Other than what been mentioned in the video i feel like karaoke i feel like gives you a glimpse into a character outside the main story action i the karaoke their music taste how they imagine them self singing what their idea what is is cool Something that makes this minigames special over all others
Y'know what I love about Karaoke? Its simplicity. Unlike other minigames, with all their difficulty levels, massive depth, cheat items, and even entire storylines attached to them, all karaoke has to show for it is a Guitar Hero-like button press minigame, and the only "difficulty" is having other people cheer on you. That's it. It really helps with replayability on what is supposedly a very unreplayable activity. You're not pressured into playing a lot of it or playing perfectly, you're just encouraged to play, whenever you feel like it. You may not be on the mood for pool, golf, batting or even the bigger minigames like business or Dondoko. But you will ALWAYS be on the mood for a song.
karaoke is 'the' reason i got into these games. a month or so before they put 0 on game pass i got majima's version of GET TO THE TOP in my reccomended, and i immediately knew i had to see what this was all about
Karaoke for me, is for a calm moment, the story can get rather heavy in certain chapter, so i usually do karaoke before progressing the story. 1 to calm myself before what's to come and 2 to cool down the moment before.
Personally, I think one of the reasons the karaoke is impactful because it's an artistic endeavour that can act as common language/unifier. I've used some of the songs as a sort of baseline to understanding some Japanese words and phrases. My girlfriend, who is Polish, went through something similar listening to English songs and bands before coming over to the UK.
Too true. I mean look at the most popular karaoke song in the series, Baka Mitai for example. When that became a meme back in 2020 so many people thought the title of the song was Dame Da Ne, due to that being the most dramatic part of the song, only for them to look it up and have the results call it Baka Mitai, for them to possibly be confused of it coming from a Japanese crime game with dude's who fight each other shirtless, much less that being the name of the song. Really does show you how music transcends language barriers.
I know most people don’t really care about this, but I think it’s cool that the English dubs have translated versions of each song. Sure, not all of them necessarily turn out great (I.e. too much auto tune in a lot of Infinite Wealth’s songs), and you could argue that some of the intricacies with the Japanese lyrics get lost in translation, but the dub team could’ve easily just not bothered, and I still really enjoy some of them, like Greg Chun singing Baka Mitai or Robbie Daymond absolutely killing it with Hell’s Stew and If I Could Love The One I Love
Believe me when i say that i started singing almost every song i find 'singable' out loud because of Yakuza, To the point that when i went to a bar-karaoke with some friends, I didn't think twice and asked for a song. (If I Could Love The One I Love) I know only i knew the lyrics, But i was surprised of how supportive some strangers can be. I don't regret that night.
I genuinely look forward to new songs in each game. They're such a good way to tie into the themes of the main story and the music alone is just so enjoyable.
Can't wait to play Majima's version of get to the top since i never played dead souls before, but i still love this particular version bcs of how chaotic but still musical it sounds lol
The fact infinite wealth made each static image come to life in slow motion really made me depressed. Especially tonight; i dropped my controller mid way through. Karaoke is arguably one of the best things this series has to offer, and some even represent the feelings of our characters. Thank you for this video 💜💜💜
That update to the cinematics that we got in Gaiden still catches me off-guard cause I'm so used to the static version of Tonight's video from all the other games. Thanks for watching
My biggest love for karaoke is how insanely off key the interjections are. And they're so insanely in character. But then them actually singing the songs we get proper skills. It adds so much characterization.
FIY Pure love in Kamurocho is not a ballad exactly but a bolero. It is a really interesting pick and one of my favorites But changing the topic. What I enjoy the most in some karaoke songs is how tied to the story are their lyrics or cinematics. Almost like having an inside look into a character thoughts and feelings. For example Kiryu sounds more sincere in Baka Darou than with what he actually was saying in some scenes from IW Other examples: Majima happy as long as you're happy Kiryu and Nishiki changing the world Kiryu telling you what he really thinks about Majima in Pride from despair Majima explaining all his life philosophy in Majima no Majirock Okita doing the same in Samurai's ondo Hana complain about Akiyama's oblivious behavior in Ashura komachi... The list goes on and on. Damn, you can find even some really hard death wishes hidden in plain sight in one of the happiest in terms of tune songs: like finding a diamond in the sand
The imagery and story parallels are the best parts, aside from just how well-produced the songs are. So much can be said in those 2 short minutes the characters sing. I even appreciate the English dub versions of the songs (especially Honolulu City Lights), despite some of them being ruined by autotune. You can get so much enjoyment from hearing the track the first time and then seeing what the lyrics actually mean the next go-around. My only wish is for Yagami to get to sing at some point if a hypothetical Judgment 3 ever happens. Seeing my favorite character getting to do this minigame would be great, and the cherry on top is that both of Yagami's VA's are really good singers.
