THE INFINITE WEALTH SPOILER CAST (ft. Froob, Gokudoni, SnowiestAngeman) || RGG Cast Ep.3

[@TheHiddenOne690]

This is the equivalent of having Kiryu, Majima, Saejima & Daigo in a call (yes somebody has to be daigo)

[@cuppedcup5048]

Snowiestangman Is defo the Majima

[@Danker19991]

@@cuppedcup5048why cuz he has the worst takes? I think that makes him daigo

[@Baba-yv6ml]

I'd Go For Daigo

[@Xord2006]

No head trauma 😢

[@kasugaichibum]

Ouch the Daigo shade 😬

[@ChozotheBozo]

1:04:15 "And also, he doesn't have Head Trauma any more" No joke: When Joon-gi Han joined my party, the equipment he was wearing completed the Personality Challenge for having 20 different pieces of head armor. The challenge name is "No Head Trauma Here".

[@shoryu87]

It's proper op

[@shadowtoad95]

It should have been a Heavy Grapple skill that costs around 40 MP at least. The issue in LAD7 is that it is cheap and it does too much damage as a light attack. That is why I propose making it more expensive, without needing to change the damage.

[@TheExFatal]

Without spoilers, one of my favorite gameplay parts of the game is when you raid a certain place as Ichiban, fight through enemies, fight two bosses at the same time, and then your party is forcibly split but you still control all 4 at the same time - FANTASTIC stuff, I love how 8 has so many unique gameplay situations

[@gokudoni]

While rewatching all of this, I couldn't stop smiling. Also, the Joongi addition for any rant that Snowiest or I would have is just hilarious on so many levels 😂 Once again, thank you for a wonderful conversation and to everyone who checked the video out

[@shadowtoad95]

For Han JoonGi's Head Trauma, I believe that it should be a Heavy Grapple Skill that costs 40 or 50 MP at least. Han JoonGi has no grapple of his own, making his kit limited, unfortunately. Yeah, skill inheritance exists, but Head Trauma is his own skill, and could exist as a Heavy Grapple.

[@fwbiocostw1938]

the only video that can rival the yakuza 5 rant video in lenght

[@devilleon7]

Coming soon TM (?)

[@route77productions]

Is this the same rant from the tier list?

[@smokedsanjl]

The whole crew is here 😭😭😭

[@Beta_Kiryu]

Ichiban is like Luffy

[@smokedsanjl]

@@Beta_Kiryulol he kinda is

[@justabomb8629]

Avengers theme blasts*

[@cancerstinks1]

Just need Ray “brownman” Narvez

[@RenegadeEpsilon]

Just missing tehsnakerer I know he’s technically not a yakuza KZbinr but I’d say he probably has a lot to say about infinite wealth… Unfortunately we will have to wait 2 or so years for the infinite wealth video

[@bigred6803]

I think I have a different perspective about the ending with Ebina and Eji “redemption.” While ebina himself wasn’t a super well written character, I think he was more suppose to show kiryu growth in the game. What I gathered. Yakuza 8 was about Ichiban and his influence on others. Ichiban in 7 showed multiple times, that he saw the good in people. It didn’t really matter if they deserved it, Ichiban always looked for it and rarely gave up on them. Kiryu on the other hand always prioritized protecting others from harm. Even if it would hurt him in the long run. Example of this would be Nishki, a person he cared for deeply, but once he knew he went in a destructive direction. Kiryu didnt hesitate to put aside his relationship to protect others from Nishki. Ichiban on the other, while still is very protective about innocents. Never forgets the humanity in his adversary’s. Like his brother in 7. With a good amount of the beginning having kiryu constantly around Ichiban. It was likely the driving force in Kiryus change. That and the combination of the Yokohama crew, and the date dates. Showed kiryu that it’s ok to have attachments, that when bad things happen. It’s not his fault. Seeing kiryu beg for forgiveness to ebina, showed the effect Ichiban had on him. Likely wishing he had Ichiban influence, back during the original yakuza. Seeing Ichiban still willing to help Eji. In my opinion shows the strength of Ichiban. People are correct, Eji doesn’t deserve forgiveness. That’s why everyone was throwing trash at him. But Ichiban still chose to forgive him. That’s why Ichiban didn’t have much personal growth in the game. He in many ways, was mentoring kiryu and others. This game has problems. But this game is top tier in my opinion.

[@Dylan72111]

Based

[@brianhong5070]

In a way, what Ichiban did for Eiji is quite similar to what he was doing at the start of the game. He’s always willing to help people as long as they are willing to own up to their mistakes and improve on themselves

[@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841]

Both Kiryu and Ichiban are depiction of a real Man. Kiryu represent someone who Capable to take the responsibility of his actions and face the consequences like a champ, meanwhile Ichiban represent someone with peerless compasion and willing to forgive anyone who wronged him as long they change for the better.

[@tiko7864]

The Yakuza 4 have assembled‼️

[@route77productions]

First time after finishing the story, I hated Kiryu's epilogue. But after several days after finishing it, I ended up loving it. Sure, I wanted to see Kiryu with Kaoru in Okinawa with all of the kids there at the dinner table. But I really liked what they did. But... I wanted Kiryu and Haruka to have been reunited, even if their reunion happened during the one month time jump and we don't see it. Just seeing them be together would've done wonders for fans. Also, Eiji just gets forgotten by the writers after the nightclub battle and we can tell either the game was rushed and 1 or 2 chapters were cut. As for the Hanawa death, Gaiden was made once the story of IW was in place and development was almost done. So I can't really complain about the lack of overlap in some of the things Gaiden set up. We will see Shishido and Nishtani again don't worry. I will admit, I was not expecting the whole Kiryu and Daidoji story getting resolved off screen. I was kinda hoping Kiryu and Hanawa would go against the Daidoji and it would result in Kiryu getting his name back. But maybe the Daidoji will be an antagonist in another game or an ally(I doubt that.)

