Yakuza's Second Revolution
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2023
- Yakuza 5, a game that was criticised heavily, despite it being a huge leap in quality from previous entries in the franchise. Why was it criticised? Well, the main criticism this game gets is that Shinada is literally the best character they've ever made and that's genuinely saying a lot with this franchise. Can they just cancel Gaiden and 8 and just release a Shinada game where all you do is go around town and hang out with his friends? The whole game. Just that. I would pay a million dollars for it.
AustinSV video for the Remastered collection:
• Which Versions of Yaku...
Alex Moukala (the GOAT) interviewing Hidenori Shoji and Mitsuharu Fukuyama (the GOATs):
• Baka Mitai's Composer ...
Yakuza 5 OST 1 (main themes):
open.spotify.com/album/044d2O...
Yakuza 5 OST 2 (side themes):
open.spotify.com/album/1acbIt...
Playlist link:
• Yakuza Retrospective S...
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Songs:
Persona 5 - Beneath the Mask - instrumental version
Tekken 5 - I'm Here Now - Sanodg Remix
Devil May Cry V - Devil Trigger
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - Hall of Fate "Resurrection"
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - Hall of Fate
Pokémon Black and White - Driftveil City
Final Fantasy V Pixel Remaster - Ahead On Our Way
Street Fighter V - Theme of Zeku
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - A Phantom Pain - Ігри
Sorry, I was playing RuneScape
Runescape video when?
@@idfkimaclown in 13 minutes and 29 seconds gonna have to watch the video to pass the time
@@SnowiestAngeman🤯
done@@SnowiestAngeman
wait. RuneScape or Old school RuneScape
When "So much more!" is playing for the first time
>FUCK YEAH, WE BALLIN'
When "So much more!" is playing for the hundredth time
>FUCK YEAH, WE BALLIN'
When in Like a Dragon 5: Fulfiller of Dreams, in the chapter Dreams Fulfilled, Haruka during the DREAM LINE event, before the song DREAM said "We're gonna make our dreams come true on this stage" I really felt it.
Dream it, brother.
Nice dog you have there would be a shame if something happened to it
yume have made a really good point there.
the yume is real
YUME
i still to this day cannot even begin to comprehend why the designers for this game thought that it would be a good idea to have saejima literally hallucinate himself in the city doing stuff in order to "pass the time" while he was in prison rather than just cutting to the next scene
They probably were super afraid people would think "man is this going to take place entirely in a prison?" and they went "no no look we have a city modeled too, just wait a bit"
Then they proceeded to force us to play the shitty version of red dead redemption 2's snow missions for hours
Ichiban foreshadowing
@@zoroasper9759shoulda had the prison be a mini hub world and let saejima travel to his homie to go to kamurocho when you feel like it maybe add him in tsukimino in premium adventure if you can miss something for the completion
@@to2wacze612 yes because prison is absolutely known to be a place that lets you come and go when you feel like it
@astra_robotica ever heard of a prison furlough?but seriously no going in and out of prison is not what I meant when I said the prison should be a hub world i meant the interior added onto the already existing exterior in the prison section so you can go to saejima's cell and talk to the dude which let's you do any activity thats in tsukimino,shorten the tutorial to just saejima and him talking about hostesses while walking down the alley into the mafia fight and you wouldn't miss anything.he'd have a dialogue boxes that teleports you in front of the pool bar,karaokekan,free roam and other places.also add a cafeteria in prison that has a exclusive menu that you can't visit again to fuck with completionists.
My favorite moment of the game was when shinada told akiyama "we the yakuza 5 and I'm also HOMELESS" truly inspiring
And then Shinada was promptly removed from every Yakuza game moving forward and I still have depression
shinada also told akiyama he can throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
@@Hezzadude12how the hell do you have shinada in your name
@@Serph.. Member of Snowy’s channel ahhaha, and also because I love Shinada
Shinada was the poorest Yakuza protagonist until Ichiban got out of prison
yeah true, but shinada can throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
Yeah but he also was the poorest for longer
Ichi got his shit together a day or two after leaving prison lol
@@kiryukazaumaneverkilledape7564 Dude was literally spontaneously offered a CEO position just because of his name. Luckiest man alive.
@@kiryukazaumaneverkilledape7564 yeah, dude even become a CEO of a company with his name.
I feel like I'm the only guy who actually likes Haruka in Yakuza 5. I find her whole chapter to be a refreshing change of pace and being able to run around town without having to deal with encounters is a godsend.
