Still Think Yakuza 3 Has The Worst Balanced Combat? Watch This

[@MikeJr9284]

Kurohyou 2's enemy health + Yakuza 3's enemy blocking + Yakuza 4's enemy grabbing + Yakuza 5's enemy spawn rate = a literal nightmare of a game

[@hamshake4946]

All that while in yakuza 6 combat

[@cadfael3257]

Sheesh, is that a new torture device?

[@virtuousevent]

A recipe for disaster

[@littlenighomie]

And all of them have Kiwami's guns and leg sweeps

[@Roderickthegray]

You’re a mad man… some modder’s probably working on this as well speak😂

[@SaceInTime]

im actually crying i thought the entire video would be you showcasing the absurdity of lots of street encounters but it really is just you fighting one person

[@stefanavious]

When I first saw an example of this, I legit thought the street fight was some kind of training battle sequence where they give the character infinite wealth so you can learn all the combos. This game is so peak.

[@pauliuskvedaras9559]

Infinite WHAT!?

[@nahhhidwin]

Yakuza: Like a Dragon - Infinite WHAT??

[@stefanavious]

My dumb ass realised two hours later and two comments later that "health" got autocorrected to "wealth." FML XD

[@mystey1]

The combat would be fine if he didn't have megatons of hp (or defence?) and didn't parry all your sh1t instantly

[@Vxpok0]

INFINITE WHAT? :O

[@WaddleDee45]

Gotta have your PSP charger on hand for whenever a street fight starts.

[@kindasomeviews]

POV: you're a later story boss and Kiryu uses healing items

[@stfilo1948]

This mf has a bright future with being used as a human shield holy shit

[@devilleon7]

🤣🤣🤣

[@genzo454]

He could probably beat [Final Boss] from Yakuza 7 by himself, I bet

[@cryguy0000]

Bro could take on most of the final bosses just through sheer bulk

[@WalterPowerbright]

Kazuma Kiryu: I'm the toughest Yakuza. Majima Goro: No, I'm the toughest Yakuza! Random Yakuza in Kurohyou 2: Amateurs...

[@KasugaJopie]

I told you, im not yakuza

[@deltawarte2394]

I genially think that Raiden vs Armstrong scene was inspired by Kurohyou 2 "Why won't you DIE?!"

[@mrhbombman]

Bro heard the quote of “Yakuza who can get up, hasn’t lost” and took it as a religious doctrine.

[@genzo454]

​@@mrhbombmanBro thinks he's Kuze 💀

[@RoboticEdward]

Yakuza 6 where your fists bounce off your enemy's block combined with every other frustrating part of every game.

[@soldier_4th_class]

Imagine this but with Y5 random encounter rate

[@unofficial_gamer6813]

High ranking Tojo Yakuza = Hey man! Give me money man!

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

This one regular encounter is even longer than walking across the map in tsukimino. I literally take yakuza 5 encounter rate over THIS.

[@thatoneguy2023]

If i remember correctly some companions you can hire (and I think even Ryusho Kuki which is a required companion for story segments) increase the enemy spawn rate by a lot, making it even worse than 5 sometimes

[@theroguestudent]

If you’re shinada then yes it’s the worst but the random encounters are super fun with Akiyama and Saejima

[@abdullahgamer7575]

It's funny because kurohyou 1 had the exact opposite issue for me where street encounters enemies barely had any health and died in less than a minute so I couldn't fully try new fighting styles on them or enjoy the combat.

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

Kurohyou 2 difficulty be like: "hihi let's multiply regular enemy HP by 250."

[@cy_pher]

The kicking animation is hilarious

[@lordsickomode]

most styles have different punches and kicks in general, so every style has a different hit on ground one. I think my favorite is this weird lean one where you softly backhand their side with a fist in a yoga pose and you can do it fast as fuck

[@yakuzasugoideskafandude]

congratulations to you for being in the sega video,you deserved dude, have a great channel.

