I would have hated the enemy encounters if it weren’t for two things: 1- Saejima has the best crowd control combat in the game 2- “Hey, you! What’s up man! Give me moni prease”
For me the worst thing about the Yakuza 5 cities is that the taxis are always located horribly far away from anywhere you want to go to. Never close to any points of interest.
That's intentional. When your fast travel choice is only marginally better than the scenic route, you'll be less inclined to min/max. You'll be saving it for when you're in a hurry or become impatient. They didn't anticipate people running through ~8 games in a row from sales or Gamepass access, causing unusually high random encounter fatigue.
@@TheProtoguy Depends on your definition of bad. It functions correctly, saves time, and doesn't encourage you to rush through a game packed with details.
@@Stars-Sapphire This is literally a video saying the district you play Saejima is criticized for having the highest encounter rate alongside invisible walls. Even I noticed that. Any reprieve from that is a godsend and automatically saves time. Shinada also suffers from being played in a huge city with narrow walkways. Needless to say, taxis frequently helped me avoid being funneled into "encounter zones, and reliably get from point A to point B without aggro. Perhaps people just weren't aware of efficient paths?
This is hilarious to me because I've played all of the mainline Yakuza games and never felt the urge to visit Tokyo or Osaka.... but I was so captivated by Tsukimino in the game that I decided my first visit to Japan will be to Susukino. I depart for Sapporo in 27 days and cannot wait!
@@ROBOHOLIC1 it was so good!! I had a blast, highly recommend a visit in winter. It's really beautiful especially during the snow festival which is also featured in the game. I got hundreds of hours of footage which I'm still editing. I'm working on a video review of all the IRL restaurants featured in Tsukimino
Seeing games inspire people to branch out and try new things in life is _such_ a cool thing! I myself would've never developed my gyudon addiction, were it not for Ichiban piling up seven bowls' worth before going to prison and making me wonder, hahaha! Every grocery run, I make sure to get some thin sliced steaks just for another round of beef bowls 🥰 However, I still can't manage it with onions. I've adjusted some by adding onion powder to the broth mix while it boils, but onion itself just does _not_ sit right with me 😅
For a bit of context, that "bizzare drug trip" is actually him and the other prisoners looking at a physical map of Tsukimino and using their imagination in an almost D&D style roleplay. One of the prisoners has such a vivid imagination that it transports you into a ghostly version of it with his spectre guiding you.
Oh it gets better. If you do the Karaoke mini-game during the drug trip, when you go to the karaoke bar when you actually reach the city, Saejima's score will BE ON THE KARAOKE RECORDS ALONG WITH THE GIRL HE MET IN THE GHOST CABARET CLUB. Yes, the guy has such a vivid imagination, he manages to bend space and time to actually have you get your score on the official score list, despite you just 'imagining' singing.
@@SW-81 He has such a vivid imagination, yet somehow he shot all those guys with what he thought were live rounds and didn't imagine a single one to have died? Or perhaps... He imagined so hard in a reality where the guns were firing blanks that he willed that dumb twist into existence!
I genuinely don't remember having issues with this city when I first played 5, other than the enemy encounters but that felt like a problem with the whole game and not just Tsukimino. It honestly just felt like another city, not particularly better or worse than the others.
Not being able to cross the street and just jaywalk like you can in almost every other district in the entire franchise was kind of a hassle, but when I got used to using sidewalks and pedestrian lanes like.. ugh.. real life.. I loved Tsukimino. Couldn't resist going through the shopping district and that whole ice festival with the Miku sculpture. I almost wanna see what the new places in Yakuza 5 would look like in either the Dragon Engine or Unreal if their visuals can already look that good with Y5's dated graphics.
I agree entirely. Tsukimino has so much travel time with no way to finesse out of enemy encounters. And after the really long prison and mountain sections, I just wanted to move on to the next character chapter.
Wow, that's insane. I had no idea of Shinseicho at all, having not played the original of Yakuza 2. But what's more baffling is the fact I've never seen anyone talk about it before now, in a video about Tsukimino. By the way, Tsukimino is my favorite of all the cities in the Yakuza series. Would love to see it return, with he families of the north doing something after the ending of Yakuza LAD.
I agree. Tsukimino has a lot of untapped potential and deserves to return. As for Shinseicho, I intend to do a video on it at some point in the future. It's easily one of my favourite maps in the franchise.
@@prsroroleagueracing5748 but clearly the ingame map for Tsukimino was inspired by the Shinseicho map in size and shape. They took a near-identical cross-section from 2 very different cities, that's what he's saying. With the same number of horizontal and vertical roads within the map area, and the invisible barrier around the edge of the map cutting you off at pretty much the same point.
