timothytt547 “What the fuck is he doing?” Kiryu, “Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit...” “Uhhhh what are we supposed to do with this?” “Fuck if I know” “Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit, THERE WE GO”
@@twotonecloudboxing1471 they were probably hella confused that a well dressed man jumped from the ceiling and started punching the Chandelier. Also, I dont think normal people can punch metal like that and just break shit.
I like to think he was genuinely frightened when he saw the two tigers, dropped one and had a "That's Rad!" Moment like "OOH, so that's why they call it that!"
1:31 the guys down there: we’re just gonna watch this lunatic beat the shit out of this lamp with his bare fists for a solid 15 seconds while we stand right underneath it
There's honest to god no way of avoiding breaking your own fingers punching an oncoming elbow Even Mike Tyson has broken his fingers due to elbow blocks
The reason kiryu does the knee so much and the gut punch is because they are like signature moves to him but other than that I'd say there's a good amount although I do get how it can look the exact same
@@fishonmydish7774 Yeah, I've been playing through 3, 4 and 5 (I'm on the 5th one), and I remember in 4 especially there were really great boss specific finisher heat moves.
I actually *love* that Ryuji doesn't scratch his sword against the elevator in Kiwami 2. Because as a serious swordsman he would never dull his blade like that just to make some sparks.
It clearly has chips in Kiwami. Maybe he does do it in his free time. 20:52 Above the bottom left kanji in the directly up from the middle curve onnits top, you can see a clear chip in the blade. Alternatively, it's just left of his sideburn.
Little mistake but I forgot to switch Daigo with Ryuji at 2:44, pay it no mind. Edit: Another mistake at 4:42 where I forgot to type Majima there. Holy shit I should've been more thorough but I was too hyped to upload this huge clusterfuck of testosterone.
The “Feel The Heat” section of Daigo’s fight in Kiwami 2 has some serious emotional depth, like in how Daigo and Kiryu were close friends, so it makes sense that Kiryu wouldn’t destroy him or jump knee his face. It’s just one really well placed counter punch that is barely enough to incapacitate him, even the look they share before he falls to the ground feels meaningful. Which is why, despite it being a signature move, I didn’t like how they reused it since it didn’t have as much meaning, for example, in Majima’s fight.
Extremely doubt that the Feel The Heat is supposed to be symbolic of any kind except for 2 of them. They're just game mechanics for most of the bosses. Plus, Kiryu and Daigo didn't know each other as kids. Daigo wasn't even born until Kiryu hit maybe 12 or 11.
Arsenal 473 Oh you’re right, I think I heard Kiryu say Daigo was a good kid and I processed it as if they knew each other as kids. I thought I read in a the profiles from Yakuza Kiwami 2 that Daigo looked up to Kiryu as a kid or something similar. Well maybe the Feel The Heat mechanic being impactful in Daigo’s fight simply was a coincidence, but the introduction of the fight happens similarly to how it ends, as with Kiryu starting it with one open palm punch to the chest, it’s a very similar style and movement to the Feel The Heat segment, that’s why I thought it was designed to be implemented in Daigo’s fight.
@@imanoljesusdelpozo4907 hmm yeah i see what you mean. Also ive been playing 0 and there is a substory with kid Daigo. Sorry for sounding rude btw, I have a talent for unintentionally sounding like an asshole.
@@arsenal4739 Oh no worries dude, I didn't think your comment sounded rude at all. I haven't played 0, but I'm getting there. I just finished 3 and want to get to 4 so badly, because I heard this is the point in which the games get really good and I've already been enjoying the past ones so much despite some awkwardly written scenes here and there, and 0 just looks amazing. It's interesting that there's a sub-story with kid Daigo!
I see your point and have a sort of similar bias on Yakuza now that I've noticed since playing 0/kiwami and 2; Lots of the moves, heat actions and stuff are recycled and at most slightly tweaked. I honestly would've loved to see Kiryu and Majima take advantage of their fighting style systems from 0/KW and do some pretty unique shit with it
You´re right, I mean in the dynamic intro Kiryu fakes a punch an throw a kick that Majima majestically dodges, and then in the qte you can see Majima faked a punch before throwing that round kick and then we do a qte XD
Gameboy _ granted nothing done in yakuza would be possible if they had the story be that Kiryu is struggling to cross that moral boundary and then had him suplexing people into traffic post and shooting them with golden pistols
RGG Studio really learned how to make a flashy entry, makes the Jingweon's dynamic entry in the original look like just another gang scuffle instead of a city-wide war. And boy, that final fight's intro. It's got 0's hype and Kiwami's emotional punch.