[@thatkerimguy]

The no button input/no QTE thing happens when you are out of stamina/in a tired state. Its the same with enemies, if you try to grab them normally they will escape so you are forced to grab them when they are in a tired state

[@bobiseenflop7616]

Playing kurohyou 2 on ex hard is indeed just a parryfest, but personally I think the difficulty (except for the bosses) are just right on normal mode, where yakuza thugs will pretty much never ever parry you, which to me is pretty much the sole reason I don't even bother with the higher difficulties anymore.

[@apurpledragon]

You could get some dinner delivered from Doordash, take your dog out, maybe take a shower and that random goon would still be alive by the time you get back.

[@MadDogSolo]

Not sure if it’s implemented exactly the same but I think the crowd being able to grab you is something taken from Def Jam FFNY, because in that game either you or the opponent can be grabbed by the crowd, and from there you can get some free hits, or use it for some grapples.

[@TheMat4014]

Well tbf both kurohyou 2 and def jam were developed by aki corp, so ofc they will just add prior game combat elements in

[@MadDogSolo]

@@TheMat4014 I know, played both and saw the elements and assets they used from FFNY, I will say though that the fights in that game and the overall difficulty are more brutal than the kurohyo games. Though the length of a fight takes depends on how well you’re doing basically, you can end fights in under a minute.

[@smokedsanjl]

For your information I don’t think Yakuza 3 has the worst combat!!

[@onceyougozach2607]

The combat in 3 is straight up better than several of the Dragon Engine games

[@smokedsanjl]

@ ngl it’s just K2 and Y6 the rest are definitely better imo 😭

[@LoneGh0ste]

Kiwami 2 exists 💀 Ishin 2023 exists 💀💀💀

[@WhatABeautifulDuwangChew]

I still think it has the worst combat besides some games like Kurohyou 2. Street battles take painfully long and it’s not fun to play a grab simulator game

[@Wol1427]

Yakuza 5 has good combat mechanics but horrible combat balancing, heat actions do lame damage, way too many enemies to fight at once, and the enemy encounters happen far too often. So overall I'd say Yakuza 5 for those reasons. It seemed like they were trying to showcase what they could do with the game engine at the time, instead of wondering if they should do things, they thought about what they could do. Heck I have more fun with the bear hunting as Saejima than actually fighting in Yakuza 5.

[@NyomiHendon]

That is legitimately crazy, I had no idea I think it's best to head cannon that guy as Ichiban to explain why it took so long

[@evanpastor7305]

Kurohyou 2 is up there in coolest heat actions ever

[@EirikLegend]

Is it just me ???? I once was lvl 22 in kurohyou 2 and my opponent yakuza was fucking lvl 46. I didnt install any mods or break the game.

[@lordsickomode]

had to have been a bug, the highest level difference i ever experienced randomly was 8

[@고수전사]

Lovely how k2 prepares us for amon!

[@tadzy1360]

As a speedrunner of both of the Kurohyou games I enjoyed this video! But there is something very important I want to note. Because you are playing on Premium Adventure (aka post-game), and in the post-game the yakuza encounters are all level 50 encounters. In just the main story the level of the yakuza enemies gradually go up with each chapter, maxing out at level 26-28 in chapter 10. Level 50 yakuza have about 3x more health than the level 26-28 yakuza for comparison. For another piece of comparison the final boss is level 28 and Tanaka Ichiro are level 13. The only enemies that are as tough as post-game yakuza are the rematches of the last few bosses in the game, which is also post-game content. So all in all I think the post-game yakuza are supposed to be fun mini-bosses that are endurance tests for players who've done everything they can in the game and shouldn't be the basis for all fights in the game. Sorry for the big wall of text explaining this but I just wanted to clear that up about one of my favorite yakuza games!

[@misha_djynsy]

Man, i remember fighting gaia on ex-hard, that was painfully long

[@Vault_69]

The regular street battles being harder than the story battles is so funny to me. I played on normal so i didnt find them too bad but it was still noticeable. I never bothered with the secret boss, I'm not putting myself through that lol I enjoyed Kurohyou 2 but I liked 1 a lot more. Combat being a big reason

[@devilleon7]

I didn't fight the secret boss of Kurohyou 2 yet but 1's secret boss is unfortunately also just a punch sponge. The guy takes over 20+ minutes to beat if you're maxed out and that's if you're really kicking his ass, and he just doesn't really have anything unique to his fight.

