Fun (and morbid) fact: if you do the snowman heat action, it becomes an item you can pick up and attack with, and like any other item it breaks into nothingness when you use the given amount of hits. I’ll let you take in the implications of what that means
@@isaacfg6949 Holy shit, your comment made me actually laugh out loud like an idiot. :'D It was the disclamer that made me in. I can't even... Can't stop laughing.... Thank you... :D
"Ain't ya got girlfriends or something?" Hilariously, I've heard Christmas in Japan is basically Valentines day. So Saejima roasted the thugs, beat them up, then gave away all their stuff.
45:15 This here is Yamashita Mami - one of the ladies who won in a contest before held by RGG where the winners (and runner-ups I think) show up in the game in some capacity.
If Saejima were to sing a full lyrics to the thugs: "You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why Santa Saejima is coming to town He's making a list, And checking it twice; Gonna find out who's naughty and nice. Santa Saejima is coming to town He sees you when you're scamming He knows when you're bullies He knows if you've thugs or goon So be good for goodness sake! O! You better watch out! You better not cry. Better not pout, I'm telling you why. Santa Saejima is coming to town." Another fun fact is that in this substory itself that 1) The solely added the Christmas song pun in the Remastered 2) In the original the kids say they 'tweeted' the post which obviously Saejima never heard of Twitter before.
Now we have touched down on Sapporo! Look at all that empty space to run around in! It would be a shame if _this was considered the worst city by the fandom to travel in despite police not being _*_nearly_*_ an issue like Y4._ Yeah, so you might be slightly disappointed to know that most players like Sapporo the *least* in the series, not for its design or entertainment places, but *just how many invisible walls are just placed around roads, etc.* The map makes you think you can roam across open wide spaces when in reality many of the roads have these walls stopping you a lot. Okay so why does this make it the “worst” of the Y5 cities? The encounter rate becomes pretty annoying here because the *invisible walls keep you restrained a lot so the hordes of punks congregate way easier to interrupt you.* And general players did not like this, especially after having to deal with 3 chapters of not being in the city. If the devs were to bring this city back without any invisible walls on the map, this would have been one of RGG's top city sections, but I digress. Let’s mention a few things first. *One,* there is a new collectible in a similar vein to Kiryu’s garbage collection all around referred to as map scraps. I recommend you go collect them all since one of them is insanely good for Saejima. *Two,* I assume you already invested a Mystery Stone to Kamiyama before so if you get another one as Saejima, don’t invest it as you need multiple later. *Three* Essence of Bell Ringing is a returning Heat Action but you might be excited to know that if you _grab a standing enemy and throw them into a wall for them to get stuck on it,_ *it MAKES the heat action infinitely easier to trigger than bouncing on a wall.* *Last,* the DLC packs in the convenience stores to get as Saejima is 3 & 8. Don’t forget to claim them. Also yes, Saejima also needs to do the Victory Road too, it usually takes a bit so keep trying to find them.
So Tsukimino is modeled after Susukino, the red light district of Sapporo, Hokkaido. The annual Snow Sculpting competition and festival is a real thing, and it is the largest one in the world and has the largest snow statues in the world. I’d highly recommend you look up some pictures online.
you actually have been to Sapporo before. It was In Persona 5 strikers where you encountered Haru's mother figure Mari-san. If you go back you'll notice landmarks that appear in both
Saejima: Okay, I've made it here to Sapporo, now to-- *just a few feet away* Joker: A'ight, gang! Grandaddy Zenkichi wanted us to find this city's Jail and the Monarch in charge of it, and that's just what we're gonna do! Makoto: Leader, don't say that so loud! We don't want to draw attention to ourselves. Ryuji: Yeah, she's got a point, y'know! It'd be bad if people found out that WE ARE THE PHANTOM THIEVES if we're careless. *Saejima just stares blankly* Saejima: The hell are those kids talking about? New trends are so stupid these days...
@@theunknowncrusader4362 Imagine Saejima getting dragged into the Metaverse and him just going "...Is this another one of those dream things Himura showed me?" XD
Welcome to Tsukimino. One of the most gorgeous city's in the franchise. Shame it's a pain in the ass to navigate. But man, being in a city during the winter with actual snow in these games is a delight to see.