As someone who hasn't played 5 yet, this was interesting to know. Honestly I'm still excited to get to this part of the game someday. Yeah the enemies and walls seem very annoying but the visuals make up for it imo.
and karaoke is way better than 6 mainly because there is so much on topic karaoke with hosstes in this city is my favorite vocals of saejima in christmas themed city are very fun
Replaying it for like the fourth time with someone now. It's my favourite game in the series. We all love Tsukimino. If you think you'll like it, you probably will. Saejima's part is probably our favourite in the game. It's bizarre to all of us that disliking it this much is common at all. The enemy encounter rate is like that the entire game, and it is annoying, but I don't get why this city is singled out. And the invisible walls are also a minor annoyance but...so? There are lots of minor annoyances all over the series. They just don't come anywhere close to overshadowing the positives. This city is the same way.
I just feel ALL the new cities in Yakuza 5 had issues, they seem like they were planned ambitiously but had to be scaled back massively at the execution stage. The lack of user friendly taxi placement, and the encounter rate being janky and disruptive didn’t help either. The over focus on side plot had a big part to play in this too I think, as the side plot was implemented at the cost of the number of sidestories, and those sidestories are what take a two dimensional location and breathe actual life into them. It was one of my biggest issues with Lost Judgement too, the over focus on the school plot meant that Ijincho cases suffered and had I not done Yakuza 7 prior, I may have had more of a problem with the location too.
Saejima is notorious for being the least beginner friendly character in the franchise, so it's little surprise that a map tailor-made for him would be the "most hated" district around. Am I saying this is a skill issue? Not really, I would prefer it was improved and possibly expanded a bit but beyond that...kids gotta learn to go balls out. (in the Sapporo during winter, yes)
yknow what's funny saejima was the only character i had maxed out to lvl 20 while playing thru the game normally bc i kept getting so many encounters in addition to doing all the substories 😭
While it's hard to move around Tsukimino, I don't really care. It's by far my favorite Yakuza district because of just how pretty it looks, I love it so much.
I get that they made the streets inaccessible to cross due to traffic mechanics. But there could be easier ways around this besides using construction. When you decide to cross the street, make it a qte (that can't be failed) where Saejima has to dodge traffic comedically. That way you can choose if you want to avoid those pesky enemy counters at the risk of losing a bit of your health in a qte, or take the longer safer route of the sidewalk where you'll have enemy encounters instead
It really feels like Saejima got the short end of the stick in 5 (yes, even worse than Akiyama and his 1/3 part) Not only is his story almost a copy/pasted version of his Y4 story, chapter 3 is spent entirely playing the hunter in a village and you only get to corridor city in chapter 4 for a quick run through. And while I get why people hate Tsukimino, I agree with both the positives and negatives stated in your video. Plus I love how powerful you feel playing as Saejima, it's a damn shame how both games where he's playable he's both shackled literally and figuratively. Hell, to add insult to injury, they lock him up for a third time at the start of Y6 and would end up in hiding after the events of Y6. Even when he's free and offscreen, he can't let off some steam! You mentioned Shinada's city and to me it's the most forgettable one. It really feels like a hybrid of Tsukimino and Kamurocho. However I really like Shinada's story, the whole search for the local Yakuza that reveals citizens were doing the shady shit to keep actual Yakuza out of Nagoya? Pure gold! Definitely my favorite part of Yakuza 5's narrative. But the sector of Nagoya it's in? Can't even remember the name and you gave it during your video! Anyway, enough rambling. Y5 was too ambitious and for me, it fell short. I get why many people love it, but to me it just feels bloated for the sake of being bloated and ends up being my least favorite in the series so far because of it. Too ambitious that it feels unfocused, three new city blocks that somehow feels undeveloped and grafted in to give the game five cities to explore...
I have at least 3 trips to Japan planned for the forseeable future, and Sapporo happens to be one of the main locations for the 2nd one. That is due in no small part to Yakuza 5, at the very least, for the inspiring the idea in the first place.
The best thing you could do about the enemy encounters is getting the beads of good fortune with Kiryu and transfer them using the item box to Saejima and the problem is fixed. You have like 1% chance someone runs into you.
Man Tsukimino was my favorite, perhaps because I felt the most at home there out of all the cities. I don’t have much experience with big cities, but I was raised in a bit of a snowy wasteland. I remember getting stuck on one of the piles of snow next to a telephone box and thinking, “the really got annoying nature of snow down, I love it.” For a similar reason I loved the hunting minigame the most, I think I even completed the hunting story before progressing the main story, lol. We may not have many bears here, but deer hunting is pretty popular, not that I’ve ever done it
I've lived in Sapporo a long time - the Tsukinino district is EXCEPTIONALLY faithful to the Susukino district that it is modeled on. Like, erily so. So while it may annoy you from a game play perspective, from a realism perspective the devs absolutely fucking NAILED IT!! I feel like you didn't take that too much into account.
