Like a Dragon: Ishin!

The life sim — farming, fishing, cooking, trading and pets. The end goal is filling trade orders until Haruka's debt is cleared, which gives the World's Greatest Uncle trophy.

• The loop is: check the trade orders, gather the crops, fish and dishes they ask for, deliver, and in parallel add pets and spend Virtue on expanding the house. Paying down the debt requires filling those orders to earn the demand notes.
• You can buy what the orders want, but growing and catching it yourself also feeds the trophies, the completion list and the Diligence Records.
• Dogs and cats become pets by clearing their substories and maxing the bond — the barking dog, the lucky cat, the hungry cat, the injured dog, the waiting dog and the dirty cat. Chickens and facility upgrades come from the Virtue exchange.

A note-matching rhythm game. Clearing every song on any difficulty gives Lord of the Dance; the completion list wants every difficulty cleared at first-class rank or better.

• Filling the gauge in the top right lets R1 trigger the Climax Performance, which racks up score while ignoring notes — the reliable way to make a passing score.
• The pass line is set low enough that plenty of mistakes still leave you at first class, so the Climax is insurance rather than a requirement.
• After a few plays the Ohirome event triggers: it puts you on Fubuki Kouta at its highest difficulty, but clearing it pays a fine wood scrap and 1,500 Virtue.
• The linked guide writes out the full Geisha-difficulty note charts for Fubuki Kouta, Kodou and Samurai Enbu as text, if you want to learn them by rote.

Match the on-screen icon with the same button. Singing every song gives Sing Your Heart Out, with the completion entry and the top "crowd god" rank as separate goals.

• Input lag varies by setup, so aim at the music rather than the visual line — that's what makes the top grade land.
• For the special notes: on holds, start on time and release slightly after the marker ends; on mashes, aim for six-plus presses a second.
• Call-and-response songs offer a safe and a passionate option; the safe one caps at 90 points. Learn the song on safe, then take the passionate option for the completion entry and top rank.
• Duet partners unlock separately: Haruka (Harapeko Biyori) needs Haruka's debt fully repaid and a 500-mon fee to the owner, Ikumatsu (Ashura Komachi) needs Chapter 10 to have started. Apart from Haruka, talking to a partner gives their song plus Ijizakura free.

Memorise each customer's order and press the buttons back in sequence — the prompts vanish after a three-second memorisation window. The completion condition is the top "god" rank, and the trophy wants 10 ryo of cumulative sales.

• The reliable trick is photographing the screen with your phone — once the prompts hide, just read them off the photo.
• OPTIONS pauses mid-game, which buys you all the memorisation time you want and makes the completion run much easier.
• L1's "recommend" unifies every order in a group. Save it for group customers, who have the tightest input window and the biggest payout.
• Each success tightens the input window and three failures end the run. Higher ranks apply a sales multiplier, and at Shihan rank group customers start appearing — going straight for Shin'uchi class and 5-plus ryo of sales is the quickest route to the god rank.

Three games against Anna at the courtesan house: a drinking contest, janken and "nursing". The goal is clearing all three up to Ashura class, which gives Like a Dragon in Heaven.

• Each attempt costs 1 ryo and you'll need roughly ten runs, so bring 10 ryo. You must first win drinking, janken and nursing back to back to become a regular — only then can you pick individual games and difficulties.
• Once Anna's bond is maxed, save — then save on a clear and reload on a failure so you stop burning money.
• Ashura-class drinking is about finishing inside four rounds: you drink three flasks in rounds one and two, four in rounds three and four, and five from round five on.

Press the button as the axe flashes. Chopping 300 logs in total finishes most of what it's attached to and maxes the old man's bond after an event.

• Through roughly the seventh log the timing is slow and the rhythm gradually speeds up — watch for the flash and press on sight.
• From the tenth on it flashes almost immediately after each chop, too fast to react to visually — but the interval is constant, so go by sound and vibration.
• Weapon materials drop at 100 and 300 logs and Diligence Records entries clear along the way; the records go up to 500, so keep chopping past 300 if you want them all.

Spend lottery tickets for prizes. Each non-blank prize only appears once, and clearing the set rotates it; after five rotations the first set comes back, so no item is permanently missable as long as you have tickets.

• With a full inventory you have to pick something to warehouse on every draw — dump your items at the nearby jizo statue first.
• Tickets drop from glowing pickups one at a time, slowly. In practice they come from shopping — one per 2,000 mon, up to 100 per purchase — so they accumulate while you're spending on restaurant completion, trade goods and blacksmith levels anyway.
• Drawing repeatedly unlocks better machines: the basic draw at one ticket, the lucky draw at three (better odds of third prize or higher), the rare draw at five (better prizes) and the lucky rare draw at ten. Unless you're farming blanks, the lucky versions burn fewer tickets per hit.

Gauntlet fights and the Hundred-Man Slash. Completing it awards the Houou cannon, ten wins give This is MY Ring!, and clearing every Ultimate Challenge gives Ultimate Champion.

• Getting there is step one: pay the Shinmachi boatman 500 mon each way, or from evening in Chapter 3 hand the man at the Rakugai gate any sake — cheap doburoku does — for permanent free passage.
• The arena inherits your level, gear, health, heat gauge and food buffs exactly as they are when you enter — top everything up first.
• Items are banned inside and trooper abilities don't work, so seals that auto-regenerate health and gauge are effectively mandatory — above all for the long Hundred-Man Slash.
• Spend Soul Orbs on health and heat caps beforehand, and learn multi-target moves before the Hundred-Man Slash. The guide's picks are Komaki-style Dharma Dodge, Sweep Enhancement and Iron Body in Brawler; Blade Speed and Aerial Spin Slash in Swordsman; Rapid Fire, Flame Dragon Glide and Flame Dragon Roar in Gunman; and Evasive Afterimage, Heavenly Dragon Fang Crusher and Wild Dance 1–3 in Wild Dancer.

