That is genuinely the entire reason I love these games. I've only played the first kiwami and haven't beaten it yet. But everything I have seen is so dramatic and serious, but mixed with such stupid and silly stuff that is played completely straight. It is such a weird mix, and I absolutely love it so much.
@@MozeKaliber(Can’t Wake Up!) “Before I Go And Die,” (Can’t Wake Up!) “Before I Wrestle My Life,” (C’mon And) “C’mon And Save, Me, From, The Dark.” (I’ve been feelin’ alive!) (Got nothin’ inside!) “C’,moooon, saaaaave, meeeeee,” (Can’t Wake Up!) “Before I Wrestle My Life,” (Can’t WKe Up!) “Before I Go And Die,” (C’mon And) “Briiiii, iiiiiing, tooooo LIIIIIFE!”
he didn’t sacrifice himself, it’s like when nishiki blew up the 10 billion yen, he could have just walked further away on shot it. they just feel like they can’t live with their mistakes and death redeems them or something
@@bexxebu5913that is true but I feel like 1:24 is like some kind of weird dream the guy on the ground is having before the smack snaps him back to reality, and with a connection to the dream like what happens sometimes in real life when you’re subconsciously aware of something while you’re asleep and your brain inserts it into your dream.
i really love how casual and relaxed the look on Ichiban's face is when holding the Orbital Laser remote. Dude's holding something that could most likely level the entire Millenium Tower and he treats it like he's making a ham sandwich.
The fact that Joji at 0:47 was literally strong and notably quick enough to quite literally give Kiryu even more trouble than he would have with Mine, that’s just straight up showing you how Joji at his prime was literally even more superhuman than what Kiryu is now.
If Shintaro Kazama was anything like him, then it’s no wonder he walloped the shit outta Kiryu and Nishiki as teens. We see in some Online stories that Kiryu could still beat up grown men in _middle school._ He was at least decently strong even then.
Kiryu: I traveled to the edo period, brought the only time machine with me, burned all the evidence and killed all the people who kno- Goro: KIRYU-CHAN
The thing that proves just how good Yakuza is is the fact that it can have both very serious, very heavy dramatic moments, and also very wacky, borderline cartoonish humor moments in the same game, and somehow neither of them disrupt the mood of the other whatsoever. Making those co-exist so seamlessly is not possible outside of a real masterpiece.
Some Yakuza fans will literally watch the cutscene from Yakuza 5 at 2:59 and convince themselves that Kiryu and Akiyama didn’t kill those two yakuza on some Essence of Friendly Fire shit 💀 Like that’s on the same level as Kiryu’s Essence of Human Shield in Yakuza 1 but STILL below all the times he’s shot up cars and helicopters throughout the games lmfao
It's more like the devs trying desperately to convince the fans they don't kill anyone, while the fans are actively make a list of the number of times kiryu has committed man-slaughter
Got my girlfriend into the series. We live in different houses so whenever she wants to watch me play, I stream on twitch. She said she was interested and wanted to play so I bought her 0-7. She's on kiwami 2 now
My favorite yakuza bit is when just like one regular person gets wrapped up in the weirdness and is just like “what the hell is happening” before they’re ultimately screwed over
*I regret making this* Each clip(according to my memory + spoiler warning) 0:01 Akiyama and Haruka investigate Majima Ex-Wife’s death, meanwhile Ogita (Haruka ex-dance teacher) chucks best boy off the roof. 0:13 44yo taxi driver has a love crisis. 0:23 Average dead souls experience. 0:40 48yo grandfather hands his half Chinese half Japanese grandson off to a random stranger to beat up a bunch of 20year olds. 0:46 Joji kicks the shit out of his brother’s apprentice for not going up to the ruff. 1:02 Tachibana uses Essence of “woman driving a car” to send Kuze into the shadow realm. 