Lau Ka Long always kinda felt like the closest thing Kiryu had to a personal arch enemy, maybe besides Hiroshi Hayashi, so the two of them being willing to bury the hatchet is really heartwarming.
I love how Kiryu is just like "Look, I get it, but... we've each moved on, Lau Ka Long. Let's at least part ways amicably." without actually stating it.
I like how Saeko casually stop by at an underground arms dealer, and nonchalantly deals with deal-gone-wrong situation as if she's shopping at a local Walmart
After the shit she went through in the first game and the fact that she's friends with Zhao, Joon-gi Han and Seonhee, she's probably used to just casually stopping by places like this at this point.
This definitely throws the twin brother theory right out the window. This doesn't really explain how one would survive a direct shot to the head (which they remind us of in this game). Was he revived by mystic Chinese herbal medicine? I bet it was mystic Chinese herbal medicine.
People have survived being shot in the head though so it isn't impossible. The bullet was also in his head and didn't exit out the other side so the damage wouldn't be as bad.
Its so hilarious, like they could've danced around it by never showing how he died but RGG is so smug and just plastered his headshotted flashback picture there to remind you. The best part is they never explain it, similar with Richardson, it's both just "yeah, I got better, what of it?".
Dude literally tortured Kiryu in a closed room, I'd have PTSD from just the name if I were him Also sent his entire gang in the streets just to find Kiryu
i woulda expected him to at least be lau ka long's unknown son who's had grudge against kiryu for killing his dad but i didnt expect it to be actually him. it really doesnt make sense how he's still alive from a bullet to the head
After all of those fights in the past which are to the death, both men now let go of the past and forgive each other as both become a man who erase his name.
I'm surprised here. Despite his Snake Flower Triad was not anymore. He actually still have a power to rebuild his clan once more. But instead, he decided to hide his real identity and became weapon dealer? 😶
This is one of the few substories I somehow missed in my playthrough of Infinite Wealth. So we got to see Kiryu's reaction to Kashiwagi and Lau. Now I wish we got to see his reaction to Richardson. Too bad he already met him off camera.
"how did he survive" "Gunshot wounds to the head are fatal about 90% of the time, with many victims dying before arriving to the hospital. For victims who survive the initial trauma, about 50% die in the emergency room."
Story wise it feels like the Yakuza series has become a joke. First Kashiwagi, then Han Joon Gi, Chau Ka Long (Who i assumed was Lau's brother), and now Andre Richardson.
You learn in the previous game that the Joon Gi Han that we see is actually a body double that outlived the original. He’s got a drink link about it too.
Yeah besides han joon this all seems a bit absurd. I especially don't like Richardson being alive even though it seems cool at first. Should have been someone else who didn't die just didn't appear in the later games
@@ssniperaaron I mean Kiryu's death being faked was obvious from the get go. Meanwhile Lau got shot in the head, Kashiwagi got obliterated by machine gun fire and Richardson fell off a ruff.
Honestly we may as well use game logic to explain how our boy survived a clean headshot. Lau just has that ability that lets you survive an otherwise fatal wound if youre in heat mode.
For anyone with hope Mine is not dead, he probably is deceased. RGG held a procession for the deceased yakuza characters last year. Alongside Nishiki and Kazama, Mine was there.
Yeah I agree. I dunno how they butchered them so badly. Vtuber literally revealed he's alive but not a single bucket character acknowledges it so far. I'm hoping it changes but I don't think it will at this rate. Literally so many people know Kiryu is alive but the people that should acknowledge him.
@@humenspider7 I mean, Kiryu's ending is like one of the worst scenes in the series so far by itself. Should've killed him with rubber bullets or smth idk
@@jd7337 because it's not just dumb "You're mistaken, I've never heard of this Kiryu guy" and "Actually, I might be not Kiryu but I knew somebody like you too" for 5 minutes.