Now why know why that massively damaging counter punch is called Tiger Drop... as in, you put a tiger to sleep with that devastating counter. Literally.
I think Hayashi's feel the heat in the original was a lot more brutal, because in Kiwami, Hayashi was taking all of Kiryu's punches while standing all on his own, but in the original, he needed to lie on the fence for support because the sheer weight of Kiryu's punches was too much for him to handle. Both instances ended with him getting knocked tf out, ofc, but the beatdown in the original was a lot harder.
the Dynamic Intros in Yakuza now definitely make the game way more epic and you know your pretty much playing a Yakuza game seeing them! the best ones are in Yakuza 0 with Kuze man...and Kuze's theme is by far one of the best hands down!
1:40 - I'm not sure which one of these is more stupid. Kazuma punching steel until it breaks, or five dudes not being able to hit someone literally ten feet above them with guns. 6:30 - Guiles Theme Plays
Little details where they've reused the same animations to save effort but it still doesn't look lazy are great. Prime example is the "Kim reloading" QTE where you can see the animation is the exact same one, they just shot it from a different angle that actually obscures his hands and saves them having to waste dev time on doing intricate hand animations. Looks so much better for so little effort. Love looking for little tricks like those.
Really loved the Ryuji Goda fight at the very end of Kiwami 2. Glad to see they remained pretty faithful to the original while also just making it seem that much more epic.
What I love in Kiwami 2 is that it shows how Kazuma has not fully forgotten his skills from Kiwami 1, and even implements some of the signature techniques such as the Komaki Tiger Drop
idk I only started learning how to actually fight this year but the way I see it original yakuza 2 had more realistic fights *looks at the chandelier moment* most of the time
Some people may want to see every detail concerning how the reused animations hold up in the latest dragon engine compared to its original release all the way back on the PS2, or if there are any slight differences (camera angle and the like, very subtle differences) and whatnot, so I would say yes.
@@devilleon7 I think he meant the parts where you just said "No dynamic intro in the original" and let a black screen run next to the Kiwami 2 intro. It would have been fine to just show the Kiwami 2 intro and not "compare" it with a black screen.
Rule of Yakuza: Only guns can kill. The only exception is if a character dies in somebody else's arms and has time to say what they need to say. Sometimes both.
@@femboycyan Btw, Kiryu has definitely racked up a very substantial body count. Maybe rubber bullets but he has killed people. The creators of the game have straight up said “Kiryu has never killed anyone unprovoked” implying he has killed several people provoked. However, this line was mistranslated and became “Kiryu has never killed anyone” which really is a shame because it makes people think it’s a plot hole but in reality it’s a mistranslation. TLDR: Yeah he killed people and the creators know this lol
I found it funny when in Kiwami, Kaoru just standing behide the fence, arms folded and looks uninteresting at Kiryu wacking the other due over and over.
Kiwami 2 does add a lot of content and change some aspects of the original in ways that look more visually impressive, but it also has some very bizarre omissions such as complete changing the arena for the first Ryuji fight and removing the Osaka area. Also the PS2 punch sound effects sound a lot crunchier.
Wow, the improvements with the Dragon engine look insanely good. Kiwami 1 looks great with the engine they used in 0 but this looks even better. I just got into the series with 0 and picked it back up after putting it down for a long time. 6 has me feeling the hype again so I'll beat 0 and Kiwami before I start 6.
@@CoolGuyZool129 he can jump into 6 since it's technically a standalone game, that explains mostly everything, then focuses more on kiryu and kiryu only with a little bit of haruka here and there, Majima, seijema, daigo and akiyama are just cameos
Yakuza Kiwami 2: -Literally has "Extreme" in the title -Kiryu swings off a chandelier which causes it to fall down Yakuza 2: -Doesn't have "Extreme" in its title -Kiryu punches the shit out of a chandelier's chain, causing it to fall down while he jumps off of it onto a platform Which one was more extreme?
you ignored how kiryu jumped of the chandelier to superman punch someone in the face, and then rolled out of the way of the falling chandelier in Kiwami 2
I still want the PS2 version. The soul they put into this when it was ground breaking cant be matched. The remake is soulful as well but since it's only a remake it's not quite the same but still you can tell they were probably just as enthusiastic about making both games.
