They do this with every Yakuza game. Boss gets defeated, protagonist walks away, bad guy grabs a gun and shoots, side character blocks the bullet and dies. It gets old real fast
Fair but I still enjoy it because if there's a group of key characters, you don't know who's the one that's actually going to get shot. I'm biased though. lol
These games stories are extremely complicated and hard to keep up with every detail. I don't use your yakuza recap series to actually get recapped but to make sure I remember all the story details as I go along, and your videos have been a massive help, so thankyou for that.
Happy to help and I get you on that one. I myself have to keep going back when I make a video to make sure I'm not missing anything too important. Complicated ass stories lol.
Just wanna say man your the GOAT for Yakuza, i wanted to play like a dragon but simply dont have enough time to play all the other games. Your videos have been a great catch up so far! 10/10
@@vipset87 I've now played like a dragon and it's an amazing game! These videos where good because when the cameos appeared I was more hyped! Maybe I'll try the others one day but I'm a big fan of turn based 😅
Very well put together and succinct. I put down the game for about 6 months, and coming back I was completely lost with wtf was going on. 17 min into your video and I was back on track. Thanks dude!
Thanks again for this, I am now up to date with who Saejima and Akiyama are XD I can continue playing Yakuza 5. I do like the fact that all stories are self contained, but, it's nice to know all the characters and their relations with each other.
That making amends thing Majima mentions at the end of Akiyama's part? That's why he went though everything he did in 0. The torture, running the Grand for Sagawa, accepting an assassination job on a "Makoto Makimura", letting Sagawa and his guys beat him up with a baseball bat, giving Shimano the gun Sera gave him? Yeah, all that was his reason for wanting to be back in the Tojo Clan so desperately so that he'd be able to explain to Saejima what happened on April 21, 1985. Well, now you know haha
For this game I actually did watch all the cut scenes, but I came and watched your summary anyway because they’re always hilarious. I love how no one ever figured out that Sugiuchi is Yakuza even though he presumably has tattoos all over his back, and nobody figured out that Arai is not really yakuza even though he has no tattoos lmao. Great video!
Fuck yes this is the exact video I was looking for. Just finished 0, Kiwami 1 & Kiwami 2 and played Yakuza 3 and 4 years ago, It's good being able to watch your videos to catch up. Video was hilarious too, good commentary. Thanks brother
HELLA effort put into this video. Thanks for saving me like a full 24 hours playing this game, this deserves ten times the views it has. Now on to your Y5 video lmao
Just realized the similarities between the millennium tower intros of Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 6 because I haven't seen much of the rest of the series other than 6
Man, this game is more convoluted than the prior ones. All these double and triple crosses are going straight over my head. Well, maybe you can explain Xenosaga? Dunno how well you'd like it, but who knows?
@@LaMuerteBlanca The Xeno- games are pretty good from what I've heard. Especially story-wise. (Even if the lore can get a little..... Confusing at times. (• L • ;;) Although, I'd say that only really applies to the Xenosaga games.) The Xenogears and Xenosaga games are just traditional JRPGs, and the Xenoblade games play like single-player MMORPGS. Well made ones at that. I'd recommend at least checking them out, if you have the time.
@@ne0space thats the key, time lol. Ill prob check them out. Ive always been interested, and as far as the videos go, the more complicated the better. Gives me more chances for commentary lol
Thank you for such kind of content, man! That is, undoubtedly, hard to make such recap videos, and the result is fantastic. I've been binging all your Yakuza Explained videos, and I've been able to keep up (which says a lot about the quality of the content, considering the amount of information one should remember). Great job! Sincerely, your Ukrainian subscriber.
Can’t forget yakuza 4 has the most uncomfortable scene between saejima and Haruka. Halfway through the game so I stopped a bit after the 15 min mark but couldn’t help but mention that shit made me 😳
Enjoying the Yakuza games since Yakuza 0 started in PC. Thanks for this explanation. Story was well explained and I enjoy playing the games too. Hope for more content. Story is great.
