Mario Party had a decent solution to this. Have an in-game setting that can be toggled at any time to switch from rumble to an on-screen !! for anything that used rumble
not necessarily a "bad ability" outright, but the fact yakuza kiwami requires you to buy the extreme heat actions for different styles without telling you that you basically need them to do boss fights always felt like bad design. the tutorial for it just gives you the heat action and the game never tells you that weapon based heat actions can be used as a substitute instead, so you might spend early portions of the game dealing with bosses who just unstoppably recover big chunks of health because you didn't realize that it was possible to build wrong in a game that lets you somewhat freely build your character.
@@MariusBoss11458 you only need to do majima everywhere for the dragon's extreme heat attack the others you can get without him might take quite awhile but hey you can still can
It IS one of the first upgrades available to you, though it's still only unlockable style-by-style. I mean like, I had all three of em by the Shimano fight just from beating on regular thugs in the street, since they're unlockable one after the other in the second tier of abilities in the Soul tree. Each of them is 3 skill points a pop, which is a far cry from the 50-85 points it takes to get some of the more advanced abilities later on. The real problem is that, as Name says, they straight up don't tell you about them, and the Dragon style one is deep in the Majima Everywhere system as Marius Boss says. That's definitely a major failing of Kiwami, since the attacks are also basically useless in standard mob fights. A little more clarity would have been great. I always saw the Shimano fight as, if you don't have the Rush Kiwami attack, a tutorial in looking around the arena for improvised weapons and taking opportunities to interrupt his healing with a Heat attack. He heals exactly two times, and there's exactly two lanterns in the arena to bash his head in with. It's not a perfect system, but I think that's what they were "trying" to go for. It doesn't seem like they succeeded, because this isn't the only time I've seen people complaining about this exact thing, including several friends of mine very (justifiably) frustrated at Kiwami's opening act.
Counterpoint, Ykauza uses smoking as a limiter to the lads' superhuman abilities. Imagine if Akiyama quit smoking after 5 Kiryu would never leave with that bloody baby lmao
i gave yagami liver cancer when I did the girls bite story, id drink as much as i could, then use ex drunken fist outside the bar to go completely sober then repeat
I think the smoking ability has to do more with characterization, rather than it actually being a useful tool. It's meant to represent Yagami's tendency for unhealthy habits, especially considering his mental state at the start of Judgment. It is true that other than that it's useless. I think the better way to do it would have been to just make the ability innate and not require SP to unlock. I think that would've made sense.
If you talk to a homeless guy in the park Yagami might tell him about the time he got blackout drunk and slept for two days, and how cool that was. The homeless man will then tell him he should "maybe make better life decisions."
@@ryanhernandez8324 Just got that, it was both funny and sad. "I know I'm in no position to say this, but maybe you should do something more with your life"
Yeah if it wasn't an ability it would be fine. It'd be like if you had to actually unlock an ability to be healed from eating food or get your heat up from drinking alcohol. But at the same time, if we're talking characterisation of Yagami, he has a wallet chain so therefore he smells
@@SnowiestAngeman Personally the fact that half his wallet sticks out of the tiny back pocket of his women's skinny jeans is a greater offense than him putting a chain on it
The series has quite a plethora of abilities that feel like they could've been properly tuned but have remained the same regardless but I think the one that hit's me the most are Shinada's grapples. The fact that literally half the dude's kit is invalidated due to the enemy counter grab mechanics really sucks and makes me wonder why they didn't do anything to make it more nuanced to allow for more variety with him.
Fortunately the Snake style's reliance on grabs were actually done well because you can still throw bosses and whatnot, unlike Shinada's 'cause I know what you mean. Bosses in Yakuza 5 just give you a big middle finger half the time when you press the grab button lol
If there's one thing that the Munakata fight in 4 can be praised for, it's the fact that the bodyguard swarm actually plays to Tanimura's strengths: each and every one of them can be subjected to his special grab and parry, and combined with the Heat gain on parries skill and Tanimura getting Heat actions for every finisher, and you can basically spam heat actions as the guards drop all around you. Of course the old guy with a gun is still a problem, but still. As for Snake, even if bosses in LJ were immune to grabs, it still wouldn't be that big of a deal. Yagami has 2 (or 3) fully functional styles which don't have that weakness, while unarmed Shinada is kinda crap without his grabs.
@@creativename1673 Yeah, Snake style is honestly really cool. I don't even mind the fact that you can spam the parry frames anymore since being able to do it mid combo easily makes up for it.
Also it only procs at level 6 or above drunkenness, so it's kinda like a nuance where yagamo wants to keep a good buzz without getting all hammered, cus then it just loops back.
You forgot how most of Majima's slugger style abilities feel wasted since they just unlock weapons which should already have been unlocked to begin with.
Attack speed shouldn’t be an upgrade imo, all it does it make combat sluggish and unfun until you grind for a decent speed. Crane style in Judgment wasnt viable for me until i got the final speed upgrade, then it kicked ass. Yakuza 0’s 3 gear system was fun though IDK if it’d be a good video idea but i wonder what abilities should be fundamental instead of upgrades
@@electroshock1021 He can use them before those upgrades, he unlocks a better moveset for each one with the upgrades. Without them he just has the same weapon movesets that Kiryu does.
Thankfully Lost Judgment just had the max combo speed by default lol. Yakuza 0's gear mechanic still pisses me off because there's no way to upgrade your heat and you need to deal with such a massive trade-off each time you use your heat because you transform into a slug >:(
@@zealous404 One thing I figured out is that hitting enemies with attacks not targeting them won't bounce off even if they block, so Crane becomes alittle better if you target a new enemy with each attack; since enemies in the series tend to not block the first attack.
Bruh the EX Drunken Fist is pretty lit, but it’s so frustrating whenever I use it without meaning too. Like I usually try to save it for a big enemy when I’m about to drop below level 6 drunkenness, but it’s so easy to mess up. And lol that you use flux fissure to generate heat because I literally do the same thing
@@logandunlap9156 I've 100% the entire series other than Like a Dragon and not a single one of the games ever mentioned supressing heat actions with L2. Its definitely not common knowledge.
@@mvmusic8467 ....It's in the tutorials. So yes, they do tell you. Just because you didn't bother reading the tooltips doesn't mean none of the games ever mention it, cause they do.
The absolute worst ability in this series imo are all the ones that increase the healing effects of food, for a couple reasons. 1) Getting money is easy as hell, and saving money on a meal is trivial 2) Don't you actually want to heal less so you can eat more food and get closer to menu completion + experience each time you visit a restaurant?
It's only useful when you can pay for stomach removal, which is 5K SP in Judgment and *90K* in LJ (50K for book from Onodera + 40K to learn). Until then, you can catch me outside Sushi Gin/Restaurant Row beating every mf who steps up into a pulp.
