Yakuza's OTHER Black Sheep
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2023
- Literally no one asked for these guys to make a zombie game, but did they do it anyway? Well, yes, obviously. With horrible frame rates and fierce competition in the West from other trendy zombie games, did this game manage to still be fun? I dunno I literally can't play it.
Shout out to my vicarious experience of this game from listening to Scott Strichart complain about it, listening to SonicKick praise it, watching Ray Narvaez Jr laugh at it, and watching Froob laugh with it.
Ray Narvaez Jr's playthrough of Dead Souls (you have to say Jr because his dad didn't play the game):
• Yakuza: Dead Souls Hig...
Here's Froob beating the entire game in less time than it took me to make the thumbnail for this video (I have no idea how to use Photoshop):
• Any% Yakuza Dead Souls...
And then here's SonicKick's TH-cam channel because he's nice:
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Dead Souls OST 1:
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Dead Souls OST 2:
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Imagine my surprise when I’m watching this video and you included clips of ME!?
Dead Souls is a game that deserves the “Kiwami” treatment. It’s a fun game that’s hindered by absolutely horrible performance. It’s borderline unplayable at times.
Love the videos btw!
Bro no WAY. RAY I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU SINCE I WAS 11 YEARS OLD ALWAYS BEEN A FAN. And of all the people in the world I was expecting to NOT watch this video… it was definitely you, and now I’m a little embarrassed hahaha
Dead Souls is definitely a better "Black Sheep" than Yakuza 3 imo, because while 3 is weird mechanically sometimes it doesn't feel super far out as a yakuza game it just feels like that middle child in an awkward phase whereas dead souls has the most differences out of any game. could be wrong though
It does not need a remake it would be a nightmare just like the other three.
That is the second Yakuza game that I've been wanting to see get the Kiwami treatment. We got one of them already, but I need to see dead souls. I'll be more than willing to pay full price for a version of this game that gets all the fixes and love and care it deserves.
I loved that cutscene where Majima says “Yo, Kiryu-chan, we better go full Yakuza on these Dead Souls zombies before it’s of the end”
It's endin' time
“You really are like a dragon while killing those dead souls of the end, you’re a true yakuza Kazzy”
Thanks, i wanna die now
@@Koichi-Kun LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
"Sounds like someone's betraying the Tojo Clan!"
"It's just an Oni Alliance member Majima, sit down."
WHY IS HE HERE
I heard this is the only game in the entire Yakuza franchise that lets you replay Long battles/boss fights in premium adventure mode.
Yes, Yakuza 3 does this too with colliseum where you can fight again same bosses.
Yeah
both kurohyou games also had this feature
I think you could do this in the ps2 Yakuza 1 but that was accessed from the main menu
@@Vault_69Isn't that just the Climax Battles that almost all of the Yakuza games have, tho?
Maybe the true dead souls were the zombies we killed along the way...
Well, at least this time the meme was unique
Akiyamer (purple yakuza): "Uh oh it seems that this town is infested with Dead Souls!!"
Majima (yellow yakuza) Ryuji (white yakuza) Kiryu (gray yakuza): "Worry not Purple Yakuza! It's not Of The End just yet as we arrive, we are the Yakuza 4!!!"
Zombies: "oh no!! Its the yakuza 4!! Bite them!!"
Gray Yakuza: "Oh no you dont!! Yakuza punch!!"
So wait... The game's japanese title is: "Like a Dragon of the END"?
That's metal as fuck dude
"Yo, Kiryu-Chan, if we dont kill these zombies soon.. we'll be DEAD SOULS!"
Majima San... This is a dame da ne moment; we're outnumbered... We have lost our judgement, just Like a Dragon
Minor correction:
The shotgun Majima uses actually appears to be a SPAS-15, basically a more cursed yet functionally better version of the SPAS-12.
Agreed, looks like an inbred rifle with some bits of a shotgun.
This is a game that I want to play, which should be remade, I feel like it deserves a second chance.
Yeah, always wished this game would get the same treatment as the older games with their kiwami remakes
@@thesaltwizard3212 obviously mate. Like I personally want black Panther and dead souls and kenzan remade, it would be complete. No more missing localizations.