I bet this is what Kiryu’s telling Saejima during the ceremony “Yo, dude, you need to cut that hair down. It’s against regulations to have the improper haircut. Whoever doesn’t abide gets a twenty yen fine”
I just finished this game 2 months ago and i must say this is a quite a ride, one of the best stories in the series aside from 0 and kiwami 1, i like yakuza 4 because of 7 reasons: 1. The story is all about betrayal and corruption which is very relatable in real life, and corruption is included in all sectors including the police force and government. 2. Gives us a 4 new protagonist which makes the story interesting. 3. The combat is pretty good and balanced. 4. Akiyama's humor makes the story interesting not just action and drama. 5. Hana chan can kick ass 6. The ending is bad ass 7. This game is like the japanese expendables.
I have the time to play these games, and I have, but I’m just stupid. It might be a combination of having to read it and act it out in my head and the story moving so fast and with so many moving parts making it hard for me to comprehend it.
man, thanks for saving me time not having to play 3 and 4 bought the whole f(ckin' lot, played through 0, k1, and k2 but lost interest in playing the older engine games.
Why does Masayoshi look different? I plaid on the PlayStation now version which is basically a Ps3 rom. In this video he has some chin hair and longer head hair, but when playing PlayStation now he looks more on the Chinese side than on this video?? Was there an update between the ps4 version and ps3 one?
Multiple people double, triple, and quadruple cross other people to get big pile of money. Multiple other people beat up first set of previously mentioned people. Big bad guy loses. Does that help? 😅
So that one guy was working that that other guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, aaaaaaaaand then was actually the guy who backstabbed this dude but in fact for some reason was ur mum. But Kiryu San was cool. That's what I learnt today.
@@LaMuerteBlanca The video was very helpful though. So I thank you for making it. Coming from Yakuza kiwami 2 to Yakuza 3 was pretty rough for me until they gave me a few more combos to work with in 3. I decided to watch Ur video on 4 cause it looks like it plays like 3. But many thanks pal :)
Yakuza 4, I had fun with this game, it was about police corruption, which could explain why the kamurocho police ain't s**t in these games. You had 4 protagonists with there own story, eventually get together and rolled up to millennium tower to handle business by throwing hands, except Akiyama hes a kicker
I played yakuza 0-3 and after that i was like ima just watch recaps for 4-6. I just want to catch up with the modern ones lol. But holy fuck is this one complicated
Man.. Bad idea to skip literally the most confusing installment of the series but thanks to this video I kinda grasped the majority of the plot (emphasis of "kinda). I just wanna rush my way to 6 and like a dragon man
You're not lying. Basically everyone wants money and power, but everyone who's greedy for money and power get their ass kicked. Same ending as all the other games LOL
@@LaMuerteBlanca Nothing against you! I love your videos and the editing is amazing, it's just the Yakuza games are so hard to follow. I mean I get confused watching some anime too. The storylines are just too complex for my lazy brain.
@@eciekoc it's all good, and i understand, trust me. Sometimes I'm rewatching scenes like "what the hell just happened?" 😅 Appreciate the love though. 🙏
@@LaMuerteBlanca Sorry to pop into this conversation, but I'd definitely recommend FFXV as well. Played through all of FFXV myself. Took me ~90 hours to beat the story + DLC + most of the extra content (Royal Arms, Pitoss Ruins, Erza's Key dungeon quests, most of the side quests, upgradeable weapons, and Melusine.) The story + DLC alone probably can be done in half that time. Maybe less. I also tend to be more methodical when I play games, so that probably added an extra 5-10 hours to my playtime lol. It's a great game imo. The combat is pretty fun, and the story is..... Pretty good. It could've been better, but a lot of it sadly got gutted due to development hell. The devs made a book detailing a different ending/more plot they were going to add in before all the development issues and the project was canceled. A shame too, because what they intended for the game was REALLY good. And yes, you really should play the DLC lol (Except for Comrades). They teach how to play as your other 3 party members and address some serious plot holes that the main game was forced to have. Plus, completing them gets you some pretty nice gear. I recommend playing them when they happen in the main story. (Chapter Gladiolus takes place during CH7 of the main game. Chapter Ignis takes place at the end of CH9, and Chapter Prompto takes place during CH12. Chapter Ardyn can be played anytime, really.) I believe you can get the game for free on PC if you have the Xbox game pass. IF you want to play it, then go for the windows/royal edition. They have some really nice extra content + patches to the story.