Shinada's grab counter in y5 is just only good with just basic enemies if they're not the main enemy in the fight, even though you can just dodge and grab and not worry about messing up the timing with it, to this day i still don't know why the grab counter had at least something like the kiryu's grab parry
In my opinion, the EX Drunken Fist actually has good uses in LJ but mainly for one single reason that is the girl’s bar since it makes it WAY faster to sober up
>"I wonder how Emily-chan's doing." >Go see her >Talk for hours >Play darts literally ONE TIME BECAUSE THEY LIMIT YOU FOR SOME FUC-- >Get sloshed >Step outside >Locate nearest victims >"I wonder how Emily-chan's doing." >"Takayuki, you have a problem."
The Brawler Heavy Attack Combo (Trianglex3) from Zero and Kiwami (especially Kiwami) Its the absolute worst abillity because: Its really slow so it sucks as a follow up. It consumes Heat While dealing pitiful damage. And it eats your triangle input which is otherwise used for the chat brawler Kick or the stomp- both much more useful than the Heavy Attack Combo. I hate it so much
Compare it to pressing Triangle in EX Boost with Kaito's Bruiser where it can juggle enemies. The Brawler one is so worthless that it would actually buff Kiryu if it wasn't in the game lol
as a console user i found that vibrate was the most useful skill for me. since i am very prone to motion sickness, the active search sections become a nightmare for me , but the vibrate saves me all the time from getting a headache because if not i end up searching for too long way past my limit... wish they could have added it into lost judgment + implemented a similar accessibility function into PC for fellow motion sickness havers
I think one of. my biggest issues with LAD skills is just the status effects one. In this game compared to Persona for example, putting your enemies to certain statuses is actually really good. It gives you a huge moment to abuse certain things but most of the time they're 50/50 or even worse a 30/70 chance to beat your enemies with it. Edit: Even better that I feel weird on this game's blunt skill balancing, like Joon Gi Han's Combo Beat can do better damage than any of his other blunt skill that costs like 2x-4x above it. Same goes to his stun smash. Also the fact Essence of Mayhem can do more damage than Orbital Laser is weird lmao.
Thug Style has its own equivalent to the Brawler resolute counter where you can attack right after being hit but its kind of worthless. Thug style is all about dodging so having a counter for when you get hit goes against the point of the style and is also an active detriment since it’s drains heat. I spam buttons when trying combos but if I mess up and get hit I just waste heat on shit damage and that’s only if it lands since the attack can be so slow that you just get hit again, losing even more heat. Also Akiyama’s air attacks aren’t useless but I generally dislike using them since I find the normal combos way more satisfying so I kind of have to control my rush combos a lot more than I usually would
Majima's eye pokey slappy counter thing when you get hit also has a massive window between when you get hit and when you can press the button for some reason. In the gameplay recording I had when I was trying to do the Thug counter I actually did that move by accident like 5 times which pissed me off haha
in judgment (not sure if its only on pc or not, only played on pc) one ability has the description "prevents being stunned by enemies when at low hp" or something like that but it actually makes your dodge attacks stun enemies im pretty sure
I've never actually used that ability because I am addicted to eating sushi sets lol, but I have noticed that the description and the image don't match up. I have no idea what it actually does
Kinda off-topic, but one thing that bugged me about Lost Judgment's Drunken Fist EX action is that Yagami's face is completely static throughout the whole thing. In Judgment, he had this funny "I'm so wasted" grin on his face before getting plastered and then kinda recovered afterward. In LJ, he's just stone-faced the whole way through. Same thing happens with the Yagami/Kaito tag team move, too.
Personally, i think all upgrades that increase health gain on dining pretty much makes completion runs longer unless i missed out on an item that lets me eat at max hp
For getting up the completion list, yes it absolutely sucks balls lol. I remember when my friend played Judgment he bought that ability very early and he regretted it his entire playthrough haha. At least once you get bottomless stomach it can actually be useful if you purely want to spend as little money on healing but like it barely costs anything anyway
Nice, pretty instructive, as I am a birdbrain individual, I tend to always forget most of the abilities I unlock in those games, I had no idea about the smokes in Judgment and Lost Judgment, and the almighty power that is Flux Fissure. That will teach me to pay more attention. Good video!
the roll that replaces fordward dodging while running in yk2, i recall getting use out of it once and it more often than not screwed me over since i was trying to do a normal dodge
The main complaint I have about the latest entries is that by the end of the game you are so OP that you slaughter the final bosses like nothing, so anticlimactic Edit: I’m currently playing kiwami 2s story mode while keeping the attack below 140 😐 lets hope ryuji puts up a good fight
@@SnowiestAngeman I feel like im getting clapped more in both Judgments on PC than i did on PS4, maybe the 30 fps gave me all the time in the world for my piss poor reaction time.
Basically this. I made a mistake of upgrading every atk power upgrade and even in hard mode (haven't tried legend) a lot of the battles finished very quickly.
The only thing I like about smoking in Judgment is going to the smoking area next to the batting cages and watch the dialogue between the teen baseball player and his girlfriend
I think the Judgment vibration skill is really good actually, mainly because I play on console. It was super helpful for finding stuff, so I wouldn't call it useless. It's only like that due to an oversight on PC. Shout out to Tiger Dances with Crane, for on average doing slightly higher damage than Tiger's triangle combo EX action for your ENTIRE EX guage.
That skill in Judgment is handy I'm not denying that. You wouldn't regret *not* buying it, but if you exclusively play the game with a keyboard and mouse it is definitely worthless
Another example of the game lying is in 7, a tip says restaurants give exp and combos give exp bonuses, which seems to be an oversight. Also in a benefit, Majima's stab counter doesn't require 3rd heat, it just drains all of it.
@@SnowiestAngeman another one I noticed: Peerless Resolve says it recovers HP in addition to preventing a KO. It does not, I assume it did at one point but was removed for balancing. The Batting Cage also just give incorrect information. Haven't played Judgment but I'd wager a guess all this is Ctrl+V from that game.
Every single time a Sega game doesn't properly inform you of something that turns out to be pretty important, I keep hearing the Carnival Night Zone music. You know if you know.
PS: Rolling Snake. Literally no reason to keep it to the 2nd Heat Bar other than they can just program it like that apparently, and it's actually pretty shit compared to other heat action grabs you can do with other styles. Considering Yakuza Zero is a game where you can style switch, and the game lets you unlock abilities that literally reward you for doing so (i.e. being able to attack in the middle of style switching), this is kind of a dogshit ability.
This series has an issue with giving characters abilities that could be useful except they only work against basic enemies where you don't need them, essentially making them superfluous. The most glaring examples are the various Red Heat abilities in 5 (not Extreme Heat Actions). Kiryu's is the only one where it's always usable. Bosses and difficult enemies won't let you use Tiger Puppetry on them because they refuse to be knocked down, or kick out of your down grab. Slash kick is only useful for tacking on damage on downed bosses since they refuse to be launched/will roll out of your air combo instantly. And bosses just perform a reversal on My Meteor Tackle if you don't slam them into a wall frame 1. Now that I think about it, Extreme Heat in 5 is also really poopy considering how easy it is to use it when you don't want it. As soon as you build full extreme heat, you have to dance around not accidentally wasting it if you want to save it for a boss. Not to mention how you have to go out of your way to be in a situation to use some of them. Like Ultimate Essence is basically unusable since you're spending the entire game with 2 health bars.