Snow always looks beautiful in fiction/irl and I always love when it’s used as a setting in games. Iirc Yakuza 0 and 1 take place in December so it would’ve been cool to see it in those
Saejima: So how are we getting back to town? Okudera: Don’t worry. I called a taxi for you. Kiryu: I got a call that someone needed a ride. Saejima: Kiryu? What are you doing working as a taxi driver? Kiryu: What are you doing out of prison? Saejima: It’s a long story. Kiryu: Same here. You looking for Majima’s killer? Saejima: Yep. Kiryu: Get in. We’re going on a road trip!
Incredibly funny that they made a unique song for the part where Saejima’s running away from the kids, and it ONLY plays in that moment, and the chase sequence is so short that almost nobody is going to hear the full song
Now that it's been a few chapters and it seems clear that Baba is like a major side character, I think I can now say that he is yet another celebrity character. Along with Takeshi Kido from Yakuza 4 (Balls out Kido!), Saejima is now 2 for 2 of having a buddy character played by a celeb of sorts. Unfortunately, like with Kido this means that Baba also really is here just for this game and won't be returning in any mainline entries in the future. Baba did however make at least one more appearance in the original release of Like A Dragon Ishin but has been replaced by a different actor in the remake (Hope you'll play that one someday) Also, I love that snowman heat action. It's got way too specific conditions to trigger though. Not only do you need to have a carrot in your inventory, you have to be near the snowy statues in the north of the map for it to trigger. Hope you see it next ep! edit: ok nvm it seems other snowy areas work too (never seemed to work for me). I guess you need to just make sure to have those carrots/wood carvings.
Speaking of Ishin, Fun Fact: Unlike a lot of the other actors Daitoh was very much aware that he was recast for that game. While he overall tried to be polite about it and he and RGG are still in good terms seemingly, he was _not_ particularly happy about it.
I actually finished the hunting minigame before going to Tsukimino, as I felt they fit better in chapter 3 and allowed me to pace the game better by not cramming everything into the final chapter. Plus, while the pawn shop will give you more money for your game from the hunts, you should still try to sell to the trader in the village who wants a million yen's worth. Once done he'll give you some items as a reward. Also, the trader has the next items you need for Tendo's training.
I'm impressed you managed to do the ramen quest on your first attempt - If you fail, you cannot redo it without reloading an old save, and the substory triggers automatically when you walk towards that one spot at the crossroads.
I really liked the hunting sections too. It's very relaxing to enter a new area and NOT get slapped in the face by 30 sub-stories and new mini games and goons wandering the street. It's nice
Kiryu: Hey thanks for volunteering to be Santa this year. Maybe this year we won’t have kids getting scared of old Saint Nick. Saejima: What do you mean? Who did you get to do this the previous years. Kiryu: Uh……… *Flashback* Kiryu: Alright kids looks like Santa is on his way he- *Majima in Santa’s attire kicks down the door* Majima: HEY KIDS WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY!!! *The kids scream bloody murder*
So yakuza 5 has a unique mechanic of fusing items in your inventory to make a different item. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is the woodcarver and the wood block, but I’m pretty sure there’s a couple more instances of it throughout the game so just keep it open as an option.
**Saejima leaving a sack of fresh deer and bunny meat under someone's christmas tree** The kids waking up seeing a puddle of blood under the soggy present boxes: **visible horror**
Only Yakuza/Like A Dragon series thugs have the necessary combination of high guts and low intelligence to see an escaped prison inmate built like a mountain and go "Hey! Let's beat this guy up and turn him in to the police!"
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the streets of Sapporo. All of the Thugs where stirring...because Saejima just kicked all of their asses. But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he ran out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good fight! I mean night, yeah night"
1:08:35 I see you found Saejima's best weapon. 1:21:56 Yeah, it was the one with letters. They represent those snow sculptures. Like H is for Hatsune Miku, A means azarashi (seal in japanese) or Ks stand for kuma (bear in japanese) and kitsune (fox).
Saejimas part in 5 really stuck out for me, hunting still is one of my favourite minigames in the Yakuza franchise and his substories are dam hilarious (Saejima Claus in particular). His map though, unfortunately might be the worst in the franchise. I know the winter theme and highlighting the great Sapporo Snow festival is unique, but the layout with badly linked sidewalks and inability to access the main road (combined with the stationary police officers effecting where you can go) just leaves you constantly running into fights non-stop. So yeah, best and worst of both worlds for me.