[@devilleon7]

The cutscene right after the final boss did something for me, I think it's how Kiryu tried to reason with him using vulnerable sincerety. It's such a nice change from him just usually beating his own beliefs into a person.

[@wacky-physics7506]

I definitely do not think shishido nor nishitani III will be back

[@megamanx1291]

​@@wacky-physics7506They def 100% will

[@arahman56]

​@@wacky-physics7506They were popular enough to not just get blackholed, especially now that they're moving away from killing the antagonists at the ending.

[@MadDogSolo]

Another reason they probably won’t come back is that they’re played by actors.

[@funnywes]

this is like a second christmas. hell yes

[@DeizaMando]

a copy of yakuza 4 for christmas would be crazy

[@DeizaMando]

@adinfinnitum especially when it’s not freedom…

[@isaiahfojtasek7768]

I feel like Ebina and Eiji could have been combined as a single character. Like Ichi could not meet him in chapter 1 and meets him on the plane, and then the grand reveal at the safehouse is that Eiji was the guy in charge of the Seiryu the entire time. Then the whole 'hatred of the yakuza' theme would be consistent across the character and makes the epilogue scene better since he finally realizes that Ichi actually is a good person who has a heart. But then that would mean that he basically has to be Ichi's final boss, and idk if Bryce would've been as good a final fight for Kiryu as a yakuza-dude-at-the-top-of-Millenium-Tower(TM). It feels like RGG was so close in so many places to having basically a perfect story if they just tweaked a few things, but I'm still satisfied with what we got.

[@wacky-physics7506]

Goddamn that's a really good solution, it basically would combine all their positives and negate most of their flaws

[@DavidHosey1]

That could work, tho I prefer for them to be separate characters. Would’ve had too many conveniences for him to be somehow in charge and controlling everything from right next to the party, plus that would mean the person who’d be in charge over at Seiryu HQ would just be Sawashiro and/or Narasaki. While more screen time for either of them could be nice, it would either have the crew trusting Sawashiro WAY too quickly (or maybe having a mini-boss fight with him) or Narasaki’s personality would have to be drastically changed Still a cool idea tho :))

[@redcarp9867]

Damn, am i envious of this group. I just wanna have in depth Yakuza discussions with friends.

[@Mrinsecure]

Froob: Here's where I'd put the shortcuts! *unveils empty pedestal* Froob: IF I HAD THEM

[@jkreincarnation]

On another note, I think the way they handled Akane and Ichiban was fine. The way he feels about blood is something we could never understand because we're not him. Only thing we do know is that he doesn't care about blood as his "two dads" he has don't share the same blood, to him at least as he doesn't care about getting a dna test or Sawashiro's statements. At the end of the day she really is just Arakawa's love and possibly the woman who gave birth to him, so he's happy with that.

[@sapphire3084]

Though I do like that one instant where Akane's maternal instinct kicked in - when she took Ichiban's hand and rubbed it, noting how it feels rough. It's the sort of thing a mother or grandmother will do.

[@jkreincarnation]

@@sapphire3084 oh yeah, that scene was beautiful and what we needed lol. But if that's all that Ichi needed, then it's fine

[@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841]

Ichiban are truly better man than me. if my biological mother left me since birth i would despise her for life

[@arahman56]

​@@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841I mean, it's not like she just abandoned him like Masato, she was under pursuit from the Hikawas, and had to leave her child. [And her being alive does feel like a retcon, but at least that works out fine.]

[@PhoenixDowned]

I love how much use the Joon-Gi movement is getting 😂

[@elianlins9332]

The jongi gif was funny

[@route77productions]

That moment in the Big Swell is so funny

[@AlexUnder355]

Finally, the good Yakuza 4

[@user-pw6ww9co7e]

The selfish deed

[@CristianGouget]

I was a bit surprised when all of you agreed about the difficulty and being under leveled. I thought the game was way too easy, I was always over leveled which made all fights trivial and thus somewhat boring... but maybe it's because I'm one of those maniacs that actually likes grinding for exp/items. I mean I had everyone's ultimate weapons way before I reached the end. Also, when I got to Dondoko island I stayed there until I finished the story because I found the gameplay loop so addictive lol BTW, a side-effect of that was getting a ton of cash when I returned to Hawaii and converted my Dondoko bucks so I never had to worry about money for the rest of the game.

[@BroCunhaPT]

I had to actively try to not be over level at certain points of the game, like I genuinely think Infinite Wealth might be the easiest game in the series (I still love it tho).

[@CristianGouget]

@@BroCunhaPT yeah I wish the enemies would scale with my party's average level or something, at least to some extent. I will take it a lot easier on the grinding on my next playthrough so I can't actually breeze through fights that should be challenging.

[@AnimeSimp234]

I do agree overall yeah. The only fight that gave me genuine difficulty was the 3 jima fight, and that was even while I was like 4 levels higher than them lol. I think Bryce, Ebina and Yamai's 4th fight are also decently tough if you're on level or even slightly above.

[@KazumaKuzuryu4162]

One thing I want them to do in the next game is to have an option to disable exp gain, but keep the exp to use whenever you want, Xenoblade Chronicles did something similar to that.