You forgot majimas thug sight me nor any of my friends ever once had any use for it because the likely hood of a enemy having a concealed weapon compared to a weapon out in the open is low
Before playing Judgment myself I didn't see the point of drunken ex skill full sover effect, but the fact that it sobers you up makes it easier for me to complete drinks in kamurocho, so I'm kinda glad it works that way?
(9:00) You forgot...to have a great day 😁 But also (I apologize in advance for improper terminology since it's been years) for the later parts I would say the dragon mode in yakuza5 because I'm constantly either holding down the L2 (PS controller) to avoid going into it or I'm using up heat when I don't want to.
The menu showing the wrong input for Thug Cunning: Harsh Lesson is especially weird since, when you're doing your training with Komaki to learn it, the game tells you the RIGHT input.
The Skewer ability for the Bodyguard job is absolute shit since it makes you take unnecessary damage. Plus it’s the only Blade skill that carries over to other classes unless you buy the Demon Rocker class
I'll always consider Akiyama's backflip launcher from 5 the worst, it completely ruins the flow of heavier strikes and just makes him even harder to deal with multiple enemy groups, which he gets a lot.
There is a mod that changes the input for that and Kiryus extreme heat mode on Nexusmods, so you can actually choose to use Akiyamas launchers or not and actually taunt as Kiryu with Heat.
All the Yakuza 5 special heat things are kinda butt in my opinion lol. Kiryu's is good for becoming invincible but I would just rather be allowed to taunt and not get a free anti-damage pass haha
You forgor hey good video, even though I love y7 it's got so many useless and redundant skills it's insane, and most fights lategame boil down to the same two or three skills and a kiwami move that gets spammed every free turn. Love the game, like I said, but man do I hope y8 (sorry, "Like A Dragon 8" 🤡) is better balanced
So with JE and LJ, each style has a unique combo and EX action when you’re in EX Boost. Snake Style’s EX Boost EX action is a little misleading. While Tiger and Crane are easy to pull off, I have a lot of trouble doing the same for Snake for some reason, because when the enemy gets tossed, it creates too much distance for the button prompt to show up. BUT, if I pull off the same maneuver in front of the wall, it reduces distance and I’m able to do the special EX Boost EX action. Idk if it’s just me not being great at using Snake, but I’m very certain it’s the game.
Nah man I have used that ability a total of 2 times despite trying to use it about 100 times lol. It definitely does throw the enemy too far to be useful
Psywave is definitely a bad move, but Magnitude isn't that bad of a move. Sure, the damage varies, but it's still 100 percent accurate and can still do solid damage early on when you don't have access to Earthquake. Earthquake will always be the better move, but don't sleep on Magnitude in the early game. Great video, btw.
I dont see an issue with the ishin special charged finisher I find it pretty useful especially considering heat actions dont do alot of damage in the game
Sometimes I wish moves would get replaced by their stronger counterparts instead of just cluttering the action menú but then you have moves like drop kick.
The smoking thing works for the early hours of judgment, I remember starting that game and with how slow yagami hits without upgrades, ex moves were vital on hard and legend difficulty so having an extra bar helped. But after a couple of upgrades (ignoring flux fissure) it's pointless to smoke.
You'd think that, for how much Yagami apparently loves to smoke, the devs would've given him Kiryu's smoking taunt and the Heat move off it, where Kiryu spits a lit cigaratte into a charging enemy's eye before punching him really hard. I always liked that taunt, and since every dude in the series smokes like a 60 year old grandma with no abandon, everyone should just have that Heat move for free.
Sluggers grab escape is a bad upgrade, It only works when have 0 heat so it's incredibly situational. Another is snakes serpent strike, it kicks enemies away when you parry which is bad as it makes combos harder to set up.
This video has me thinking about the intentions behind bad abilities in general. I seriously wonder when it comes to game design just how much consideration is given to each weapon. On one hand, you have to do the math to determine the stats and damage it can do. There are times when something is made bad on purpose mostly just to fill space or maybe game designers have caught on to the fact some people use them for an extra challenge. However, in cases like smoking ability in judgment being somewhat worthless in comparison to others is somewhat useless and lost judgment clearly recognized the fact it didn't do much so they made a better and more expensive ability to go with it.
Then in Gaiden smoking was really OP for the coliseum because you could just skip the smoking animation and go back in with full heat after about 4 cigs.
While it's not for normal combat, IMHO, Haruka's heat action that lowers the enemy's heat gauge is just like... completely and utterly useless in almost every possible situation because you could just, y'know, either heal yourself or damage the enemy instead to do the EXACT same thing you're trying to do by lowering their heat gauge, but more directly. There's also just a large amount of heat actions that are so ridiculously situational (be in red flashing health with 3 enemies near you while standing next to this specific thing that only appears in like 3 areas of the game) that they're just not worth unlocking, because you'll never end up using them. Additionally, the weapon training (and I'd even go so far as to argue half of Kiryu's training...) in the earlier games just like... don't provide anything that makes them worth the time investment to get them outside of being required for 100%. Like after unlocking Tonfas, I literally never used them in 0, 1 or 2. And like, the ENTIRETY of Kiryu's training in 1 is just such an insane time investment for how late in the story you gain access to it that it's just like "Ah, yes, let me go grind for 4 hours to use Tiger Drop on the last 2-3 bosses of the game!" (Same with the IFR training in half the games that feature it.) I'd also argue that like, 90% of upgrades in 0 are technically useless. Like, for Majima, you're just best off using breaker style for literally everything, so any non-health upgrade in any other style is utterly useless aside from the legend style upgrades. And while Kiryu DOES get more use out of his styles, almost none of the situational stuff ends up actually being used. K2's also got a TON of utterly Useless upgrades due to the simple fact that you can get unbreakable weapons fairly early on that completely and utterly destroy everything in the game, and become even more ridiculously stupid once you get the high-end katanas. Like, I literally beat both the final boss of K2 and the final non-bouncer-mission Amon fight in 30 seconds each by just wailing on them with the best Katana. And that was on Hard, lul. Also while they're not really something you invest in as you just get them for free for completing the side story, like half of Saeijima's skills in Hunter Killer are like... actually useless.
All of crane style in both judgment games. It's kinda fun, but it's absolutely outclassed by Tiger, and the few advantages it provides are eclipsed by Snake in LJ. Also, all of Tanimura's style. I know he's the tortoise and all, but playing Yakuza defensively sucks.
4:47 didn't they say at the beginning of each games "real yakuza/detective use a controller"? They do not recommend using keyboard at all, so no surprise there's no keyboard exclusive features...
