In my opinion they should end Kiryu saga finale with Amon as main antagonist ;) I mean all this build up through the series should have conclusion. He would be perfect final antagonist
I used to think the healing was bullshit. Then I learned from videos the art of constant dodging, switching up heat actions, and making sure not to stay on the ground too long. From my experience, he only restores health when he pummels you on the ground or if you lay on the ground for too long (which causes him to do the taunt). Overall, I really liked this fight. Lots of bullshit, but once you know how to deal with him it feels very fun (especially since his gimmick is using the OP extracts that you had in the first Judgment game)
I can't help but feel the "open world" idea ignores what makes this series works. Especially given the amount of detail they always pack into these smaller areas.
1:23:18 "it takes so long to get up" Use the skill to get up then (pressing triangle on the ground, sometimes holding L2 to not trigger a heat action). You have a skill like that to both crane and tiger, and if you're in snake you can press the down D-pad to get up while changing to crane. Everytime you find yourself in an annoying situation, check your skills and see if you're forgetting something useful. Like you did with the stun status effect, where you checked your items and saw something to reduce it.
The reason they pulled back so much of the detective gameplay this game is due to all the complaints in the original Judgement that people thought it felt intrusive. So they're like afraid to put too much of a focus on the detective gameplay
*Important Notes:* The finale is _very long_ so I actually recommend for you **to stop IMMEDIATELY after the Ehara appeal trial for next ep** because the next story beat after will be LONG. Save right after the trial and do the rest in another episode because we are *NOT kidding that the finale is **_this_** long.* *My thoughts on Yakuza Open World possibilities:* I heavily disagree with that open world take. *If the yakuza series were to go that path of being like GTA, it would lose A LOT of its charm.* I’m open to it if the devs decide that, however *I do not believe it is something that resonates with appeal of yakuza games.* If the devs did go down this path, then I wouldn’t think it would of gotten this popular. *I don’t agree that a core mechanic of a series should be removed for the sake of a less detailed open world like GTA.* It would just make the world more boring up close and I didn’t come here to just have a barebones city/cities. *I believe identity is **_far_** more important than copying another game’s success.* *About the amon fight: I personally beat this amon first try on Hard difficulty (after taking too long in fighting legit so I spammed extracts for the rest of the fight.)* I destroyed him so fast and went back in legend mode to kill him again. Savage slam destroys any chance he has to defend/heal himself _since it only matters if you can stop him momentarily and gauge your style buffs._ The damage has to be managed by constantly being on the evasive as the dmg of the extract goes back to normal after a bit of time and *the fact he only heals himself if **_you get hit by an extract move or his skateboard._* Spamming multiple savage slam/warrior’s onslaught extracts since multiple are needed and only savage slam is easy to make. *He **_is_** fucking hard while going in full barehanded and no healing items which is possible using snake style in first phase into tiger style 2nd phase (yeah, that took me a LOT tries there but basically you need to learn and memorize the shit out of his moves really hard to non extract you way through him).* You literally have to perfect damage him without him healing himself which means not get hit by an extract attack. In the case with extracts, Savage slam is a goated _unstoppable_ grab that Juzo Amon cannot defend himself from so you can stop his tracks, gain a lot of heat from it, ex boost beat him down with tiger style/boxer style normal combos, and repeat. If you run out of it, making more is a breeze as i could make 20 during the fight. *I did have 5/6 dmg upgrades so brute forcing the 2nd phase was possible.* In all honesty, this amon was so poorly designed to me that he is pretty low on my tier list since he only uses cheap tactics and also not _that hard_ with extracts too.
I keep hearing how people don't like him because he's not hard with extracts, but insane without. I found him to be fairly manageable without those when you figure out his attack pattern, *but* until that point, it was a bit frustrating. Like, I probably spent a good 10-20 tries without extracts and my first win, then it took me 2-3 tries when I tried again after figuring out how he worked and how to avoid the hits. I feel like the extracts are mostly there so that you have an option to take him out without having to figure out how to deal with specific moves/situations
Fun fact about that side quest with you tailing the kid, a fairly common topic for Japanese TV shows, at least in the past, is watching children trying to do an errand on their own for the first time like going to get groceries and watch their reactions. It can range from being really cute, them being scared, or just gives you a heartwarming feeling like watching siblings support eachother. You can probably find clips of that online if you look it up.
I don’t know about the open world thing, tbh. Maybe I’m just sick to death of large scale open worlds, but one of my favourite traits of the RGG games is that all this content is packed into a tight, easy to access space. I don’t have to fast travel everywhere, drive 50 miles and spend 8 years in a waypoint simulator if I don’t want. I’m open to any contention, obviously, but I don’t think I’m ready for that kinda commitment; especially when the main-series future is coming up turn based Edit:: Shoutout to Amon’s theme, ‘Lineage of Clan’. Not my favourite Amon theme by far, but pretty damn sweet
I found this one of the easiest Amons of the series, going into Ex Boost and charging triangle attacks in Tiger style, attacking his back does truckloads of damage and I didn't get a single attack upgrade.
I personally found this Amon to be the easiest one yet for me, having only died twice and realizing quickly I had to alternate my moves, I didn't even use extracts. Then again, I also maxed out my skill tree so that probably helped.
Interesting few facts about that side quest with Taro-kun as it's actually based on how they treat children in Japanese culture. In fact the show Yagami referenced Kaito watching is a real Japanese reality show called "Old Enough" where we get to see children do these errands like in this side quest. In Japan, they want to help mature their kids very early, so parents will put their children up to these first errands to help them do things out in the world like adults do. Usually these tend to be very simple things at first, like delivery of one item to another family member or going to get groceries. Kids even as young as two years old can be sent out on these errands in Japan. All in all, it's much different compared to how we treat children in the West to almost completely avoid more mature things until they are older.
Yeah, I don’t really agree with the whole “open world” idea you pitched. It would take away most of the charm of these games-the thing that makes them special is the small but compact world that’s fun to explore, learn and remember. The over world being a massive GTA-style map is not appealing to me whatsoever. It’s just completely unnecessary, and the game would have much less charm. Also, I love that side case with Kaito and tailing the child. It’s one of my favourites in the entire series-I just love how stupid it is lol
On the topic of an open-world Yakuza game, while I feel like that has a lot of potential, I can also see it being a hindrance to plot points where you need to find someone and you have to check multiple cities like what you had to do with General White in Paper Mario. While it does sound risky to me, it definitely has a lot of potential and I’m sure RGG studios can make it happen if they put their minds to it. It would be a lot of fun exploring multiple cities in Japan and experience all of the different locales!
Fun fact about the first errand thing: Japan, being a place that is known for being pretty low crime and focused on public security (yeah I know that's weird considering the amount of thugs you encounter on the regular and a lot of that has to do with corruption in the justice system and the perception of Yakuza as Robin Hood-like figures but nonetheless...) is generally more okay with the idea of sending extremely young kids out to do errands. In fact, a common practice in Japan is to send extremely young kids...around 4 or so to go out to do errands with the expectation that they'll fail and the mistakes they make will be a teachable moment for the young children. There's actually an entire film genre called "Hajimete" based around young children doing errands with adults secretly filming them and a lot of comedy is based around how the kids screw up in adorable and cute kid-like ways (the nearest equivalent in America would be something like AFV though that's honestly a poor equivalence).
