Akiyama is legit the only reason I was able to get through 4, there were some bits and pieces I enjoyed throughout this game but none of them pulled me into it like Mr. Sky Finance himself.
Agree. 4 is such a mess. Starts off cool, Saejima’s section is a slog and his character arc is rendered a big waste of time via rubber bullets, Katsuragi’s plot is absurd, the scene atop Kamurocho Hills is like David Cage game level stupidity, and the final boss is the worst in the series.
Some people complain about the glacial speed, and sometimes they do overdo it. That first scene with Yasuko is rough. But the fact that they're willing to let scenes breathe a little is nice. It allows for some really cool, unique storytelling (at least for a video game, which is usually a medium guilty of bombarding the player with stimulation constantly). It's a shame the overall pace of the story breaks the fucking sound barrier starting with Chapter 3. The second half of the game stops giving the story much breathing room, and the overall work kinda suffers for it.
i really like tanimura's fighting style, its my favourite in 4. At first i thought it sucked ass, but when you fully upgrade the style its the most unique one in the franchise and his grabs have i-frames, all combos lead to heat actions, long ass heat bar and that STUPID OP Square-Triangle combo
I agree his is also the most realistic fighting style out of every game in the franchise(ecxept maybe the kurhyo games havent played them) which i do like.
Saejimas character arc doesn't vanish with the plot twist, he STILL sat in prison for 25 years, he STILL thought he killed all those people, the man is scarred for life, nothing can change that Also Y4 is my favourite game right after 6, mostly because of the pacing i guess
Sure but we didn’t spend 25 years in the joint. The point is the entire game we think the guy we’re playing is a murderer. But then it turns out this dudes innocent so that effect wears off on the player.
@@albinwallen634 20 counts of attempted murder is still a serious fucking rap sheet. The game even points this out: he had the intent to kill those people. In legal terms, his mens rea (intent basically) would have been the same whether the bullets were rubber or not. Also, I feel like the rubber bullets plan being kind of stupid is intentional. It was, after all, come up with by three 20-something Yakuza dipshits who, over the course of the game, are proven to be FAR less clever than they think they are.
rubber bullets twist doesn't really ruin saejima's entire story at all, he still thought he killed 18 men for 25 years and that doesn't magically erase any regrets or feelings he had for what happened. even in 5 he goes back to jail cause he still feels responsible somewhat (and also cause tojo generally doesn't respect him getting his own family)
I don't mind the twist for Saejima, but to then pull it again with Munakata is stupid, like your yelling me Arai couldn't tell that Munakata wasn't dead at that distance, at least Saejima was in the heat of battle and didn't stop to look, Arai doesn't really have that excuse.
@@roningfroggy yeah no, the usage for munakata is pretty bad and doesn’t work. a lot of people still like shit on saejima still for the twist but its really misplaced and it doesn’t change anything about him
He was still responsible for their deaths. He incapacitated those men so that they could be murdered by the other guy 5 minutes later, it really makes no difference whether or not he actually dealt the killing blow. Saejima still showed up with the intent to kill them, and at the end of the day, they were dead because of the bullets he fired, rubber or not. I feel like the only reason they made the distinction is so they TECHNICALLY don't have any protagonists who have killed.
Idk how rubber bullets mess up the fact that Saejima intended to kill those man and had nightmares with their faces for 25 years. You miss the whole point if you think it was the fact that they were actually killed my Saejima the important thing.
I just completed Yakuza 4 for the first time. Saejima is the most overpowered character in the game. With held strong attack spin and, after getting some heat, strong attack combos you can destroy colliseum and the rest of the game in the most braindead way possible.
I'm surprised to hear how much people dislike 4's story because I really enjoyed it all the way through. Even the twists didn't feel stupid in the moment, they're well foreshadowed and told. 4 isn't one of the best in the series or anything but I respect that it tells a sprawling and complex story without having the issues 5 has with getting bogged down in details that don't ultimately end up mattering. It's complex yet focused.