Seriously though, screw that Thug counter. Drains your heat, does fuck all in terms of damage and is absolutely outclassed by that rolling 2nd heat bar Breaker move (which GIVES you heat, by the way). Oh, and maybe it's just me, but the timing on the thing felt like a bitch to get right.
Some of the most worthless abilities in the franchise are, in my opinion, a handful of ones related to the tailing in Judgment. Now, don’t get me wrong, tailing in Judgment benefits from any help you can get, but there is one in particular that just isn’t useful, that being the one that makes breaking objects cause the suspicion meter to rise less. That might SOUND useful on paper, but think about the context surrounding Tailing sections: you’re generally going pretty slow and aren’t running around like a fool. Therefore, if you’re actually trying to succeed in them, breaking objects is a complete non-issue, and if you are constantly breaking objects during them, chances are that you’re doing something else that’s going to get you spotted anyways. Another one from Judgment that really isn’t that useful is Key to Success, which makes it so that if you already unlocked a door with a key, you automatically choose the correct key to unlock it next time. It’s one of the cheaper ones, running at only 100 SP, but it’s less of a useful ability and more something that will save you maybe 3-10 seconds at a time. Convenient, but not really useful, and especially not worth getting when you consider all the other useful abilities that run for the same price, like a lot of the EX Actions, the Thumb-turn bypass upgrades, etc.
the union 5.56 can reach pretty high concealment while maintaining max stability and near max accuracy and its speedpull mag makes it a pretty comfortable weapon mayhem and below
Tbf if you're playing Yakuza on a keyboard or mouse that's on you. Should be common knowledge that 3rd person action games are designed solely for controller to begin with. Literally every single game in the series opens by telling you to use a controller.
Majima's thug cunning: counterattack from 0, way too easy to trigger for piss poor damage and heat drain, Kiryu's version is also not that good, but it gets better with upgrades and you can use grab instead of light/heavy attack.
So let me get this straight if i write "you forgot..." in the comments i get a free visit from the man, the myth, the legend, snowiest angeman for free!? I don't get why nobody would do that.
While playing the remake of Ishin I came across another ability that’s pretty pointless to me, it’s called vain tengu for wild dancer and the description says press L1 (parry) while attacking to parry an attack from all directions but when I press L1 during a rush combo nothing happens and I get hit and just pressing it normally already parries attacks from all directions anyway so I’m not sure what this ability actually does or if the timing is just really tight
Smoking barely costs sp to unlock and gives u another easy way to fill up ex. Once u have friends and the food and drink ex abilities u can have full ex bar all the time
isn't realise spelt with a z?
Both are fine.
Australians and Brits spell it with an S, only NA uses a Z
I kindly refer you to the very bottom of the description
Oh no….
prepare for the slap because you said crap
If you think about it, Judgment's smoking is excellent anti-smoking propaganda
Akiyama should watch that cutscene for 1 hour
Lmao. That's literally excellent propaganda there
Reminds me of in DMC5 when every time the mechanic lady lights up, basically everyone starts yelling at her to stop
yet Yagami can get fucking *PLASTERED* and access the best heat action in the game and a bunch of other buffs
@@raikoedgymoto true
Vibrate skill should make your computer rattle violently for PC users
I was going to suggest a prompt on your screen - but this is a MUCH better idea!!! Hahahah
It causes your tower to briefly get very hot.
Mario Party had a decent solution to this. Have an in-game setting that can be toggled at any time to switch from rumble to an on-screen !! for anything that used rumble
Can confirm, any time I hovered my cursor over an investigate-able area I had to personally beat it down so it doesn't fall over.
I would suggest that it ramps up your fans to 100% instead. You'll definitely notice that.
not necessarily a "bad ability" outright, but the fact yakuza kiwami requires you to buy the extreme heat actions for different styles without telling you that you basically need them to do boss fights always felt like bad design. the tutorial for it just gives you the heat action and the game never tells you that weapon based heat actions can be used as a substitute instead, so you might spend early portions of the game dealing with bosses who just unstoppably recover big chunks of health because you didn't realize that it was possible to build wrong in a game that lets you somewhat freely build your character.
I know what you mean. It should've been one of the first upgrades and it should've given it to you for all 4 styles lol
@@SnowiestAngeman Instead. We gotta do Majima everywhere. Hmm. Wonder if the Modding Community's eating good
@@MariusBoss11458 you only need to do majima everywhere for the dragon's extreme heat attack the others you can get without him might take quite awhile but hey you can still can
It IS one of the first upgrades available to you, though it's still only unlockable style-by-style. I mean like, I had all three of em by the Shimano fight just from beating on regular thugs in the street, since they're unlockable one after the other in the second tier of abilities in the Soul tree. Each of them is 3 skill points a pop, which is a far cry from the 50-85 points it takes to get some of the more advanced abilities later on.
The real problem is that, as Name says, they straight up don't tell you about them, and the Dragon style one is deep in the Majima Everywhere system as Marius Boss says. That's definitely a major failing of Kiwami, since the attacks are also basically useless in standard mob fights. A little more clarity would have been great.
I always saw the Shimano fight as, if you don't have the Rush Kiwami attack, a tutorial in looking around the arena for improvised weapons and taking opportunities to interrupt his healing with a Heat attack. He heals exactly two times, and there's exactly two lanterns in the arena to bash his head in with. It's not a perfect system, but I think that's what they were "trying" to go for. It doesn't seem like they succeeded, because this isn't the only time I've seen people complaining about this exact thing, including several friends of mine very (justifiably) frustrated at Kiwami's opening act.
@@MariusBoss11458 Yes, the modding community is eating spectacularly. Legend Remix Kiwami dropped recently and oh my goodness it's great.
Counterpoint, Ykauza uses smoking as a limiter to the lads' superhuman abilities. Imagine if Akiyama quit smoking after 5 Kiryu would never leave with that bloody baby lmao
Lmaoo
If Kiryu never smoked, Kuze and Jingu would've stayed down
@@biggiecheese3753 cigarettes killed Nishiki and Yumi confirmed
@@biggiecheese3753 if Kiryu never smoked he'd beat all three lieutenants during their introduction
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola yeah but if all the lieutenants also quit smoking then we’d be back to square one
Its also noteworthy that smoking once uses an entire pack, because Yagami apparently inhales these things for breakfast.
He's gonna join Taichi Suzuki in the lung cancer party
i gave yagami liver cancer when I did the girls bite story, id drink as much as i could, then use ex drunken fist outside the bar to go completely sober then repeat
Ayo I did the same thing lmao
@@dudebroguyman anything for emily 🙏🏻
Very based
This is what I did as well.
Yagami can handle it
I think the smoking ability has to do more with characterization, rather than it actually being a useful tool. It's meant to represent Yagami's tendency for unhealthy habits, especially considering his mental state at the start of Judgment.
It is true that other than that it's useless. I think the better way to do it would have been to just make the ability innate and not require SP to unlock. I think that would've made sense.