Okay, but to be fair, a pilot poking his head out of a manhole cover is hardly the weirdest thing that's happened in literally any of the cities in the Yakuza franchise
Man Kaito was so sweet in the 'My First Errand' side quest, the quest was so goofy, made me smile :) Also I'm sure someone else has said this but I'm pretty sure the side quest is a reference to the Japanese TV Show 'Old Enough' which follows little kids out on their first errands! Its a really sweet show, most of the kids are super enthusiastic about doing their very first errand and take it very seriously ah ha ^^ The kids on the show are as young as 4 years old, I think kids start becoming a bit more independent from a much younger age in Japan versus in the West, lots of children catch the train and things to school on their own from a young age. But yeh thank you for making another fun video Nico!
Hey Nico, just wanted to say I agree with you about the other smaller clubs not getting to shine during the finale, so I came up with some ideas for each one of them to have their moments in the sun. *Ahem* *Girls' Bar:* [Yagami receives a call from Emily after he escapes from Honda, warning him that the Keihan gang members have disguised as civilians and waiting to ambush him in the streets; Yagami asks how Emily knows this, and she explains that they got several members of the gang at the bar good and drunk.] *Casino:* [After Yagami sends out a text to the other students warning them about the Keihan gang, Hayakawa shows up and offers to use her synthesia to identify the gang members and help Yagami get to where Itokura is being. They successfully arrive moments later where Hayakawa uses her synthesia once again to inform Yagami that it is only the one guard and Itokura at the location; she also tells Yagami of Itokura's current emotional state.] *E-Sports Club:* [Instead of Sakura piloting the robot, it is instead Sanbonmatsu who manages to nail Koga in the groin before swiping his gun and saying "Junin Haiyan Dayo!" He then mentions to Okitegawa that their clubs should have a game night when this is all over as he believes it will help them better control their future robotic creations.] *Photography Club:* [Instead of the Bakuan Rairyu blinding the Keihan gang members to allow Yagami and Itokura a chance to escape, it is Toribe and Hikawa using the flashes of their cameras to blind the Keihan gang all while saying, "Say Cheese!"] *Skateboarders:* [After Koga puts out the call for backup, multiple gang members on the other side of the city rush to their cars only to find them covered in graffiti.] "What the hell is this!? We can't drive these!" "Uh, boss, couldn't we just drive them with the windows down?" "You idiot! If we did that the cops would pull us for sure!" [Meanwhile, Shikishima and Chiyoda look at their handiwork with Shikishima tossing an empty spray paint can up and down in his hands before giving Chiyoda a fist bump without looking.] Meanwhile, Kim fumbles around having missed the call to action put out to all Made in Heaven members. "Um, hey guys, where did everybody go? My phone died and I have no idea what is going on..." Just then, his foot bumps into one of the electric drones left behind by the Robotics club. "Huh, what the heck is this?" He then proceeds to get violently shocked for 60 seconds straight while letting out a blood-curdling scream. "AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!" He then stumbles backward and bumps into Coach Todoroki while he is still beating up Keihan gang members. "Huh, who the F@#& are you!?" He then proceeds to give Kim a taste of the Todoroki Rush before giving him a massive uppercut that sends him flying into the sky; he then plummets back down right of the Keihan gang members about to be assaulted by the Bakuran Rairyu and Mad Angels. As the firework sparks fall and the soundwaves blast Kim stumbles backward and manages to bump into the same electric drone from before. He is violently shocked once again as he screams out, "AH! My ears! My eyes! AAAAAAAAHHHHH! Why is this happening to me!? What did I do to deserve this!?" Elsewhere, with Yagami and Itokura, "Come on, Itokura, we need to keep moving if we are going to..." Yagami then comes to a stop. "Yagami-san, what's wrong?" "I don't know...but it's as if a great wrong has finally been righted in the universe." "Huh?" "Nevermind, let's keep moving!" On that day, Kim's story came to a shockingly explosive, ear-piercing end.
Yakuza was NEVER intended to be a GTA style game, it was only the western marketing that made it seem that way. in Japan the who Yakuza aspect was never meant to be a selling point and was just another plot point mixed in with all the others. a full open world Yakuza game would suck and ruin everything that makes these games great. Yokohama is big enough and Lost Judgment does a poor job using the entirety of the map like Yakuza 7 does.
This Amon fight basically goes, hard if you're trying to do it legit, but if you cheese him with extracts, he goes down easy. You were on the nose about how if you let him heal too much you've basically already lost. Outside of extract cheese, the best way to take him out is just focusing on stacking the crane and tiger hidden arts then finding an opening to hit him with the tiger charge attacks.
I would say i dont like the presedent this Amon fight sets, or what it expose of the combat system. Lets be clear here, as Nico expose the game give you a LOT of Overpower shit and that is not counting how LOL the extracts are to any semblance of balance or strategy. So, if this ks the route they are going and Ammon has to basicly Superpower spam to be dificult, then i fear the next entry in jugment (if is decided to be made) the combat system may become a clown with how over the top it will become, forgeting any semblance of actual martial arts or fighting style the serie is renown for.
@@ericquiabazza2608 amon is not treated the same as everybody else. they are assassins, not a martial artist, that'll do whatever they can to kill their target and remain the strongest warriors and honestly should be ridiculous compared to other boss fights. makes them stand out more even if they're typically not the greatest. and it's just one fight that's treated over the top. the rest aren't. they are exceptions and should be treated as such.
One of these days, someone is just going to make a compilation of Nico's struggles against all of the Amons he's fought. It's pretty much a Dragon Ball story at this point. Jo Amon: Frieza Shin Amon: Hit Juzo Amon: Jiren
BTW, not sure if anyone mentioned this or if you have seen my previous comment, but now that you got all of the girlfriends, you can preform special heat actions when you are in the same area as them. If you have trouble doing them, I believe you can see them in your Heat Actions list in your menu. Edit: 50:55 Nevermind, you found one of them!
In one of your early lost judgement let's play episode, you said you plan on making an episode playing the Sega master system games when you collect all of them if you still plan on it.
If you notice, during the Amon fight, when he heals, you can clearly see him heal with his pose being the same pose Majima does when singing 24-hour Cinderella. Majima may not be here, *BUT HIS SPIRIT SURE IS*
Most the intros been based on an event of their respective episode. Nico just picked a moment from that episode & bounced off it in his usual adlib comedy.
Yagami: if you're gonna be that cheesy about it, why not go over the top? “Rebuild of Shin Amon,” or maybe “Shin Amon II: Assassin's Boogaloo” ? Yagami would be great on Cinema Sins
Here's some other ways you can do some tag team moves with allies besides Kaito's two special ones: Grab an enemy and use an Ex-action when near ally as well as another enemy, Use Ex-action near ally when they seem to have an enemy in a grab position whether it be from the front or behind, when an ally is at low health do a Ex-action near them and an enemy. That way will at least make you partners more useful in combat.