[@Vault_69]

@devilleon7 Yeah I didn't do Kurohyou 1's for that reason. I'm normally a completionist but sometimes I know when to put my foot down

[@stevenbills2600]

Honestly although the yakuza enemies have more health and do more damage than the other enemies, from my experience in kurohyou 2, when there is a group of enemies it feels way harder than yakuza from my experience (Granted its because I kinda figured out what you want to do, aka push forward+attack is an attack which always knocks them to their knees regardless of health/injury, after that you try to go behind them then you can just basically mash. But also I don't mind how long fights take but thats just me) I also didn't get to fight the max level 50 yakuzas in kurohyou 2 on ex hard, so that might be why

[@vugolol]

I'm kind of surprised they haven't reused some of these finishing moves/submissions as EX/Heat moves. Makes me wonder if they were to make a Saejima gaiden game if they would give him a submission/wrestler stance, but he's probably never getting a solo game lol

[@lordsickomode]

dude look up a compilation of KH2 heat actions, some of the coolest hacts in the whole series by far

[@apukami3643]

So basically never fight the Yakuzas in the yakuza spinoff

[@lordsickomode]

nah its no problem, this has to be a bug. Never had this tanky of an enemy.

[@eieneidnf]

I mean hamura from judgement folded like origami when it came time for his boss fight; cane man and higashi was the real muscle in the matsugane family

[@thatoneguy2023]

@@lordsickomode its not a bug, yakuza enemies are just like this in ex-hard at max level. Normal mode tho, they're honestly pretty fun to fight because they are the most predictable enemies with attacks and arent spongy

[@lordsickomode]

@@thatoneguy2023 it is a bug, i could not recreate this playing the same difficulty at max level. I have hundreds of hours in this game. Never had a situation like this.

[@MrJedroi258]

No matter how broken the combat is in Kurohyou 2, Ryo Nozaki theme makes it all worth it

[@risktorise2103]

Wonder how the dev calculated this random Yakuza stats ? How could such mishap unnoticed in the first place ?

[@new1412]

Now that I do remember back in PSP era, someone brought up this "issue" in our community and I wasn't into Yakuza at the time (I just totally went all in with Initial D and MonHunt). People were pretty certain it was "bugged" so the game doesn't get the following like the first iteration. I remembered the community voted this game into the list of "top 10 worst game on PSP" along with some cash-grabing games like NFS (probably except Carbon?) and some MCU ties-in while the first one was in "top 10 best game on PSP" along with those like Killzone, FF7:CC and MonHunt.

[@theslashbro4474]

Dante Must Die experience

[@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841]

Nah bruh Dante Must Die mode are not as bullshit as this.

[@theslashbro4474]

@jovif.spemudaindonesia1841 you're right 😹

[@JacobTheCroc]

This is why we need Kurohyou 1+2 Remake collection.

[@keonmerrill1941]

Wait...that's not a nameless yakuza...IT'S THE WAILING WARRIOR!!

[@xkaosdark]

So it WAS a good thing i played this game on easy difficulty. I only finished this game 3 weeks ago for the first time and it was amazing. The final boss was also cool and tragic. Thank you Leon 💜

[@Norrabal]

Exhibit B for Kurohyou Kiwami your honor

[@unofficial_gamer6813]

I would prefer to fight 10 minutes of tank enemies rather than 5 minutes of block-uza. Reason 1. Kurohyou 2 is testing my reflect, while blockuza is testing my patient. 2. Tanky enemies mean more score for exp bonuses. 3. Because Kurohyou have broken limb mechanic. I can give them broken arm and broken leg. It kinda Sadistic fun.

[@iwishicanluciddreamstoesca4049]

i mean u can see blood and bruises just fine but while i admit its fun seeing the enemy convulses and as a hater of yakuza 3, kurohyou 2 sucks

[@TLOWNSU]

Yakuza 3 was my 1st Yakuza game many years back. I think that one made me realize you can't just monkeybrain enemies. And also you can cheese with weapons lol

[@tomaszbartkowiak157]

Length of a random fight is really crazy, especially considering the camera work in this game with how close it is to action and all the shaking, I was getting tired of it just by watching 😅

[@uoal227]

Yes, i was there went you answer a comment about kh2 in the Yakuza 1 stream recently.

