Yakuza 5 Remastered

Can you fail and have those jobs permanently locked out?

There are a few of Shinadas Missions you only get one try so save before each one. Kiryu and Haruka are probably the same but I'm not Sure. Saejimas Missions are basically impossible to fail since you mostly Just have gather certain Animal parts

For Haruka I entered the job and just quit and it will be count as completed, altough poorly

I was struggling to get the rainbow trout for the river fishing then I read a comment that mentioned using Seaweed Onigiri (I bought it from the M store) as bait in the daytime in the hunting village. I got it second try after spending 3 hours using club sandwiches/worms as many guides suggest. Entirely possible it was luck but definitely worth a try if you're struggling.

I just hit 100% and it didn't unlock. I want to add something here that I read in the windows version guide. If you check your stats at a safe house, that should trigger the unlock when it scrolls to the bottom and '100%' glows in red. I did it at Serena, so don't panic too much if it doesn't pop right away.

^ I got 100% and it didnt unlock(on series x) panicked and came here. Djshep's method is correct. Mine popped immediately after checking it at Serena.

How do I know if I've fucked up. I finished Yakuza 5's story a while ago.

This past couple months I've 1K'd Yakuza 1-4....

So like how do I know I'm not walking into failure with 5?

Don’t know how you can call a Completion List with ~1,100 explicit entries (still a big boy even with food and drink taken out completely) small in comparison to 0’s ~376 but ok.

Anyway, I’ll probably pop in some (lmfao that aged like milk) pointers and personal thoughts here if I run into anything. No update timestamps unlike 3’s Minigame Master as I don’t see the point.

Darts - Make sure to speak with the lady again after getting your card so that you can get some parts for your dart: the initial dart you get is inexcusably shit (as in you’ll probably lose to Intermediate AI every time) but the parts allow you to put together a dart that actually, you know, hits your target. It’s not the same as in 3 & 4 though so you’ll have to change your strategies up a bit.

River fishing - Got a Nishikigoi in Nagasugai during the evening with a Tonkotsu Onigiri (referred to as ‘Tonkotsu Rice Ball’ in CyricZ’s guide in case you’re confused on that like I was and missed the onigiri’s description). The onigiri recommendation above for the Rainbow Trout also works, but only if it’s daytime in Tsukimino; if it’s evening or night don’t bother as you’ll just get Salmon and Turtles for 10 years otherwise.

Hostesses - You must do the Rank S conversation for the hostess to be marked as completed, the post-Rank S email won’t cut it.

UFO Catcher: Bizarrely easy compared to 3, not needing more than one attempt for most of the prizes.

Pool - Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 Fuck Puzzle Pool 7 (Everything else here is easy - Advanced AI compared to 3 and 4 is overall garbage - or manageable enough, but Puzzle Pool 7 is genuinely worse than literally anything "K2" or 4 ever threw at you; add in "K1" under the circumstances of the baccarat skip; it is genuinely a pixel perfect shot, may as well be for me.)

Sea Fishing - Hold down + while holding down or whenever the line is getting close to breaking (you don’t need to move your line according to the fish’s direction this time). It’s an incredibly boring strat, but at the very least it is very consistent.

Food/Drink: In Tsukimino the Legendary Drinker is found in Don Quijote and the AppStim is found in Ebisu Pawn. For Sotenbori the AppStim is found in convenience stores; it’s much better to clean out Sotenbori’s foods with Haruka since she has almost nothing to spend her cash on. In general, if you’re at the end of a Part and have been unfortunate enough to still not be close to qualified for the Victory Road with the character you’re playing (*cough* Shinada *cough*) I’d recommend just getting into fights 24/7 instead of taking AppStims and eating through restaurants that way.

Golf/Driving Range: Can’t put in a bullet proof way to get through the Advanced and Pro courses (CyricZ covers the first two perfectly fine), but I can list the strategies I did to successfully put a ball into a hole. Should help if you get the same or similar wind; was only able to get the par score for the Pro Course so quickly because I got a wind that was only 1m different than one I had previously, allowing me to quickly change a bit of my setup up to get a good 10 hole in ones. Just be aware that you have to setup a shot in a VERY similar manner to what is described below if you get the same wind or you will miss.
* 10m to the left: ~24% at 9°, swung a little to the right of the pink line
* 9m in a NNE direction: ~22% at 4.5°, swung a teenie bit to the right of the pink line
* 8m in a NNE direction: 22% at 5°, swung on the pink line or just to the right, or 24-26% at 5° a relatively sizeable to the right of the pink line (i.e. big enough a gap that you could probably fit another icon of the same size between the line and arrow)
* 10m in a SW direction: ~28% at 7.5°, swung on the pink line

