Trelliz wrote:I've considered trying to play shogi, mahjong or some of the other densely complicated card/tile games in Yakuza, but those games are massive enough as it is and I'm only up to Kiwami 2 with another 6 (including Dead Souls and Judgment) in the series already out with another coming soonish, plus maybe trying the Fist of the North Star game. I imagine learning them would transfer to real life skill, but then the trick would be finding someone else to play against
Oh, I still don't know how to play them! My girlfriend learned mahjong while she was playing 0, and very kindly sat through all the games on my playthrough too!
Luckily a lot of the other gambling games in Yakuza are easy enough to brute force through, just quitting and restarting whenever you've made a profit!