Its the only part where i finished almost all side quests and upgraded character to full
i agree i had fun
Agree
Let's all be honest, he just wanted Shinada to become an idol, but Haruka took that part of the game. That's why he doesn't like it 😂
it's because Haruka acts nothing like she used to; younger Haruka was smart and she didn't take anyone's shit. Yakuza 5 Haruka is bland, she's a total pushover and she's so stupid that she causes Yakuza 6 to happen.
The Yakuza Remaster including a physical english case for the ps3 version of Yakuza 5, to me, always represented just how much the people involved in this series care and are in touch with their fanbase
until they decided to not release gaiden physically in the west, but oh well
I mean... they COULD have put an actual GAME in the case... Blurays aren't that expensive to print.
@@turboshellI own an english physical copy of gaiden that I bought at a local game shop here in the netherlands a few weeks ago
@@drunkensailor112 from what I’ve heard, there is an official English physical release, it just didn’t release in america for whatever reason
Man, I love shinada's story. I see a little bit of him in new characters like higashi, but I do wish to see my boy again one day. Oh well, i guess we can only dre
I love when he can throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage?
I'm going to steal your dog, but give you them back a day later.
Ichiban is Shinada V2
The noodle minigame song went so hard for no reason in Y5
Nah bro Haruka’s section is my favorite part of the entire game. It’s perfect. An incredible way to break up the pace halfway through the story and refresh you with some of the best banger songs in the entire franchise. We love Haruka’s Y5 section.
I just beat Y5 myself and yeah I loved Haruka's part (tho the ending I'm not crazy about.)
Personally I think it's okay for Haruka to not be a fighter. For some reason a lot of people seem to think female characters are only worthwhile if they're fighters.
I personally have never wanted Haruka to have to get into fights. I'm all on board for an ass kicking female protag, and I love Sayama, but that life doesn't have to be for everybody.
And it also feels a little weird to conflate Haruka's brave and headstrong nature with "she has to become a fighter".
@@lovelydumplingYeah. There are different types of bravery, and there are different kinds of strength, and Haruka's is no more worthless for not being tailored towards combat.
The thing with Haruka is that making her a fighter would go against everything Kiryu has ever done and will do after 5 to protect her from the underworld of the yakuza. Even if you replace the idol contest with a karate competition, you have to remember that Haruka got dragged into 5's story because the people after her are actually yakuza trying to use her as blackmail for Kiryu.
In this scenario, making Haruka a fighter would motivate her to insert herself not only in this conflict, but any future conflicts Kiryu would have, because she can hold her own in a way, but again this is going against everything her story and relationship with Kiryu establishes, and would make the ending of 6 borderline impossible. With Haruka specifically, it's not because she's a female protagonist but because of who she is, or at least that's what I think RGG saw in her story. Maybe she could take some classes for self defense and defending the other kids, but she shouldn't go as deep as being able to fight like the other playable characters because of the inserting herself into every conflict thing.
Either way, 5 is pretty good, it's one of my favorites from the Yakuza series. It's has a lot to say, it has a lot to play, and while it's a big mess overall, it's a very enjoyable mess with one of the best combat systems in the series. Shinada is indeed borderline broken btw, you can cheese his Amon fight by grabbing a metal pole and just RUNNING lmao.
Nah
One of the trailers for Yakuza Online showed the potential of her being actually able to defend herself. I have to agree that she maybe shouldn't jump into every conflict, but her learning to defend herself so that not every petty yakuza kidnaps her with kiryu ending up to constantly safe her sorry ass would be a better decision than the dumbass one that she made to become an idol. (And that would probably have prevented her doing the next dumbass decision in Yakuza 6)
Yeah but Yakuza 6 Haruka was doodoo water
Ay bruh I dunno about you but I knew a girl who was a black belt in karate and she never once got into a real fight and I think becoming an idol with a concert that had, like, 100,000 people in the crowd at the end of the game paints a way bigger target on you compared to an under 18 karate tournament with like 100+ parents and like 50 kids lol
@@SnowiestAngeman Yeah, then her purpose for being part of the story as is is pretty moot, isn't it?
Kiryu left the orphanage BECAUSE of haruka wanting to go and become an idol. If that doesn't happen, there's no story, and the themes they wanted to explore would have to be explained some other way, and I will bet MONEY you can't really explain another way to have kiryu leave and hide instead of immediately fighting to the death.
I unironically want to play Yakuza 5 because of the Haruka sections just because my favorite part of all the games I played was the Karaoke.
I want a whole campaign based on the Karaoke and I'm not kidding.