40:30 I imagine a kid just booking it trying to do his light attack combo on Santajima, in the end catching Santajima by the collar(similarly how kiryu does)
Yay! Is Sapporo! The moment I heard the prison was close to Sapporo I wanted Saejima to go there. Cause it's just another in the line of cross over locations with Persona 5 and Yakuza! Remember the disastrous snow festival in Persona 5 Strikers that took a girls life? Yea, same location as were you are now! You can even see the same tower in the park where the festival is. And it's the damn same streets around it! Same with Sotenbori (with it's real life location Dotonbori that's shown in Strikers) and Kamucocho wich is modeled after Kabukicho, the red light district in Shinjuku. The same district you go to when you go to Shinjuku in Persona 5! It's crazy how many location cross overs there are in the Yakuza series and Persona 5/strikers. And even though the areas in Yakuza are "fictional" they are still modeled after their real life locations so if you've played one of these games, you recognize the areas.
So if Saejima is Santa... does that mean Majima is Jesus!? Wait, what does that make Kiryu? The Holy spirit? Edit: I was told that Majima is Krampus. And now I'm just imagining Krampus in Majima's 24-Hour Idol outfit singing.
Meanwhile, in another game: Ryuji: Yo Joker, you missed it! While you and Haru were on the Ferris wheel, we saw Santa Claus running from a bunch of kids. Then he beat up a gang and gave all their weapons to the kids. For real!
Ok I didn't mention it with the bear fight but to make it appropriate you could have had Saejima fight a giant komodo dragon. The only way I could've thought of was to have it somehow escape from the zoo and Saejima had to fight it as a side quest and learn a new move from it. It would've been a fun way to mirror the tiger vs dragon but I didn't post that comment cuz that seemed too silly to have happened...Here we are.
Saejima: shh, be vewy vewy quiet. I’m hunting Yama-owoshi. A way to see Saejima’s hunting side story is like an old Xbox game series called Big Game Hunter. Also, once you complete all the side story missions speak to Okudera and he’ll give you a challenge where if you complete it you get his rifle (one of the best ones). Plus getting some of the traders healing items are really helpful since they are like toughness. Note: Tendo is picky for his training, speaking to him will hint what you need. From what I remember, you need to make a wood carving (put wood and a chisel in your inventory and use them), an adult magazine, and a gold plate
Another thing to add about the whole prison section. Yes, its very long but for one thing, they do allow you to gain more EXP before the escape. Thats one of the big problems of 4 and why its such a hard part of 4. Here though, its very fine. Plus Saejima broke af in this game. Cause he can really get some strong moves, expecially from the god in the mountains dude.
If this game got a Kiwami Edition, Saejima would be getting jumped by bears everywhere. He walks down the street and passes over a manhole cover? Bear. A giant traffic cone is following him? Bear. He's facinated by an incredibly detailed bear ice-sculpture? A bear is right behind him. He goes to a hostess club? A bear is one of the girls. Saejima wanders into a high school of gifted students? A black and white bear shows up to make the kids kill each other. Saejima is at a mall considering buying a TV? A blue bear in a red jumpsuit hops out of the TV to make bad puns and get horny over girls. Saejima meets an oddball idol? A polar bear kidnaps her so it can stream sawing her to death at a warehouse at the docks.
Yeah Idk if it's because the lucky sytem or not, most often than not there is a time when I get so much platinum plate as well from random encounters when I played this game which is neat lol
Yes definitely the beginning of Saejima's part is one of the lowest points of Yakuza 5. Goes on for so long and you have no freedom. Still! Sapporo has one of my favourite districts in the series. Snowy city, at night too. Yakuza 5 is a "return" to the time periods of the first two games. The first two games take place around Christmas time, which is abandoned in 3 and 4. 5 takes place around Christmas time again! Sapporo is all lit up, with a snow festival and ice sculptures and gorgeous at night, and almost every store has a Christmas-themed jingle. There's even a Miku sculpture lol. Just like all other districts in these games, it's based on a real district, and the snow festival is also real, with some of the biggest and most intricate ice sculptures in the world.