Thank you for pointing it out! As far as virtual tourism goes, I've seen many people praise RGG's adherence to the real-life locales, so I'm glad the same applies here. As far as this particular video goes, it was moreso to point out why people take issue with this map in particular, rather than it being an objective analysis of everything Tsukimino entails, so I'm glad people in the comments have been rightfully praising it for the things it does right by comparison.
It's funny, because I don't remember the encounters in this city being excessively bad, I just remember it in the first city and then I got something to make it normal and was fine for the rest of the game I guess (my memory is awful). I more remember the city for the snow sculptures, which I'm sure the developers would rather be the case for everyone.
I was wondering why it was hated but got a good reminder. The only thing that angers me a bit about some maps is seeing something cool that you can't get to, like those damn, Ferris Wheels.
to be fair i really enjoyed saejima’s hunter side story to the point when i finished it and i got to tsukimino i was just interested in side stories and then heading out asap to the next character i didn’t mind the city that much, but def had to walk this city the most to avoid ridiculous enemy encounters stacked one after the other
tbh the enemy encounters in tsukimino can be forgiven due to two things: Hailstorm is a banger and "Heyyy you, whats uppu mannnn, give me money preas" Also Saejima is just fun lmao
I always had a problem that Kiryu always got the good fortune beads and not Saejima. As I was able to find another one until of course all of the inventory was put together
tbh i just hated saejima's part the most in y5 and all i remember from the city is that really obscure puzzle you have to do near the end of his part. his part was just such a slog compared to the others, it felt like it was going on forever
I originally wanted to add the album cover for that single to the segment, but decided against it in the end. Really glad someone still pointed the joke out :D
saejima wouldnt walk around on the roads cause he aint no jaywalker, havent you seen shinada walk on the road? dude almost gets killed multiple times by cars
Everyone complains about all the enemy encounters in Yakuza 5, I think a lot of combat is cool! Yakuza 5 specially, since it's combat it's really good, and at the start of a new Yakuza game, I want to pick a lot of fights to see the cool heat actions and new stuff. Later on, I want a lot of fights to level up.
I don't have any problem with enemy encounter rate at atll. Since we could grind our ass off faster that way. Plus,It's Saejima. Saejima with herculean spirit is just broken. Plus,He now can lift up and sign and ended the fight under 1 mins. Only problem I had with Tsukimino was how it's like the least memorable city in this game for me,Compared to Nagasugai,Sotenbori,Kamurocho or Kineicho.
For me personally I think Onomochi from Yakuza 6 was my least favorite because it lacked any fun activities. I love Yakuza 6 but I hate whenever I am forced to stay in Onomochi. My favorite city outta all games would be Nagasugai. For some reason it feels well.. different I love the look of it and I like the map layout. Obviously Kamurocho and Sotenbori are amazing maps to the series but Nagasugai feels like both of those maps.
Onomochi was so bare boned. There was nothing there. Couldn’t even buy supplies or equipment and restaurants were far and few in between I get that’s the theme of the city but still…
Would have been cool if Pocket Fighter/Fujisawa at least opened a local hobby shop after his side story or something. Didn't help that while you did gain the ability to throw enemies into water unlike Kiwami 2 you had almost nowhere to do it except one spot in Onomichi. The spear fishing minigame was dope as hell though.
This was far from ideal but still much better than Saejima's Yakuza 4 traversal of running from cops in Kamurocho. I could actually enjoy playing as Saejima in 5.
I like Tsukamino, the layout is incredibly basic but the aesthetic is just phenomenal. Enemy encounter rate didn't bother me, I found it more egregious for Kiryu's opening segment tbh.
I liked Tsukimino, but it is probably the worst and least utilized city in Y5. I don't get they made it so you can't run in traffic there. You could in Y3 in Okinawa after all. You also can't run in the wider street in Kineicho that has more traffic. You have to cross at the pedestrian crossings.
Honestly all 3 of the new cities in Y5 aren’t very good. All 3 of them are just narrow roads in a grid with some kind of big park awkwardly stapled to one end of it.
The upper half of Tsukimino literally has everything you could possibly need. Your hideout, a Don Quixote, Cafe Alps, another restaurant, the park, Kamiyama Works, Ebisu Pawn…all the good stuff is up top. IF8-R or whatever is the only thing worth a damn at the bottom.
