In other yakuza games youre fighting to get to the main villain in the finale but this time youre fighting to get away from the main villain. Its almost like capture the flag but the dissolution letter is the flag and you have to protect watase to the police station.
Very true. I wish aizawa didn't just come out of nowhere with that twist because it was too random. Shishido actually has a good reason to be the final boss and it works SO well.
The callbacks to certain boss fights in shishidos boss fight the fist clash similar to daigo the headbutt clash like ryuji and probably more are so Cool to see referenced
The bit where Shishido cuts the chandelier is a reference to the brawl Kiryu had at Omi HQ where he swung on the Chandelier to take out a 5-6 enemy's, it was a QTE originally so you could easily fail it
@@yaqubebased1961 apparently not! though, while it isn't related to your question, there's a lot of pics online of him hanging out not only with shishido's VA, but kuze's as well. i think he was at least connected with a lot of the roles in the series before being casted.
Tsuruno's actor is Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi. He's never been in the series before, but he and Shishido's actor - Yasukaze Motomiya - both co-star in a yakuza series called Nihon Touitsu.
It’s not visible due to the camera angle, but given the design of Shishido’s tattoo (with the komainu/shishi looking down) and Kiryu’s lower position, I believe they intended to have the tattoos complement each other during their intro, like what they did with Shibusawa. In East Asian mythology, komainu/shishi statues are said to protect shrines, while dragons are associated with legendary storms - and the analogy fits Shishido and Kiryu perfectly. Always loved how RGG plays with East Asian mythology for their final bosses, and I think that fight is a standout example of how well it can work.
Oooh I get it. The statues protecting the shrines represent Shishido trying to protect the yakuza way of life while Kiryu is the storm that wants to end it. I also loved the symbolism with Shibusawa's colored dragon tattoo while Kiryus was only the outline to show Kiryu rising to his legend status as "The Dragon Of Dojima" and the dragons also facing each other as they clash. SO MUCH GOOD SYMBOLISM THAT A SENTIMENTAL MF LIKE ME LOVES 😢
Joryu and ryoma are the only playable characters that actually killed not counting dead souls. Majima hasnt had an on screen kill so he is up for debate for all we know majima hit them hard enough to become unconcious
@@bubblines it just Aizawa put him against Goda or Aizawa in terms of straight I don't hate him i liked the game a lot but the final guy for me it a let down because i was expecting nishitani not him but still A tier for me
one thing that is likely unintentional but I find awesome is that given how many time kiryu got stabbed near death him being able to parry katana feels like that's what his agent training was for
The action scenes gave me a John Wick vibe, Kiryu obviously is old and not the same invencible man anymore, specially in Shishido he almost get his ass handled. Good thing he's built like a tank, he always got back up
The final Shishido fight is probably the height of Kiryu's badassery for me, as far as cutscenes go. Taunting Shishido, catching the katana between his fucking elbow and knee, and then punching away his kicks before ending the fight - I was marking the fuck out going through that fight.
Can people admit that Kiryu is a god damn Super human now. This man tackled a man through a black granite looking wall and feel Several stories with little damage to either of them and kept fighting like they just fell out of tree. Which can kill a normal man or breka something lol 😂
Unfortunately they didn’t give us some closure about a certain other character being alive, they don’t even let you go to Survive in gaiden so hopefully there’s some conversation about it in lad8
Not really, the announcer literally says "Whose to say he's not still alive out there somewhere?" Like someone at RGG had to write that line in, have it recorded, and then put into the game. All Gaiden really confirmed is that this exact instance of Ryuji isn't real. Being that we got TWO Ryuji fakeouts, it does kinda make me wonder about what the next spinoff is going to be about...
Kiryu doubts ryuji is dead like the whole ghost of sotenbori is a teaser makes you second guess if hes even dead. Im 100% sure ryuji is dead but i mean kashiwagi is alive after 3 games so who knows
I wish the Coliseum had more throwback fights like it did in the beginning, imagine having theowback fights with like Nishiki or something, would be awesome
Unlike Batman, Kiryu doesn't have a strong "not killing anyone" code, he just simple try his hardest not to kill anyone. So if killing is the only option, then he would have done so
His name is Homare Nishitani III, whether they're related or not is redundant, he still took up his name and he's the head of the same Omi Alliance family.