[@johncampos-d9w]

Kurohyou y el Kurohyou 2 tienen los mejores sistemas de combate de la saga

[@devilleon7]

Their combat is very fun, I just wish Kurohyou 2 had better balancing.

[@seannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

I had this experience against bosses in Kurohyou 1 while playing on hard with no items, so I'm kind of terrified to play the sequel...

[@ryubeno14]

holy that fight took 13 minutes, that's crazy

[@Pulsar-c9x]

I like to imagine that story boss fight dude is Mr. Libido

[@DomEReapeR]

I think that's the difference, I'm a more casual player so I play all of the games on normal, so I actually adored Kurohyou 2 and still dread going back to 3.

[@AkiyamerGaming]

15:52 tanaka lawg getting his freak on 😭😭😭

[@doonishsan]

HOLY YOU WEREN'T LYING WHEN YOU SAID IT'S SO LONG. THIS VIDEO IS 18 MINUTES! Crazy.

[@djoshawott2850]

The experience is UH! UH! UH! UH! UH! UH! UH! UH! for 10 minutes.

[@shadownight9956]

All i felt in yakuza 3 remaster in ps4 Is the fucking input reading and target tracking like holy fuck one enemy did 7 turns on my ass to avoid my input😂 and komaki will always instantly punish if i press punch once when i am not even using combos

[@shirosama6987]

This video actually made me wanna play kurohyou 2, the absurd difficulty in old-school yakuza games makes me nostalgic lol

[@The56567878]

Imagine these guys in tsukimino

[@FusionDjango]

Yakuza 3's combat is fun tbh, the blocking is annoying but bounding is honestly too fun, it's a shame that it was practically gone in 5, back in 0 but not as good as 3 & 4 and neutered further in Kiwami, the bounding in 0 is fun and if it had 3 & 4's level of bounding then it'd be perfect, I wish the dragon engine games had 3's bounding, juggling just doesn't feel the same.

[@sonofjenova3798]

Dis is why legend remix gaiden is peak

[@DragoonCenten]

I like juggling, I just wish they never toned down 3's bounding in future games. 4 would be perfect if it just had 3's bounding.

[@sonofjenova3798]

@ it does? Akiyama and Tanimura can infinite with juggling

[@DragoonCenten]

@@sonofjenova3798 it has juggling but it isn't the same as in 3, Y4 Kiryu is a whole different game.

[@sonofjenova3798]

@ only different with kiryu is that you can’t wallbound off a komaki parry anymore, other than that its the same

[@daniellamb8867]

i was playing kurohyou 2 the other day, and it took me 30 minutes and 2 tries just to beat one guy, and I was maxed out too!

[@devilleon7]

Omg, who was it? It wasn't a street encounter was it? 🤣🤣

[@daniellamb8867]

@@devilleon7 it was a yakuza

[@devilleon7]

@@daniellamb8867 💀💀☠

[@nickywampole3306]

I really love ishin fighting mechanics but then again I’ve always been a big fan of samurai’s and shit like that

[@nachardou.4780]

Game is sick but those enemies can be so hard I almost always had to rely on save states. See, this is why we need a remake/remaster of both Kurohyous (pls RGGS I'm begging you)

[@Jay16998]

bro was fighting the same mf for 10 min straight. you have my respect o7

[@lordsickomode]

I do think the title is an improvement, but this isnt QUITE accurate either. This exact scenario could only be recreated in late game on ex hard (and i haven't managed to get to THAT long of a fight either. I got 3:30 roughly, using a self taught using wild dance punches and punch power increases, nothing crazy, with minimal accessories to recreate this in a random state unoptimized.) The combat isnt going to be like this for the bulk of players. If you could share the styles you used in your self taught and upgrades too i would like to recreate it more perfectly, to see if there is something I am just doing differently. I have not been able to get this to happen to this length.

