Fatal Fury 3 [Arcade] - play as Ryuji Yamazaki

This is a playthrough using Ryuji Yamazaki in the Arcade version of Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory. Read on below for more information...
Yamazaki is the mid-boss of the game. He is a non-selectable character in the Neo-Geo MVS version of it.
===== ABOUT YAMAZAKI =====
As one of the Hakkesshu (that's the Orochi fighters), he is somewhat "important" to a degree in the KOF storyline... he is one of the more popular villains of the KOF series due to his "gangster" like design and background.
===== FIGHTING STYLE =====
Probably the most well-known "one-hand-in-pocket" fighting game character... although Jotaro Kujo might like to have a word these days.
As he is one of the Orochi warriors, he has an array of 'Orochi-type' moves (fast-blurred slashing moves, etc.)... he is known for the snake "motif" in which his fighting style has.
===== TECHNICAL INFORMATION =====
---- On the character select screen, his "portrait/icon" position is at the top next to Geese to his right. Obviously as an non-selectable character, you won't normally see this and the position is not normally accessible.
---- When playing as him in a 1P game, you do not get the Yamazaki "accident" fight midway through the route.
---- When playing as him in a 1p game, you do not get any pre-fight cutscenes, such as the ones with Yamazaki and Chonshu at the end.
---- If you beat the game with him, he does not have an ending.
---- Despite being a non-selectable character, he actually has an alternate colour palette.
---- Despite being a non-selectable character, he operates perfectly on the Continue screen and can appear on the name entry screen.
---- Between matches, on the map screen when he "travels", his icon and it's animation may be a bit strange.
===== TRIVIA =====
---- The debut game of Ryuji Yamazaki.
---- Unlike most of the other members of the Orochi clan, he does not care about the issue of Orochi's (his would-be master) resurrection.
---- He does not really acknowledge or care about his Hakkesshu status.
---- His hairstyle is almost the same as Goenitz's one. It is not known on whether this was intentional though.
---- In some of his appearances in other fighting games where he isn't a mid-boss or boss, as a CPU opponent he tends to be a bit harder to defeat than other characters. An example of this is in Capcom vs. SNK 1. This may be a reference to his past as a boss character.
===== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION =====
---- The game is known as Garou Densetsu 3: Haruka-naru Tatakai in Japan.
---- Some other fighting game characters, such as Sol Badguy, Rouga Zanma and Jotaro Kujo, also fight with one hand in their pockets. Sol and Rouga are not as extreme of course, as their hands are not superglued into their pockets.
===== CHAPTERS =====
00:00 - Intro, Title, Character Select, Opponent Select
01:03 - Regular fights, 1st set
09:04 - Regular fights, 2nd set
20:18 - Loss, Continue screen , Character Select screen
20:38 - Regular fights, 2nd set
25:17 - vs. Ryuji Yamazaki
27:52 - vs. Jin Chonshu
30:12 - vs. Jin Chonrei
31:55 - Staff/credits
34:37 - Name entry/Rank

[@nickjames4142]

Damn that map travel screen is so 😂😂😂

[@Markworth]

These were the days. Cool game. Cool character. IIRC, Yamazaki and Geese are the only characters on the roster with non-native Chinese language skills. Also, the best excuse for Geese existing in KOF canon is him winning in this game. So yeah. Thanks, Fatal Fury 3.

[@SaikyoKoutei]

Its a mystery why he just threw away the scrolls, they dropped that plotline or he did use it and maybe the "immortality" that it brings its not what we thought? I am unfortunately a bit of a hater of the new SNK after XIII so I don't trust them with the Garou storyline after the XIV/XV plot even if they are just revisiting some abandoned concepts from 1998, 1999...

[@ZeroYame]

also he was "somewhat" sane before going full crazy in KoF

[@ryan2t4]

The Yamazaki first appearance

[@greensun1334]

Indeed, but he also appeared in KOF95, but not as character, he only stood in the crowd of the Japan stage and watched the fights! I don't know what game came first, both are from '95...

[@Saruman38]

That's weird. I thought the forest variation of Delta Park only appeared when you only fight Chonshu and not Chonrei. Is it because Yamazaki is not supposed to be playable, so it kinda messes things up a bit?

[@SaikyoKoutei]

But yeah you can see that they planned to more characters being unlockable having an icon in the map screen and a player 2 color but there was an earthquake in 1995 or something that made SNK rush the game to the market or something right?

[@X2011racer]

They were eventually playable in Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol.1, which contains this game.

[@hasi706]

I've never heard of this earthquake before but I wouldn't be surprised. SNK had quite an ambitious story planned for this game that they seemed to struggle with realizing in the game proper

[@BComet]

1:04 Yamazaki? 😳

[@PAINNN666]

He is not from hakkeshu

[@deafmelonex6983]

ye he is, what makes you think he isn’t?

[@PAINNN666]

@@deafmelonex6983 Maybe I think that because he doesn't care about riot of blood. He is crazy enough to be not affected by Orochi blood.

[@SaikyoKoutei]

He is from hekkeshu...in the KOF series, in Fatal Fury he is just a goon :v , it was a fun retcon because they probably forgot to draw the missing one of the heads of orochi or some plan fell trough but yeah in FF it just a coincidence his attack have some "snake motif".

[@PAINNN666]

@@SaikyoKoutei He bеhave like a snake himself. So nothing new. At least he pull out(?) his tongue