If you talk to a homeless guy in the park Yagami might tell him about the time he got blackout drunk and slept for two days, and how cool that was. The homeless man will then tell him he should "maybe make better life decisions."
@@ryanhernandez8324 Just got that, it was both funny and sad. "I know I'm in no position to say this, but maybe you should do something more with your life"
Doesn’t Kiryu have a taunt where he lights a cigarette and with the right ability has a heat move where he flicks it at the enemy.
Yeah if it wasn't an ability it would be fine. It'd be like if you had to actually unlock an ability to be healed from eating food or get your heat up from drinking alcohol. But at the same time, if we're talking characterisation of Yagami, he has a wallet chain so therefore he smells
@@SnowiestAngeman Personally the fact that half his wallet sticks out of the tiny back pocket of his women's skinny jeans is a greater offense than him putting a chain on it
2:46 love how the cashier seems worried about how many packs Yagami is buying
The series has quite a plethora of abilities that feel like they could've been properly tuned but have remained the same regardless but I think the one that hit's me the most are Shinada's grapples. The fact that literally half the dude's kit is invalidated due to the enemy counter grab mechanics really sucks and makes me wonder why they didn't do anything to make it more nuanced to allow for more variety with him.
Fortunately the Snake style's reliance on grabs were actually done well because you can still throw bosses and whatnot, unlike Shinada's 'cause I know what you mean. Bosses in Yakuza 5 just give you a big middle finger half the time when you press the grab button lol
If there's one thing that the Munakata fight in 4 can be praised for, it's the fact that the bodyguard swarm actually plays to Tanimura's strengths: each and every one of them can be subjected to his special grab and parry, and combined with the Heat gain on parries skill and Tanimura getting Heat actions for every finisher, and you can basically spam heat actions as the guards drop all around you.
Of course the old guy with a gun is still a problem, but still.
As for Snake, even if bosses in LJ were immune to grabs, it still wouldn't be that big of a deal. Yagami has 2 (or 3) fully functional styles which don't have that weakness, while unarmed Shinada is kinda crap without his grabs.
@@creativename1673 Yeah, Snake style is honestly really cool. I don't even mind the fact that you can spam the parry frames anymore since being able to do it mid combo easily makes up for it.
I think the drunken fist EX move was pretty useful in Lost Judgment cause it hit multiple enemies at once and I’d just like to see yagami flail around
Also it only procs at level 6 or above drunkenness, so it's kinda like a nuance where yagamo wants to keep a good buzz without getting all hammered, cus then it just loops back.
It has its uses but there are a fair few heat actions that Yagami has that hits three enemies anyway and you can spam them haha
You forgot how most of Majima's slugger style abilities feel wasted since they just unlock weapons which should already have been unlocked to begin with.
"You forgot"
You poor bastard.
It's already too late for you now.
Dude...
rest in peace. now angeman will come to your house and fu-
I'll forgive you for saying you forgot because you are quite correct
@@SnowiestAngeman .....was looking forward to you coming to my house 👉👈
Attack speed shouldn’t be an upgrade imo, all it does it make combat sluggish and unfun until you grind for a decent speed. Crane style in Judgment wasnt viable for me until i got the final speed upgrade, then it kicked ass. Yakuza 0’s 3 gear system was fun though
IDK if it’d be a good video idea but i wonder what abilities should be fundamental instead of upgrades
Fundamental without the upgrades? Majima's skills in 0 that let him... use... weapons
@@electroshock1021 He can use them before those upgrades, he unlocks a better moveset for each one with the upgrades. Without them he just has the same weapon movesets that Kiryu does.
Thankfully Lost Judgment just had the max combo speed by default lol. Yakuza 0's gear mechanic still pisses me off because there's no way to upgrade your heat and you need to deal with such a massive trade-off each time you use your heat because you transform into a slug >:(
Crane is ass in Judgment anyways especially due to Dragon Engine block bounce attacks
@@zealous404 One thing I figured out is that hitting enemies with attacks not targeting them won't bounce off even if they block, so Crane becomes alittle better if you target a new enemy with each attack; since enemies in the series tend to not block the first attack.
Bruh the EX Drunken Fist is pretty lit, but it’s so frustrating whenever I use it without meaning too. Like I usually try to save it for a big enemy when I’m about to drop below level 6 drunkenness, but it’s so easy to mess up. And lol that you use flux fissure to generate heat because I literally do the same thing
this dude never heard of holding L2 to suppress heat actions/ex moves
@@logandunlap9156 Thanks bro, I forgot all about that little trick.
@@logandunlap9156 I've 100% the entire series other than Like a Dragon and not a single one of the games ever mentioned supressing heat actions with L2. Its definitely not common knowledge.
@@mvmusic8467 ....It's in the tutorials. So yes, they do tell you. Just because you didn't bother reading the tooltips doesn't mean none of the games ever mention it, cause they do.
@@arisen7513Year late, but I don’t think you can in 3 or 4, but in any game past 5 you can.
Amusingly, EX Drunken Fist's ability to instantly sober you up does have one use in Lost Judgment when you're trying to go through Girl's Bite.
or if you're being a completionist and need all the booze checked off
The absolute worst ability in this series imo are all the ones that increase the healing effects of food, for a couple reasons.
1) Getting money is easy as hell, and saving money on a meal is trivial
2) Don't you actually want to heal less so you can eat more food and get closer to menu completion + experience each time you visit a restaurant?
Yeah that ability is objectively bad. A lot of others mentioned are just useless.
It's only useful when you can pay for stomach removal, which is 5K SP in Judgment and *90K* in LJ (50K for book from Onodera + 40K to learn). Until then, you can catch me outside Sushi Gin/Restaurant Row beating every mf who steps up into a pulp.
Shinada's grab counter in y5 is just only good with just basic enemies if they're not the main enemy in the fight, even though you can just dodge and grab and not worry about messing up the timing with it, to this day i still don't know why the grab counter had at least something like the kiryu's grab parry
Yeah probably would've been better off being a throw like the Legend style one in Yakuza 0 rather than just grabbing them
Not sure, but that might be a Remaster issue, where enemies escape Shinada's grabs faster. The hercules gloves help a lot though.
I kinda like the smoking in Judgement, you got to hear random npc conversations and you can always just skip the smoking animation
i’ve had enough of Wette Kitchen and Wild Buffalo’s damned feud
I'm absolutely loving your narrated videos as of recent.
I dare say you're my new favorite Yakuza channel!
oh hi we have the same profile pic.
Thank you Gilford and hello other person with suspiciously the same profile picture
@4:47
They did actually do something about it. They added the “REAL DETECTIVES USE A GAMEPAD” screen when the game boots :)
In my opinion, the EX Drunken Fist actually has good uses in LJ but mainly for one single reason that is the girl’s bar since it makes it WAY faster to sober up
>"I wonder how Emily-chan's doing."