One thing I'll always appreciate about 4's story is how it frames Kiryu as this absolute monster. Up until you play as him, you'll hear characters mention his name and title like it's that of a god's, and when you finally step into Kiryu's shoes one of the first things you do is rip and tear through Akiyama and Tanimura at the same time - both having displayed their immense strength through their respective gameplay segments. I feel like every game beyond 2 (I haven't played 7 by the way) doesn't do a good job at making it seem like Kiryu is truly being challenged, even with the final bosses, so I'm glad RGG took 4 as an opportunity to give us perspective into just how much of a unit he is
I'd say Kiryu was also somewhat struggling at times in 3, even more so than any other game I'd say He literally collapses after the final boss, only one other fight left him in a similar state and that was against Saejima
@@creativename1673 It's hard for me to think of times where Kiryu met his match in 3 except for the final boss. I think a core theme of 3 was to show how Kiryu's evolved into a mentor role, and that shows with a lot of the antagonists like Kanda and "CIA Agent" being weak as they are (Kiryu beat the latter multiple times, even when they were accompanied with backup). Even then a problem I have with the final boss of 3 is that he just shows up and happens to be as strong as Kiryu. With the prior final bosses, you could draw a line to where their strength came from, but 3's final boss just feels like some dude who happens to be shredded? I guess it doesn't matter if he was still a challenge for Kiryu in the end, but the point I want to make is that the challenge in that instance doesn't feel genuine
@@Lulink013 that fight ended in a draw, and I wouldn't say it's wild to assume Kiryu wasn't giving his all during that battle. I think that was mostly the game wanting to establish the strength of Kiryu's rival in that fight out of the gate, and it works without jeopardizing Kiryu's status because Kiryu still doesn't lose in the end
@@OcelotKong Joji has him winded at the end of his fight (not to mention the "if you were any younger, I would have lost" comment, coming from Kiryu himself), but there's also QTEs. Unlike the other games, he doesn't overpower people too often, with it only really being the case for Kanda and (ironically) Mine, but with fights like Tamashiro and Lau Ka Long, they clearly have him on the defensive. Also, your point against the final boss can really be applied to anyone, including Kiryu himself. Like, yeah, he's a student of an ancient martial art as of 1, but even in 0 he was already a monster with no real explanation given for it. It's not unreasonable to assume other people could reach that level if they tried.
The more I look back, the more I realize that there's always some part of the combat mechanics in each of these games that isn't properly explored enough despite being essential for most players to know especially later on. For Y6 and K2, it's all the different new moves and combos you can do in Extreme Heat Mode. For Yakuza 4 and 5, it's how each protagonist is proficient with certain weapon types that MASSIVELY ease certain boss fights that'd normally be a headache to do unarmed. Tanimura is the perfect example. I didn't know that people considered his boss fight specifically as one of the worst in the series, because I was always using weapons that he's good at, such as the tonfa. The heavy spinning attack that Tanimura does with tonfa-type weapons like the Platinum Ruler absolutely murders his final fight, but I understand if people go into it with nothing but health items and the bulletproof armor set, and then find it to be a chore because he sucks against groups without a weapon.
I went into the final gauntlet thinking "all right, I have 5 bottles for each character, I should be good". First three fights go without any issues, but I'm surprised Kiryu isn't last. "Ha, doesn't matter, the cop's grabs and parries will make it easy no matter the moveset I face!" Famous last words. I had to run circles around the group of melee guys to get a few hits in on the actual boss, then it was back to making laps... And again, and again... I had no choice since fighting a horde of grunts with a gun pointed to your head is nigh-impossible with so little healing. When the boss finally died I just had to slowly clean up the massive health bars of the guards, and it completely ruined the mood.
They really don't even let you look at Munakata funny, but with the parry invincibility upgrade and grab i-frames, it's better than other gun fights like the whole Jingu section
Now I’ve only played up to 4 so far, but my favourite part of the game HAD to be Saejima. My reasoning is that because of 0 I’m a little attached to Majima and just wanted to see Majima get a fat dub for once by getting his bro back. Plus like.. jesus christ, Saejima is soooo fucking hot 🥰 It was also really fun just piloting him around town with him going “omg I remember that”
After doing an all substory legend run of all the Yakuza games recently, I was dreading playing 4 but I actually came out really enjoying it. The combat has a flow that doesn't really get matched by some future games, the substories are mostly pretty great at giving us insight to the new characters and their personalities, and I liked the story up until Kiryu's section. It's not even the rubber bullets that are bad, everything kind of just goes wrong. But it is forgiven by The Guys™ and the finale being pretty hype.
