Like a Dragon: Ishin's PS5, PS4 Trophy List Will Destroy You

As a trophy hunter myself, I'll attempt it and see far how I get. I might even end up getting the platinum. I hope this doesn't turn out like Y0 since I got most of the trophies but gave up when I had about 5 left.

With Yakuza, I always go up to the trophies that have to do with finishing the main story and all the side quests. Beyond that? No way.

Ill try trophies but not things that make me hate a game in the I dont need the recognition.

Love the platinum campaigns on these games. Got all of them. Yakuza 5 was the best and most complete. The most rewarding.

Whilst I do intend on getting the platinums for the Yakuza games eventually, I have only managed to platinum Kiwami 2 so far. Yakuza 0 still has a few, but they are mostly missable ones which I can get when I repeat the playthough on Legend. The issue I am having is finishing off the completion list in Yakuza 0, specifically the batting minigame with earning 5 million yen. I will get it eventually...

Bring it on, I'm ready.

@johncalmc Jeez!

@thefourfoldroot1 Also jeez!

@ShogunRok
Honestly, it probably doubles the fun I have with the game to get the plats. As infuriating as some challenges can be. Really is rewarding.

Pretty much expected fanfare when it comes to Yakuza games, so not really that surprised tbh

Platinum Trophies I have;

• 3
• 4
• Dead Souls
• 5
• 0
• Kiwami
• 6
• 7
• Judgment [PS5]

Saving Kiwami 2 for my 150th Platinum milestone. Bring Ishin on, fear is an emotion entirely alien to me.

@thefourfoldroot1 I can fully understand that. It's my goal to one day platinum all games in the series. I was late to the Yakuza party and only started around Yakuza like a dragons release. Then played the rest on gamepass. I recently started buying all the games on my ps5 and just started yakuza 6 again when it was needed for the stars campaign, I got hooked again so hope to one day be like you and can say I have them all.

I'd really love to know why RGG is always so bent on making the platinum trophy foe these games the most unenjoyable experience. I get that these platinums aren't gonna always be a walk in the park but that doesn't mean they need to be the most awful experience either.

At this point Y6 will probs be the only yakuza game I ever platted

@Pepsiman_100 Trophies, orginally at least, were meant to serve as rewards for beating tough challenges, and badges of honour to be worn by those who were up for it.

As such, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for 100% completion of a game in return for the Plat, even if some minigames and most Ultimate Challenges can be infuriating. The Yakuza games are tough in many different ways, but they're hardly on the level of, say, Super Meat Boy.

I was hoping it’d be more doable such as LAD’s. I’ll give it a go regardless. Maybe it’s not as bad as it seems once the game starts up 😎😎😎

@Golem25
Haven’t had a a chance to play dead souls unfortunately. Aren’t you going to do Fist of the North Star and Lost Judgment (which is much better than the first Judgment by the way).

@Lavalera
Definitely worth it. Has taken over as my favourite gaming series of all time. It took me about a year to do the first 7 plus Judgment, so it is a commitment with some taking 150-200hrs each, but my god was it fun and satisfying!

@thefourfoldroot1 I've played the series in release order starting from 3 back in 2010, but broke the sequence to play Judgment and LAD before Kiwami 2. Looking to get back on track and go K2 -> LJ -> Ishin Kiwami -> Gaiden -> 8 -> Kiwami 3 (PLEASE).

I also own Kenzan, but no Trophies to be had there.

FoTNS I don't really consider part of the series (although I acknowledge that that is simply my personal bias), and I can't see myself tucking into it unless RGG stops releasing games on Playstation/PC.

Mahjong has prevented me from platinuming Yakuza games and it looks like it will in this one too.

Fantastic games though

I enjoy Yakuza games, but just not enough to platinum as anything that becomes boring and lacks fun takes my drive and time away, saying that I am at 116 platinum trophies atm.

But I only platinum if I enjoy it.

@Golem25 yea I definitely get what you're saying. I honestly like when a games Platinum is pretty tough cuz it does feel good overcoming those challenges. But there's challenge and then there's tedium, grind, and cheapness if that's even a word.

There's having to learn entire mini games like mahjong, black jack, koi koi, there's those same mini games having god awful RNG or insane difficulty like puyo puyo, there's drone racing where even with the best build there can be you slam into one wall and it's all over while the cpu drones have perfect steering, perfect durability, perfect everything really. I can keep going but I'm just saying that with these Plats/achievements you have challenge and you have chore and the yakuza games are definitely chores imo

I really don't understand the obsession with achievements and trophies. It just seems a pointless chore to me.

@Netret0120
This was my experience too. Then it suddenly clicked and now I have all the plats and love playing Mahjong. Seriously, there are only a couple of basic rules to keep in mind.

Yeah I got the plats on Bloodborne, Nioh & its sequel, but life's too short & my game backlog too long to attempt those for most of the Yakuza / RgG series: closest I got are on 6 (which doesn't require 100% completion list, I'm only missing "complete on Legend difficulty") & 7 / Y:LaD (only missing Super Final Millennium Tower).

I suspect the Ishin! trophy list is mostly copied from the original PS3/4 version, which apparently has a 1.6% plat rate.

@thetraditional TBH while Kenzan! certainly is an early PS3 game and shows it, I found it less clunky than 3 (and a lot less clunky than Dead Souls / Of The End). It's so early in that gen that it doesn't have PSN trophies, although it has the usual in-game completion list.

But yeah, from a marketing point of view it is so old that a simple "remaster" like the mainline PS3 games got (& it would also need to be localised from scratch which would be a lot of work) probably wouldn't sell well enough at any given price point to justify the expense involved, and that's even if you disregard the persistent meme that the game's treatment of early Edo-era prostitution would cause it to run into trouble with Western ratings boards.