They really done much work in Kiwami 2 in compare to Kiwami 1. It's a little sad that some HEAT repeating, but on the other hand they look really cool, especially the knee in the face, so it's not that bad. P.S. Nice fails by the way)
when I first saw the daigo dynamic encounter my mind was absolutely blown. I play on a 3080 and I was audibly screaming at how amazing it looked. Kiwami 2 is just such an amazing looking game
@@sezunemizuhana3870 I always differenciate artistic direction & work from purely technical consideration. You can make an ugly games with Unreal Engine 4, and a beautifull game with a Playstation 1. Resident Evil 2 & Wipeout 3 are good examples.
Robert Bernard remaster is increase of resolution and fps.In very rare situation it includes updated graphics.New content is remake.Kiwami if I'm not wrong means Remake on Japanese
After watching this I realized you actually did miss a couple of QTEs. During the fight with mysterious foreigners and thier stronger rehashed versions in the finale, they actually have a total of 3 QTEs(not including the feel the heat). The missed QTE here involves one brother grabbing Kiryu from behinnd while the other brothers winds up for a haymaker. Dodging this causes the other brother to get punched instead. The second missing QTE is in the final fight in the PS2 version. In the original version Ryuji's three punches from his first fight is actually also recycled here as well. The reason you probably missed them is because of how situational they are. When fighting the mysterious foreigners it is possible to see only one of the three QTEs during any playthrough because how the enemy has to grab you. Since the haymaker QTE can only trigger if one brother grabs you from behind, which is typcially very rare, most will never see it. As for the original version of Ryuji's final fight I'm not sure what triggers it. Iv'e beaten the original many times and this QTE only pops up half of time. I have no frame of reference to why this is. At least in the remake they did make it different so that counts. It's kind of sad they cut the QTE's from the mysterious foreigners down but thats okay. This remake looks suberb.
Not just only they need to remake 3, 4, 5 on the Yakuza series, but they need to make Kenzan Kiwami and Dead Souls Kiwami. Make the graphics, QTEs, and music score look hella sick and realistic. Especially in Dead Souls. Make them slice a zombie in half and have their guts splattered all across the pavement.
Only shows how Legendary Kiriyu is by the time part 3 and later games came out. He dealt with some stuff in the first two and made a crazy name for himself.
I watch this video very often. I'm quite fond of yakuza's style of beating people up. It's also amazing how far the game has come in terms of graphics.
![Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - All Dynamic Intros [1080p]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KM8Xqx7oa0A/mqdefault.jpg)
![Yakuza 6: The Song of Life - All Dynamic Intros [1080p]](/img/tr.png)
2:26
"Boss, there's someone repeatedly hitting the chandelier right above us! Should- shouldn't we move??"
"Nah I'm good lol"
They underestimated Kiryu's power.
Take the damn like, you funny funny bastard!
To make it clear, they didn't move because they were actually shooting at him.
Lol
@@mumeisapostleiforgorwhatnu3207 They can shoot at him from a safer vantage while he's busy hammering the chandelier, lol.
I like how he keeps punching the chandelier in the original. And how it takes so long.
And how nobody shoots at him or moves out of the way. They just stand there and watch him the whole time
ya
The guys just stand in disbelief and don't even move
timothytt547 “What the fuck is he doing?”
Kiryu, “Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit...”
“Uhhhh what are we supposed to do with this?” “Fuck if I know”
“Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit, THERE WE GO”
@@twotonecloudboxing1471 they were probably hella confused that a well dressed man jumped from the ceiling and started punching the Chandelier. Also, I dont think normal people can punch metal like that and just break shit.
Komaki: tiger drop shouldn’t be used against actual tigers. You would be fucking stupid to do such a thing
Kiryu in Yakuza 2:
In his honest defense, it's Sengoku's fault that Kiryu had to use it on tigers, but hey it worked wonders!
I like to think he was genuinely frightened when he saw the two tigers, dropped one and had a "That's Rad!" Moment like "OOH, so that's why they call it that!"
1:31 the guys down there: we’re just gonna watch this lunatic beat the shit out of this lamp with his bare fists for a solid 15 seconds while we stand right underneath it
Sure why not
Are you telling me Ryuji is the only one who survived Kiryu's Rush style elbow counter? Ryuji's Fist strong as hell
Kuze also is a survivor. That old man never gives up.
@@QuickQuips right
To be fair, Kiryu punched a lunging tiger right in the forehead. A full grown attacking tiger.
Seriously; Punching into an elbow is like trying to punch the outer corner of a house, you’re just gonna split your first
There's honest to god no way of avoiding breaking your own fingers punching an oncoming elbow
Even Mike Tyson has broken his fingers due to elbow blocks
hes got like 30 diferent teeth stuck on his knee by the end of the game
lmfao
If they legit added another tooth everytime you use that move, I would've instantly forgiven how bland it looks.