I'd like to see it remade in beat em up style of gameplay. Kiryu could have his gadgets from gaiden along with Yakuza style. Majima's Mad dog style fits perfectly and his second can be slugger but instead of a bat it's the shotgun he carries and when he enters ex Burst he can shoot it to wipe out hordes of zombies. Ryuji could have 3 styles using his mechanical hand as different weapons fists, hammer or sword. Akiyama's duel pistols could function similar to wild dancer. Since killing isn't a problem in dead souls heat actions could be more violent. For example essence of torment instead of ripping the shoulders out of the socket Kiryu instead rips the arms off a zombie and the following slap breaks the zombies neck turning it 180.
@@brokeoutlaw3195 awesome idea.
@@Tomodachi_12 oooo
I love Dead Souls, unironically.
It's fine if you think of it not as a zamby game, but as a Musou game, which spiritually, it kind of is.
Basically, Yakuzies + zombies = ancient Chinese armies game. No I don't know how or why that's what happens, but the cheesy storytelling, supernatural events, KO counter and not really encouraging clearing an area so much as cutting off the big enemies heads gameplay is very PS2/PS3 era Omega Force.
Just... Don't mention later Dynasty Warriors games. They kind of lost the formula by trying to be not-mid.
@@blackjacktrial ...I unfortunately have no idea what you're talking about. I just love the game as it is. It has its faults, sure, but I still love it.
From what I heard this was the only Yakuza game that lets you fight bosses again without going through the whole story again
I still wonder, of all games, why dead souls is the only one got this feature?
@@drandescancelled2825Because it's peak, it's the best game in the series, stand down, sheepish Yakuza 0 stans, get outta here brainwashed Lost Judgement fans, the real king's in town.
yakuza 3 also allows this but only in the colosseum
Kurohyou lets you reply bosses too
@@deepflare1028 DANGEROUS(Dangerous)
Let’s fucking go- Donna monda konda honjanei
"These prototypes are like DEAD souls and you yakuza cant handle them!!" - The bad guy
LAD Infinite Wealth recontextualizes Kenzan, Ishin, and Dead Souls as really weird dreams Kiryu once had. Judging by that, Kiryu must have really missed Ryuji Goda.
You forgot to mention kamuro of the dead which is technically a remake since it reuses everything from this game.
I played Dead Souls once and it was honestly very fun. The interactiions between the characters are some of the best in the series, especially with Majima, even exploring his relationship with Daigo. The gameplay is alright, the zombie design pulls heavily from Left 4 Dead with some of them being 1:1 copies, but its the only game where you get to drive around Kamurocho in a forklift so the game's worth it.
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane
After being asked to make a Dead Souls video for 2 and a half years I finally did it but I still haven't played it so if you want to complain you can send your complaints in the form of a working PS3 that optionally comes with working PS3 controllers so I don't have to use the dogshit 3rd party one I bought from EB Games and then you can also give me an English copy of the game because I only have the Japanese one because I got it for $9 when I was in Japan as opposed to buying it for like $150 off eBay thanks :)
^ Don't actually do any of that
Honestly I think out of all the games,Dead Souls has the best out of the playable characters. Kiryu,Majima,Akiyama and even Ryuji all being playable is just awesome.
As someone who recently got done with this game, there’s a few takeaways I can see from it.
1. This game, while not having the best controls, is still incredibly fun, and the typical Yakuza-like tone of the story and dialogue makes it an absolute treat to play through.
2. I feel like if this game was to be released nowadays on Xbox, PS4, and PC, with a smooth frame rate and at least a 1080p resolution, it would be so much more fun and accessible than having to play it on the PS3 with less than 20 FPS. It genuinely feels like a remaster would do this game Justice.
Managed to play this recently. Honestly if it was kb+m it'd be a lot better. Also a consistent framerate. Has the same issue as MGS4 does on the ps3. That being said the story was so over the top and goofy that it was really enjoyable. Especially the ending. The ending has stuck with me.
not sure why they didn't just have you punching zombies instead.