What I love about Karaoke, besides the quality of the tracks themselves, is how casual it feels. There are really no stakes, no rewards to get from it, even the completion stuff tends to only require very achievable scores of 90 rather than perfect performance. It's something you dip in and play for the hell of it, sometimes in very short sessions, before resuming what you were off to do. But if you want to actually get perfect scores, the potential is there, and it's incredibly satisfying to end up getting those perfect scores, not because you set out to get them, but because you've been enjoying the songs so much you naturally learned their rhythm. When I finally got a perfect score on Hands in Gaiden, I was elated at my performance! I'm not perfecting Ichizu Samurai any time soon, but it's okay, because I don't need to. :)
What I like about the karaoke segments is that the song a character chooses to sing can shed light on the characters in a way that the main story cannot. The most obvious examples are with Kiryu’s restart this night, Baka Darou and Majima’s Pride from Despair and As Long as you’re happy. We don’t know if Kiryu and Majima are still hung up on the past, and it is these karaoke segments that reveal that. The karaoke segments can also be really funny as well. If they don’t serve any narrative significance, I like to imagine that whoever is singing gets so into the song, they imagine themselves as apart of the music video. Like with Majima in 24 Hour Cinderella. He is literally imagining himself as being apart of the pop idol band.
I love when songs are atleast a bit connected to the characters or situations. My personal favorite is the fanservice in the lyrics of Ring, especifically Yuki, because is a sad song talking about a girl seeing the guy she loves getting married and have to put a fake smile [i say it is a fanservice, because is only unlocked after Majima comes back to Sunshine, and maybe there is a hint there, im just saying]
I finally got to sing karaoke at a college event, and the RGG minigame interpretation of karaoke is surprisingly accurate... When you hit that chorus and really get into the song, your mind goes elsewhere... All three songs I did, this was true for... I'm extremely hopeful that I'll get to hit a karaoke bar sometime with friends even though I'm not a drinker, I'd just be there for the karaoke lol
What i like about karaoke in yakuza is the way the characters imagine themselves in the song while singing, it's like despite how they feel in the story, the only way for them to let their feelings out is by singing karaoke, its one of the best things in yakuza
one of my favorite comments about the Yakuza series from the channel outiside xbox, Kazuma Kiryu, a man who's combat skills are only matched by his karaoke skills
what we say: cause the tonal whiplash of a grown man going through emotional story beats to sing his heart out is funny what we actually think: Goth Saeko my beloved ❤
The only thing i hate on karaoke is the sudden FPS spike on button mashing (especially on ishin; tried all method to keep FPS bearable but not really working). The music and singing is awesome though...
Well, technically only Yagami can't sing because of his seiyuu, so the others still have that possibility... unless Sega forks out the cash I think. XD
Not sure how to answer that, considering I'm not a native English speaker 😅 I'm from Croatia, but most of the people living here have a different accent while speaking English than I do.
