Yakuza 1 if it was good
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2023
- Yakuza 2, the sequel that started the trend of "every Yakuza sequel is the same game in every single way, but different" except it was also an example of "sequels that go hard". Long story short, Yakuza 2 is the cooler PS2 Yakuza game.
Here’s a link to the Soundtracks of Yakuza 1 and 2 on Spotify:
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Playlist link:
• Yakuza Retrospective S...
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Songs:
Halo 2 - Peril
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Mor Ardain ~Roaming the Wastes~
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Tantal
Assassin’s Creed II - Ezio’s Family
Kingdom Hearts II - Lazy Afternoons
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Still, Move Forward! - เกม
my favourite line from daigo to kiryu was "you're yakuza two, kiryu-san"
I need my Yakuza 2, dallas
i was furious when rgg retconned that vital to the plot scene, and instead made Daigo say "You're extreme 2, Kiryu"
"you're yakuza, and i am yakuza too"
kiryu uses keyboard and mouse because he is not a real yakuza
My favorite part of Yakuza 4 was when Saejima said “What is being a Yakuza for?”
Yakuza 1's PS2 version has a romhack called Yakuza Restored which completely retranslated the entire game and puts the Japanese audio back in, it's quite a cool way to experience (or re-experience) the first game.
Is that just for the PS2 version or has that person done it for the PS3 version too?
@@SnowiestAngeman its ps2 only
Knowing the internet someone made a ps2 rom emulator for this so you’ll probably be fine
@@korhol2065 Softmodded PS3s can play PS2 ISO files so that's an alternative.
@@SnowiestAngemanI actually played the translation patch on actual ps2 hardware , it works flawlessly
Yakuza 2 is like the Xenoverse 2 of this franchise. It exists just to make the first game feel clunky to play after going back to it lol. Great video
Shout out to the Xenoverse 2 World Tournament Theme
2:03
I just realized that in yakuza 2 majima has a second eye under his Eyepatch for some reason
His eyeball isn't gone but he just can't see out of it.
What's with that Yamai 😅
I love how everybody praises the plot of yakuza games EXCEPT the fanbase of the games
Imo 1’s isn’t that great but still pretty interesting, 2 is like 4 to me but to a lesser extent.
It’s all trash in comparison to Super Mario Maker 2’s story tbh
I mean Super Mario Maker 2 does have a peak story I’ll give you that but it doesn’t hold a candle to Bad Piggies HD
Well, Y0 is by far my favorite. Perfect for an origin story.
Y1 is also great, especially if you're coming from Y0. Although it still holds up on its own.
Y2 story... well... I liked it first, they definitely spiced up some stuff to create a more complex plot. However, (personal opinion) there is one single character that their development went down the drain in the second half and ruined the ending for me. RGG yeeted them out in the next game for a reason, apparently.
And Y3, an average Yakuza story, but I'll never forget that two of my favorite characters were done dirty.
Haven't played the rest of them yet.
yeah cause "everybody" generally has only played 0 lol
2:04
Whoa hold the phone, Majima has his other eye under his eyepatch!
Or likely his other eye is white (blind)
10 years will never sound the same
if yakuza was so good why don't they make a second on-
Really enjoying these
I love these retrospectives! You are actually the best Yakuza channel out there.
Valid point tears of the kingdom goes illegally hard
Yakuza 2, The Yakuzing
I'm afraid you forgot the main reason why Yakuza 2 i more appealing to replay than Y1: The phenomenal optimisation when it comes to loading the fights; in Y2 it only takes some seconds whike in Y1 it takes about... half a minute!
It very similiar to Shenmue 2 compared to the OG, it is MASSIVELY improved.
I remember playing Y2 when I was too impatient to wait a few months for Kiwami 2 to come out. Definitely don't regret it, the Kiryu host minigame was hilarious
2:02 Majima never lost his left eye because its right there!!!!! he just wears an eyepatch because its cool!!!!!
very interesting outlook, Snowie
5:53 Was that enemy's name intentionally Shoji or is it just a coincidence?