1:07 Chimp steals heavy machinery and Ichiban just lets it happen 1:17 Definitely Saito Hajime and definitely Saigo have a naked brawl in a hot spring. 1:28 Kaito and Yagami brutalise a guy for gambling. 1:39 Majima gives three Omi officers new neckties. 1:45 Kiryu witnessses a poor Japanese man get dragged to hell by his bowling ball. 1:58 Ex-convict 25years in the joint, turns thug into a snowman. 2:17 Hitman disguised as a pole dancer tries to shoot Kiryu into the afterlife. 2:31 Definitely Okita Soji blows up a bunch of samurai, to raid the shogun’s house. 2:45 Yakuza disguised as the majima family(I think) get their asses kicked by a loan shark and 10years in the joint. 3:06 U got eyes ain’t ya? Judge eyes, to be exact. 3:27 48yo grandfather threatens an infant. 3:40 A gorilla and a monkey have a breakdance battle which gives a cyclops a revelation. 3:55 Ichiban uses his presidential power to summon a laser on a tiger. 4:19 the best singer since idol Majima sings about a butterfly with a hostess. 4:49 The word ‘mine’ jumps off the ruff with Revolve’s bartender. 5:03 Local detective gets his ass kicked by an ex-Yakuza. 5:17 Receptionist murders poor Yakuza trying to do his job. 5:41 Saejima wrestles with a bear. 5:56 Korean Vergil fist fights a middle aged Japanese man. 6:04 Ex baseball star takes a train with the Tojo clan’s sixth chairman. 6:29 Earth angel’s mama lends local Stardust manager Yuya his biker gang coat. 6:49 cyclops blocks glass bottle hit from the character you wanted Kiryu to get with. 6:58 Lieutenant Murase get’s blown to shit. 7:16 Majima get’s to the top. 7:29 Local detective and ex-Japanese high school teacher get into a fist fight. 7:48 Direct continuation from 5:17
Why do Japanese girls have such angelic singing voices? God damn! I'm still playing Yakuza 0, and haven't gotten to Kiwami 2, so I'm really missing out on Kirara's heavenly voice. It really melts my heart!!! 🥰
God 1:16 just reminds me that I wish Ryuji stuck around in the main series. Especially since from Yakuza 3 onwards, Majima (after having been Kiryu's main rival previously) is basically just Kiryu's friend, and not even involved in 5 or 6 until right at the end. Hell, Kiwami 2 could've taken the opportunity to say he's not dead, but maybe just in a coma or something. So that way he's *functionally* dead so Sayama still goes off to America (or more specifically Hawaii from what little I've seen of IW, and it's cool she's back even if its just as a Summon). Would've been cool.
Yakuza is the simultaneously the most serious game series out there and the most stupid game series out there and I love it for that
That is genuinely the entire reason I love these games. I've only played the first kiwami and haven't beaten it yet. But everything I have seen is so dramatic and serious, but mixed with such stupid and silly stuff that is played completely straight. It is such a weird mix, and I absolutely love it so much.
How I've seen the Yakuza games described and I 100% agree with it is the Godfather with episodes of the Simpsons sprinkled in.
It's metal gear solid all over again. Serious plot combine with wacky characters and plot lines
@@Johnnyupside I've not actually played any of the metal gear games so I'll just take your word for it
@@Johnnyupside But if the writing isn’t actually as confusing as why Richardson doesn’t know how to pronounce roof
These are definitely the most Yakuza moments in the series, but these transitions are definitely the transitions I've seen on youtube for a while
Yeah the transition from the onsen ass-grabbing QTE to the smacking was a masterful edit, they knew exactly what they were doing
for real!
The translation in existence
It's silly because it's serious, and serious when it's silly
1:27 peak transition
Buddy got slapped awake from his wet dream 😭
Hits butt
*proceeds to fall holding cheek
L'mao
I also took a peak and then decided to transition.
First it's two butt naked dudes doing wrestling, one guy decides to slap the other's ass and then it transitions to someone being pulp faced.