Yeah, I didn't leave the village until I was finished doing everything I could with the hunting lol. Glad you're breaking it up, it's probably better that way
Ngl my train of thought of the interaction with baba and saejima in the bar, i thought baba would give Saejima something entirely else than a phone! Baba: "on a serious note saejima, please be careful, the Kitakata family is old fashioned, if they decide your an enemy ,they dont hold back, Atleast take this with you, its a concealed carry knife" *PULLS OUT LEGENDARY LIGHTSABER KATANA*
I love how basic the food lessons are. Saejima is just like "So cooking is a combination of ingredients? Intriguing." And "So you're saying I gotta enjoy tasty foods? I can do that." And "So what you're saying is I have to chew my food until it gets all mushy in my mouth and devoid of flavor and then swallow? Got it!" Only the best advice from a man who charged ¥800 for freaking water!
Hey, Nico, for several LPS i noticed you keep pronouncing "aniki" wrong. You say it: A-ni-ki When it is: Ann-E-ki It been bothering me every time it was said but they were in the past videos, so even if i put a comment about it, you wouldn't see it, so hopefully, you see this.
If I had a nickel for every time Saejima fought a massive bear with his bare hands and won, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I think this was a pretty good episode. I did have a pretty good chuckle from you reacting to the thugs saying crazy stuff. The santa clause substory was pretty funny. Imo, the substories you came across here were a little stale(Just keeping it real and speaking from the heart.), but you made the video entertaining overall. Good editing with the bear talking to you and the kid sniffing snow. Also, I think you might need the pinup girl magazine to give to Tendo on the last training you do with him(From what I remember).
As you say, all this problem can be solved with skip and the biggest problem with Yakuza 5? It has NO SKIPS to any and all the cutscenes and it would take until the making of Y0 for RGG to put some semblance of skipping of cutscenes into the game. So yeah, that is kinda one of the legit complaint Yakuza fans and CCs have when it comes to revisiting the game.
There are few things in life that give me as much joy as listening to thugs in Yakuza attempt to harass me in the form of a Christmas carol.
They just can't help themselves.
Elf on shelf is real.
But is it on par with bulldozing the physic objects in the Dragon Engine (Yakuza 2 Kiwami, Judgment)? Lol
Fun (and morbid) fact: if you do the snowman heat action, it becomes an item you can pick up and attack with, and like any other item it breaks into nothingness when you use the given amount of hits. I’ll let you take in the implications of what that means
He used rubber snow
Do you want to build a snowman? 🎶
@@katzewerfer63 Now made with REAL man! “Legal repercussions of homicide may apply”
@@isaacfg6949 Holy shit, your comment made me actually laugh out loud like an idiot. :'D It was the disclamer that made me in. I can't even... Can't stop laughing.... Thank you... :D
"Ain't ya got girlfriends or something?"
Hilariously, I've heard Christmas in Japan is basically Valentines day.
So Saejima roasted the thugs, beat them up, then gave away all their stuff.
The people helplessly sliding across the ice killed me, especially the one gut just yelling, "fuuuck!'
45:15 This here is Yamashita Mami - one of the ladies who won in a contest before held by RGG where the winners (and runner-ups I think) show up in the game in some capacity.
If Saejima were to sing a full lyrics to the thugs:
"You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Saejima is coming to town
He's making a list,
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out who's naughty and nice.
Santa Saejima is coming to town
He sees you when you're scamming
He knows when you're bullies
He knows if you've thugs or goon
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
You better not cry.
Better not pout, I'm telling you why.
Santa Saejima is coming to town."
Another fun fact is that in this substory itself that 1) The solely added the Christmas song pun in the Remastered 2) In the original the kids say they 'tweeted' the post which obviously Saejima never heard of Twitter before.
These song lyrics deserves more likes! Come on people!
Now we have touched down on Sapporo! Look at all that empty space to run around in! It would be a shame if _this was considered the worst city by the fandom to travel in despite police not being _*_nearly_*_ an issue like Y4._
Yeah, so you might be slightly disappointed to know that most players like Sapporo the *least* in the series, not for its design or entertainment places, but *just how many invisible walls are just placed around roads, etc.* The map makes you think you can roam across open wide spaces when in reality many of the roads have these walls stopping you a lot.