@@deathbykonami5487 Yakuza 0 is literally the first yakuza game i played, and that Nishitani is not more bloodlusted than this one. We don't even know which crimes did he do before meeting Majima
seeing the long battle action sequences made me wonder... who would win? the face scanned watase 4 or the face scanned daidoji 4? (i assume theyre face scanned lol)
@@frostyprime8110 Ukita literally has a LETHAL GUN ( Agent Raita's shotgun only shoots electricity), and knows gunkata with it sooo I d assume he carries the Watase
@@messmermusicals1367 true but saigou's got that power glove looking thing so he could nuke the watase before they could do anything though the start up on that thing is quite long...
@@frostyprime8110 Ukita prioritizes shooting Saigou, Yao and his Judo can serve to Disarm/ Parry Raita and Enzen's weapons, Kubota and his crowbar can also help in deflecting Blade Strikes from Mushin/ Enzen. Sucks Sakuma fights unarmed though, it lags the Watase down...
1:01 Umbrella-Man
1:06 Shoeknife-Man
1:18 CounterStrikePlayer-Man
1:29 NotFatManNukeButItsStillADiscThatCanBombSomeone'sHouse-Man
1:35 Smoking-Man
1:53 Graagh!-Man
2:06 JapaneseGordonFreeman-Man
2:14 Daigowannabe-man
Nah, 1:29 is Fat Ant Man
1:29 he kinda looks like John Travolta if he was overweight
Shoeknife Man already had a name, it was Man in Black.
Well, this guy was more of a discounted Man In Black.
Really love how all of them are fellow cast members of Nihon Toitsu, the movie series which Shishido and Tsuruno's actors are leads
Ah yes, the seeming return of counter hook to finish Shishido off, a fitting finisher for Kiryu’s Gaiden. He indeed did not sugarcoat it.
Cutscene kiryu finally started to play like gameplay kiryu and learned how not to sugarcoat it🗣🔥
Gaiden really has the most epic final chapter in all of Yakuza in my opinion, really feels like a the End of the Tojo Clan and Omi alliance
In other yakuza games youre fighting to get to the main villain in the finale but this time youre fighting to get away from the main villain. Its almost like capture the flag but the dissolution letter is the flag and you have to protect watase to the police station.
Shishido feels like Aizawa done right
Very true. I wish aizawa didn't just come out of nowhere with that twist because it was too random. Shishido actually has a good reason to be the final boss and it works SO well.
No probably arai from 4
You know he(Shishido)is pretty much like Arai and Aizawa, and maybe Kido-Chan
Wdym that’s just Peakzawa
@MkTheFlorist that's a cool pfp brodai
Wish they added more QTEs, but the ones we got were pretty good themselves.
Agreed, more is always good in the case of Yakuza QTEs
@@devilleon7Unless you’re Yakuza 3…
Kanda…
@@CS-om3kjwhatchu mean kanda qte goes hard (literally)
@@semi__coloni bet kanda was also hard in that qte
@@CS-om3kj I was bricked during that QTE
2:21 most badass fuckin reload wtf
Seriously, it feels like we've been getting fake reloads all this time but this is fire
So glad they went back to this style of QTEs, after LJ. God, those QTEs can just be brutal...
Fucking Tesso. Never got that QTE right
Ikr. I thought I was playing Lost Judgment, not Tekken 8
Gotta love how Shishido goes flying like a jobber in the QTE.
to be fair he was hit with a haymaker equivalent to a tiger drop to the face
He couldn't handle the counter hook😂
9:47 best quick time event in Yakuza
Yeah. The next coolest one was with Majima in Yakuza Kiwami. The one that was super fast.
Only because of choreography, the button prompt itsepf is kinda ez
@@gazover_ yeah. I remember somehow doing the majima one in kiwami on legend. I felt so good about myself because those QTEs were practically instant
It is very good but my favourite will probably always be the one in Someya's final fight in 6
@@plosonen someya sucks
The callbacks to certain boss fights in shishidos boss fight the fist clash similar to daigo the headbutt clash like ryuji and probably more are so Cool to see referenced
The bit where Shishido cuts the chandelier is a reference to the brawl Kiryu had at Omi HQ where he swung on the Chandelier to take out a 5-6 enemy's, it was a QTE originally so you could easily fail it
yesssss, awesome. thank you so much for this leon! i loved tsuruno's action sequence the most, so damn cool.
