Patreon shoutout: Petr Boháč ❤️ Thank you so much for waiting guys! I'm really excited to get back into Kiryu's story. About the side missions, again I don't do them because I want to finish this game before April due to the new games. I don't want to stop this let's play in the middle then pick it up months later. So what I was thinking was putting the side missions up on Patreon. If you guys would like that, please let me know! :)
Considering how PS4 controller support varies from game to game on how it works you can go into the steam controller settings and disable xbox controller support to see if it'll keep the prompts consistent. If you have a 3rd party program to make games see the DS4 as a Xbox controller disable that. I'd check on the game myself but I'm not at home and I only have my Xbox controller with me since that tends to be my default for PC. Hope one of those helps out!
Fun Fact, Kiwami 2 uses the same “Dragon” engine that Judgment and Yakuza 6 used, so the fighting style, the amazing physics like breaking stores and furniture, and menus/map will be more reminiscent of those two instead of Kiwami 1 and 0. Yakuza 2 is often regarded as one of the best in the series, so I can’t wait to experience it again with you!
That's good but unfortunately the combat is extremely limited compared to 0 and Kiwami 1. Probably it's weakest part compared to 0 and 1. Only one style that is pretty limited unless you grind it out big time and unlock everything, and even then it's not *that* great. Has some fun stuff buy yeah. Edit: Does it improve in later games like 5-6? I have only played the ones on PC.(like 0 and 1, many styles with tonnes of moves, being able to chain combos between styles and many more things, played 0 for a long time and still hadn't seen all combos and heat moves)
@@HiddenStr3ngth I feel it's the opposite. I think this combat system is a lot more diverse than the one from the PS3 engine. While changing styles in 0, you were still doing the same things. Only faster, or stronger, etc. In this one you can kick someone while they're down for example, co-op heat attacks, and more interaction with the environment.
@@HiddenStr3ngth The style changing was introduced in Ishin (samurai game) and it carried over to 0 and Kiwami. Yakuza 1-5 has always had the same style for Kiryu (the Legend/Dragon style from 0/Kiwami). You could chalk it up story wise to Kiryu not having a defined fighting style yet in the 80's and his styles eventually formed into one later on as he got better (Legend/Dragon style) The theory goes out the window with Kiwami though since they brought back the styles. I guess you could say the amount of prison time he went through made him rusty so he had to fight through Majima x amount of times to get it all back. Yeah... that makes sense. But yeah, technically, I THINK the biggest reason for adding the fighting styles in 0 was that they were going down to two characters. Yakuza 4 and 5 had multiple protagonists. The fighting styles in 0 were heavily influenced by the other protags and had a bunch of the same heat actions too. I guess they didn't want all the heat actions and stuff from previous games to go to waste. Have you ever wondered how Kiryu suddenly becomes a slow hulking brute in Beast style but is somehow much faster than normal in Rush style? Almost like they're different characters right? With Yakuza 6, they started with a clean slate and with a new engine. Kiryu is back to fighting in one style. Kind of different from the old "Dragon Style" but still retains many moves from the other styles. They were going for an all-in-one package here. Tbh to me it feels more dynamic and fluid than the older games but I can see your point. They brought back multiple styles in Judgment and they exist in Yakuza 7 in the form of 'classes' so I guess the devs missed them too lol
@@HiddenStr3ngth I got a reply notification but it vanished. Just wanted to clarify about kicking opponents who are down. If you're running towards enemy A, while enemy B is lying on the ground, you can now give enemy B a kick as you pass him by without losing much momentum. To my recollection, in previous games you had to stop and commit to the attack. So that made it feel more stiff for me, while in this engine it feels more fluid and natural, for lack of a better term. I didn't recall co-op heat attacks in previous games. Which one had that? And what were your issues with the Dragon engine? Couldn't read the rest of that part of your reply.