i have about 13 games on backlog that i own and still need to beat including ghost of tsushima, red dead2, AC Valhalla, Yakuza like a dragon, doom eternal, and more.. instead im replaying the yakuza series (like a dragon doesnt count. great story so far but gotta force myself to get thru it. gets grindy and gameplays meh)
@@LaMuerteBlanca and i decided to replay yakuza0 today 😂.. i tracked down the president of RGG studios on twitter and asked him if well ever get an english version RGG Ishin. Hope i made a compelling case, ill let u kno if he responds
so wait. Daigo wasn't bad just misguided n took the easy route by getting the money? Then Kiryu whoop his ass to get him in line again? Also I thought Taiga took over Tojo. Make sense he just get a family. I mean the guy in prison for so long i highly doubt he can run the clan lol
This game is an hot mess. WAY better than 3, and the gameplay is pretty good, and I enjoyed all different characters styles. But, the story is way too complicated just for the sake of it, and the constant plot twists are stupid. One of the weakest entries IMO, still a lot better than 3.
Thanks for the video, it's killing me but I have to DNF this one, although I really to do all of the Yakuza series. Yakuza 4 is just plain awful, the fighting is shit, there's no incentive to do any substories and those 35 minutes cut scenes?? are you serious? Now I know the story, I can move on to the 5th.
Y4 Kiryu: I’m not gonna run away Y5 Kiryu:*Runs away* I mean, come on! I thought this meant that Kiryu was gonna take over the Tojo clan but it feels like Yakuza 5 retcons the 4th game’s ending. What happened to taking responsibility or that the clan is proof that he exists? Am I missing something?
I could write an entire book about all the things i don't like about yakuza 4. There are some good moments in the story but overall, it is just dumb, lazy writing that takes itself way too seriously. Gameplay did not age well either, the fights are akward at best. Controls respond in the typical weird yakuza way, wich involves swinging in the air a lot, destroying 98% of the ennemies without a problem and getting blasted by the few demi god like slippery bastards on crack that are sprinkled here and there. Fights could be more fun, but since the game expects us to go through the grind necessary to unlock skills FOR EVERY CHARACTER, i just mostly spam the basic combos over and over again because i can't be bothered with the uninspired secondary quests and repetitive random street encounters... I find the yakuza series very inconsistent to say the least, some episodes are excellent and other just suck. 4 is one of the sucky ones as far i am concerned. Ho and when will they stop repeating the " hero beats bad guy, bad guy lays on the ground for a while, conversation starts, everyone gets distracted and bad guy grabs a gun and kills someone" thing?
I really tried to like yakuza franchise after i finished zero. Zero was a great game but after that is just thrash. There is no other word to define. Fanboys says this series is a hidden gem but is just pure thrash. The story is super mega hyper cliche at best and the combat is worst than the chernobyl incident. If you say that more than 3 people worked on the combat design of this game i won belive. I just gonna watch your summary and skip right to 6.
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They do this with every Yakuza game. Boss gets defeated, protagonist walks away, bad guy grabs a gun and shoots, side character blocks the bullet and dies. It gets old real fast
Fair but I still enjoy it because if there's a group of key characters, you don't know who's the one that's actually going to get shot. I'm biased though. lol
Its like a western... Certain tropes has to be there... Wouldn't be yakuza without it
Also datte san arrives with a helicopter XD
Glad they stop doing this after Yakuza 6.
Yakuza is more about the characters than it is about the shit story writing.
These games stories are extremely complicated and hard to keep up with every detail. I don't use your yakuza recap series to actually get recapped but to make sure I remember all the story details as I go along, and your videos have been a massive help, so thankyou for that.
Happy to help and I get you on that one. I myself have to keep going back when I make a video to make sure I'm not missing anything too important. Complicated ass stories lol.
Just wanna say man your the GOAT for Yakuza, i wanted to play like a dragon but simply dont have enough time to play all the other games. Your videos have been a great catch up so far! 10/10
Happy to help and appreciate the kind words!
For real man..this guy is the TRUTH!!!!
like a dragon has nothing to do with other parts! moreover the gameplay style is completely different!
play any yakuza besides like a dragon. even if its out of order, youll be fine
@@vipset87 I've now played like a dragon and it's an amazing game! These videos where good because when the cameos appeared I was more hyped! Maybe I'll try the others one day but I'm a big fan of turn based 😅
Very well put together and succinct. I put down the game for about 6 months, and coming back I was completely lost with wtf was going on. 17 min into your video and I was back on track. Thanks dude!
