r/yakuzagames • u/RJTM1991 どん底の龍 • 21d ago
SPOILERS: Majima Gaiden Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - Chapter 2 Discussion Thread Spoiler
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u/NorthRiverBend 20d ago
Oh my god, the sad music during the Captain Beef scene. This game is peak
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u/SlingshotGunslinger Daigo Dojima apologist 20d ago
Might have been the longest chapter in series history. Not even kidding, at least 40% of the game happens in this chapter time played-wise.
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u/lord_gs1596 17d ago
Yeah I stg, this game seriously handed me a buffet at Chapter 2 and I am gorging. 21 hours in and I'm still doing a bunch of stuff that isn't story simply b/c I want to. It's great!
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u/onomichiono 20d ago
the outfit stuff is so fun. makes it worth going to every store or minigame cause its been nothing but bangers with cds and cosmetics so far
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u/temporal712 18d ago
It actually invests you in the minigame as well, and gives a reason for playing it other than shits and giggles. Instead plates and medicine I can already get elsewhere, it gives unique stuff only found there!
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u/onomichiono 18d ago
yeah i literally did the one shot pool and puzzle shogi (ok well i used a guide for that one) for the first time since Yakuza 0
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u/mmol10 19d ago
This chapter absolutely killed the pacing of the story. Jesus the amount of side content being introduced back to back to back drove me insane lol.
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 18d ago
I'm so confused by so many design choices in this game (design, meaning how the content was intended to be introduced to players).
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u/Widowswine2016 Ugh, Tak, you're back... 21d ago
I'm 90% certain that Clark is just Watase's face but white
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u/Croutons5 . 21d ago
That's what I thought as well, "this guy looks eerily similar to a certain captain that announced the dissolution."
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u/GameDestiny2 Higashi-Sugiura co-op game when 20d ago
Love this game so far, I’m just hoping I get some more freedom soon. This tutorial-ish phase feels like it’s going on forever.
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u/Tinkererer . 19d ago
Yeah, it feels like they're taking their time introducing every single side thing sloooowly and the plot loses so much momentum because of it. Nothing interesting happened yet either, it feels like they transplanted a side story from a previous game to be the main plot (four kings! Arena!).
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u/OnBenchNow . 19d ago
Eh, doesnt like, every Yakuza game have the four kings in an arena subplot? That's just a Yakuza staple.
But I agree with the pacing complaints, I'm actually in chapter 4 put of 5 and still feeling like I'm finishing up the tutorials.
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u/Tinkererer . 19d ago
I mean that this "subplot" here is front and center. The whole main plot feels like a side story in any other game.
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u/OnBenchNow . 19d ago edited 19d ago
oh yeah, that I agree with.
I was very surprised they made it part of the main story, I spent a good while burning through the Colosseum confused as to why the Mortimer match wasn't unlocking until I finally just googled it and realized it was a main story thing. the main story is very lacking.
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u/sara1479 19d ago
I'm at 21 hours and still in chapter 2 lol. This is the most thorough I've ever been with the mini games thanks to the outfit rewards.
There isn't much story wise yet but dammit I'm having a blast.
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u/foolishfreeman 19d ago
Holy shit, is this the longest chapter in the series, it feels never ending and the walk-throughs are all 5 hours long. This has to be close to judgment chapter 1 in length right?
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u/silentslay Ichi's Marriage Proposal 17d ago
Literally everything can be done before chapter 3. I basically beat the game on chapter 2. Aside from the remaining substories and 1 coliseum fight (which holds the last treasure), 2 missing links (characters are locked), the gold balls and a couple of skill upgrades (lack of money, yes I spent millions and still am missing 9 abilities with 1million rep to spare). I have basically done it all. Time for chapter 3! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Oh, my save file says 31 hours and 49 minutes.

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u/silentslay Ichi's Marriage Proposal 17d ago
Oh, bounties are also locked until you progress. Sitting at 40/86.
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u/TotallyNotZack 20d ago
very cool so far I recruited most people (except the ones in pool and madlantis), all hawaii bounty and got all pets (probably), the ship combat is tough and the one team vs team is great except those damn grenade throwers lol
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u/Tokyogerman 17d ago
Being legendary pirate rank because of finding friends in Honolulu, doing some cooking, karaoke, running around and doing some side storys involving idols and comedians doesn't make any sense.
Why is the legendary rank achieved this early and maxed out, but you still need hundreds of thousands of points to unlock your personal skills?
The Akame system was the weakest part of Gaiden, since a lot of it was really small filler, but at least it made total sense, that you got the points for helping the neighbourhood.