>Go see her
>Talk for hours
>Play darts literally ONE TIME BECAUSE THEY LIMIT YOU FOR SOME FUC--
>Get sloshed
>Step outside
>Locate nearest victims
>"I wonder how Emily-chan's doing."
>"Takayuki, you have a problem."
An enemy dropped a pack of smokes once in my 30 hours of judgement
The Brawler Heavy Attack Combo (Trianglex3) from Zero and Kiwami (especially Kiwami)
Its the absolute worst abillity because:
Its really slow so it sucks as a follow up.
It consumes Heat
While dealing pitiful damage.
And it eats your triangle input which is otherwise used for the chat brawler Kick or the stomp- both much more useful than the Heavy Attack Combo. I hate it so much
and also pretty easy to miss it and just dropkick the air
Compare it to pressing Triangle in EX Boost with Kaito's Bruiser where it can juggle enemies. The Brawler one is so worthless that it would actually buff Kiryu if it wasn't in the game lol
4:45 Niiiice
as a console user i found that vibrate was the most useful skill for me. since i am very prone to motion sickness, the active search sections become a nightmare for me , but the vibrate saves me all the time from getting a headache because if not i end up searching for too long way past my limit... wish they could have added it into lost judgment + implemented a similar accessibility function into PC for fellow motion sickness havers
I think one of. my biggest issues with LAD skills is just the status effects one. In this game compared to Persona for example, putting your enemies to certain statuses is actually really good. It gives you a huge moment to abuse certain things but most of the time they're 50/50 or even worse a 30/70 chance to beat your enemies with it.
Edit: Even better that I feel weird on this game's blunt skill balancing, like Joon Gi Han's Combo Beat can do better damage than any of his other blunt skill that costs like 2x-4x above it. Same goes to his stun smash. Also the fact Essence of Mayhem can do more damage than Orbital Laser is weird lmao.
Thug Style has its own equivalent to the Brawler resolute counter where you can attack right after being hit but its kind of worthless. Thug style is all about dodging so having a counter for when you get hit goes against the point of the style and is also an active detriment since it’s drains heat. I spam buttons when trying combos but if I mess up and get hit I just waste heat on shit damage and that’s only if it lands since the attack can be so slow that you just get hit again, losing even more heat.
Also Akiyama’s air attacks aren’t useless but I generally dislike using them since I find the normal combos way more satisfying so I kind of have to control my rush combos a lot more than I usually would
Majima's eye pokey slappy counter thing when you get hit also has a massive window between when you get hit and when you can press the button for some reason. In the gameplay recording I had when I was trying to do the Thug counter I actually did that move by accident like 5 times which pissed me off haha
for real though, thug is fast as hell
i remember beating laogui with just sidestep kicks
in judgment (not sure if its only on pc or not, only played on pc) one ability has the description "prevents being stunned by enemies when at low hp" or something like that but it actually makes your dodge attacks stun enemies im pretty sure
I've never actually used that ability because I am addicted to eating sushi sets lol, but I have noticed that the description and the image don't match up. I have no idea what it actually does
Kinda off-topic, but one thing that bugged me about Lost Judgment's Drunken Fist EX action is that Yagami's face is completely static throughout the whole thing. In Judgment, he had this funny "I'm so wasted" grin on his face before getting plastered and then kinda recovered afterward. In LJ, he's just stone-faced the whole way through. Same thing happens with the Yagami/Kaito tag team move, too.
Players in Judgement used Drunken Fist so much that Yagami lost all drunken feeling in his face, feelsbadman
Personally, i think all upgrades that increase health gain on dining pretty much makes completion runs longer unless i missed out on an item that lets me eat at max hp
For getting up the completion list, yes it absolutely sucks balls lol. I remember when my friend played Judgment he bought that ability very early and he regretted it his entire playthrough haha. At least once you get bottomless stomach it can actually be useful if you purely want to spend as little money on healing but like it barely costs anything anyway
You forgot to kiss the homies goodnight.
You raise a valid point
Nice, pretty instructive, as I am a birdbrain individual, I tend to always forget most of the abilities I unlock in those games, I had no idea about the smokes in Judgment and Lost Judgment, and the almighty power that is Flux Fissure. That will teach me to pay more attention. Good video!
9:03 you forgot the part where i want you to come to my house for an IRL long fight
Brawlers heavy attack combo in zero is worthless, like I can’t think of a single use where it’d be optimal
It's definitely useful. Well, if you define useful as "a complete waste of time" then yeah very useful haha
1:40 majima with his wife moment
I actually like EX druken fist in LJ. Makes one of the school stories much easier since you don't need to stock up on drinks to lower drunk state.
the roll that replaces fordward dodging while running in yk2, i recall getting use out of it once and it more often than not screwed me over since i was trying to do a normal dodge
True it's kinda bad. I forgot it existed until I read your comment to be honest haha
The main complaint I have about the latest entries is that by the end of the game you are so OP that you slaughter the final bosses like nothing, so anticlimactic
Edit: I’m currently playing kiwami 2s story mode while keeping the attack below 140 😐 lets hope ryuji puts up a good fight
Kiwami 2's very much that lol. Judgment's final boss is pretty hard, though. Even on Easy he can clap your cheeks
@@SnowiestAngeman I feel like im getting clapped more in both Judgments on PC than i did on PS4, maybe the 30 fps gave me all the time in the world for my piss poor reaction time.
Yakuza 5 moment, tiger drop his ass
Basically this. I made a mistake of upgrading every atk power upgrade and even in hard mode (haven't tried legend) a lot of the battles finished very quickly.
The only thing I like about smoking in Judgment is going to the smoking area next to the batting cages and watch the dialogue between the teen baseball player and his girlfriend
I think the Judgment vibration skill is really good actually, mainly because I play on console. It was super helpful for finding stuff, so I wouldn't call it useless. It's only like that due to an oversight on PC.
Shout out to Tiger Dances with Crane, for on average doing slightly higher damage than Tiger's triangle combo EX action for your ENTIRE EX guage.
That skill in Judgment is handy I'm not denying that. You wouldn't regret *not* buying it, but if you exclusively play the game with a keyboard and mouse it is definitely worthless
I like to use the smoke skills in judgment when you buy all the upgrades for the cigarettes you get like a full heat bar
Bruh yeah 1 bar out of 6 lol
@@SnowiestAngeman yeah you're right I mostly use it to start or top off my heat meter anyway
@@Cobalt_Spartan i just be flux fissuring folk
@@Supermariosupervideo same
Another example of the game lying is in 7, a tip says restaurants give exp and combos give exp bonuses, which seems to be an oversight.
Also in a benefit, Majima's stab counter doesn't require 3rd heat, it just drains all of it.
Oh yeah you're absolutely right. Maybe they scrapped giving XP and then forgot to adjust any of the tip flavour text lol
@@SnowiestAngeman another one I noticed: Peerless Resolve says it recovers HP in addition to preventing a KO. It does not, I assume it did at one point but was removed for balancing.