Happy to help!
Thanks again for this, I am now up to date with who Saejima and Akiyama are XD I can continue playing Yakuza 5. I do like the fact that all stories are self contained, but, it's nice to know all the characters and their relations with each other.
That making amends thing Majima mentions at the end of Akiyama's part? That's why he went though everything he did in 0. The torture, running the Grand for Sagawa, accepting an assassination job on a "Makoto Makimura", letting Sagawa and his guys beat him up with a baseball bat, giving Shimano the gun Sera gave him? Yeah, all that was his reason for wanting to be back in the Tojo Clan so desperately so that he'd be able to explain to Saejima what happened on April 21, 1985.
Well, now you know haha
For this game I actually did watch all the cut scenes, but I came and watched your summary anyway because they’re always hilarious. I love how no one ever figured out that Sugiuchi is Yakuza even though he presumably has tattoos all over his back, and nobody figured out that Arai is not really yakuza even though he has no tattoos lmao. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Fuck yes this is the exact video I was looking for. Just finished 0, Kiwami 1 & Kiwami 2 and played Yakuza 3 and 4 years ago, It's good being able to watch your videos to catch up. Video was hilarious too, good commentary. Thanks brother
I got you. Glad you enjoyed it!
This is extremely well done. Quick, thorough, and funny without missing a beat
Appreciate you 😁
HELLA effort put into this video. Thanks for saving me like a full 24 hours playing this game, this deserves ten times the views it has. Now on to your Y5 video lmao
Appreciate the love and glad you enjoyed!
Just realized the similarities between the millennium tower intros of Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 6 because I haven't seen much of the rest of the series other than 6
... That's not how rubber bullets work. They aren't tranquilizers.
Man, this game is more convoluted than the prior ones. All these double and triple crosses are going straight over my head.
Well, maybe you can explain Xenosaga? Dunno how well you'd like it, but who knows?
I could get into xenosaga. Hear theyre great games.
@@LaMuerteBlanca The Xeno- games are pretty good from what I've heard. Especially story-wise. (Even if the lore can get a little..... Confusing at times. (• L • ;;) Although, I'd say that only really applies to the Xenosaga games.)
The Xenogears and Xenosaga games are just traditional JRPGs, and the Xenoblade games play like single-player MMORPGS. Well made ones at that. I'd recommend at least checking them out, if you have the time.
@@ne0space thats the key, time lol. Ill prob check them out. Ive always been interested, and as far as the videos go, the more complicated the better. Gives me more chances for commentary lol
Thanks for this recap, it was quick and to the point. Exactly what I needed.
You're very welcome. Happy to help!
Thanks for the recap. I played this game more than 10 years ago and forgot 90% of the story. Now I can finally start Y5.
@@Octopusique happy to help! Enjoy 5!
Ty so much man this vids are fantastic!!
I appreciate these videos man
I appreciate you 🙏
Thank you for such kind of content, man! That is, undoubtedly, hard to make such recap videos, and the result is fantastic. I've been binging all your Yakuza Explained videos, and I've been able to keep up (which says a lot about the quality of the content, considering the amount of information one should remember). Great job! Sincerely, your Ukrainian subscriber.
Thank you so much! That means a lot. I appreciate the love. 🙏
Great job dude! Can’t wait for the next one!
Can’t forget yakuza 4 has the most uncomfortable scene between saejima and Haruka. Halfway through the game so I stopped a bit after the 15 min mark but couldn’t help but mention that shit made me 😳
Enjoying the Yakuza games since Yakuza 0 started in PC. Thanks for this explanation. Story was well explained and I enjoy playing the games too. Hope for more content. Story is great.
A man..helpful and entertaining 😆 thank you man. I started playing the saga at 4 unfortunately..but you caught me up man. Thank you
Happy to help 😁
Thank you exactly what I was looking for. Getting Story recaps before playing the last two titles...
Akiyama blew the 100 billion yen with his helicopter on the tower. So around 800 mil dollars. To this day this still bothers me
I bet this is what Kiryu’s telling Saejima during the ceremony
“Yo, dude, you need to cut that hair down. It’s against regulations to have the improper haircut. Whoever doesn’t abide gets a twenty yen fine”
Thank you, can't wait for Yakuza 5 review
Wont be waiting too long. Drops tmrw 9/3.