Tsukimino was starting to grow on me. That is…Until I got into 4 fights in a row on my way to a taxi, ran like hell to narrowly avoided a 5th fight once near the taxi, got into another fight mere feet away from where the taxi took me, and had to avoid 3 other fights and get into a 6th fight on the way to my destination. I hate this damn city! It’s not even the amount of people looking to fight that’s the problem. It’s the fact that, we’ll look…here are all my grievances with enemies alone all throughout the game but particularly in Tsukimino: You can’t escape fights, random street enemies have way bigger health bars than they used to, enemies can run away and/or call in back up, the snow and grey makes it much harder to see when you’re in battle and out of battle, enemies actually pick random items up now and use them as weapons but they do it way too often, there are now a couple of new enemies sprinkled in, enemies watch you the entire fucking time you walk by them and then some and pretty much don’t stop watching until they literally can’t see you, enemies don’t move around the city organically but rather are placed every 20 feet and have a very small walking pattern around their little area, and it is difficult to outrun enemies on the rare chance you can get away and I have never successfully outrun a victory road enemy and if I’m being honest I don’t think I ever will because I don’t think it’s possible.
Personally I didn't really have too many issues with this city, especially with encounters (tbh I adore them and always wish for more.) Also I'm a huge sucker for snow themed maps. The hunting section was a fantastic pastime as that lasted me hours. The city aesthetics was also great and cozy in some urban way if tbat makes sense. If anything this city kind of became one of more more enjoyed cities due to its constant encounters. The combat is just way too good to stop. Lol
I honestly did not mind the frequent enemy encounters in Tsukimino or Y5 in general because the combat is just so damn good. I did find the inability to cross the streets a bit annoying but it didn't really bother me that much.
Sapporo is one of my favorites cities at Japan. I really,really love the real life city, but Yakuza 5 did such a bad job representing what makes Sapporo such a cool city.
I would have hated the enemy encounters if it weren’t for two things:
1- Saejima has the best crowd control combat in the game
2- “Hey, you! What’s up man! Give me moni prease”
Thankfully enemies are very polite
And his awesome banging soundtrack
It's so rare to get that dialogue but it's worth it
I'll admit Saejima's sheer strength is kinda frightening. He fights bears at lease three times and wins.
fr i love his fighting style
For me the worst thing about the Yakuza 5 cities is that the taxis are always located horribly far away from anywhere you want to go to. Never close to any points of interest.
That's intentional. When your fast travel choice is only marginally better than the scenic route, you'll be less inclined to min/max. You'll be saving it for when you're in a hurry or become impatient.
They didn't anticipate people running through ~8 games in a row from sales or Gamepass access, causing unusually high random encounter fatigue.
@@amilueur it's still bad design
@@TheProtoguy Depends on your definition of bad. It functions correctly, saves time, and doesn't encourage you to rush through a game packed with details.
@@Stars-Sapphire I don't know if that's true, especially when playing as Saejima.
@@Stars-Sapphire This is literally a video saying the district you play Saejima is criticized for having the highest encounter rate alongside invisible walls. Even I noticed that. Any reprieve from that is a godsend and automatically saves time.
Shinada also suffers from being played in a huge city with narrow walkways.
Needless to say, taxis frequently helped me avoid being funneled into "encounter zones, and reliably get from point A to point B without aggro. Perhaps people just weren't aware of efficient paths?
Saejima in Tsukimino: *exists*
Every single thug in Yakuza 5: "Thou hath summoned me?"
This is hilarious to me because I've played all of the mainline Yakuza games and never felt the urge to visit Tokyo or Osaka.... but I was so captivated by Tsukimino in the game that I decided my first visit to Japan will be to Susukino. I depart for Sapporo in 27 days and cannot wait!
How was your trip?
@@ROBOHOLIC1 it was so good!! I had a blast, highly recommend a visit in winter. It's really beautiful especially during the snow festival which is also featured in the game. I got hundreds of hours of footage which I'm still editing. I'm working on a video review of all the IRL restaurants featured in Tsukimino
@@Pendergeist I actually want to see that now. Sounds like a fun time. Cheers.
Seeing games inspire people to branch out and try new things in life is _such_ a cool thing! I myself would've never developed my gyudon addiction, were it not for Ichiban piling up seven bowls' worth before going to prison and making me wonder, hahaha! Every grocery run, I make sure to get some thin sliced steaks just for another round of beef bowls 🥰
However, I still can't manage it with onions. I've adjusted some by adding onion powder to the broth mix while it boils, but onion itself just does _not_ sit right with me 😅
@Pendergeist Holy shit. Your profile picture is Dunning from Hotel Dusk. Its SO rare to find anyone who appreciates that game!!!! I salute you!!
For a bit of context, that "bizzare drug trip" is actually him and the other prisoners looking at a physical map of Tsukimino and using their imagination in an almost D&D style roleplay. One of the prisoners has such a vivid imagination that it transports you into a ghostly version of it with his spectre guiding you.
Oh it gets better. If you do the Karaoke mini-game during the drug trip, when you go to the karaoke bar when you actually reach the city, Saejima's score will BE ON THE KARAOKE RECORDS ALONG WITH THE GIRL HE MET IN THE GHOST CABARET CLUB.