@@gokudoni nikad nebi rekao slusajuci kako fluid pricas engleski, prije po tome kako cisto izgovaras japanske rijeci sto je za nas hrvate mozda i malo lakse 😅
@@gokudoni nikad nebi rekao slusajuci kako fluid pricas engleski, prije po tome kako izgovaras japanske rijeci sto je za nas hrvate mozda i malo lakse 😅
5:48 I'm one of those who see the waterfall meditation as the true beginnings of the karaoke. It was Horii Ryosuke who introduced this minigame in Kenzan. The game after Kenzan was Yakuza 3 - guess who floated the idea of introducing karaoke as a minigame? The same guy, Horii Ryosuke. :)
What makes me hooked with Yakuza karaoke is that I was hooked with the main character first, and it's none other than Kiryu. When karaoke was introduced in 3, I was not so hooked with this because the song that Kiryu can sing at that time (Pure Love in Kamurocho, a song that has enka-like elements in it) didn't interest me. Going to 4, Machine Gun Kiss started to hook me a little because it's a rock song, a music genre that I like, and then in 5 when Baka Mitai introduced to the world for the first time, I started to fall in love with karaoke because how catchy the song is, as well as having a pop-like arrangement in it.
I don't think the karaoke gameplay was great until the Dragon Engine games, but I liked most of the songs. I still get the older ones stuck in my head.
What is your favourite aspect to karaoke? 🎶🎵
Honestly I just REALLY like the songs themselves, so when I boot up a Yakuza game I play karaoke at least once or more
beyond the fun and variety of it, the way that many songs add depth to the characterization of kiryu and others
Other than what been mentioned in the video i feel like karaoke i feel like gives you a glimpse into a character outside the main story action i the karaoke their music taste how they imagine them self singing what their idea what is is cool
Something that makes this minigames special over all others
Turning the subtitles to english and then having a hard time with playing the game while reading them lol.
Watching back Machine Gun kiss and deluding myself into thinking Kiryu is singing about me
I love watching middle aged men sing songs while they’re experiencing the most trauma anyone could ever handle
Y'know what I love about Karaoke? Its simplicity.
Unlike other minigames, with all their difficulty levels, massive depth, cheat items, and even entire storylines attached to them, all karaoke has to show for it is a Guitar Hero-like button press minigame, and the only "difficulty" is having other people cheer on you. That's it. It really helps with replayability on what is supposedly a very unreplayable activity. You're not pressured into playing a lot of it or playing perfectly, you're just encouraged to play, whenever you feel like it. You may not be on the mood for pool, golf, batting or even the bigger minigames like business or Dondoko. But you will ALWAYS be on the mood for a song.
karaoke is 'the' reason i got into these games. a month or so before they put 0 on game pass i got majima's version of GET TO THE TOP in my reccomended, and i immediately knew i had to see what this was all about
Love it! Now with Pirate Yakuza, the entire community will get to experience that particular rendition of the song for themselves 😄
6:24 hands is like a damn boss battle
excellent video as always and on one of my favorite features
Karaoke for me, is for a calm moment, the story can get rather heavy in certain chapter, so i usually do karaoke before progressing the story. 1 to calm myself before what's to come and 2 to cool down the moment before.
Personally, I think one of the reasons the karaoke is impactful because it's an artistic endeavour that can act as common language/unifier. I've used some of the songs as a sort of baseline to understanding some Japanese words and phrases. My girlfriend, who is Polish, went through something similar listening to English songs and bands before coming over to the UK.
Too true. I mean look at the most popular karaoke song in the series, Baka Mitai for example. When that became a meme back in 2020 so many people thought the title of the song was Dame Da Ne, due to that being the most dramatic part of the song, only for them to look it up and have the results call it Baka Mitai, for them to possibly be confused of it coming from a Japanese crime game with dude's who fight each other shirtless, much less that being the name of the song. Really does show you how music transcends language barriers.
I know most people don’t really care about this, but I think it’s cool that the English dubs have translated versions of each song. Sure, not all of them necessarily turn out great (I.e. too much auto tune in a lot of Infinite Wealth’s songs), and you could argue that some of the intricacies with the Japanese lyrics get lost in translation, but the dub team could’ve easily just not bothered, and I still really enjoy some of them, like Greg Chun singing Baka Mitai or Robbie Daymond absolutely killing it with Hell’s Stew and If I Could Love The One I Love
0:00 AWAKE Saeko spotted, day saved 🙏
AMEN
Mommy
Believe me when i say that i started singing almost every song i find 'singable' out loud because of Yakuza, To the point that when i went to a bar-karaoke with some friends, I didn't think twice and asked for a song. (If I Could Love The One I Love)
I know only i knew the lyrics, But i was surprised of how supportive some strangers can be. I don't regret that night.