My only complaint with Kiwami 2 is the lack of diverse "Feel the Heats"
The reason kiryu does the knee so much and the gut punch is because they are like signature moves to him but other than that I'd say there's a good amount although I do get how it can look the exact same
that was actually one of my biggest problems with kiwami 2, there are no boss specific "feel the heats"
Not just kiwami 2, but 2 as well. Kiwami2 is just replicating what 2 did.
@@fishonmydish7774 Yeah, I've been playing through 3, 4 and 5 (I'm on the 5th one), and I remember in 4 especially there were really great boss specific finisher heat moves.
@@fishonmydish7774 hiroshi hayashi has a unique feel the heat :)
I actually *love* that Ryuji doesn't scratch his sword against the elevator in Kiwami 2. Because as a serious swordsman he would never dull his blade like that just to make some sparks.
It clearly has chips in Kiwami. Maybe he does do it in his free time.
20:52 Above the bottom left kanji in the directly up from the middle curve onnits top, you can see a clear chip in the blade.
Alternatively, it's just left of his sideburn.
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 Or it received a chip during combat. Ever thought about that?
Ryuji isn't a serious swordsman though. You can easily tell just by the way he handles his katana.
@@SharkHours That's just his personal style. Despite appearing really uncoordinated he is extremely efficient with it.
It's Yakuza. Very little realism and a whole lot of melodrama is what defines its combat.
The DragonEngine is almost as godly as Kiryu, the fact that you can tell what type of material a person's suit is made out of is nuts.
I think it’s just made of white dyed thick tires
Yet it can't do lighting and filters right
Little mistake but I forgot to switch Daigo with Ryuji at 2:44, pay it no mind.
Edit: Another mistake at 4:42 where I forgot to type Majima there. Holy shit I should've been more thorough but I was too hyped to upload this huge clusterfuck of testosterone.
You will suffer in hell for that mistake Leon
This is so fucking awesome man. Never mind those mistakes
There are two kinds of people in this world.
*+ devilleon7* LOL No seriously great video though ofcourse
Don't tell me your left eye has a problem like majima dev lol
ps2 games have crunchy sfx
it's yummy
blackwind677 like eating a peace of crunchy chicken
exactly
c r o n c h
blackwind677 *C R N C H*
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The “Feel The Heat” section of Daigo’s fight in Kiwami 2 has some serious emotional depth, like in how Daigo and Kiryu were close friends, so it makes sense that Kiryu wouldn’t destroy him or jump knee his face. It’s just one really well placed counter punch that is barely enough to incapacitate him, even the look they share before he falls to the ground feels meaningful. Which is why, despite it being a signature move, I didn’t like how they reused it since it didn’t have as much meaning, for example, in Majima’s fight.
Extremely doubt that the Feel The Heat is supposed to be symbolic of any kind except for 2 of them. They're just game mechanics for most of the bosses. Plus, Kiryu and Daigo didn't know each other as kids. Daigo wasn't even born until Kiryu hit maybe 12 or 11.
Arsenal 473 Oh you’re right, I think I heard Kiryu say Daigo was a good kid and I processed it as if they knew each other as kids. I thought I read in a the profiles from Yakuza Kiwami 2 that Daigo looked up to Kiryu as a kid or something similar.
Well maybe the Feel The Heat mechanic being impactful in Daigo’s fight simply was a coincidence, but the introduction of the fight happens similarly to how it ends, as with Kiryu starting it with one open palm punch to the chest, it’s a very similar style and movement to the Feel The Heat segment, that’s why I thought it was designed to be implemented in Daigo’s fight.
@@imanoljesusdelpozo4907 hmm yeah i see what you mean. Also ive been playing 0 and there is a substory with kid Daigo.
Sorry for sounding rude btw, I have a talent for unintentionally sounding like an asshole.
@@arsenal4739 Oh no worries dude, I didn't think your comment sounded rude at all. I haven't played 0, but I'm getting there. I just finished 3 and want to get to 4 so badly, because I heard this is the point in which the games get really good and I've already been enjoying the past ones so much despite some awkwardly written scenes here and there, and 0 just looks amazing. It's interesting that there's a sub-story with kid Daigo!
I see your point and have a sort of similar bias on Yakuza now that I've noticed since playing 0/kiwami and 2;
Lots of the moves, heat actions and stuff are recycled and at most slightly tweaked.
I honestly would've loved to see Kiryu and Majima take advantage of their fighting style systems from 0/KW and do some pretty unique shit with it
In my head, Majima does his own QTE's as well.
