'Yakuza 6' adds the thrill of running your own cat cafe
Play baseball, soothe a crying baby, Beat Takeshi.
As Sega attempts to tie up the long-running (typically late-to-translation) Yakuza series, its producer has revealed that the sixth iteration will have plenty of ridiculous mini-games and side jobs, offering some mundane distractions from the boot-to-face Japanese gangster brawls that typically make up a large part of the games. While calming a weepy baby is certainly dull IRL, if you're a speedy enough typer (through your DualShock controller) you'll be able to charm webcam girls online -- for those days when the protagonist can't quite make it to his regular hostess club. And that's just for starters.
Yazuka series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi went in-depth at TGS 2016 to outline some of the more obscure timesinks that will arrive with the latest game. These include, but aren't limited to:
Busking.
Finding stray cats.
Using said strays to run your own cat cafe.
Typing online with web-cam girls. Oh boy.
Soothing a crying baby. (That. Might. Be. His. Son!)
A baseball simulator.
In-game playable two-player (!) versions of Virtua Fighter 5 and Puyo Puyo.
Making friends with other hostess bar patrons. Oh boy.
Darts.
Batting cage practice.
Mah Jong.
Diving for fish.
Eating fish (probably)
Naturally, there will still be plenty of thugs to punch, people to swear at, and all that delightful melodrama you'd come to expect from a Yakuza game. Iteration six is scheduled for release in Japan later this year.