And now we’re in the 50’s. Not a lot of LP’s get this long. I think (in terms of number of episodes) this is already around the 5th longest. Let’s see; P5 is still 1 at 76 DV3 is at 2 with 63 P4 Golden is third a 62 FE: 3 Houses is fourth at 56 And Danganronpa 2 is the fifth at 54. Yeah, I think this puts Lost Judgment at a near podium length LP. And there’s STILL the Kaito DLC!
@@ZenoKnightShade I think he's definitely going to eventually it's just a matter of how long (though I don't expect him to do silver snow/church route).
Just started the episode & there's one thing on my mind. I can't wait for folks to add awesome visuals to "The Nico & Mr Kitty show". Whether it's a comic or vid. I am ready!
There are some really good scenes in this game but every time they say "judgment" all I can think about is "But have you considered your LOST JUDGEMENT, Kuwana?"
I’d just like to point out that whenever Juzo Amon heals himself here, he does a pose and finger waggle similar to Majima in 24-Hour Cinderella, and that’s hilarious. The most bullshit part of his fight is a reference to one of the most hilarious things in the series.
*Narrator: "In one final request, Yagami meets a familiar foe..." Yagami: "So... it's you!" Shin: "It's time... for REDEMPTION!" *Juzo appears, blinding Yagami... not much could be seen, but punches and a painful groan are heard... As Yagami's eyesight recovers, Shin is laid out on the floor* Juzo: "Sit down, Shin! He's mine!" Yagami: "WHAT!? Who are you?" Juzo: "I will be your final opponent. But let's not make a scene here..." Yagami: "Well, where are we fighting then?" Juzo: "...who said anything about fighting? I saw your fight against my brother! No way I can outfight you. BUT, I know your TRUE weakness!" *Juzo teleports Yagami to somewhere in the cyberspace dimension. A table with game pieces is seen in the middle.* Yagami: "Where are we?" Juzo: "Take a seat, Yagami... it's time!" Yagami: "Wait... is this!?" Juzo: "That's right, Yagami! MAHJONG!! MWAHAHAHAHA!" Yagami: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
If you didn’t notice it already, Amon heals by doing the iconic backflip into finger wag from 24-Hour Cinderella. The clan apparently DOES remember that one of their own lost to Majima back in Zero.
Judging by Nico’s comment, I can already tell this Amon fight is going to be a long one, which is fitting for the longest Yakuza LP so far on this channel!
Finally at Amon, damn this series really IS coming to an end. It's been so long, I think longer than any of the previous Yakuzas, really gonna miss it.
Kusumoto: If my secret gets exposed, all of my efforts to fix the country would be for naught and people would lose faith in the government, I would be unable to weed out the corruption within my department, and my son, who's just awoken from a 13 year coma, would lose his mother and be branded the son of a murderer by society! Yagami: Okay, I hear you. Counterpoint... Sawa-sensei
They funny things is that most, if not all, of Juzo Amon's extract moves are actually the DLC extracts from the original Judgment game. *So does this mean that Juzo Amon only got to the top because he was a pay to win?*
Idk if anyone has commented this yet but there's a theory that Kitakata picked the name Kuwana because it means 917, which is the exact day Kusumoto Mitsuru jumped from the balcony.
Yagami: *gets Leek from Tsukino to fight with, bashes the guy to the ground befor he twirls it and a song from a serten AI anime girl start playing in the background* Tsukino: Yagami-san, What are you doing?? Yagami: I don`t know either! But it seems really meme-like!
There's really only one correct answer against Amon in this game - Tiger style charged attacks. They hit like a goddamn truck - you can take him out in like a minute or two with them (if you don't get screwed by his random BS attacks). I also wholeheartedly believe that's the *only* realistic way to beat him in the gauntlet (where you have no extracts and no healing items)
God, I feel like I want to cry at how much I've grown very fond of Yagami as a protagonist of the Yakuza series. 😢 I say this like a million times, but he is SO much like Gintoki in that he's a very complex type of main character with so many layers to him. While he wants to get to the bottom of the case he's been given and tie every loose end before he closes the book for good, he also is a very compassionate guy who wants to save as many people as he can; be they the victim or the assailant. This strong sense of justice and sticking to his principles that he'd forged through painful loss and regrets of his weaker self makes Yagami so brilliant to watch that it's hard not to love him. Also I love how the final chapter's name is basically a quote from Gintoki, too, in which he gave a pearl of wisdom to his comrade/pupil when it seemed like their peaceful lives were heading down a very precarious turning point where they didn't know what would happen next.
9:41 An open-world Yakuza-esque game with GTA leanings...huh. How the tables have turned lol 😂 I appreciate the series utilizing the locales so that it becomes an evolving character of its own, mainly Kamurocho and now, Ijincho. I feel going fully into open-world would diminish that effect by having things so spread out, and less cohesive. There's also the concern that going open world with bigger/more maps would mean bloating the game with mind-numbing traversal over empty terrain and/or copy-pasted lifeless cityscapes. Actually this also increases the chances of some main story quests only existing to pad out the game, breaking the story flow (& which would have been better as optional substories) As an example, you pointed out the Tatami Room raid redux earlier, which I feel is partly due to RGG "maximizing existing assets" from the prologue case 😅 (Kosuke + the Tatami Room location) and partly trying to tie it into the flow of the main story in a way that would make sense (hence having to fight RK there). That said, I appreciate the Kosuke memes 😂 The main crux of how open-world design idea clashes with the Yakuza formula, IMO is that open-world is going to be primarily exploration-driven narrative, whereas the series has at it's core imo, been about character-driven action-drama with moments of wacky shenanigans thrown in to balance it out. TL;DR open-world you look for the plot, RGG games, the plot finds you. 42:53 **Makoto Makimura (Y0) and Daigo Dojima (Y3) welcoming Mitsuru Kusumoto to the club.** 50:54 Oh finally a girlfriend-support fight- LJ's answer to combining the QTEs from unlocking substory allies (YK2) with the healing buff Mafuyu gave Yagami that one time you used her as a kung-fu prop against her would-be abductors from the Kyorei Clan (Judgment)
So, judging from the intro, I'm guessing that Nico's dream Judgment game would essentially be a Batman: Arkham game with Yakuza-style combat and removing the glider cape so you're moving on foot. (And hopefully keeping the taxi fast-travel) Come to think of it, has anybody out there actually tried traversing Gotham from one end to the other entirely on foot without just gliding or fast-traveling to their destination? Assuming the taxi fast-travel works identically to the Batwing fast-travel, that's still a LOT of running to get from point A to point B.
To celebrate 50 episodes of Lost Judgement, everyone got Yagami a giant cake but they didn’t tell him that Amon is hiding in there instead of the girlfriends
Isn’t Yakuza technically already an open world game? It’s map isn’t as big but it definitely has as much content as most open world game hell I would say it has even more stuff to do than games like GTA
By the time I could fight Amon I had the versatility extract that boosts your damage and heals you for a time every time you swap styles. I managed to get him into positions to hit with specific launch combos and with all the style buffs stacking as I juggled him I basically melted him and kept my health high enough to not die. The only thing that made it difficult was all the bullshit stunlocking and nonstop healing he does. But I guess spamming warriors onslaught works too lmfao.
