Summary
- Money is key to upgrading Goro in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii.
- EXP only affects ship battles and crew, not characters.
- Gather food, avoid buying junk, boost crew morale instead.
Money is more precious than ever before in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Besides buying items in stores, money is how players can upgrade Goro Majima in the game. This makes it different than most Yakuza entries and most RPGs overall.

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There are still overt RPG mechanics like EXP but only for ship battles and the crew. So again, players have to be extra careful about how they spend money in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii because it’s not easy to earn early on. That’s why it’s best to point out what item types they shouldn’t buy in stores, from food to clothing.
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Cooking Ingredients
It’s Better To Gather Than Buy
One of the newest mechanics in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii allows Goro to cook and it’s an easy way to stick up on healing items early. Each dish will have a generic requirement such as meat, which can range from beef to poultry, and fish is in a separate category. Players can also use bugs, vegetables, and dairy products like eggs and milk. Dairy products are hard to gather in the world, so they should be bought in stores, which are cheap, but the other cooking ingredients shouldn’t be.
Players cannot fish like in other games with rods, but they can swim in the ocean or use a grappling hook to net a lot of fish. They can also use the grappling hook to catch bugs, which are everywhere. Vegetables like potatoes and onions can be grown in planters, but fruit is harder to come by. Other meat will be rewarded for too many things to count, so when it comes to ingredients, hold out on buying them from stores.
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Crew Gifts
There Are Better Ways To Improve Morale
Players will eventually unlock their ship, the Goromaru, which will have a light staff early on. After the ship gets upgraded, more positions will open up, players can recruit random NPCs to join the pirate crew in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. The better the recruit, the more they will increase the ship’s overall stats. Shipmates will start to get fatigued over time, like if they don’t get switched out or die a lot in battle.

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Players can buy items to boost morale, typically labeled gifts in shops. However, players can gather gifts from item drops in the world, and they are a steady reward incentive. Also, players can cook meals for the crew, which will boost morale even better than items. So the idea of buying a specific item seems silly, especially since there isn’t a big dating aspect to the recruitment process.
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Junk Food
Restaurants Have Better Healing Items
Stores are littered with junk food to buy, from cans of soda to bags of potato chips. They can be delicious in real life, but not as effective as healing items in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. To fill Goro’s final health bar, players would need to consume about forty bags of potato chips, and that’s only one example. They clutter the inventory and don’t add a lot of value to the menu.
Alcohol is grouped into this category of junk food too, as most disposable bottles or cans won’t raise the Heat Gauge up much. The Heat Gauge is used to carry out Heat Actions which have been a tradition in Yakuza games for years. Cooking, again, is the best way to heal in the game, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good food items to buy. A lot of restaurants will have pricier items to go like pizza or rice dishes, which are okay to buy on occasion to help fill out the healing inventory.
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Cosmetic Items
Goro Is Not A Fashionista
It could be hard to find the best armor in the previous game, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, as there were a lot of stores. Armor could look like ordinary clothes like shirts or pants. Many of these clothing items return but in a different context. Goro will not be able to increase his stats by putting on new sets of clothes. Instead, players can equip rings in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii to do that.

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Clothes in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii are purely cosmetic, which is fine for RPG fans who love costumes in their experiences. However, they can be a money sink and rings are expensive, but so much more useful. Other cosmetic items beyond clothing include kits for the Street Surfer Segway and the ship. CDs are kind of cosmetic in a way too. Overall, cosmetic items shouldn’t be a priority for players or they should at least be pickier with their choices.
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Mini-Game Items
From Darts To Cartridges
There are a lot of fun mini-games in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii from the Mario Kart clone, Dragon Kart, to the Pokemon Snap clone, Sicko Snap. Most of them are self-contained, but then there are others that require upgrades via shops to be more competitive. For example, players can buy darts. Darts is one of the weaker mini-games so it seems unreasonable to buy a $3,000 upgrade just to play better.
Retro fans of Sega can also collect cartridges from stores to play on their Sega Master Systems back in safe rooms. Compared to other Sega consoles, this initial one doesn’t have many stellar offerings, in Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii or outside of it. The arcade games are better to enjoy in the game anyway via various shops or malls. Plus they don’t require any further purchases.
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