Yakuza 4 is easily my favorite. There's something I really love about its JP intro song and new atmosphere added to the city with the rooftops, Little Asia, and subways. Also Tanimura is my favorite protagonist in the series and I really liked his original face and voice. I love his fighting style, being proficient in multiple Asian languages, and being infamous around his community. And I love his drippy blue jacket.
probably just dislike charging attacks which i understand as im not a fan of it either, but saejima was still very enjoyable In fact id say akiyama was the least enjoyable due to how strong he was
Probably more on how terrible the first two chapters gameplay was for him. Imagine being so powerful and having a bigger health tank than everybody else BUT you gotta showcase it when charged attacks might be a bad thing to do through the entire long battle because you barely had a healing item. Then after that said chapter, YOU GOTTA FACE AGAINST THE ORIGINAL PROTAGONIST WHILE KEEPING THAT SAME HEALTH BAR YOU GOT FROM THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER UNLESS YOU DIE. That's what you would call immersion breaking for first time players cause they won't know that it's a better idea to get Running Charge attack than a triple finisher for him.
Saejima's combat style itself is quite fun. I rly liked how he can bounce enemies in this game. I wish he've had more crowd control, in other words move/heat actions which hit multiple enemies cuz even Tanimura's 1 x rush + heavy combo is much better for crowd control than 90% of his moveset It's rather matter of scenarios you have to play: - long battle sequance with limited moveset in ch2, - limited exploration, - last boss of part 4 in ch4 is much faster than saejima
If nothing else, the first hour of Yakuza 4 is one of the best segments in the whole franchise. And Akiyama/Hana's version of Pure Love in Kamurocho is in contention for the best karaoke song in the franchise, too.
I have to replay 0 to see how i feel about it, but i think that 4 might be my favorite! Aside from Yasuko, the cast was stellar and the different fighting styles were amazing! I also liked that there was one city in the game, donno why, i kinda hated that in Kiwami 1 and ,kinda, in LAD. Akiyama into Saejima is also probably the most satisfying and well paced sequence in any Yakuza game for me. Shame about some of the aspect of the story that are bad, people gravitate towards that and clown on the game, but i'd rather have this story that the the big, bloated and boring mess that was Y5
Y5 was soooo bad, cut both Saejima and baseball man from the game and both the gameplay and plot have much better pacing. Neither of them contributed anything of importance. Spend more time on Kiryu and especially Akiyama, and it feels weird to say but Haruka too (with the caveat that removing Saejima and baseball man would allow more time to make Haruka's gameplay less repetitive and have more songs so we don't need to hear So Much More 50,000 times)
I actually played this game on my PS3 after Kiwami first came out and I beat it, because I got it from Playstation Plus a while back. So my playing order was in fact 0, Kiwami, 4, 5, 6, Kiwami 2, and then I played 3 when the remaster finally came out, and YES I was confused while playing 6
Gameplay and sidecontent wise this game is great. The story of the game for me is at a point of "so bad it's good" type of thing. I loved all the character introductions. The last part is mostly comedy at this point for me.
i always joked about the whole "we are the yakuza 4" type of power rangers shit, but the final script was literally that. i was laughing so much, all the dialogues were so funny like kido saying "those 4 are unbeatable togheter" and the rest
Thank you for calling out Yasuko for being the worst. Like... crying out loud, she was just garbage. She wasn't even a character, she was a walking plot device.
I'm here for Akiyama. WHY THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF AKIYAMA IN THIS VIDEO?! Just kidding... or not... Akiyama is literally one of the best characters in gaming history! And I want him in Gaiden as well. And 8, too. Akiyama or riot!
Yeah Akiyama is goated with the sauce, but Saejima is also based as hell Being able to tank everything and just explode everything on screen with 3 square + 3 finishers combo is fucking rad Love the hulking beast, Tanimura sucks, fuck Tanimura (in gameplay)
Saejimas development wasn't completely ruined by the rubber bullet plot twist, in fact I think it improved his character more Btw final clip is literally me when I reached heaven lol
So am I really the only one who doesn’t mind the rubber bullets? I mean they say in game that it is new technology of the time so I never really gave it any more thought than that
I really liked being able to parry and having the handcuff move totally remove enemies from the fight as Tanimura. Those two things made things so much more satisfying and a bit easier, but the final boss was still insanely annoying as him. Not 'Kiwami Jingu sapping all my healing items and leaving me to fight Nishiki naked with a pool noodle and a crack pipe on Legend' annoying, but annoying nonetheless. Saito was also hell as Saejima, underlevelled and unused to PC controls (PS5 controller inputs get read as other inputs, so I was cursed to adapt), and with my smooth brain, unable to get a hold of his attack patterns.