Playing as Haruka was great, but they didn't flesh her part of the game out that much, which is a shame, they really should have done more with her and split her and Akiyama into two distinct chapters. Oh, and they kinda changed her character for the worse and made it even more horrible in 6, so I'm just warning you.
its fun until you realize there's like 3 tracks total
i liked the songs though lol@@jkeebla
you are just a pedo
@@callumrolston all 3 of them? amazing.
Shinada singlehandedly carried 5 and it's a shame that RGG forgot his existence.
exactly true! but he can also carry and throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
They did at least give him a busted Trooper card in Like a Dragon Ishin
Bruh his back in like a dragon
Shinada’s section was damaged really hard by it being the fourth hard plot reset in a game that feels like it’s a million hours long. By the time you reach his section, you’re so sick of the game that you just want it to be over. I despised it until rewatching the cutscenes recently.
@@harrylane4yeah I had to take a break right before shinda part and that made me like it alot more
two things:
1. I'm kinda glad that Shinada didn't get any more story. His arc feels very complete and i feel like touching it in any way would make that worse. I would absolutely love for him to get more screen time, but maybe via means of substory of him being happy in life and something unexpected happening to him.
2. haruka being the damsel in distress to me is fine, but the rest of orphanage kids not having almost anyone left there to watch over them rubs me the wrong way. Mikio (i think that was the name of Rikiya's sidekick?) hasn't appeared in any game since 3. What I would love to see is someone like Taichi, who already has wrestling aspirations, join Ichi's team, or maybe even Kiryu's (though that would undo y6).
i loved every single part in Y5 but shinada’s part is genuinely on such a different level
I actually think Saejima's section was one of the best parts of the game. It feels cozy and nostalgic
Man misses the Joint
I really liked the part of Yakuza 5 when one of the Yakuza 5s said "I"m homeless :(" , then beat up a dude and get a plate thats worth like 5trillion yen or something.
This is one of the best games in the entire franchise for one singular reason. Shinada. My beloved.
I hate Saejima's section. Why did I run through the snow for hours? I just wanted to play as Shinada.
Akiyama should’ve had a full section, or perhaps alongside Tanimura which could’ve worked well with the whole investigative aspect of the section.
@@idfkimaclown and Shinada should have had 2 solo sections. No, in fact, he should have had 3. Actually, stuff that. Shinada should have had a 40 hour campaign and we play as Kiryu for 1 hour at the end and tiger drop a few people, before it goes back to Shinada and we can swing a few baseball bats.
Why play the entire series when there is yakuza 5 part 4
yea playing as shinada is cool! but did you know that he can throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
@@Hezzadude12 cringe is hard here
in my opinion, Y5 is the best one, the amount of things that u do is insane,the taxi thing and the haruka story is so sweet yet sad, truly a perfect game.
BTW I wish that my ps4 didn't inexplicably broke about 2 months ago, and GOD I miss the random times that I said "u know what, I will play Y5" and just start playing
As a rhythm game fan, I honestly enjoyed Haruka's section of this game but if I had to choose between that and Haruka taking after Kiryu and beating up fools on the street, I'd choose the latter in a heartbeat. Or at least have her take self defense lessons so she has a similar combat style to Tanimura that revolves around parries and counters.
I liked the rhythm game part where you did street battles but needing to play the exact same song many times to 100% her section was hellish
I also enjoyed the rhythm game part but her learning to actually defend herself would have been a far better choice than going idol and Kiryu still having to constantly safe her ass
This game is a YUME to watch because the story is legit my favourite Yakuza story. (please steal my dog)
yay finaly came out
We are yakuza 5
i just started up 5 and this masterpiece releases. Amazing
the shinada grapple bit was so funny to me💀💀💀
throw an enemy to the ground. allowing you to do a number of heat actions doing a million damage
game should have just been called Shinada 5
yeah it should be called that because he can throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
Finally a new part, I've been waiting for this for the past 3 weeks and i can't wait to watch it
Dude..... A Karate Kid version of Haruka eould have been absolutely insane and id be all for it
Love the shoutouts for the good good boys in each part. One of my favorite things about 5 is the purely good and supportive side characters in each part. The real MVPs.
It was a DREAM to have this video posted
This was a dream-like retrospective 😂
Gotta love these Yakuza videos so far and I agree about Shinada, too bad he was gone after this one D:
ngl i outta nowhere LOVE this idea of direction of what if the game was centered around haruka doing karate, the akiyama part wwould also fit in well as you mentioned, i just donnt know how kiryus part would fit in
My favorite game out of the franchise, thanks for the highlight !
I've been conditioned to see the word "retrospective" and expect an hour long minimum video. A 13 minute one threw me off guard ngl.