[@alonemax2912]

I actually kinda hate people, who complained about difficulty spike in 7. It was hands down the best thing for me with challenging battles near the end. In this game it's just has 0 challenge unless you will go with very low level on purpose.

[@zeke8142]

Its funny af when Gokudoni and Snowiest talk at the same time at somepoints and you I just see two Joongis talking to eachother LOL

[@tequilafeline6552]

My favorite thing in the game: birthday cake is a goated move, burning arrow too good, and action star+desperado skillset.

[@WinstonOfDojima]

Let’s go perfect timing for a listen while working! You’ve assembled a fantastic group for this Leon!

[@devilleon7]

Enjoy!

[@ritheguy3983]

I actually got Hanawa’s death spoiled for me and managed to gaslight myself into thinking it wasn’t true

[@route77productions]

I was lucky not to have that spoiled for me so that death came completely out of nowhere. But then I found out Gaiden was made when IW was almost done so it made sense. They'll likely retcon that death considering how well received Hanawa was. The entire game, post Hanawa death, I was expecting Hanawa to show up during the end and he never did.

[@cuppedcup5048]

@@route77productionshe had so much promise!! Especially being Morinaga

[@JGSM_JuvenileGeryon]

Morinaga got Morinaga'd again😭

[@MiniDallas000]

​@@JGSM_JuvenileGeryonthe next step is for him to be Hanawa'd again 😊

[@gorb2071]

@@JGSM_JuvenileGeryonit’s just rubber bullets

[@tsukikage3941]

I feel like an underrated job is Detective. I'm pretty sure Arrest was buffed because I could reliably pull it off on any non-boss / mini-boss enemy, and it just saves me insane amounts of time in some fights.

[@thomasmcginley26]

Half of Froob’s sentences start with “unironically” idk how I noticed that.😂

[@BroCunhaPT]

Interesting how different playing habits can change one's opinion on a game's design, I actually found myself having to avoid over leveling to not make the main story a complete pushover. Also one of my biggest critiques of the game is just that it lack some challenge, I know they talked about difficulty spikes but I never felt them personally, which might be related to the fact that I was usually one or two levels above the recommend. I think the ability to chose harder difficulties from the get go would have been nice.

[@gorb2071]

That surname I’m your user, you’re Portuguese caralho

[@gorohei92]

the avengers oh my god

[@totomi_ziba]

What is this combination? Haven't watched it yet. Already loving it

[@solidusgadget]

"Aizawa as Ichiban's final antagonist" just made me drop my jaw. That's something I was thinking about for a while and Aizawa unintentionally carrying Kurosawa's legacy by being the head of the whole Japanese criminal world is such a perfect antithesis to Ichiban. Also everyone kinda forgot about Snake Triad and RGGS isn't afraid of mentioning Tanimura so jumping sharks might be a usual thing for next games.

[@OriginalGreenYoshi]

In a way, Ebina kind of shares something with Kiryu regarding how a person should live. Kiryu accepting his fateful death and not thinking about living on, and Ebina, as Zhao speculates, is completely lost on how to live since the how and want is mixed up after his lifelong goal is gone. Two people who can't live on properly into the future. Ichiban is the opposite of Ebina in that he's always pushing forward, which is easy for him to call out on Kiryu running away from reality during the cancer reveal.

[@TheGman4747]

I honestly really felt like Joon-Gi should have joined by Chapter 11 at the latest tbh. Its the same chapter Zhao joins in LAD + it seems fitting since Chitose goes MIA at the beginning of it. Sure, you'd have to rewrite a few things but it shouldn't be too hard + we already saw how bummed out he was being left out back in Ijincho when Zhao joined Kiryu's party.

[@PsychicGirl]

All the party members are here! Can't wait to see your guys' Tag Team moves.

[@cameronj174]

Does anyone think they made ichiban too old ? If we have another 4 year time jump then he’ll be 51 in the next game which will be older than Kiryu was in Gaiden

[@alex1212456]

Idk knowing RGG he will be 50 jacked and ready to kick ass anyways lol

[@miguelgonzalez6495]

I prefer these ages. A lot of Yakuza fans are in their 30s and 40s. And I like my ladies in their 30s. lol Seonhee. 😩

[@cameronj174]

@@miguelgonzalez6495 I respect that actually I guess it resonates more with people in their 30’s / 40’s I just feel like Ichi should be in his early 40’s

[@retro.7673]

A small part of me thinks Wong Tou was supposed to be playable. But they decided to have JOON-Gi instead. If you think about it joon gi shows up very late into the story. Whereas Wong Tou is rescued and simply then just sits in the hideout?? Nah bro he was supposed to be playable. Why else would he just sit there.

[@SILVERONIN]

YES I legit believed they kept him alive and sympathetic to join us then POOF he dead, he definitely was meant to be part of team Ichi instead of Joon Gi!

[@arahman56]

Don't think so, Joon-Gi's an existing character, so they had an easier job of just reusing his existing skillset. Wong would've needed a whole new job to design and animate. Also, they knew of the decision early enough to have Daniel Dae Kim voice Ebina even though he modeled Wong Tou.

[@swaggymungdaal]

i dunno, i think at most they might have had him as a support character like yamai or eiji for a few fights originally, cause they likely did want to just have 8 party members initially considering how late joongi and zhao are introduced to the party and how little they add to the game in terms of both story and gameplay

[@LorshZontek]

That entire section was so weird to me, I am surprised he was not there even as support during the fight out of the hotel, also that's one of the few long battles where obviously it was going to have a 2nd phase just because of enemies being off screen during round 1 but then it just ends.

