8 Video Games SOLVED By MONEY

Locking optional items behind money is one thing, but mandatory story progression? That's a sure-fire way to piss players off.

Case in point, we have Yakuza: Like a Dragon. 

While the franchise has occasionally forced players to acquire nominal sums of money to complete a story mission, in Like a Dragon's 12th chapter, you needed to come up with a stonking 3 million yen to fund a political campaign and move the plot forward.

For many players who hadn't done much side content, such as the business management minigame, this was a massive ask and a financial brick wall that potentially took many hours to scale.

With an absence of cash cheats available, it ultimately fell to players to head online and seek out the fastest methods for farming yen, lest they be stuck at the start of chapter 12 forever more.

But if you thought the frustration was over once you got the money, it's also worth noting that this chapter introduces a heinous, much complained-about difficulty spike which might also require you to spend hours grinding fights in Sotenbori Battle Arena.