Thats why you should do the substories in the yakuza games too. there is ALOT of context through the entire series. For example, the main villain in Kiwami 2 also is part of a sidequest in 0.
i assume you never did go back to do sidequest/side story in Yakuza 0,Kiwami so -in Yakuza 0 you can actually met Daigo as one of the sidequest, Daigo was still young back then, there should be a quest where messenger said one of Dojima family member want to meet Kiryu at Batting Cage and he's not an enemy going there and you'll met Daigo exchange conversation and do some activity with him. -In Yakuza Kiwami you can also met Yayoi Dojima in one of sidequest where someone want to meet Kiryu at where it all first happen, The Dojima Family's Office, there Yayoi Dojima will show up and demanded the answer if Kiryu really kill Sohei Dojima (her husband) or not (and Kiryu would refuse to answer) you fight her bodyguards and Kiryu ask her to wait a bit longer and he'll answer everything.
I'm extremely late for this but in Y0, you can also meet "young" Ryuji Goda beating the shit out of middle schoolers and steal their pants, one of which he intentionally shook down because that kid bullied his classmates.
Fun tip time: Okay this is the game that has a TOTALLY different combat system along with a new Engine. This is the most recent Engine the series got before the turn based Combat version of Yakuza 7 was announced. This is also the Engine that Judgement was based around however this came out before that game so it's going to feel a bit off by comparison. You're going to have to adapt to this new style and try to be patient with it, because as much as it sucks compared to previous combat systems in the series you can still learn to adapt to it and tolerate it. 11:42 Every new blood always ask this question about Haruka's age at this point, the answer is she's 10. The dreaded double digits. 37:31 Yayoi is someone who you can meet in a substory in Kiwami near the end of the game where she had her boys confront Kiryu about the murder of her husband and when that didn't work she confronted him herself with a freaking Katana in her hand and asked him directly if he really killed her husband because even she didn't believe he did. I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the comments already explained this to you. 52:04 Daigo Dojima is yet another character you could have met in a substory this time in Yakuza 0 but but by then he's a small boy with a mother who gave him TERRIBLE fashion. Hell you can also meet Shinji in a substory also from Yakuza 0 and learned how and why Shinji came to idolize Kiryu. As I'm sure this had been told alot Never underestimate how much some of the sub stories you play can play an impact in future installments in the series and can also some backstories to some characters. As everyone in the Tojo already knows that Nishiki was the one who killed Dojima so that misunderstanding has been cleared up.
Dojima's wife is part of a side story, some of them are important. Especially in Y3 in which a huge part of certain character's appeal is in sidequests
Did you play any of the side quests in Yakuza 0? If you did, there were a lot of side quests like meeting Daigo as a kid and Yayoi about the aftermath of Dojima’s murder
Yesss, finally. Like some other people said, it would be worth playing at least some substories, because there are some really interesting and hilarious things.
I am surprised no one has told you about the substories, you see in the Yakuza games they have some substories involving of the main story. Even though you have not played them in the previous game they shall introduce you in the next game, for example Daigo he was debouted in the Yakuza 0 and there were some substories in kiwami 1 involving the death of dojima and the tattoo lady, her boss asked her to disguise herself as the disguised Yumi to bring customers, but because of him they got her killed and the manager ended crying for her.
Yakisa kiwami 2 is played with the dragon engine from yakuza 6 the same engine that was used for judgement and the story writer for yakuza 2 is a author who writes crime novel so be ready that the people say to be the best story in the yakuza series
Ooh can't wait to watch this! (I'm still not yet done watching your reactions from Yakuza 0 lmao) Is there a full stream to all of your yakuza gameplays including this? Because I wanna see if you did the sub stories from 0 as well as Kiwami 1.
"There's war every year" Yeah it's funny. It was originally a writing contrivance, but over the years it grew into it's own overarching story of Tojo's downfall.
Yeah, Dojima's wife sadly was a substory in Kiwami. It's kinda weird since in the original PS2, it's actually part of the main story right before you confronted Nishiki.
No it wasn't. In the PS2 version it was just a mere substory back then too. You're just mixing it up because back then you were committed to doing all the substories so you assumed that was part of the main story.
