For some context: the reason that the main characters in the Yakuza games canonically don't kill anyone (or, at least, don't kill anyone except in self-defense) is because the creator of the series emphatically does not want to promote crime or make it seem like killing people is cool. This is also why the characters never initiate fights on their own, they only fight in self-defense or on behalf of someone else, because if they did it would go counter to that message.
Really? I kinda figured it was more a translation thing, where it was actually "Kiryu never MURDERED anyone." I dunno how many of you remember the original RDR, but "there's a difference between killing and murdering."
@@TacticalHatchet Nah, other yakuza members actually make fun of Kazoo in some games in the series because he is in organized crime but never kills anyone. I guess they wanted to romanticize the idea of a rogue sympathetic "bad guy" who cares about being honarubrrruu above all else even tho he is in fact in a criminal organization..and also not promote murder probably 🤷♂
@@TacticalHatchet That's basically what I meant. Kiryu has killed people to defend himself or others, but he's never killed in cold blood or murdered. But there was a mistranslation and got memed into KIRYU HAS NEVER KILLED ANYONE and now it's just a part of the general mythology of the series.
The Yakuza creator explicitly wanted the series to not be like GTA with killing people and even driving vehicles (also so the players can't run over people). Beside lore reasons, he wanted the players to immerse themselves with the culture of Japan and being a GTA character prevent that. He was so uncompromising on his vision of Yakuza that when the higher ups worried the game wouldn't sell outside of Japan for the differences in culture, thinking of cancelling the project... that the creator straight up bet his career on it success, that he would resign if the game failed.
It's a big plot point that Kiryu the protagonist get's framed for murder and wastes 10 years in prison because of that one death, so if he went around killing people casually that plot point and few others would fall completely flat. Goro Majima on the other hand (eye patch guy) only doesn't kill in this prequel, this game tells the tragic story of why he's batshit insane in all of the other games.
@@ChicagoReacts even eyepatch guy loves that for eyepatch guy! hes not /driven/ insane in this game, he /chooses/ to become a completely unhinged weirdo.
Well... Unless i'm remembering it wrong Majima was already known as the Mad Dog before we meet him in Yakuza 0 as a host. He was just trying to lay low and leave that life until he was pushed back into it, then embraced it moving forward. I may be wrong but pretty sure I remember when he goes nuts someone says something like "oh shit, it's the mad dog", implying he was already known but enough time had passed for him to not be recognized at first
@@ragnar97 I thought he only gained the mad dog title after killing his teacher, who was the previous holder of the title and fighting style, In this game.
@@SpiritOfSpite You made me look it up hahaha "His chronological first appearance is in 1985, at age 20, when he was a member of the Tojo Clan's Shimano Family and was oath brothers with Taiga Saejima" "His unpredictability, ferocity in combat, and accomplishments as the captain of the Shimano Family earned him the nickname "The Mad Dog of Shimano" "Yakuza 0 takes place from December 1988 to January 1989" There you go, Majima was trying to lay low/ live his life untill the events of yakuza 0 pulled him back in and once that happened that was it, he embraced who he was
In Yakuza 6, Several of NJPWs iconic wrestlers decide to join this mafia business and what's even better, they're voiced by the actual wrestlers. Only downside, Okada's rainmaker is not a OHKO. This series is absolutely redicious and glorious and i want it downloaded into my brain yesterday.
Yakuza 0 and tehsnakerer's Yakuza retrospective series caused me to spend well over 2 years 100%ing the whole series on my XSX. On one hand: an amazing time with some absolutely fantastic games On the other... GOD DAMN THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO!
While Kiryu and most of the protaganist are technically yakuza they are suppose to be the good guy so no killing. Killing is what the bad boys do. No heroic bloodshed in this lol.
Hey, I know you are more inclined to listen some fun music from one funny british, Loren. Would you like to check The Stupendium? You can consider something more suitable to listen without context. "Rest Employed" is one of the easy one to start.
