wanted to include the demo boss as well, but didn't have footage of it. If I wanted to record it again I had to download 80gb of Gaiden + IW demo lmaoo
@@hayxsaka8042 Hence why I said Yamai was the 2nd ever boss you fight 5 times in a game. Kuze was the first. I guess you could call it the third if you want to count Majima Everywhere, but that’s not main story content so I don’t think it applies here.
Another thing that is interesting is the Yamai battle themes. Before the club fight, the theme has a weird and sinister tone (B minor) to it. But during and after the club fight, it has a more neutral tone (C major), meaning that his intentions are much more convoluted than it actually is, and that maybe his intentions are either becoming or actually pure.
I have to say I'm almost obsessed with how good of a character he is. Reminds me of how I felt about Majima when I first played yakuza 1 on ps2 all those years ago. I really hope he is playable in y9 or at least is relevant from here on out.
@@diccchocolate416 what are you talking about? Outside Yamai being great, RGG reverted back to terrible Yakuza 5-6 writing levels. We literally see Majima, Saejima and Daigo for 5-20 minutes in each game for the past 4 games just as fanservice.
he is so cool, as i played the game he grew on me so much, immediately became one of my favorite characters in all of Yakuza because of his backstory and character growth
I honestly don't know why did Ichiban never used his Bat against Yamai in Action Sequences, it honestly would look really cool seeing a sword fight, but with Bat and Crowbar instead
It really is weird how they love showing Ichiban's bat in other cutscenes where he has to be a "hero" since it is his Dragon Quest sword, but they never fully utilize it in fights. At least with people who have weapons.
@@SteelBallRun1890 yeah, it's like making Ichiban's hero bat looks like an imagination, yet they show it that it was real during the earlier chapter Meanwhile, Nanba and Zhao are shown in cutscenes that they actually did use it during combat
@@MatsuSenpaiiI'm guessing its because for bosses that fight with fists it looks like he's at an advantage swinging a bat or it looks unfair or unheroic? Fair, but with bosses like Sawashiro or Yamai they really should have him use the bat to match their weapon styles.
@@SteelBallRun1890 and yet, it's kinda funny that most of the bosses that Ichiban fights uses weapons Yamai: Crowbar Dwight: Dual Machetes and even Bryce with Dual SMGs and a Sword
Plus Yamai's actually a former member of Tojo Clan. The same yakuza organization belongs to our previous yakuza protagonist (Kiryu,Ichiban,Daigo,Majima, Saejima) and he is actually knows Ichiban and Kiryu respectivily due to their each reputation and legendary status. And he is former member of the Tabata Family subsidiaries of the Tojo Clan.
I hope they don't forget about him. Too often they just yeet cool antagonists in jail and forget they exist. Bit disappointed Old Man Kuze didn't get a cameo or at least a memory for Kiryu. He's been out for long.
Yamai has more of a shot coming back, Kuze is an actor face model, I know that doesn't mean much since Nanba and Sawashiro came back but Yamai isn't a face model actor, making it way easier to bring him back. Plus, Yokoyama saying he likened Yamai to Ichi's Majima in this game makes me think they leave it open for him to come back if he's popular. Another addition is he got jailed back in Japan, if he stuck in Hawaii, I doubt 9 would feature Hawaii again (they'll most likely reuse Hawaii in spinoffs since that's a waste of a map) but Yamai being back in Japan gives him more of a shot to be relevant again with meeting Ichiban sooner.
Conspiracy theory: they took the demo fight out because kuze threatened them if they'd make him lose his most reocurring story bossfight in a single game trophy.
Tbh this mf and Robo Michio were the hardest bosses in the game for me. Whenever i would heal one of my characters at the theather fight he would go ahead and heal himself too
Are Yamai and Ibuchi the same person because they have the same VA? I'm just joking because the theories of Hanawa and Morinaga being the same person were just stupid asf
Yamai is like the combination of Kuze's tenacity and Majima's unhinged personality. I Loved him
A thing I've often seen said is Ichiban and Yamai is if Kiryu and Majima swapped demeanors
@@MUGENanayaThat’s what I noticed, too. I hope he comes back as a recurring rival in later games.
yamai party member tho@@GZilla311
That's pretty much why i loved him in the game as well, that and the fact he's voiced by dio brando
Takehito Koyasu's voice is like velvet when he's not playing completely crazy people
as if yamai isnt lol
you should watch kuzan's introduction in one piece then
@Garland846 just a fan of a good Slugfest
The 2nd ever boss fight you fight 5 times in a game. Count the demo fight, and he’s the first boss with 6 fights in a game.
wanted to include the demo boss as well, but didn't have footage of it. If I wanted to record it again I had to download 80gb of Gaiden + IW demo lmaoo
@FazFaz on the Great Swell DLC he's also a boss fight as a Thought Entity (alongside Majima). You can count that as 6 fights.
