![]() Now if you are just in the general vicinity of a Revelation you will be prompted to press X to activate it. The smallest but most noticeable is that you no longer need to stare at Revelation opportunities in first person to activate them. Yakuza 5 makes several large changes to Revelations. Let’s move on to the next game in the PS3 era and see if it changed them at all! While the repeat Revelations are disappointing I did like the feature more here than in 3 both because I could actually find them and because Saejima’s animation when discovering them is hilarious. If we don’t count repeats shared between characters then Yakuza 4 only has 9 Revelations, which is less than in 3. Several characters share multiple Revelations with each other that use the exact same cutscene and QTEs. However, and I am very disappointed to say this, it would be a lie to say there are 11 unique Revelations in this game. ![]() 3 Revelations for Akiyama, 4 for Saejima, 3 for Tanimura, and only 2 for Kiryu. Yakuza 4 does technically have more Revelations than 3 did, with there being 11 in total. Yeah, while finding the Revelations themselves has been made easier the actual process of learning them is identical to what it was in 3. Just like in Yakuza 3 you will need to examine a Revelation opportunity in first person and then pass a cutscene full of QTEs that ends with a vague question about what your character learned from it. During my first playthrough of Yakuza 3 I sadly only encountered one or two revelations because of how much they tended to blend into the crowd, so let’s see if Yakuza 4 fixes that at all!Īlmost immediately Yakuza 4 makes Revelations stand out more than they did in 3, because instead of the Revelation opportunity text bubbles being a plain black they have a red outline to immediately command that you pay attention to them. Yakuza 3 features a decent number of Revelations, having 10 in total spread across the game’s two cities. I really dislike this, the answers at the end aren’t always obvious and all this part of the Revelation amounts to is forcing you to walk away and then walk back so you can watch the same cutscene over again and hopefully pick the right answer this time. If you select the wrong thing then you completely fail the Revelation and have to start all over again. Upon passing the QTE you are then given a multiple choice question about what Kiryu learned from watching that. These cutscenes are often comedic events where the subject you are looking at either narrowly avoids harm or gets some sort of comeuppance for acting like a jerk. ![]() After this you will be put into a cutscene full of several QTEs that you must win. Once you do manage to spot a Revelation opportunity though you must go into first person mode and press X to look at them. Sometimes there will just be two people standing in the street with dialogue boxes around their heads and you are supposed to infer on your own that they’re a Revelation opportunity. Revelation opportunities in Yakuza 3 don’t really stand out as much as in layer games. Obviously the mechanic has changed quite a bit over the years or else I wouldn’t be talking about it, so let’s get into things and begin describing each game’s Revelations!ĭuring the course of Yakuza 3 Kiryu will run into the brilliant blogger Mack and be told about revelations, and after learning about them players should be on the lookout around Okinawa and Kamurocho for, well, anything. While walking around Kamurocho or other cities Kiryu and co will occasionally see a very odd situation and do what all of us in the internet era do: blog about it! After blogging about the experience they will then learn a new heat action loosely based on the sight they had just seen. Revelations are a very simple mechanic on the surface. In the previous three articles I looked over how super small mechanics like locker keys and taxis have evolved as well as how a larger mechanic like chases has changed over the years, so today let’s go over a mechanic that was very prevalent in the PS3 era of the series before going the way of the dodo when Yakuza jumped to PS4: Revelations! Last week I began an adventure where every other day in December of 2022 I examine a minor mechanic in the Yakuza franchise and look at how it has evolved game by game.
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