[@coolwolf506]

I honestly liked yakuza 3 combat because of that fact you cant just button mash your way through every battle. only gripes is that it does feel like the enemies block a little too much and you dont do alot of damage but honestly in its own way it makes it special.

[@dankdankeryetdanker2726]

The man with all of the boss HP bars (Including the amons), Mr. Yakuza himself.

[@TheEvilKiryu]

This is probably how bosses feel when a bad player just stacks up on multiple health items

[@doomsday519]

I guess this was never a problem to me cuz the only time I played this game was at work so the time consumed was welcome😂

[@hapi4714]

Like a Random Encounter: Infinite Health

[@hezekiah8765]

To avoid those encounters don't bump into guys in suits on thr streets, they'll only fight you if you anger them. The fastest way to best them I found is to spam charged attacks and environment heat actions, hope this helps

[@OneManCast]

Leon, we all know that the worst combat belongs to Yakuza dead souls.

[@XiongMa0]

I remember preaching about kurohyo 2's poor combat way back, but people were absolutely mad at me for saying something even remotely bad about the game. And now all of a sudden everyone sees the light? I dont understand the internet

[@lordsickomode]

dunno what people are suddenly yapping about, i have not once ever faced this issue and idk how the fuck he got this to happen.

[@DrMasterAlex]

Maybe cuz the game didn't have a translation of any kind way back and now a variety people are actually experiencing and discussing the game instead of megafans and posers

[@earthbound9999]

@@lordsickomode Same. He said he's playing on hard, so maybe that's why he's having issues.

[@lordsickomode]

@@earthbound9999 i play on hard and did two ex hard runs, ive never had any enemy come to even a fraction of this tanky under the same conditions. Im convinced it was a bug.

[@earthbound9999]

@@lordsickomode That makes sense

[@sephir4362]

Halfway through the video I was gonna comment something like maybe the devs accidentally added an extra zero somehwere like they made this guy have like 1000 health instead of 100, but nah it was more like 5 extra zeroes.

[@samfish5500]

It does, but 3 just hit very differently. There was tons of charms about the orphanage, the city, kamurocho and the tons of DreamCast graphics

[@stinkymarty]

I consider myself a huge yakuza fan I have done everything in every game here in America. I really really want to play this game but I don’t have a way just yet. Really hoping one day we get English versions :(

[@carlitobecool]

I'm in disbelief over this, playing for the first time later this year. Can't wait

[@deeppurple6469]

I would love for RGG to just remake or remaster both kuroyhou games with online multiplayer working.

[@gasolinekiss]

Okay I literally only put on the goddess of children amulet in Yakuza 3 because i thought the enemey spawn rate was totally ridiculous, now all y'all got me shaking in me boots thinking about 5

[@Akira_Nishikiyama_reaction]

Even as a person who love Kurohyo 2, I definitely 100% agree street fight in Kurohyo 2 is the WORST nightmare you can ever imagining. I had try no upgrade kurohyo 2 before on Ex-hard. I remember using preponderance one and a half hours to beat a single Yakuza fight. It was the worst experience in my whole life.

[@Misana89]

Huge congrats for the 100,000 subscribers brother ❤😊👏

[@johnsonboy8114]

Nice Opinion. But: Rekindle-Gold

[@shinvertigo8410]

As someone who used the kamurocho yakuza to grind, they aren't really that bad. At first, sure, they can be difficult and annoying. But, they are easily the best source of experience outside of story progression, and they become very predictable once you've fought them enough

[@shinvertigo8410]

It could be an ex hard thing, not sure. I beat the game on hard and used them to level every style until I unlocked the final style

[@Quantum722]

Sure, you can say that, but I think that's what started the combat to inspire juggling and wallbounding from the later games. I'd wish they had more time to have in depth with the combat.

[@lordsickomode]

its defo not the worst combat, not by any means. Really not sure how he got an enemy to become this tanky, never experienced anything like it in hundreds of hours of play. This is the first im hearing or seein of an enemy this fucking tanky.

