@@whensomethingcriesagain With their dragons also staring each other down? Absolutely, but this one just has more power behind it. The speech is superior, Kuze is (probably) the better character, the setting is completely unique. Plus it had the kind of strength in that you could show someone this intro and the motorbike joust as the only piece of Yakuza footage they've ever seen and it'll probably convince them to try the game.
@ShadicRothZz1998 That and also just the pose is super iconic, you see an homage to that anywhere and you know immediately what it's referencing, regardless of the characters involved
Kuze: I never give up. Kuze: Man who loses isn't the loser, the loser is the one who stops trying. Kuze: Unlike all other dumbasses, I recognize Kiryu is a threat. BASED.
@@Aurora-bv1ys this comment was from a while ago and i did half of every yakuza games if I count the judgment and ishin gaiden games I'm currently playing yakuza 5 and I'm close to finishing it I guess and I'm plaining to do the entire yakuza series
Kuze is one of the best written antagonists not just in the Yakuza series, but one of the best written antagonists of all time. The introduction of making you think he's just some slimeball who makes everyone else do his dirty work and is framing Kiryu, to revealing that he's insanely strong and tough and isn't the one behind the murder in the empty lot, to showing how he does honor himself and his traditions by cutting off a finger without hesitation, followed by the sewer rematch where he stops fucking around and is out for blood, to him coming at you with brass knuckles and his gang and almost killing Kiryu if not for a last minute save, to when he realizes KIryu isn't some two bit punk when Kiryu hits him after realizing Tachibana was tortured by him and critically injured, all finally wrapping up with the last fight where he brings everything he has in an even one on one with Kiryu. The fact you go from hating this man to respecting him is incredible and a testament to how well written these characters are.
I still don't get how Yakuza 0 made Lieutenants of a Yakuza family seem so important when the rest of the series makes them all seem like small fries in the grand scale of the conflict of each story. Yakuza 0 really is the best, because it really makes the Yakuza and its hierarchy seem a lot more serious than the rest of the series.
well, before kiryu left the yakuza life in 1, he was a lieutenant about to become a patriarch, and by the end he's an ex chairman. so in all the games that come after 1, kiryu would technically outrank any lieutenant he encounters, while he was a low level grunt in 0. not to mention, the tojo clan is on a steep decline in every game after 1, so ranking in it wouldn't be as impressive. meanwhile in 0, the tojo clan is at the peak of its power, and the dojima clan all but runs the clan. so being a lieutenant at that time absolutely means a ton more than being a lieutenant of a family in a crumbling, near-bankrupt clan that lost almost all its biggest players in a few years.
@@Wusodoolo He was never a lieutenant. You don't have to be one to start a family. He was a soldier to the end. You don't see lieutenants collecting debts.
Kiryu destroying his arms blocking that pipe when it was going like 80 mph just to block it with his arms again on a full swing a minute later is amazing
Thank you for this video, it's so good to be able to hear the audio and music together without looking up someone's playthrough or playing the game yourself to get to this point. Hope this video gets more exposure in the future, you deserve it!
These two are my idols when it comes to martial arts man. Kuze has technique but both of them just have raw power and a primal passion for the fight that they don't need to rely on technique but can simply just put their power behind their fists and succeed
Both of them do but Kiryu's was still unrefined. That's why his base style is called "Brawler" because he's still a good fighter but doesn't have the finesse that he does in later years
@@MrLlama-rc8nj true, lmao I started with yakuza 0, I saw the cronological order , can't wait to play the whole franchise (also the jusdgement ones). He does use also the kickboxing style in this game tho, but yea his main one is brawler, I saw some fights of Kiwama and the later ones and his style is refined of course.
@@italianduded1161 Dragon Style imo is its own art entirely because it combines a bunch of different techniques; the legwork is very Muay-Thai-esque and the fist-based parts of the Rush Combos reflect a boxing inspiration, not to mention the Komaki moves AND the heat actions with pieces of Sumo wrestling, Judo and Jiu-Jitsu. Seeing it in action is so cool because you can see each martial art style blend together almost perfectly and it really defines his power in a fight
holy shit! i heard this theme in a youtube video about a year ago and instant loved it. i tried finding out where the song came from, but never got that info. lol i had got all the yakuza games sometime afterwards cause they were on sell, but never booted them up. for some reason, i had the urge to play zero and booted it up. i been playing it slowly, but surely while flipping back and forth from it and youtube. no lie, for whatever reason, i decided to look for that video that had the them, JUST to hear it again. what are the odds, i just got done fighting kuze only to hear that damn song was his theme......i literally had no words. now i feeling like a absolute moron haha 😅
@@quiltzgamingyt237it was mention that when he got out of jail the Tojo clans decided to give him one final mission to perform before he ever got retired. I'm not gonna to in detail but at the end of the day Kuze is no longer a Yakuza but a fisherman living a quiet life now.
