Can You Beat Yakuza: Like A Dragon Doing Only Mandatory Battles & Substories?

[@somebakedgood]

I've done that heian tower ishioda fight like 4 times and have literally never seen ishioda do essence of rage.

[@EpicplayerBlueShift]

42:00 On my first ylad playthrough I actually did some experimentation with this. If you keep one majima clone alive then, after about having 40% HP left, real Majima stops losing health despite all your attacks. So you're forced to kill the clone to continue the battle.

[@arahman56]

Any boss with multiple phases will stop losing HP once they they hit the phase threshold- Kiryu in TFMT with multiple phases is an easy one to see, as he would always have one attacking turn before he can switch to the next phase.

[@RektorMcGitgud]

This is the smallest nitpick ever, but Nanba's special is called Essence of Pyro Prison, not Poison lol. But man this was a great video! Would definitely be interested to see more Yakuza 7 challenges or even Yakuza 8 once it comes out.

[@RagnarAlvarrGaming]

This was my third playthrough of the game and I literally never noticed that until I read this comment. Prison also makes way more logical sense than poison...sometimes I feel rather stupid :D

[@JetSetStarfall]

I really appreciate how thorough you are in your videos, really great stuff

[@korianderbandit]

I misunderstood how peerless resolve worked so I never even used it. I basically thought it only counted for the next round and since it was only a 25% chance that Ichi was even attacked I thought is was fairly useless. The 'jimas fight was HELL and I just spent every single turn with Ichiban healing him lmao.

[@nintonintendo1]

Just became a HUGE fan of yakuza 7. Watching your challenge video gave me lots of fun and i found it super interesting. I wanted to reward you for your amazing job by giving you a huge THANK YOU. Hope to see more in the future, like a challenge where you can only use characters of the same work, like 4 diviners.

[@davidhylton7528]

Idk why I noticed this but the battle commands S. E. G. A. So cute.

[@chaosamber7719]

Fun Fact: the command menu was originally gonna be Skills, More, Guard, and Attack, but after a fan noticed the opportunity for that acronym, the devs were like "that's neat" and went with that

[@Xxandrew01]

OMG! I can't believe I didn't notice that throughout all my time of playing the game to completion. That's so awesome!

[@MilkJugA_]

Damn I had to grind like 20 levels to beat the majima/saejima fight. Very impressive. I didnt use dmg items though

[@gabrielcalderon6715]

I grinded ice attacks just in case

[@Muna-Gaming]