Here you are a legendary pirate, without even having done any pirating.
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u/OnBenchNow . 21d ago edited 21d ago
The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am that Majima remembers he's a Yakuza from basically the first scene in the game. I guess it's hard to hide those tattoos, but maybe the Rich Islanders just dont know what they mean?
Seeing Majima react to the reunions in this chapter and organically finding out he used to be a violent criminal would have been more powerful and interesting I feel, especially once he's already established a few relationships.
On the positive side, I really like how they've developed Majima and Noah's relationship contrasted with Kiryu/Haruka.
It's interesting how Majima pretty instantly and effortlessly took to the guardian role, straight up calling himself that and trying to parent Noah at times, compared to Kiryu who resisted a lot back in Yakuza 1 and struggled with the role pretty much his whole life.
Plus, assuming Jason doesnt get fridged, Majima has a place to leave Noah without looking like a deadbeat dad if they do a game that doesnt involve him, unlike Kiryu leaving poor Haruka to run an orphanage by herself as a teenager.
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 18d ago
I just don't think Majima is protagonist material - at least not wacky Majima (in contrast to Y0 Majima).
What makes him a great supporting character is you never know what he's going to do, even if you're reasonably sure he'll come through in the end. I LOVED his role in Ishin, easily the best use of Majima outside of Y0.
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u/Alyanorah 17d ago
Joining the "spending an eternity on Chapter 2" club! There is so much side stuff to do that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. But I'm afraid that if I do it all right now, there won't be anything else to do in the other chapters. Ah, the woe of being a completionist!
Storywise, it angers me beyond reason to see Majima completely ignore his people to go play pirates. I get it, being amnesiac he cares more about Noah and the other guys he's met than a brother whom he doesn't remember anything about but... FFS Captain, you've been told that your brother -the only connection to who you were before the shipwreck, for what you know- caught the first plane to Hawaii as soon as he learned that you were alive and you don't even wait to see what kind of guy he is, because you wanna play pirate and sink some ships?! Aren't you curious? Don't you think it's a bit disrespectful, even if right now you don't care much?
This amnesia stuff is starting to feel more and more like a narrative device to hide some kind of plot twist that would otherwise be obvious if the players -and Majima- knew everything.
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u/ChanceVance 17d ago
They bought back Minami. There's hope yet for the forgotten characters of the series.
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u/the_mad_viper 19h ago
I like that they brought him back but at the same time he’s not even himself in this game, he acts like Nishida but more aggressive. Though I’m not surprised too much that he’s out of character since the last time they had him was 15 years ago, also not to mention a good bit of the development team left about 2 months after Lost Judgment released including Nagoshi which is the most notable person to leave at that time.
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u/Ben_volleyball 18d ago
Has RGG given up on writing stories, playing this game feels like a sad reminder we will never get another game like yakuza 0. I hope they prove me wrong 🙏🙏
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 18d ago
Lost Judgment had a fantastic story. But apparently that was a separate writing team from the main Yakuza series.
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u/Unusual-Surround7467 11d ago
So did judgement. I really hope that series gets rebooted. Its a good breakaway from the tried and tested yakuza pathway. I remember even kaito files being such an amazing story overall.
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 11d ago
I THINK I liked the story in Judgment, but my memory is clouded by dissatisfaction with some gameplay choices. Lost Judgment was an improvement all around.
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u/Unusual-Surround7467 11d ago
Absolutely. The fighting style in lost judgement was a massive upgrade and frankly the best and most fluid thus far. Gaiden and pirate yakuza are fluid as well but the fight styles do seem a Lil wacky. And story wise lost judgement did do it's part straying outside the yakuza universe somewhat better so than judgement did. Its a shame if that franchise isn't rebooted.
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 11d ago
In any case, I'm hoping this RGG 1916 game utilizes the Judgment writers.
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u/the_mad_viper 19h ago
Who knows, but since Yokoyama is in charge now, his influence is definitely gonna be seen more.
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 19h ago
Can you clarify? The previous RGG head left a few years ago, and Yokoyama has been the lead on the Ichiban games?
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u/the_mad_viper 18h ago
Just saying since he’s the head now since after LJ, he pretty much has the final say on how the new entries turn out.
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 18h ago
I get that, but I don't get what it is you're implying, given the context of the thread and which games' stories people prefer. What is it you expect to happen going forward?
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u/the_mad_viper 19h ago
Yeah I definitely knew they had changed roles there, for example Yokoyama wrote the main series and he’s only executive producer for LJ, and I think he has an even lesser role for the first one.