I loved how much majima DS gave us
the crashing got fixed in rpcs3 you gotta turn on "force CPU blit emulation" in the debug tab
^^^^^^^^^^
It only crashed to 2 times after that
I emulated Dead Souls! I absolutely loved it, but yeah the game might crash if a new update for the emulator rolls out and dead souls doesn't like it. Had to revert to an older version of the emulator because it kept crashing, but it was a smooth and extremely fun time! One of my favorites
Tbh, the stuff you complained about with the localization is stuff I still hear in the "better localized" games. For example in Yakuza 0, you often hear people say "Kuze-aniki" and the text reads "Lieutenant Kuze". Or I was just playing Yakuza 4 Remastered and Akiyama and Kido are talking about dreams, and Kido says "Yume...." to himself (dream) and the subtitles say "Like what?" instead as a response to something Akiyama said. Saejima will say "Kyoudai..." and the subtitle will say "Hamazaki..."
Expecting word for word literal translations is a fool's errand. That's not really how localization works.
I appreciate this game if anything just to see Yakuza canonically unhinged rather than it being limited to the substories.
I really wish this got a remake with smoother combat and all-platforms availability, along with normal subtitles. It's a lot of fun.
dead souls ost literally goes so hard, its criminally underrated.
this is the best game in the series simply bc we can become homies with ryuji
"Do not wish for easy lives my friends. Pray to be stronger men"
This made me a dead soul enjoyer
Best yakuza game 💯💯
Jonathan Ferguson being on screen in a non Jonathan Ferguson video brings me joy.
i mean the game gave us Majima's Get To The Top, that's like an easy S+ alone
This is my most replayed Yakuza game and the only one I ever got the platinum trophy in
I will not be taking any questions
Why no questions?
I didn't bother doing the subterraneum or whatever it was called and farming it for days to fight one of the must bullsh-t versions of amon
the game is fun tho, definitely should get a remake/remaster
I been playing it on my ps3 its so fun, love that u get 2 aiming modes, ive always loved zombie spin-off games.
One of my favorite yakuza games thus far.
I'm currently playing early Y5, so I still don't have a full picture of the entire franchise. But god did I enjoy this game. I played it on a RPCS3 like you did, and had crashes too. It's such a shame I had to rush it and not do many substories because good lord was the content good.
The substories are silly, you get to play with characters never playable before, the OST goes SUPER HARD and the gunplay really isn't as bad as youd think once you try it out.
Not only that, but the game has powerful scenes too. It's not usual to see Kiryu lose twice in a row. He was forced to run away and intentionally "kill" someone. Really shows how the main cast would react angainst impossible odds and what would they do with their back against the wall.
If you haven't played this and you manage to get yourself a copy of this game, do it. You will not be disappointed.
Also, fuck IGN.
It felt more like Dead Rising than a Yakuza game
btw in judgment theres a minigame in club sega thats literally just dead souls (plus in rpcs3 you can make dead souls look like a remasterd game and also make it run well but it still crashes)
Love the thumbnail
CHALLENGE FINDERS ROY APPEARANCE!?!??!?!1?!?
Thanks to the Majima karaoke in this game
the first minute i expected "how can you see into my eyes" at any moment
Just wanted to add a little bit that was missed
Dead Souls has two references
The first being the Majima Everywhere but in Judgement, if you go to the massive Club SEGA, There is a game there called Kamu Of The Dead which has remastered/HD Modelled graphics and models of Kamurucho and the Zombies.
It's also a Light-gun game so it's two references in one, a Dead Souls reference and a House Of The Dead reference
The arcade also has the four main bosses from Dead Souls in it, it's just missing the Dead Souls story
Yakuza Dead Souls gives insane Ninja Blade vibes, thats why I liked the game alot.
every time i watch one of your videos i become more convinced that you are some alternate reality version of me from australia
One of my favorite Yakuza
Can't concentrate on video I got jumpscared by my old managers.
That thumbnail is hilarious 😂
Funny how TH-cam decides to crash when I watch THIS video
Still waiting for RGG to make Dead Souls Kiwami
Leon hyped asf right now.
The subtitle part killing me lol.
I never knew they replaced Bahh Bahh Blacksheep with Rainbowsheep. I’m so lucky I grew up with Black sheep and not that.
Snowiest finally made a video about Dead Souls.
Only took me two and a half years lol
@@SnowiestAngeman and you didn't get to play it as the cherry on top
excited for the tale of Yume soon
Running through Dead Souls now, this game could easily find an audience with some tweaks.
It almost kinda plays like the Wii Dead Rising which.... Isn't really a compliment but there is some similarities
Tighten up the aiming, adjust how item pick ups work, fix the damn frame rate, and give it a proper localization
A Dead Souls Kiwami while probably wouldn't sell like current Yakuza titles, but I guarantee the fans would appreciate it as they already somewhat appreciate what we have now.
