{22:00} | 22.99% Complete | Finished off the events of the plot and put this one behind me! Bring on Yakuza 4! | Achievements Unlocked: Marathon Runner / The End of Ambition / Thank You! |

Achievements Unlocked: Substory Fan / Pole Position |

Achievements Unlocked: Just Like Old Times / Chip Hoarder / Wilting Flower |

Achievement Unlocked: Compulsive Vandal |

{9:51:14} | Finished off the Chapter 6 boss battle and did a little sightseeing around Kamorocho. Now to… do more sightseeing around Kamorocho. | Achievements Unlocked: King of Pleasure / Heat Action Pro |

{8:03:56} | Okay! Back in town, baybeeeee. Chapter 5 didn’t take much time at all, so now at the top of Chapter 6. Was going to play on, but having trouble with this escape sequence while streaming the game. Might have to hang it up for a few days until I get back home from the wedding. | Achievements Unlocked: Blogging Debut / The Dust Settles / Right Up My Alley |

{6:34:54} | 7.88% Complete | I just love these kids. There was a moment - the game of Baseball on the beach with the kids. I originally thought that hitting ten balls might take forever. I didn’t want it to end. The way the kids run after every pop-fly, waddling their way and tripping into the ocean. It’s a perfect, wholesome moment. Every second that comes closer to our return to Kamorocho makes me a little sad, but I’m also ready for some good ol’ fashioned Real Estate nonsense. | Achievement Unlocked: Key Collector |

{5:40:13} | Did some sidequesting and roaming around Ryukyu while the late window was a little slow and then during the long thunder delay for Bills/Chiefs. Completing this? Doubtful. But liking the rose smelling I’ve done so far. | Achievement Unlocked: Substory Dabbler |

{3:36:21} | 0.91% Complete | Jets/Falcons was a little boring, so chose to finish off Chapter 3 with the game in the background. As I thought, we've now caught up to the opening. There's a lot going on, and I'm excited to learn so much more. I'm feeling a little annoyed about how much of a sponge the bosses are, and playing on Normal may not last for much longer - I don't play these games for the fighting. | Achievement Unlocked: With Family Like Mine... |

{2:35:36} | As it turns out, if anything, ANYTHING, ever happens to those kids, I will rip out the abductors throats. I know that was basically an hours worth of mediating disputes between children, but I'm genuinely in on Dad Kiryu and his charm. Also, the Golf minigame is decent! Not horrible, and I'm grateful for the unlimited mulligans. Next time I pick it up feels like it's where the arc is really going to start taking off. |

{1:22:34} | 0.39% Complete | Right at the start of Chapter 3, really liking the slow burn of catching up to the cold open in 2009. The new tropical setting is a great change of pace, and I very much dig the new stakes for Kiryu, as what looks to be his happy ending after the first three adventures is now at risk, thanks to none other than Yakuza Real Estate Issues. So far, so good. | Achievements Unlocked: Mad Dog Tamed / Shake Charmer |

Started, but didn't get to make much progress, as my partner made it home from work early so we could watch Survivor before I headed off to work. What I have played though feels so GOOFY from the word go, unintentionally. It feels wild to move ahead chronologically and go back in technology in the leap from Kiwami 2 to the Remastered 3. The opening scene in the cemetery is unintentionally funny, nailing the feeling that this is shortly after the last game's denouncement but coming from a game released nearly a decade before the last. It's charming, in a way, if only because I love the PS3/360 generation, and I'm excited to get a better feeling of what this series felt like in the era Pre-0. |