Uwu rubber bullets uwu. Nah all jokes aside the rubber bullets aren't as bad as the internet makes them seem. Don't get me wrong they're overused like hell, but they really aren't as bad as people blow them out of proportion imho.
Akiyama was the breath of fresh air I needed after the hell Yakuza 3 put me through with its inaccurate af pool controls for that plat. Id be more sad for what the Yume did to Akiyama if it weren't for Shinada being my favorite one-off character🫳 ⚾️
yeah this one was a mixed bag i found it kind of hard to give a shit about the saejima and tanimura sections even though i don't mind them as characters
I hope Akiyama comes back in Gaiden or 8 and he introduces Kiryu to his wife and it's Hana
I would legit cry, please make this happen RGG Studios 🙏
please make sky fiance the final boss of the business minigame and make it unbeatable and triggers an akiyamer bossfight
Imagine an Akiyama-Hana duo in battle
I mean, Hana has been shown to be capable of kicking ass like, twice maybe or more
Tanimura comes back and introduce Nair as his wife
@@edqwert6704Shinada will come back and announce he has NO BITCHES
The finale really tells us what it means like to be the "Yakuza 4"
For me, he carried the final battle by pulling the Sudo-Date move
Akiyama is legit the only reason I was able to get through 4, there were some bits and pieces I enjoyed throughout this game but none of them pulled me into it like Mr. Sky Finance himself.
Nothing like Sky crimes
same! It was very good that they started the game with his part bc if it started with any of the others, it would have been very exhausting
Agree. 4 is such a mess. Starts off cool, Saejima’s section is a slog and his character arc is rendered a big waste of time via rubber bullets, Katsuragi’s plot is absurd, the scene atop Kamurocho Hills is like David Cage game level stupidity, and the final boss is the worst in the series.
Angeman was so hellbent to roast the story that he forgot to mention the newly added rooftops and underground sections or the new minigames
3:39 i immediately noticed the improvement in cutscenes. they’re much more patient and artistic compared to the previous three games
Some people complain about the glacial speed, and sometimes they do overdo it. That first scene with Yasuko is rough. But the fact that they're willing to let scenes breathe a little is nice. It allows for some really cool, unique storytelling (at least for a video game, which is usually a medium guilty of bombarding the player with stimulation constantly).
It's a shame the overall pace of the story breaks the fucking sound barrier starting with Chapter 3. The second half of the game stops giving the story much breathing room, and the overall work kinda suffers for it.
WE ARE THE YAKUZA 4
🕴🏼🕴🏼🕴🏼🕴🏼
*SELFISH DEED IS NOT FREEDOM*
Can't adjust a feeeeeeeeee 🎶
Akiyama my beloved.
Rubber bullets my not-beloved.
Ah yes, Akiyama. The homeless himbo who is also a billionaire.
himbo applies hes stupid and goodlooking, neither is true.
I like how you used music specifically from Tekken 4, Shin Megami Tensei IV, and Persona 4 on a video about Yakuza 4
Mista hates him
we stan the only yakuza character to suffer the adverse effects of smoking ❤❤❤
UPDATE: Oh
Rip kiryu
I am fairly sure 5 also had one.
This did not aged well djdjdj
Just great content! Keep it up man!
I SHALL thank you very much :)
I loved when tanimora said "we are the yakuza 4" and was accused of useing drugs
i really like tanimura's fighting style, its my favourite in 4. At first i thought it sucked ass, but when you fully upgrade the style its the most unique one in the franchise and his grabs have i-frames, all combos lead to heat actions, long ass heat bar and that STUPID OP Square-Triangle combo
I agree his is also the most realistic fighting style out of every game in the franchise(ecxept maybe the kurhyo games havent played them) which i do like.
heres the kicker
Saejimas character arc doesn't vanish with the plot twist, he STILL sat in prison for 25 years, he STILL thought he killed all those people, the man is scarred for life, nothing can change that
Also Y4 is my favourite game right after 6, mostly because of the pacing i guess
Sure but we didn’t spend 25 years in the joint. The point is the entire game we think the guy we’re playing is a murderer. But then it turns out this dudes innocent so that effect wears off on the player.
@@Gxmb1t His actions still resulted in 18 deaths, he murdered them, even if indirectly
@@dantetouchdown9030i guess but its very annoying that every playable characther is a never killed anyone type of Guy except majima.
@@albinwallen634 20 counts of attempted murder is still a serious fucking rap sheet. The game even points this out: he had the intent to kill those people. In legal terms, his mens rea (intent basically) would have been the same whether the bullets were rubber or not.
