The taxi at the Nakamichi and Showa street intersection has been moved to the left so it’s now at the intersection of Showa and Tenkaichi, allowing for travel directly to the iconic city gate.Ī new taxi has been added to the intersection of Showa Street and Pink Street, letting player finally have an easy way to the bottom right of the map.Īnother new taxi was added to the very top of the hotel district. Once 2010 came around I can only presume that the good people of Kamurocho demanded that more taxis be added to the city as the number of taxis doubled! However RGG’s dev team had made some impressive improvements in the console generation jump and one of those improvements is that you now get to see where the other taxis are when selecting them! No longer will you select the wrong taxi on accident and need to talk to the taxi man again to correct your mistake!
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It seems that between the years of 20 the city of Kamurocho still deemed it appropriate to have only three taxis running at any given time as the taxis are the exact same as they were in the PS2 duology. Next up we’ve got the Kamurocho taxis from Yakuza 3. These taxis exist for easy travel between Purgatory and Serena, nothing more, nothing less. If you need to go somewhere in the middle of Kamurocho or anywhere on the right side of the city then walking is your only option. I can at least tell you that these taxis have another serious flaw though: most of the city is completely uncovered by them.
When you talk to a taxi in Yakuza 1&2 you are just given a list of street names, it’s up to you to remember which is which. Can you please show me where these taxis are?” And you’d be absolutely right, I could! But the game doesn’t. Now you may be thinking “Skeith, I don’t know street names. The far right side of park boulevard, right next to the entrance of Purgatory in the top right of the map.Īnd finally one on the west side of Shouwa street at the intersection to Nakamichi street in the bottom right of the map, only a block away from the iconic gate that welcomes you into the city.
The west side of Shichifuku Street, right next to the children’s park, in the top left of the map. The biggest of course being that there are only three of them! If you get in a taxi there are only three places to go. Taxis in the PS2 duology are at their most useless for a number of reasons. Just like with the locker keys we’re going to talk about Yakuza 1 and 2’s taxis at the same time here because they are identical. Now that you’re all caught up on their purpose, let’s go over how the city of Kamurocho’s taxi program has evolved over the years. That subset of course being people like me, completionists! I rarely, if ever, use taxis when playing through the main story of a Yakuza game but when I’m in the post-game, have completed all substories, and am just trying to fill out the completion list? Heck yeah I’m traveling to whichever taxi is closest to the minigame I need to play! These things were a godsend to me when I needed to 100% games like Yakuza 3 where it’s near impossible to avoid street fights.
However a certain subset of Yakuza fans have gotten great use out of taxis. Why take a taxi when walking will have you encounter new substories or other rewards like locker keys? Like I said before, most Yakuza fans rarely use taxis due to a combination of Kamurocho not being that large of an open world and because walking through it yourself is just more rewarding. You run up to a taxi and get a list of other taxis in the city, you can then travel to any of them and continue your adventure! The mechanic is as simple as a fast travel function can be. To go over the mechanic for those who have forgotten or are for some reason reading this without playing the games though Taxis are the franchise’s fast travel feature. Now, every Yakuza fan knows how taxis work because you are required to use them at least once per game, but they aren’t a feature you use often. Last time I covered how locker keys have changed game by game and today I’m going to cover a mechanic that you likely paid even less attention to: Taxis!
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Hello and welcome back to the Story Arc! A few days ago I decided to begin putting out a short series of articles about the various evolving mechanics in the Yakuza franchise for December 2022.
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