Haruka telling who Kiryu is was the biggest blunder of the game:
"Hello do you know Kiryu Kazuma? - Yeah he is my dad so if you want to fuck with him go capture me or something, here's also our home address, PO Box, bank details, medical information and shoe size"
also yume, story sucks besides shinada
I loved this game as a whole and enjoyed all the side activities, it was really nice to see some experimenting.
I had no idea about the whole "hold down the camera reset button to not accidentally do a heat action" thing! That would have saved me so much agony!!!
The taiko minigame is literally the reason I got into yakuza, I wanted to know who John yakuza was and why he was a taxi driver lmao
Yakuza 5 will always be one of my favorites, definitely in the top 5.
The thumbnail was literally me last night. I (admittedly) haven’t even played Yakuza 5 yet--there’s something about Shinada man
Not to mention the Forbidden Word, but I’m pretty sure (excluding songs) they say Yume like 480 times total in the game. There’s a compilation somewhere out there
"Mostly unchanged from the original translation, which was very accurate to the source material."
"Only children believe in dragons."
Shinada good.
he’s also good at throwing enemies to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
>The game is called Yakuza 0
>features 2 playable protagonists instead of 0 as was advertised
I FEEL CHEATED AND LIED TO.
Yume, Dream. Jokes on you I don' t have a dog.
Shinada is my yume man and I dream about him every single night
fr he can throw an enemy to the ground, allowing him to do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
@@Yakazoo true he can also transition from a combo to a grab in 1 frame allowing him to throw the enemy to the ground and do a number of heat actions that deal a million damage
I Didnt know rgg make binary domain that game was pretty decent but have nothing ground breaking tho, i do agree with the spawn kuza meme even with a mod that reduce the spawn by 30 % it still way to much
The amount of Shinada stan-ing in this video makes me happy.
That is all
Still in the top 3 Yakuza games, this and 0 where the series peaked (the Judgement games were pretty good too). I liked the Haruka part, after getting thorugh the Kiryu and Saejima part it's a nice change of pace to just relax and not fight everyone for an hour or two. Also we don't need more Shinada stuff, his story was great but he did his part and got his happy ending (same with Tanimura from 4 though he is probably dead).
I LOVED this game, from the very start I knew that this was the longest game in the series so I took my time with it, and it is to this day one of my favs in the franchise, and I pray to every single god there is that rgg bring back Shinada in any way to a new yakuza game
Despite its cheesiness, Baka Mitai is truly a beautifully written song and it blows my mind that it was written for a video game. At first I assumed it was an existing Japanese pop song from the 80’s or something. I used to do a lot of songwriting and would have been extremely proud to have come up with that melody.
Shinada my beloved. The creature and the one true god.
5 was one of my favorites in the series. Just really fun.
DUDE THE SOSUKE KOMAKI/HARUKA THING WOULD'VE BEEN SO SICK
My first playthrough of Yakuza 5 was about 60 hours. Half of it was me dozing off during Saejima's chapter, the other half was me struggling to get from anywhere to a save point (there were a shit ton of street encounters)
i am glad they finally got rid of the ridiculous phone booth thing in 6 and you can save via your phone. Yakuza 5 is actually one of my fave Yakuza games but the Saejima chapter was BORING. and it sucks because he is such a beast in battle. i HATED the hunting missions sucked some of em were mandatory. the second i could get off that mountain i did i HATED that part
Me playing Shinada's story: "Wow! This might be the greatest game in the series!"
Me playing Saejima's story: "Wow! This might be the worst game in the series!"
Kiryu's stuff is alright ig
XCX is my favorite of all time game. I'm honored to have it mentioned here. Also, use XCX in a endcard sometime :c
I will use it in the Judgment video just for you and definitely not because I was already planning on doing that or anything :)
@@SnowiestAngeman YESSS I LOVE YOU, THANK YOU 😭 Literally the greatest thing this month
~~pretend this is crossed out like its Discord or something lmao. But you should make the Track for it Melancholia, if you haven't decided. C:~~
Anyway, back to my hole waiting for XCX Switch port, ty, I await the next Retrospective eagerly
Ngl Daigo theme makes me tear up every time and I dont know why
bro remembered to upload
What caught my interest, is that Haruka went through quite a bit during her chapter, then, it looked like she could really use someone. And Akiyama thankfully was there and stepped in.
Haruka fighting is nothing more than a DREAM
or a modder's reality
Yume
I dont have a dog, I AM the dog
Haruka being a martial artist feels way more in line with her character, especially how she was in 3 and 4
Is no one going to talk about kiryu's brilliant decision of leaving 10+ defenseless kids alone unsupervised?