Damn I didn’t even realise hahaha
I played Yakuza 1&2 after 0 and had a blast. I'm trying to spread the word of the PS2 titles so I turned my game footage into "cinematic experiences" on my channel. So people can experience the narratives without having to play them. I also changed things such as scene transitions, cut out alot of fluff. (Nobody wants to see Kiryu try and get into the Mahjong parlor for 20 minutes). They are projects I'm really proud of actually. Editing the fight scenes was also fun. I actually grew more appreciation for the ps2 titles as time goes on and prefer to return to them over the kiwami's. Kiwami feels like diet 0 and Kiwami 2 suffers from alot of 6's issues.
What a way to self-advertise
This is a very minor detail but I want to know if it was intentional that the dynamic intro for Nagumo was synced with the music at 4:00
John Yakuza 2
Never thought I'd see an Aunty Donna reference in a Yakuza video, but here we are
I kinda understand what you're saying about Like a Dragon not knowing how to follow up past game stories. I'm playing chronologically and i'm currently at Kiwami 2, but the Kiwami games are a remake AND a sequel to Yakuza 0 but still, so they put side content to reference the events of '88.
But it's true, RGG doesn't know how to continue character arcs. They either make them disappear or continue them without going anywhere.
Take Kiryu, they sidelined almost every major character in Y6 so the story was focused on him, his character arc was complete, they made a new protagonist and still, KIRYU STILL KEEPS APPEARING. Not that i don't love the character, i would be happy if he showed up from time to time, but the next two games he's going to be a protagonist. There's nothing more to tell in Kiryu and they still keep bringing him back.
4:38 the reflection is so fuckin crisp
My favourite part of yakuza 2 was when john yakuza fought 2 yakuza members and then shuffled all over them
I never played neither 1 or 2 (at least not to completion, I hated them because of how SLOW is to play. Loading times are attrocious)
So, this series of videos are great.
Like I say in the video I’d definitely suggest 2 over 1 ‘cause it is a lot nicer to play, but I mean no one’s gonna hurt you if you don’t… probably
@@SnowiestAngeman *Chuckles* I'm in danger.
Would it be ok if I just got yakuza 2 for ps2 first? Ive never played any of those titles and am really interested.
If yakuza 2 was kiryu getting a new shinji, a new nishiki, and a new yumi and had the beginning play out with kiryu and nu-shinji trying to get a ring for nu-yumi only for nu-nishiki to shoot dojima 2.0 and have kiryu take the fall again and basically repeat what yakuza 1 did, even to the point of having a clone of kazama called Joji for some reason, and had gameplay that was just the same collection stuff that yakuza 1 had with very minor changes, then I think the people who dislike totk wouldn't like yakuza 2.
The best yakuza game ever, right next to LaD and Lost Judgment. The gameplay and quality of directing took a massive step down in yakuza 3 imo. My only real gripe with 2's gameplay is that Quickstep canceling isnt in the main progression and you have to go out of your way to get it. Its the thing thay gives the game all its depth and allows the player to make engaging realtime choices (eg. between doing a finisher or a quickstep cancel, trying to balance your heat gague)
I played the original PS2 game and although its combat is amazing, I love bounding beyond measure so I'd hardly call 3 a step down. Sure, the enemy behaviour problems are apparent but it's mostly a problem with group fights and the bosses are some of my favourites in the series (except for Lau Ka Long, fuck him). And besides, it's an issue that's highly exaggerated by the HD remaster, because the change to 60 FPS fucked up the game's logic a fair bit.
@danielelekes6984 I can understand where you're coming from but my problem with 3 is that bounding is the ONLY thing you can do, and the heat mechanics were dumbed down. In yakuza 2 your goal was to build up heat, and stay in heat to keep the benefits like superarmor, more damage, etc. The thing that gave it depth was the fact that quickstep canceling took up a little heat, and could only be done off light attacks. It made a really fun gameplay loop of light attacking, dodging out of the way of superarmored enemies, and choosing when to do a finisher which nets you more heat and more damage. Yakuza 3 doesn't have that depth because you can only really play defensively.