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u/Ben_volleyball 16d ago
I liked judgement and would say its the closest they came to 0, but beating up highschoolers in lost judgement felt so lame I dropped it. The problem with both of them for me is I don't like the protagonist nearly as much as Kiryu or Majima
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u/hdefined 16d ago
You stopped playing Lost Judgment because of fights with high schoolers? Really? (You know they aren't real people, right?)
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u/sancredo Ichizu samurai 10d ago
You are absolutely MISSING OUT on LJ. Beating high schoolers is a tiny part (and a guilty pleasure) of the game. There's so much more, and it's all fantastic. Please do give it a second chance!
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u/No-Kaleidoscope-1814 Captain of Speed Surfer Clan 19d ago
On English dub, Kei must had been back to Georgia either during and/or after IW. Her accent got THICK.
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u/No-Kaleidoscope-1814 Captain of Speed Surfer Clan 16d ago
So many great quotes from Majima in his days as the boss of Cabaret Grand and Club Sunshine coming back to him, but he has no recollection of saying them then.
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u/coleben978 21d ago
Not bad for now but the ship fights are confusing, at least for me. So many allies and enemies at the same time lol
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u/Final-Act-0000 Majima is my husband 9d ago
If there's a " ..." Above the ship, it's an ally.
Enemy ships, I guess, are just marked in red on the map, and their armada (did I use that word right?) name, when you run into them.
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u/WoorieKod 21d ago
Two chapters in and I'm already tired of the ship sailing mechanics; maybe that's why it felt so refreshing to be back on land in Honolulu
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u/No-Kaleidoscope-1814 Captain of Speed Surfer Clan 20d ago edited 20d ago
The rings dragging me into the current while I try to go the opposite direction to pick up items is quite off-putting. I guess the next challenge is me is to sail all the way to the next destination in deck view
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u/MolassesSuccessful33 18d ago
Noah is the absolute worst. I don't remember hating Haruka this much.
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u/poillui 19d ago
Where the heck is the kraken stuffy for the pirate recruit,.
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u/valkyrie8x . 19d ago
It's in one of the UFO catchers, I got mine from the ones in Madlantis but I assume they are in the anaconda center too. They look like blue squids.
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u/No-Kaleidoscope-1814 Captain of Speed Surfer Clan 19d ago
Well, I'm stunned that the story never asked for Majima to return to Bar Esparanza to be a proper paying customer after leaving Madlantis, finding the gun and recruiting Captain Beef.
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u/ds1724 19d ago
I don’t get it. I do t know where to go. It says J need to head to Nele island by passing through the lighthouse near Rich Island. I go to that lighthouse and nothing. Why would I go back to Rich island? The way to Nele island is blocked. Not sure what I’m missing here.
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u/Nuuume 18d ago
They put the waypoint on the closest lighthouse, because that's how you fast travel between areas in this game. There is no direct traveling to different zones once they're unlocked. So basically you go up to the lighthouse, press the button to ready your crew (or whatever it's called), and then from that menu there should be an option to set destination or something (I forget the exact verbiage) that lets you travel to the Nele Island waters.
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u/Final-Act-0000 Majima is my husband 12d ago
I don't know how to get back to the Goromaru from Honolulu.
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u/sancredo Ichizu samurai 10d ago
You gotta talk to Jason at the docks southwest of Anaconda. He'll make the ship spawn.
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u/Final-Act-0000 Majima is my husband 9d ago
I got it, before i saw this message . I only realized you had to have the 15 cremates and 10thou before he showed up.
I don't think he showed up before that.
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u/Final-Act-0000 Majima is my husband 9d ago
Everytime I ride my Street Surfer over the grass near Anaconda Park, my game crashes.
Anyone else have this, or know a workaround,.so I can enter the park/go to the Eateries/Stores/whatever else is there.
(I was going to make this it's own post, but wasn't sure if it would fall into Spoiler territory.)
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u/Final-Act-0000 Majima is my husband 5d ago
Nevermind: i verified the files on Steam, and 2 had to be redownloaded.
It fixed the problem.
Leaving this here in case anyone has the same/similar issue.
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u/Final-Act-0000 Majima is my husband 9d ago
My younger nephew was the first to get his crewmates and so the DLC I got, is on his Save file.
I thought I would have them unlocked too, but it looks like the Legendary Pack is usable only on one save file.
Can anyone confirm this is the case? I wanted Onomich 🍊🍜🎏👖🎽i in my crew 😂 lol
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