Beginner's Combat Guide To Yakuza 0
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- I decided to make this video to help newcomers understand the combat better and to let them know what they can do in it. If you're introducing someone to the series with Yakuza 0, then do share this video with them to let them know the basics and how-to of Yakuza 0's combat!
I apologize for the poor quality of the mic, I was planning to make this video after I get a new mic at the end of this month, but I thought this video had to be done as soon as possible to help newcomers before the release of Yakuza 0. - เกม
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Pro tip, if you spam a heat action on an enemy or boss they will grow resistance to it and it will do less damage to them
That actually effects every enemy
I never use heat actions
@@woahtherehoney7563 ???? Why?
@@KingOfDarknessAndEvil it's not effective
me spamming buttons does more damage then a heat actions
@@woahtherehoney7563 But you can't be hit during a heat action, they give you more money, they're incredible against bosses, and they do a lot more damage as you get more abilities in the skill tree. Also if you knock an opponent down, a heat action is always the most damaging follow-up.
Even as someone who's beat Yakuza 0, I had no idea you could shift your grab by pressing L1. Excellent video, Dev!
Glad I could be of help! :D
Me neither. And I just beat the game hours ago.
I found that out on accident I tried guarding when someone attacked me while I was grabbing, a dumb little brainfart taught me a mechanic of the game.
I only found out because of one of Majima's abilities
Doesnt the game teach you that?
Holy shit, this. How did I not find this sooner?
Now I just need to figure out how the hell Mahjong and Shogi work and I'm golden.
How Shogi works is simple: You go in, realize it's Japanese chess, and just like real chess you throw it out and never look at it again.
Di
Shogi’s only hard because the pieces all look the same
ACCURATE
@@Scatmanseth Right? I looked at the instructions, and I was like, " This doesn't seem too bad."
Then I tried it out. They may as well have all been blank.
"blocking is essential to Yakuza's combat system"
Me with my broken L1and R1: guess im screwed
Dodging is a good alternative.
How can you complete any game without r1 and l1??
@@m.z6610 Tekken, Streetfighter, some of the list goes on.
One thing people tend to overlook is being drunk. The drunk status makes you fill your heat gauge a lot faster, and also enables certain powerful heat actions which you wouldn't be able to do while sober (you have to learn it from the skill tree first). Carrying a few cheap beer on you is a pretty good idea.
Also after beating the first Billionaire, you can unlock a skill for Brawler that increases heat move power when drunk, and alcohol healing A LOT. My whole inventory was Kakubin from that point on.
This also works in real life.
@@Rufusem 💪🥴🍺
@@Rufusem I woke up multiple times in my drinking days with bruised knuckles and not another mark on me so it is definitely realistic.
No surprise Kiryu's the way he is in RGG8 bruh
Dodging is essential if you get stuck in a fight with Mr. Shakedown.
And have your medicine ready.
"How much medicine?"
"Yes"
Hah
I started with hard
Get hit once by him is usually game over (obviously without and major upgrades)
First time I faced him I knew nothing about him so I got my ass kicked. Got hit 5 times before it finally ended the fight. For some reason the game didn't save so I had to redo the fight with him. This time I did the rush stance and got his health down half way before he hit me just once and it ended the fight. Like God Damm it
Attack without locking on and you can run around him. Its really easy with a slime gun
8:31 how come the game never naturally tells you that?
The only time I remember the game telling you this tip is in Yakuza 5, which is why I always forget it's even a thing.
I’ve beaten 0 twice now and this video still has stuff I didn’t know
Same
Man, the tutorial of this game really really sucks, (it only teaches you to grab, light punch, and heavy punch. Thats all ._.). All the other stuff i managed to start learning after trying and tryting and trying, but now with your video i finally know how im supposed to do it. Thanks!.
It is a game (and series in general really) that does VERY little handholding in this regard I think, it just gives you the basic barebones of combat and expects you to master it by the end of it (especially with the final bosses, and especially on higher difficulties, where you have to make use of all of your moves at your disposal).
I don't think it was until after I finished 0 and moved onto Kiwami 1 that truly started to master the combat in these games, before that I probably wasn't even that good really. Only spamming certain attacks and heat actions most of the time, and then continuously spamming health items...
I can see why that would indeed be a problem, especially for people (and newcomers especially) who won't even know this, let alone be able to pick up on it, but for me personally that ended up being a huge part of the satisfaction in the combat for me and a huge part of how I fell in love with this series and it's gameplay...