@@evelynmeenan2608 I wouldn't say that, heat management can still be important, except it's sort of inverted. Whereas in 2 you were looking to stay in heat, in 3 you're looking to use up heat as soon as you could because you can only quickstep cancel while not in heat mode. Of course quickstep cancelling is a bit more niche in 3 than in 2 where you could completely break the game with it but it's still really useful for tons of tech. You'll actually see some Yakuza 3 no damagers use the calmint towel to always be able to quickstep cancel.
@@JosephJoeseph Fair enough, I suppose it just comes down to personal preference as I find 3's heat system to be unintuitive but honestly if you like it more power to ya
@@evelynmeenan2608 honestly you're very right in saying that Yakuza 2's heat system is by far the superior one, honestly I really wish you could just quickstep cancel whenever in 3 and especially in 4 where Akiyama has that exact ability but they just didn't fucking give it to Kiryu because fuck me sideways I guess. It's especially a shame in 4 where your heat generates way faster so quickstep cancelling is barely ever avialable to you as Kiryu. But I think bounding by itself is so fun and has so much depth that it alone makes up for the combat's shortcomings when compared to 2. Of course it's all up to personal taste and even I can't deny that the sound design of the PS2 original is so fucking good, especially the heat actions but the combat in general just has so much sauce, it's amazing.
Yakuza zero does a whole lot for the perception of Yakuza 1s story. Yakuza zero almost feels like it exists to explain who the like 15 people who die in Yakuza 1 actually are. For the most part I only care about the characters because they were in zero. It's so reliant on Yakuza zero for me that honestly I had a way bigger reaction to shinmano's death than I did to yumis.
Yakuza 2 Restored just came out, so you can patch the US PS2 version :)
if ryuji were to stay, ryuji would be the new “kuze anywhere”
I believe it is canon that the bomb went off at the end of the game. My personal theory is the game Devs were like "yeah that's how the series ends" and corporate was like "wtf are you doing we need to make 700 of these games'" that is the only explanation for that ending they can't of unironically wrote that thinking it was a good ending
jimmy boy when are you doing your iconic promised retrospective of every fifa game
About ToTK which you’ve pointed out, that game came 6 years after BoTW and these are annual games.
Ye like yakuza 1 and 2 came out nearly exactly a year apart. In the time it took nintendo to make totk they went from skyward sword to botw.
In 6 years they made the entirety of all the lore in botw, they made the new engine, art style, characters, models, coding, weapons and entire gameplay. But in 6 years from botw to totk all they did was add crumbs of sky areas, a couple new models, the exact same gameplay and even tried to reuse a ton of weapons too. Even the underground area was literally just a computer generated inversion of the top, it's not even something they hand made like they did with the original map when they were making botw.
its obvious that you're into the kh series too do you think you might do a video on the games? yakuza and kh are prob two of my all time fav gaming series'
Another great video as always Snowiest. Keep up the good work!
I hear ezios famiky theme song
musashi kenzan next
I actually love how RGG make each games somewhat stand-alone story-wise. It's so easy to get confused with long-running stories but RGG's games are mostly stand alone story. You can pretty much jump in on any game and enjoy that (except for 6). It's unique and I love it.
Also disagree with your statement on women characters ended up needing man to help them. Why should it be a problem? Kiryu need help too in lots of situation. Makoto, Kaoru, Haruka, Mikiko, Yasuko, Mirei Park, Seong-hui, Saeko, Kiyomi, Saori, Amasawa, Sawa, Oryo and Yuki are all good characters. This series deal with criminal underworld so it makes sense that the focus is much more centered on men. Good characters don't need to be always strong who always go by the type of "don't need help/no man" like that. Date, for example, is a good character in the series, even though he messed up a lot and needing Kiryu's help over and over again. If the only criteria for good female characters is just be strong physically, that's one dimensional. Good characters have flaws and are not perfect
I agree with this so much. Snow even goes on to say that only women screw up in this series while showing Rikiya, who died because Kiryu screwed up.
Kaoru throughout all the game wanted to find her family and to be with them, and during the finale she's heading towards Ryuji because Kiryu told her he wouldn't stop until either him or Ryuji went down. How do you NOT want her to get involved on that, when Ryuji is the last living relative she has?