[@aepoyi]

it's the yakuza 4‼️‼️‼️

[@user-pw6ww9co7e]

The selfish deed

[@abella458]

The infinite wealth is the friends we made along the way.

[@netcat22]

I love how all of you got into the SAME overleveled boss encounter next to the Yoshida batting center... just like I did...

[@amberhernandez]

Thinking about Shinada and how we'll never see him again always makes me want to throw myself off the roof 😢

[@x7j10]

55:02 I also noticed how the knockback works exactly like og 1 and 2 where you have to block right before enemy's attack lands🔥

[@Galaxyyyy.]

THIS MIGHT be the yakuza 4

[@user-pw6ww9co7e]

The selfish deed

[@aylin6766]

THEY TURNED ALMOST EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER INTO ETSUKO IN THE SUBSTORIES IN THE MOST EW WAY POSSIBLE AND DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE HOW FRICKED UP ALL THAT WAS

[@nabsthegodgamer5419]

I don’t really get why people got so confused by the Eiji thing. This is something I started noticing after thinking about Hamazaki in Yakuza 3: not everything needs to be shown or solved on-screen for it to make sense or be good. There is such a thing as subtext. In Hamazaki’s case I can understand since there’s no confrontation (presumably it’s cut content), but in Eiji’s case, theres the bonding, the betrayal, the confrontation and the aftermath. There’s enough pieces to infer what happened and why, no need to show anything else except for fluff. Also that whole sequence between him and Ichi at the end not only is completely consistent with how Ichi acts (and how he treated Eiji before, insisting in calling him Ei-chan and whatnot) but also is important for the game’s overall theme of atonement.

[@AnimeSimp234]

I agree overall. I think they could've at least given Ichi and Eiji one big scene, kind of like what Ichi and Masato had at the end of 7, before we get the scene of him carrying Eiji to the police station though.

[@nabsthegodgamer5419]

@@AnimeSimp234 I actually think that was the scene, the part where Ichi gets through to him right before carrying him to the Don Quijote police office I was thinking he would be the final boss (like Masato) and Bryce would be relegated to a Kurosawa-like role, but I’m glad I was wrong. Also, Ichi catching Bryce and being all “nonono you’re not getting the easy way out, you’re atoning” is so good.

[@tata021]

Iw eiji handled p5 akechi better imo. Ariamaru tomi worked so well at the end!

[@route77productions]

No I get what you're saying, the difference here is that once we see him for the last time in Hawaii, he looks well. Once Chitose does her live stream at the end, we already see disheveled Eiji which confused me so much as to how he got that way in such a short amount of time.

[@7evan]

Here's the thing for me though, I think that whole bonding moment they have in the beginning isn't enough to convince me when Ichi says "oh man remember when he had fun together Ejiji? Of course I still think you're my friend!". Like they meet in an airplane, he saves him from being arrested, they chat for a bit, then the Yamai beatdown, and then he doesn't show again until much later and finally the twist betrayal in another chapter or two, and you want to convince me that these two had their moments? Oh yes it's within Ichi's character. That man would probably try to redeem the devil if he got the chance but speaking from a more meta-sense what do we the audience have to go on when Ichi talks about him like they were best buddies when all we saw was them having an extremely casual conversation for like 5 minutes. Ichi's convinced but we're not Ichi if that makes sense? So we need a little more sauce I'm sorry. A part of me feels like they were trying to capture the ending scene of LAD again where Ichi talk-no-jutsu Ryo Aoki but it doesn't feel earned here because again they didn't really have enough time to get close and also Eiji disappears for the entire third act. If I had to re-write this game I'd have Eiji be introduced in the story earlier, have a little more moments of him and Ichi having heart-to-heart talks and have a chapter dedicated to having a confrontation after the club scene. He doesn't even need to be convinced in that moment, they just need to show that some of Ichi's words are getting him to re-think stuff before idk Bryce's goons show and try to kill Eiji for failing to hold on to Lani - only for Ichi to distract them long enough for Eiji to escape back to Japan. As someone who's had to re-write scripts for a very long time trust me little changes like these make a world of difference in making a character's redemption more believable to the audience, which I don't think I need to stress how nice that is to have. You may see it as needless fluff but you shouldn't compromise on basic narrative rules just for the sake of having more subtext. And when are these games ever subtle? Especially Ichiban stories.

[@C_Ranked]

This is gonna be juicy edit: the joon gi han gif is incredible btw

[@N7RiZe]

Fun fact: When you do unlimited Dragons resurgance with cheats, bishop violet velveteen only plays in a shortened cut off version.

[@smokey0111]

When it comes to Eiji's ending, I suspect he was supposed to have been shown in the epilogue since IIRC it's one month after the final boss fights, and that's enough time for the stranded yakuza to hunt down Eiji who no longer has Bryce's and Ebina's protection, for Eiji to escape Hawaii, go into hiding, and grow all that hair. But thematically there needed to be something to balance Kiryu's cliffhanger, because without all those ending scenes with Eiji, the pre-credits ending is only about Kiryu, but Ichi's a protag too so...they need something.

[@amberhernandez]

Gokudoni had a near-perfect sync with the Joongi gif at 3:18:25 lol

[@risktorise2103]

Not sure Dodonko island as money farming tool. Hawaiian haunt before Dodonko and it provides money also material to craft weapons. Some good gear can also be obtained in the haunt. While Dodonko only money if I'm not wrong.