Just a general info dump of things I know about the game and things I learnt from the video aswell as some personal feedback at the end. -Joon-gi drunk makes him skip 2nd turn This is neat as hell did not know this is how drunk works and could make Joon-gi more doable for low level runs since you might be able to keep up your healing with his damage -Run mechanic You were pretty close with your explanation but if the path is clear when the party memeber runs it is a 100% chance of escape. You can even manupulate this by waiting and using enemy targeting to aim your self so that behind you is a clear run path. Bumping into anything always fails the run (in my experience) even if it is enemies or your own allies (You seem to slide off your allies more but I have been screwed by Joon-gi once when he was near a wall so could not move out of the way) -Ishioda + Nanba Great strategy in the end well done. Only things to add are that Nanba is extremely likely to be charmed so you can keep him mostly perma charmed out of the fight (I used love drunk tycoon) obviously not viable in your run and lastly that Ishidoda's essence of rage can actually be blocked if you tap block as soon as the animation ends to avoid the stun (I can not do it myself 100% of the time but just neat to know). Lastly for Ishioda's counter if you knock him down before his check happens (have to add this as some attacks that knock in the air keep him up long enough to trigger a counterattack) it actually does not trigger his counter and this includes anyone attacking him on the floor which is great for MP recovery or free damage for people that do not have knockdown moves. -Ferocious tiger only attacks the last person who attacked him Extremely useful info, means you can just have someone constantly tank the tiger and not have anyone else attack meaning you only have to heal one person. Only caveat I can think of is a missed attack. If I had to guess it would not count as the tiger being attacked so it should attack the last person to attack before the missed attack but I can only speculate. Similarly I feel like debuffs should not count as an attack either as no damage is dealt, again speculation but makes seems reasonable. -Mabuchi 2 after tiger Mabuchi in this fight for his first phase (as long as someone other than mabuchi is alive) will only resolute counter meaning as long as you can keep the other person out of the battle or occupied attacking someone else you can get mabuchi quite low but similar to Majima they added a cap at near 50% where he will stop taking damage and you have to kill the other person to continue. -Ishioda 2 after Mabuchi Same as before block essence of rage and you can stop his counters. Also Nanba when he returns always comes with equipment already equipped (The green snake homeless weapon and some mid tier gear I think) even if you did not equip any to him and always at level 28 (Slightly annoying as usually around this time people are level 30-32). Also I believe he always has the homeless job on his return. -Majima/Saejima First off what is that item damage of that rocket, it's insane. Anyways your strategy for the fight was really good. Only info I can add is that Majima/Saejima buff when either Majima gets down to around 25% Hp or if Saejima gets down to 50% Hp which is when I try and photoblink Majima with Eri so that if he does double attack Ichiban he has a decent chance to dodge (Ichiban always died for me if he got attacked straight after a blade kill) but in the end I found out that Majima likes to also attack the last person that attacked him so just stopped attacking him with Ichiban and it mostly worked (I don't remember if this strategy got broken but I am pretty sure it always works). -Sawashiro can only heal twice I thought he just had a long timer between the heals nice to know as it means slower approaches can work for the fight. Some info for the fight Jo Sawashiro's vile blade of emnity can not be dodge to my knowledge. His cane attack where he spins it around can multi hit if the character hit is near a wall or an object preventing them from moving back leading a one shot if you are unlucky. And his golf ball attack just basically insta kills most people thanks to its stupid multi hit properties (Suprised you never got troubled by this attack). Lastly his parry attack in his final phase actually lets you do a free attack (basic attack only I think) where he will stop just before parrying you like a warning and it deals slight damage but I think if you attack him again he does punish properly. -Kiryu Good tip about the poison, annoying that Kiryu cleanses it every phase change but it is always my go to starter using either Nancy or poison shot for all tanky bosses that take multiple turns. Neat trick is that when Kiryu tries to attack a girl (Girl is last person that attacked him) and then his AI realises he can not he will default to attacking the closest non female party member so he can be manipulated slightly. Also his named attacked can not be dodged aswell (Basically anything that does not just say Kiryu attacks) which is a pain. -Ishioda/Mirror Face Same as before about blokcing his essence and knowing which attacks get countered. Sad that you did not know this info at the time as it probably would have saved you some hardship but you did it in the end which is all that matters. Also first try even though you forgot the evil smile damn nice job. -Tendo I have a lot of info for this guy but a lot does not really matter. The main thing is that his right hand is not a guaranteed insta-kill. No one really knows the exact conditions whether its due to the effect of insta death just missing or if it is to do with perfect guarding (I'm leaning towards the perfect guarding myself) but it can miss but I myself have never had it miss Ichiban only other party memeber. I personally believe it is due to Ichiban being classed as dead before the perfect guard can go through but I can also just be bad at perfect guarding. Also there is not much info for this game sadly (Hp,armor,attack values etc.) but I think I approximated that Tendo had around 30k-40k health. Wish there was more info about this game but no one has ever mined it for info to my knowledge and I am not tech savvy enough to do it myself nor do I own the game on PC. Just unfortunate really. That's why I love seeing these challenge runs though always learn something new whenever I watch one. -Personal feedback The run itself was great though learnt many new things that I did not know before and the video was really entertaining (Other than the starting being a bit slow). Wish that you put what fights you skipped though as I was pretty interested in knowing what supposedly manadatory fights can be skipped by running past, I know running away from a fight counts as the fight being skipped but I was interested in other skips similar to your final millenium elevator where you just run straight to the elavator to skip the fight near the desk. I was probably the only one interested though, I think they are just neat to know. Great video overall. Also had seen your P5R gun only and nuzlocke and they were both great aswell. Keep up the great challenge runs.

