Now this is what I’m talking about! This week we’re learning about all the newer playspots in Yakuza 6 including the cat cafe and looking after baby Haruto with your motion controller! Thanks again to Chelsea for translating this because it’s AMAZING!
Snack bar (Onomichi Jingaicho)
Actively enjoy the conversations. You can also make friends with them by taking them to darts or karaoke!
As Kiryu settles into the bar, he can give advice to regular patrons. You must give the correct responses as you listen to their stories. If you manage to solve their problems, something good might happen!?
A game in which you visit a local snack bar, share drinks with the owner and regular customers and befriend them. Unlike hostess clubs, you can enjoy communicating with multiple people. Aim for the ultimate in snack bar relations!
Freediving fishing (Onomichi Jingaicho)
Take up your speargun and dive into the sea, where your prey awaits!
There are several types of speargun, which increase in number through actions such as clearing fishing spots.
Line up your gun on nearby fish and shoot them up before the air health gauge displayed on the bottom of the screen runs out! Some of the fish might even attack you!?
If you get to know a fisherman from Onomichi Jingaicho in a certain substory, you will later gain the ability to go freediving fishing. You will get onto a fishing boat and head out to sea, where you need to catch plenty of fish. You can continue fishing until your “air health gauge” reaches zero, which depletes by catching fish and being attacked. There are several different types of fish and different sorts which appear at different fishing spots, so it’s also important to choose a location based on your skill and Kiryu’s level.
You can get through it with button-mashing, but you need to pay attention to your stock!
There is a set limit to the number of harpoons you can fire from your speargun, which is displayed on the bottom left of the screen. The gun will automatically reload when you press the fire button, even if you run out of stock, but manually reloading makes it possible to complete the reload in a shorter time than an automatic one. It would be awful if a rare fish appeared or if you were attacked and couldn’t shoot, so always pay attention to your stock.
If your results are good, Kiryu’s level will go up and the maximum capacity of his air health gauge will increase! Your choice of speargun may affect the size of your catch!?
Temple & shrine games (Onomichi Jingaicho)
Ryunan Shrine on the outskirts of Onomichi Jingaicho and the famous Senkoji on top of Ninosaka each have their own different kinds of games. They all give Kiryu special abilities by playing them, which are helpful in his growth, so you should be assertive in your attempts of these. In order to obtain benefits, you will of course require money or items. If you do well, this might help you to progress through the game?
(Offertory Box – Senkoji)
Toss in your donations by flicking the touchpad. If you do a good job, the profits gauge will fill and trigger the prayer slots!
(Fortune papers – Senkoji)
You can draw fortunes at the main building of Senkoji. You will obtain benefits based upon the fortune. Very rarely, you will take a fortune with amazing effects… what might they be!?
(Offerings – Ryunan Shrine)
You may leave items in your inventory to one of the five jizo statues. Depending on the item you leave, you will receive an amount of experience for that attribute, so think about Kiryu’s situation when you make offerings.
Comforting Haruto (Onomichi Jingaicho)
At specific spots in Onomichi Jingaicho, Haruto will get into a bad mood as Kiryu carries him and begin to fuss, which is when this game occurs. Treating the controller as Haruto, you will shake it up and down and stroke the touch pad to make Haruto happy. It also seems as though Haruto will start to fuss and will need calming if Kiryu runs around. Maybe you had better move around cautiously when Haruto is with you?
There are four kinds of action you can perform to calm Haruto in total. You must guess what Haruto wants and choose either side-to-side rocking, up-and-down rocking, lift-up-high and pat-pat. By the way, as the player gets used to babysitting they will, to a certain extent, begin to recognise what to do from Haruto’s cries and movements. Adapt to the situation!
If you calm him well and fill the mood gauge, you get to see Haruto’s cute smile!
If you fail in your choice of action, Haruto won’t stop crying.
Cat café management (Kamurocho)
This is a play spot which you can enjoy at the “Meow Meow Teahouse”, a cat café specifically for stray cats in Kamurocho. Unfortunately, the all-important cats have all run away, leaving the café in financial difficulty. Hearing this story, Kiryu decides to help the café out. He must give food to stray cats he finds around Onomichi Jingaicho and Kamurocho, then take them back to the café employee once he befriends them to rebuild the business. Your ultimate goal is to make the café a cat-filled paradise.
A moment spent with the cats that have been brought to the Meow Meow Teahouse. You can also give them cat food inside the café.
Each has their own food preferences. If you give them the food they like, that cat’s “friendliness meter” will increase more easily.
If you don’t search hard for the stray cats hiding around town… you might not be able to find them!?
Stray cats can be found all over Kamurcho and Onomichi Jingaicho, but it’s certainly not simple to find them. Just like in the photo to the right, the ones on the streets are easy to spot, but there are also many hiding in places out of human sight. For example, in the photo below, there are some cats hiding inside pipes. In order to find these cats, you will have to take the initiative and search down even the narrowest of back alleys, keeping your eyes peeled.
Ryu ga Gotoku trivia: the first cat search in the numbered series!
There is actually something this play spot is based upon. That is the “kitty-search” that appeared in Kurohyo, a spin-off of the Ryu ga Gotoku series. In Kurohyo, you simply received rewards upon finding a certain number of kitties, but in RGG6 you have the added element of having to befriend the cats. This modification is so Ryu ga Gotoku-like!