Yagami: “I don’t understand HOW IS HE SO POWERFUL?!” Juzo: “I’ve studied long and hard for this moment. Under the greatest masters of them all.” *Sephiroth and all the Kingdom Hearts secret bosses watching from afar.* Sephiroth: You’ve done well our dear student, now show them despair…
I’m seeing a few comments claiming that this fight wasn’t that hard. I get the feeling Juzo was as tough as he was for you, because you didn’t have maxed-out Attack power. Juzo healed more damage than you could dish out, so you needed extracts to pick up the slack.
Aww, i was kinda hoping since everyone was talking about the consorteum in the comments last episode, that my comment about mitsuru would make comment of the day :(
Me: About to ask if you'll be doing Kaito's DLC (mostly having only paid attention to the story bits) Nico: Yeah, I'll be getting into the Kaito DLC as a separate project. Me: 😐wut
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that super game Sega is working sounds like some live service thing. Also, I’m not really fond of the idea of a big open world Yakuza game. These games are big enough. Making them any bigger would just make the pacing worse imo.
I want to start a prediction thing with the comments. Do you think Kuwana will die during Lost Judgement? Whether it be by his own life or by RK? What do you think the writers will do and why?
I like how the Amon clan members call themselves the strongest in the world but it's been nothing more than BS since after the first 3 Yakuza games lol
I agree with you nico that this story is perhaps my favorite of the Yakuza judgement franchise. I’d like to compare the story in these games to being like a rollercoaster in that theirs all sorts of non stop twists and turns.
Yagamai: Those moves and attacks just what fighting style is this. Juzo: The most powerful form of fighting. A style that makes men's sacrifice parts of themselves to attain these power and it's glory. Changing them of a weakling to a man of power even god you may say. Yagamai: Just what is this style? Juzo: I shouldn't say but today maybe your last so I tell you yagamai just what this style is. Yagamai: What is it? Juzo: It is called............PAY TO WIN DLC BABY. Yagamai: Oh. Juzo: Any last words yagamai? Yagamai: So your one of those players aha............loser.
I really enjoyed how different the side-content was in Lost Judgment. Definitely the most feature-complete Yakuza/Judgment game next to Yakuza 5 with how much there is to do in this game. It really helped how they leaned into the wacky and weird after Judgment's more straight-laced side cases, and I'm glad we were able to get to delve into Yagami's past more and learn about him as a character rather than a cool protagonist. I really hope they have a sequel to Lost Judgment planned out because Yagami's street smarts prove him to be an excellent foil to Ichiban Kasuga's zaniness. Plus, it helps RGG try different things with both franchises, and continue to iterate on the Yakuza universe while giving both protagonists ample time to breathe. Excited to see the LP reach it's conclusion, been a long time coming!
Elden Ring is my favorite open world because it doesn't have a massive quest log and thousands of question marks on the map. I think Yakuza already goes a bit overboard with completion points and tedious quest requirements. If it was even bigger, it would lose both its charm and be packed with even more of the filler you said you've gotten a bit tired of in these games.
The AH-HA water that "cures any illness" was in yakuza 0 too. Kiryu runs into some scammer lady who tries to sell it to him saying that it will give him "steel vitality" in his private area.
Hands down my least favorite Amon fight I've fought in this series. The levels of spamming x to recover in this fight is beyond ridiculous. Adding to the fact he can easily heal himself it's just awful. Which is a complete shame because I absolutely adore the Amon fight in the first game even if he does destroy my FPS.
I personally enjoyed this fight a lot more. Managed to beat him without cheese, but I did have to then learn how to avoid the "spam x" situations as you put it, relied a lot on the tanking from Snake Style followed by the crane and tiger boosts.
@@GamerSapss Yeah. I definitely learned Snake's invulnerability to takedowns when parrying, being overly aggressive so to not let him heal himself and holding off on the EX actions until he reaches the last three HP bars were all absolutely necessary for this fight. I personally don't like using the extracts so that strat definitely saved my bacon.
I personally like this Juzo Amon abit more than Shin tbh. He is challenging and ridiculous, during this fight I probably used lots of healing item just to stall him and figure out his pattern. Once he is down to purple hp, I must go aggressive on him focus, parry and ex boost tiger spam. I honestly feel more rewarding beating Juzo than Shin, I don't like the idea of extracts in the game so I refuse to use it
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The streak of easy Amon fights finally comes to an end.
In my opinion they should end Kiryu saga finale with Amon as main antagonist ;)
I mean all this build up through the series should have conclusion. He would be perfect final antagonist
Ya, for some odd reason Kiwami 2 and 3 had easy Amon fights.
its interesting that his name Shin Amon can basically mean "New Amon"
So are you doing the harder DLC version of the Amon fight next?
I used to think the healing was bullshit. Then I learned from videos the art of constant dodging, switching up heat actions, and making sure not to stay on the ground too long. From my experience, he only restores health when he pummels you on the ground or if you lay on the ground for too long (which causes him to do the taunt). Overall, I really liked this fight. Lots of bullshit, but once you know how to deal with him it feels very fun (especially since his gimmick is using the OP extracts that you had in the first Judgment game)
I can't help but feel the "open world" idea ignores what makes this series works. Especially given the amount of detail they always pack into these smaller areas.
Exactly, if i wanted to play GTA i would go play GTA.
I am playing Yakuza so i DONT need to play another generic open world AAA.
Absolutely agree. The only really good open world game for a long time has been ER.
1:23:18 "it takes so long to get up"
Use the skill to get up then (pressing triangle on the ground, sometimes holding L2 to not trigger a heat action).
You have a skill like that to both crane and tiger, and if you're in snake you can press the down D-pad to get up while changing to crane.
Everytime you find yourself in an annoying situation, check your skills and see if you're forgetting something useful.
Like you did with the stun status effect, where you checked your items and saw something to reduce it.
The reason they pulled back so much of the detective gameplay this game is due to all the complaints in the original Judgement that people thought it felt intrusive. So they're like afraid to put too much of a focus on the detective gameplay
*Important Notes:* The finale is _very long_ so I actually recommend for you **to stop IMMEDIATELY after the Ehara appeal trial for next ep** because the next story beat after will be LONG. Save right after the trial and do the rest in another episode because we are *NOT kidding that the finale is **_this_** long.*
*My thoughts on Yakuza Open World possibilities:* I heavily disagree with that open world take. *If the yakuza series were to go that path of being like GTA, it would lose A LOT of its charm.* I’m open to it if the devs decide that, however *I do not believe it is something that resonates with appeal of yakuza games.* If the devs did go down this path, then I wouldn’t think it would of gotten this popular. *I don’t agree that a core mechanic of a series should be removed for the sake of a less detailed open world like GTA.* It would just make the world more boring up close and I didn’t come here to just have a barebones city/cities. *I believe identity is **_far_** more important than copying another game’s success.*
*About the amon fight: I personally beat this amon first try on Hard difficulty (after taking too long in fighting legit so I spammed extracts for the rest of the fight.)* I destroyed him so fast and went back in legend mode to kill him again. Savage slam destroys any chance he has to defend/heal himself _since it only matters if you can stop him momentarily and gauge your style buffs._ The damage has to be managed by constantly being on the evasive as the dmg of the extract goes back to normal after a bit of time and *the fact he only heals himself if **_you get hit by an extract move or his skateboard._* Spamming multiple savage slam/warrior’s onslaught extracts since multiple are needed and only savage slam is easy to make.
