Went through Yakuza 3 a couple weeks ago and have been playing the fourth over the week.
This guy is probably going to be my favorite character. I only can compare him to Kiryu so far but I think he's leagues better as a protagonist.
He still has that moral white knight think like Kiryu does but he's more of a sarcastic Spike Spiegel type akin to Kiryu's stone-cold Fist of The North Star Kenshiro attitude.
Kiryu just seems like a stereotypical stoic action guy. Akiyama has personality.
>Spike Spiegel
They both voiced by same guy
Well he IS voiced by Spike Spiegel after all. Yamadera sounds kinda weird in 5 though, a little too gruff for Akiyama.
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>>322834306
Wow, I had no idea. That makes it really likely they used Spike as an inspiration for Akiyama.
>Haruka Loneliness Loop concert battle
>that incessant suggestive hip swaying
O-oh my.
Can hostesses re-ask you out? I took a girl out to the hot springs as Akiyama. Got my ass handed to me in table tennis. Can I go out with her again or is her story line fucked for me now?
>>322835567
Just complete her substory and you can call her in for a date when you go to the indoor bath. She'll play table tennis with you then.
>>322836115
How to complete her substory? Just keep buying her gifts and visiting her? I'm almost at full hearts.
I also appreciate all the little touches the game has like the staring minigame at the actual hostess club, the fantasies where you mash buttons to get a clearer picture. It's funny as shit.
>>322836290
Get her to twenty hearts, she'll give you a phone call and you'll have to do something for her. Either talk to her and beat someone up, or walk around and beat someone up. She'll take you to a love hotel, and you'll get a huge EXP boost. Walk around a bit and then she'll send you an e-mail with a photo of herself attached. Read that and her substory is registered as complete.
>>322836963
Thanks, so it doesn't matter that I lost the table tennis game?
>>322837090
Don't think so. I always just took my hostesses out eating and to karaoke. Dates are a chance to raise your hearts, but mostly they're there to set out the storyline for their substory.
>>322837090
No, besides hostesses have beastly minigame AI.
>Saejima's unexpectedly suave singing voice
>Kaguya's godly singing
They'd be a good match for Kamuro Hibernia.
>>322840163
>Junrenka
Fucking autocorrect. What the fuck is a hibernia anyway.
>>322834707
So what game does Akiyama die?
>5's ending
What the hell, that's not okay at all.