You´re right, I mean in the dynamic intro Kiryu fakes a punch an throw a kick that Majima majestically dodges, and then in the qte you can see Majima faked a punch before throwing that round kick and then we do a qte XD
I mean he folded himself instantly to dodge that fakeout punch into a kick
Just reminded me of Asura's Wrath, where the true final boss actually does his own QTEs, with on-screen prompts and everything.
12:16 Never killed a man.
John Doe it was fake swords they lashes ketchup packets in their suits
Don’t forget how he literally shoots hundreds of people combined throughout 0 and Kiwami’s shooting segments.
They even explode.
game logic everything happen in gameplay is not canon
Gameboy _ granted nothing done in yakuza would be possible if they had the story be that Kiryu is struggling to cross that moral boundary and then had him suplexing people into traffic post and shooting them with golden pistols
Well, Shindo didn't die by Kiryu, but Daigo.
RGG Studio really learned how to make a flashy entry, makes the Jingweon's dynamic entry in the original look like just another gang scuffle instead of a city-wide war.
And boy, that final fight's intro. It's got 0's hype and Kiwami's emotional punch.
Now why know why that massively damaging counter punch is called Tiger Drop... as in, you put a tiger to sleep with that devastating counter. Literally.
Yeah man.. Komaki clan dont fuck around
Too bad it's been nerfed. You could literally drop a Mook with that, but now...
demoneyeslaharl Which game was it nerfed in?
@@jamesglovecrazy Kiwami 2,though I heard yakuza 6 nerfed it as well
demoneyeslaharl yeah it does about a 1/3 of the health bar, compared to Kiwami 1 where it does over a full bar, definitely nerfed
16:29 Talk about a tiger drop
tiger drop suplex?!
Tiger drop : Because Komaki is no fraud.
I think Hayashi's feel the heat in the original was a lot more brutal, because in Kiwami, Hayashi was taking all of Kiryu's punches while standing all on his own, but in the original, he needed to lie on the fence for support because the sheer weight of Kiryu's punches was too much for him to handle. Both instances ended with him getting knocked tf out, ofc, but the beatdown in the original was a lot harder.
These Yakuza 2 animations hold up surprisingly well thanks to the special effects.
I love how in Yakuza 2 Majima's construction hat is slightly more to one side and never gets fixed, it's perfect🤣🤣
That Majima intro is so awesome looking!
the Dynamic Intros in Yakuza now definitely make the game way more epic and you know your pretty much playing a Yakuza game seeing them! the best ones are in Yakuza 0 with Kuze man...and Kuze's theme is by far one of the best hands down!
When I first played kiwami 2, I immediately nodded my head in approval to the way they handled the chandelier scene. That’s how you do a remake.
At the same time, all the budget cuts make it a rather mixed remake.
@Pirate Me Lord I'm sorry, but the chances of being shot in the meantime were higher in the OG than in the Remake, they did a good job redoing this.
1:40 - I'm not sure which one of these is more stupid. Kazuma punching steel until it breaks, or five dudes not being able to hit someone literally ten feet above them with guns.
6:30 - Guiles Theme Plays
As guido mista says
"Even if you pull the trigger at point blank,theres no guarantee youll hit your mark if you arent calm"
Dude went from a Guile flash kick
To Liu Kangs Bicycle kick
like damn man, who is this guy?
Better try questioning the same logic with Chris punching a giant boulder to make it roll over...
@@rdu239
To be fair
Chris's arms were thicker than a gorilla's
1:31
*aggresively punches lamp*
2:13
Kiwami 2: There's someone on the chandelier, shoot him!
Original: What was that sound?
Little details where they've reused the same animations to save effort but it still doesn't look lazy are great. Prime example is the "Kim reloading" QTE where you can see the animation is the exact same one, they just shot it from a different angle that actually obscures his hands and saves them having to waste dev time on doing intricate hand animations. Looks so much better for so little effort. Love looking for little tricks like those.
There actually was a dynamic intro for Majima in the original.
It just happened before he stepped into the ring.
Dolphinboi lmao
This video is very important for getting a look at how ps2 games compare to today's remakes. Thanks for your work!
Really loved the Ryuji Goda fight at the very end of Kiwami 2. Glad to see they remained pretty faithful to the original while also just making it seem that much more epic.
I just love how the animation became so epic and badass as the years went by
What I love in Kiwami 2 is that it shows how Kazuma has not fully forgotten his skills from Kiwami 1, and even implements some of the signature techniques such as the Komaki Tiger Drop
And Komaki said not to actually use it on tigers, heh.