Snap back to reality
4:07 *essence of orbital laser*
The best martial art xDDD
The hammer of dawn
“What’s that? You have a problem? Have you tried… *blowing it up?* ”
@@Anonymous-73a person of culture I see
Man i loved that move, but the game got so easy after getting it
4:19 I love that Kiryu is pretty much the equivalent of the random guy the label threw in on Bring Me to Life
At first i was thinking it was Yakuza 7 version, and was reading comments. Kiryu part killed me
CANT WAKE UP
SAAAVEEE MEEEEE
@@MozeKaliber(Can’t Wake Up!) “Before I Go And Die,” (Can’t Wake Up!) “Before I Wrestle My Life,” (C’mon And) “C’mon And Save, Me, From, The Dark.” (I’ve been feelin’ alive!) (Got nothin’ inside!) “C’,moooon, saaaaave, meeeeee,” (Can’t Wake Up!) “Before I Wrestle My Life,” (Can’t WKe Up!) “Before I Go And Die,” (C’mon And) “Briiiii, iiiiiing, tooooo LIIIIIFE!”
FR
Or the guy who decided to put Juicy J into Katy Perry songs
4:49
Mine: *Saying his final words before he sacrificed himself for daigo and kiryu*
Andre: *INTENSELY SWEARING IN ENGLISH*
Let's player commenting: If you can hold him long enough to monologue you could just throw him off. This just makes your sacrifice look dumb.
That's what you get for going up on the ruff.
he didn’t sacrifice himself, it’s like when nishiki blew up the 10 billion yen, he could have just walked further away on shot it.
they just feel like they can’t live with their mistakes and death redeems them or something
4:19 the dragon of Dojima can spit fire after all
ua-cam.com/video/8cayjBHAuTg/v-deo.html 1:01
How was he able to add Kiryu's vocals? For me it is always quiet. Same for Y7
@@MariusBoss11458 you put on "lively interjections" for the extreme bar spittin'
@@ybobux Well yeah but you can't do that on replay mode. Or am I missing something?
Essence of Evanscence
7:13 my favorite transition of the video.
We'll be Right Back!
i prefer the orbital laser into butterfly
What about 1:24
@@Anonymous-73 That too is a good transition, but i feel like 7:13 is perfectly in line with what would be going on with Majima at any point in time.
@@bexxebu5913that is true but I feel like 1:24 is like some kind of weird dream the guy on the ground is having before the smack snaps him back to reality, and with a connection to the dream like what happens sometimes in real life when you’re subconsciously aware of something while you’re asleep and your brain inserts it into your dream.
4:32 No, Kiryu, don’t become a pop singer, you sound like gravel.
Kiryu:
I think freestyling ain't his style... he nails slower songs though
Hilariously his voice actor is a famous and well respected singer lmao
@@resyntaxthat's more rock than pop
@@Nakita_Jade kuroda-san is also in a multimedia franchise rn where he raps, he's so awesome
@@24no73 Which franchise is that?
1:08 truly a Yakuza moment
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
@@Ruemir007 absolute Primate wilderness
Only in yakuza does a monkey operating a machine actually work
@@P.H691 You can do that in real life as well
I just can't lolkolololokokkolololilplolololol
Truly the yakuza of time
The Legend of Karaoke: Yakuza of Time
Yakuza zi-o
Truly the yakuza.
7:15 I felt that whiplash in my bones
That tonal whiplash has my ears ringing, lol. Like its just so out there that you can't help but throw your hands up at a scene like that.
@@thaddeusmarcuscheeleyjr.786Where does that scene take place?
First one is either Judgment or Lost Judgment, second is Yakuza Dead Souls.@@reecemota4028
“We’ll be right back after these messages” headass
@reecemota4028
First scene with the bomber happens in Judgment.
The following karaoke with Majima is- I think- Yakuza Dead Souls.
i really love how casual and relaxed the look on Ichiban's face is when holding the Orbital Laser remote. Dude's holding something that could most likely level the entire Millenium Tower and he treats it like he's making a ham sandwich.
Don’t worry. Rubber space laser.
Don't worry, it's all in his head.
In Yakuza those scenes are just a normal tuesday.
Most normal Tuesday in Yakuza
4:42
The Rapper of Dojima
0:10
*sad silence*
(in the distance) " *_IM LIKE A BIRRDDD I WANNA FLY AWAYYY_* "
He try to fly high like a butterfly
He tried to become Mine
He did tho
Bro listened to too much dream on
Idc this is one of the best video games series to exist, compilations like this just prove it
@@beegdawg this is certainly one of the opinions of all time
@@GoldRustt Fr
@@beegdawg The most opiniated opinion of the history of the opinions ever.