[@SILVERONIN]

yep the deep dungeons made me WAY more money than Dodonko

[@versuch8239]

Yeah, they also talked about being low level. Pretty clear they kept the Dungeon until way later, because if you actually do the Dungeon when you get it in the game, you will be way overleveled and get way more money than on the Island. I never went back to the Island after getting it to S. Making money there is also boring asf.

[@TheHiddenOne690]

Just finished watching this! 10/10. I love the yakuza community and youtubers involved! So much insightful stuff I learned from this video, especially from Froob. That man is insightful af!

[@Derglesnaf]

The real infinite wealth is the content it’s like an infinite game, two month after release I’m still finding new things.

[@synthiandrakon]

I feel like they were too scared people were going to miss stuff. Like part of what made 7 cool for me was just finding stuff. Like you saw wandered into a cinema and there was the whole movie minigame, or you wandered to the top of the map chasing a substory marker and found the dragon kart minigame. It feels like the games could trust players more to find stuff. Like pocket circuit is so beloved and part of why is that you stumble upon it and there is just a baffling amount of pocket circuit just in the corner of the map completely unmarked

[@tuxedocatproductions2665]

Absolute joy to binge this episode after just finishing the game. Probably my new favourite game of all time. One issue though: let me punch kume again

[@JinKolmak_TaKo]

The Yakuza 4 are here

[@jemsyago7163]

Just finished this long-ass podcast finally. I did wish I could remember the various comments I would've wanted to made. But honestly just listening to this conversation is quite nice already on its' own. Would wish for this to become a series somehow.

[@bigboi1131]

Watching this while playing premium adventure

[@synthiandrakon]

One huge thing about dondoku island is that other than the first few days it's actually completely optional, its not the best way to make money, it doesn't really have major unlocks tied to it.

[@spaghettimkay5795]

Here's a serious question for anybody willing to defend this plot point: What did the story gain from Ebina being Ichiban's brother? There is no final showdown between them, there's no expansion on that rather important reveal, it basically just acts as a small detail in Ebina's backstory and motivation. But in reality I think you could have removed that connection to Arakawa and Ichiban and not have lost anything of substance. Ebina's boss fight was cool but he felt like a weak "I hate duh yakuza gonna kill em all" type of villain, like a cheap re-hash of Ryo Aoki with that concept just being done slightly worse. Better yet, it feels really out of place for Ichiban's ending to be against Bryce, protecting Lani and Akane, while Kiryu's ending is against Ebina, who has no personal connection to Kiryu and has an explicit family relation to Ichiban. If they swapped these bosses at the end, it would have made so much more sense and meant for more impactful final boss fights in both cases. I have a feeling the ending of the story was rushed. It felt like all of the narrative threads and character arcs were heading in a certain direction, only for it to go the opposite direction entirely.

[@ryanp652]

Definitely agree with this. They built up the whole Lani-Haruka connection and implied that Kiryu was staying alive from the cancer because he was ensuring she was safe. And then he dgaf about her and goes and fights ebina

[@Silphage]

@@ryanp652 ​Yeah, there's a lot of really good "ideas" in the game like the Lani-Haruka connection, but they end up being like one small (but cool) cutscene and never thought about again. They would've been better focusing on half the ideas but fleshing that half out more.

[@electriccherrygamer9139]

I can’t believe they put 4 main characters in one video THE SELFISH DEEEED

[@Silphage]

I wrung a lot of the side content/stories dry as they became available during the story while fighting tons of battles in the open world, so for me I was often a couple of levels ahead. Almost every fight during the main story is pretty easy if you play this way, Y7 was noticeably harder. I even had the opposite problem with the side content enemies, they were almost always (except for one) many levels below me. The switches back to Ichiban after hours of Kiryu might've been the closest to needing a little grind but it was tiny. The level balance between Ichiban and Kiryu's party is off when you play this way too - most of Ichiban's side content becomes available when the game soft-caps your level very low. So you end up with way more time for Kiryu party grinding side content during the higher levels.

[@isaacmurillo1811]

Look at all these gigachads here, this is gonna be a great video

[@theduckkritz]

When I saw this on my youtube recommendations I immediately got a smile on my face. This has made my day soo much better. love your content always

[@silverblade43]

Great talk guys. Only major disagreement I have here is i dont think the romance sub plot was bad or really affected the story in a negative way at all. I agree that the ghosting aspect of it was not really something Saeko would or should have done. But I still think they have setup some really good stuff going forward with the next game

[@Draffut2003]

Just missing Cyricz, this is great

[@user-ki8oc1zg7l]

I like how Joongi says that he came to Hawaii without Seonhwees' approval in his personal quest. But then in one of the street talks he says that he needs to buy souvenirs for her at her personal request. As if different writers worked on these.

[@user-ki8oc1zg7l]

@AvengingFossil yep, but it is implied that he lied back then.

[@TheGman4747]

Was thinking about that and I figured that since nothing really gets by the Geomijul(especially Seonhee and Joongi) that she probably figured he went without permission, scolded him/forgave/understood why he did it and then just requested he get souvenirs while he was there. That's what I think anyway. Especially given that Seonhee decided to join Kiryu and be on the front lines, like he mentions in his drink links, he wanted to help in some way and feel useful to his friends.

[@user-ki8oc1zg7l]

@@TheGman4747 nah, she scolded him after the completion of his personal quest.

[@TheGman4747]

@user-ki8oc1zg7l Ah ok, my bad. Definitely agree that the writing is spotty at some points.