@@DingoEnderZOE2 No, it's not. In the original PS2, some of it were part of the main story progression as it was intended to fleshed out the story and characters. It's the reason why they have cutscenes with voices compared to other substories even in the Kiwami version. There's no such thing as "committed to do all the substories" when there's not even a marker for it. You just stumble upon them as you walk through the city. In the original, it was quite obvious to see which one was main story and which one was substory because of the cutscenes and voices. Dojima Yayoi was nowhere near being a substory as you will get a phone call from Florist unlike in Kiwami, you need to meet a certain requirement to trigger it.
@@zeroskaterz92 No it really wasn't part of the main game, you could legit ignore that substory and continue with the game without being aware of it. Thats what I mean by it's not part of the main game.
@@DingoEnderZOE2 You may not aware of it in Kiwami but you definitely being told to in the original. Bullshit if you are not aware of it in the original when you're literally being *FORCED* to get a call from the Florist no matter what.
Yay !!! The Yayoi substory in 1 is very missable, but basically she asks for answers and Kiryu is all "ill tell you once i sort it out" Daigo is actually in 0 in a substory where he's a 12 yo lil shit. Funnily enough the cover antagonist of 2 is ALSO in a 0 substory where he's also a lil shit kid, but in a different way and on the majima side Also that makes Daigo about 30 yo in this game and yet he feels very teenagery And yeah it's hilarious how much hardened yakuza with twenty years of career defer to Kiryu, a dude who effectively only spent maybe 10 years actually doing any yakuza stuff, and at a way lower rank, but he's badass and good at fighting so Clearly he knows how to organize and deal with tense negotiations better than them
castlevania season 3 available today-but you know what? I am getting surprise how do you have heart to play yakuza and watching anime and play star wars and watching trailer??? how many hearts do you have to focus on all of this? trailer no problems but games and anime which one you start you must finish it before going to another one am I write or not ?
@FlusterCuck808 she knew how much people wanted them and potentially how important they but she decided not to do any because she wanted to catch up with all the games at the time in under a year. also up to here at least all the games have a way to show substories on the map
Patreon shoutout: Petr Boháč ❤️
Thank you so much for waiting guys! I'm really excited to get back into Kiryu's story. About the side missions, again I don't do them because I want to finish this game before April due to the new games. I don't want to stop this let's play in the middle then pick it up months later. So what I was thinking was putting the side missions up on Patreon. If you guys would like that, please let me know! :)
Considering how PS4 controller support varies from game to game on how it works you can go into the steam controller settings and disable xbox controller support to see if it'll keep the prompts consistent. If you have a 3rd party program to make games see the DS4 as a Xbox controller disable that. I'd check on the game myself but I'm not at home and I only have my Xbox controller with me since that tends to be my default for PC. Hope one of those helps out!
Thank you! I'll give it a try :)
Keep Up The Great Work Awesome Video I Absolutely Loved It More Yakuza Pliss!!
Fun Fact, Kiwami 2 uses the same “Dragon” engine that Judgment and Yakuza 6 used, so the fighting style, the amazing physics like breaking stores and furniture, and menus/map will be more reminiscent of those two instead of Kiwami 1 and 0. Yakuza 2 is often regarded as one of the best in the series, so I can’t wait to experience it again with you!
That's good but unfortunately the combat is extremely limited compared to 0 and Kiwami 1. Probably it's weakest part compared to 0 and 1.
Only one style that is pretty limited unless you grind it out big time and unlock everything, and even then it's not *that* great. Has some fun stuff buy yeah.
Edit: Does it improve in later games like 5-6? I have only played the ones on PC.(like 0 and 1, many styles with tonnes of moves, being able to chain combos between styles and many more things, played 0 for a long time and still hadn't seen all combos and heat moves)
@@HiddenStr3ngth I feel it's the opposite. I think this combat system is a lot more diverse than the one from the PS3 engine. While changing styles in 0, you were still doing the same things. Only faster, or stronger, etc. In this one you can kick someone while they're down for example, co-op heat attacks, and more interaction with the environment.
