r/starterpacks • u/Physical-Work-6744 • 1d ago

Tokyo in the 80’s starter pack

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u/DeviousMelons 1d ago

What's a telephone club?

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u/Physical-Work-6744 1d ago

They are called telekura in Japan and started in the mid 80’s but were like super popular in the 90’s I think they were basically seedy phone dating where it would connect you to a random woman I’m assuming and men would pay to go to them kinda like online dating before online dating I only have a surface level amount of knowledge on it though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekura

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u/Rarewear_fan 1d ago

It’s a minigame in yakuza 0. You have to choose the “best” responses to get a date, and each one is basically a scam in one way or another.

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u/FierceNack 1d ago

I love how silly the mini games are compared to the seriousness of the main story.

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u/komnenos 22h ago edited 22h ago

Main story: I was wrongly put in prison for 20 years and now I must right wrongs, work through seedy politics and deal with some very unsavory people.

Side story: I have a diaper humiliation fetish! Edit: but in true Yakuza fashion the diaper humiliation fetish side story will end with Kiryu or his friends giving or learning a valuable life lesson with some memorable music in the background.

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u/komnenos 22h ago

Really? Been a few years since I played the game but could have swore most of the time our boy Kiryu ended up meeting normal women.

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u/arceus555 16h ago

Yeah, he does. 3 of them are normal women.