Okay so why does this make it the “worst” of the Y5 cities? The encounter rate becomes pretty annoying here because the *invisible walls keep you restrained a lot so the hordes of punks congregate way easier to interrupt you.* And general players did not like this, especially after having to deal with 3 chapters of not being in the city. If the devs were to bring this city back without any invisible walls on the map, this would have been one of RGG's top city sections, but I digress. Let’s mention a few things first.
*One,* there is a new collectible in a similar vein to Kiryu’s garbage collection all around referred to as map scraps. I recommend you go collect them all since one of them is insanely good for Saejima.
*Two,* I assume you already invested a Mystery Stone to Kamiyama before so if you get another one as Saejima, don’t invest it as you need multiple later.
*Three* Essence of Bell Ringing is a returning Heat Action but you might be excited to know that if you _grab a standing enemy and throw them into a wall for them to get stuck on it,_ *it MAKES the heat action infinitely easier to trigger than bouncing on a wall.*
*Last,* the DLC packs in the convenience stores to get as Saejima is 3 & 8. Don’t forget to claim them. Also yes, Saejima also needs to do the Victory Road too, it usually takes a bit so keep trying to find them.
Yeah but Kaguya best girl in this game
If not for anything else, I do like the cozy vibes in Sapporo.
At least I can make quick work of the thugs if I fight them next to a telephone pole.
It's the way Nico didn't even react to the way people were slipping and falling. I was laughing so hard man you're so used to it by now
Legends say Saejimas heart grew three sizes that day as he destroyed those goons with Christmas cheer.
So Tsukimino is modeled after Susukino, the red light district of Sapporo, Hokkaido. The annual Snow Sculpting competition and festival is a real thing, and it is the largest one in the world and has the largest snow statues in the world. I’d highly recommend you look up some pictures online.
Yup! “Susukino snow festival” has lots of amazing google images
And it is not the first time Nico's been to Sapporo in a LP, having also comed here during P5Strikers where a snow sculpture accident a plot point
you actually have been to Sapporo before. It was In Persona 5 strikers where you encountered Haru's mother figure Mari-san. If you go back you'll notice landmarks that appear in both
It even had the Winter Festival as a plot point in that story arc.
Saejima: Okay, I've made it here to Sapporo, now to--
*just a few feet away*
Joker: A'ight, gang! Grandaddy Zenkichi wanted us to find this city's Jail and the Monarch in charge of it, and that's just what we're gonna do!
Makoto: Leader, don't say that so loud! We don't want to draw attention to ourselves.
Ryuji: Yeah, she's got a point, y'know! It'd be bad if people found out that WE ARE THE PHANTOM THIEVES if we're careless.
*Saejima just stares blankly*
Saejima: The hell are those kids talking about? New trends are so stupid these days...
Saejima accidentally joining the Phantom Thieves sounds like a Yakuza sub story
@@theunknowncrusader4362 Imagine Saejima getting dragged into the Metaverse and him just going "...Is this another one of those dream things Himura showed me?" XD
Welcome to Tsukimino. One of the most gorgeous city's in the franchise. Shame it's a pain in the ass to navigate. But man, being in a city during the winter with actual snow in these games is a delight to see.
I miss snow. I don't get to see it in Sweden or in the ME, so it's almost become a cherished memory.
Snow always looks beautiful in fiction/irl and I always love when it’s used as a setting in games. Iirc Yakuza 0 and 1 take place in December so it would’ve been cool to see it in those
@@leithaziz2716sadly most of Europe has stopped getting much snow these law few years thanks to Global Warming
Good ol' Saejima & Nico. Hitting us with a cheerful taste of the Christmas spirit in August.
Saejima: So how are we getting back to town?
Okudera: Don’t worry. I called a taxi for you.
Kiryu: I got a call that someone needed a ride.
Saejima: Kiryu? What are you doing working as a taxi driver?
Kiryu: What are you doing out of prison?
Saejima: It’s a long story.
Kiryu: Same here. You looking for Majima’s killer?
Saejima: Yep.
Kiryu: Get in. We’re going on a road trip!
*Saejima swings around a random thug around*
Mario: “That’sa Rad”
*grabs Bowsers tail and swings him around*
Mario: “So long gay bowser”
Thanks to the hunting minigame, Saejima now officially has the biggest kill count, in the entirety of the Yakuza series.