@@HiddenStr3ngth The style changing was introduced in Ishin (samurai game) and it carried over to 0 and Kiwami. Yakuza 1-5 has always had the same style for Kiryu (the Legend/Dragon style from 0/Kiwami).
You could chalk it up story wise to Kiryu not having a defined fighting style yet in the 80's and his styles eventually formed into one later on as he got better (Legend/Dragon style) The theory goes out the window with Kiwami though since they brought back the styles. I guess you could say the amount of prison time he went through made him rusty so he had to fight through Majima x amount of times to get it all back. Yeah... that makes sense.
But yeah, technically, I THINK the biggest reason for adding the fighting styles in 0 was that they were going down to two characters. Yakuza 4 and 5 had multiple protagonists. The fighting styles in 0 were heavily influenced by the other protags and had a bunch of the same heat actions too. I guess they didn't want all the heat actions and stuff from previous games to go to waste.
Have you ever wondered how Kiryu suddenly becomes a slow hulking brute in Beast style but is somehow much faster than normal in Rush style? Almost like they're different characters right?
With Yakuza 6, they started with a clean slate and with a new engine. Kiryu is back to fighting in one style. Kind of different from the old "Dragon Style" but still retains many moves from the other styles. They were going for an all-in-one package here. Tbh to me it feels more dynamic and fluid than the older games but I can see your point. They brought back multiple styles in Judgment and they exist in Yakuza 7 in the form of 'classes' so I guess the devs missed them too lol
@@HiddenStr3ngth 6 launched before Kiwami 2 and Judgment. 6 was the first one that used Dragon Engine so it's not as good.
@@HiddenStr3ngth I got a reply notification but it vanished. Just wanted to clarify about kicking opponents who are down. If you're running towards enemy A, while enemy B is lying on the ground, you can now give enemy B a kick as you pass him by without losing much momentum. To my recollection, in previous games you had to stop and commit to the attack. So that made it feel more stiff for me, while in this engine it feels more fluid and natural, for lack of a better term. I didn't recall co-op heat attacks in previous games. Which one had that? And what were your issues with the Dragon engine? Couldn't read the rest of that part of your reply.
Thats why you should do the substories in the yakuza games too. there is ALOT of context through the entire series.
For example, the main villain in Kiwami 2 also is part of a sidequest in 0.
i assume you never did go back to do sidequest/side story in Yakuza 0,Kiwami so
-in Yakuza 0 you can actually met Daigo as one of the sidequest, Daigo was still young back then, there should be a quest where messenger said one of Dojima family member want to meet Kiryu at Batting Cage and he's not an enemy going there and you'll met Daigo exchange conversation and do some activity with him.
-In Yakuza Kiwami you can also met Yayoi Dojima in one of sidequest where someone want to meet Kiryu at where it all first happen, The Dojima Family's Office, there Yayoi Dojima will show up and demanded the answer if Kiryu really kill Sohei Dojima (her husband) or not (and Kiryu would refuse to answer) you fight her bodyguards and Kiryu ask her to wait a bit longer and he'll answer everything.
I'm extremely late for this but in Y0, you can also meet "young" Ryuji Goda beating the shit out of middle schoolers and steal their pants, one of which he intentionally shook down because that kid bullied his classmates.
@@4thsin098Yup and Majima proceeds to beat tf out of a 12 year old Ryuji which was pretty funny
The whole Kiryu-Haruka dynamic is so freakin adorable. Damn you Tojo-clan and Yakuza honor! >_
Her drawing of him is so cute lol
Fun tip time:
Okay this is the game that has a TOTALLY different combat system along with a new Engine. This is the most recent Engine the series got before the turn based Combat version of Yakuza 7 was announced. This is also the Engine that Judgement was based around however this came out before that game so it's going to feel a bit off by comparison.
You're going to have to adapt to this new style and try to be patient with it, because as much as it sucks compared to previous combat systems in the series you can still learn to adapt to it and tolerate it.
11:42 Every new blood always ask this question about Haruka's age at this point, the answer is she's 10. The dreaded double digits.