[@stephenunorthodox8791]

55:35 , why there should be drop down menus to select party members

[@thecorn-cl2vg]

Great vid, hope it gets more views in future

[@DoomedGuy864]

As always, great video man. I did a run without changing anyone's starting job and added the rule of permadeath. The same fight you were worried about was what I was worried about and wiped me lol. I honestly don't know if my challenge was even possible without serious grinding.

[@bdotgaming1435]

lmao at majimas clone turning nanba into a beyblade 41:47

[@jasonshannon7768]

Now I'm imagining Ichiban paying the 3 million yen using only 50 yen coins and I need to see that

[@RosyMiranto]

Poor Eri, she's snubbed hard in this run 😢

[@pilotsayshello1758]

She singlehandedly would've made a good bit of the game a breeze too

[@epicforger12345]

I love this game but the difficulty spikes are insane

[@theshape3872]

Game only has 2 Majima Saejima Kiryu

[@depressedcheems9961]

I don't think the issue is the spikes, rather everything is brain dead easy until a couple bosses, so most people didn't develop meaningful strats by the time they are challenged. Majima's fight is the equivalent of encountering Amon from Kiwami 1 randomly when casually playing Kiwami 2. Experienced players or people that bothered to learn OP moves would eventually get through it, but anyone that mashed buttons throughout the whole game are doomed. Majima was disappointingly easy for me.

[@RAIN_2001]

not reallly its just that you really have to develop some strat and grind some levels and once you do the rest of the game is piss easy too

[@ashtonrobinson-clarke3834]

Yakuza 7 was my first game I played with this series a couple years ago, although I think my favorite has to be either Yakuza 0/1 this game will have a place in my heart for just generally being neat, Itchiban made interactions so much more fun and silly. From what I knew of the Yakuza games before I played em was that they were a big mix of silly and serious moments that mixed greatly and I think this game proved it to me. If anything I respect the courage to make major changes to the gameplay by making it a turn based rpg conpared to basically compared to most of the other games.

[@aran.m977]

Damn that was interesting to watch

[@sanctityninja9345]

An interesting run on one of my favorite games

[@rickycontra3703]

(Roland)Kiryu: to become a dragon you must suffer_like i did

[@Trisaaru]

It's all fun and games until the 'Jima Bros barge in

[@BobbyCorwen42]

Oh sweet. I just finished up my Kiryu fight on my first run, and I got through it using poison so I went to check if that was the lower-level strat. I didn't expect level 50-something to require me to cheese it this way when you did it at lvl 38, but honestly I find my defensive gear leaves much to be desired to press the attack consistently. Guess I should learn shogi or mahjong rules or what ahve you to try and get myself something better.

[@Raven_Redacted]

You can get the shogi sheild without playing shogi by just buying the wooden tags.

[@NelsonRX]

I can fully understand the pain he went through as I was trying to do it in chapters 4-8 the first time I played it but chapter 9 is when it started really getting too hard

[@LyingSecret]

Nice video by the way, good work and you had some really close calls/failures. This was one of my fave games when I played it myself, and would love to do a massively over powered playthrough on Legend difficulty just to see if it's one hit KOs all the way :D

[@5h3nn0ng]

Not sure if you know this, but Fatal Rush in Joongi’s class also deals bonus damage if the enemy has certain statuses (which includes Poison). I was wondering why you didn’t use this move on Joongi to make bosses go down even faster

[@kronim1624]

As incredible as this game is, I do wish the combat was harder and required more strategies from the player. This run shows how forgiving it actually is, since other than a few late-game bosses, it was a cakewalk using the same tactics over and over. Something I really hope they improve on in LAD 8

[@GJikok]

Bro the people who quit the game at majima are begging for it to not be the case lol

[@kulekid6917]

​@@CarelessLeafyakuza7 nuzlocke would go crazy. getting a game over means restarting the ENTIRE game since you cant take ichiban out the party.

[@H2ORaccoon]

I mean to be honest, TFMT is basically that. Most enemies are hyper resistant to their non-weaknesses (I'm talking like double digit damage) and are tanky as all-hell. But truly once you manage to win it, it is one of the most rewarding feelings ever.

