10 Levels That Should've Been Cut From Recent Video Games
7. The Hostess Mini-Game - Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Many of the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games have included vaguely risque mini-games involving hostess clubs, but the recent The Man Who Erased His Name dialled this up to its most cringe-worthy zenith yet.
In a mandatory mission early on in the main story, you're tasked with investigating a Cabaret club, Club Heavenly.
Once inside, you're then forced to choose between one of two hostesses, triggering a first-person live-action mini-game where you're required to make small talk, drink, and give a gift to your hostess of choice.
Now, this meeting is far from sexually explicit, but the goofy awkwardness of playing a glorified live-action dating sim - and being unable to progress the story without doing so - makes this brief mission absolutely excruciating.
It's the sort of level you'll play while praying to whichever God you believe in that your significant other/parent/sibling/housemate doesn't walk in, because to the layperson it seems to confirm every corny stereotype about both games and gamers.
Making this an unskippable part of the game was a strange choice, Sega.