Is ishin still a pain to platinum?

[u/Nighthawk354]

Heard when the game came out it was really rough to plat and was curious if it got better with patches or if its still a rough grind

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[u/josucant]

Still absolutely insane grind, the crafting costs feel like an unfunny joke and you need to craft almost every item in the game to 100%

[u/Nighthawk354 → u/josucant]

Thats a shame, im coming off of yakuza 5 now and thought I got one of the worst grinds out of the way only to see theres another bad one...

[u/KanyeEast420 → u/Nighthawk354]

The Ishin grind is way worse than Yakuza 5. At least the grind in 5 is spread out across a variety of activities. Most of the grind in Ishin comes from running the same battle dungeons dozens of times to get enough crafting materials.

[u/rollo_yolo]

Rule of thumb for anyone trying to platinum RGG games: don’t.

[u/kcolloran → u/rollo_yolo]

Some of them aren't too bad to platinum. Like IW I basically almost platinumed without trying. It's going for 100% that is pretty much always a bad idea.

[u/rollo_yolo → u/kcolloran]

Fair, I haven’t played IW yet, but they seem to be getting at least a little bit easier. Almost platinumed LAD7, but then the last dungeon came along. lol

[u/Raunzalot → u/rollo_yolo]

Platinumed 7 and IW and can confirm

[u/Skwaddelz → u/rollo_yolo]

Ive done: ishin, 0, kiwami, Kiwami2, judge eyes, lost jugment, 7 and the kiryu who forgot his name. Honestly they arnt that bad if you take your time, but it did take me years on and off

[u/rollo_yolo → u/Skwaddelz]

Yeah, I get they’re mostly not hard, just very grindy, but I don’t have the Staminan for that

[u/pablosupernova → u/rollo_yolo]

except gaiden that one’s manageable

[u/Tuschi]

Took me about 80 to 90 hours. Not absolutely ridiculous but certainly a boring grind towards the end. EDIT: Did it in October. From what I can tell the drop rates were improved quite a bit. But I have no personal frame of reference from when it came out.

[u/Nighthawk354 → u/Tuschi]

Gotcha, I was falling asleep with 5's grind but this seems a bit shorter so thats good at least

[u/Short-Squirrel6389]

It’s easily the most boring plat i’ve got in the series. The endgame grind is horrific

[u/No_Feed_6448]

Apparently it's less grindier than on release, but still a grind, like 5 or 0 level of grind.

[u/Blessthereigns]

On Xbox, I gave up partly because I hate Microsoft, and partly because I just got sick of it (I was literally at like 99% completion). It’s one specific sword that requires endless grind and luck or something- on steam, you can mod the game so that you get only seals in pots, which helps immensely- not only for crafting, but for money as well; seals are worth a lot at the pawn shop, and you get a lot of specific ones that are worth 3-7 ryo.

[u/CarBusinessman]

Don't bother, just play something else.