@@LaMuerteBlanca I love you! Waiting for it to play 6 lol couldn't get my self to play any 3,4,5.
@@LaMuerteBlanca hell yeah
@@XDefinitive literally same, I got way too used to the dragon engine, can't go back to the previous one
Get this hard working man a trillion likes.
Love the breakdown of these awesome series and others you cover....time to sub !
Appreciate the love.
Yakuza 0 through kiwami 2 were my fav.
You said afternoon EST, and you delivered!! ✊✊
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Exactly because of that I'm watching this video.
JFC the plot to this game is the most clusterfuck shit I've ever seen. Even with someone summarizing this its hard as hell to follow.
Hahaha had me laughing. A lot of the plot - and this guy was doing this then BAM! haha good work on the vid xD
thank you man i got so burnt out on yakuza after 3 and only got halfway through this one before i lost interest, you got me wanting to play 5 bless ye
Happy to help. The series is great. Glad youre getting back into it!
Honestly the only thing i remember Hamazaki for is eating that duck head because god that was disgusting
Ey man. Love your videos. Keep it up!!!
I just finished this game 2 months ago and i must say this is a quite a ride, one of the best stories in the series aside from 0 and kiwami 1, i like yakuza 4 because of 7 reasons:
1. The story is all about betrayal and corruption which is very relatable in real life, and corruption is included in all sectors including the police force and government.
2. Gives us a 4 new protagonist which makes the story interesting.
3. The combat is pretty good and balanced.
4. Akiyama's humor makes the story interesting not just action and drama.
5. Hana chan can kick ass
6. The ending is bad ass
7. This game is like the japanese expendables.
Can't argue with any of that. I thought it was great too. Nice rebound off of a sub par yakuza 3.
@@LaMuerteBlanca I admit 4 redeemed the franchise and in my personal opinion 4 is better than 5 in the story.
You earned a sub
Man u deserve more
1:45 Halal
Two eyed Majima will always just look…wrong.
It is kinda weird once you get used to his traditional look.
This video IS HELPFULL and entertainment....thanks from Ecuador. New sub added
I need 5 right now.
so i can play 6
Great recap thou.
Just started working on the script. Might take some time since irl is crazy rn, but know I am working on it ;)
I literally watched 3 & 4 just cause I couldn’t bare the old ass engine thank you so much bro I’m On my way! To the 5th one!! 😅💪🏽🙏🏽
Happy to help!
I have the time to play these games, and I have, but I’m just stupid. It might be a combination of having to read it and act it out in my head and the story moving so fast and with so many moving parts making it hard for me to comprehend it.
Definitely wouldnt say youre stupid. All of these stories are really complicated.
man, thanks for saving me time not having to play 3 and 4
bought the whole f(ckin' lot, played through 0, k1, and k2 but lost interest in playing the older engine games.
Ya, they can be a chore sometimes. Happy to help!
Why does Masayoshi look different? I plaid on the PlayStation now version which is basically a Ps3 rom. In this video he has some chin hair and longer head hair, but when playing PlayStation now he looks more on the Chinese side than on this video?? Was there an update between the ps4 version and ps3 one?
I'm honestly not sure tbh
Dude, thank you. The remasters (for me) were super frustrating to play. Thanks for catching me up.
Happy to help
Now do the summary of the summary ! Cause I still don’t understand nothing
Multiple people double, triple, and quadruple cross other people to get big pile of money. Multiple other people beat up first set of previously mentioned people. Big bad guy loses.
Does that help? 😅
the plot is so good and huge which made a lot of obvious plot holes + some unjustified actions.
So that one guy was working that that other guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, who was working for another guy, aaaaaaaaand then was actually the guy who backstabbed this dude but in fact for some reason was ur mum.
But Kiryu San was cool. That's what I learnt today.