Bat away incoming cannonballs with square on timing alone — no stick input at all. It runs in two lines, Swordsman and Gunman, each with beginner, intermediate, advanced and bonus tiers.

• A normal ball scores 200 and the gilded one 400 — but a glancing hit halves the score, so a clean centre hit beats a rushed one.
• Runs grade bronze, silver or gold: silver and above pays out, but only gold unlocks the next difficulty.
• Mukuro Town itself opens by handing the Rakugai gatekeeper any sake from evening in Chapter 3 — pick up cheap doburoku first.

The most efficient money and Virtue in the game. Betting five times gives the trophy, and 10,000 points clears the completion entry.

• Three things to read: condition, the tipster's mark and the race distance. Good condition means speed-ups, bad means speed-downs — and a strong bird in poor condition loses often, so weight condition heaviest until you know the field.
• Longer races amplify condition; shorter ones come down to raw ability. The tipster's mark just tracks ability, so treat it as a hint rather than a call.
• Always bet the maximum. Ticket sales are on a timer, and buying a five-horse and a three-horse exacta together leaves no time to fiddle with the stake — decide, then MAX bet.

Throw dice into a bowl and compare the results. The completion condition is 7,500 cumulative token points.

• Open the stake cap first by betting one point at a time: it starts at 200, rises to 500 after ten rounds and to 1,000 after fifteen. Farm seriously only after that.
• A round runs until the dealer role has gone all the way around — or ends early the moment anyone's points hit zero.
• As a player against a weak dealer roll — a 2 or 3 — call the single-throw triple: you only get one throw, but a win pays triple while a loss costs the same as normal.

Call whether two dice total even (cho) or odd (han) — the simplest table in the game. Completion wants 15,000 cumulative points.

• Unlock the stake cap first: 200 at the start, 500 after ten rounds, 800 after twenty and 1,000 after thirty. Bet once and leave, repeatedly, to clock them up fast.
• With the cap at 1,000, buy 1,000 points, save, and take 1,000-point head-to-head bets — 15,000 cumulative finishes it.
• The guide also suggests reading the other players' streaks before committing.

One-on-one hanafuda. Completion wants 7,500 cumulative points.

• Take the cards the big yaku need first — it builds your score and blocks theirs at once. The chrysanthemum sake cup, which makes the two-card moon-viewing and flower-viewing hands, is the single highest priority.
• There are four cards per month. A month where you hold three and one is on the field can never be taken, so leave it — clear the months where the opponent still has two in reach first.
• Don't call koi when the opponent's hand looks close — greed after a made hand is the most common way to lose points here.

Get the last digit of your total as close to 9 as possible. It resembles blackjack but has no bust, so going past 9 costs you nothing. Completion wants 7,500 cumulative points.

• As a player you pick your first card — grab a 1, 4 or 9 if it's there, and the 1 above all, since it feeds the special hands.
• At six or higher, stand rather than take a third card — drawing is more likely to shrink the total than grow it.
• Special hands: Shippin (player only, 1 and 4 on the second card, double stake), Kuppin (dealer only, 1 and 9, double), Arashi (either side, three cards of the same month, triple), Doshippin (either side, two 10s and a 1, twenty times) and Shiroku-no-nige (either side, 4 and 6 on the second card).

Three rule sets are offered, but the fast route is Texas Hold'em at the high stake, where the decisions are clearest. Completion wants 15,000 cumulative points.

• Hold'em rarely produces big hands here, so an early made hand usually wins — which is why the high stake is the efficient table.
• Make the decision on round two when three community cards are out: if a pair, straight or flush is live, call or raise.
• If round two shows no pair at all, or only a weak one like twos or threes, fold early — folding cheap is how the stack survives.
• Push with a strong pair or better, but with only a pair against an aggressive opponent, flat-call and watch rather than escalate.

Standard mahjong. If you don't know the game, the minimum below is enough to reach a win.

• The shape is four sets plus one pair: four groups of three consecutive numbers or three identical tiles, and one pair. Each group must be a single suit.
• Runs are easier than triplets — there are only four of any given tile, so triplets stall.
• Don't call pon or chi if you don't know the yaku — melding cuts most of them off. Ron, by contrast, wins on the spot, so always take it.
• Riichi is itself a yaku, so staying closed and declaring it is enough to win a hand — make "no melds, then riichi" your default.

Play for Shogi Points, traded for salves and cash items. The completion condition is winning Trial Run 1 three times.

• Open the bishop's diagonal first: it's blocked by a pawn at the start, and pushing that pawn also frees the knight behind it.
• Push the rook's pawn too — but a mobile rook is also an exposed rook, so check the opponent's setup and only move it where it can't be taken.
• The completion entry finishes at three wins in Trial Run 1, which is much quicker than the ranking matches.
• Four games in, an event match against the shop's owner appears — beating him maxes the bond. He isn't strong, but if you want it over fast, feed his moves into a free shogi engine set to maximum strength and play its replies.

Watch the float and press when its red section sinks. Fish feed cooking, substories and Another Life's trade orders; ten fish total gives the trophy.

• Get a better rod first — bites come faster and it casts far enough to reach fish that only appear at distance. Buy it from the Virtue exchange.
• For rare fish, buy chum from the Rakunai peddler. It raises spawn rates but only lasts about three minutes, so it really needs the good rod alongside it.
• Species are identifiable from the shadow, where it swims and whether it's moving or holding still — spot your target before you cast, not after.