Nope you fight Kuze five times actually
@@hayxsaka8042 Hence why I said Yamai was the 2nd ever boss you fight 5 times in a game. Kuze was the first.
I guess you could call it the third if you want to count Majima Everywhere, but that’s not main story content so I don’t think it applies here.
No way Yamai everywhere system ???
All off Yamai boss fights
Video lenght: 1h
Truly a man of perseverance
Another thing that is interesting is the Yamai battle themes. Before the club fight, the theme has a weird and sinister tone (B minor) to it. But during and after the club fight, it has a more neutral tone (C major), meaning that his intentions are much more convoluted than it actually is, and that maybe his intentions are either becoming or actually pure.
Well it's also worth considering that the first theme that played was actually his gang's theme and not his actual theme
Slugfest for Yamai Syndicate, Kooky for Yamai proper.
I have to say I'm almost obsessed with how good of a character he is. Reminds me of how I felt about Majima when I first played yakuza 1 on ps2 all those years ago. I really hope he is playable in y9 or at least is relevant from here on out.
Hes also voiced by Dio which makes it 2x better
Don't worry, this is RGG, so maybe we can see him 5-20 minutes every 4 years.
@@depressedcheems9961I think this game proved those days are over.
@@diccchocolate416 what are you talking about? Outside Yamai being great, RGG reverted back to terrible Yakuza 5-6 writing levels.
We literally see Majima, Saejima and Daigo for 5-20 minutes in each game for the past 4 games just as fanservice.
@@depressedcheems9961 they are in this game for the exact amount of time they need to be. It's not a kiryu game.
he is so cool, as i played the game he grew on me so much, immediately became one of my favorite characters in all of Yakuza because of his backstory and character growth
yamai everywhere system
probably my favorite new character in the game and I love the new cast
If Yamai doesn't at least come back as a Poundmate in 9, we're rioting.
Fuck poundmate, i want him as a playable character, if they managed to put zhao and joon gi han, why not yamai?
Man, I was hoping throughout the game that Yamai would be the last party member they kept a secret.
Imagine Joon-Gi being swapped with Yamai. That would've been sick.
I would pay real money for like a dragon 9 or an infinite wealth dlc to add him as a party member
I honestly don't know why did Ichiban never used his Bat against Yamai in Action Sequences, it honestly would look really cool seeing a sword fight, but with Bat and Crowbar instead
It really is weird how they love showing Ichiban's bat in other cutscenes where he has to be a "hero" since it is his Dragon Quest sword, but they never fully utilize it in fights. At least with people who have weapons.
@@SteelBallRun1890 yeah, it's like making Ichiban's hero bat looks like an imagination, yet they show it that it was real during the earlier chapter
Meanwhile, Nanba and Zhao are shown in cutscenes that they actually did use it during combat
@@MatsuSenpaiiI'm guessing its because for bosses that fight with fists it looks like he's at an advantage swinging a bat or it looks unfair or unheroic? Fair, but with bosses like Sawashiro or Yamai they really should have him use the bat to match their weapon styles.
@@SteelBallRun1890 and yet, it's kinda funny that most of the bosses that Ichiban fights uses weapons
Yamai: Crowbar
Dwight: Dual Machetes
and even Bryce with Dual SMGs and a Sword
@@MatsuSenpaiipretty much
I like that he may be genuine about the fact that its still too cold for him in the middle of a forest fire because his weakness is water
37:19 One of the weirdest fights in the series. The whole battle I didn't know whether I should laugh or actually focus on the fight itself
actually its pretty tragic when considering his backstory
Thats thé charm of this serie the perfect balance between humor and style
Bro has his preferences, nothing wrong with that.
Plus Yamai's actually a former member of Tojo Clan. The same yakuza organization belongs to our previous yakuza protagonist (Kiryu,Ichiban,Daigo,Majima, Saejima) and he is actually knows Ichiban and Kiryu respectivily due to their each reputation and legendary status. And he is former member of the Tabata Family subsidiaries of the Tojo Clan.