Slots: First off, fuck this minigame; get it done as soon as you get an Auto Token. Secondly, make sure you start with 0 tokens on you so you can buy 50 at the start; you’re gonna want every advantage you can get. Every now and again (couldn’t find any reliable trigger besides an animation playing on the left hinting at a potential triggering) you’ll enter a mode called Aladdin/Savannah Chance (depends on which type of slot machine you play it on), which will have the buttons at the side light up in sequence. Green is , yellow is , red is . That’s basically your only option to complete this minigame without dying of boredom and frustration of the obviously rigged RNG of the machines (if I counted the number of times two 7s lined up and the third didn’t I’d be rich).

Side Stories: Most of what you have to do here isn’t missable in any way, usually comes down to not selling rewards you get from completing missioms. There’s one exception, that being one of Saejima’s Side Missions where you have to hunt a Gold Stag and give the meat to the quest giver. The Gold Stag afaik only spawns until you’ve killed it. If you sell the meat instead of giving it to the quest giver, you’re probably gonna have to reload a previous save.

Kamurocho Batting Range - Really dislike that the S-ranks require perfection bar multi-hits.

Breakthrough Fight: First off, you need to be Level 20 to do this fight with a character, so this is basically useless for Akiyama (outside the Coliseum, where the Launch Strike upgrade shines) since he cannot hit Level 20 on your first playthrough without grinding random encounters (preferably with the Golden Pistol + Amon Sunglasses combo). Secondly, do not even bother with this fight legit. Grab 5 broken shotguns from Kamiyama for Kiryu, Akiyama, and Shinada and go to town. Saejima will be fine without those: Herculean Spirit is more bullshit than this encounter.

Pachinko - Lucky Day email seems to do fuck all with how rigged in my favour my successful attempt felt; not only did I lose a fight only for Akira to crush them comeback style, but I also lost a defensive fight, with me being sent into the stone ruins arena… only to immediately get an Ultra Big Bonus jackpot or whatever it is immediately after for seemingly no reason. Couple that with getting a one shot in a 3rd fight and managing to successfully win my last fight off the infinite button mash despite the opponent being at half health, and I only had one fight out of the five that felt normal.

As for strats, take the "Virtua Fighter" machine. Number shouldn’t matter, but if you’re desperate I took machine 35 on all 4 of my attempts. Set the notch on the right side of the screen so that the left one is pointing towards the 0 in the background. For fights, try to do the 5 button button mash with 1-1.5 seconds in between each press, while the infinite button mash should be a ramp up (occasional presses in the first 1-2 seconds, semi-frequent presses in the following 1-2 seconds, then a full speed mash to wrap it up). For defensive fights… good luck lmao: I ended up winning none of them properly (didn’t help I only got 2 tries at it in my attempts) but it probably works the same as the infinite button mash. And if you’re somehow unsure of which Cheat Item to use, use the Get-Rich-Quick Card; getting 1,500 balls to start off the game plus getting into the zone where jackpots are afaik more frequent (although some on my successful attempt took some 50 spins to get) is borderline vital, especially with how lengthy an attempt can be (40-60 minutes).

Cee-lo - Had two Cheat Items wasted as I ended up rolling natural 6s right afterwards so that’s silly.

Oicho-Kabu - Would recommend using the 10-10-1 Charm right away. Even on Beginner that should get you close to the target.

Koi-koi - A grind shitty enough that I’m leaving cho-han for the last chapter; the AI loves to tilt you by making a comeback in Month 3 when you’re massively ahead.

Crafting - Would recommend saving this completely for the last chapter so that you can work on this with all the crafting items in your Item Box and get most of it done in about half an hour. For the Mystery Liquid I’d recommend grinding IF8R with whatever character doesn’t have Asura Spirit or - in the case of Akiyama - the ability that makes Launch Strike unblockable so that you’re making effective use of your time. Also, if you didn’t look at the crafting page really closely, don’t panic if you find a couple penultimate weapons are absent from your inventory: you need two of a couple of them for the ultimate weapon and the extremely sturdy weapon. You can just buy your way to the second ones though: they don’t require any additional crafting materials.