This officially makes 2 Christmases Saejima has saved, against 3 he's ruined.
Now Taiga Saejima is become Grinch, the Destroyer of Christmas. 😂
4 were kinda a draw...
What Christmases did Saejima ruin and save?
Incredibly funny that they made a unique song for the part where Saejima’s running away from the kids, and it ONLY plays in that moment, and the chase sequence is so short that almost nobody is going to hear the full song
Now that it's been a few chapters and it seems clear that Baba is like a major side character, I think I can now say that he is yet another celebrity character. Along with Takeshi Kido from Yakuza 4 (Balls out Kido!), Saejima is now 2 for 2 of having a buddy character played by a celeb of sorts. Unfortunately, like with Kido this means that Baba also really is here just for this game and won't be returning in any mainline entries in the future. Baba did however make at least one more appearance in the original release of Like A Dragon Ishin but has been replaced by a different actor in the remake (Hope you'll play that one someday)
Also, I love that snowman heat action. It's got way too specific conditions to trigger though. Not only do you need to have a carrot in your inventory, you have to be near the snowy statues in the north of the map for it to trigger. Hope you see it next ep!
edit: ok nvm it seems other snowy areas work too (never seemed to work for me). I guess you need to just make sure to have those carrots/wood carvings.
You don’t need to be near snow statues, just anywhere where there’s snow on the ground
@@masteroflight7296 Thnx for the correction. Never seemed to work for me in other areas.
Speaking of Ishin, Fun Fact: Unlike a lot of the other actors Daitoh was very much aware that he was recast for that game.
While he overall tried to be polite about it and he and RGG are still in good terms seemingly, he was _not_ particularly happy about it.
Just so you know, that whisky they drank, Macallan 1946, is a real (and worth upwards of $50,000) whisky.
For the training, just examine the log and or chisel in your inventory
I actually finished the hunting minigame before going to Tsukimino, as I felt they fit better in chapter 3 and allowed me to pace the game better by not cramming everything into the final chapter. Plus, while the pawn shop will give you more money for your game from the hunts, you should still try to sell to the trader in the village who wants a million yen's worth. Once done he'll give you some items as a reward. Also, the trader has the next items you need for Tendo's training.
I'm impressed you managed to do the ramen quest on your first attempt - If you fail, you cannot redo it without reloading an old save, and the substory triggers automatically when you walk towards that one spot at the crossroads.
Santa Saejima delivering lumps of coal to the naughty boys and girls. And when I mean lumps of coal, I mean black eyes!
Saejima to nico and Baba: ......*sigh* You guys want to build a snowman?
44:30 Don't we all pack snow in bags?
Villager: When Yama-oroshi appeared to us nine years ago, we started to distrust each other.
Yama-oroshi: Monokuma noises
And as a bonus, he also forces people who are stuck in his land to do his minigames, just like Winnie the Pooh.
I really liked the hunting sections too. It's very relaxing to enter a new area and NOT get slapped in the face by 30 sub-stories and new mini games and goons wandering the street. It's nice
It will be a crime if you don’t make a short of this side story for Christmas Eve
Kiryu: Hey thanks for volunteering to be Santa this year. Maybe this year we won’t have kids getting scared of old Saint Nick.
Saejima: What do you mean? Who did you get to do this the previous years.
Kiryu: Uh………
*Flashback*
Kiryu: Alright kids looks like Santa is on his way he-
*Majima in Santa’s attire kicks down the door*
Majima: HEY KIDS WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY!!!
*The kids scream bloody murder*
So yakuza 5 has a unique mechanic of fusing items in your inventory to make a different item. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is the woodcarver and the wood block, but I’m pretty sure there’s a couple more instances of it throughout the game so just keep it open as an option.
54:58
"at least this is my way home"
**Saejima leaving a sack of fresh deer and bunny meat under someone's christmas tree**
The kids waking up seeing a puddle of blood under the soggy present boxes: **visible horror**
Wow Saejima knocked out that bear with his BEAR hands
Santa sends out presents for Christmas
Saejima sends out hospital bills
Only Yakuza/Like A Dragon series thugs have the necessary combination of high guts and low intelligence to see an escaped prison inmate built like a mountain and go "Hey! Let's beat this guy up and turn him in to the police!"