Yes, the guy has such a vivid imagination, he manages to bend space and time to actually have you get your score on the official score list, despite you just 'imagining' singing.
@@SW-81 I know it's a joke but you really like betrothed to this moment to tell us this golden nugget of an info lmaooo
@@SW-81 My man was so bored in prison he managed to master astral projection just to have something to do.
@@Nightdreamr of all characters in this series, somehow it would be Saejima. The man who trains with mountain gods and encounters real kappa.
@@SW-81 He has such a vivid imagination, yet somehow he shot all those guys with what he thought were live rounds and didn't imagine a single one to have died?
Or perhaps... He imagined so hard in a reality where the guns were firing blanks that he willed that dumb twist into existence!
Traversal was a huge pain in tsukimino. I had more encounters with npc thugs here then any other city. More taxis should have been added
Traversal ANYWHERE in yakuza 5 was a drag.. Can litteraly only go 3 steps without an encounter
I genuinely don't remember having issues with this city when I first played 5, other than the enemy encounters but that felt like a problem with the whole game and not just Tsukimino. It honestly just felt like another city, not particularly better or worse than the others.
this dude definitely spilled the ramen
the shame I felt
💀💀
I always just assumed Tsukimino was done like that so Saejima can’t “jaywalk” at all to keep his profile as low as possible.
Not being able to cross the street and just jaywalk like you can in almost every other district in the entire franchise was kind of a hassle, but when I got used to using sidewalks and pedestrian lanes like.. ugh.. real life.. I loved Tsukimino. Couldn't resist going through the shopping district and that whole ice festival with the Miku sculpture. I almost wanna see what the new places in Yakuza 5 would look like in either the Dragon Engine or Unreal if their visuals can already look that good with Y5's dated graphics.
I agree entirely. Tsukimino has so much travel time with no way to finesse out of enemy encounters. And after the really long prison and mountain sections, I just wanted to move on to the next character chapter.
Wow, that's insane. I had no idea of Shinseicho at all, having not played the original of Yakuza 2. But what's more baffling is the fact I've never seen anyone talk about it before now, in a video about Tsukimino. By the way, Tsukimino is my favorite of all the cities in the Yakuza series. Would love to see it return, with he families of the north doing something after the ending of Yakuza LAD.
I agree. Tsukimino has a lot of untapped potential and deserves to return. As for Shinseicho, I intend to do a video on it at some point in the future. It's easily one of my favourite maps in the franchise.
@@gokudoni
It and Ijincho frustrate me in one way. Ferris Wheels you can see but not get to.
@@prsroroleagueracing5748 but clearly the ingame map for Tsukimino was inspired by the Shinseicho map in size and shape. They took a near-identical cross-section from 2 very different cities, that's what he's saying. With the same number of horizontal and vertical roads within the map area, and the invisible barrier around the edge of the map cutting you off at pretty much the same point.
As someone who hasn't played 5 yet, this was interesting to know. Honestly I'm still excited to get to this part of the game someday. Yeah the enemies and walls seem very annoying but the visuals make up for it imo.
and karaoke is way better than 6 mainly because there is so much on topic karaoke with hosstes in this city is my favorite vocals of saejima in christmas themed city are very fun
Replaying it for like the fourth time with someone now. It's my favourite game in the series. We all love Tsukimino. If you think you'll like it, you probably will. Saejima's part is probably our favourite in the game. It's bizarre to all of us that disliking it this much is common at all. The enemy encounter rate is like that the entire game, and it is annoying, but I don't get why this city is singled out. And the invisible walls are also a minor annoyance but...so? There are lots of minor annoyances all over the series. They just don't come anywhere close to overshadowing the positives. This city is the same way.
I actually really like Tsukimino, I still wish you could cross the road wherever you want but I still love it
I just feel ALL the new cities in Yakuza 5 had issues, they seem like they were planned ambitiously but had to be scaled back massively at the execution stage. The lack of user friendly taxi placement, and the encounter rate being janky and disruptive didn’t help either. The over focus on side plot had a big part to play in this too I think, as the side plot was implemented at the cost of the number of sidestories, and those sidestories are what take a two dimensional location and breathe actual life into them. It was one of my biggest issues with Lost Judgement too, the over focus on the school plot meant that Ijincho cases suffered and had I not done Yakuza 7 prior, I may have had more of a problem with the location too.
I never had any issue with this city and Yakuza 5 as a whole.
Saejima is notorious for being the least beginner friendly character in the franchise, so it's little surprise that a map tailor-made for him would be the "most hated" district around.