*He **_is_** fucking hard while going in full barehanded and no healing items which is possible using snake style in first phase into tiger style 2nd phase (yeah, that took me a LOT tries there but basically you need to learn and memorize the shit out of his moves really hard to non extract you way through him).* You literally have to perfect damage him without him healing himself which means not get hit by an extract attack. In the case with extracts, Savage slam is a goated _unstoppable_ grab that Juzo Amon cannot defend himself from so you can stop his tracks, gain a lot of heat from it, ex boost beat him down with tiger style/boxer style normal combos, and repeat. If you run out of it, making more is a breeze as i could make 20 during the fight. *I did have 5/6 dmg upgrades so brute forcing the 2nd phase was possible.* In all honesty, this amon was so poorly designed to me that he is pretty low on my tier list since he only uses cheap tactics and also not _that hard_ with extracts too.
I keep hearing how people don't like him because he's not hard with extracts, but insane without. I found him to be fairly manageable without those when you figure out his attack pattern, *but* until that point, it was a bit frustrating. Like, I probably spent a good 10-20 tries without extracts and my first win, then it took me 2-3 tries when I tried again after figuring out how he worked and how to avoid the hits. I feel like the extracts are mostly there so that you have an option to take him out without having to figure out how to deal with specific moves/situations
Fun fact about that side quest with you tailing the kid, a fairly common topic for Japanese TV shows, at least in the past, is watching children trying to do an errand on their own for the first time like going to get groceries and watch their reactions. It can range from being really cute, them being scared, or just gives you a heartwarming feeling like watching siblings support eachother. You can probably find clips of that online if you look it up.
There’s a show on Netflix called Old Enough about this exact thing
I don’t know about the open world thing, tbh. Maybe I’m just sick to death of large scale open worlds, but one of my favourite traits of the RGG games is that all this content is packed into a tight, easy to access space. I don’t have to fast travel everywhere, drive 50 miles and spend 8 years in a waypoint simulator if I don’t want. I’m open to any contention, obviously, but I don’t think I’m ready for that kinda commitment; especially when the main-series future is coming up turn based
Edit:: Shoutout to Amon’s theme, ‘Lineage of Clan’. Not my favourite Amon theme by far, but pretty damn sweet
Nico: an open world yakuza game could be cool
Literally the entire comments section: how about no
I’ve never been more proud in my entire life.
I found this one of the easiest Amons of the series, going into Ex Boost and charging triangle attacks in Tiger style, attacking his back does truckloads of damage and I didn't get a single attack upgrade.
I personally found this Amon to be the easiest one yet for me, having only died twice and realizing quickly I had to alternate my moves, I didn't even use extracts. Then again, I also maxed out my skill tree so that probably helped.
Previous Judgment game, Nico didn't even alterned his styles, he just went straight to Amon
Interesting few facts about that side quest with Taro-kun as it's actually based on how they treat children in Japanese culture. In fact the show Yagami referenced Kaito watching is a real Japanese reality show called "Old Enough" where we get to see children do these errands like in this side quest.
In Japan, they want to help mature their kids very early, so parents will put their children up to these first errands to help them do things out in the world like adults do. Usually these tend to be very simple things at first, like delivery of one item to another family member or going to get groceries. Kids even as young as two years old can be sent out on these errands in Japan.
All in all, it's much different compared to how we treat children in the West to almost completely avoid more mature things until they are older.
Amon: HOW DID YOU GET THIS STRONG!?
Yagami: I trained all day yesterday
Amon: Oh you think you're being CUTE
Yagami: Bitch, I'm adorable
Mitsuru: imagine waking up and suddenly you're thirty
People who are 29 the night before their birthday: *sweats profusely*
I'm gonna be 28 so I'm gonna feel that...
Yeah, I don’t really agree with the whole “open world” idea you pitched. It would take away most of the charm of these games-the thing that makes them special is the small but compact world that’s fun to explore, learn and remember. The over world being a massive GTA-style map is not appealing to me whatsoever. It’s just completely unnecessary, and the game would have much less charm.
Also, I love that side case with Kaito and tailing the child. It’s one of my favourites in the entire series-I just love how stupid it is lol
On the topic of an open-world Yakuza game, while I feel like that has a lot of potential, I can also see it being a hindrance to plot points where you need to find someone and you have to check multiple cities like what you had to do with General White in Paper Mario. While it does sound risky to me, it definitely has a lot of potential and I’m sure RGG studios can make it happen if they put their minds to it. It would be a lot of fun exploring multiple cities in Japan and experience all of the different locales!
I love how Shin just becomes Yagami's bff after the Juzo fight lol.
Fun fact about the first errand thing: Japan, being a place that is known for being pretty low crime and focused on public security (yeah I know that's weird considering the amount of thugs you encounter on the regular and a lot of that has to do with corruption in the justice system and the perception of Yakuza as Robin Hood-like figures but nonetheless...) is generally more okay with the idea of sending extremely young kids out to do errands. In fact, a common practice in Japan is to send extremely young kids...around 4 or so to go out to do errands with the expectation that they'll fail and the mistakes they make will be a teachable moment for the young children. There's actually an entire film genre called "Hajimete" based around young children doing errands with adults secretly filming them and a lot of comedy is based around how the kids screw up in adorable and cute kid-like ways (the nearest equivalent in America would be something like AFV though that's honestly a poor equivalence).
Giving Juzo the typical edgy anime teen voice was probably the most accurate voice given the mass amount of anime powers and posing this man does.
Mitsuru: To wake up and suddenly you're 30...
S;G0 Okabe: First time?
Okay, but to be fair, a pilot poking his head out of a manhole cover is hardly the weirdest thing that's happened in literally any of the cities in the Yakuza franchise
Man Kaito was so sweet in the 'My First Errand' side quest, the quest was so goofy, made me smile :)
Also I'm sure someone else has said this but I'm pretty sure the side quest is a reference to the Japanese TV Show 'Old Enough' which follows little kids out on their first errands!
Its a really sweet show, most of the kids are super enthusiastic about doing their very first errand and take it very seriously ah ha ^^
The kids on the show are as young as 4 years old, I think kids start becoming a bit more independent from a much younger age in Japan versus in the West, lots of children catch the train and things to school on their own from a young age.
But yeh thank you for making another fun video Nico!
Hey Nico, just wanted to say I agree with you about the other smaller clubs not getting to shine during the finale, so I came up with some ideas for each one of them to have their moments in the sun. *Ahem*
*Girls' Bar:* [Yagami receives a call from Emily after he escapes from Honda, warning him that the Keihan gang members have disguised as civilians and waiting to ambush him in the streets; Yagami asks how Emily knows this, and she explains that they got several members of the gang at the bar good and drunk.]
*Casino:* [After Yagami sends out a text to the other students warning them about the Keihan gang, Hayakawa shows up and offers to use her synthesia to identify the gang members and help Yagami get to where Itokura is being. They successfully arrive moments later where Hayakawa uses her synthesia once again to inform Yagami that it is only the one guard and Itokura at the location; she also tells Yagami of Itokura's current emotional state.]