[@christophersholes1377]

@@kulekid6917 A job nuzlocke would be interesting. Every time a character dies (ichiban included) that job is removed from that character's pool permanently. They are out for the rest of whatever fight they are currently in as well, so no revives, which may lead to more deaths for the rest of the party. 7 characters being all the lives feels a bit low for a nuzlocke style run, and Ichiban would make it more of a hardcore run with his death being instantly a game over.

[@Zero-ds9ws]

Should also mention the Legend Remix mod for LAD, which... does exactly what OP wants.

[@Hamhamsnoozer]

Just now noticing that they reused Kiryu's poundmate attack for his essence skill in IW. Add that to the chase animations and YAKUZA AIR CONDITIONER

[@amberhernandez]

I'm a big fan of the "minimum battles" challenge in RPGs like Pokémon, so this is a slam-dunk video to me! Also, I'm actually starting something similar in Judgment, where I can only use story-granted SP to upgrade. I'm at chapter six rn and I just barely got the second HP upgrade; DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS 😅

[@zhaoyixiang3845]

I personally found the first Judgment somewhat janky so I decided against challenge runs, but LJ felt so much smoother that I am decently confident in consistently hitlessing most bosses other than Amon, that dude is just unfun for me

[@xbon1]

Lj just winnable with no upgrades. Same with Gaiden, you could just outskill every opponent in them but it just takes longer. Rgg8 is way better balanced than them, no lv1s taking out lv 50s

[@고수전사]

Good job lovely video

[@Nyxia-s]

Nice video 👍

[@lasteri]

If richard anderson can survuve a big height jump, then that guy can survive.

[@sgtkwan]

This is my problem with yakuza being turn base, you actually have to grind now, compared to real time combat where you can beat it with no grind just out skill the boss

[@poptartninjaprojk7655]

my thoughts exactly

[@ineedzemedic5810]

Its what kinda stopped me from completely finishing y7 in like a week like the rest of the games. Maybe i just suck ass at Rpgs but DAMN I hate those moments where you sit and go, if this this was a real time fight I would've destroyed this mf 8 minutes ago.

[@sgtkwan]

@@ineedzemedic5810 Same, i stopped at the kiryu fight. Didn't have an ice skill, didn't want to farm 2 sub jobs for the ice skill. Nor did I want to endure a 30min fight where I would eat healing potions for a good portion of the fight.

[@stardust_falls]

i only had to grind a single time and it was the majima fight, and even then it was just the battle tower. I didnt have an ice attacker for kiryu either, its just probably a you thing

[@pizzajoe1969]

Idk I was lvl 23 for mabuchi and he’s like 31 or something and one could say I beat him with “skill” my reward was getting to level 35 from those few fights lol

[@Soliduq]

Rad as hell, now do it on Hard/Legend new game.

[@LinkDing]

I genuinely never found the pawnshop until post game so it's requiredness isn't exactly high

[@christophersholes1377]

I've been thinking a "7 job fiesta" would be fun for a challenge run. This is based on the "4 job fiesta" from Final Fantasy 5. Basically you roll a random job per crystal in FF5 and must use only the jobs you've unlocked as you reach each crystal. At the beginning you have no jobs so all characters are freelancer until the first crystal. You must have at least one character with the job at each crystal, so by the final crystal each of the 4 characters will have a chosen job from each crystal. For this game it would likely have to be a bit different with the different jobs per gender, larger party, and characters getting different jobs per level. You would stick with the base job until chapter 5 when you can first switch. Probably doing minimal side content to get to the assigned jobs asap, but depends on preference. You would likely want to be at least level 15 by chapter 5 though so you would have a larger random available pool for each character. Also make sure to get bond level 2 at least as well before switching to their permanent job. That way each character has 5 jobs they could randomize to including their base job if you want to keep that in the pool. You could end up with multiples of some jobs, bad jobs for certain characters, no healer, etc. You could have rule variations of course. No base jobs in the random pool, no job repeats, etc. It would make for some interesting strategy.

[@masterofyugioh1000]

I'm amazed you managed majima

[@corneliusdoggerton]

You have much more willpower than me

[@NaviJ98]

Take a shot every time he says "strategy stays the same"

[@MeioAmargo74]

LAD? Based

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

Waiting for that ONE fight...