Also, I feel like the rubber bullets plan being kind of stupid is intentional. It was, after all, come up with by three 20-something Yakuza dipshits who, over the course of the game, are proven to be FAR less clever than they think they are.
@@HollowGolem thats true.
rubber bullets twist doesn't really ruin saejima's entire story at all, he still thought he killed 18 men for 25 years and that doesn't magically erase any regrets or feelings he had for what happened. even in 5 he goes back to jail cause he still feels responsible somewhat (and also cause tojo generally doesn't respect him getting his own family)
Exactly. I can’t wait to see what he’s up to in 8. Hopefully he’s out of jail lol and thriving alongside Majima.
@@MrRobertGillannah jail is Saejima's limiter
I don't mind the twist for Saejima, but to then pull it again with Munakata is stupid, like your yelling me Arai couldn't tell that Munakata wasn't dead at that distance, at least Saejima was in the heat of battle and didn't stop to look, Arai doesn't really have that excuse.
@@roningfroggy yeah no, the usage for munakata is pretty bad and doesn’t work. a lot of people still like shit on saejima still for the twist but its really misplaced and it doesn’t change anything about him
He was still responsible for their deaths. He incapacitated those men so that they could be murdered by the other guy 5 minutes later, it really makes no difference whether or not he actually dealt the killing blow. Saejima still showed up with the intent to kill them, and at the end of the day, they were dead because of the bullets he fired, rubber or not. I feel like the only reason they made the distinction is so they TECHNICALLY don't have any protagonists who have killed.
0:47 "a big hulking brute with disgusting hair" is funnier than it has any right to be
his hair was so fucking bad
Saejima took it personally and became bald for the rest of the series
This one is my favourite of the remastered series
Idk how rubber bullets mess up the fact that Saejima intended to kill those man and had nightmares with their faces for 25 years. You miss the whole point if you think it was the fact that they were actually killed my Saejima the important thing.
I just completed Yakuza 4 for the first time. Saejima is the most overpowered character in the game. With held strong attack spin and, after getting some heat, strong attack combos you can destroy colliseum and the rest of the game in the most braindead way possible.
saejima just kills things and liters only struggles in prison break
Bc he didnt train doing that bs digging crap @@ri_c_e
@@ri_c_e Once I discovered Triple charge finish it was OVER for all enemies
My name is Akiyama, yo.
*Boom*
I am the Lifeline of Kamurocho, yo.
*Boom*
Uh-huh.
*Boom*
YUME
*BOOM*
I'm surprised to hear how much people dislike 4's story because I really enjoyed it all the way through. Even the twists didn't feel stupid in the moment, they're well foreshadowed and told. 4 isn't one of the best in the series or anything but I respect that it tells a sprawling and complex story without having the issues 5 has with getting bogged down in details that don't ultimately end up mattering. It's complex yet focused.
Yakuza 4 was the first Yakuza game I played back in 2011 and it introduced me to the series so it’ll always have a special place in my heart.
One thing I'll always appreciate about 4's story is how it frames Kiryu as this absolute monster. Up until you play as him, you'll hear characters mention his name and title like it's that of a god's, and when you finally step into Kiryu's shoes one of the first things you do is rip and tear through Akiyama and Tanimura at the same time - both having displayed their immense strength through their respective gameplay segments. I feel like every game beyond 2 (I haven't played 7 by the way) doesn't do a good job at making it seem like Kiryu is truly being challenged, even with the final bosses, so I'm glad RGG took 4 as an opportunity to give us perspective into just how much of a unit he is
I'd say Kiryu was also somewhat struggling at times in 3, even more so than any other game I'd say
He literally collapses after the final boss, only one other fight left him in a similar state and that was against Saejima
You say that but at the same time you also get to beat Kiryu's ass midway through the game, way before playing as him.