Kinda pissed this guy was revealed to actually be Lau. Would've been way better for Chau to just his vengeful brother, considering we see Lau shot in the *fucking brain.*
@@kingsboro1 Yeah, and Lau clearly died when that bullet went through his brain. Annoying that RGG can't just let their characters have their endings, especially when they don't give a proper sense of closure to them.
@@aerodynamo4874 Honestly I think that after all these games Yokoyama has come to regret Yakuza 3 in hindsight, atleast that's what I get from seeing all these should be, very clearly, definitively dead characters coming back to life
As a massive Yakuza fan, this is why I prefer the Judgment series now. There are no more stakes in Yakuza anymore, Infinite Wealth also ends so disappointingly, I'm pretty sure in 9 they'll 'kill' off Kiryu, just to bring him back in 10. Repeat.
Ok I'm calling bullshit on Lau surviving. Like ok we didn't see what happened when Andre fell and Kashiwagi survived for a bit after being turned into swiss cheese, but Lau took a hit straight to the head. This dude wasn't fuckin moving either. He took a serious non-rubber bullet straight to the noggin. There's no way he fucking survives.
Hope they don't revive anyone in the future games, this is getting ridiculous if you can't invest in anyone character arc and their death if they are getting revived few games later.
uhh nishiki is definitely dead...and also Kiryu has never killed ANYONE...and where have you been living..yakuza games have alwaysd been this fucking quirky
This is totally bulls**t. It was already ridicolous in Y7 with the twin brother excuse (the 100th twin/body double) in the series, but this is too much. He was shot in the head, c'mon... And Kashiwagi and Richardson with him...
"Leave old grudges at the door, Lau. We both don't even have enough time to see them through."
Kiryu faking his own death
Kashiwagi, Richardson, Lau Ka Long: First time?
Cringe.
@@UndyingHatred_ Says the person unironically using the word "cringe".
@@davisbowe8668 Woah that’s crazy, too bad I didn’t ask.
@@davisbowe8668 Funny, no one even asks him in the first place and it's he himself choose to bring subject up for people to talk about
@@UndyingHatred_ Tell me you're a loser without telling me
Chau ka long: Say my name...
Kiryu: Lau ka Long...
Lau ka long: You're got damn right
The Chau ones is to fake death
@@darrentalvinnoli8133 I assume Richardson fall to the rubber and Mine fall to the actual ground
Lau Ka Long always kinda felt like the closest thing Kiryu had to a personal arch enemy, maybe besides Hiroshi Hayashi, so the two of them being willing to bury the hatchet is really heartwarming.
I mean, there's Jo Amon, too
@@RossWyatt But they aren't that main story related
@@GoldenAureliushAs of Infinite Wealth, they are. Kiryu admits that he has fought the clan countless times.
@@RossWyatt I feel like the beef with Amon isn't nearly as serious though. With Lau it's very personal
I love how Kiryu is just like "Look, I get it, but... we've each moved on, Lau Ka Long. Let's at least part ways amicably." without actually stating it.
Did anyone actually die in Yakuza 3? next game it will be Tamashiro and Rikiya running a burguer joint, and Kanda and Mine will be wedding organizers.
Wedding organizers, of all the jobs 😂
Kanda be having that rubber decapitation
Every bullet in yakuza 3 is made out of rubber apparently
@@KiwamiMan-q6ueven the ground is made of rubber
Mine was just using a rubber Kanda head
It’s nice how they played ogre has returned for the fight
how he survived: remains unexplained
The bullet that hit him was just red paint... probably...
I think that would be a rubber bullet
he taped a packet of ketchup to his forehead
It could have pierced the skin but not the skull, probably due to the angle. Like if he could pierce the skull but not damage the brain.
@@KenichiKuroki bruh it literally went through, it's just a retcon
I like how Saeko casually stop by at an underground arms dealer, and nonchalantly deals with deal-gone-wrong situation as if she's shopping at a local Walmart
After the shit she went through in the first game and the fact that she's friends with Zhao, Joon-gi Han and Seonhee, she's probably used to just casually stopping by places like this at this point.