He doesnt have the full moveset of all the styles but implements fragments of them in different moves
I do prefer the Hayashi QTE in the original when Kiryu is punching him against the wall.
Yeah me too
it looks like he is on the corner unable to escape
in the kiwaki one he just had to dodge or defend
not only that, but there's awkward pauses and cuts on the kiwami version that break the flow up really badly
Yakuza 2 hayashi qtes are brutal as f
idk I only started learning how to actually fight this year but the way I see it original yakuza 2 had more realistic fights *looks at the chandelier moment* most of the time
@@thepunishersequence291 what expertise. -_-
The flow of the intro > fight > outro is astonishingly superb !
Man I would love to see an action movie with the level of directing like these QTE's
Just finished Kiwami 2. Game was A M A Z I N G!
Dragon Engine ruined it
@@VideoTube2016 it's actually pretty fun , sure getting used to it requires times but i'd say kiwami 2 is really fun
@@CRAZYWIZARD I wish it was fun. I absolutely hated Kiwami 2 because of it but had such a blast with 0 and Kiwami 1
@@VideoTube2016 i think its a big improvement from yakuza 6 which is not all bad tbh but i think there are a lot more things to do in kiwami 2
@@CRAZYWIZARD The whole engine though.. made made hate the game
Is there even any point to doing the 2 screen comparison when for when there isn’t anything to compare to in some scenes? It’s kind of redundant.
Some people may want to see every detail concerning how the reused animations hold up in the latest dragon engine compared to its original release all the way back on the PS2, or if there are any slight differences (camera angle and the like, very subtle differences) and whatnot, so I would say yes.
@@devilleon7 I think he meant the parts where you just said "No dynamic intro in the original" and let a black screen run next to the Kiwami 2 intro. It would have been fine to just show the Kiwami 2 intro and not "compare" it with a black screen.
needless padding making this video way longer than it needed to be
He's the man as you saw
Goro majima
Majima construction!
Sore ga, warera Goro-o Majima, Majimaaaa Keeennnnnseeetsuuuuuuuuuuuu
Han er manden som du så
Goro Majima
Majimaaaaa Konstruktioner
(Its Danish btw)
This is not kiwami 1 they really went all out for yaluza 2 remake with that new engine
Surprised those two sword slices didn't hospitalized Shindo
Rule of Yakuza: Only guns can kill.
The only exception is if a character dies in somebody else's arms and has time to say what they need to say.
Sometimes both.
@@yoursonisold8743 Well, bombs too. But only once.
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 actually twice
unless it's a cutscene, no cuts, stabs, gunshots, or explosions are lethal
@@femboycyan Btw, Kiryu has definitely racked up a very substantial body count. Maybe rubber bullets but he has killed people. The creators of the game have straight up said “Kiryu has never killed anyone unprovoked” implying he has killed several people provoked. However, this line was mistranslated and became “Kiryu has never killed anyone” which really is a shame because it makes people think it’s a plot hole but in reality it’s a mistranslation. TLDR: Yeah he killed people and the creators know this lol
I found it funny when in Kiwami, Kaoru just standing behide the fence, arms folded and looks uninteresting at Kiryu wacking the other due over and over.
it's a 50/50. both are awesome. the original has an explosive punch sound, and kiwami has an explosive animation
Poru it's not realistic you know)
even in ps2 era the animation was crazy.
the only thing they change is they went with much more polygons in the remake
Thank you Sega so much for the remastered version of Yakuza series!!!
Remake*
Kiwami 2 does add a lot of content and change some aspects of the original in ways that look more visually impressive, but it also has some very bizarre omissions such as complete changing the arena for the first Ryuji fight and removing the Osaka area. Also the PS2 punch sound effects sound a lot crunchier.
Wait they removed Osaka from it? Was Osaka as big in 2 as it is in zero?
Punches shouldn't be "Crunchy" they should be hard slaps of meat on meat. SMACK SMACK… because... that's what a punch sounds like.
Anima I think he means the small street outside of sotenbori
@@anima94 they still kept osaka they just cut a very small street outside it
The music in the Shindo fight in Kiwami 2 is something else!
I just love how much effort you put on your videos. It's just so impeccable and thrilling to watch your videos :)
Wow, the improvements with the Dragon engine look insanely good. Kiwami 1 looks great with the engine they used in 0 but this looks even better. I just got into the series with 0 and picked it back up after putting it down for a long time. 6 has me feeling the hype again so I'll beat 0 and Kiwami before I start 6.
rottenmeatpuppet >jumping straight into 6 after playing kiwami
Why? Play original 2, 3, 4 and 5 first.
