Talk:Toushin Toshi 3/@comment-30776383-20170109141933/@comment-27031093-20170109211816

Which one's the hardest? It's a tough call.

Daiakuji has an entire mechanic that isn't present at all in Daibanchou in its brothels, where you can give up your female characters to be used as prostitutes for money. It's sort of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it adds an extra layer of strategy to gameplay: do you give up a useful female unit, or do you risk getting a game over by falling into bankruptcy? On the other hand, it makes money management a lot more central and immediate to gameplay, something that Daibanchou doesn't, which causes a lot of new players to end up becoming completely broke as soon as they enter the National stage.

Daiakuji is also less linear the Daibanchou. You're prevented from entering certain areas until you accomplish various goals, but for the most part, you can go after whichever part of Osaka you want without any set path to follow. As a result, the learning curve is a lot steeper, since you aren't steadily eased into the gameplay mechanics like you are in the School and District phases of Daibanchou.

Character clearing is much easier in Daiakuji, since it generally only requires doing a single specific action for the character, compared to Daibanchou which requires you to do five for everyone. The ways in which you clear a character are also generally a lot more obvious than in Daibanchou, and several only require you to beat the game with the character in recruited. The price of this is that most of the characters get less time to be fleshed out like they are in Daibanchou, which is a major bummer.

Overall, I'd say Daiakuji is the harder of the two, but that's really only my opinion. They're both somewhat difficult to learn, but become much easier once you get the hang of how to play.