You know for a fact that Seonhee is a huge fan of Kiryu as she tries to snap Lau out of the spite for the Dragon.
And also that fact that Seonhee a baddie
@@lukrosi_326Lol.
@@lukrosi_326She down bad, for sure. Imagine if Kaoru is with Kiryu next to Seonhee, then a fight ensues. As what SupaHotFire claim, “I WATCH THAT!”
You know how Lau survived? He set his belt buckle to Wombo.
7:28 Ogre has returned
8:50 So Dev's trying to say that Lau survived headshot?
I am glad that Lau Ka Long was able to overcome his grudge.
This definitely throws the twin brother theory right out the window. This doesn't really explain how one would survive a direct shot to the head (which they remind us of in this game). Was he revived by mystic Chinese herbal medicine? I bet it was mystic Chinese herbal medicine.
People have survived being shot in the head though so it isn't impossible. The bullet was also in his head and didn't exit out the other side so the damage wouldn't be as bad.
@@JackFord836 well Mr. Ruff guy survived so Mine could have survived as well. Bur it is very unlikely
@@moustafaabousalem1411 lmao what a cope answer to say RGG does not care and resurrects characters because they can
@@DoganMEI fucking hate them, guys. Can somebody just fucking kill Kiryu? Joel style? Without fucking whining about friendship, please.
Lau ka long survived because of his mastery of 4000 years old chinese medicine.
You know, the cutscene bullets weren't as scary as we thought
i always though that this was suposed to be Yen Long,
Lau Ka Longs son from that yakuza 2 substory with granny white
Is this a Mandela effect? I thought Yen Long was Lau Ka Long's classmate
@@rlira8072 in ps2 yakuza 2 he is refered to as his son
it might have been retconed in kiwami2 but i dont think so
Wait, I thought Yen Long was his brother.
The scar is a dead giveaway, though.
@@SteelShroom256 i thought that that was just rgg reusing assets again
Its so hilarious, like they could've danced around it by never showing how he died but RGG is so smug and just plastered his headshotted flashback picture there to remind you.
The best part is they never explain it, similar with Richardson, it's both just "yeah, I got better, what of it?".
By the 10th game, Yumi will somehow be alive as well XD
Kiryu got ptsd on him lmfao
Dude literally tortured Kiryu in a closed room, I'd have PTSD from just the name if I were him
Also sent his entire gang in the streets just to find Kiryu
i woulda expected him to at least be lau ka long's unknown son who's had grudge against kiryu for killing his dad but i didnt expect it to be actually him. it really doesnt make sense how he's still alive from a bullet to the head
After all of those fights in the past which are to the death, both men now let go of the past and forgive each other as both become a man who erase his name.
I'm surprised here. Despite his Snake Flower Triad was not anymore. He actually still have a power to rebuild his clan once more. But instead, he decided to hide his real identity and became weapon dealer? 😶
Last times he tried to gain more Power he got Beated by kiryu and after 3y to 4y got shot in The head
Triad don't like failures hamazaki from yakuza 3 and 4 who made a deal with them lost his yakuza family
@@kingsboro1you can add big lo from 6 too he even admitted that a hitman is after him by breaking a triad code
Im guessing he survived with the power of 4000 years of Chinese martial arts
Baki
This is one of the few substories I somehow missed in my playthrough of Infinite Wealth. So we got to see Kiryu's reaction to Kashiwagi and Lau. Now I wish we got to see his reaction to Richardson. Too bad he already met him off camera.
"how did he survive"
"Gunshot wounds to the head are fatal about 90% of the time, with many victims dying before arriving to the hospital. For victims who survive the initial trauma, about 50% die in the emergency room."
I know headshots are possibly survivable and all but goddamn this plot armor is ridiculously thick.
Richardson AND Ka Long survived? Shieeet
i guess everyone in yakuza 3 lives
@@awesomedude32435Kanda is 100% ded, that is for sure
@@awesomedude32435Everyone...Everyone except the most important dude.