It's really not a terrible game it just needs more time in the over
I actually played and finished the story mode of this game with my friend on RP3 on the Pc. It’s a pretty good spin off and remind me of arcade shooter games like “House of the Dead.” We did have to mess with the settings of RP3 for a bit to play it, but it played very smoothly afterward.
When it gets to the credits and you see the credits going through old games you realize that they definitely thought 4 was gonna be the last game which is funny to look back on and i feel like people look over things in this game that carried over what definitely carried over to 5 is parts of the map for sure heck even still has the single restraunt in the underground mall lile 5
dead souls isn't the first game where majima is playable, see the ultimate matches from Kenzan that did the interesting thing of letting you play as bosses against other bosses (including the final boss vs musashi) so technically it'd make 2.55 games where majima is playable
Fun fact: Dead Souls actually did get a few soundtrack remixes... in Project X Zone 2.
The loading screens were long as hell like seriously it's ridiculous
Confession time: This was the first Yakuza game I played...I'm not kidding.
I didn't know about the series at the time and was just looking for something to scratch that zombie itch. Looking back now, I'm glad I played it because the main series itself is just as fun.
REALLY wish it got a remaster or a "Kiwami" style remake, but considering that RGG studios poked fun at Dead Souls in 0 and Kiwami 1, they likely want to pretend this never happened.
One reason I'd love to have Dead Souls properly localised and remastered to fix those two sections (the forklift certified Ryuji and Kiryu in a tank) is because the game is very fun to play around with, doing all the side stuff, minigames, dateable zombies even. There is a lot to love about this game and I honestly hope RGG picks it up some day as well as Kurohyou.
Edit: Forklift Section is bad because you have exact amount of fuel you need to complete it and if you do one mistake, you have to start over which sucks ass.
Kiryu tank section is so bad that most of the time you will end up restarting the mission until you get that one perfect run to finally complete it.
I've only played this for a SEGA Charity Livestream, And while the gameplay is booty cakes, Majima's introduction in the game is the funniest shit I've ever seen in the entire series. Some fun story elements, But man that gameplay though.
Man and this was AFTER you said to not listen to me and to play Dead Souls hahaha
I'm pretty sure the first "new" localization was from Yakuza 5's first worldwide release in 2015
this is RGG the game that I'm kicking myself the most for not picking up back then
I love this game. The worst parts are the frame rate and the stiff aiming mode, but if it was remastered with better controls and decent performance, it could be an all-time classic.
I wish RPCS3's compatibility tracker was more up to date. It says Dead Souls is "Playable" (which is RPCS3's highest rating), but that's from a 2021 test. Now I hear you saying the game doesn't play nice with newer versions of RPCS3. What a bummer. I really wanted to try this game.
I recently ran through it in RPCS3 and the game does work, but will periodically crash still. Be sure to save often and check the wiki page for which settings need to be turned on to improve stability.
Yakuza is canon to the Dark Aether story
the hot secks scene of majima and daigo in drag was worth maxing the game
I've been trying to play through Dead Souls recently (on actual hardware) and yeah... I also get hit with nausea at points
I would love if Sega gave this game the Kiwami makeover! I played it back in the day via Gamefly and it was fun!
This game did a lot of things before any other game in the series did them. Sometimes it's only things my girlfriend and I care about, like riichi music in mahjong, but _sometimes it's playable Majima singing karaoke._ Also the big cheese himself, Gouda Ryuji, whose arm is...well, yeah, it's a great game.
It also controls fine. The controls are _weird_ but they're not _bad._ There's three aiming modes, which sounds unnecessary, but it's pretty fun once you get used to it. The game can get janky on stairs and some other situations, and the frame rate is, like, 5, but I will always love this game.
I legit want this to get a remaster on PC. Not just because it’d be cool to play this game with mouse and keyboard, but I think the performance could drastically be improved on better hardware.
Rpcs3 crashing on everyone
Meanwhile Imontheedgeofmyseat:
Playing dead souls on my steam deck!
