Yakuza 5 details finally released

It will boast a new engine.
5 cities, 5 playable characters and a playable Haruka:

A Japanese December release, opefully we get it in our usual slot next year:

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Kazuma Kiryu was already confirmed for main character duties in Yakuza 5. This week's Famitsu reveals the four other main characters: Taiga Saejima, Shun Akiyama, Haruka and Tatsuo Shinada.

Saejima, Akiyama and Haruka should be familiar to Yakuza fans. Yes, the magazine confirms Haruka as a main character, and this does mean she'll be playable. What will happen to her in battle is being kept a secret for now.

The newcomer in the bunch, Shinda, is a former baseball player. He was given a life ban from the game for gambling, but it seems that he may have been innocent. He's currently struggling with debt.

The story will connect directly with Yakuza 4 (Yakuza Of the End was a spinoff). Kiryu (shown in the magazine wearing some slick black threads) is in Fukuoka, where he's become a taxi driver. Saejima is serving a three year prison sentence, when he hears that Akiyama has come to Osaka on business. Haruka has also come to Osaka, having left Okinawa to pursue her dream of becoming an idol. She lives on her own and practices singing and dancing , but it turns out the talent agency she's with has other plans.

An interview in Famitsu reveals that the game has had double the development time of past Yakuza games, and is being developed as something that can be considered a "New Yakuza." The game will have a script/scenario with the greatest scale and dynamism yet seen in the series. Adventure will switch to battle and back seamlessly. The controls have been improved dramatically.

Development on this new Yakuza is at 70%. A PS3 release is planned for December.

http://andriasang.com/con13w/yakuza5_detailed/

Yeah i was disappointed by his removal to. Honestly i would've preferred taiga to be taken out. Assuming Haruka can fight, a similar style to Tanimura would make the most sense seeing as that style was the style of the only female you could fight in the whole series.

I want this as a heat action for Haruka:

omg dude.......

I really hope playing Haruka means doing some fighting, rather than a part where you're just weak as fuck and can't do anything. Or a chase part. I hate those.

Kaede wrote:

I really hope playing Haruka means doing some fighting, rather than a part where you're just weak as fuck and can't do anything. Or a chase part. I hate those.

I hope Haruka uses a chainball to take on hordes of muggers, I heard that kind of thing happens in Japan, I mean we still want realism right? Flipkicks should be the basis for heat moves.

Update:
http://andriasang.com/con16w/yakuza5_update/
http://andriasang.com/con151/yakuza5_screens/

http://andriasang.com/con16j/miss_yakuza_videos/

Good to see they are using stuff from dead souls to enhance the experience:

http://andriasang.com/con1vr/yakuza5_saejima_monhan/
http://andriasang.com/con1tp/yakuza5_taxi/

This sounds awesome.

http://andriasang.com/con1jj/yakuza5_another_drama/

...Well, This is what I get for not checking EVERY thread of the game board. I'm behind on the playable Haruka hype. Hopefully, She'll atleast be as awesome as... I dunno, Carrie Fernandez or something. Then again, Carrie's a mage who can shoot fuck you orbs that home in at whatever walks bowlegged or rides a motorcycle or whatever...

Somehow, I get the feeling that if Haruka can actually fight, She'd most likely be a "fluke" type of character. Meaning that she'd hap-hazardly dodge shit and cause the enemy to accidently fuck himself up by falling face first into a guardrail or something. ...Then again, Kazuma might've taught her how to fight or something. Though if that's the cause, I'd hope that she isn't just a Kazuma Klone... er, Clone. >_>

Dance Dance Haruka...

Sure, Why not?

15 year olds should be cute.......... not, well, you all know me so, ya...........

Affectionate Embrace wrote:

15 year olds should be cute.......... not, well, you all know me so, ya...........

i should fucking shoot myself for this

haha i forgot about that post

restaurant food does more than heal now, not sure what though

leveling system combines both four and the previous ones

enemies can run away from battle and/or call for back up

red heat meter is seperate from regular heat meter and builds up by using regular heat moves