37:31 Yayoi is someone who you can meet in a substory in Kiwami near the end of the game where she had her boys confront Kiryu about the murder of her husband and when that didn't work she confronted him herself with a freaking Katana in her hand and asked him directly if he really killed her husband because even she didn't believe he did. I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the comments already explained this to you.
52:04 Daigo Dojima is yet another character you could have met in a substory this time in Yakuza 0 but but by then he's a small boy with a mother who gave him TERRIBLE fashion. Hell you can also meet Shinji in a substory also from Yakuza 0 and learned how and why Shinji came to idolize Kiryu. As I'm sure this had been told alot Never underestimate how much some of the sub stories you play can play an impact in future installments in the series and can also some backstories to some characters.
As everyone in the Tojo already knows that Nishiki was the one who killed Dojima so that misunderstanding has been cleared up.
Marshmallow emo Daigo is my fav Daigo
Dojima's wife is part of a side story, some of them are important. Especially in Y3 in which a huge part of certain character's appeal is in sidequests
Did you play any of the side quests in Yakuza 0? If you did, there were a lot of side quests like meeting Daigo as a kid and Yayoi about the aftermath of Dojima’s murder
I didn't sadly. But people told me about them being in there, which I think is really neat!
Kiryu keeps getting swoler and swoler and it's making me thirsty for him lol
I don't blame you lol
thirst trap KIRYU😀
And boy this is how Jessica came to love one of the best character of the series.
He never mentioned Reina or Shinji who were very "dear" to him just makes me sad.
You first see a young Daigo Dojima in a substory in Yakuza 0 of Kiryu's.
Every single game . A chairman dies . Every single game kiryu screams out for them .
Not after this one tho. Daigo makes it thru every game.
Kiryu needs to move out of Japan. that the only way he'll be aver to live a yakuza free life with Haruka.
that cutscene with Yayoi Dojima appears during one of substories, not rly important imo since you're all the info in this game anyway
Always have a habit when I play these games I always watch playthrough to see there reaction as well
daigo was that kid in yakuza 0 that got bullied in the batting cages i think it was part of the main story
Yesss, finally. Like some other people said, it would be worth playing at least some substories, because there are some really interesting and hilarious things.
Daigo is pretty cool tbh
I like him so far :) to me so far, he's kind of like Kiryu.
54:51 That's what she said ? ;d
I'm just looking forward to Majima haha Well, other things too.
She appears in one of the substories in Kiwami. You go to the Dojima Family Office and you meet her there.
You actually got to meet Dojima's son in a subquest during Yakuza 0. He was just a bratty little kid back then though.
I am surprised no one has told you about the substories, you see in the Yakuza games they have some substories involving of the main story. Even though you have not played them in the previous game they shall introduce you in the next game, for example Daigo he was debouted in the Yakuza 0 and there were some substories in kiwami 1 involving the death of dojima and the tattoo lady, her boss asked her to disguise herself as the disguised Yumi to bring customers, but because of him they got her killed and the manager ended crying for her.
Yakisa kiwami 2 is played with the dragon engine from yakuza 6 the same engine that was used for judgement and the story writer for yakuza 2 is a author who writes crime novel so be ready that the people say to be the best story in the yakuza series
龍が如く待ってました！今回も楽しみだー
Kiryu is the definition of "I've got one last job to take care of."
My favorite yakuza game the original and this one
Yes the continues of Yakuza story..
Kiwami 2 is going to be a fun experience. I hope you enjoy it!
Ooh can't wait to watch this! (I'm still not yet done watching your reactions from Yakuza 0 lmao) Is there a full stream to all of your yakuza gameplays including this? Because I wanna see if you did the sub stories from 0 as well as Kiwami 1.
Life of yakuza is a curse in a way
Very cursed
Kazuma Kiryu love it !
If you turn on your ps4 controller while the game is already on, button will show up as ps4 set up
Doesn't for me unfortunately. It keeps flipping back and forth to Xbox.