[@goofcool3425]

Also someone may have commented this already but we never find out why the Daidoji was after Akane to begin with

[@KhaledSham]

Thats for yakuza 9 or possibly 10. Dont go on dropping major spoilers bruh 😡

[@goofcool3425]

@@KhaledSham shit you’re right about that, I sowwy 🥺 hopefully by yakuza 12 they revive Mine and make him a good guy

[@netcat22]

That Joon Gi Han gif cracks me up every time

[@TSnakesRule]

idk if this was said during the podcast only 40 mins in BUT my own favorite thing about IW is that the map it self is a faster way to fast travel instead of going through the phone or finding a taxi. Edit: just clocked hour 2, 49 mins, yeah for me when I was playin the game every time a chapter kept on going i was thinkin to myself "when does the story pick up and stop being, lead -> nothing -> lead -> nothing

[@jkreincarnation]

I commented this before finishing the podcast, nice to see you mention it, editing this in just cause. Just a small thing I thought about after beating the game; For Kiryu's side aka him being the one to fight Ebina, he had to be the one in the end because it was all about how he essentially was the start of all problems with the yakuza and he wanted to apologize and make up for it. Some real KEJIME shit. For Ichiban and Eiji(I still think Eiji is trash and agree a lot about him at the end was just lost/cut somewhere), Ichiban is who he is and we love him for that as I believe he felt a need to help the guy because Eiji's life was ruined by the yakuza, moreso the Arakawa family even. Ichi being Yakuza Jesus himself, we can't help but agree with his decision in helping the guy turn himself in at the end, for the right reasons at least.

[@MiniDallas000]

I's less about Kiryu being the "start of all problems of the yakuza" as you say but more so when he was in the position to make some changes (Yakuza 1/Kiwami ending becoming the Fourth Chairman of the Tojo Clan for like 2 hours) he resigned, chose a successor that resulted in Yakuza 2's plot and the future of the series

[@jkreincarnation]

@@MiniDallas000 yeah, he's apologizing because he was in a position to do something and just ran away.

[@thebiggestofmen]

Will say i think it would have been cool for eiji to stay a villan and fight him in the end since i like the idea of ichiban's endless care for others to be twisted against him and for it to stick. I.e smth like how constantly trusting and risking everything for someone you just met will end up with you getting hurt again and again and again and at some point you need to put your foot down and stop trying to save someone you care for so you don't end up being dragged down with em. But no just worse aoki at the end but with an admittedly really really well directed and shot scene where he is taken to prison. Like id hate this so much more if that scene wasn't so good on every level other than why it happened

[@jkreincarnation]

@@thebiggestofmen yeah I'm not a fan of Ichi forgiving him and trying to redeem him because despite Eiji being screwed over by the Arakawa family, he still did some DESPICABLE things. But Ichi is who he is, so Eiji is saved by him. Really have no idea where LAD 9 will go since we have no more villains and HOPEFULLY, no more random yakuza and failed dissolutions

[@budafuka]

Damn, every complaint you guys initially brought up are also my biggest hang ups with the game. Buffs being AOE only now just made them not worth using outside of tiny arenas. They could've made the AOE's larger as you level up the jobs, similar to the ring buffs you get as you gain normal levels. My biggest gripe with the street surfer, aside of charging it, was not being able to interact with anything and getting booted off everytime you got into an encounter. Just made it more tedious to use than just running.

[@CogzillaOfDojima]

Anyone else get the glitch where Kiryu or Ichiban will just stand still for like 15 seconds when you have him attack and then after 15 seconds he teleports and stands still for another 15 seconds only to miss every time? Its happened to me like 10 times now

[@ACreed96]

Me too. It has glytch many times, before i finished story.

[@CogzillaOfDojima]

@@ACreed96 glad I wasn't the only one lol

[@kgldude]

I liked Infinite Wealth's story but I was expecting it to be more conclusive as far as Kiryu was concerned (As in, he either died or had a big, emotional reunion with Haruka at the end). Otherwise, I quite liked it. Not as good as 7 but still pretty good.

[@VisaCardholder]

Maybe you end up saying it. But the Ebina Kiryu ending to me felt like Kiryu's years of regret finally welling up. In this game in particular it's very heavy handed that he regrets how he spent his time as Chairman. Even in 6 this is something he brings up. It's obviously been eating him up for a long time. I think Kiryu sees Ebina as, like, a culmination of all his past mistakes. He must wants it all to end. And obviously as you guys said, too. He finally gets it. He needs to live life for himself. Ebina needs to live HIS life for himself.

[@BigBoss_893]

Even if it takes me weeks I will watch this full video

[@GamingKume]

This was 4 hours of unironic allegory. Enjoyed it!

[@Shagoev]

2:12:03 Imagine if Ryuji is actually alive and RGG can retcon the reason Sayama left in Y3. She left Kiryu because she had to help Ryuji escape and stay hidden from Jingweon and Omi Alliance.

[@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841]

Devilleon7, Snowiestangeman, Froob, Gokudoni: WE ARE THE YAKUZA 4

[@top1rggfan]

2:54:33 I'm gonna called it that Chitose becoming the CEO will be a good way to introduce new business management back in the LAD 9. Love that minigame

[@jomama6937]

Personally, I think Ebina is a going to be/is a bit underrated. Yes, him being Arakawa’s son is really unnecessary but what he represents beyond just being “I hate yakuza” man makes him one of my favorite antagonists. Ebina’s opening line “Spout your ideals all you want, you’re still yakuza. That’s all you’ll ever be” is him basically shouting at Kiryu and the players of the series that the yakuza ultimately is a business that so long as it exists, continues to cause and profit off of human suffering, no matter how morally just the leaders like Daigo and Kiryu who uphold it are. As long as the yakuza exist and watch out for themselves over the civilians they harm, people like Ebina’s mother and Ebina are going to get caught in the crossfire and be a simple afterthought. He’s a tragic villain because that motivation is something you can get behind, but obviously his methods and “ends-justify-the-means” attitude towards it have made him just as evil as the yakuza he is trying to get rid of. Also, the oni tattoo on Ebina’s back is called “Mugen Gokusotsu” (basically meaning “Infinite Hellguard”) according to the game’s tattoo designer. I believe it represents how in Ebina’s quest to send the yakuza to the fate they deserve, he has condemned himself alongside them by joining and climbing their ranks, all in his quest to tear it down from the inside out.