Hell it didn't even teach me how to SAVE lmao
@@ELMASCARILLA or what inventory boxes are
I know this is an old vid, but I want to add something that you’ve forgotten that could be of some use to anyone picking up the series, or the release of Kiwami on PC: the higher your heat the faster your attack speed becomes, sometimes retaining your heat gauge is better for pulling off combos quicker than using heat actions. Every time you use a specific heat action it’s damage is lowered to stop you spamming them
speed dampening really sucks ain't it
The feeling when you played the whole game on normal without knowing abut lock on...
Bruh, literally the first thing you learn
@@Odeon1970 u hold it
Pro tip: try and unlock the 4th styles early, they are huge buffs to your characters (4th styles as in kiryus dragon of dojima style and majima's mad dog of shimano style) the way you unlock these styles is for kiryu: Beat the finance king in the money island minigame, aka the real estate royale, for majima's style: beat all the five stars in the cabaret club czar minigame
the reason why these styles are buffs is because they combine all the other styles into one, like kiryu's for example has the speedy of rush, the power of beast, and the durableness of brawler
and majima's: combines, thug's fast attacks, breaker's combo dancing freakshow moves, and sluggers beatdown strength, its a big buff to get these early in the game, cause if you do you actually can get a good boost on the boss fights you have to have in the end of the game and the most of the other parts of the game, and it can also help you get past street goons, men in black noveau riche and shit, when getting to places when your not kiryu with the money toss, so for the love of god unlike me please get these fucking styles before me I beg of you, I have to do it all and get it again cause I decided to not want to do it
Also they're extremely fun and fit in the story quite nicely, like when you massacre through the Dojima Family as Majima. Doing it with this style makes it 10x more badass.
I'm replaying yakuza 0 currently on the ps5 and MAN. It took me 4 days to get Kiryu's style in chapter 5 and 6. Its worth it and I think I'm gonna have an easier time with Majima's compared to the waiting game in kamurocho's real state royale
unlocking it is a chore especially for kiryu, it's one of my biggest complaints with the game how they put some of the best stuff in the game behind doing absolutely nothing for hours
@@semicharmedkindofguy3088
If you are trying to finish the real estate royale by only waiting, then you're missing out, do side stories, get new managers or body guards, really anything else works, maybe try getting completion points, go to karaoke, bowling, or whatever the game offers, instead of wasting your time waiting for the pay, entertain yourself!
"Taunting has no effect at first except badass-ary." Awesome.
That's all the reason you need really. The heat generation is just a bonus.
Just like Devil May Cry !
So wait. Are you saying I shouldn't just face mash and spam health? I usually do that until the game asks me to put it on easy, then I FACE MASH TO VICTORY
"until the game asks me to put it on easy"
That literally only happens if you *die* . *Multiple times.*
You understand what I mean?
@@AAAAAAA-nh7jv I think YOU didn't understand what he meant lol
bruh what is this cringe LMAO why did i write that
@@AAAAAAA-nh7jv lmfao, yeah that was good ol' fashioned Qballs satire
@@Odeon1970 3 to 4 times If I remember correctly
I've always been used to approaching my action combat as stylished as possible as they usually always reward you with more satisfying results. That also counts for Yakuza, and said basically encourages the player to be experimental with your combos much like Bayonetta or DMC.
WHOA WHAT? I didn't know you could switch which side you grab enemies with L1! Has that always been in the series, or is that new?
I think that was implemented since Yakuza 5.
Ah, gotcha.
Why do I get the feeling this was made in direct response to Angry Joe's video? lol
qwertyMrJINX Yeah, AngryJoe is just finding any way he can to tear this game apart. Put he just beat chapter 4, and that's where the story picks up and stops with the story padding. Besides almost every other reviewer is enjoying the game, and giving it great marks. Don't worry too much about what joe has to say.
It sort of is, but not specifically. I absolutely had to make a video to make it clear how much you can do in Yakuza 0's combat. As I mentioned in the video, I found one person on a Yakuza 0 stream saying there should be a countering system. Counters ARE there, Yakuza's combat is deeper than many people may conceive at first glance. Once you get the hang of Yakuza 0's combat and know how much there is to do in it, you will have immense fun with its fighting.