CoolGuyZool because people don't like to play *OLD* games aperently
to them it's asking too much
@@sippijooce there are different options too like original ps2 or PC emulation
not to mention ps3s are cheap systems nowadaus
@@CoolGuyZool129 he can jump into 6 since it's technically a standalone game, that explains mostly everything, then focuses more on kiryu and kiryu only with a little bit of haruka here and there, Majima, seijema, daigo and akiyama are just cameos
@@sinfulreaper5025 i would imagine that the story would have much more impact and meaning if they'd played the previous games beforehand
For as much people have been criticizing Kiwami 2 it looks really good and brings me back to when I played Yakuza 2 last year.
Kyo Yami wut?!Kiwami 2 is the finest game in frachise tie with Yakuza 0
@@sandansaiyan5675 some people dont like it because apparently, RGG Studio cut pretty sizable chunks of content that was in the original.
The Rent Pursuer and?But they added another content
The Rent Pursuer and game for itself was average.Y2 had best story but gameplay was meh
@@sandansaiyan5675 better than in kiwami 2 tho
So those goons waited for the lights to drop on them as he punches it several times
They re-use that knee to the head way to much
If you note it's because OG 2 reused that knee/punch combo. It's supposed to be his signature move.
Isn't that his signature attack?
They even use it in smash
that the best one !
@@marcjehle2480 ...hes not even in tekken let alone smash tf?
Addendum ❗️ Thank you for the editing that compared and delivered these two. Thank you ❗️😊✌️
Yakuza Kiwami 2:
-Literally has "Extreme" in the title
-Kiryu swings off a chandelier which causes it to fall down
Yakuza 2:
-Doesn't have "Extreme" in its title
-Kiryu punches the shit out of a chandelier's chain, causing it to fall down while he jumps off of it onto a platform
Which one was more extreme?
the ps2 version was more extremely stupid, if that’s what you mean ;_;
you ignored how kiryu jumped of the chandelier to superman punch someone in the face, and then rolled out of the way of the falling chandelier in Kiwami 2
@@harrrieee still not as extreme as repeatedly punching a chain to break it.
yakuza 2 because the combat in the ps2 games is better duh
14:06 I could swear that that's the sound of the mystery box opening in black ops
I hear it too
Ah shit no ray gun or the wonder weapon of the map
problably one of the only game franchises i actually love the qte's lol it actually adds to the fights.
At the finishing blow in PS2, Kiryu has a much sadder expression on his face.
How can you tell
@@KvngNothin by looking at his face
Did he really just punch the Chandelier in the original lol
I still want the PS2 version. The soul they put into this when it was ground breaking cant be matched. The remake is soulful as well but since it's only a remake it's not quite the same but still you can tell they were probably just as enthusiastic about making both games.
I like the orginal game sound track with a few exceptions from the new one
It'll always surprise me how well Kiryu handles the sword on Kiwami 2
I love how Kiryu smashes Ryuji’s face in the first fight (Kiwami 2)
They really done much work in Kiwami 2 in compare to Kiwami 1. It's a little sad that some HEAT repeating, but on the other hand they look really cool, especially the knee in the face, so it's not that bad.
P.S. Nice fails by the way)
Kiryu punching the tiger in slow mo is my favorite feel the heat action so far, that shit hit different
when I first saw the daigo dynamic encounter my mind was absolutely blown. I play on a 3080 and I was audibly screaming at how amazing it looked. Kiwami 2 is just such an amazing looking game
Never played either, but I kinda like the original more. It looks gritty and characters don't look like they're made out of chocolate.
the part where Kiryu was dodging the spikes sounded like the mystery box opening in cod zombies but only for 1 second
Wow, I forgot Essence of Head Press was in K2. It's cool that one stuck around so long.
Even though K2 probably has less Feel the heats and uses the same ones, they’re some of the most badass ones in the games.
Why did Kiryu got hit in the majima QTE in yakuza 2? You can win this QTE xD
I think he missed.
He just missed.
PS2 graphics are still amazing today.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks so.
@@sezunemizuhana3870 I always differenciate artistic direction & work from purely technical consideration. You can make an ugly games with Unreal Engine 4, and a beautifull game with a Playstation 1. Resident Evil 2 & Wipeout 3 are good examples.
@@jrock4fan I mean right now the game is ugly but before it was pretty good yeah
Even better when upscaled in PS2 emulator
This is a TRUE remake
And it’s only 20bucks
I can't believe how much better they made every aspect of already amazing game. XD
/edit even more so after seeing Warcraft 3 reforged
Playing trough the first kiwami at chapter 7. When I'm done kiwami 2 is waiting. Can't wait!!
