FF:Enhanced_Reality
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You know how games are supposed to be fun? Well the Yakuza games are great fun. I love them a lot and I've played them ever since the series began. Great stories, great characters, a world that feels full of life, some great music, lots of mini games and plenty of content.
However.
I do still have my bug bears. For example. Why make a hard golf course a fucking side mission?
For those who aren't familiar, allow me to explain. Aside from the main chapters of the story in Yakuza, each game also has sub-stories that you can randomly come across when exploring. Completing all these sub-stories will net you a trophy, which is cool but also you'll earn the ability to fight a member of the Amon clan. This is a ridiculously hard battle but it's a long series running trope in every Yakuza game and even Judgement. But, at the end of these stories, it all adds to your trophy collection and completion.
However, if you can't, to use the Dark Souls term, 'get good' at these mini-games then you're pretty much shit out of luck. I have physically completed every other side story but I cannot score 300 points on this fucking advanced golf course. I've tried everything. There is no way to make this course easier. I've used guides, I've watched YouTube videos and tried to re-create the shots as the variables around each shot don't change and nothing.
So to add a little more content, this sub story focuses around a golf champion who notices that you've played golf. He says that his top score on the advanced course (yes, there is beginner and intermediate) is 290 points. If you beat him, he'll offer you a reward. Your objective is to play 10 holes of golf to score over 290 points. To get points, you take shots on a golf course and you must land the ball as close to the pin as possible. Around the pin are several outer rings and depending how close you get the ball, or if you get a hole-in-one, will affect how many points you earn. Missing these rings simply gets you 0 points.
So I got a hole-in-one recreating the YouTube videos that I watched of successful gamers. And then managed to only get another 60 points the whole 9 other holes. This means I got the ball into the furthest possible ring twice. As well as obstacles in the way of the ball, you also have to consider the wind and the fact that the holes are on raised platforms, which means more often than not, your ball just slides off.
I've spent hundreds of thousands of Yen to try to do this mini-game, I have clocked over 150 hours on this game and I think 20 of them is just trying to complete this sub story and quite honestly, I am just getting pissed off. This isn't fun and the impact of not being able to do it is quite severe as I cannot fight the secret boss or get the trophy for completing all the sub stories. Why the hell would you do something like this?
It took me a long time to get to terms with the fact that I would never platinum a Yakuza title. Not only because I don't have the patience to play the game through again on Legendary difficulty which is basically impossibly hard battles. Nor can I complete the completion lists as I have no clue how to do any of the gambling or play Mah Jong, as much as I try to learn, that I always settle for completing all the side missions and beating Amon. 150 hours in and I don't think I can do it anymore. This is bothering me significantly. Probably more than a game should. But why make such a dick move to have this as a sub story when I already sunk 3 hours into completing a similar situation with a baseball side story, though there was an option to make this slightly easier by earning a bat that allowed me a fraction of extra time to aim. Really angry with this situation. Any help or just anyone who's felt this frustration also would very much make me feel better.
However.
I do still have my bug bears. For example. Why make a hard golf course a fucking side mission?
For those who aren't familiar, allow me to explain. Aside from the main chapters of the story in Yakuza, each game also has sub-stories that you can randomly come across when exploring. Completing all these sub-stories will net you a trophy, which is cool but also you'll earn the ability to fight a member of the Amon clan. This is a ridiculously hard battle but it's a long series running trope in every Yakuza game and even Judgement. But, at the end of these stories, it all adds to your trophy collection and completion.
However, if you can't, to use the Dark Souls term, 'get good' at these mini-games then you're pretty much shit out of luck. I have physically completed every other side story but I cannot score 300 points on this fucking advanced golf course. I've tried everything. There is no way to make this course easier. I've used guides, I've watched YouTube videos and tried to re-create the shots as the variables around each shot don't change and nothing.
So to add a little more content, this sub story focuses around a golf champion who notices that you've played golf. He says that his top score on the advanced course (yes, there is beginner and intermediate) is 290 points. If you beat him, he'll offer you a reward. Your objective is to play 10 holes of golf to score over 290 points. To get points, you take shots on a golf course and you must land the ball as close to the pin as possible. Around the pin are several outer rings and depending how close you get the ball, or if you get a hole-in-one, will affect how many points you earn. Missing these rings simply gets you 0 points.
So I got a hole-in-one recreating the YouTube videos that I watched of successful gamers. And then managed to only get another 60 points the whole 9 other holes. This means I got the ball into the furthest possible ring twice. As well as obstacles in the way of the ball, you also have to consider the wind and the fact that the holes are on raised platforms, which means more often than not, your ball just slides off.
I've spent hundreds of thousands of Yen to try to do this mini-game, I have clocked over 150 hours on this game and I think 20 of them is just trying to complete this sub story and quite honestly, I am just getting pissed off. This isn't fun and the impact of not being able to do it is quite severe as I cannot fight the secret boss or get the trophy for completing all the sub stories. Why the hell would you do something like this?
It took me a long time to get to terms with the fact that I would never platinum a Yakuza title. Not only because I don't have the patience to play the game through again on Legendary difficulty which is basically impossibly hard battles. Nor can I complete the completion lists as I have no clue how to do any of the gambling or play Mah Jong, as much as I try to learn, that I always settle for completing all the side missions and beating Amon. 150 hours in and I don't think I can do it anymore. This is bothering me significantly. Probably more than a game should. But why make such a dick move to have this as a sub story when I already sunk 3 hours into completing a similar situation with a baseball side story, though there was an option to make this slightly easier by earning a bat that allowed me a fraction of extra time to aim. Really angry with this situation. Any help or just anyone who's felt this frustration also would very much make me feel better.