@@creativename1673 It's hard for me to think of times where Kiryu met his match in 3 except for the final boss. I think a core theme of 3 was to show how Kiryu's evolved into a mentor role, and that shows with a lot of the antagonists like Kanda and "CIA Agent" being weak as they are (Kiryu beat the latter multiple times, even when they were accompanied with backup). Even then a problem I have with the final boss of 3 is that he just shows up and happens to be as strong as Kiryu. With the prior final bosses, you could draw a line to where their strength came from, but 3's final boss just feels like some dude who happens to be shredded? I guess it doesn't matter if he was still a challenge for Kiryu in the end, but the point I want to make is that the challenge in that instance doesn't feel genuine
@@Lulink013 that fight ended in a draw, and I wouldn't say it's wild to assume Kiryu wasn't giving his all during that battle. I think that was mostly the game wanting to establish the strength of Kiryu's rival in that fight out of the gate, and it works without jeopardizing Kiryu's status because Kiryu still doesn't lose in the end
@@OcelotKong Joji has him winded at the end of his fight (not to mention the "if you were any younger, I would have lost" comment, coming from Kiryu himself), but there's also QTEs. Unlike the other games, he doesn't overpower people too often, with it only really being the case for Kanda and (ironically) Mine, but with fights like Tamashiro and Lau Ka Long, they clearly have him on the defensive.
Also, your point against the final boss can really be applied to anyone, including Kiryu himself. Like, yeah, he's a student of an ancient martial art as of 1, but even in 0 he was already a monster with no real explanation given for it. It's not unreasonable to assume other people could reach that level if they tried.
Yakuza 4 is currently part of the Humble Choice lineup
The more I look back, the more I realize that there's always some part of the combat mechanics in each of these games that isn't properly explored enough despite being essential for most players to know especially later on. For Y6 and K2, it's all the different new moves and combos you can do in Extreme Heat Mode. For Yakuza 4 and 5, it's how each protagonist is proficient with certain weapon types that MASSIVELY ease certain boss fights that'd normally be a headache to do unarmed. Tanimura is the perfect example. I didn't know that people considered his boss fight specifically as one of the worst in the series, because I was always using weapons that he's good at, such as the tonfa. The heavy spinning attack that Tanimura does with tonfa-type weapons like the Platinum Ruler absolutely murders his final fight, but I understand if people go into it with nothing but health items and the bulletproof armor set, and then find it to be a chore because he sucks against groups without a weapon.
ya i went in with a half broken spicy knife and a few heals lol
At least Yakuza 4 doesn't end with aliens like Yakuza 3 did.
As a Yakuza fan, I just loved every single moment of it. My favorite is still 5, though I've played every RGG game so far.
Introducing Grabkuza 4
I went into the final gauntlet thinking "all right, I have 5 bottles for each character, I should be good".
First three fights go without any issues, but I'm surprised Kiryu isn't last.
"Ha, doesn't matter, the cop's grabs and parries will make it easy no matter the moveset I face!"
Famous last words.
I had to run circles around the group of melee guys to get a few hits in on the actual boss, then it was back to making laps... And again, and again...
I had no choice since fighting a horde of grunts with a gun pointed to your head is nigh-impossible with so little healing.
When the boss finally died I just had to slowly clean up the massive health bars of the guards, and it completely ruined the mood.
They really don't even let you look at Munakata funny, but with the parry invincibility upgrade and grab i-frames, it's better than other gun fights like the whole Jingu section
Not even a mention of probably the best theme in the series
YOUR SELFISH DEED
IS NOT FREEDOOOOOM
One of my fav yakuza games to date
The first game where can fight against Kiryu.
Im so glad you put akiyama in real life in the thumbnail, would have been sad to see otherwise
The SMT4 music reminds me how much I wish Sega and Atlus would make a SMT game in the Dragon Engine, "Like A Devil Summoner"
Featuring Kiryu, from the Yakuza May Die series
Also nice work pumping these out goddamn
Now I’ve only played up to 4 so far, but my favourite part of the game HAD to be Saejima. My reasoning is that because of 0 I’m a little attached to Majima and just wanted to see Majima get a fat dub for once by getting his bro back. Plus like.. jesus christ, Saejima is soooo fucking hot 🥰
It was also really fun just piloting him around town with him going “omg I remember that”
7:42 I see you've beaten the reaper
After doing an all substory legend run of all the Yakuza games recently, I was dreading playing 4 but I actually came out really enjoying it. The combat has a flow that doesn't really get matched by some future games, the substories are mostly pretty great at giving us insight to the new characters and their personalities, and I liked the story up until Kiryu's section. It's not even the rubber bullets that are bad, everything kind of just goes wrong. But it is forgiven by The Guys™ and the finale being pretty hype.
If anyone did drugs during the creation of this game, that's gotta be yokoyama, the script screams bad crack
The worst thing is that every cutscene has a gun in it. So many times someone get shot by someone off screen.