@@beegdawg wdym,Yakuza 4 ,6 and 7 are awesome.
Only trash one are 5,Tho.
@@GoldRustt π7ππππππλ8πππ8
The fact that Joji at 0:47 was literally strong and notably quick enough to quite literally give Kiryu even more trouble than he would have with Mine, that’s just straight up showing you how Joji at his prime was literally even more superhuman than what Kiryu is now.
If Shintaro Kazama was anything like him, then it’s no wonder he walloped the shit outta Kiryu and Nishiki as teens. We see in some Online stories that Kiryu could still beat up grown men in _middle school._ He was at least decently strong even then.
Literally.
@@scarymeunster9095The question is which of the Kazama bros is the strongest: Oyabun himself or Uncle Kaz?
7:16 I am giggling so hard from the face expressions and the sudden tone shift from Goro's singing...😂😂😂
Yeah that was supposed by a sad scene but the perfet cut of the editing made it 100 better💀👍🏼
i couldnt have been the only one
Damn Majima got that HT Lucifer drip
Went from Afghanistan mode to Japan mode really fast
5:28 just proves that Yakuza characters are above normal humans. Both in endurance to physical damage and luck
I mean this is the game where a guy gets hit by a rocket and shrugs it off like a mosquito bite
@@Anonymous-73Staminan Royal
i felt him hitting his head on the bar in my SOUL
when akiyama says thanks at 8:00 he sounds more scottish than a scottish person like me
He's Scottish Person 3.0
I thought it was japanese
He is scottish yakuza
I thought he was Donald not Scrooge though?
Hahahhaa same.
3:53 that's a smooth transition tho
Apparently someone disagreed with Kiryu’s opinion
6:49 Succeeded the QTE: Nice swing 😏
Failed the QTE: N...nice..s...wing...*ded*
failing that qte is an achievement btw
THE FIRST ONE THOUGH 🤣🤣
0:10
"Well that person got murdered too. Moving on."
GIBBEH
They didn't have to do him like that bro 😭
People jumping off roofs is a very common occurrence
I loved when saejima saejimad the bear, truly the yakuza moment of all time
1:26 that transition was perfect 😂
FR😂😂
Man Izikaied him back to life 😂
Majima Goro is my spirit animal. Wish he had his own game not just a side story.
In a way 0 was his story before he just got absolutely fixated on kyryu
I come from the future. There is a game inbound. Its about pirates and stuff
Boy do i have news for you
Heheheheheh
I'm also a time-traveler, just wanted to say, y(our) dream came true. 👌
"Essense of ORBITAL LASER" got me
Murase going out in one the worst ways in the series smash cut to Majima karaoke is beautiful
that was legit fucked up and he didn't even deserve if, like at all
watching this after 24+ hours with no sleep is trully one of the experiences in my life
Hope you got some sleep after!
currently experiencing this can confirm it’s awesome
Kiryu: I traveled to the edo period, brought the only time machine with me, burned all the evidence and killed all the people who kno-
Goro: KIRYU-CHAN
I believe IW revealed it was one of Kiryu’s dreams, like Kenzan and Dead Souls
The thing that proves just how good Yakuza is is the fact that it can have both very serious, very heavy dramatic moments, and also very wacky, borderline cartoonish humor moments in the same game, and somehow neither of them disrupt the mood of the other whatsoever.
Making those co-exist so seamlessly is not possible outside of a real masterpiece.
Some Yakuza fans will literally watch the cutscene from Yakuza 5 at 2:59 and convince themselves that Kiryu and Akiyama didn’t kill those two yakuza on some Essence of Friendly Fire shit 💀
Like that’s on the same level as Kiryu’s Essence of Human Shield in Yakuza 1 but STILL below all the times he’s shot up cars and helicopters throughout the games lmfao
Nerf Guns
Nah they shot each other, it had nothing to do with kiryu or akiyama
Rubber bullets
It's more like the devs trying desperately to convince the fans they don't kill anyone, while the fans are actively make a list of the number of times kiryu has committed man-slaughter
Rubber bullets
That master botty slap transition tho.. 1:27
Fun Fact: in Like A Dragon Ishin (new one), they increased the fog so you cant see the bott anymore.