I’m quite lucky I have not played the originals. If I had, I most likely would have been bias for the original.
Original: how it happen
Kiwami: how kiryu remembers it
Probably one of the most epic moments in Yakuza 2.. Fighting two tigers XD
It’s funny how some bosses in Kiwami 2 have the same feel the heat finisher like Daigo and Majima
THAT'S WHAT I CALLED A REMASTER!
William Wen it's remake.Remaster it's another thing
@@sandansaiyan5675 Updated graphics + new comtent. I'm pretty sure it's a remaster.
@@robertbernard7844 remake...
Robert Bernard remaster is increase of resolution and fps.In very rare situation it includes updated graphics.New content is remake.Kiwami if I'm not wrong means Remake on Japanese
@@sandansaiyan5675 it means extreme
Majima playing chicken limbo... who boy that'd be interesting.
5:16 kinda wish you put the side by side of Majima's QTE of Kiwami 2 in Yakuza 4 or 5 for the greatness :3
After watching this I realized you actually did miss a couple of QTEs. During the fight with mysterious foreigners and thier stronger rehashed versions in the finale, they actually have a total of 3 QTEs(not including the feel the heat). The missed QTE here involves one brother grabbing Kiryu from behinnd while the other brothers winds up for a haymaker. Dodging this causes the other brother to get punched instead.
The second missing QTE is in the final fight in the PS2 version. In the original version Ryuji's three punches from his first fight is actually also recycled here as well.
The reason you probably missed them is because of how situational they are. When fighting the mysterious foreigners it is possible to see only one of the three QTEs during any playthrough because how the enemy has to grab you. Since the haymaker QTE can only trigger if one brother grabs you from behind, which is typcially very rare, most will never see it.
As for the original version of Ryuji's final fight I'm not sure what triggers it. Iv'e beaten the original many times and this QTE only pops up half of time. I have no frame of reference to why this is. At least in the remake they did make it different so that counts.
It's kind of sad they cut the QTE's from the mysterious foreigners down but thats okay. This remake looks suberb.
Yakuza 2: What could be worse than a tiger?
Yakuza Kiwami 2: Oh I know! Two tigers!
This is how you should do remake
the old games still definitely have their own charm
Not just only they need to remake 3, 4, 5 on the Yakuza series, but they need to make Kenzan Kiwami and Dead Souls Kiwami. Make the graphics, QTEs, and music score look hella sick and realistic. Especially in Dead Souls. Make them slice a zombie in half and have their guts splattered all across the pavement.
They don't need to make it realistic. That'd just ruin what one of the things the series is known for.
from what I hear 3,4 and 5 are just getting remasters not remakes so none of the core content will change in those, just graphics and maybe bugs
Ryuji will always be the best yakuza villain, sad that he died so early in the franchise.
Ever heard of yakuza dead souls?
StółZpowyłamywanymiNogamiEdycjaGryRoku Niebieski Ye I have been around since the beginning, dead souls ain’t canon though
Only shows how Legendary Kiriyu is by the time part 3 and later games came out. He dealt with some stuff in the first two and made a crazy name for himself.
Lowkey, the QTE were the best part of 0, I miss them in Kiwami
I really love the crunchy hit sounds from the original, but the new one is definitely very pretty.
the power of PS2 emotion engine!
Jesus Kiryu what the hell did that chandelier say to you
Kiwami iand Kiwami 2 s not a remaster. It's a remake
They did not make it like Y1 and Y2 graphics and they did it hd too and it is with dynamic intros too so this is basically remastered
There is no need to argue, Yakuza kiwami 2 is far much better.
Dragon of Dojima No shit
Sphere Code not soundtrack wise
Dragon of Dojima no shit sherlock
Dragon of Dojima both of them are good for their generation
the fact that he has majima saga already makes him better, in my opinion
the old one had this realistic roughness .
Holy shit, this is how a remake is done. I can't wait for this!
I just laughed my *** off after reading the comments about him hammering the chandelier
Now THIS is a remaster!! I am so glad they made these Kiwamis
Swag It remake
@@sandansaiyan5675 right
I watch this video very often. I'm quite fond of yakuza's style of beating people up. It's also amazing how far the game has come in terms of graphics.
Yk2 was visually stunning and had a much better game play but Y2 the original was a far more enjoyable experience for me.
the kiwami remakes were awesome
極2のヒートアクションの方がやさしい気がするw