My favorate thing in yakuza 4 is Saejima finding a mythical creature, and also Akiyama
What mythical creature?
@@albinwallen634 a kappa I believe. It's a Japanese ledgend
another day of thanking god for getting rid of the grappler moveset from this game entirely
Yakuza 4 is easily my favorite. There's something I really love about its JP intro song and new atmosphere added to the city with the rooftops, Little Asia, and subways. Also Tanimura is my favorite protagonist in the series and I really liked his original face and voice. I love his fighting style, being proficient in multiple Asian languages, and being infamous around his community. And I love his drippy blue jacket.
I never understand why people hate saejima combat in this game
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probably just dislike charging attacks which i understand as im not a fan of it either, but saejima was still very enjoyable
In fact id say akiyama was the least enjoyable due to how strong he was
Because majima fight (SPIN ATTACK)
Probably more on how terrible the first two chapters gameplay was for him.
Imagine being so powerful and having a bigger health tank than everybody else BUT you gotta showcase it when charged attacks might be a bad thing to do through the entire long battle because you barely had a healing item. Then after that said chapter, YOU GOTTA FACE AGAINST THE ORIGINAL PROTAGONIST WHILE KEEPING THAT SAME HEALTH BAR YOU GOT FROM THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER UNLESS YOU DIE. That's what you would call immersion breaking for first time players cause they won't know that it's a better idea to get Running Charge attack than a triple finisher for him.
Saejima's combat style itself is quite fun. I rly liked how he can bounce enemies in this game. I wish he've had more crowd control, in other words move/heat actions which hit multiple enemies cuz even Tanimura's 1 x rush + heavy combo is much better for crowd control than 90% of his moveset
It's rather matter of scenarios you have to play:
- long battle sequance with limited moveset in ch2,
- limited exploration,
- last boss of part 4 in ch4 is much faster than saejima
THOSE LONG DAYS PASSING BY FROM THE DOOR
I had a fever when I played Yakuza 4 and the plot made less sense that it would have normally so that sums up my experience with 4 I guess.
Akiyummer my beloved ❤
Tanimura fights like a nerd, he just does. He's like "ooh I know martial arts and pressure points and stuff"
If nothing else, the first hour of Yakuza 4 is one of the best segments in the whole franchise. And Akiyama/Hana's version of Pure Love in Kamurocho is in contention for the best karaoke song in the franchise, too.
ngl this is probably my favorite yakuza to play, its really fuckin fun
Came for the Yakuza video; stayed for the Persona 4 song at the end.
the ending where you move along with heaven from p4 is so real lmao
persona 4 gameplay at the end caught me off guard, ive been playing through it myself 😭
you are more based than i thought, good sir
I have to replay 0 to see how i feel about it, but i think that 4 might be my favorite!
Aside from Yasuko, the cast was stellar and the different fighting styles were amazing!
I also liked that there was one city in the game, donno why, i kinda hated that in Kiwami 1 and ,kinda, in LAD.
Akiyama into Saejima is also probably the most satisfying and well paced sequence in any Yakuza game for me.
Shame about some of the aspect of the story that are bad, people gravitate towards that and clown on the game, but i'd rather have this story that the the big, bloated and boring mess that was Y5
Y5 was soooo bad, cut both Saejima and baseball man from the game and both the gameplay and plot have much better pacing. Neither of them contributed anything of importance. Spend more time on Kiryu and especially Akiyama, and it feels weird to say but Haruka too (with the caveat that removing Saejima and baseball man would allow more time to make Haruka's gameplay less repetitive and have more songs so we don't need to hear So Much More 50,000 times)
@@mjc0961i understand not liking saejimas part because its a little Slow but SHINADA??? THE GREATEST GRAPPLER KNOWN TO MAN? REMOVED??? u crazy man
4 had the best upgrade system to date. Everything laid out in front of you, and you can save up for almost whatever you want immediately
akiyama was my favourite character i hope we get to play as him again especially with the new beat em up combat system some time i'd love a spinoff
babe wake up new snowiestangeman video dropped
aha akiyamer my beloved
end of the video is accurate to being there
Kicky boy game
The stab at lack of characters in Borderlands 3...I felt that.
this was truly one of the 4 games of all time
video title sums up my emotion towards akiyama
I actually played this game on my PS3 after Kiwami first came out and I beat it, because I got it from Playstation Plus a while back. So my playing order was in fact 0, Kiwami, 4, 5, 6, Kiwami 2, and then I played 3 when the remaster finally came out, and YES I was confused while playing 6
Mine was 0,k1,k1 and then 6 (yeah i was confused to) the judgement, lost judgement,3,4,5,7 and them ishin.