@@DarkkirbyKRPG yeah I hate how contradictory his statement compared to what his video showed. This "problem" is overblown so much by journalists and some part of fanbase that they end up not looking beyond the surface levels.
big agree on Kaoru! Also on another note, Florist pretty much said that Kaoru is much more specialized in computer stuff. Sure, she's tough against low ranking yakuza patriach, but it's not her best strength. Why is it a problem when Kaoru doesn't want to fight or loses a fight when characters like Kuze or Nagumo pretty much always lose fights but somehow the fanbase claim that the men are always better characters when characters like Mikiko, Kaoru, Haruka, Mirei Park and Seong-hui are as complex as the male characters?
And it's baffling to see people comment on how the female characters are so few compared to men, meanwhile the series is rooted deep on japanese criminal underground so it makes sense that the biggest bad are always going to be men, that the focus is often about these yakuza men because it is so rare to see a woman climbing ranks in a yakuza family. Do they not know this series is inspired by the real life japanese mafia?
>It's unique
it isn't, and it's a big problem.
I love so much YK2 for good graphic, music, combat, substory and mini games, Y2 great too. Great video by the way
2:50 BET BRO, ILL SEE YOU IN A MONTH
What if I got TOTK and YK2 what do I do then?
You’re asking some real tough questions here, brother
They made a second Yakuza?
Unfortunately not. After Yakuza 1, they scrapped Yakuza 2 and instead went straight to Yakuza 3
@@SnowiestAngeman I don't believe you.
4:38 Ryuji also appeared in the yakuza 0 majima substory
You forgot
And a kiryu substory
The better equivilent of yakuza 1 vs yakuza 2 is OOT and MM since those games were exactly what you described, and they were a year apart like yakuza 1 and 2 were. If totk was released a year after botw then people would've loved it, but instead it took 6 years, the entire development time of BOTW which included things like a new engine, new art style, new mechanics, etc. But totk didn't even do a fraction of that.
Majima building shit
0:30 I see what u did there lmfao
Unrelated to yakuza, I enjoyed BOTW more than TOTK because the combat system was new in BOTW, where as in TOTK it's just the same damn system.
7:53 Ape escape 1 is avaliable in the PS store, and as someone who played it not even a year ago, its ugly as shit, but still fun.
Controversial title, but correct. The cutscenes, atmosphere, music and story are fantastic. The actual gameplay (mainly combat) sucks. It's functional
"A very smart and competent character does stupid shit driven by emotions" Bruh, that's EXACTLY what women do.
Sayama best girl btw
This video turned into "Yakuza is for men" in the halfway through lol
Ryuji died though... Didn't he??
So what you are trying to tell me is......
I should go play Tears of The Kingdom.
I feel like i'd rather y1 story but y2 did it great
About combat, y2 is much more flexible than y1 which i rlly like
Soundtracks are good, i dont mind
But one thing
Getting xp basiclally nickocado avocado
I really hope they bring Sayama back for Like a Dragon 8 considering it takes place in Hawaii and there isn't the weird beef with the new Kiwami 2 VA like there was in Yakuza 2.
They brought her back...but at what cost?
If I remember correctly, the original Sayama VA was a toxic woman which RGG didn't like, so they tried to write the character out of the story so that they don't have to work with her ever again.
I could be wrong though.
whats yakuza rgg makes monkey ball not this
Day 1 of asking Angeman to play PS Vita versions of Yakuza 0 and Ishin
I've actually played them already lol
@@SnowiestAngeman no vid :(
I like this review, except for the part about Sayama and how RGG writes women. It's not because you're wrong about that, it can definitely be a problem sometimes. But the biggest example of a man being a constant fuckup is on-screen for most of the runtime, and he just so happens to wear red and grey.
I disagree on Kaoru Sayama.
1. She's obsessive to a fault - she became a detective purely to discover her origins. There's just a lot of emotion surrounding that topic. The game doesn't hide it.
2. She puts up a facade to deal with manly men. She's good at it, and quite strong, but she's not a big tough Yakuza man who can punch through emotional pain. Maybe the game is a slight bit sexist if we want to create some power ranking... but during one of its better moments it's also saying it's good to let your hair down and be a bit girly sometimes for happiness' sake, so that's nice.