I think the one of the first ever cutscenes in zero (probably also a lot of people's first ever yakuza cutscene) being just 3 a'holes bullying you and making you know that they are the true bad boys around there, helped Yakuza 0 define its villains and make the player remember them. If it didn't one of them literally stalked you to a sewer, brought a motorcycle with him, and demolished you, THAT must make you remember him.
Possibly the most iconic dynamic intro in the entire series.
Agreed
The dynamic intro of Kiryu and Majima in Yakuza Like a Dragon is dope asf too
Kiryu vs Shibusawa also has got to be up there
@@whensomethingcriesagain With their dragons also staring each other down? Absolutely, but this one just has more power behind it. The speech is superior, Kuze is (probably) the better character, the setting is completely unique.
Plus it had the kind of strength in that you could show someone this intro and the motorbike joust as the only piece of Yakuza footage they've ever seen and it'll probably convince them to try the game.
@ShadicRothZz1998 That and also just the pose is super iconic, you see an homage to that anywhere and you know immediately what it's referencing, regardless of the characters involved
Kuze: I never give up.
Kuze: Man who loses isn't the loser, the loser is the one who stops trying.
Kuze: Unlike all other dumbasses, I recognize Kiryu is a threat.
BASED.
and he is proud of kiryu after getting beat up for the last time
truly my favorite yakuza villain even if i only played 0
he says "he's now a real yakuza "
@@Rayunn play the other games. I just started Yakuza 6 and completed all the ones before. He still is my favorite.
@@Aurora-bv1ys this comment was from a while ago and i did half of every yakuza games if I count the judgment and ishin gaiden games I'm currently playing yakuza 5 and I'm close to finishing it I guess and I'm plaining to do the entire yakuza series
HE BLOCKED IT WITH HIS ARMS
Can't feel them if they're already broken.
In Yakuza 3, he blocked wolverine claws of Lau Ka Long
It’s the dragon of dojima what did you expect
@@grey4g not yet
@@Caspiando he already had the potential tho
One of the goes hardest moments in video game history... chills every time
Kuze is one of the best written antagonists not just in the Yakuza series, but one of the best written antagonists of all time. The introduction of making you think he's just some slimeball who makes everyone else do his dirty work and is framing Kiryu, to revealing that he's insanely strong and tough and isn't the one behind the murder in the empty lot, to showing how he does honor himself and his traditions by cutting off a finger without hesitation, followed by the sewer rematch where he stops fucking around and is out for blood, to him coming at you with brass knuckles and his gang and almost killing Kiryu if not for a last minute save, to when he realizes KIryu isn't some two bit punk when Kiryu hits him after realizing Tachibana was tortured by him and critically injured, all finally wrapping up with the last fight where he brings everything he has in an even one on one with Kiryu. The fact you go from hating this man to respecting him is incredible and a testament to how well written these characters are.
Kiryu still addressing Kuze in respectful tone after it all really cemented the man as badass, both in and out of story.
did lao gui killed the guy in the empty lot i finished yakuza 0 but still didn't understood who killed that guy
@@Rayunnyep it was him
I still don't get how Yakuza 0 made Lieutenants of a Yakuza family seem so important when the rest of the series makes them all seem like small fries in the grand scale of the conflict of each story. Yakuza 0 really is the best, because it really makes the Yakuza and its hierarchy seem a lot more serious than the rest of the series.
well, before kiryu left the yakuza life in 1, he was a lieutenant about to become a patriarch, and by the end he's an ex chairman. so in all the games that come after 1, kiryu would technically outrank any lieutenant he encounters, while he was a low level grunt in 0. not to mention, the tojo clan is on a steep decline in every game after 1, so ranking in it wouldn't be as impressive. meanwhile in 0, the tojo clan is at the peak of its power, and the dojima clan all but runs the clan. so being a lieutenant at that time absolutely means a ton more than being a lieutenant of a family in a crumbling, near-bankrupt clan that lost almost all its biggest players in a few years.
@@Wusodoolo He was never a lieutenant. You don't have to be one to start a family. He was a soldier to the end. You don't see lieutenants collecting debts.
@@dragonkamrani just checked the start of yakuza 1, and you’re absolutely correct. He was a lieutenant advisor.
Hearing Kuze scream followed by the pipe hit is exactly what I need for starting a set.
This is what real mans listen while lifting weights
YOU GOT IT DUDE
Real men listen to "Born to be wild"
Funny. I like to listen Kuze themes while cooking
Absolutely. When the pre-workout kicks in... shiddd. This song is hype AF.
Real men don't train in comfortable gyms, they fight outside. Gym trainee doesn't actually use those muscles in real life
Kiryu destroying his arms blocking that pipe when it was going like 80 mph just to block it with his arms again on a full swing a minute later is amazing
bro first time he played I was sure he shattered the bones in his forearms for sure
Kiryu instant healed with redbull
Breaking za forearm
You can hear his bones cracking at 0:56
All Kuze fights are epic as fuck.