*E-Sports Club:* [Instead of Sakura piloting the robot, it is instead Sanbonmatsu who manages to nail Koga in the groin before swiping his gun and saying "Junin Haiyan Dayo!" He then mentions to Okitegawa that their clubs should have a game night when this is all over as he believes it will help them better control their future robotic creations.]
*Photography Club:* [Instead of the Bakuan Rairyu blinding the Keihan gang members to allow Yagami and Itokura a chance to escape, it is Toribe and Hikawa using the flashes of their cameras to blind the Keihan gang all while saying, "Say Cheese!"]
*Skateboarders:* [After Koga puts out the call for backup, multiple gang members on the other side of the city rush to their cars only to find them covered in graffiti.] "What the hell is this!? We can't drive these!" "Uh, boss, couldn't we just drive them with the windows down?" "You idiot! If we did that the cops would pull us for sure!" [Meanwhile, Shikishima and Chiyoda look at their handiwork with Shikishima tossing an empty spray paint can up and down in his hands before giving Chiyoda a fist bump without looking.]
Meanwhile, Kim fumbles around having missed the call to action put out to all Made in Heaven members. "Um, hey guys, where did everybody go? My phone died and I have no idea what is going on..." Just then, his foot bumps into one of the electric drones left behind by the Robotics club. "Huh, what the heck is this?" He then proceeds to get violently shocked for 60 seconds straight while letting out a blood-curdling scream. "AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!" He then stumbles backward and bumps into Coach Todoroki while he is still beating up Keihan gang members. "Huh, who the F@#& are you!?" He then proceeds to give Kim a taste of the Todoroki Rush before giving him a massive uppercut that sends him flying into the sky; he then plummets back down right of the Keihan gang members about to be assaulted by the Bakuran Rairyu and Mad Angels. As the firework sparks fall and the soundwaves blast Kim stumbles backward and manages to bump into the same electric drone from before. He is violently shocked once again as he screams out, "AH! My ears! My eyes! AAAAAAAAHHHHH! Why is this happening to me!? What did I do to deserve this!?"
Elsewhere, with Yagami and Itokura, "Come on, Itokura, we need to keep moving if we are going to..." Yagami then comes to a stop. "Yagami-san, what's wrong?" "I don't know...but it's as if a great wrong has finally been righted in the universe." "Huh?" "Nevermind, let's keep moving!"
On that day, Kim's story came to a shockingly explosive, ear-piercing end.
The thumbnails for the Amon fight videos just keep getting better and better
Yakuza was NEVER intended to be a GTA style game, it was only the western marketing that made it seem that way.
in Japan the who Yakuza aspect was never meant to be a selling point and was just another plot point mixed in with all the others. a full open world Yakuza game would suck and ruin everything that makes these games great. Yokohama is big enough and Lost Judgment does a poor job using the entirety of the map like Yakuza 7 does.
The game isn’t even called Yakuza.
@@pn2294 999 isn't called zero escape but, it's still a zero escape game
@@cringekid3993 I was talking about how the series isn’t called “Yakuza” in Japan.
It’s called “Like a Dragon”.
32:19 That silent beat drop from Shiba Bernie tho-
Man, Kaito would make an awesome dad..
Across this Yakuza/Judgment Let's Play series we've fought: So, Jo, Kazuya, Jiro, Sango, Shin and now Juzo.
Worth noteing that So was the previous head of the Amon clan, but after zero its Jo. Either So died or what's more likely, he retired.
@@NickyG22 Doubt we'll see Rasetsu either since it's stuck on the ps3
1:07:00 Yagami learned the Reversal reaction command, he can swing around dusks by pressing triangle!
This Amon fight basically goes, hard if you're trying to do it legit, but if you cheese him with extracts, he goes down easy. You were on the nose about how if you let him heal too much you've basically already lost. Outside of extract cheese, the best way to take him out is just focusing on stacking the crane and tiger hidden arts then finding an opening to hit him with the tiger charge attacks.
I would say i dont like the presedent this Amon fight sets, or what it expose of the combat system.
Lets be clear here, as Nico expose the game give you a LOT of Overpower shit and that is not counting how LOL the extracts are to any semblance of balance or strategy.
So, if this ks the route they are going and Ammon has to basicly Superpower spam to be dificult, then i fear the next entry in jugment (if is decided to be made) the combat system may become a clown with how over the top it will become, forgeting any semblance of actual martial arts or fighting style the serie is renown for.
@@ericquiabazza2608 amon is not treated the same as everybody else. they are assassins, not a martial artist, that'll do whatever they can to kill their target and remain the strongest warriors and honestly should be ridiculous compared to other boss fights. makes them stand out more even if they're typically not the greatest. and it's just one fight that's treated over the top. the rest aren't. they are exceptions and should be treated as such.
@@ericquiabazza2608 Yakuza 0 Amons also had spammy BS so this ain't nothing new
Seriously?? Ironically enough I myself beat Amon in this game on my 2nd try lmao. And I usually found him harder in The other games.
3rd time for me.
Nico usually relies on spamming attacks too much causing him to constantly die even on fights that's not THAT difficult
One of these days, someone is just going to make a compilation of Nico's struggles against all of the Amons he's fought. It's pretty much a Dragon Ball story at this point.
Jo Amon: Frieza
Shin Amon: Hit
Juzo Amon: Jiren
So Amon: King Cold
BTW, not sure if anyone mentioned this or if you have seen my previous comment, but now that you got all of the girlfriends, you can preform special heat actions when you are in the same area as them. If you have trouble doing them, I believe you can see them in your Heat Actions list in your menu.
Edit: 50:55 Nevermind, you found one of them!
Yeah, but it's preety rare. I got 90 hours of this game, completed all girlfriends and still got no action.
In one of your early lost judgement let's play episode, you said you plan on making an episode playing the Sega master system games when you collect all of them if you still plan on it.
If you notice, during the Amon fight, when he heals, you can clearly see him heal with his pose being the same pose Majima does when singing 24-hour Cinderella.
Majima may not be here, *BUT HIS SPIRIT SURE IS*
How the hell has this man not run out of ideas for this LP intro!?
It’s cause he no longer has to worry about editing videos.
Most the intros been based on an event of their respective episode.
Nico just picked a moment from that episode & bounced off it in his usual adlib comedy.
Yagami: if you're gonna be that cheesy about it, why not go over the top? “Rebuild of Shin Amon,” or maybe “Shin Amon II: Assassin's Boogaloo” ?
Yagami would be great on Cinema Sins
*DING*
I can't wait for the next Amon brother, Gus.
The "my first errand" side quest was my favorite because I remember doing that same tailing mission on my daughter's first errand when she's 4 :)
Here's some other ways you can do some tag team moves with allies besides Kaito's two special ones: Grab an enemy and use an Ex-action when near ally as well as another enemy, Use Ex-action near ally when they seem to have an enemy in a grab position whether it be from the front or behind, when an ally is at low health do a Ex-action near them and an enemy. That way will at least make you partners more useful in combat.