[@EvilMightyTrash]

Well duh theres a reason he didn’t die, he was just using Staminin whenever he could

[@faeronix]

Y3 honestly has one of the better combat systems, seeing as its basically just an upgraded Y2 in terms of combat (I didn't forget Kenzan. 8v ]) Same snappy feel, good fluidity, its great. Even with all the blocking that carried over from Kenzan due to it's weapon focused gameplay.

[@ryukenoh8898]

Leon just reawakened ptsd, even with the extreme man style it takes a bit

[@maad1670]

Kurohyou aka Def Jam: Fight for Kamurocho due to the engine used lmao

[@EasilyBoredGamer]

I will never be mad about enemies blocking again im sorry

[@rajuhirani9353]

I have passed through normal stage of PSP game but this is why I never try the X hard mode

[@lennythesatan7747]

I think I have beaten them on hard on normal, so I had not much problem with them. And not to mention, I haven't seen them parry me at all when I combo'd them to death.

[@terranghost5432]

I wish they would remaster the Kurohyou series.

[@atlasreborn7221]

Sadly its been stated they have no intention on remastering or reworking any older projects

[@terranghost5432]

What a waste of opportunity. Kurohyou is too cool to be left to rot away.

[@Karurosu99]

After seeing how long it took you to beat the random street encounter now I don’t know if I even wanna play kurohyou 2 now 😓

[@Sarahm2261]

Just Play on normal and you good

[@yellowvespagts300]

Why don't you use changed attacks? They do a lot of damage + they get stuck on the wall

[@caustictax6617]

I mean, yeah the yakuza type street encounters are so fucking long but they are COMPLETELY optional, these enemies won't engage unless you bump into them. Besides they give stupid amounts of xp and fighting style xp Honestly I kinda like these encounters because I use them as "gauntlets" where I test skill and combos PD: Tanaka Ichiro is a banger boss with a banger OST

[@thatfreeze]

Yeah this is stupid, Leon claims the combat is bad while not even trying to understand it's mechanics and why some things are done some ways. I bet he doesn't even know about directional attacks having different functions.

[@devilleon7]

@@thatfreeze Yes, the guy whose channel revolves around the series and played Kurohyou 2 multiple times doesn't know about this basic function 🤡

[@caustictax6617]

@@devilleon7 Damn. Didn't need to do him dirty like that

[@itsajoe6939]

I was expecting a bunch of clips of you absolutely crushing Yakuza 3 combat, but this is better.

[@adamhafiddin9564]

Holy shit. This guy could take on entire tojo clan and omi alliance army and still not dead

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

I love both of these games (possibly my favorite combat system in the franchise) but I wouldn't dream to play them on EX hard.

[@revolt_4588]

the combat mechanics arent bad the enemies just have too much health why is it titled like the combat is plain and boring

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

Long combat time is why i don't like the turn based combat either. It takes good minutes to defeat a bunch of generic goons and sometimes 20+ minutes to defeat bosses especially at the very early stages of the geme where you don't have much level. In this game's case you'd probably spend half of your PSP battery life just fighting with this generic goon lol

[@protogenliffy]

I've seen a few people claim the fight is this long because it's a miniboss, even so that's not an excuse. No street encounter enemy should take this long to beat *especially* when maxed out.

[@Langas_Konoe]

When I started Kurohyou 2, I picked hard mode because I had a nice time with 1 in normal mode and though "I can handle this"..... I still don't finish the game lmao

[@lordsickomode]

hard isnt really hard tho, ex hard puts difficulty in. Hard is just avg yakuza experience. as for this, really dunno how he got this to happen.

[@Milty2001]

The fact that normal enemies take longer to defeat than boss fights is wild

[@gazover_]

Now this is meta level of hard fight, Imagine fighting Kiryu as Tatsuya for 40 real life minutes and then loosing anyway story wise

[@valalphak]

Imagine yapping about yakuza 3 remaster where all bosses blocking your attacks, while in other yakuza games they often just dodge you right when punching is more frustrating tbh

[@nmmn9972]

I would never have thought that the kurohyou 2 was so broken....

[@necus64]

Ichiro Tanaka tends to get a bit freaky in Heat Mode

[@william.9210]

Kurohyou 2 slander in the big 2024 💔💔💔