The leaves on the tree have red and black pattern lines sewn in.
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the streets of Sapporo. All of the Thugs where stirring...because Saejima just kicked all of their asses. But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he ran out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good fight! I mean night, yeah night"
🎶Deck the halls with pools of blood
Falalalala lalalala🎶
1:08:35 I see you found Saejima's best weapon.
1:21:56 Yeah, it was the one with letters. They represent those snow sculptures. Like H is for Hatsune Miku, A means azarashi (seal in japanese) or Ks stand for kuma (bear in japanese) and kitsune (fox).
21:26 Wait did Saejima pick up cigarettes between leaving the mountain and evading the cops?
Saejimas part in 5 really stuck out for me, hunting still is one of my favourite minigames in the Yakuza franchise and his substories are dam hilarious (Saejima Claus in particular).
His map though, unfortunately might be the worst in the franchise. I know the winter theme and highlighting the great Sapporo Snow festival is unique, but the layout with badly linked sidewalks and inability to access the main road (combined with the stationary police officers effecting where you can go) just leaves you constantly running into fights non-stop.
So yeah, best and worst of both worlds for me.
Am I.... having a fever dream? I'm not, am I.
Saejima is Japanese Santa, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Santa has killed more people than Saejima has.
Welcome to Santa-jima... Get it? Because Jima means Island :D
40:30 I imagine a kid just booking it trying to do his light attack combo on Santajima, in the end catching Santajima by the collar(similarly how kiryu does)
Hopefully you've been good this year, kids. Otherwise Santajima's gonna turn you into coal
Yay! Is Sapporo! The moment I heard the prison was close to Sapporo I wanted Saejima to go there. Cause it's just another in the line of cross over locations with Persona 5 and Yakuza! Remember the disastrous snow festival in Persona 5 Strikers that took a girls life? Yea, same location as were you are now! You can even see the same tower in the park where the festival is. And it's the damn same streets around it! Same with Sotenbori (with it's real life location Dotonbori that's shown in Strikers) and Kamucocho wich is modeled after Kabukicho, the red light district in Shinjuku. The same district you go to when you go to Shinjuku in Persona 5!
It's crazy how many location cross overs there are in the Yakuza series and Persona 5/strikers. And even though the areas in Yakuza are "fictional" they are still modeled after their real life locations so if you've played one of these games, you recognize the areas.
So if Saejima is Santa... does that mean Majima is Jesus!? Wait, what does that make Kiryu? The Holy spirit?
Edit:
I was told that Majima is Krampus. And now I'm just imagining Krampus in Majima's 24-Hour Idol outfit singing.
Krampus
JUST ME.
Meanwhile, in another game:
Ryuji: Yo Joker, you missed it! While you and Haru were on the Ferris wheel, we saw Santa Claus running from a bunch of kids. Then he beat up a gang and gave all their weapons to the kids. For real!
Ok I didn't mention it with the bear fight but to make it appropriate you could have had Saejima fight a giant komodo dragon. The only way I could've thought of was to have it somehow escape from the zoo and Saejima had to fight it as a side quest and learn a new move from it. It would've been a fun way to mirror the tiger vs dragon but I didn't post that comment cuz that seemed too silly to have happened...Here we are.
Saejima: shh, be vewy vewy quiet. I’m hunting Yama-owoshi.
A way to see Saejima’s hunting side story is like an old Xbox game series called Big Game Hunter. Also, once you complete all the side story missions speak to Okudera and he’ll give you a challenge where if you complete it you get his rifle (one of the best ones).
Plus getting some of the traders healing items are really helpful since they are like toughness.
Note: Tendo is picky for his training, speaking to him will hint what you need. From what I remember, you need to make a wood carving (put wood and a chisel in your inventory and use them), an adult magazine, and a gold plate
52:29 lmao
They certainly made sure to get a good variety of sidequests, quite a mix bag too, almost feels like any idea was welcomed.
46:53 - NEW ZEALAND MENTION...
Another thing to add about the whole prison section. Yes, its very long but for one thing, they do allow you to gain more EXP before the escape. Thats one of the big problems of 4 and why its such a hard part of 4. Here though, its very fine. Plus Saejima broke af in this game. Cause he can really get some strong moves, expecially from the god in the mountains dude.