Tsuruno had one of my favorite action scenes too. Only thing that sucks about it is that it has no QTE😭
Is the VA a returning one? I swear I've heard that "KirYUUAGH" before
@@yaqubebased1961 apparently not! though, while it isn't related to your question, there's a lot of pics online of him hanging out not only with shishido's VA, but kuze's as well. i think he was at least connected with a lot of the roles in the series before being casted.
Tsuruno's actor is Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi. He's never been in the series before, but he and Shishido's actor - Yasukaze Motomiya - both co-star in a yakuza series called Nihon Touitsu.
6:46 The sword block here is peak absurdity
Kiryu built different
12:50 Kiryu got a taste of his own medicine. 😹
I was so shocked when that happened to me that I hit Shishido with essence of the dragon god on him
I loved the dynamic intros of this game, but i finded weird that not even with 3 battles nishitani didn't get one for some reason
Same as Nishitani
Shishido is the only boss that got a Dynamic Intro and a QTE which is weird
6 months of development
@@romanus7258still better than mw23
@@woodytherat53144 kinda funny since tsuruno got a dynamic intro but no qte, but nishitani got no dynamic intro BUT two qtes
It’s not visible due to the camera angle, but given the design of Shishido’s tattoo (with the komainu/shishi looking down) and Kiryu’s lower position, I believe they intended to have the tattoos complement each other during their intro, like what they did with Shibusawa.
In East Asian mythology, komainu/shishi statues are said to protect shrines, while dragons are associated with legendary storms - and the analogy fits Shishido and Kiryu perfectly. Always loved how RGG plays with East Asian mythology for their final bosses, and I think that fight is a standout example of how well it can work.
Oooh I get it. The statues protecting the shrines represent Shishido trying to protect the yakuza way of life while Kiryu is the storm that wants to end it.
I also loved the symbolism with Shibusawa's colored dragon tattoo while Kiryus was only the outline to show Kiryu rising to his legend status as "The Dragon Of Dojima" and the dragons also facing each other as they clash.
SO MUCH GOOD SYMBOLISM THAT A SENTIMENTAL MF LIKE ME LOVES 😢
@@nikostyleonyomamacoochie8513iwami too his tattoo is nothing compared to kiryus dragon thats why kiryus objective said hes nothing to me
3:03 This proves that kiryu can kill now
Nah they’re rubber bullets.
Non lethal wounds
Nuh uh that’s not Kiryu. That’s actually Joryu!
They had ketchup packets in their shirt pockets that the rubber bullets hit
Joryu and ryoma are the only playable characters that actually killed not counting dead souls. Majima hasnt had an on screen kill so he is up for debate for all we know majima hit them hard enough to become unconcious
10:48 this is the coolest fucking fist bump ever
Nah Asuras wrath had a better one
Its a reference to daigo's in Y4
@@dantetouchdown9030that one is sad lol
@@deviljho4260 made me shed a manly tear, also, cool pickle username
Honestly all the Cinematics we got were good. However Tsurnos dynamic intro is my personal favorite next to shishidos intro.
That Nishitani III should have faced with the Majima Goro. Like what to say, a fight from the past cannot be forgotten.
Music in this game is really good
Shishido's Essence of Finishing Stomp heat action was from Y6 Demo, they finally used it. After one month I never get that heat action from him.
Best final boss in the series
@@fifofuko1864?
No way you put this guy over some other God tier bosses
@@claudiukulcsar456yeah because he's in that tier
@@bubblines it just Aizawa put him against Goda or Aizawa in terms of straight I don't hate him i liked the game a lot but the final guy for me it a let down because i was expecting nishitani not him but still A tier for me
@@claudiukulcsar456 He's the same idea as aizawa, done better. There's not many final bosses done better in the franchise.