3. Relating back to 1. Even if she can be a tough girl, there's going to be one touchy subject: her family origins. And without spoiling, she discovers some wild shit. Then imagine that you're dealing with two mentally ill macho men who are on suicide missions to prove who is the biggest baddest dragon in Japan. Like seriously, even stoic Kiryu is just kind of nuts; he's self-sacrificial to a fault, which is something that angers Sayama during sad jazzy rain scene.
4. So given all of the above, it's not that crazy she went out on her own, attempting to reason with manly macho man. While reckless, I wouldn't call it completely irrational nor is it so out of character given how much Kaoru has sacrificed just to discover who her family is.
In a RGG2 Parody, there is a running joke that she is bipolar and only knows how to do things when it's convenient for the situation but then just forgets everything
Yakuza Fan better, still waiting for Forging The Dragon about Yakuza 2.
also by GOD if i dont get a badass female yakuza character that doesnt turn into a brainless sponge for drama soon im just gonna write her myself
Let’s all pray together that they don’t turn Saeko into an unimportant side character in 8 lol
I guess the closest would be Saeko in Yakuza 7. I think she was written pretty consistently throughout the game and since she's a party member she's pretty badass.
@@SnowiestAngeman dude now you got me afraid bc they might just turn her into a side love interest esp since we don't see her in the party anymore in the trailers
saeko babygirl you need a gun
@@MrDevious88 oh definitely! i guess i am just dreaming about a strong, badass yakuza woman, someone with the same vibe as yayoi dojima but actually on the streets kicking ass...
but ya know a woman can dream lol
There was certainly no 10 yrs in the joint at around 0:30.
Yakuza needs more well written female characters, because the cast of these games always feel 90% male. I hope this isn't a hot take.
Most of the female characters are good characters, in my eyes. Besides, these games revolve around the yakuza, an organization that doesn´t allow women to join directly, what were you expecting? However, now that the yakuza are no more, we can see more women emerging, as we´ve already seen.
I enjoy it’s always Xenoblade for the end card. It’s funny every time somehow.
I´d have to heavily disagree, we have way more well written female characters than not
Yakuza 1 is good though so what a nonsense title
If only my skin was as smooth as your brain Sir
Cause BOTW was bad :)
Imo yakuza 2 OG is way better than kiwami 2, maybe nostalgia play a lot in that part but kiwami 2 feels like it has less content than OG 2. I recently replayed in my ps2 and wow i still love the game while kiwami 2 i don't think i'll ever replay it, it's just not as good as OG 2. Just my dumb opinion
Bro why is everyone acting like Ryuji Goda survived , bro is dead at the end of yakuza 2 lolll, he is never returning
I feel so bizarre when I see people praise Yakuza 2 and it’s remake. They are easily the worst yakuza games for me. The story is nonsensical and impossible to care about, and all you do gameplay wise throughout the story (and most sub stories) is walk between the same two places over and over again so rgg can claim the game is really long when it’s really all just padding. The game is WAY too long for what’s actually in there. I will say that I really enjoy the combat in both versions but I straight up couldn’t finish the original because of how exhausted I was at the tedium of the main objectives.
Wow i wonder why the extremely good looking and interesting villain of yakuza 2 isnt in another canon game, would it be because he (spoilers)
Died?
Yeah but they could’ve just not killed him because they killed him in a dumb way
Wow I wonder why the extremely good looking and interesting support character Kashiwagi isn't in another canon game after 3? Would it be because he (spoilers) died?
Oh wait nevermind, he's in 7. SEGA can just decide characters aren't dead anymore. So bring back Ryuji Goda.
Thank you for touching on badly written female characters in RGG games; even lost judgment has the fridging trope & the weird fake SA, but they did a lot better with mikiko from the Kaito dlc
i hit dislike
I can’t believe you’ve done this
@@SnowiestAngeman make less stupid videos than
To be fair to sayama going to talk to her biological brother to convince him to stop probably wasn't that bad an idea, she just didn't count on the fact that kiriyu has the same tattoo as ryuji so they have to fight to the death for some reason. Also that Terreda is a psychic who arranged everything from the start alongside the other guy who was barely in the game and showed up last minute to claim the credit
Do you have a discord