[@yvngdende]

This is how I found out that there’s no Hariti’s Amulet in this game 😭

[@ritacirocavalcante]

About Kamurocho: you shouldn't have been able to visit it before Chapter 12. I visited it early and it kinda broke the Kiryu part of the game for me. I got overleveled fast and had no problems beating any bosses afterwards. It could have been explained in-story like, say, Nanba nagging Kiryu into not taking long trips, and it forces the player into exhausting the Ijincho part, thus making the party just strong enough to beat Sawashiro in chapter 10. Then, in chapter 12, you can do everything in Kamurocho at a better pace and make the party again just strong enough to beat the Jimas.

[@7evan]

I'm glad you guys feel the same way about the finale as I did. The suggestions were spot on

[@gun_toucher_LLC]

00:51:00 stentorian whip, god tier ability. chitose could have used some stronger skills its true. and substitution jutsu is so broken but i hope they never remove it edit: 02:44:40 yeah yamai is definitely like if ichi had taken a dark turn somewhere

[@netcat22]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who HATED the fight with the stupid bobblehead guys with the creepy movement in little Asia.

[@A4ROW7]

I hate those guys with every fiber of my being

[@dsagent]

I'm 1 month late but my main issue is that the story bosses are so easy but random dudes on the street can easily wipe the party.

[@bleachboy29]

Only 20mins in but I am surprised to hear about the level gap issues you guys had. I was pretty under leveled throughout (beat the game with both parties at level 45) but I always felt like the game gave you tons of options to bridge the level gap with buffs/accessories/poundmates and the job system. Kiryu's last chapter was probably the only time in the game I died 2-3 times. Overall, I really adore the combat system, its a breath of fresh air compared to other AAA turn based JRPG titles, I can't think of another game which places so much emphasis on movement in a JRPG, RGG did a amazing job.

[@gambeano]

This is a long read so I don't expect many to read but for those that do I hope yall agree cause this games story was frustrating... I think I'm mixed in terms of the story. If I really have to lean towards good or bad I guess I'd lean towards bad if I'm being honest. Does the story have wonderful moments? Yes of course I mean we have ichiban and his moms beach scene, yamai was amazing, technically they're not main story but let's be real they are but kiryus life links were for the most part incredible. Now for the bad parts there are a lot more than good. Ill preface it by saying that yakuza stories have all been soap operaish and some entries do have tendencies of planting future seeds to never reap the rewards but for the most part they're solid. But this entry especially for it being kiryus swan song was terribly cobbled together. The funny part is I mention ichiban and his moms beach scene being good yet his mom for that matter is NOT. I refer to her as his mom bc I can't remember her name lol she was so forgettable as well as Lani. Don't even get me started on an the palekana good guys we help that we waste time developing to not bring them back up past a turning point. Bryce I'll touch on shortly, he was horribly squandered. It would've been so cool if he actually had super natural powers. I know it's all through sub stories but supernatural elements are canon in yakuza lol we have ghosts and kappa and ufos. Bryce especially hurts me bc his intro was so good! And the paneling with the graffiti wings behind him *chefs kiss* all for him to be a pathetic old man who uses guns lol like why make every bad guy shit their pants when talking about him and how his organization was uber powerful and could track your mom and send you her face in a box from across the country. They should've leaned into the supernatural to set him apart. Ebina was also another let down. Not as much as Bryce but like you guys touch on in the video, there was so many villains/characters I guess they just didn't have enough time to flesh them all out but maybe just don't introduce that many or don't have only 14 chapters. And real quick we make it abundantly clear that there are tons of sleeper agents at Bryce' disposal yet it's never touched upon past Eric's friend killing himself at the docks lol like that's kind of a big issue. Ebina had a cool tattoo and fight but man I feel like rgg used up all the master planner mischievous mastermind writing for Aoki in 7 that they had none to really spare for Ebina. I get the whole kiryu will face the yakuzas past while ichi faces the future but it just fell flat... why not make ebina the future and someone else entirely could've been the past. Cause there was so much potential with the dynamic between him actually being related to ichiban and connected by Arakawa and what have you for ichi and him just have like 2 interactions. Eiji AGAIN was another let down. Like I said idk if they just didn't have enough time and had to cut back the story or what but it was incredibly disappointing that Eiji does the whole grenade thing with Lani to dissappear until the end of the game. Dude just shows up with a beard in japan. it's even worse that I completely forgot about him after the grenade Lani thing. And I know I can't be the only one that just forgot Eiji was a thing after that. A major issue as well is them making gaiden after this game. When hanawa got shot and actually died there I told myself nah he's not dead then when it got confirmed like the following chapter or whatever I paused the game and had a mini rant to myself like what???? That whole taichi Suzuki tease for it to not come to fruition... and then we have the ichiban and saeko thing. Brother I've had ppl tell me it was "clearly supposed to be a joke"???? Where was that made obvious?? We wasted a whole kiryu and ichiban cinematic about that the chapter before the finale for it to just be used as a joke? Lol I guess that's my fault bc I expected kiryu to have a sit down with Saeko about how him and yumi went down and to not squander a chance at love especially to not give a dude you went thru hell with the cold shoulder. I may sound super negative and it kind of is but it's bc this was kiryus swan song but again bc of how it goes down it honestly feels like we'll have another actual final kiryu game. And I know kiryu is getting chemo at the end and he's not getting any younger but bc of how bad the story is I can't see this being kiryus end. We didn't even get an actual on screen haruka and kiryu reunion. Like cmon how is this kiryus swan song of a game??? No way man. I like kiryu getting his name back and getting treatment but this game is a lot of "that's it?" The best parts were the life links. I cried my eyes out in most of them especially with date breaking down that tough guy facade and tearing up while saying that kiryu is his best friend. Oh and last but not least this isn't really a thing to bring the game down but another drawback of gaiden being made after I was disappointed that there wasn't an agent job for kiryu. I was waiting for it all game lol