Oh la la~
@@televisionlaughoutloudCowards….
4:14 - Nooo, not the tiger!
POV: Jeff Bezos on a hunting trip
5:51
God, I love this clean transition
*Monster tearing up the city*
Majima: Finally a worthy opponent!
The picture of Majima absolutely destroying some samurai’s gate with a cannon is absolutely golden.
that's not Majima
0:11 UHH???? That caught me off guard
2:30 Oh yeah, I forgot that this happens.
where is it from?
@@Ustabledannyll Ishin... Or Kenzan.
@@UstabledannyllIt's from Ishin
Got my girlfriend into the series. We live in different houses so whenever she wants to watch me play, I stream on twitch. She said she was interested and wanted to play so I bought her 0-7. She's on kiwami 2 now
Who?
@@nytramranul1533 lebron james
@@lmao-420 pfp matches your response ong
That's a keeper
bro not only is she a keeper but so are you
get a man who will buy you the yakuza series and a girl who will play with you
At the end of the day, every moment is a Yakuza moment.
3:12 free candy
1:43 was very unexpected
Omiwa, mo shinderu
Yakuza's official description: A crime drama that touches some very dark subjects.
Yakuza when you play it:
This is batshit insane and somehow still awesome.
Gawd I love this series!
1:25 WHY DID HE DO THAT LMAOOOO
leverage
those were different times
I'm sorry but there's something about the words "ESSENCE OF ORBITAL LASER" popping up on the screen that absolutely killed me
My favorite yakuza bit is when just like one regular person gets wrapped up in the weirdness and is just like “what the hell is happening” before they’re ultimately screwed over
5:33 my ear burns
I didn't expect to see some of my clips in that one! Banger compilation of some of the Yakuza moments, and amazing work on the transitions too.
*I regret making this*
Each clip(according to my memory + spoiler warning)
0:01 Akiyama and Haruka investigate Majima Ex-Wife’s death, meanwhile Ogita (Haruka ex-dance teacher) chucks best boy off the roof.
0:13 44yo taxi driver has a love crisis.
0:23 Average dead souls experience.
0:40 48yo grandfather hands his half Chinese half Japanese grandson off to a random stranger to beat up a bunch of 20year olds.
0:46 Joji kicks the shit out of his brother’s apprentice for not going up to the ruff.
1:02 Tachibana uses Essence of “woman driving a car” to send Kuze into the shadow realm.
1:07 Chimp steals heavy machinery and Ichiban just lets it happen
1:17 Definitely Saito Hajime and definitely Saigo have a naked brawl in a hot spring.
1:28 Kaito and Yagami brutalise a guy for gambling.
1:39 Majima gives three Omi officers new neckties.
1:45 Kiryu witnessses a poor Japanese man get dragged to hell by his bowling ball.
1:58 Ex-convict 25years in the joint, turns thug into a snowman.
2:17 Hitman disguised as a pole dancer tries to shoot Kiryu into the afterlife.
2:31 Definitely Okita Soji blows up a bunch of samurai, to raid the shogun’s house.
2:45 Yakuza disguised as the majima family(I think) get their asses kicked by a loan shark and 10years in the joint.
3:06 U got eyes ain’t ya? Judge eyes, to be exact.
3:27 48yo grandfather threatens an infant.
3:40 A gorilla and a monkey have a breakdance battle which gives a cyclops a revelation.
3:55 Ichiban uses his presidential power to summon a laser on a tiger.
4:19 the best singer since idol Majima sings about a butterfly with a hostess.
4:49 The word ‘mine’ jumps off the ruff with Revolve’s bartender.
5:03 Local detective gets his ass kicked by an ex-Yakuza.
5:17 Receptionist murders poor Yakuza trying to do his job.
5:41 Saejima wrestles with a bear.
5:56 Korean Vergil fist fights a middle aged Japanese man.
6:04 Ex baseball star takes a train with the Tojo clan’s sixth chairman.
6:29 Earth angel’s mama lends local Stardust manager Yuya his biker gang coat.
6:49 cyclops blocks glass bottle hit from the character you wanted Kiryu to get with.
6:58 Lieutenant Murase get’s blown to shit.
