What I did in the game: Kanda Damage Control: 100%. Abilities: 100%. Hell's Arena Items: 100%.
The One Picture I have taken: Pause menu on Kanda Damage Control section.
Well, there it is. The end of my Yakuza journey on Switch 2 for now (until they port everything else). I just 100% Dark Ties, and like everything previously in the Yakuza series, I had a blast with it. You're playing as Mine, the main bad guy of Yakuza 3, and this side story solved one of my issue with the original game story, which was the fact that everything was thrown at you at light speed in the second half of the game, with one exposition dump after another, including the role of Mine in all of it. He didnt have much time to grow on us until the final battle, and Dark Ties give him the time to shine and develop a little bit more. Though, not by much. I said, in my Kiwami 3 post that I didnt knew if Dark Ties would be a Majima Saga style of side story (quickly done and nothing to do beside the story itself) or more like a Shadow Generations in Sonic X Shadow. The answer lies in between. If you're just going through the story, it's unfortunately just Majima Saga. Three chapters and you're done. BUT, if you're doing all the side contents, than it's almost a 20 hours game. And well, since I'm always leaning more on the side content than the main game in Yakuza, it was really fun for me.
This time around, your completion list will serve to boost the reputation of your disgusting boss in the city. You'll do so by doing quests, solving problems, playing mini-games and just checking everything from your list. And going up in rank will give you TONS of money, which unlike Kiwami 3 will help you A LOT. It's almost like 0, where you need money for everything here, from boosting every of your abilities and buying stuff for the main side activity here, which is the Hell's Arena. At first, the Hell's Arena might seems like just another Arena where you fight X amount of enemies to win the cup, and it's indeed still here. But the real draw here is its Survival mode, which is basically a Dungeon Crawler. In each Trials (which there is 5), you'll need to complete 4 Floors, fighting enemies, finding chests to get weapons, books to boost your stats and abilities or even party members. After 4 floors, you fight the boss and then you can move on to the next Trial, or try it again to get all the items available in the chests for this Trial. I had tons of fun with this mode.
So between this and Kiwami 3, if you want to 100% everything, you're talking around 70-80 hours, which is pretty much the length of the previous Kiwami games (0 is over 100 hours). I don't know how long it takes for the original 3 to 100%, but I would say that Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties combined was one heck of a worthy package, might even be the best between all 3 Kiwami games if you take everything into consideration. One thing is for sure, so far in my Yakuza journey, I have yet to play one bad game. They are all amazing, so I highly recommend this game and the series for sure!
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