I like Yakuza 4 because it's got one of the hardest Majima themes in the franchise
Yakuza 4 was my introduction to the series since it was free on ps plus one month on ps3. Really glad I got the chance to get into the series
No way he didnt mention machine gun kiss
Really like these videos, wish they were a wee bit longer though
The pc controller support makes me die
Gameplay and sidecontent wise this game is great. The story of the game for me is at a point of "so bad it's good" type of thing. I loved all the character introductions. The last part is mostly comedy at this point for me.
i always joked about the whole "we are the yakuza 4" type of power rangers shit, but the final script was literally that. i was laughing so much, all the dialogues were so funny like kido saying "those 4 are unbeatable togheter" and the rest
Hey don't diss the hair!
Thank you for calling out Yasuko for being the worst. Like... crying out loud, she was just garbage. She wasn't even a character, she was a walking plot device.
RGG will be very foolish not to bring Akiyama back....I feel like that is happening.
Imo, while Yakuza 4 fixed the blocking issue, it has a grabbing issue
And I think grabbing is worse than blocking
i love yakuza 4, its my favorite yakuza game
Did I just hear the fucking SMT 4 shop theme
apolgy for bad english
where were u wen tanimura actor replaced
i was at house eating dorito when phone ring
“ps3 tanimura is kil”
“no”
I'm here for Akiyama. WHY THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF AKIYAMA IN THIS VIDEO?!
Just kidding... or not...
Akiyama is literally one of the best characters in gaming history!
And I want him in Gaiden as well. And 8, too.
Akiyama or riot!
hey 3/4s of the final boss are amazing. just uh forget that last part
AKIYOMBER!!!!
i can still hear rebellions
It’s a good song, but I get PTSD from Saito
Yeah Akiyama is goated with the sauce, but Saejima is also based as hell
Being able to tank everything and just explode everything on screen with 3 square + 3 finishers combo is fucking rad
Love the hulking beast, Tanimura sucks, fuck Tanimura (in gameplay)
Thinking back on this game, I’m pretty sure they lowered the difficulty to cover the defects.
Saejimas development wasn't completely ruined by the rubber bullet plot twist, in fact I think it improved his character more
Btw final clip is literally me when I reached heaven lol
How does it improve his characther? He went from the only protag at that point to be a killer into just another never killed anyone hero.
So am I really the only one who doesn’t mind the rubber bullets? I mean they say in game that it is new technology of the time so I never really gave it any more thought than that
I really liked being able to parry and having the handcuff move totally remove enemies from the fight as Tanimura. Those two things made things so much more satisfying and a bit easier, but the final boss was still insanely annoying as him. Not 'Kiwami Jingu sapping all my healing items and leaving me to fight Nishiki naked with a pool noodle and a crack pipe on Legend' annoying, but annoying nonetheless. Saito was also hell as Saejima, underlevelled and unused to PC controls (PS5 controller inputs get read as other inputs, so I was cursed to adapt), and with my smooth brain, unable to get a hold of his attack patterns.
Saejima has hyper armor when doing charge attacks, period.
We are yakuza 4
The yakuza game people are too afraid to admit is the best one.
Binary Domain video when??
Weiredly enough on the frames the copy of yakuza 5 remastered I didn't have the 60 fps bug
Maybe it's only a PC version thing then? I dunno I just never see anyone talk about it lol
yakuza 4 is my favorite yakuza because it's the only yakuza i have played
That’s very based actually
Dude hates Saejima a lot
Uwu rubber bullets uwu. Nah all jokes aside the rubber bullets aren't as bad as the internet makes them seem. Don't get me wrong they're overused like hell, but they really aren't as bad as people blow them out of proportion imho.
I love Yakuza 4 it's my favourite. I particularly liked it when they wiped away the entirety of Saejima's character arc all of a sudden.
i love this man whoever run this channel
Akiyama was the breath of fresh air I needed after the hell Yakuza 3 put me through with its inaccurate af pool controls for that plat. Id be more sad for what the Yume did to Akiyama if it weren't for Shinada being my favorite one-off character🫳 ⚾️
Me and u are Yakuza 4 ment for eachother
yeah this one was a mixed bag i found it kind of hard to give a shit about the saejima and tanimura sections even though i don't mind them as characters