My headcannon is that Kiryu asked Mikio and Nakahara to watch over them lol. I'm sad those guys never appeared after 3.
Lol Haruka's part is my second favorite section of the game, but to each their own. Love your retrospectives with these.
Give us a Shinada spinoff, we need it
6:34 doesn't it work the same way in 0 and kiwami? I'm pretty sure they're marked with a different color on the minimap
dream
For me, Yakuza 5 is the best game in the franchise, and one of my favorite games ever, I love it so much.
I don't think you talked about Shinada enough, can we get a video on Shinada?
That Haruka karate plot sounds like a Cobra Kai spinoff and I love it.
You forgot the fact that characters in this game says YUME a lot. Which is the perfect way to describe this game, except of course Shinada.
Jesus I wish I knew about that camera-reset not using any heat thingy a couple years ago
Akiyama is based as shit and I will not stand by this slander, dude's combat style slaps
Yeah no, any criticism I could've possibly said was thrown out the window, cause I fully agree we should've been able to kick ass as Haruka
Enemy leader mechanic is kind of a necessity in Y5. The amount of goons on the street is ridiculous. When I started Y5 I got into a chain battle of literally 3 enemy groups engaging me one after another in a span of seconds. It was a big what the actual f moment. After I figured out the leader bit the battles became A LOT faster.
I really hope that kiryu's party in 8 is going to contain shinada. I know deep down that it probably won't but by god, PLEASE rgg
Hey snowie, well done
This was the Yakzua game I actually had trouble with, and that was because of the final boss, it kicked my ass. I think its probably because I'm not great at these games in general, but this one was rough.
Thank you for giving my man Shinada the respect he deserves 👏
Holy crap your idea for fixing Haruka's segment is GENIUS
My dream, also known as "yume" in Japanese, is for Shinada to return in a future game.
everyday I wake up and realize there's no Shinada after 5 I get all depressed n shiz
Damn bro that Karate idea for Haruka was genuinely great. It also would of removed that horrid plot point of Majima having an ex wife he was abusive to.
Great video yet again 👏👏🎊
I want to say that the enemy leader mechanic in Yakuza 5 was reused at least somewhat in Zero, but not quite to the same extent. I've had many encounters where if I beat the nearest enemy to me when the encounter starts with a Heat Action and just knock him out instantly, at least one or two of the enemies get scared, even late game. Otherwise, enemies at low health, if allowed to get back up, get angry instead, and more or less it's pretty much like this game after that. So I guess they nerfed that mechanic but also kinda didn't? I dunno. It's not worth paying attention to in the grand scheme of things, I know, I just couldn't help but notice it.
Honestly, we should take a good look at Haruka's development throughout the series and see if it was really necessary to make her a playable character in fights or if that would ruin the character.
Pretty much wholly agree with this. I played every game in order after playing 0 and the plotting of this and 4 suffer so much by splitting the stories the way they do and, yes, also things like Saejima's areas being boring and small. Still. I look forward to playing it again someday :) and I miss and love Shinada
I will also openly admit that I didn't have the best opinion of Shinada's moveset, and that the game really is easy enough to get through it without taking advantage of it. But after seeing his heat actions and a few videos on how to actually get the most out of his moveset, let alone discovering that he's supposed to be a weapon master? Now I actually want to play this game again and see how far I can take that. See how much easier I would've had it if I just played more into the emphasis on weapons.
I think the enemy leader mechanic was also in 3,4 ,there were these enemies who double health bars but once you kill them, other enemies would sometimes (as in a less common chance) fear you. Maybe its just me but i feel like it did exist in the other two games
Certified Shinada Moment
Finally, one of the best games in the series
My second favorite Yakuza after 0.
I aspire to become a man like Tatsuo Shinada
0:50 Oh hey the random anecdote I gave under one of the other videos about the circus that was the PS3 translation got in.
Nice.
I love this game. Probably my favorite in the series, and took about 120 hours to complete.
I’m a girl around Haruka’s age currentlu, Haruka’s section was the fucking BOMB !!! She just like me fr AAAAAAA it was cool as hell. Also I just love Akiyama :3
I counted once how many times dream was said in this game and it was 105
honestly if I could play a version of the game that's just Shinada I'd take it in a heartbeat haha
I remember the first time I got to Haruka's section in this game. I was so excited thinking that maybe she would learn a dancing fighting style like Majima's in 0, just for hopes to be crushed
There is this one thought about this game was how much this game would've either got screwed over or screwed on GTA V if it were released months/weeks before that game.