If this game got a Kiwami Edition, Saejima would be getting jumped by bears everywhere.
He walks down the street and passes over a manhole cover? Bear.
A giant traffic cone is following him? Bear.
He's facinated by an incredibly detailed bear ice-sculpture? A bear is right behind him.
He goes to a hostess club? A bear is one of the girls.
Saejima wanders into a high school of gifted students? A black and white bear shows up to make the kids kill each other.
Saejima is at a mall considering buying a TV? A blue bear in a red jumpsuit hops out of the TV to make bad puns and get horny over girls.
Saejima meets an oddball idol? A polar bear kidnaps her so it can stream sawing her to death at a warehouse at the docks.
I want a yakuza Christmas special
Yeah Idk if it's because the lucky sytem or not, most often than not there is a time when I get so much platinum plate as well from random encounters when I played this game which is neat lol
Saejima in Yakuza 4: *Is introduced shooting up a bunch of yakuza by himself and lives*
Saejima in Yakuza 5: ‘Do you want to build a snowman?~’
Yes definitely the beginning of Saejima's part is one of the lowest points of Yakuza 5. Goes on for so long and you have no freedom. Still! Sapporo has one of my favourite districts in the series. Snowy city, at night too.
Yakuza 5 is a "return" to the time periods of the first two games. The first two games take place around Christmas time, which is abandoned in 3 and 4. 5 takes place around Christmas time again! Sapporo is all lit up, with a snow festival and ice sculptures and gorgeous at night, and almost every store has a Christmas-themed jingle. There's even a Miku sculpture lol. Just like all other districts in these games, it's based on a real district, and the snow festival is also real, with some of the biggest and most intricate ice sculptures in the world.
Yeah, I didn't leave the village until I was finished doing everything I could with the hunting lol. Glad you're breaking it up, it's probably better that way
Dawg i know this is off topic but how does he get his thumbnails?
Did you hear that there's going to be a Yakuza show on Prime?
Ngl my train of thought of the interaction with baba and saejima in the bar, i thought baba would give Saejima something entirely else than a phone!
Baba: "on a serious note saejima, please be careful, the Kitakata family is old fashioned, if they decide your an enemy ,they dont hold back, Atleast take this with you, its a concealed carry knife"
*PULLS OUT LEGENDARY LIGHTSABER KATANA*
Is this officially goofiest mainline Yakuza game so far?
I love how basic the food lessons are. Saejima is just like "So cooking is a combination of ingredients? Intriguing." And "So you're saying I gotta enjoy tasty foods? I can do that." And "So what you're saying is I have to chew my food until it gets all mushy in my mouth and devoid of flavor and then swallow? Got it!" Only the best advice from a man who charged ¥800 for freaking water!
SAEJI CLAUS!!!!! YESSSS!!!
The game adding a bunch of bears when you're taking advantage of the game? Inscription anyone?
They said yume when they drank. If you were doing a counter, you would've had to count that to the dream counter.
40:30 what the hell is that
Hey, Nico, for several LPS i noticed you keep pronouncing "aniki" wrong.
You say it: A-ni-ki
When it is: Ann-E-ki
It been bothering me every time it was said but they were in the past videos, so even if i put a comment about it, you wouldn't see it, so hopefully, you see this.
A NicoB Christmas special? I mean I’m not complaining but it’s a little out of season
If I had a nickel for every time Saejima fought a massive bear with his bare hands and won, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I think this was a pretty good episode. I did have a pretty good chuckle from you reacting to the thugs saying crazy stuff. The santa clause substory was pretty funny. Imo, the substories you came across here were a little stale(Just keeping it real and speaking from the heart.), but you made the video entertaining overall. Good editing with the bear talking to you and the kid sniffing snow. Also, I think you might need the pinup girl magazine to give to Tendo on the last training you do with him(From what I remember).
Just for info Nico.
Bon appétit
you don't pronounce the last "t".
As you say, all this problem can be solved with skip and the biggest problem with Yakuza 5?
It has NO SKIPS to any and all the cutscenes and it would take until the making of Y0 for RGG to put some semblance of skipping of cutscenes into the game.
So yeah, that is kinda one of the legit complaint Yakuza fans and CCs have when it comes to revisiting the game.