Am I saying this is a skill issue? Not really, I would prefer it was improved and possibly expanded a bit but beyond that...kids gotta learn to go balls out. (in the Sapporo during winter, yes)
yknow what's funny saejima was the only character i had maxed out to lvl 20 while playing thru the game normally bc i kept getting so many encounters in addition to doing all the substories 😭
Honestly, I would like to see more from yakuza 5 since its kinda underrated.
I never had a problem with this map, but i spent too much time in the mountain sidestory so maybe it worked as a palate cleanser
While it's hard to move around Tsukimino, I don't really care. It's by far my favorite Yakuza district because of just how pretty it looks, I love it so much.
I get that they made the streets inaccessible to cross due to traffic mechanics. But there could be easier ways around this besides using construction. When you decide to cross the street, make it a qte (that can't be failed) where Saejima has to dodge traffic comedically. That way you can choose if you want to avoid those pesky enemy counters at the risk of losing a bit of your health in a qte, or take the longer safer route of the sidewalk where you'll have enemy encounters instead
Y7 and Lost Judgement fixed this idea by making collisions with traffic cause damage, works pretty well, though lost judgement does it better
It really feels like Saejima got the short end of the stick in 5 (yes, even worse than Akiyama and his 1/3 part)
Not only is his story almost a copy/pasted version of his Y4 story, chapter 3 is spent entirely playing the hunter in a village and you only get to corridor city in chapter 4 for a quick run through. And while I get why people hate Tsukimino, I agree with both the positives and negatives stated in your video. Plus I love how powerful you feel playing as Saejima, it's a damn shame how both games where he's playable he's both shackled literally and figuratively. Hell, to add insult to injury, they lock him up for a third time at the start of Y6 and would end up in hiding after the events of Y6. Even when he's free and offscreen, he can't let off some steam!
You mentioned Shinada's city and to me it's the most forgettable one. It really feels like a hybrid of Tsukimino and Kamurocho. However I really like Shinada's story, the whole search for the local Yakuza that reveals citizens were doing the shady shit to keep actual Yakuza out of Nagoya? Pure gold! Definitely my favorite part of Yakuza 5's narrative. But the sector of Nagoya it's in? Can't even remember the name and you gave it during your video!
Anyway, enough rambling. Y5 was too ambitious and for me, it fell short. I get why many people love it, but to me it just feels bloated for the sake of being bloated and ends up being my least favorite in the series so far because of it. Too ambitious that it feels unfocused, three new city blocks that somehow feels undeveloped and grafted in to give the game five cities to explore...
I like how you put Yume as a hashtag
I have at least 3 trips to Japan planned for the forseeable future, and Sapporo happens to be one of the main locations for the 2nd one. That is due in no small part to Yakuza 5, at the very least, for the inspiring the idea in the first place.
Saejima's arc is probably why I haven't replayed Yakuza 5, which is a shame because Haruka's arc afterwards is my absolute favorite. 😂
The best thing you could do about the enemy encounters is getting the beads of good fortune with Kiryu and transfer them using the item box to Saejima and the problem is fixed. You have like 1% chance someone runs into you.
You can't transfer until the finale so no
@@dreadfullespectre8579 in this case yeah you're right, i did so bcs i explored and played the sidequests after the main story.
Man Tsukimino was my favorite, perhaps because I felt the most at home there out of all the cities. I don’t have much experience with big cities, but I was raised in a bit of a snowy wasteland. I remember getting stuck on one of the piles of snow next to a telephone box and thinking, “the really got annoying nature of snow down, I love it.” For a similar reason I loved the hunting minigame the most, I think I even completed the hunting story before progressing the main story, lol. We may not have many bears here, but deer hunting is pretty popular, not that I’ve ever done it
Shinada's city, while small, is easy to navigate, everything is close by and simple to find.
This is why I'm happy that Shinseicho isn't in Kiwami 2. It wil literally end up like Tsukimino
I played through like 2 games before I realized taxis existed
Shout to mentioning Shinseicho. Such a great looking and feeling location, I miss it every day.
I think I spent more time in the mountain that tsukimino. I got almost 500k¥ before even reaching the city
returning to tsukimino in new game+ with beads of good fortune be like:
I wish I knew where tf I was going despite checking the map every 5 seconds
I've lived in Sapporo a long time - the Tsukinino district is EXCEPTIONALLY faithful to the Susukino district that it is modeled on. Like, erily so. So while it may annoy you from a game play perspective, from a realism perspective the devs absolutely fucking NAILED IT!! I feel like you didn't take that too much into account.
Thank you for pointing it out! As far as virtual tourism goes, I've seen many people praise RGG's adherence to the real-life locales, so I'm glad the same applies here. As far as this particular video goes, it was moreso to point out why people take issue with this map in particular, rather than it being an objective analysis of everything Tsukimino entails, so I'm glad people in the comments have been rightfully praising it for the things it does right by comparison.