[@shadowmamba95]

In terms of where I rank the mainline entries, I ironically have 8 be neck-and-neck with 6 in terms of story. Better than 3, 4, and 5. However, neither 6 or 8 can beat 0, 1, 2, or 7, especially 0 and 7, which had the best stories in the mainline games in my eyes. I would rank the stories as: - 1st: 0 - 2nd: 7 - 3rd: 2 - 4th: 1 - 5th/6th: 6 & 8 - 7th/8th: 3 & 4 - 9th: 5

[@shadowmamba95]

As for the absence of the Agent style, yeah I am disappointed of its absence too.

[@Anthnax]

One of the bigger things for me is the lack of endgame content without the swell/new game plus. It's really grimy when I can't see an equivalent to something like the millennium tower, and you're only at level 60, it feels like it was designed to sell the big swell.

[@JEZ_MK]

It's them!!! It's the Yakuza 4!

[@jemsyago7163]

Aw hell naw all of you are here, now this is something I'll have to listen through all the way

[@kang1983]

you guys referring to the "battle in chapter 12" and i just kept thinking of the narasaki one

[@KhaledSham]

I’ll tell you which one is it if you want Spoiler: Its the majima, saejima, and crybaby daigo fight

[@kang1983]

i know thats what they mean but its funny imagining everyone loving the narasaki fight@@KhaledSham

[@KhaledSham]

@@kang1983 fuck that guy lol Based usami pfp btw

[@Paxenth]

1:09:36 Regardless of what the situation of Johnny & Associates (now called Smile-Up). RGG will 100% bring back Kimura Takuya to reprise his role as Yagami. If RGG was scared of their own reputation being dragged to the ground because of the association that Kimura is affiliated himself with they would've kept the beta model of Yagami or hired someone else. It's just that in recent news Johnny & Associates has been popping back up because ex talents has started to speak up about it again in a bigger scale live on TV, thats why it's a talking point in this community now. Ever since Kimura was signed on to Johnny & Associates he's always been the lead role for most of his film/TV roles anyways, so him being affiliated with that agency never affected him whatsoever. I just hope Judgment 3 is a thing in RGG studios because it just feels right to have that series be a trilogy.

[@Tybell702]

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN LEZZZ GOOOOOOO

[@__-zc1vp]

gonna tell my kids these are the yakuza 4 🔥🔥🔥

[@GamingKume]

My goodness 4 hours 👀👀👀

[@makito106]

2:47:30 Ichiban has a closer connection to his soap land dad since he was actually there to raise him.

[@MemerMaestro]

Can't wait to see all this

[@TRDEWH]

The only thing that bums me out about Infinite Wealth is that I was having a really bad bit of a mental health battle (Had to go on meds and take time off work) to the point where it was affecting me physically so there's a lot that I loved in the game but I didn't quite get to enjoy it on the level I wish I could have. I adored it as a whole tho. When Funk Goes On played I sat up in my chair and looked at my brother (I had a quite a few people I love around me at the time when I was going through it) He thought something was wrong and I asked "Do you hear that?" and when he realized I was talking about the game he kinda laughed. I really am fond of my time with IW despite the heart pain, headaches, shortness of breath and occasional blindness haha.

[@jamesb687]

The Avengers of The YakuTubers are here!

[@GarliccDread]

I love how Snowiest and Gokudoni turn into Han infodumping each time they speak 😂. Definitely agree about Saeko. I felt pretty frustrated at that whole plot device. It made for a funny ending, but at what cost when it really didn't need to be that way lol. I like a lot about this game, mainly with combat, characters, and the soundtrack is great. But I haven't really been feeling most of the main story or even substories with only a few exceptions (the Snow one was great). A lot of the substories have dialog that drags waaay too long.

[@amberhernandez]

Hearing the boys talk about being 20 levels under for some content was wild, coming from someone who actively sought out crowned enemies to get their rewards. There was one segment that recommended you be level 13, and I was already double that with +20 weapons. My habits did bite my butt later when certain party members joined, and I had 20 levels' worth of grinding to catch them up. The plus side is, I only had one loss the entire time, and it was the one required loss (BUT I WAS 75% OF THE WAY THROUGH AND ALMOST HAD HIIIIIIIM).

[@atipsy69]

How did y'all do it? The whole "four hours without a toilet break" thing 😂

[@TheHiddenOne690]

58:36 for me it's pocket circuit!

[@darknesswave100]

Haven't finished the game myself (job is trying to kill me 😂) so just here for support and to help the algorithm. I'll be back once I've beaten it

[@devilleon7]

Appreciate the kindness!