Victory Roads Final - Bounding Throw infinites and Tiger Drop spam make this basically free. Get the impression from this that the Coliseum with Kiryu and Saejima is going to be similarly simple by and large.

Cho-han - I have good news and bad news. The bad news? The minigame is rigged. The good news? It’s rigged in the same way every time (at least for me, but I’d be VERY surprised if this just occurred by pure chance, especially since I saved, reloaded, and tried this again just to make sure this is actually consistent). Without exception, on the first roll guess Even. The cup will be picked up and will show a 5 & a 1. Quit out afterwards (it’s possible the consistency extends beyond the first roll but I didn’t bother to test because that’s overkill) and repeat. When you get the option to guess a number, again, pick 5 or 1, and when you’re asked to pick 2 choose 5 and 1. You should fulfill the completion quota before you get the option to choose the difference, but if you don’t, guess 4 once and you’ll be set. This strat also makes cho-han the best way to get money in the game, since there’s no alteration like there is in baccarat and you do not have to rely on Cheat Items at all.

Coliseum (General) - Don’t get the appreciation for the Heat Bomber GP. Yeah, it’s the best starting tournament. But Breakout GP is a LOT faster and is the tournament I’d recommend grinding out with everyone. For Kiryu, Akiyama, and Shinada break the wall behind you with three light hits, and then when the opponent attacks for the second time, dodge behind them, grab them, and push them off the stage with actual pushing and . Saejima repeats the first step but then he needs to go around the enemy and punch them to the abyss: his grab is shit for this.

Also, here’s my suggested character order for going through the Coliseum:
1st: Akiyama (actually not too bad but he’s overshadowed by everyone else by a good margin despite his infinites; doesn’t help he struggles a bit with Deathmatch 100)
2nd: Saejima (struggles at the start of GPs and is imo the hardest character to clear Limited Berserk with but Herculean Spirit should still get you through the rest of the tournaments comfortably)
3rd: Shinada (has the hardest time with encounters but Asura Spirit ultimately makes everything pretty simple regardless)
4th: Kiryu (Dragon of Dojima? More like God of Dojima)

Coliseum (Akiyama) - By and large much simpler than I was been expecting (which frankly describes this completion as a whole very nicely). Spamming Launch Strike (with the breakthrough-gated upgrade) makes the big boys a lot simpler, and you’re also able to keep the non-Super Armor mates on the ground with spam. Lastly, remember you have the quickstep attack and can easily chain that into a grab. All that should get you through the normal 8 tournaments swimmingly, even at Level 20. As for Deathmatch 100 with Akiyama, it’s definitely hard, and it’s absolutely long, but it’s very far from impossible: got it done on my first attempt without even reaching Critical Health (granted, it wasn’t too much health, but it was still a comfortable win).

As for Limited Berserk… let me put it this way. For the past ~120 hours I’ve found the stigma surrounding the difficulty of completing 5 to be an absolute crock of shit in every single regard. This is the exception. This is an actual bastard of a challenge. Let’s break it down.

Waves 1-4 (two guy waves): Nothing special, just make sure one of them are always down and hit the other with the combo mentioned earlier in this section. Save your Heat Actions for now.

Waves 5-7 (three guy waves): Same strategy as waves 1-4 by and large. Just keep everyone in your sights and respond to people rising up.

Waves 8 and 9 (four guy waves): Burn your Heat Actions here and do not get surrounded. Use grabs to incapacitate enemies whenever you can.

Waves 10 and 11 (one guy waves): Quickstep attack, grab, till they die. If Climax Heat isn’t ready, make sure it’s charged by Wave 12.

Wave 12 (two strong guy wave): Use your Climax Heat on the mate who’s resistant to Launch Strike. That should get him relatively close to death. The other guy should be dealable in the same way as waves 10 and 11.

Wave 13 (one strong guy wave): Utilise the wave 10 and 11 strategy when you can. If you’re finding him always resisting your grabs then punish him when he finishes a combo with , than quickstep away like mad. If you manage to get through wave 12 cleanly though you should be good.


Coliseum (Shinada): Similarly easier than I was expecting. Sure, he doesn’t have any cheese strats the rest of the characters have access to. But honestly, he doesn’t really need them. Don’t get me wrong, fights definitely drag out due to Shinada being a bit limited, but he’s got enough health and tools to make the situation work in all the normal tournaments. As for Deathmatch 100 and Limited Berserk, put simply, if you don’t have Asura Spirit, good luck. With Asura Spirit though they are relatively simple affairs.