Great point @@gokudoni! I see now that the focus was more on the game-play side. Enjoyed it a lot keep - them coming!
I am actually surprised to hear people didn't like this part. I loved that they had Hokkaido in 5.
It's funny, because I don't remember the encounters in this city being excessively bad, I just remember it in the first city and then I got something to make it normal and was fine for the rest of the game I guess (my memory is awful). I more remember the city for the snow sculptures, which I'm sure the developers would rather be the case for everyone.
It didn't even occur to me people hate this place cause i like playing as saijima in 5 so much. And he had some of my favorite substories in 5.
Saejima has some my overall favorite substories
This is the content ive been looking for! :D
I didn't care about the bad parts because I was immersing myself with every cities on Yakuza 5 and loving them.
Even with 30 % encounter rate decrease mod it still spawm kuza
some people don't like it ? i actually really enjoyed this city !
The encounters are the reason it's my fave city, it showers you with combat with best boy after the slog that was hunting
2:17 Thats not John Yakuza, thats Big Lad in a Santa cosplay
i loved fighting random street thugs esp in yakuza 6 because the music that plays in fights is so good
i literally got into 3 fights one after another as Saejima
Honestly I think it was really great to see a fresh spin on Yakuza I hope they tackle more cities in future games to
In short, Tsukimino is just forgetable. I've spent more time hunting a bear with Saejima than actually being in this city.
I spent most of my Saejima play time on hunting on the mountain, the city do suck since you can't cross the road.
why no one is talking about nagasugai? Every inch of it is filled with fckin thugs bro 💀
Imagine RGG Studio decide to return to Tsukimino, removing the restrictions and expand the map to look like Ijincho. Imagine how cool this would be
i literally spent more time in the mountains that i did in tsukimino lol
I was wondering why it was hated but got a good reminder. The only thing that angers me a bit about some maps is seeing something cool that you can't get to, like those damn, Ferris Wheels.
AND ITS AFTER THE HORRIBLE PRISON/HUNTING SECTION
Literally first time I’ve ever seen someone says something bad about it and here you are saying the most hated lmao
to be fair i really enjoyed saejima’s hunter side story to the point when i finished it and i got to tsukimino i was just interested in side stories and then heading out asap to the next character
i didn’t mind the city that much, but def had to walk this city the most to avoid ridiculous enemy encounters stacked one after the other
tbh the enemy encounters in tsukimino can be forgiven due to two things: Hailstorm is a banger and "Heyyy you, whats uppu mannnn, give me money preas"
Also Saejima is just fun lmao
I loved the Sapporo section.
Love the video!
I actually enjoyed it for it’s gritty cold aesthetic
Man I hated tsukimino the first time I played and still do because the enemy encounters just slow the pace down to a crawl.
I always had a problem that Kiryu always got the good fortune beads and not Saejima. As I was able to find another one until of course all of the inventory was put together
Spot-on video.
Love te vid! Keep it up!
tbh i just hated saejima's part the most in y5 and all i remember from the city is that really obscure puzzle you have to do near the end of his part. his part was just such a slog compared to the others, it felt like it was going on forever
"Filled with a million enemy encounters, a Hatsune Miku statue, slippery floors, and so much more"
Nah, So Much More is in Sotenbori 😏🤪
I originally wanted to add the album cover for that single to the segment, but decided against it in the end. Really glad someone still pointed the joke out :D
Sotenbori is the greatest district to ever exist in gaming history it even has a little river where you can catch cute little fish
saejima wouldnt walk around on the roads cause he aint no jaywalker, havent you seen shinada walk on the road? dude almost gets killed multiple times by cars
Unironically Sapporo is my favourite city of Yakuza 5. Just so pretty
I liked it. But it hard to walk there because of encounters
Everyone complains about all the enemy encounters in Yakuza 5, I think a lot of combat is cool! Yakuza 5 specially, since it's combat it's really good, and at the start of a new Yakuza game, I want to pick a lot of fights to see the cool heat actions and new stuff. Later on, I want a lot of fights to level up.
I don't have any problem with enemy encounter rate at atll. Since we could grind our ass off faster that way. Plus,It's Saejima. Saejima with herculean spirit is just broken. Plus,He now can lift up and sign and ended the fight under 1 mins.
Only problem I had with Tsukimino was how it's like the least memorable city in this game for me,Compared to Nagasugai,Sotenbori,Kamurocho or Kineicho.
For me personally I think Onomochi from Yakuza 6 was my least favorite because it lacked any fun activities. I love Yakuza 6 but I hate whenever I am forced to stay in Onomochi. My favorite city outta all games would be Nagasugai. For some reason it feels well.. different I love the look of it and I like the map layout. Obviously Kamurocho and Sotenbori are amazing maps to the series but Nagasugai feels like both of those maps.