Shishido final fight was insanely good, it was PEAK
one thing that is likely unintentional but I find awesome is that given how many time kiryu got stabbed near death him being able to parry katana feels like that's what his agent training was for
Nishitani, the final brawl, and Shishidos were awesome
1:26 why was this jobber so confident lmao
Bro forgot he wasn't the MC
My only issue is Nishitani not having a single dynamic intro. Really sucks for one of the most advertised characters for this game
Makes sense. The original Nishitani didn't have as well.
10:48 That's rad...That some tekken shit right there
TSURUNOBROS WERE WINNING ‼
The action scenes gave me a John Wick vibe, Kiryu obviously is old and not the same invencible man anymore, specially in Shishido he almost get his ass handled. Good thing he's built like a tank, he always got back up
Not really, the only reason Shishido stood a chance was that he fought to kill and Kiryu didn't
@@KhoiJudgment Underestimating him was what almost ended Majima y'know
The final Shishido fight is probably the height of Kiryu's badassery for me, as far as cutscenes go. Taunting Shishido, catching the katana between his fucking elbow and knee, and then punching away his kicks before ending the fight - I was marking the fuck out going through that fight.
Damn Kiryu officially turned into Japanese Batman
lol what a way to find out the final boss can do a heat action on you
3:12
glad to see our boy Kiryu is still not killing people
Thats joryu
Just realized Watase was rocking the Peter Griffin fit
Can people admit that Kiryu is a god damn Super human now. This man tackled a man through a black granite looking wall and feel Several stories with little damage to either of them and kept fighting like they just fell out of tree. Which can kill a normal man or breka something lol 😂
Now? What do you mean now?
This man was taking floor breaking punches from Majima back in 2005, this is light work
8:36
This went so hard
God it's SO good
It’s fucking peak
We are the yakuza 4
@@gazover_ SELFISH DEED IS NOT FREEDOM!!
Holy i didn't knew Shishido would Heat Action me
Btw last time a boss was able to do a heat action is all the way back in Kiwami 1
Lost judgment has it
Does Sawashiro count too?
Sawashiro and Ishioda too if we count Y7
Aw man, I was really hoping that Shishido's would've been like the final ones in Kiwami 2 and 5 where it instakills you
This is what I kinda felt Yakuza 7 needed was a lot more of these action scenes in the middle of boss fights.
I honestly expected more that the supposed Ryuji Goda was not a simple body double, but well at least Rgg studio confirms that Ryuji is not alive
Unfortunately they didn’t give us some closure about a certain other character being alive, they don’t even let you go to Survive in gaiden so hopefully there’s some conversation about it in lad8
Not really, the announcer literally says "Whose to say he's not still alive out there somewhere?" Like someone at RGG had to write that line in, have it recorded, and then put into the game. All Gaiden really confirmed is that this exact instance of Ryuji isn't real. Being that we got TWO Ryuji fakeouts, it does kinda make me wonder about what the next spinoff is going to be about...
Or do they…
Kiryu doubts ryuji is dead like the whole ghost of sotenbori is a teaser makes you second guess if hes even dead. Im 100% sure ryuji is dead but i mean kashiwagi is alive after 3 games so who knows
We all know that Ryuji and Mine are alive.
I wish the Coliseum had more throwback fights like it did in the beginning, imagine having theowback fights with like Nishiki or something, would be awesome
One of the last stages of the coliseum you face all the final bosses but in a robotic form
@@deviljho4260 oh that's cool, I didn't know that, I've only just reached Platinum on the Coliseum
Yeah, what you're asking for is almost literally there
@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd yea, I didn't know this but now I know, I am planning on going though it fully so yee
If there was Nishiki alike, Kiryu would kill Nishitani right away
What kind of life must a guy lead to where on two separate occasions he fist fights a pair of tigers
Damn you work fast
They probably saw people complaining about QTE in lost judgment and they reduced it
for good reason, stuff in lost judgment was like konami codes compared to the usual ones we get
1:53 "Gaah."
ShishiGoat
I feel like there are QTE's that were planned but never added. I mean look at 0:12; 1:07;1:50. Perfect spots for a QTE.
I think 0:12 and 1:07 fails will kill Kazuma right on the spot
@@maxkorobkov6947He's had worse to be honest :p
Kiryu : *Legendary Yakuza*
Joryu : *Hi Tech Agent*
Ngl i always wondered what would happened if you failed
“Kiryu hasnt killed anyone” 3:10
So everyone has crazy gadgets now? Neat.