Coliseum (Saejima): Honestly he’s kinda shit in here. He can dominate but he is so beholden on Herculean Spirit (and also Tiger Dragon Drop but not as much) to get much mileage out it is insane, especially with the grab fetish the Coliseum has and the fact that any Heat Action will get Saejima out of Heat Mode. Deathmatch 100 is free though: he barely lost a quarter of his health on my successful attempt. Saejima is however bad at Limited Berserk, comfortably the worst character for it: he’s way too fucking slow to not take damage consistently. The best thing I can suggest is make sure you’re in Heat Mode at the end of wave 11, otherwise I got nothing.

Coliseum (Kiryu): Free. Kiryu has basically everything he could want or need to demolish 5’s Coliseum (aside from Herculean Spirit but that’s massive overkill). You can either spam Max Tiger Drop (no, I’m not being contradictory with this and the Tiger Dragon Drop: the former feels much more consistent to me) to quickly eviscerate enemy health or use the Komaki Parry to get an enemy on the ground and then spam the Bounding Throw (with a brief delay the first time, immediately on all following attempts while the enemy’s on the ground; him getting up resets this) with some grounded Heat Actions peppered in to KO an enemy without giving them a proper opportunity to fight back. Alternatively you could also cycle in other Heat Actions to make the fights go faster: Essence of Smoking doesn’t seem to be available for some reason but Kiryu’s got more than enough Heat Actions available anyway. And if you somehow get close to death (out of Limited Berserk), just use Asura Spirit. Literally the only tournament that might give Kiryu trouble is the Weapon Master GP since some of the enemies are a bit bullshit and most of the above doesn’t apply. But if you get 3 enemies that stagger to the knife’s Rush Combo then you’re sorted.

I promise I’m done updating this.

Also important to note that you MUST 100% the side stories for each character to get the 100% completion even though they're not in the completion list. Figured out after a slight panic today that I needed to complete a few more of Haruka's jobs.

I also feel like the coliseum should at least be acknowledged in this post because my god is it horrendous. To rank up fast especially for weaker characters like Akiyama and Shinada, I would recommend playing Heat Bomber SP and clicking it until you get matched up against an opponent higher in the ranks like Komaki or Raiden. You can cheese them in about 30-60 seconds with the bombs which can net you about 5-7 points per match (still a horrible grind I know) and is what I found to be the most efficient way to get to rank 4 with all characters.

Now regarding the most diabolical thing ever designed by RGG: Akiyama's Death Match 100 / Limited Berserk, utilize multi enemy heat actions such as Essence of Triangle Jump / Double Juggle (Also spam X to whittle an enemies health down / XXY combo) and NEVER stop moving. For the bosses in Limited Berserk there's a relatively consistent strategy I found to deal with them: knock them down then continuously use the XXY combo to keep them there until they die. The final enemy can power through this but the rules still apply:
1. Grab him
2. Throw him on the ground
3. XXY until he gets back up
4. Run around the arena until you can grab him again (There's some type of timer on him that prevents you from just spam throwing him)
5. Repeat

Shinada's Death Match 100 is relatively stress free but long (30 minutes long) and his Limited Berserk is the same. Just upgrade spirit enough till you get the ability to heal yourself with heat when your health is critical (Helps with Kiryu too). And Kiryu and Saejima are Kiryu and Saejima so you should be good.

I hope this helps at least someone make it through the coliseum and my condolences to anyone currently going through this hell.

I think if you achieve a completion reward like for example completing tendo's master missions and don't click the email and start new game plus I think it will not appear in new game plus like what I am having even after redoing his missions, the item eye of the dragon is optain from this and of course it can't be achieved any other way

Specifically for pachinko, while CyricZ’s guide is always helpful, this piece of advice from the post liked below was critical.

“Now, you may have noticed the game seems to cheat with the button mashing. You get to 95% and you can’t finish no matter how furiously you mash. It isn’t confirmed, but experience strongly suggests that the speed you mash during the first couple seconds determines how hard the end is. In other words, you have to mash faster at the end than you did at the start. If you start out mashing as fast as possible, you’ll block yourself. So you need to mash lightly for a second or two, stronger for the next second or two, then bring it home with your best effort. Changing to this style let me beat all challengers I faced until I got to 8,000 balls, whereas before I only won a single fight out of six.”

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/239457-yakuza-5-remaste...