But then again, I also am trying to help newcomers. Many people seem to be getting into the series with Yakuza 0, so I do hope this video helps them enjoy the combat even more than they do now.
devilleon7 After watching Joes stream, I can understand why he has complaints about it. Does chapter 5 stop with all those boring text box conversations and just stick with the story? Like is the padding actually done?
Big Boss well, both characters go through tutorials, and when that finally stops at chapter 5 the game gets better. And theres also the business side story,
Joe was too busy opening up his presents and reading donations to bother. He's loud noise for teenagers.
Great video! I recently came back to this game after pausing for a couple of months and realised that I have no idea how anything works anymore. This has helped a lot!
Great Video Devilleon Very Informative! I ready for Yakuza 0 the hype is to real! Looking Forward for more Yakuza Content from your Channel Keep up the great work man!
Majima Slugger Style: Square x3, Triangle...GG Easy win
Romnys Gonzalez Yes
You read off the instructions quite nicely, and the video was in sync with everything you said. Excellent. I hope it came out the way you wanted it to, and hopefully this helps out a lot of new players.
Edit: 5:08, you clarified it, but the subtitle says triangle again
Crap, I just noticed that! The least I can do now is add a caption. Thanks for that, and thanks for your support during the making of this video as well!
devilleon7 anytime! And thanks for the shoutout as well. I hope this video will reach new players and expand the fanbase
thanks for this, first yakuza game ive tried and that Kuze fight was hell for me. Will take these tips into consideration
Thanks for posting this! This was very helpful! I just got into the Yakuza series. I picked up 0, 1 and 2 remastered for the PS4 pretty cheap and got the 3, 4 and 5 remastered collection a couple of weeks ago. Need to get 6 now.
Only just found your channel, all stuff in this video I already knew but it's so well put together I subbed.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy your stay and the content in my channel!
I know this video is old but you saved this game for me! The combat seem shallow to me just mash square a few times then press triangle and do heat actions when I can but this guide helped and I learned a lot. Now I’m switching styles more often dodging grabbing it’s so much more fun now thanks!
I'm happy to hear it, thank you! ❤️
Damn fine job on the video! I'm definitely sharing this one!
i'm a new player (new meaning i havent touched a gamepad in 10 years and have never ever played a fighting game) so i'm playing on easy mode, but even then it sometimes feels like a challenge. thank you for the video, i'll be trying these tips out!
Great job, I wish there was this kind of video 5 years ago when i started my first Yakuza (3).... on my first playthrough i was a square masher and i only used finish blows accidently and i was asking myself "how did i do that" now im a pro in all these points, ever since Yakuza 5 i only used counters because they're fun to use gotta love the tiger drop
Great video man! Awesome work
Thanks a lot for this vid, as a newcomer to the Yakuza serie I really appreciate it.
fantastic work Dev!
This was an awesome video that really helped me out! Thank you so much! Subbed and liked!
Awesome video, exactly what I needed. I’m late to the party but this series (Yakuza) is amazing!🤙🏾
Thank you for this video. Just started playing and I gotta say the game doesn't explain the combat super well. I was having a really difficult time till I found this video. Thanks m8!
"sometimes enemies will counter grabs"
tell that to Kuze who I destroyed by going all hulk on him by grabbing his leg in beast mode
New to your channel and to this game. Thanks for this video. I'm ready when I get the game and ready to kickass🔥
seven years later and this still may be a life saver! Was already trying not to spam square and weave in rush combos, but I was forgetting I could redirect with normal attacks and probably waiting too long to use certain combos, stuff like that which really made me wonder why a 2v1 felt like I was getting jumped by a whole squad. Thank you!!!
That was really helpful! Thanks a lot!
very good video, thanks for the tips as this is my first Yakuza game and I'm really enjoying it
Glad I could be of help, game on! :D
Just what I needed . Thanks!
Thanks for this! I watched my best friend play this at release (and pretty much all of the Yakuza games since), but I personally could never get a hang of the games and have little beat-em-up or fighting game knowledge to fall back on. Looking forward to giving Y0 another go with this advice.
I'm a returning player and needed this video, thanks!