That was close!
yeah no rest.Then it 3,4,5,6,7 and ishin🤣🤣
dont miss majima story too
There's no need for ishhin though
Yup, Majima story very importance
I will for sure add Majima's storyline to the let's play :)
@@Moody.Smiruai It's also kinda impossible to play if you don't understand Japanese, since the game isn't even out in English yet.
@@superzentrik Ehh i dunno about important, it's awesome though.
And (unfortunately?) pretty short.
A lot of the nods to Kiwami 2 comes from 0 & Kiwami 1 side quests.
Pretty sure on the steam app ya can change the controller type of your choice it always defaults to Xbox controller
there is a mod for ps4 button prompts i think
Let’s recap from the previous game.
It was confusing about between both X-Box and PS4 controller.
If you want ps4 button layaut, go on nexus website and download ps4 prompt button mod.
"There's war every year"
Yeah it's funny. It was originally a writing contrivance, but over the years it grew into it's own overarching story of Tojo's downfall.
I definitely like Yayoi because she is a bad ass person.
Yeah, Dojima's wife sadly was a substory in Kiwami. It's kinda weird since in the original PS2, it's actually part of the main story right before you confronted Nishiki.
No it wasn't. In the PS2 version it was just a mere substory back then too. You're just mixing it up because back then you were committed to doing all the substories so you assumed that was part of the main story.
@@DingoEnderZOE2 No, it's not. In the original PS2, some of it were part of the main story progression as it was intended to fleshed out the story and characters. It's the reason why they have cutscenes with voices compared to other substories even in the Kiwami version.
There's no such thing as "committed to do all the substories" when there's not even a marker for it. You just stumble upon them as you walk through the city.
In the original, it was quite obvious to see which one was main story and which one was substory because of the cutscenes and voices. Dojima Yayoi was nowhere near being a substory as you will get a phone call from Florist unlike in Kiwami, you need to meet a certain requirement to trigger it.
@@zeroskaterz92 No it really wasn't part of the main game, you could legit ignore that substory and continue with the game without being aware of it.
Thats what I mean by it's not part of the main game.
@@DingoEnderZOE2 You may not aware of it in Kiwami but you definitely being told to in the original.
Bullshit if you are not aware of it in the original when you're literally being *FORCED* to get a call from the Florist no matter what.
IT’S DISCO TIME!
Yay !!!
The Yayoi substory in 1 is very missable, but basically she asks for answers and Kiryu is all "ill tell you once i sort it out"
Daigo is actually in 0 in a substory where he's a 12 yo lil shit. Funnily enough the cover antagonist of 2 is ALSO in a 0 substory where he's also a lil shit kid, but in a different way and on the majima side
Also that makes Daigo about 30 yo in this game and yet he feels very teenagery
And yeah it's hilarious how much hardened yakuza with twenty years of career defer to Kiryu, a dude who effectively only spent maybe 10 years actually doing any yakuza stuff, and at a way lower rank, but he's badass and good at fighting so Clearly he knows how to organize and deal with tense negotiations better than them
Don't worry, I thought that was Date too 😂
REAAAAAAAADY! FIGHT!
castlevania season 3 available today-but you know what? I am getting surprise how do you have heart to play yakuza and watching anime and play star wars and watching trailer??? how many hearts do you have to focus on all of this? trailer no problems but games and anime which one you start you must finish it before going to another one am I write or not ?
What the fuck are you talking about? Lol
Nice :)
Kiwami 2 get the technology right for a remake, but did not get the heart, soul and the ideas behind the original Yakuza 2 to be honest.
finally
Anyone who crosses Kiryu's path, "Oh no you don't! You're messin' with the Dragon of Dojima, chumps."
TERADA! NOOOOOOOOO!
You're missing 50% of the game by not playing the Substories.
More like 70%
How is she to know that if the game doesn't give any hints? As for the substories, unless you pull up a guide, they are encountered by pure chance.
@FlusterCuck808 she knew how much people wanted them and potentially how important they but she decided not to do any because she wanted to catch up with all the games at the time in under a year. also up to here at least all the games have a way to show substories on the map
The story in this game was kinda meh, definitely the weakest story in the entire series. At least to me.