In this episode: Nico suffers and Yagami overdoses
everything thing is fine until *rap noises* and he heals all of his health
And now we’re in the 50’s. Not a lot of LP’s get this long. I think (in terms of number of episodes) this is already around the 5th longest. Let’s see;
P5 is still 1 at 76
DV3 is at 2 with 63
P4 Golden is third a 62
FE: 3 Houses is fourth at 56
And Danganronpa 2 is the fifth at 54.
Yeah, I think this puts Lost Judgment at a near podium length LP.
And there’s STILL the Kaito DLC!
I think Fe: 3 houses might become the longest LP when Nico finishes all the routes.
@@sb6196 IF. IF Nico finishes all the routes. I’m not expecting him to go back to that LP for awhile if ever
@@ZenoKnightShade I think he's definitely going to eventually it's just a matter of how long (though I don't expect him to do silver snow/church route).
I didn’t remember Danganronpa 2 being so long. Was it the free time social events that made it so long?
If he plays Xenoblade 2, that'll easily reach 50 episodes
Just started the episode & there's one thing on my mind.
I can't wait for folks to add awesome visuals to "The Nico & Mr Kitty show". Whether it's a comic or vid. I am ready!
Ah so Yagami's "my phone as achievement app" psychosis will move to Kaido when Kaido files start :p
Im still recovering from the Kirby lore video
There are some really good scenes in this game but every time they say "judgment" all I can think about is "But have you considered your LOST JUDGEMENT, Kuwana?"
IT'S AN ALTERNATIVE SPELLING, DAMMIT
I’d just like to point out that whenever Juzo Amon heals himself here, he does a pose and finger waggle similar to Majima in 24-Hour Cinderella, and that’s hilarious. The most bullshit part of his fight is a reference to one of the most hilarious things in the series.
Majima gives life, confirmed.
Kuwana combined two of Komaeda’s favorite things into one, boats and explosives. If there were bagels, this would have truly been his *dream boat* !
Hi I am bagel
Great job beating that Amon fight Nico. :)
*Narrator: "In one final request, Yagami meets a familiar foe..."
Yagami: "So... it's you!"
Shin: "It's time... for REDEMPTION!"
*Juzo appears, blinding Yagami... not much could be seen, but punches and a painful groan are heard... As Yagami's eyesight recovers, Shin is laid out on the floor*
Juzo: "Sit down, Shin! He's mine!"
Yagami: "WHAT!? Who are you?"
Juzo: "I will be your final opponent. But let's not make a scene here..."
Yagami: "Well, where are we fighting then?"
Juzo: "...who said anything about fighting? I saw your fight against my brother! No way I can outfight you. BUT, I know your TRUE weakness!"
*Juzo teleports Yagami to somewhere in the cyberspace dimension. A table with game pieces is seen in the middle.*
Yagami: "Where are we?"
Juzo: "Take a seat, Yagami... it's time!"
Yagami: "Wait... is this!?"
Juzo: "That's right, Yagami! MAHJONG!! MWAHAHAHAHA!"
Yagami: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Technically beating him with extracts is the same as him using the DLC from the previous game on you.
Perfectly fair.
Thanks for the comment of the day Nico.
If you didn’t notice it already, Amon heals by doing the iconic backflip into finger wag from 24-Hour Cinderella. The clan apparently DOES remember that one of their own lost to Majima back in Zero.
Judging by Nico’s comment, I can already tell this Amon fight is going to be a long one, which is fitting for the longest Yakuza LP so far on this channel!
Finally at Amon, damn this series really IS coming to an end. It's been so long, I think longer than any of the previous Yakuzas, really gonna miss it.
Akaike only died because he just had to drive Yagami like 30 feet
Kusumoto: If my secret gets exposed, all of my efforts to fix the country would be for naught and people would lose faith in the government, I would be unable to weed out the corruption within my department, and my son, who's just awoken from a 13 year coma, would lose his mother and be branded the son of a murderer by society!
Yagami: Okay, I hear you. Counterpoint... Sawa-sensei
Kusumoto: Oh so all of sudden that justifies your action?
@@kurozunakabuto9682
Yagami: In every conceivable way.
I wonder what is his argument if Sawa-sensei didn't die. Because yeah.. His argument mostly "Yeah ok, but Sawa-sensei.."
I can see Amon traveling across dimensions to ask about someone from a different dimension considering what they’ve done so far
They funny things is that most, if not all, of Juzo Amon's extract moves are actually the DLC extracts from the original Judgment game.
*So does this mean that Juzo Amon only got to the top because he was a pay to win?*
Idk if anyone has commented this yet but there's a theory that Kitakata picked the name Kuwana because it means 917, which is the exact day Kusumoto Mitsuru jumped from the balcony.
Yagami: *gets Leek from Tsukino to fight with, bashes the guy to the ground befor he twirls it and a song from a serten AI anime girl start playing in the background*
Tsukino: Yagami-san, What are you doing??
Yagami: I don`t know either! But it seems really meme-like!
Shin Amon: A fun fight with a nice gimmick of Risk and Reward based on Yagami's Styles
Juzo Amon: Mr. Try and Kill me + Super Powers
Also, Ikuo Manaka sounds like
Hououin Kyouma at 55:10.
There's really only one correct answer against Amon in this game - Tiger style charged attacks. They hit like a goddamn truck - you can take him out in like a minute or two with them (if you don't get screwed by his random BS attacks). I also wholeheartedly believe that's the *only* realistic way to beat him in the gauntlet (where you have no extracts and no healing items)
God, I feel like I want to cry at how much I've grown very fond of Yagami as a protagonist of the Yakuza series. 😢
I say this like a million times, but he is SO much like Gintoki in that he's a very complex type of main character with so many layers to him.
While he wants to get to the bottom of the case he's been given and tie every loose end before he closes the book for good, he also is a very compassionate guy who wants to save as many people as he can; be they the victim or the assailant.
This strong sense of justice and sticking to his principles that he'd forged through painful loss and regrets of his weaker self makes Yagami so brilliant to watch that it's hard not to love him.
Also I love how the final chapter's name is basically a quote from Gintoki, too, in which he gave a pearl of wisdom to his comrade/pupil when it seemed like their peaceful lives were heading down a very precarious turning point where they didn't know what would happen next.
When Juzo Amon heal he do Majima animation in 24 hour cinderella
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An open-world Yakuza-esque game with GTA leanings...huh. How the tables have turned lol 😂
I appreciate the series utilizing the locales so that it becomes an evolving character of its own, mainly Kamurocho and now, Ijincho. I feel going fully into open-world would diminish that effect by having things so spread out, and less cohesive.
There's also the concern that going open world with bigger/more maps would mean bloating the game with mind-numbing traversal over empty terrain and/or copy-pasted lifeless cityscapes. Actually this also increases the chances of some main story quests only existing to pad out the game, breaking the story flow (& which would have been better as optional substories)
As an example, you pointed out the Tatami Room raid redux earlier, which I feel is partly due to RGG "maximizing existing assets" from the prologue case 😅 (Kosuke + the Tatami Room location) and partly trying to tie it into the flow of the main story in a way that would make sense (hence having to fight RK there). That said, I appreciate the Kosuke memes 😂
The main crux of how open-world design idea clashes with the Yakuza formula, IMO is that open-world is going to be primarily exploration-driven narrative, whereas the series has at it's core imo, been about character-driven action-drama with moments of wacky shenanigans thrown in to balance it out.