Some scenes in this video are actually taken from yakuza kiwami 1 and 2, with 2 for some inexplicable reason being made in the more modern dragon engine, with 0 and 1 not, 3, 4 and 5 were 'remastered' for PS4 and need patched to use the original music and cutscenes from their PS3 versions as there's rather obscene compression artifacting in the PC and PS4 cutscenes, yakuza 2 needs an fps/physics patch as does 3, 4 and/or 5. 0, 1 and 2 also need music patches. Also kiwami 2 actually gives some semblance of closure for majima regarding makoto, the blind woman, in the majima saga.
why is kiwami 2 inexplicable for being made in the dragon engine. the dragon engine wasnt completed until 6, after 0 was made and kiwami 1 was being made concurrently with 6
"I haven't killed anyone" Basically a game has a story and cutscenes. When you're forced to fight, you're in an 'area' of combat, like a fighting ring. Even if you snack their neck or slice something or shoot them to death, it just requires you to get their hitpoints (HP) to zero. By satisfying the requirements of 'defeating' them by beating them to 0 health, you can progress through the story/cutscene where they're still alive. "How" you defeat enemies isn't important, what's important is you finish, er, defeat them and watch the next cutscene. That's video games for ya lol
@@ChicagoReacts what about reacting to just raw gameplay, rather than a review? A review just seems like the worst thing to react to since its just a lot of talking
Because "reacting" to the game would require actual input of playing the game. And these "reaction" youtubers (aswell as twitch streamers) are just lazy fucks who like reuploading other people's content and benefiting off of it
For some context: the reason that the main characters in the Yakuza games canonically don't kill anyone (or, at least, don't kill anyone except in self-defense) is because the creator of the series emphatically does not want to promote crime or make it seem like killing people is cool. This is also why the characters never initiate fights on their own, they only fight in self-defense or on behalf of someone else, because if they did it would go counter to that message.
It also ended becoming a meme where everything the protagonists use is non lethal. Going from rubber bullets to rubber explosions.
He didn’t want to promote crime but made a game about the Yakuza?😂
Really? I kinda figured it was more a translation thing, where it was actually "Kiryu never MURDERED anyone." I dunno how many of you remember the original RDR, but "there's a difference between killing and murdering."
@@TacticalHatchet Nah, other yakuza members actually make fun of Kazoo in some games in the series because he is in organized crime but never kills anyone. I guess they wanted to romanticize the idea of a rogue sympathetic "bad guy" who cares about being honarubrrruu above all else even tho he is in fact in a criminal organization..and also not promote murder probably 🤷♂
@@TacticalHatchet That's basically what I meant. Kiryu has killed people to defend himself or others, but he's never killed in cold blood or murdered. But there was a mistranslation and got memed into KIRYU HAS NEVER KILLED ANYONE and now it's just a part of the general mythology of the series.
The Yakuza creator explicitly wanted the series to not be like GTA with killing people and even driving vehicles (also so the players can't run over people). Beside lore reasons, he wanted the players to immerse themselves with the culture of Japan and being a GTA character prevent that.
He was so uncompromising on his vision of Yakuza that when the higher ups worried the game wouldn't sell outside of Japan for the differences in culture, thinking of cancelling the project... that the creator straight up bet his career on it success, that he would resign if the game failed.
It's a big plot point that Kiryu the protagonist get's framed for murder and wastes 10 years in prison because of that one death, so if he went around killing people casually that plot point and few others would fall completely flat.
Goro Majima on the other hand (eye patch guy) only doesn't kill in this prequel, this game tells the tragic story of why he's batshit insane in all of the other games.
That's excellent! Love that for eye patch guy.
@@ChicagoReacts even eyepatch guy loves that for eyepatch guy! hes not /driven/ insane in this game, he /chooses/ to become a completely unhinged weirdo.
Well... Unless i'm remembering it wrong Majima was already known as the Mad Dog before we meet him in Yakuza 0 as a host. He was just trying to lay low and leave that life until he was pushed back into it, then embraced it moving forward. I may be wrong but pretty sure I remember when he goes nuts someone says something like "oh shit, it's the mad dog", implying he was already known but enough time had passed for him to not be recognized at first
@@ragnar97 I thought he only gained the mad dog title after killing his teacher, who was the previous holder of the title and fighting style, In this game.
@@SpiritOfSpite You made me look it up hahaha
"His chronological first appearance is in 1985, at age 20, when he was a member of the Tojo Clan's Shimano Family and was oath brothers with Taiga Saejima"
"His unpredictability, ferocity in combat, and accomplishments as the captain of the Shimano Family earned him the nickname "The Mad Dog of Shimano"
"Yakuza 0 takes place from December 1988 to January 1989"
There you go, Majima was trying to lay low/ live his life untill the events of yakuza 0 pulled him back in and once that happened that was it, he embraced who he was
Finally someone in the chicago reacts cast who can say max0r right!