Onomochi was so bare boned. There was nothing there. Couldn’t even buy supplies or equipment and restaurants were far and few in between
I get that’s the theme of the city but still…
Would have been cool if Pocket Fighter/Fujisawa at least opened a local hobby shop after his side story or something.
Didn't help that while you did gain the ability to throw enemies into water unlike Kiwami 2 you had almost nowhere to do it except one spot in Onomichi.
The spear fishing minigame was dope as hell though.
This was far from ideal but still much better than Saejima's Yakuza 4 traversal of running from cops in Kamurocho. I could actually enjoy playing as Saejima in 5.
"NO JAYWALKING"
This city wouldn't even be that bad if it wasn't for the uncrossable streets😭
Ah yes.. Kamurocho, I'm sick and tired seeing kamurocho
"B-b-but, but it- but it has the Hatsune M-Miku statue!"
You are absolutely right. "God Save the Mikueen!"
It seems like you accidentally made this video about Tsukimino, instead of Onomichi.
Tsukimino honestly had one of the best environments out of any location inthe series
I like Tsukamino, the layout is incredibly basic but the aesthetic is just phenomenal. Enemy encounter rate didn't bother me, I found it more egregious for Kiryu's opening segment tbh.
I liked Tsukimino, but it is probably the worst and least utilized city in Y5. I don't get they made it so you can't run in traffic there. You could in Y3 in Okinawa after all. You also can't run in the wider street in Kineicho that has more traffic. You have to cross at the pedestrian crossings.
Honestly all 3 of the new cities in Y5 aren’t very good. All 3 of them are just narrow roads in a grid with some kind of big park awkwardly stapled to one end of it.
The upper half of Tsukimino literally has everything you could possibly need. Your hideout, a Don Quixote, Cafe Alps, another restaurant, the park, Kamiyama Works, Ebisu Pawn…all the good stuff is up top. IF8-R or whatever is the only thing worth a damn at the bottom.
You get to be Saejima so its not as bad. But my goodness the cops.
Tsukimino was starting to grow on me. That is…Until I got into 4 fights in a row on my way to a taxi, ran like hell to narrowly avoided a 5th fight once near the taxi, got into another fight mere feet away from where the taxi took me, and had to avoid 3 other fights and get into a 6th fight on the way to my destination. I hate this damn city! It’s not even the amount of people looking to fight that’s the problem. It’s the fact that, we’ll look…here are all my grievances with enemies alone all throughout the game but particularly in Tsukimino:
You can’t escape fights, random street enemies have way bigger health bars than they used to, enemies can run away and/or call in back up, the snow and grey makes it much harder to see when you’re in battle and out of battle, enemies actually pick random items up now and use them as weapons but they do it way too often, there are now a couple of new enemies sprinkled in, enemies watch you the entire fucking time you walk by them and then some and pretty much don’t stop watching until they literally can’t see you, enemies don’t move around the city organically but rather are placed every 20 feet and have a very small walking pattern around their little area, and it is difficult to outrun enemies on the rare chance you can get away and I have never successfully outrun a victory road enemy and if I’m being honest I don’t think I ever will because I don’t think it’s possible.
Personally I didn't really have too many issues with this city, especially with encounters (tbh I adore them and always wish for more.)
Also I'm a huge sucker for snow themed maps.
The hunting section was a fantastic pastime as that lasted me hours.
The city aesthetics was also great and cozy in some urban way if tbat makes sense.
If anything this city kind of became one of more more enjoyed cities due to its constant encounters. The combat is just way too good to stop. Lol
Blud think he’s Kiryu 💀
Only thing in yakuzer 5 i hate is hunting fr, I love every town.
I loved hunting, I remember multiple hour long sessions where all I did was hunt
Yakuzer noun a person who yakuzes
@@falsetitle6940 I'm yakuzer
same.
I loved tsukimino!
I honestly did not mind the frequent enemy encounters in Tsukimino or Y5 in general because the combat is just so damn good. I did find the inability to cross the streets a bit annoying but it didn't really bother me that much.
I really like this city, Onomichi for me is the worst.
I love onomichi. Could be better, with more bars, but it’s a great place
tbh i didn't like Tsukimino, but when i saw the snow Miku, i end up liking it
Loved every city, saw no problem in anything at all
You think that devs adding unlikeable areas was done intentionally to keep up with the theme of "this game is a massive shit post"
I got into the yakuza series when zero came out. I’ve always been put off by yakuza 5 all together it far to large in scope overall.
did anyone else play the geoguesser yakuza map
Sapporo is one of my favorites cities at Japan. I really,really love the real life city, but Yakuza 5 did such a bad job representing what makes Sapporo such a cool city.
Yeah sorry, the snow city is the worst