit proposal reveals post and im literally obsessed with it i've been talking to myself about it for the entire like hour since i saw it. they really do just fucking make awful decisions sometimes and we all know this. basically like every single game there's at least one Oh My God Why Did You Do That catastrophic choice made by the writers. they really are flopping all the time. i love these games but man no you're so right why are they like that

[twinvictim]

hi, here's a batch of questions for the rgg game! A5, A11, B4, C11, D10, E4, F3

A5 favorite final boss

So far I think I'd have to say Lao Gui, being that it's a cool boss fight in general and all of Majima's feral fighting is really cathartic (& sexy). Second place goes to Mine for being my one of favorite villains and not being frustrating and a honorary mention to Nishiki for it being really funny that he demands you fight him as an equal to prove he's worth anything and you can cheese the whole fight by throwing furniture at him.

A11 favorite healing items

I have a preference for using food as a healing item, I know it really doesn't do much compared to the medicine drinks or whatever but I love the charm of getting shot and eating an egg sandwich to heal yourself

B4 who would you like to post more about but dont/ why?

If I posted more ab Nishiki I think everyone would block me for being annoying. Not really but I don't really feel like I refrain from posting anything unless you count being too lazy to post which I am guilty of.

C11 best taste in clothing/worst

I have about the fashion sense as most of these men and that is in fact derogatory. Best is probably y0 Nishiki as it's definitely my favorite of those suits it looks very nice, very much enjoy Awano's purple ass suit and I also like Mine's even if its a little more basic. Worst is probably Rikiya or Akiyama but Rikiya gets a pass for his Kamurocho outfit being aggressively transgender. Akiyama's is bad mostly bc it's sloppy and I don't know why his pants are so. Yeah. Bonus points for the fact that I hate Kiryu's ugly grey suit but every other outfit on him is very <3

D10 something everyone loves that you hate

Idk about "loves" but besides it being really funny in y3 when you chase Mame around or when Shinada chases that chicken for the chicken racing thing I really don't get the appeal of the chase sequences? They just kind of happen. Tho I think many of my grievances come from y4 because I find them more intrusive there and also bc i do not care for y4 in general. Also once again idk about people loving him but I wish Date would explode leave me alone

E4 ramen or takoyaki

I do love ramen but I'd have to take the chance to try takoyaki it sounds very good

F3 who are you inviting to karaoke

Akiyama if only bc I LOVE his voice it's fucked up that he only has like 2 songs