[@fireflocs]

AoE abilities are not the same as abilities that hit all enemies or all allies. AoE is specifically an _area_ of effect, not the entire battlefield. Mega Swing and Divine Shot are AoE; Essence of Pyro Prison and Hero's Compassion are not.

[@TSKyanite]

Great video! My only thing is that it can be kinda hard to hear your voice at times. Try adding a compressor effect and raising the volume. Otherwise, fantastic run!

[@vapshockxd6516]

Hmm, im quite interested, can you beat yakuza only as ichiban using his fists, not bat.

[@drexin7303]

Yknow, i was gonna say no because of Tendo's fight, but i forgot about Ichi's "survive on one hp" skill

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

The Majima/Saejima fight isn't even difficult i played it with level 40 the only problem was Saejima fucking resisting everything

[@depressedcheems9961]

Glad I'm not the only one, I died once because I wasn't prepared for Saejima to join the fight, but swept them on my second try.

[@kalenics123]

Legend Remix 7 mod, its worth it.

[@MechaGod]

Itchy-balls Kasuga

[@outofideasexe]

This is how i learned yakuza is a turnbased game. W video

[@slowdown8at606]

Usually theyre action games. Like a dragon is the only turn based yakuza game. The sequel coming next year is also gonna be turn based.

[@BonafideBurritoBoy]

@@slowdown8at606 is every game going forward gonna be turn based then? assuming they make more

[@amberhernandez]

​@@BonafideBurritoBoyApparently, the main series with Ichiban will be turn-based. Spin-offs and side stories (Judgment, Gaiden, and whatever else they make) will be real-time combat, according to RGG.

[@3Guys1Video]

Everybody seems to have used peerless resolve on Tendo….but me. And I didn’t lose at all Either I was lucky or I’m stupid

[@theshape3872]

Sooner or later Tendo does the instant kill to Ichiban, i know there is RNG factor, but the game is coded to attack ichiban and score at least 1 time, forcing to use revive stones/peerless resolve

[@3Guys1Video]

@@theshape3872 it’s a wonder then how I managed to beat him first try

[@aikotitilai3820]

​​@@theshape3872I just did that fight yesterday and I used peerless resolve in order to be safe, but Tendo never used his insta-kill move on Ichiban. It's not scripted

[@3Guys1Video]

@@aikotitilai3820 I see

[@namieblinker5922]

Man I really wanna play Like a Dragon but I don't have money 😭😭😭 my biggest skill issue

[@ShaiqShaq]

If you play on pc you can get it on a key site for 10 bucks if you play on console you're shit out of luck until November.

[@hjblacdes61]

If youre pc you just missed a massive sale. It was like 12 bucks for the base game i got two of my friends copies lol

[@Trisaaru]

It was free on PS plus back in the most recent January or December. It's an absolutely fantastic game.

[@namieblinker5922]

@@hjblacdes61 yeah I realized that.

[@namieblinker5922]

@@Trisaaru Although I have a ps4 I'm a pc gamer

[@anthonychatterton8453]

The answer is no, no you can't. I don't even need to watch the video, cause I just absolutely fucking wrecked by Majima and Saejima.

[@dogfellow3848]

Please do watch the video, no spoilers on how but he does make it through

[@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289]

Meanwhile in Infinite Wealth you can do only the mandatory battles and you will still be overleveled….. And then you have to pay $15 to change the difficulty lmao SEGA are a bunch of bums

[@ratedRblazin420]

This is why Yakuza games that aren't turn-based (like every other game but this and infinite wealth now) are vastly superior

[@LyingSecret]

You say that you couldn't do drink links as it takes battles, you realise you can give flowers and bunches of flowers to every character to raise the link too right? I mean probably not with such tight money, but finding some way to get that money would avoid battles for sure.

[@Cross-chan]

I don't think he'd be able to finish them because they all end in a boss fight and they'd be considered non mandatory so that's why he didn't do them

[@LyingSecret]

That's also true, maybe to level 4 each then?@@Cross-chan