The Batting Cage also just give incorrect information. Haven't played Judgment but I'd wager a guess all this is Ctrl+V from that game.
I always wondered why the majima counter didn't work. I thought I was getting the timing wrong but it's bc i used wrong button...i feel sadness
Every single time a Sega game doesn't properly inform you of something that turns out to be pretty important, I keep hearing the Carnival Night Zone music. You know if you know.
PS: Rolling Snake. Literally no reason to keep it to the 2nd Heat Bar other than they can just program it like that apparently, and it's actually pretty shit compared to other heat action grabs you can do with other styles. Considering Yakuza Zero is a game where you can style switch, and the game lets you unlock abilities that literally reward you for doing so (i.e. being able to attack in the middle of style switching), this is kind of a dogshit ability.
This series has an issue with giving characters abilities that could be useful except they only work against basic enemies where you don't need them, essentially making them superfluous. The most glaring examples are the various Red Heat abilities in 5 (not Extreme Heat Actions). Kiryu's is the only one where it's always usable. Bosses and difficult enemies won't let you use Tiger Puppetry on them because they refuse to be knocked down, or kick out of your down grab. Slash kick is only useful for tacking on damage on downed bosses since they refuse to be launched/will roll out of your air combo instantly. And bosses just perform a reversal on My Meteor Tackle if you don't slam them into a wall frame 1.
Now that I think about it, Extreme Heat in 5 is also really poopy considering how easy it is to use it when you don't want it. As soon as you build full extreme heat, you have to dance around not accidentally wasting it if you want to save it for a boss. Not to mention how you have to go out of your way to be in a situation to use some of them. Like Ultimate Essence is basically unusable since you're spending the entire game with 2 health bars.
Yeah I straight up avoided using any of them as much as possible haha
You forgot majimas thug sight me nor any of my friends ever once had any use for it because the likely hood of a enemy having a concealed weapon compared to a weapon out in the open is low
Before playing Judgment myself I didn't see the point of drunken ex skill full sover effect, but the fact that it sobers you up makes it easier for me to complete drinks in kamurocho, so I'm kinda glad it works that way?
I'm honestly surprised you didn't put Shinada's entire move list here in the video.
(9:00) You forgot...to have a great day 😁
But also (I apologize in advance for improper terminology since it's been years) for the later parts I would say the dragon mode in yakuza5 because I'm constantly either holding down the L2 (PS controller) to avoid going into it or I'm using up heat when I don't want to.
The menu showing the wrong input for Thug Cunning: Harsh Lesson is especially weird since, when you're doing your training with Komaki to learn it, the game tells you the RIGHT input.
this shit all just makes me appreciate the series even more 😁
The Skewer ability for the Bodyguard job is absolute shit since it makes you take unnecessary damage. Plus it’s the only Blade skill that carries over to other classes unless you buy the Demon Rocker class
Bodyguard in general is pretty ass lol. Except for maybe that one move that basically functions like charge in a Persona game.
Honestly Like a Dragon could have it's own separate video on bad/weird/random abilities and mechanics.
I NEVER knew that you could prevent heat actions by holding down the camera reset button.🤦♂
I'll always consider Akiyama's backflip launcher from 5 the worst, it completely ruins the flow of heavier strikes and just makes him even harder to deal with multiple enemy groups, which he gets a lot.
There is a mod that changes the input for that and Kiryus extreme heat mode on Nexusmods, so you can actually choose to use Akiyamas launchers or not and actually taunt as Kiryu with Heat.
All the Yakuza 5 special heat things are kinda butt in my opinion lol. Kiryu's is good for becoming invincible but I would just rather be allowed to taunt and not get a free anti-damage pass haha
You're legitimately one of my favorite content creators on UA-cam. I unironically get excited when you upload a new video.
Thank you very much that's always nice to hear
The smoking one is exactly why I never do anything with the cigarettes because it’s such a pain in the ass.
You forgor hey good video, even though I love y7 it's got so many useless and redundant skills it's insane, and most fights lategame boil down to the same two or three skills and a kiwami move that gets spammed every free turn. Love the game, like I said, but man do I hope y8 (sorry, "Like A Dragon 8" 🤡) is better balanced
So with JE and LJ, each style has a unique combo and EX action when you’re in EX Boost. Snake Style’s EX Boost EX action is a little misleading.
While Tiger and Crane are easy to pull off, I have a lot of trouble doing the same for Snake for some reason, because when the enemy gets tossed, it creates too much distance for the button prompt to show up.
BUT, if I pull off the same maneuver in front of the wall, it reduces distance and I’m able to do the special EX Boost EX action.
Idk if it’s just me not being great at using Snake, but I’m very certain it’s the game.
I'm playing LJ right now and thought Snake just straight up didn't have one, so its not just you.
Nah man I have used that ability a total of 2 times despite trying to use it about 100 times lol. It definitely does throw the enemy too far to be useful
I actually got use out of Judgment's smoking abilities, believe it or not. Free Heat (or in this case, EX Meter) is always sweet.
Making smoking pretty bad gameplay wise perhaps is an intentional way to discourage people from doing it irl
That fucking QR code tracker in Judgment. :*)
CHICKEN wing CHICKEN wing HOTDOG and BALONEY chicken AND macaroni CHILLING with MY homies. :)
I genuinely couldn’t agree more TBH
4:25 Don't you know that real yakuza use gamepads? Like, duuuh XD
You forgot to pay your taxes. They're coming.
Psywave is definitely a bad move, but Magnitude isn't that bad of a move. Sure, the damage varies, but it's still 100 percent accurate and can still do solid damage early on when you don't have access to Earthquake. Earthquake will always be the better move, but don't sleep on Magnitude in the early game.
Great video, btw.
Every wild Geodude ever only hits magnitude 10s so yeah maybe it is good
@@SnowiestAngeman But we can all agree that Psywave fucking sucks and needs to be changed, buffed in some way, or removed entirely.
you forgot about dog
I dont see an issue with the ishin special charged finisher I find it pretty useful especially considering heat actions dont do alot of damage in the game
Sometimes I wish moves would get replaced by their stronger counterparts instead of just cluttering the action menú but then you have moves like drop kick.
4:35
But
Real yakuza do use a gamepad
You mean "Detective"?
The smoking thing works for the early hours of judgment, I remember starting that game and with how slow yagami hits without upgrades, ex moves were vital on hard and legend difficulty so having an extra bar helped. But after a couple of upgrades (ignoring flux fissure) it's pointless to smoke.
You forgot to finish your sentence at the end of the video:)
You'd think that, for how much Yagami apparently loves to smoke, the devs would've given him Kiryu's smoking taunt and the Heat move off it, where Kiryu spits a lit cigaratte into a charging enemy's eye before punching him really hard. I always liked that taunt, and since every dude in the series smokes like a 60 year old grandma with no abandon, everyone should just have that Heat move for free.