Well, ya...basically 🤣
@@LaMuerteBlanca The video was very helpful though. So I thank you for making it. Coming from Yakuza kiwami 2 to Yakuza 3 was pretty rough for me until they gave me a few more combos to work with in 3. I decided to watch Ur video on 4 cause it looks like it plays like 3. But many thanks pal :)
@@coolster7092 happy to help and glad you enjoyed it 😁
Yakuza 4, I had fun with this game, it was about police corruption, which could explain why the kamurocho police ain't s**t in these games. You had 4 protagonists with there own story, eventually get together and rolled up to millennium tower to handle business by throwing hands, except Akiyama hes a kicker
My brain hurts, but have now learned that people in Japan like taking their shirts off. *The More You Know*
facts lol
I played yakuza 0-3 and after that i was like ima just watch recaps for 4-6. I just want to catch up with the modern ones lol. But holy fuck is this one complicated
Story was DEF better than 3 for sure. I barely remember what that game was about lol
Got you. Yakuza 3 in one sentence: Kiryu stops an orphange take over with his fists. 🤣
Great vid bro 🔥🤘
I have never clicked a vid so damn fast
That's love, thank you.
Holy shit its them it's the yakuza 4
Got mad again so I quit cuz I gotta play that stupid detective where I’m at and I’m not down to do that anymore so I’mma start 5 and just listen
@@BoniMayne damn, sorry it's not working out. I got you though. Hope the vid helps!
@ I’ll probably play again just tired of getting grabbed
I'm playing this right now and oh my god do I legit hate this story. I just finished the detective part and like all of the twists are stupid.
so majima remains in prison at the end of yakuza 4 ?
No, he gets out. He's in the final cut scene at saejima's ceremony.
@@LaMuerteBlanca thank you
Gonna watch your 5 review and then cop yakuza 6 when it’s on sale 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks bro
These Japanese names are confusing that is why i am watching this and it helped thx a lot man
Happy to help
Please PLEASE make a Yakuza 5 story review
Im working on it. Might take a bit longer though since my work busy season just started but it is in progress.
Man.. Bad idea to skip literally the most confusing installment of the series but thanks to this video I kinda grasped the majority of the plot (emphasis of "kinda). I just wanna rush my way to 6 and like a dragon man
Nice thing about like a dragon is you can play it without playing the other games. Some major plot points just wont be as meaningful.
yakuza 4 finale is so fking confusing lol
You're not lying. Basically everyone wants money and power, but everyone who's greedy for money and power get their ass kicked. Same ending as all the other games LOL
@@LaMuerteBlanca i lost track of who's betraying who at the final boss fights lol
So is Majima still in Prison?
I dont want to spoil anything but the later games will answer that question.
I'm still confused.
🤷♂️
@@LaMuerteBlanca Nothing against you! I love your videos and the editing is amazing, it's just the Yakuza games are so hard to follow. I mean I get confused watching some anime too. The storylines are just too complex for my lazy brain.
@@eciekoc it's all good, and i understand, trust me. Sometimes I'm rewatching scenes like "what the hell just happened?" 😅
Appreciate the love though. 🙏
@@LaMuerteBlanca😮😑😑😑
For the next game could u do final fantasy XV
Final fantasy might be interesting. 🤔 Will need to see what the average play time is for those games. Been way too long. The whole thing is a blur.
@@LaMuerteBlanca Sorry to pop into this conversation, but I'd definitely recommend FFXV as well.
Played through all of FFXV myself. Took me ~90 hours to beat the story + DLC + most of the extra content (Royal Arms, Pitoss Ruins, Erza's Key dungeon quests, most of the side quests, upgradeable weapons, and Melusine.)
The story + DLC alone probably can be done in half that time. Maybe less. I also tend to be more methodical when I play games, so that probably added an extra 5-10 hours to my playtime lol.
It's a great game imo. The combat is pretty fun, and the story is..... Pretty good. It could've been better, but a lot of it sadly got gutted due to development hell. The devs made a book detailing a different ending/more plot they were going to add in before all the development issues and the project was canceled. A shame too, because what they intended for the game was REALLY good.
And yes, you really should play the DLC lol (Except for Comrades). They teach how to play as your other 3 party members and address some serious plot holes that the main game was forced to have. Plus, completing them gets you some pretty nice gear. I recommend playing them when they happen in the main story. (Chapter Gladiolus takes place during CH7 of the main game. Chapter Ignis takes place at the end of CH9, and Chapter Prompto takes place during CH12. Chapter Ardyn can be played anytime, really.)
I believe you can get the game for free on PC if you have the Xbox game pass. IF you want to play it, then go for the windows/royal edition. They have some really nice extra content + patches to the story.