Only the daidoji
3:12 Joryu finally shoots and kills people. He broke the "I dont kill rule".
Not headshots
@@Lethargy514 Yeah that makes sense
3:12 to 3:14 rubber bullets or are we going to accept that Kiryu killed 3 dudes?
Armor-piercing rubber bullets they'll be fine
Kiryu has killed plenty of people in self-defense like that
Not like he ever shot up a highway of dudes. Twice.
Kiryu kills a lot, just in self defence.
Glad they added English dub update
So can anyone tell me. Does kiryu/joryu kill anyone?
He kills some of Nishitani’s lackeys in the castle with a pistol
@@CS-om3kjwelp you know, bullet killed someone, not agent joryu)
As for this matter, in the plot Kiryu is somewhat "accomplice" in "murder", nothing more
Unlike Batman, Kiryu doesn't have a strong "not killing anyone" code, he just simple try his hardest not to kill anyone. So if killing is the only option, then he would have done so
No one exactly dies in this game
5:23 is so fcking badass
Can't believe you wasted a sync for that qte fail on the final boss
What is nishitani and ryuji doin here bruv 💀
Man this game qte is easier than lost judgement series
Thats shows how stronger than Yagami Kiryu is
3:12 Kiryu doesn't kill, but Joryu is different story.
Bro the golden Dragon ryuji goda
Yup, still superhuman.
2:18 is it Sagawa's VA?
Oh yeah now that you mention it that does sound a lot like Sagawa.
The kaito files perfected QTEs
This Nishitani lacks his predecessor's bloodlust that made him iconic.
Spoiler:
He isnt HIS descendant
His name is Homare Nishitani III, whether they're related or not is redundant, he still took up his name and he's the head of the same Omi Alliance family.
have you really played the game?
He enjoy torturing people like slaves and is brutal in battles
@@dinoblade8167 You clearly skipped Yakuza 0.
@@deathbykonami5487 Yakuza 0 is literally the first yakuza game i played, and that Nishitani is not more bloodlusted than this one. We don't even know which crimes did he do before meeting Majima
1:33 2:00
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What's the song that plays during the Omi HQ fight mission?
Not 100% sure, but it must be new version of appassionato
7:42 DLSS?
HNGYAAAH *opens door *
seeing the long battle action sequences made me wonder...
who would win? the face scanned watase 4 or the face scanned daidoji 4? (i assume theyre face scanned lol)
What
@@gazover_ The 4 miniboss dudes with the ubique faces you fight in either the Watase family or the Daidoji
@@frostyprime8110 Ukita literally has a LETHAL GUN ( Agent Raita's shotgun only shoots electricity), and knows gunkata with it sooo I d assume he carries the Watase
@@messmermusicals1367 true but saigou's got that power glove looking thing so he could nuke the watase before they could do anything
though the start up on that thing is quite long...
@@frostyprime8110 Ukita prioritizes shooting Saigou, Yao and his Judo can serve to Disarm/ Parry Raita and Enzen's weapons, Kubota and his crowbar can also help in deflecting Blade Strikes from Mushin/ Enzen. Sucks Sakuma fights unarmed though, it lags the Watase down...
Can't wait to see them screwed by some tekken music!
Kiryu becoming p5joker here😂 well i dont mind well i can take it easy seeing intro no need to worried about qte they cut a lot of it here
RYUJI IS ALIVE?!
Edit: Okay I think he is Mirror Face.
No no no, just a look-a-like.
Even Kiryu cursed him for only looking the part, but lacked the will and strength.
@@ExcitedAlexThen again props to him for the tattoo
That was my exact reaction when I accidentally saw a spoiler during a review of the game but now I learn it was just a fake 😂
I don't like that games are using qte's less rather than using them the way Ps4 God of War did.
Infinite Wealth have more now.
7:16 why they so fuckin strong
This entire game...no,this entire franchise, with all of its side missions... it truly is Jojo's Bizzare Adventure.
Anyone else feels that this game is somewhat short.. i mean I get its a gaiden game.. but still. Anyway the actions are awesome as usual.
Supposed to be short like half of a mainline game
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後ろは守るって言ってバリバリ前線で戦ってる
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