The only thing Yamai is most pissed off about is that Kiryu is past his prime.
Yamai: "Hope the DLC lets me fight Prime Kiryu before The Cancer"
Yamai: "They NERFED him and now he's a shadow of what he was at release"
@@akechijubeimitsuhide"Oh god he's too old"
he's so real for that. worst news he could hear, is that prime kiryu isnt here so he can't enjoy being completely obliterated
Bro was like “imma switch sides for a bit”
damn it hurts seeing kiryu like that 😔
1 hour of peak
I hope they don't forget about him. Too often they just yeet cool antagonists in jail and forget they exist. Bit disappointed Old Man Kuze didn't get a cameo or at least a memory for Kiryu. He's been out for long.
Yamai has more of a shot coming back, Kuze is an actor face model, I know that doesn't mean much since Nanba and Sawashiro came back but Yamai isn't a face model actor, making it way easier to bring him back.
Plus, Yokoyama saying he likened Yamai to Ichi's Majima in this game makes me think they leave it open for him to come back if he's popular.
Another addition is he got jailed back in Japan, if he stuck in Hawaii, I doubt 9 would feature Hawaii again (they'll most likely reuse Hawaii in spinoffs since that's a waste of a map) but Yamai being back in Japan gives him more of a shot to be relevant again with meeting Ichiban sooner.
Man it'd be rad if they added Kuze in LAD9. I know he may be about over 80 but still that'd be cool.
@@Count_of_shadow_landsIf a 90 year old motherfucker can be a major boss, Kuze can run around :D
I fucking love Yamai, best antagonist in the game hands down
I hope he becomes a party member in 9
Yes,cuz now he is an Ally with protection for Lani and Akane
And bro don't try to kill Kiryu cuz bro knows the Taichi Suzuki The Dragon lives and respect
real best friends try to rob each other when they first meet
1 hour of fighting Yamai WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LAD
Cannot believe we’re fighting the Japanese John Wick
Conspiracy theory: they took the demo fight out because kuze threatened them if they'd make him lose his most reocurring story bossfight in a single game trophy.
The fact he's voiced by DIO and looks almost exactly like an old friend of mine, just a tad bit older, made me like him even more
looks like kei ibuchi reincarnated into that beast
The Chapter 9 fight against him was my favorite in all of IW.
I would love to see him come back in 9. 9 should be an SRPG at this point with all of the people that joined Ichi.
Tbh this mf and Robo Michio were the hardest bosses in the game for me. Whenever i would heal one of my characters at the theather fight he would go ahead and heal himself too
kooky goes so damn hard
more action sequences for people who want them: 4:58, 7:48, 39:01, 40:13, 41:55, 54:51, 1:00:31, and 1:03:50
Like kuze before him he's fought 5 times in the story
6 including demo fight
7 including dlc thought vision fight
Not just Kuze either, Okada Izo is fought 4 times and that was before Ishin, and similar to Kuze he’s also the first boss.
Hearing him first time, OH SHYT ITS DIO
Love Yamai's monsktrap leather shoes.
you should do like all the fail QTEs for the game
yeah I want to, but I unfortunately dont have saves close to the fight, and I want to play Persona 3 Reload
@@FazFazIt's okay man you done more than enough. thanks for your speedy uploads
@@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841 appreciate it 🙏I'll make a video about failing Majima's QTE though, I'm wondering how that looks myself
20:25 he said what everyone thinks XD
We love mods making yamai playable
17:23 Jotaro vs DIO 😂
Aight, so we have Japanese John Wick before GTA 6...
...which would make an astounding recurring character in RGG series.
I feel so bad overleveled Ichiban, Tomi and Chitose to the point make his 4th boss fight feel so underwhelming lmao.
Shows up canonically for no reason and beats the shit out of u
How many times do we have to teach this lesson old man!?
cold man*
Is it just me or does he sound like DIO's voice actor?
It is
Oh hey is dio-
28:44 Yamai: 🐄🐄🐄🐄
Emo Markiplier
Is that Dio?
yup, lol
Same VA so yeah
Toji too lol
Dio Brando
Why that weapon? lol
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Are Yamai and Ibuchi the same person because they have the same VA?
I'm just joking because the theories of Hanawa and Morinaga being the same person were just stupid asf
They were really not it was hinted that he knew kiryu is suzuki and that his name is fake at the end of gaiden
Ibuchi shot his own head off. Doubt it.
The only RGG character with good writing and a good arc. lmao