RIKIYAAAAAAA!
@@awesomedude32435including Miner 🥹
Rikiya: press x to doubt @@awesomedude32435
Lau: Do you remember me?
Kiryu: You're the guy i broke so many vases and tables on his head
Story wise it feels like the Yakuza series has become a joke. First Kashiwagi, then Han Joon Gi, Chau Ka Long (Who i assumed was Lau's brother), and now Andre Richardson.
You learn in the previous game that the Joon Gi Han that we see is actually a body double that outlived the original. He’s got a drink link about it too.
Yeah besides han joon this all seems a bit absurd. I especially don't like Richardson being alive even though it seems cool at first. Should have been someone else who didn't die just didn't appear in the later games
i mean kiryu is supposed to be dead so im not surprised others survived like him too
@@ssniperaaron I mean Kiryu's death being faked was obvious from the get go.
Meanwhile Lau got shot in the head, Kashiwagi got obliterated by machine gun fire and Richardson fell off a ruff.
These people aren't major characters so weather they live or not doesn't matter
At this point bring back ryuji goda, nishkiyama, mine and shintaro as well man.
Honestly we may as well use game logic to explain how our boy survived a clean headshot. Lau just has that ability that lets you survive an otherwise fatal wound if youre in heat mode.
I always laughed cuz “Taichi Suzuki” is the equivalent of “John Smith”
Oh man, you missed out on some great moves. Vagrant Splitter is probably the most nostalgia I have for the older yakuza games
For anyone with hope Mine is not dead, he probably is deceased. RGG held a procession for the deceased yakuza characters last year. Alongside Nishiki and Kazama, Mine was there.
This is one of my favorite bucket list substories
9:02 what's the background music?
lmk if u find out. im also searching
Same trying to find it too, it’s so good
It've better been if that was Lau's relative. At least we're wouldn't have to question his identity or past.
As far as I'm concerned lau ka long and Richardson are dead, the only death retcon I'm accepting is kashiwagi.
Who are they gonna revive next? Not-Saejima from Yakuza 0?
Rubber explosion
Dawg that guy ain't coming back for sure.
Andre Richardson and Lau Ka Long? I’d rather have Rikiya and Mine alive!
If mine is revealed to be alive in the next game I'm going to lose my mind.
Looks like the only Bucket List substory they've done right. Komaki one is good too but this one is way better.
Yeah I agree. I dunno how they butchered them so badly. Vtuber literally revealed he's alive but not a single bucket character acknowledges it so far. I'm hoping it changes but I don't think it will at this rate. Literally so many people know Kiryu is alive but the people that should acknowledge him.
@@humenspider7 I mean, Kiryu's ending is like one of the worst scenes in the series so far by itself. Should've killed him with rubber bullets or smth idk
@@persona3rulez Why?
@@jd7337 because it's not just dumb "You're mistaken, I've never heard of this Kiryu guy" and "Actually, I might be not Kiryu but I knew somebody like you too" for 5 minutes.
Bait used to be believable
He almost said Lau Ka Long
Chau Ka Long has the same mark on his face
Kinda pissed this guy was revealed to actually be Lau. Would've been way better for Chau to just his vengeful brother, considering we see Lau shot in the *fucking brain.*
People have survived a headshot
@@kingsboro1 Yeah, and Lau clearly died when that bullet went through his brain. Annoying that RGG can't just let their characters have their endings, especially when they don't give a proper sense of closure to them.
@@aerodynamo4874
Honestly I think that after all these games Yokoyama has come to regret Yakuza 3 in hindsight, atleast that's what I get from seeing all these should be, very clearly, definitively dead characters coming back to life
is shinada or tanimura mentioned ANYWHERE in the game?
yes! I'll make a video showing off the memoires that involve them :)
@@FazFaz OH MY GOD THIS MAY BE THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE DJSJDMSNJXJXJDKDJDJDJXJX
I'm exporting the video now, I'll have it scheduled to be up in 20 minutes :)
Ive tried looking everywhere to find hhis theme because i cant find it anywhere, as far as i can tell its not in the ost itself :(
It’s called orge has returned, it’s used in yakuza 3 as his boss theme
rubber bullets strike again!