7:16 Majima get’s to the top.
7:29 Local detective and ex-Japanese high school teacher get into a fist fight.
7:48 Direct continuation from 5:17
2:17 Does this scene really exist in Yakuza Kiwami?
Yes, a substory
it makes 0 fucking sense even with context too
5:42 Leonardo DiCarpio moment
1:27 I come back to this every now and then just for this transition
5:28
I am now convinced that yakuza members can fall off of a two story building, hit their head on a metal railing and live.
Every frame of Yakuza has lived in my head rent free since I first started playing the series in 2018.
5:29 jesus, i had forgotten about that one, the guy is dead, idc what the game tries to say
He may not have died instantly but the concussion definitely killed him
Why do Japanese girls have such angelic singing voices? God damn! I'm still playing Yakuza 0, and haven't gotten to Kiwami 2, so I'm really missing out on Kirara's heavenly voice. It really melts my heart!!! 🥰
3:26 something inappropriate
about to go down
1:05 "Brian,look out!"
7:13 "Technical Difficulties, we'll be right back!"
2:21 damm that shotgun recoil
Moreover the lack there of
3:22 "Let's talk"
I completely forgot that people actually die in these games
I thought it's just a bunch of Tom and Jerry ass slapstick
0:34 god damn that goes insane
The editing between many of these is **chef's kiss**
1:26 was smooth af
as someone who's only played yakuza 0, it looks like this franchise just gets more and more insane with each game and i am here for it
3:30 - Have you ever seen a man so beautiful, you cry? That's me with Kazuma Kiryu
i like how many top tier transitions in this video
I was more than a little pleased that Shinada got a moment or two in as well. I really hope he doesn't end up as forgotten as Tanimura.
Truly the yakuza moment.
God 1:16 just reminds me that I wish Ryuji stuck around in the main series. Especially since from Yakuza 3 onwards, Majima (after having been Kiryu's main rival previously) is basically just Kiryu's friend, and not even involved in 5 or 6 until right at the end. Hell, Kiwami 2 could've taken the opportunity to say he's not dead, but maybe just in a coma or something. So that way he's *functionally* dead so Sayama still goes off to America (or more specifically Hawaii from what little I've seen of IW, and it's cool she's back even if its just as a Summon). Would've been cool.
Ryu ga gotoku online has the ryuji goda story but that's all
I’ve yet to play a Yakuza game, and with absolutely zero context for any of these clips, I’m completely lost.
honestly this is so yakuza its so yakuza more than yakuza that its yakuza
These are perfectly cut
1:05 i woke up in a new bugati
I hope we get more Hana in future games. She is NOT to be messed with.
4:18 this is every song where its Ja Rule and a woman with a beautiful voice like Ashanti
My favorite moment was seeing a bunch of random guys high kicking when you opened this one door in Judgement.
Best thing to Watch before going to school
Kiwami means extreme.
Whatever the extreme thing is doesn't need to be specified.
i love it when yakuza man said "its yakuza time" and proceeded to yakuza all over the enemy
I love this series so god damn much...
Majima singing will never not make me laugh lol
MAJIMA SAN!!!1
ok now ima stop for today cuz i got bored cya
"Kiryu-san hes a man" will forever stay rent free in my head
Kiryu calling Iwami "liltt baby" will always be my favorite direspect ever
Good to know Judgement Kazzy is still kicking!
I love how the heat actions range from punching a guy kinda hard to literally atomizing them with an orbital ion cannon
I'll be back when I beat Lost Judgement, this video seems like its fire
Beat both Lost Judgment and Kaito Files. This video is fire
4:06 Ah yes, the GDI Particle Cannon prototype.
'damn it, more street thugs being an annoyance, better call the Hammer of Dawn just to breeze past them'
ah yes, how can I forget those moments when i feel like a dragon and use a satellite laser beam on a fucking tiger
1:27 this cut fucking killed me
0:46 I've never realized how ridiculous this move is
No idea what you talking about, seems like peak realistic fighting to me
1:27 Snap back to reality
7:06 goes hard
*Boom*
7:12
Ain’t no way this wasn’t intentional.
dead souls is basically the yakuza game of all time