Thank you very much I needed this.
very good video man! i really need it! tx alot again
Glad I could help :D
thank you for this very informative video! I keep finding myself in situations where a group of fast attackers swarm me into a corner and they knock me on the ground and as soon as I get up they knock me down again. I just started playing a few days and I have no idea what style is most useful for this situation. fights are starting to get harder too and it's pretty frustrating...
i recently bought Yakuza 0, and this.. actually made me realise that i went from knowing quite a bit of the combat to quite a good amount of the combat, and some more from here
very cool, since i thought maybe i should know a lil' more
I wish I found this video sooner I would've linked this video in a comment to every vid featuring a newcomer to the series. I always assumed the mechanics were a lot easier to understand, but now I realize what I did differently was experiment, when I start a new game I try out what each button does and try to explore any option I can think of
Thanks leon for the video. Came here trying to refine my combat system. Glad that you differentiate between precision combat and button mashing.
My pleasure!
good video. very clear and helpful
...Yo! I've played Yakuza 0-6 and repeated 0 a couple of times already...I never knew you could cancel out the heat prompt to do a normal heavy attack! I was just watching this for fun but I actually learned something! Thanks!
Excellent video!
Great video. Thank you!
That prompt coming up at a stomp trick changed my life lmao
Also, having played all of the games except the Samurai spin-offs.. I didn't know you could switch your grabbing-hold by pressing L1... MIND BLOWN.
I really appreciate you making this video. I recently started playing yakuza 0 on pc and I got my ass handed to me by groups. I’m familiar with many action games like dynasty warriors dmc3, and this game is waaaay different. I’ve never seen a game where you can guard while being comboed
Good video mate, nice one
Thank you for this video.
Thanks a lot for this gonna go buy it now;)
Great tip/explanations 💯👌
great video, more helpful than the ingame tutorial i feel like it wasnt explained great as a new player
Good video I'm on chapter 7 and still found this helpful
thanks for reading us in-game tutorial
Great video, now send it to a certain twitch user. I was one of those at 1st who thought the combat was one dimensional but once i started upgrading and reading the descriptions i realised just how many variations there was.
Bought this on Steam the other day. Good thing I found this now when I'm in ch 2 rather than further down the line.
Man, thanks for this video. I didn't know you can shift your grabs or temporarily disable Heat Actions for hitting downed guys. The game's tutorial really didn't say anything about all this (...or maybe it did, but I never saw properly :P).
Just bought the Game 2 days ago, I like the fighting style, but your Tips helped me out a lot Thanks for the Vid.
Happy to help! Enjoy the game :)
Nicely made video
Great video it helped me a lot I kept spamming square at first
Very nice and informative! Now I'm ready to make some big money in the bubble economy. XD
Really helps complete noob like me a lot :D thx for the video dude
Just finished Yakuza 0. Time to watch this.
Because of your videos, I got an itch to play these games. I search it up and it turns out humble bundle had a sale for all three for about £22. I've been playing 0 non stop for a few days now.
I have to say this video really helped me in fights
I know this video is old by now, but I just got this game recently. I am in chapter 7 and I didn't even know about the L2 thing, so thanks
I preordered Yakuza 0!
blackwind677 From where? If it was from GameStop did you receive a poster?
I know this is an older video but thank you so much for making it! I picked up Yakuza 0 yesterday and while I think I'm doing alright with it your tips opened my eyes to some things I had overlooked. :)
Since i'm not a beginner & i would use in the start of the game higher difficulty. But also i know that this guide will help even experienced player to know some basics again in just to make sure he didn't lost any tricks in the sleeve. I'm enjoyed to watch this =) i hope it will help even for Yakuza newcomers)))
The heat actions in 0 seem as hilarious and brutal as in Kiwami 2. Glad I got this game for 5 bucks on sale. Also thanks for that nice guide which should help a lot in combat
I took the time to read a lot of this in the beginning, but the overload of text information definitely was not as effective as these carefully demonstrated clips! I know this is an old video, but thank you!!
I also didn't realize the extent of enemy/boss AI, and how they learn through the fight (ie, overusing heat actions, which I totally do...) What a great game :)
Not to mention I'm forcing myself to play on normal, even as a beginner, since I'd rather take the time to practice the mastery... It's proven a lot more complex than I anticipated!
Thanks man. Greetings from Russia. I just discovered Yakuza series on PS4 (starting with kiwami moving to zero) and this video really helping. What a beautiful fucking game.
Even though this is will not be my first introduction to the Yakuza series, there are still some things about the controls even I didn't know about, like holding down R2 to cancel all heat moves. But kudos to the video I think it's a great introduction to the game I can't wait to play it. 👍🏾
Thank you! And it's actually L2, not R2.
Whoops! My mistake.