'As long am as alive I will keep getting more' had me shook 😮
The fact this whole cutscene is the dynamic intro is why i loved 0
One of the few cutscene where speedruner CAN'T skip
Thank you for this video, it's so good to be able to hear the audio and music together without looking up someone's playthrough or playing the game yourself to get to this point. Hope this video gets more exposure in the future, you deserve it!
Thanks!
@@kazutoryuzaki5131 No problem.
Cool Gamer put it best. I've been needing something like this since forever! Thanks, man!
*Y* *E* *S*
These two are my idols when it comes to martial arts man. Kuze has technique but both of them just have raw power and a primal passion for the fight that they don't need to rely on technique but can simply just put their power behind their fists and succeed
but they both have techique.
Both of them do but Kiryu's was still unrefined. That's why his base style is called "Brawler" because he's still a good fighter but doesn't have the finesse that he does in later years
@@MrLlama-rc8nj true, lmao I started with yakuza 0, I saw the cronological order , can't wait to play the whole franchise (also the jusdgement ones).
He does use also the kickboxing style in this game tho, but yea his main one is brawler, I saw some fights of Kiwama and the later ones and his style is refined of course.
@@italianduded1161 Dragon Style imo is its own art entirely because it combines a bunch of different techniques; the legwork is very Muay-Thai-esque and the fist-based parts of the Rush Combos reflect a boxing inspiration, not to mention the Komaki moves AND the heat actions with pieces of Sumo wrestling, Judo and Jiu-Jitsu. Seeing it in action is so cool because you can see each martial art style blend together almost perfectly and it really defines his power in a fight
@@MrLlama-rc8nj of course
OH I just noticed Kuze wears snakeskin shoes, which Kiryu when adopts.
Kiryu out here stealing people's drip
@@Aurora-bv1ys Nope. Just Kuze's style of fashion really.
@@d4rksonic474 that's what I said
@@Aurora-bv1ys You were generalizing, I pointed out that Kiryu only copies Kuze. Doesn't make your statement wrong though, agreed?
"The guy who gets beat down isn't the one who loses.
The guy who can't tough it out 'til the end, he's the one who loses"
just...🔥
I got goose bumps listening to this
Thanks
久瀬の兄貴かっこよすぎw
holy shit! i heard this theme in a youtube video about a year ago and instant loved it. i tried finding out where the song came from, but never got that info. lol i had got all the yakuza games sometime afterwards cause they were on sell, but never booted them up. for some reason, i had the urge to play zero and booted it up. i been playing it slowly, but surely while flipping back and forth from it and youtube. no lie, for whatever reason, i decided to look for that video that had the them, JUST to hear it again. what are the odds, i just got done fighting kuze only to hear that damn song was his theme......i literally had no words. now i feeling like a absolute moron haha 😅
Did he ever REAAAALLLY lose?
He probably still going wild in jail
@@Hypanoz oh he got out of jail, still alive too in the present days of the series, mentionned in another game, dont remember which
@@Freedmoon44 I think it was Ryu Ga Gotoku Online I think
@@quiltzgamingyt237it was mention that when he got out of jail the Tojo clans decided to give him one final mission to perform before he ever got retired. I'm not gonna to in detail but at the end of the day Kuze is no longer a Yakuza but a fisherman living a quiet life now.
Kuze needs to come back. He needs to tough it out
Friendly reminder: Kiryu's arms are almost definitely broken after this sequence, and yet he still throws hands.
I'm happy now
Kuze is easily the best boss fight(s) in the series. Let's go big man
So glad I found this banger
I think the one of the first ever cutscenes in zero (probably also a lot of people's first ever yakuza cutscene) being just 3 a'holes bullying you and making you know that they are the true bad boys around there, helped Yakuza 0 define its villains and make the player remember them.
If it didn't one of them literally stalked you to a sewer, brought a motorcycle with him, and demolished you, THAT must make you remember him.
this goes crazy as gym music
fr, the pledge of gymbro
Hell yeah!!!! I feel like it's a life or death situation every rep
This is exactly how the audio is like in Kiwami 2
It's Kuzin' time
This music gets me all fired up! I need to beat Kuze again!
Using this at the Jim
Same everyday, I feel like Im built different.
Tell Jim I said hello 🥸
@@Watchers_Tenshi I feel like I'm about to fight kuze ( I can only bicep curl 5 pounds )
Кузя лучший
Fun fact, Kuze hit his head on the pipe when Kiryu blocked it.
HOLY BASED
Kuze is like the Genichiro of Yakuza games.
So cool
yes
i am
jojo reference
MOHAMMED AVDOL!
HOLY BASED