My goal yesterday was to complete Yakuza (PS2) so I could finally move on to the copies of 2 & 3 I've got sitting here. I was contemplating going straight to 2 and simply watching the recap, but I decided against it as I was already up to Chapter 5.
Chapter 8, fire at purgatory, cutscene where Kazuma spots it. It freezes for about a minute. He goes inside, it freezes for three minutes. It shows the place in flames, goes to load next cutscene: "Now loading..." is splashed across the screen for the next 30 minutes. Nothing.
I purchased the game pre-owned from eBay about four years ago and there is only a single, seemingly minor, shallow scratch on the game. I've played through worse, so I thought nothing of it. Four years later, it's bitten me on the arse and now I can't go any further. I'll try to give it a buff, but for now I'm moving onto Yakuza 2 (which, thankfully, was purchased brand new). I was raging.