Knowing that there are a lot of people struggling with this game's combat system makes me realize how few people play actually complex character action games, which is sad. I always though Yakuza was a pretty comfortable intro into the genre, but it just goes to show how unpopular beat-em-ups are in the west. Hopefully this game sells well enough to get some new fans into the series.
Action games is my favourite genre (Ninja Gaiden, DMC, Bayo, God Hand, you name it), and still find Yakuza 0 kinda complex. I'm still finding it kind of hard to dodge and block mid-combat.
griffin09 Mashing square, dodge, and block is "complex?"
theDiReW0lf in case of yakuza its more complex tham Witcher 3. Witcher 3 came out in 2015 and combat is fucking lame and sucks so much balls it cant even be defended. And now take a look at Yakuza 3 from 2009 there is so much skills you can get which lets do so much in that combat. Even fucking Batman Arkham Asylum has deeper combat then a fucking lame ass witcher 3, skyrim, dragon age, every turn base combat shitfest. The reason is in witcher 3 you press square and triangle usually only square because no one fucking cares about heavy attack in that fucking garbage game and sometimes you press a igni, yarden etc or what ever those shit ares called. On the other hand you have Batman with batarang, batclaw, freeze grenade, gun which disables weapons, explosive gel, finishers, steath and dodges, rolls, you can parry you have diferent takedowns and i could go on and everything can be done in combat. While in witcher 3 you have only square and fucking percentage increase in talents. So fuck of with your attitude of stupid dick and die in a cave :-) no one will miss you :-)
Budliky CZ Lol I never mentioned Witcher 3 you whackjob.
you're pretentious. Shut up
Mashing Square looked really effective
The only problem I had is that sometimes the timing is off for no reason. Tiger dropping people ended up kicking them instead
All these tips are good, They're also all in the in-game Notebook. From the comments here it seems navigating menus is tougher than the combat, though.
The grab swap (from front to behind) is really handy for someone like me who's trying out a bunch of different heat actions in Kiwami - a bunch of those require a grab from behind, but the AI's tracking is so good that it's very hard to get a grab at an enemy's back, particularly when you've got a mob to deal with as they can quickly knock you out of heat mode if you're not properly managing them (ie: you're running around like a chicken trying to get behind someone rather than punching 5 people at once)
Very good demonstration for the combat i enjoyed this game since it features four fighting styles honestly perfer this over other brawlers any day as it has more potential then other brawlers
This is my first yakuza game. I started playing a couple of days ago. A friend gave me the order in which to play these games. Im on this one with my first boss fight with Kuze. But he has been kicking my ass.
Great video. Thx
Good tips. thank you.
You're most welcome.
*watching him combo someone while all the enemies just watch him and not punch him to break his combo at all*
Is the Japanese version just easier or what because I literally have knees flying at me the entire time I am playing
i could never figure out how to lock on now i know.
I think when I played it at launch I was maybe a bit on the mashing button side of things but not exactly, I was just inputting combos too fast between square and triangle (X and Y on Xbox controller). It was my first Yakuza game as I had been extremely interested from the sidelines for a LONG time, and now I've lived and breathed and watched as Kiryu never killed anyone the whole series. If I knew the combat was more.. deliberate(?), Like.. I'm not sure if I'm right about this but it feels like similar to dark souls (just because it's a familiar example for me), input queueing is a thing. I wasn't AS familiar with beat em up games in general so I kind of assumed it was more about fast, powerful, flashy moves being shown.
Actually replaying now after getting a better pc and it's weird because I felt like I understood the mechanics better than I did before even though I hadn't learned anything new, it just clicked as if I had knew all along lol
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Sooo, for PC with Xbox Controls, its the same thing except don't confuse the X placement. Got it.
So what you're saying is:
I should still mash square but I should also finish with triangle, which is basically the same.
with brawler style i usually go for 2x square 1 triangle and a grab either with heat action or throw
everytime i watch one of these tutorials, i get even more convinced Kiryu is a Virtua Fighter character thanks to the sheer complexity of his moveset.
Remember to try to keep all opponents in front of you when playing on legend mode
Wish I didn't have to look this up. I felt like I was going to pull my head out of my head.
how to beat mr.shakedown as majima. have about 8 staminam royales in inventory for injuries. attack shaky until you get a heat bar then use a heat finisher with the slugger style
There's one tip that pretty important that haven't mentioned in this video DON'T repeat the same heat move cause the more time you use the same heat move the less damage it'll deal.