Judgment Kazzy is still goated.
I genuinely look forward to new songs in each game. They're such a good way to tie into the themes of the main story and the music alone is just so enjoyable.
Music is great man
Can't wait to play Majima's version of get to the top since i never played dead souls before, but i still love this particular version bcs of how chaotic but still musical it sounds lol
The fact infinite wealth made each static image come to life in slow motion really made me depressed. Especially tonight; i dropped my controller mid way through. Karaoke is arguably one of the best things this series has to offer, and some even represent the feelings of our characters. Thank you for this video 💜💜💜
That update to the cinematics that we got in Gaiden still catches me off-guard cause I'm so used to the static version of Tonight's video from all the other games. Thanks for watching
I'm 100% certain that the karaoke alone has brought in more players than any marketing RGG has ever done.
13 minutes and no dame da ne comment. I am proud of you guys!!!
We have truly come far as a community 😄
I’m simply a good singer
To whoever said «no dame da ne comment»
Hehehe…
Baka Darou
My biggest love for karaoke is how insanely off key the interjections are. And they're so insanely in character. But then them actually singing the songs we get proper skills. It adds so much characterization.
I love that if you finish IW and play Saeko song, Ichiban will apologise to her as part of the interjections
FIY Pure love in Kamurocho is not a ballad exactly but a bolero. It is a really interesting pick and one of my favorites
But changing the topic.
What I enjoy the most in some karaoke songs is how tied to the story are their lyrics or cinematics. Almost like having an inside look into a character thoughts and feelings. For example Kiryu sounds more sincere in Baka Darou than with what he actually was saying in some scenes from IW
Other examples:
Majima happy as long as you're happy
Kiryu and Nishiki changing the world
Kiryu telling you what he really thinks about Majima in Pride from despair
Majima explaining all his life philosophy in Majima no Majirock
Okita doing the same in Samurai's ondo
Hana complain about Akiyama's oblivious behavior in Ashura komachi...
The list goes on and on.
Damn, you can find even some really hard death wishes hidden in plain sight in one of the happiest in terms of tune songs: like finding a diamond in the sand
its so good
Appreciate the elaboration!
The imagery and story parallels are the best parts, aside from just how well-produced the songs are. So much can be said in those 2 short minutes the characters sing. I even appreciate the English dub versions of the songs (especially Honolulu City Lights), despite some of them being ruined by autotune. You can get so much enjoyment from hearing the track the first time and then seeing what the lyrics actually mean the next go-around.
My only wish is for Yagami to get to sing at some point if a hypothetical Judgment 3 ever happens. Seeing my favorite character getting to do this minigame would be great, and the cherry on top is that both of Yagami's VA's are really good singers.
What I love about Karaoke, besides the quality of the tracks themselves, is how casual it feels. There are really no stakes, no rewards to get from it, even the completion stuff tends to only require very achievable scores of 90 rather than perfect performance. It's something you dip in and play for the hell of it, sometimes in very short sessions, before resuming what you were off to do.
But if you want to actually get perfect scores, the potential is there, and it's incredibly satisfying to end up getting those perfect scores, not because you set out to get them, but because you've been enjoying the songs so much you naturally learned their rhythm. When I finally got a perfect score on Hands in Gaiden, I was elated at my performance! I'm not perfecting Ichizu Samurai any time soon, but it's okay, because I don't need to. :)
Rouge of Love with Saejima is a personal fave. Never fails to make me laugh.
Erryborry say a rou a ruvvvvv!
What I like about the karaoke segments is that the song a character chooses to sing can shed light on the characters in a way that the main story cannot.
The most obvious examples are with Kiryu’s restart this night, Baka Darou and Majima’s Pride from Despair and As Long as you’re happy.
We don’t know if Kiryu and Majima are still hung up on the past, and it is these karaoke segments that reveal that.
The karaoke segments can also be really funny as well. If they don’t serve any narrative significance, I like to imagine that whoever is singing gets so into the song, they imagine themselves as apart of the music video. Like with Majima in 24 Hour Cinderella. He is literally imagining himself as being apart of the pop idol band.
