Police Involvement

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Police Involvement

Postby Locke_cole » Sun Jun 21, 2015 4:58 pm

Replaying S1 got me thinking, Where are the damn police?? Did anyone even file a damn police report after Iwao was killed?

I think it would of been cool if day 1 the police visit you, or bring you in to ask questions. This eventually leads to nothing and Ryo being like fuck it, I'll do it myself. Maybe throw a crooked cop in the mix somewhere for Ryo to deal with...i dunno.

Are police reports a thing in japanese culture in the 80's?
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby BlueMue » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:06 pm

It just happened in the three days between the murder of Iwao and when you start the game.
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Locke_cole » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:06 pm

BlueMue wrote: It just happened in the three days between the murder of Iwao and when you start the game.


You would think they would want to talk to someone who was there, who was also attacked.
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby BlueMue » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:08 pm

There is no good explanation for this but we assume that Ryo wants his personal revenge, being from a martial arts family and all.
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby MiTT3NZ » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:22 pm

Police corruption, massive criminal organisation, cliché, etc.

These are essentially the main ingredients to Suzuki's explanation.

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Re: Police Involvement

Postby hoonding » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:27 pm

If Yakuza were behind the murder it could be explained away that they bought off the police.

But the murderers were foreigners and Chinese... they should've been all over it.
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Lan Di-sama » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:41 pm

Call the police from one of the telephones in the game and you have your answer.

One must assume the police took a report and recognized the death, but in that era even the police were probably not willing to get too involved with dangerous gang groups like that.
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Riku Rose » Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:58 pm

Policeman: Ok, I think we have all the info we need. Are you going to be ok? Do you need a counselor to talk to at all?
Ryo: I'm going to kill Lan Di.
Policeman: Ok then, Bye!

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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Sonoshee » Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:38 pm

Lan Di-sama wrote: Call the police from one of the telephones in the game and you have your answer.


+1 8)

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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Locke_cole » Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:19 pm

So i restarted just so I can call- Ryo just says " I don't want the police involved"

He has been out for days, Ine-san or Fuku-san didn't call? The newspaper reported on it, so the police just what ignored it?
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby NeoShredder » Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:12 am

Locke_cole wrote: So i restarted just so I can call- Ryo just says " I don't want the police involved"

He has been out for days, Ine-san or Fuku-san didn't call? The newspaper reported on it, so the police just what ignored it?


At this point, Ryo wants to maim/kill Lan Di- if Lan Di was arrested (unlikely), he wouldn't be able to do that.
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Sonoshee » Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:17 am

Locke_cole wrote: So i restarted just so I can call- Ryo just says " I don't want the police involved"

He has been out for days, Ine-san or Fuku-san didn't call? The newspaper reported on it, so the police just what ignored it?


I can't even focus when I use that pink telephone at the Tobacco Stand, that creepy whiskered old lady keeps staring me out 8-[

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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Locke_cole » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:36 am

Sonoshee wrote:
Locke_cole wrote: So i restarted just so I can call- Ryo just says " I don't want the police involved"

He has been out for days, Ine-san or Fuku-san didn't call? The newspaper reported on it, so the police just what ignored it?


I can't even focus when I use that pink telephone at the Tobacco Stand, that creepy whiskered old lady keeps staring me out 8-[


I feel you, I used the house phone :)
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Locke_cole » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:36 am

NeoShredder wrote:
Locke_cole wrote: So i restarted just so I can call- Ryo just says " I don't want the police involved"

He has been out for days, Ine-san or Fuku-san didn't call? The newspaper reported on it, so the police just what ignored it?


At this point, Ryo wants to maim/kill Lan Di- if Lan Di was arrested (unlikely), he wouldn't be able to do that.


I get why Ryo isn't calling.....I don't get why the police are not badgering him, questioning him at the very least
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Re: Police Involvement

Postby Sean » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:46 am

This makes me wonder also if Mark filed some sort of police report after his brother got snuffed at the harbor...
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