@@ne0space nice ill look into that
Nice
Yeah this is definitely the most confusing storyline out of the games I’ve played so far 😂
Especially after 3, they really decided to go crazy with this one. 😅
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i have about 13 games on backlog that i own and still need to beat including ghost of tsushima, red dead2, AC Valhalla, Yakuza like a dragon, doom eternal, and more.. instead im replaying the yakuza series (like a dragon doesnt count. great story so far but gotta force myself to get thru it. gets grindy and gameplays meh)
That's a massive backlog...good luck.
@@LaMuerteBlanca and i decided to replay yakuza0 today 😂.. i tracked down the president of RGG studios on twitter and asked him if well ever get an english version RGG Ishin. Hope i made a compelling case, ill let u kno if he responds
so wait. Daigo wasn't bad just misguided n took the easy route by getting the money? Then Kiryu whoop his ass to get him in line again? Also I thought Taiga took over Tojo. Make sense he just get a family. I mean the guy in prison for so long i highly doubt he can run the clan lol
Ya basically. Daigo's still chairman after all of this and Taiga is a captain if I'm not mistaken.
@@LaMuerteBlanca i just completed today lol. will check out Y5 soon to see what happens next. thanks for this video explanation
This game is an hot mess. WAY better than 3, and the gameplay is pretty good, and I enjoyed all different characters styles. But, the story is way too complicated just for the sake of it, and the constant plot twists are stupid. One of the weakest entries IMO, still a lot better than 3.
Fair points. Could be considered good simply because it was compared to 3. 🤷♂️
how good was this tho. jus finished my 2nd playthru. love when everything comes together with all 4 playable characters. such a feel good moment
It was wild but RGG somehow made it work.
@@LaMuerteBlanca hey man i got a question for you, who do you like more and why? shinada from Y5 oe tanimura from Y4?
@@vipset87 personally i have to go tanimura mainly based on gameplay and combat style. His combat felt a lot more fluid and fun.
Thanks for the video, it's killing me but I have to DNF this one, although I really to do all of the Yakuza series. Yakuza 4 is just plain awful, the fighting is shit, there's no incentive to do any substories and those 35 minutes cut scenes?? are you serious? Now I know the story, I can move on to the 5th.
Thank you for this video, I love the Yakuza franchise but I had to drop 4 mid way because of how fucking awful it is
Happy to help
Thanks again. Thanks so much.
Fuuuuuuck, so complicated
Y4 Kiryu: I’m not gonna run away
Y5 Kiryu:*Runs away*
I mean, come on! I thought this meant that Kiryu was gonna take over the Tojo clan but it feels like Yakuza 5 retcons the 4th game’s ending. What happened to taking responsibility or that the clan is proof that he exists? Am I missing something?
I could write an entire book about all the things i don't like about yakuza 4.
There are some good moments in the story but overall, it is just dumb, lazy writing that takes itself way too seriously.
Gameplay did not age well either, the fights are akward at best. Controls respond in the typical weird yakuza way, wich involves swinging in the air a lot, destroying 98% of the ennemies without a problem and getting blasted by the few demi god like slippery bastards on crack that are sprinkled here and there.
Fights could be more fun, but since the game expects us to go through the grind necessary to unlock skills FOR EVERY CHARACTER, i just mostly spam the basic combos over and over again because i can't be bothered with the uninspired secondary quests and repetitive random street encounters...
I find the yakuza series very inconsistent to say the least, some episodes are excellent and other just suck.
4 is one of the sucky ones as far i am concerned.
Ho and when will they stop repeating the " hero beats bad guy, bad guy lays on the ground for a while, conversation starts, everyone gets distracted and bad guy grabs a gun and kills someone" thing?
i had to skip 3 and 4 back to back because it just wasent good and cant be called a remaster in my opinion
Lily/yusako is hot asf! Probably the prettiest bytch in the yakuza serious, better than sayama too! Imo
this was the shittiest yakuza game, story-wise, what?
People say 3 Or 4
I really tried to like yakuza franchise after i finished zero. Zero was a great game but after that is just thrash. There is no other word to define. Fanboys says this series is a hidden gem but is just pure thrash. The story is super mega hyper cliche at best and the combat is worst than the chernobyl incident. If you say that more than 3 people worked on the combat design of this game i won belive. I just gonna watch your summary and skip right to 6.
Disagree but I think 3-5 can feel outdated and repetitive if you’re trying to catch up on the games