I’m suddenly in the mood for soba for some reason 🤔
There were definitely no subliminal messages from me
Sluggers grab escape is a bad upgrade, It only works when have 0 heat so it's incredibly situational. Another is snakes serpent strike, it kicks enemies away when you parry which is bad as it makes combos harder to set up.
This video has me thinking about the intentions behind bad abilities in general. I seriously wonder when it comes to game design just how much consideration is given to each weapon. On one hand, you have to do the math to determine the stats and damage it can do. There are times when something is made bad on purpose mostly just to fill space or maybe game designers have caught on to the fact some people use them for an extra challenge. However, in cases like smoking ability in judgment being somewhat worthless in comparison to others is somewhat useless and lost judgment clearly recognized the fact it didn't do much so they made a better and more expensive ability to go with it.
Then in Gaiden smoking was really OP for the coliseum because you could just skip the smoking animation and go back in with full heat after about 4 cigs.
Yagami can only smoke in specific places beacuse smoking in public is illegal in Japan, those are probably rooms designated for smoking
Drunken thrust is my favourite heat action, but oh well
Nah it’s good, but can sometimes be too easy to use which you may not wanna do
Real Detectives use gamepad
While it's not for normal combat, IMHO, Haruka's heat action that lowers the enemy's heat gauge is just like... completely and utterly useless in almost every possible situation because you could just, y'know, either heal yourself or damage the enemy instead to do the EXACT same thing you're trying to do by lowering their heat gauge, but more directly.
There's also just a large amount of heat actions that are so ridiculously situational (be in red flashing health with 3 enemies near you while standing next to this specific thing that only appears in like 3 areas of the game) that they're just not worth unlocking, because you'll never end up using them.
Additionally, the weapon training (and I'd even go so far as to argue half of Kiryu's training...) in the earlier games just like... don't provide anything that makes them worth the time investment to get them outside of being required for 100%. Like after unlocking Tonfas, I literally never used them in 0, 1 or 2. And like, the ENTIRETY of Kiryu's training in 1 is just such an insane time investment for how late in the story you gain access to it that it's just like "Ah, yes, let me go grind for 4 hours to use Tiger Drop on the last 2-3 bosses of the game!" (Same with the IFR training in half the games that feature it.)
I'd also argue that like, 90% of upgrades in 0 are technically useless. Like, for Majima, you're just best off using breaker style for literally everything, so any non-health upgrade in any other style is utterly useless aside from the legend style upgrades. And while Kiryu DOES get more use out of his styles, almost none of the situational stuff ends up actually being used.
K2's also got a TON of utterly Useless upgrades due to the simple fact that you can get unbreakable weapons fairly early on that completely and utterly destroy everything in the game, and become even more ridiculously stupid once you get the high-end katanas. Like, I literally beat both the final boss of K2 and the final non-bouncer-mission Amon fight in 30 seconds each by just wailing on them with the best Katana. And that was on Hard, lul.
Also while they're not really something you invest in as you just get them for free for completing the side story, like half of Saeijima's skills in Hunter Killer are like... actually useless.
cute dog
All of crane style in both judgment games. It's kinda fun, but it's absolutely outclassed by Tiger, and the few advantages it provides are eclipsed by Snake in LJ. Also, all of Tanimura's style. I know he's the tortoise and all, but playing Yakuza defensively sucks.
Actually smoking lets you to listen some short stories and it's fun. First time for each smoking place. Then it's worthless
4:47 didn't they say at the beginning of each games "real yakuza/detective use a controller"? They do not recommend using keyboard at all, so no surprise there's no keyboard exclusive features...
You forgot...
to tell everyone to have a good day :)
True. Have a good day, Alek who is allegedly a human
Seriously though, screw that Thug counter. Drains your heat, does fuck all in terms of damage and is absolutely outclassed by that rolling 2nd heat bar Breaker move (which GIVES you heat, by the way). Oh, and maybe it's just me, but the timing on the thing felt like a bitch to get right.
I was conned by Majima counter 3 years ago, and when I revisit the game yesterday, the same shit happened… ffs
Some of the most worthless abilities in the franchise are, in my opinion, a handful of ones related to the tailing in Judgment. Now, don’t get me wrong, tailing in Judgment benefits from any help you can get, but there is one in particular that just isn’t useful, that being the one that makes breaking objects cause the suspicion meter to rise less. That might SOUND useful on paper, but think about the context surrounding Tailing sections: you’re generally going pretty slow and aren’t running around like a fool. Therefore, if you’re actually trying to succeed in them, breaking objects is a complete non-issue, and if you are constantly breaking objects during them, chances are that you’re doing something else that’s going to get you spotted anyways. Another one from Judgment that really isn’t that useful is Key to Success, which makes it so that if you already unlocked a door with a key, you automatically choose the correct key to unlock it next time. It’s one of the cheaper ones, running at only 100 SP, but it’s less of a useful ability and more something that will save you maybe 3-10 seconds at a time. Convenient, but not really useful, and especially not worth getting when you consider all the other useful abilities that run for the same price, like a lot of the EX Actions, the Thumb-turn bypass upgrades, etc.
the union 5.56 can reach pretty high concealment while maintaining max stability and near max accuracy and its speedpull mag makes it a pretty comfortable weapon mayhem and below
This isn't payday 2
@@bruhmoment1982 0:06
While the Payday weapon is also an FN F2000, the one in particular that I showed in the video was from MW2 where it is a dogshit weapon hahaha
@@SnowiestAngeman ohhhhhh
Tbf if you're playing Yakuza on a keyboard or mouse that's on you. Should be common knowledge that 3rd person action games are designed solely for controller to begin with. Literally every single game in the series opens by telling you to use a controller.
Drunken Fist in LJ is actually really good though if you wanna grind out the Girls Bite side quests without having to wait to sober up.
Majima's thug cunning: counterattack from 0, way too easy to trigger for piss poor damage and heat drain, Kiryu's version is also not that good, but it gets better with upgrades and you can use grab instead of light/heavy attack.
Realize is spelt with a z. do it, i'm calling your bluff. you won't find me and slap me.
Just finished Judgment for the first time and the drunk Heat action really annoyed me
So let me get this straight if i write "you forgot..." in the comments i get a free visit from the man, the myth, the legend, snowiest angeman for free!? I don't get why nobody would do that.
Another banger by my favorite Yakuzatuber, AngriestSnowman
While playing the remake of Ishin I came across another ability that’s pretty pointless to me, it’s called vain tengu for wild dancer and the description says press L1 (parry) while attacking to parry an attack from all directions but when I press L1 during a rush combo nothing happens and I get hit and just pressing it normally already parries attacks from all directions anyway so I’m not sure what this ability actually does or if the timing is just really tight
Smoking barely costs sp to unlock and gives u another easy way to fill up ex. Once u have friends and the food and drink ex abilities u can have full ex bar all the time
Tiger drop... solely because it lead to the stupid "TiGeR dRoP nEgAtEs AlL dAmAgE" meme