Batman, spiderman and daredevil don't kill
But they will break every in your body
The cabaret minigame isn't as hard as the guy made it out to be. The signs aren't hard to learn.
Loran should totally see the My Immortal readings from Internet Historian.
As a fellow UA-cam enjoyer, I feel disgusted you even suggest that.
As a fellow fan to the channel, I absolutely agree with you.
In Yakuza 6, Several of NJPWs iconic wrestlers decide to join this mafia business and what's even better, they're voiced by the actual wrestlers.
Only downside, Okada's rainmaker is not a OHKO.
This series is absolutely redicious and glorious and i want it downloaded into my brain yesterday.
Yakuza 0 and tehsnakerer's Yakuza retrospective series caused me to spend well over 2 years 100%ing the whole series on my XSX.
On one hand: an amazing time with some absolutely fantastic games
On the other... GOD DAMN THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO!
While Kiryu and most of the protaganist are technically yakuza they are suppose to be the good guy so no killing. Killing is what the bad boys do. No heroic bloodshed in this lol.
I swear I keep seeing the yellow thing in the star next to the Chicago reacts logo and thinking its a soviet hammer and sickle.
It's a deep dish pizza, lol
@@ChicagoReacts ah! Food, the furthest thing from the hammer and sickle possible ;-
Hey, I know you are more inclined to listen some fun music from one funny british, Loren. Would you like to check The Stupendium? You can consider something more suitable to listen without context. "Rest Employed" is one of the easy one to start.
Ooh, thanks! I'll look into that!
hell yeah!
The cabaret minigame is so addictive.
Some scenes in this video are actually taken from yakuza kiwami 1 and 2, with 2 for some inexplicable reason being made in the more modern dragon engine, with 0 and 1 not, 3, 4 and 5 were 'remastered' for PS4 and need patched to use the original music and cutscenes from their PS3 versions as there's rather obscene compression artifacting in the PC and PS4 cutscenes, yakuza 2 needs an fps/physics patch as does 3, 4 and/or 5. 0, 1 and 2 also need music patches. Also kiwami 2 actually gives some semblance of closure for majima regarding makoto, the blind woman, in the majima saga.
why is kiwami 2 inexplicable for being made in the dragon engine. the dragon engine wasnt completed until 6, after 0 was made and kiwami 1 was being made concurrently with 6
@@MikeThorton well if that's the case then someone forgot to flip the particles and SSR switch for 0 and 1
I *highly* recommend playing this game on stream.
I really love the cabaret minigame, this video made look harder than it actually is
Yeah you're not supposed to grind out the whole cabaret club arc in one sitting like Max0r lmao
@@Rhyno861997 wait, you're not?
@@Rhyno861997 You're not?
@@WatermeloniusXVI I mean, I did most of it in one sitting my first playthrough, but I assumed I was in the minority lol
"I haven't killed anyone"
Basically a game has a story and cutscenes. When you're forced to fight, you're in an 'area' of combat, like a fighting ring. Even if you snack their neck or slice something or shoot them to death, it just requires you to get their hitpoints (HP) to zero. By satisfying the requirements of 'defeating' them by beating them to 0 health, you can progress through the story/cutscene where they're still alive. "How" you defeat enemies isn't important, what's important is you finish, er, defeat them and watch the next cutscene. That's video games for ya lol
please react to Battle for B.F.D.I. - Season 4a
I would love to see your reaction to "Why you should play Yakuza" from Super Eyepatch Wolf.
Cabaret Club is better than Real Estate Royale
Why react to a review of the game? How about reacting to the fame itself?
Cause that would mean I'd have to play it. And I would be terrible.
@@ChicagoReacts what about reacting to just raw gameplay, rather than a review? A review just seems like the worst thing to react to since its just a lot of talking
@@ChicagoReacts is it because you don't play those games or do you think yakuza 0 is just bad
Because "reacting" to the game would require actual input of playing the game. And these "reaction" youtubers (aswell as twitch streamers) are just lazy fucks who like reuploading other people's content and benefiting off of it
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