I might be the weird one but Dead Souls was actually my first Yakuza game lol 😅😂
basically yakuza if they just repurposed dead rising
Best yakuza game, best zombie game
when an average zombie shooter is the worst in a series...you know the series is great
Fun fact, the PS3 localized version of 5 dosent even have the names translated for the fighters in the Legendary Arena GP, as long as having all the protag's fighting styles be labelled as "street fighting" when thats barely true for the characters other than Shinada
TALK ABOUT NON BINARY DOMAIN WHICH WAS DEAD SOULS 2
Hello Mr. SnowiestAngeman, what are your top 5 games of all time.
I own this game and I don't think it's that bad but It was repetitive playing same missions however there's still enjoyment to find
One of the few shooters I like cause it doesn't (most of the time) make you go into first person.
Dead Souls isn’t even that bad, they honestly don’t even need to change much in a remaster. Just make the framerate consistent, allow fast travel around the quarantine zone, you have a pretty solid title.
Something I find absurd is how some people insist that the game is hot garbage, just to say "I don't know, I never played it."
But at the very least, you're not being biased like these people. Back on the PS3, the game had few performance issues, especially around highly populated areas, but otherwise it was fine. The aim system was stiff, but to be fair, it was pretty much a first since previous Yakuza game didn't exactly focus on aiming guns and what not.
The reason the story was over the top, was because it was meant to be the final game in the franchise, as evident by the beautiful credits scene showing casing every game to that point..... Then Yakuza 5 popped up.
The story is quite decent, but the comedic elements are toned down to make the story more serious. But there's plenty of comedy, especially in the Substories. Other than that, the story can use some polish here and there.
The game was very creative with how the threat of the zombies got overtime; You start with a small sealed off section of Kamurochu being infected with zombies, but as the story progress the infected areas become bigger and bigger, to the point where most of the map is consumed by the zombies.
The variety of enemies was also decent, from the annoying Hostess zombies that screech and call in zombies, to the mutant freaks that pose a mini-boss level threats.
But my biggest gripe with the game and especially translated games in general is how the English translation teams usually take way too many liberties, and write things that either make so sense or make characters act out of character.
You didn't even mention the best and only thing people actually care about in Dead Souls
Majima's "Get To The Top"
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I don't know about that, Battlefield 4 had 107 weapons and that worked out well enough.
2042 need MORE guns!
Yeah nah you're not wrong. 2042 definitely has more guns than I have though that's for sure
I tried emulating Dead Souls a few months back and constantly fucking fought with the game to make the crashes stop. Gave up after losing several hours due to not being able to save. Didn’t find out this was a whole issue until I watched this. Go figure
I bought it from the PS3 PSN store a couple years back. I thought it was fun.
About RE Revelations, I played it on 3DS in like 2016 and spent the entire time kicking myself for not playing it sooner. Of all mainline REs, Rev on the DS isnt even a mainline game yet it still stacks up right next to RE5 for me; of you liked the Lost in Nightmares DLC in RE5 Gold - Rev is like that, but like 6-8hrs longer with more old school enemies and more lore than a little inconsequential side story ever needed. Less content than a console game, yeah, but it was the return to form that I needed to see after RE6 killed the series for me. Completely won me back.
Just finished this video after finishing Dead Souls and yeah, alot of this sounds about right tbh.
I did emulate this game though, so I didn't get any of the performance problems that I noticed was present when I played it on the ps3.
Emulating this game is probably a good way to go, but you do have to mess around with some settings so it doesn't crash every 2 minutes as you mentioned.
It is fun, the controls are jank, the story is quite good, but not as impactful as other stories as it's not meant to be taken as seriously. The bosses range from piss easy to incredibly annoying, especially that one boss with Kiryu and Akiyama. Overall, fun amd enjoyable game with some sections feeling like a slog to play through, especially on replays and in my honest opinion does deserve some sort of remake or ramaster.
if the game crashed on you so many times you haven't set up the rpcs3 properly, check the wiki options - in 60 hours got only crashed twice
Does anyone know how to emulate this game? RPCS3 crashes every couple seconds trying to get past the game's title screen, it's a real pain
I'd 100% play it if it wasn't stuck on the PS3.
You made the video for the sake of making a video.
If this game get a Kiwami remake, the need to do it like Dead Rising instead of Resident Evil cause Dead Rising is pretty much closer to Yakuza in terms of combat gameplay
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin retrospective next??????😮
Would honestly love to do a video on it lol