I love when songs are atleast a bit connected to the characters or situations. My personal favorite is the fanservice in the lyrics of Ring, especifically Yuki, because is a sad song talking about a girl seeing the guy she loves getting married and have to put a fake smile [i say it is a fanservice, because is only unlocked after Majima comes back to Sunshine, and maybe there is a hint there, im just saying]
I finally got to sing karaoke at a college event, and the RGG minigame interpretation of karaoke is surprisingly accurate... When you hit that chorus and really get into the song, your mind goes elsewhere... All three songs I did, this was true for... I'm extremely hopeful that I'll get to hit a karaoke bar sometime with friends even though I'm not a drinker, I'd just be there for the karaoke lol
What i like about karaoke in yakuza is the way the characters imagine themselves in the song while singing, it's like despite how they feel in the story, the only way for them to let their feelings out is by singing karaoke, its one of the best things in yakuza
one of my favorite comments about the Yakuza series from the channel outiside xbox,
Kazuma Kiryu, a man who's combat skills are only matched by his karaoke skills
what we say: cause the tonal whiplash of a grown man going through emotional story beats to sing his heart out is funny
what we actually think: Goth Saeko my beloved ❤
Drakengard 3 mentioned!!
I got so hyped when he brought it up. I know this is a hot take opinion, but Drakengard 3 is my favorite Taro game.
Automata is my favorite but I still love Replicant and Drakengard 3 just as much and they should get way more attention. Especially Drakengard 3
Absolutely adore the game! Still hoping we get a remaster one of these days 🙏
Who doesn’t love middle age men singing songs after enduring what would break people and give them the worst ptsd known to man
Karaoke is so fun
Akio Otsuka my beloved
The only thing i hate on karaoke is the sudden FPS spike on button mashing (especially on ishin; tried all method to keep FPS bearable but not really working). The music and singing is awesome though...
I like the songs but I'm awful at clicking buttons on time so everytime haruka wanted me to get 90 I just failed and got out 💀
Thanks for actually pronouning karaoke the correct japanese way and not the butchered American English way that's plastered all over TH-cam
It's such a shame we'll never hear Judgement characters sing
Look on the bright side, we got Yagami dancing to Long Drill on the Beach
Well, technically only Yagami can't sing because of his seiyuu, so the others still have that possibility... unless Sega forks out the cash I think. XD
@gokudoni Hope you don't mind me asking, but what is your accent?
Not sure how to answer that, considering I'm not a native English speaker 😅 I'm from Croatia, but most of the people living here have a different accent while speaking English than I do.
@@gokudoni nikad nebi rekao slusajuci kako fluid pricas engleski, prije po tome kako cisto izgovaras japanske rijeci sto je za nas hrvate mozda i malo lakse 😅
@@gokudoni nikad nebi rekao slusajuci kako fluid pricas engleski, prije po tome kako izgovaras japanske rijeci sto je za nas hrvate mozda i malo lakse 😅
@@KrPa9781 Cijenim to hahahah
5:48 I'm one of those who see the waterfall meditation as the true beginnings of the karaoke. It was Horii Ryosuke who introduced this minigame in Kenzan. The game after Kenzan was Yakuza 3 - guess who floated the idea of introducing karaoke as a minigame? The same guy, Horii Ryosuke. :)
What makes me hooked with Yakuza karaoke is that I was hooked with the main character first, and it's none other than Kiryu. When karaoke was introduced in 3, I was not so hooked with this because the song that Kiryu can sing at that time (Pure Love in Kamurocho, a song that has enka-like elements in it) didn't interest me. Going to 4, Machine Gun Kiss started to hook me a little because it's a rock song, a music genre that I like, and then in 5 when Baka Mitai introduced to the world for the first time, I started to fall in love with karaoke because how catchy the song is, as well as having a pop-like arrangement in it.
@@irsyadiaryadiva9430 I think you meant Kamurocho's Lullaby
Pure love in Kamurocho was Akiyama and Hana's dued
I don't think the karaoke gameplay was great until the Dragon Engine games, but I liked most of the songs. I still get the older ones stuck in my head.
Actually I hate kar o Keys >:(