TL;DR open-world you look for the plot, RGG games, the plot finds you.
42:53
**Makoto Makimura (Y0) and Daigo Dojima (Y3) welcoming Mitsuru Kusumoto to the club.**
50:54
Oh finally a girlfriend-support fight- LJ's answer to combining the QTEs from unlocking substory allies (YK2) with the healing buff Mafuyu gave Yagami that one time you used her as a kung-fu prop against her would-be abductors from the Kyorei Clan (Judgment)
The moment I saw that thumbnail, I expected some bs attacks from Amon and Yagami deaths.... and I got what I came for.
So, judging from the intro, I'm guessing that Nico's dream Judgment game would essentially be a Batman: Arkham game with Yakuza-style combat and removing the glider cape so you're moving on foot. (And hopefully keeping the taxi fast-travel)
Come to think of it, has anybody out there actually tried traversing Gotham from one end to the other entirely on foot without just gliding or fast-traveling to their destination? Assuming the taxi fast-travel works identically to the Batwing fast-travel, that's still a LOT of running to get from point A to point B.
He didn't felt that hard to me.
To celebrate 50 episodes of Lost Judgement, everyone got Yagami a giant cake but they didn’t tell him that Amon is hiding in there instead of the girlfriends
Isn’t Yakuza technically already an open world game? It’s map isn’t as big but it definitely has as much content as most open world game hell I would say it has even more stuff to do than games like GTA
By the time I could fight Amon I had the versatility extract that boosts your damage and heals you for a time every time you swap styles. I managed to get him into positions to hit with specific launch combos and with all the style buffs stacking as I juggled him I basically melted him and kept my health high enough to not die. The only thing that made it difficult was all the bullshit stunlocking and nonstop healing he does. But I guess spamming warriors onslaught works too lmfao.
So i said this a episode or 2 ago but is kuwana becoming kira seriously he's passing judgment on all these bullies like light did to criminals
"I am Juzo Amon, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat"
Yagami: “I don’t understand HOW IS HE SO POWERFUL?!”
Juzo: “I’ve studied long and hard for this moment. Under the greatest masters of them all.”
*Sephiroth and all the Kingdom Hearts secret bosses watching from afar.*
Sephiroth: You’ve done well our dear student, now show them despair…
I’m seeing a few comments claiming that this fight wasn’t that hard. I get the feeling Juzo was as tough as he was for you, because you didn’t have maxed-out Attack power. Juzo healed more damage than you could dish out, so you needed extracts to pick up the slack.
The tv show that Kaido watch is real in japan
You know, that Amon fight could have been worse if both brothers cooperated and fought Yagami together. But I guess that's not the Amon way.
i doubt it that what Sega is doing is going to be for an open world yakuza game.
at least thats what i think
I think his healing animation is from the 24 hour cinderella thing with majima
Aww, i was kinda hoping since everyone was talking about the consorteum in the comments last episode, that my comment about mitsuru would make comment of the day :(
should've used the Temporal Zen extract it stops time and you beat the crap out amon with no drawbacks
Me: About to ask if you'll be doing Kaito's DLC (mostly having only paid attention to the story bits)
Nico: Yeah, I'll be getting into the Kaito DLC as a separate project.
Me: 😐wut
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think that super game Sega is working sounds like some live service thing. Also, I’m not really fond of the idea of a big open world Yakuza game. These games are big enough. Making them any bigger would just make the pacing worse imo.
I want to start a prediction thing with the comments. Do you think Kuwana will die during Lost Judgement? Whether it be by his own life or by RK?
What do you think the writers will do and why?
I like how the Amon clan members call themselves the strongest in the world but it's been nothing more than BS since after the first 3 Yakuza games lol
so this is like the strongest Amon so far?? I mean this one goes full super power
I agree with you nico that this story is perhaps my favorite of the Yakuza judgement franchise. I’d like to compare the story in these games to being like a rollercoaster in that theirs all sorts of non stop twists and turns.
Yagamai: Those moves and attacks just what fighting style is this.
Juzo: The most powerful form of fighting. A style that makes men's sacrifice parts of themselves to attain these power and it's glory. Changing them of a weakling to a man of power even god you may say.
Yagamai: Just what is this style?
Juzo: I shouldn't say but today maybe your last so I tell you yagamai just what this style is.
Yagamai: What is it?
Juzo: It is called............PAY TO WIN DLC BABY.
Yagamai: Oh.
Juzo: Any last words yagamai?
Yagamai: So your one of those players aha............loser.
So you 🧀 Amon congrats
Okay, genuinely wondering how Mitsuru would feel to know that his mother killed someone in his name.
I really enjoyed how different the side-content was in Lost Judgment. Definitely the most feature-complete Yakuza/Judgment game next to Yakuza 5 with how much there is to do in this game. It really helped how they leaned into the wacky and weird after Judgment's more straight-laced side cases, and I'm glad we were able to get to delve into Yagami's past more and learn about him as a character rather than a cool protagonist.
I really hope they have a sequel to Lost Judgment planned out because Yagami's street smarts prove him to be an excellent foil to Ichiban Kasuga's zaniness. Plus, it helps RGG try different things with both franchises, and continue to iterate on the Yakuza universe while giving both protagonists ample time to breathe. Excited to see the LP reach it's conclusion, been a long time coming!
Elden Ring is my favorite open world because it doesn't have a massive quest log and thousands of question marks on the map. I think Yakuza already goes a bit overboard with completion points and tedious quest requirements. If it was even bigger, it would lose both its charm and be packed with even more of the filler you said you've gotten a bit tired of in these games.
No surprise the solution to the Amon fight is just to cheese it, those fights are pretty much just a dump of every effect and status in game.
Imo, Kiwami 1 Amon was easy with tiger drop
✨Super epic ✨
Happy International Dance, Peace Rose and World Wish Day on April 29/everyone
The AH-HA water that "cures any illness" was in yakuza 0 too. Kiryu runs into some scammer lady who tries to sell it to him saying that it will give him "steel vitality" in his private area.
Why is there epic DBZ Music?..
Hands down my least favorite Amon fight I've fought in this series. The levels of spamming x to recover in this fight is beyond ridiculous. Adding to the fact he can easily heal himself it's just awful. Which is a complete shame because I absolutely adore the Amon fight in the first game even if he does destroy my FPS.
I personally enjoyed this fight a lot more. Managed to beat him without cheese, but I did have to then learn how to avoid the "spam x" situations as you put it, relied a lot on the tanking from Snake Style followed by the crane and tiger boosts.
@@GamerSapss Yeah. I definitely learned Snake's invulnerability to takedowns when parrying, being overly aggressive so to not let him heal himself and holding off on the EX actions until he reaches the last three HP bars were all absolutely necessary for this fight. I personally don't like using the extracts so that strat definitely saved my bacon.
I personally like this Juzo Amon abit more than Shin tbh. He is challenging and ridiculous, during this fight I probably used lots of healing item just to stall him and figure out his pattern. Once he is down to purple hp, I must go aggressive on him focus, parry and ex boost tiger spam. I honestly feel more rewarding beating Juzo than Shin, I don't like the idea of extracts in the game so I refuse to use it