As a massive Yakuza fan, this is why I prefer the Judgment series now. There are no more stakes in Yakuza anymore, Infinite Wealth also ends so disappointingly, I'm pretty sure in 9 they'll 'kill' off Kiryu, just to bring him back in 10. Repeat.
oh shut up you actual massive baby
"no stakes in Yakuza" as if theres not a million other dead characters still dead.
9:03 what’s the ost playing here
Ok I'm calling bullshit on Lau surviving. Like ok we didn't see what happened when Andre fell and Kashiwagi survived for a bit after being turned into swiss cheese, but Lau took a hit straight to the head. This dude wasn't fuckin moving either. He took a serious non-rubber bullet straight to the noggin. There's no way he fucking survives.
Hope they don't revive anyone in the future games, this is getting ridiculous if you can't invest in anyone character arc and their death if they are getting revived few games later.
People have survived a headshot
Sabe oque kashiwagi, o lau eo Richard tem em comum?
Todos supostamente morreram no mesmo jogo...
Depois acho que mine eo rikiya tão vivos tô maluco
Se o rikya tiver vivo acaba todo o drama de yakuza 3....
Him and Yamai have the same hair
If you told me Tsukuno from Judgement is Lau's son I'd believe it
@@BuryTheLight-tds Tsukumo: Hey Yagami san would like you to meet my dad (*Lau walks up creepy*) Yagami: um nice to meet you sir
So is this another Joongi-Han situation here? Did the one got shot by Joji in the head is actually his body double or twin brother?
Nope lau is alive under a new name hiding from people who might want him dead
@@kingsboro1 Still don't explain how he survived a bullet to the head. That is unless he's Lincoln Clay who deflected bullet with his skull.
@@Gauchesuede123 there're people in real life who survived a headshot
This has to be a joke. Guy was shot in the fkin head
welp, guess yakuza has dbz rules now, death means shit
uhh nishiki is definitely dead...and also Kiryu has never killed ANYONE...and where have you been living..yakuza games have alwaysd been this fucking quirky
@@UNSTABLE111 who asked you
@@markusz2844Have a chill
@@UNSTABLE111 not really? they didn't bring dead characters to life, now they do that since 7
@@markusz2844 Me, i asked
Oh how is the quest with nancy and olivia?
Pls tell me rikiya, tachibana and mine still survive somehow
what? no
Dude tachibana literally got his head caved in no way he would have survived that
@@ssj4goku18825theepic you mean toe?
@@ssj4goku18825theepic And even then isn't he buried under the millennium tower?
@@mrrelatable. I think so or he got a proper burial
He’s gotta be 90
Nah, He Just Got The Aging That All The Other Characters Didn't.
around 66 apparently
Just put Granny White instead of Lau Ka Long 😭
She's the teacher of Lau Ka Long of course Kiryu will remember
ｵﾚﾊﾁｶﾗﾃﾞｼｬｶｦﾉｼｱｶﾞｯﾀｵﾄｺﾀﾞ!
This is totally bulls**t. It was already ridicolous in Y7 with the twin brother excuse (the 100th twin/body double) in the series, but this is too much. He was shot in the head, c'mon... And Kashiwagi and Richardson with him...
こいつ、ラウカーロン？！
yes
@@FazFaz Wao!
Kiryu seeing many dead people in 8 lol.
OGRE HAS RETURNED
So if Lau can survive a bullet to the brain, there’s really no reason Kiryu can’t survive terminal cancer
Kiryu is definitely surviving lol that's why he's going chemo there lol
What a bullshit i dont get the joke is rgg saying yakuza 3 is not canon ?