Current Events > On the first boss of Yakuza 0 playing on hard

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I have no health items and when the guy gets his gold aura he starts randomly having hyper armor and I don't know how to deal with it

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It's not random and you should lower the difficulty so you can enjoy the story more on the first run.

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The games are fucking brutal above Normal.

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just play on easy

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I remember that dude kickin my ass for a solid hour

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The game tells you to dash to his back to attack his weak point and then the game gives him a 180 degree counter kick and a back elbow to knock you down from behind

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this time his counter happened even during his phase 1. I'm in Rush mode punching him and then he flashes white and immediately counter punches me. What am I even supposed to do about that? The point of Rush stance is to attack repeatedly and unlike Brawler you can't counterpunch you just get instantly stunlocked or knocked down

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IIRC i just let him do his big attack (and dodge it) and then hit him immediately after
wasnt too bad on Hard

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I don't want to cheese him I want to actually understand what the fuck is even going on. the mechanics feel convoluted. my problem isn't timing it's understanding why I'm punished for hitting him at a certain moment

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Is that the guy with 2 health bars? I could get him down to his 2nd bar, but then he would whoop my ass. I think I was supposed to use weapons maybe? I just gave up lol

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Doe posted...

I don't want to cheese him I want to actually understand what the fuck is even going on. the mechanics feel convoluted. my problem isn't timing it's understanding why I'm punished for hitting him at a certain moment

i dont think there is any understand, just memorizing how to cheese him.

seems common in fighting games

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i always find the difficulty in yakuza games so bloody inconsistent. normal enemies will be the easiest fights ever where all you do is spam attack and destroy everything. then you get to a boss and he ROFLBBQWTF stomps you to death in like 5 hits and takes 1000x the damage of a normal enemy. tbh i never really learned how they want you to play the game and i just tank hits while spamming heals.

dont get me wrong, i love the series, but the imbalance of the combat is my #1 complaint.

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the vibe I'm getting from this topic is literally nobody knows how to play these games?

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I needed several items and a bunch of retries to beat that fight my first time.

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Like the way i initially perceived this game was supposed to work was a Character Action game like Metal Gear Rising where you can play on extreme and perfect KO a boss with no damage taken if you understand Raiden's options perfectly

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Are you taking about Kuze? The best you can do is wait for him to do his combo and hit him a few times while he's open. If you get too overzealous with your attacks, he punishes you with counters. The fight will take a while, but you won't constantly be eating counters if you aren't overly aggressive.

You can also grab him in the second half of the fight, but that could be considered cheesing lol.

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NoxObscuras posted...

but that could be considered cheesing lol.

Grab is supposed to be used to break guard so I wouldn't consider it cheesing

I have extra trouble against him as Brawler though because Brawler only has one dodge instead of Rush's three

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Doe posted...

Grab is supposed to be used to break guard so I wouldn't consider it cheesing

I have extra trouble against him as Brawler though because Brawler only has one dodge instead of Rush's three

I prefer rush mode for that reason. It does less damage, but you can dodge really easily.

And you absolutely can defeat the bosses without taking damage. But it's a mistake thinking it's going to be like Metal Gear Rising. At no point will you be unleashing 40 hit combos on bosses lol.

I personally hate playing the Yakuza games on Hard just because their health gets kind of ridiculous (wait until you see your first purple health bar). But it's doable.

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