For Your Consideration: Yakuza 0

If you like what you’ve read feel free to buy me a <a href="https://ko-fi.com/privatelyattack48106" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">coffee</a> or check out my <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PRIVATELYATTACK" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">patreon</a>. If you’re from discord or insert credit follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/privatelyattack" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> if you want to keep in touch with what I’m doing in between essays. Over the last couple years or so I’ve been seeing more and more sentiments from gamers my age that “it’s just not fun anymore…” in which they lament the current culture of battle passes, service games, and other devious tricks to get players to spend ludicrous amounts of money on in game items. I myself just had to experience that in the form of Ever Crisis: Final Fantasy VII. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*mAzy3PlSdLi6b7jj07TImQ.jpeg" style="height:394px; width:700px" /> When you first start the game you’re thrown into a tutorial in the form of a boss fight with one of the original game’s villains. After the fight you start FFVII’s legendary intro. I paused the game shortly before entering the first area and noticed a “skip tutorial” button below the game’s volume controls. I opted in. The game then took me to the main menu, in which I was shown a separate tutorial on how to spend real money in the game. Like most mobile games they give you a bunch of free gems to spend on a few rolls of the game’s gachapon machine. I played into the mechanic for a few free rounds and found myself full of shiny new weapons and armor. <a href="https://privatelyattack.medium.com/for-your-consideration-yakuza-0-462610286bdd">Read More</a>