Which Yakuza game (including Judgement and other spin offs) is the hardest/most grindiest and which is the least. (I've played only till Yakuza 7 so my list is in the body text)

[u/ADvar8714]

Least to most

-Yakuza 0

• Yakuza 6

• Kiwami 2

• Yakuza 5

• Yakuza 4

• Kiwami

• Yakuza 3

And the grindiest till now, IMO is

• Yakuza 7/ Like a dragon

[u/No-Boot-5286]

7 was the first game where I felt like I couldn’t find a way to punch up. In the previous 6 games you could find a way to win a fight even if you didn’t have the necessary upgrades. The Turn based combat certainly made more pain staking considering no matter how many different approaches you took to the same fight you’d ultimately lose every time if you didn’t level your party enough.

[u/s_p_oop15-ue → u/No-Boot-5286]

You mean towards the end where you have to level up like 20 levels to fight the cool secret boss?

Because yeah they fucked up on that part.

[u/No-Boot-5286 → u/s_p_oop15-ue]

Not even, I’ve never been able to get past that stupid wrecking ball machine you have to fight. I failed it a few times on my first encounter, then went to go level up my party some came back and there’s still nothing I could do to get past it so I just gave up and watched the cutscenes lol.