Fable Xbox Series SX: 10 Things It Can Learn From Yakuza
8. Let Heroes Eat On The Go
A big spoon enters a vat of rice pudding as you drop a penny in the jar. The stallholder reaches out with the spoon, popping it into your mouth. You suck off every ounce of food before the stallholder withdraws and wipes the spoon on a rag, thrusting it back into the vat ready for the next customer.
In the olden days, before new-fangled ideas like hygiene, that's how street vendors worked. And yet, in the Fable games, food stalls are just places where players can buy hundreds of different food items to eat straight from their inventories whenever they want to top up their health.
Vending machines are the Yakuza equivalent of food stalls and the introduction of the Dragon Engine has left them working far more realistically. Kiryu buys an item then walks around with it in his hand, eating and drinking at his leisure or dropping it if he's attacked.
Imagine entering a pub in Fable, buying a beer at the bar and wandering around drinking it between chatting to the regulars. Found someone you don't like? Just hit attack to smash your flagon over their head and start a bar fight.