Moments That Made People Ragequit Yakuza (Or Really Annoyed)

[@MiniDallas000]

If you're looking for Leon, Yokoyama has taken him up to the ruff

[@ExtremeMan10]

Leon wasnt the same after he replayed Y5.

[@KhaledSham]

I hope Leon beat the shit out of bitchass yokoyama

[@LuisManeIII]

@@ExtremeMan10 he went into a deep state coma before

[@GearMasters988]

Best Yakuza 3 reference

[@m8rs558]

The fact I know people irl with this accent doesn't make it less funny

[@lizdevilz7271]

I can confirmed this. Hearing Yagami saying Sawa-sensei for 100 times way less annoying than 0’s climax battles.

[@devilleon7]

I'm sad I missed that as a joke entry

[@TheSpawnfan]

And there were other arguments Yagami could have made, for example, bullying didn't stop even though he killed 7 of them, heck, he and the boys had to save Koda.

[@lacasadelpop4593]

And the main villain never had a valid counterargument to it, all he did was evading it, the same behaviour as the people he killed.

[@TheSpawnfan]

@@lacasadelpop4593 true, another thing Yagami could have pointed out is that most people would see it as him lashing out because of regret for doing a shoddy work as a teacher, resulting in his student in a coma, also, his claim that they have nothing on him legally is BS, they don't have the bodies, but, inciting a crime is a felony, so, what he did can be legally proven if Reiko or any accomplice feel like testifying, he can also be considered the mentor of two of those crimes, which means he goes down with Ehara and Reiko, and since Yagami has proof that establishes a motive for the murders Ehara and Reiko committed...

[@themonarchserupt4051]

yagami was almost insufferable in that game shame the story wasnt nearly as good as j1

[@mijofalco6355]

One thing that really annoyed me was something in yakuza 0. It was for one of the phone club substories where all I needed was one girl left to complete all the substories, but because the club is entirely RNG, it took for freaking ever for that final girl to arrive.

[@syndixel9857]

Those rng telephone club substories are such a pain in the ass. I had to look up a video to know what each girl sounded like to get the substories 😭

[@lukecwolf]

Thank our lord cyricz for their guide

[@lukecwolf]

I'm ashamed to admit that as frustrating as it was, seeing some chest and panties shots gave me the encouragement to keep going

[@ketrub]

the telephone club bullshit genuinely took me as long as the entirety of the cabaret minigame just because of terrible RNG

[@Akira_Nishikiyama_reaction]

​@@ketrubI took fucking 4hours just because try to get the last girl💀💀💀

[@5persondude]

Saejima’s Prison Breakout long battle in 4. That legitimately made my blood boil. The guards knock you down constantly, the snipers fire too fast, and Saitoooo… all while you’re still figuring out Saejima’s clunky fighting style for the first time with scarce healing items and rationing skill upgrades mid-battle that can make or break your chance of success. Oh yeah, then you have to fight Kiryu right after, where he can use Heat Actions and Tiger Drop you. I know the entire Prison section of 5 is too long and really boring, but at least RGG had the decency to let you roam Kamurocho and gain skills while practicing against low-risk street thugs before throwing you into the deep end.

[@doobis0749]

my god yes bro. gun enemies in general are a total pain in the ass in these games and the fact that so many of them are bosses hurts my soul

[@djshanz8585]

Focus on tech skills and not health, then it's the classic 2 words.. "git gud"

[@sammyexx]

the prison escape wasn't that bad was it? i played y4 for the first time recently, the original ps3 release and felt it was very doable. i don't think i used too many of the healing items too. though the saito fights were annoying i just had to look for a cheese strat

[@guffingtonreal]

Oh man I hated Saito in that

[@HA-yk9bo]

istg saito was impossible to beat with limited recovery items

[@AlexPeter9582]

The thing in Yakuza that caused me the most amount of rage was Yakuza 0’s Proving Grounds 6. The one where you have Breaker Majima in a club and have to reach a certain amount of money from fighting the breakdancing boys. That one was absolute HELL for me.

[@lukecwolf]

The big issue is that a lot of it's RNG. Like the only way to get through that level is to not get slapped by the dancer boys, making your multiplier get higher and higher. But like climax battle 4 i think is unforgivable with majima constantly switcjijg styles. Just when you're stringing combos, you switch styles and it sucked

[@lukecwolf]

Oh god it was 8 and leon used it as an example, i live this shared trauma

[@QuickQuips]

That and the weak Kiryu rush fight against zombies.

[@TheSpawnfan]

Mine was the disco dancing minigame.

[@soggybozo1515]

Don’t crucify me but I really don’t think it’s that hard, the only thing you have to watch out for is when they do the get up attack, just use the helicopter kick and don’t get too close and you’ll be fine

[@melancholiclonging8641]

The thing that annoyed me the most about the Man in Black in Kiwami 2 was how hard his final fight before you fight Ryuji was, and then how easy Ryuji was. It just made no sense.

[@frostsoul4199]

Ultimate Heat mode makes both fights trivial.

[@DojimaNoRyu]

My personal additions to the list; Feel free to add. -Unskippable repetitve cutscenes in minigames where you have to see over and over again. (Bowling, darts etc.) -Catfight minigame in Y0. It is RIGGED in ever sense of the word. If the game decides u lose the button mashing, does not matter how many time you press the buttons. -Weird frametime issues, more than 60 fps ruining minigames and horrible anti-aliasing in Kiwami 2. (Silent patch fixes it thankfully). -Having to play the FUCKING PHONE CLUB minigame and getting the ugly girl who takes your health instead of getting the girl i need for the substory. Seriously who thought Phone club minigame should have 6 substories tied to it???????? -Not having menu-saves and having to find a payphone. -Unskippable tied-to-animation cutscenes in Y5. (The ones you walk with a character). -Bounce on block in Dragon Engine games. (Thankfully there is mods to fix that). -Stupid protagonists turning their backs to guns.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

It's 7 substories actually

[@oneblacksun]

Silent Patch only fixes the high framerate issues. The aliasing in the games is still god-awful.

[@sbfh014]

I've only ragequit Yakuza once myself, and that was the mack chase in Yakuza 3, because I was doing it on legend new game(didn't have that running accessory to boost speed for ng plus), so you'd have to do the men in black fight (which because of the blocking took forever), get to the chase, lose, reload your save(legend mode, after all), and do all that again, so yeah, not a fun time, lol

[@sbfh014]

Also just gonna add that 9:28 was the reason I didn't platinum judgment, puyo puyo is my eternal nemesis, rip

[@benno9903]

Currently putting off my legend playthrough for this exact reason 👆

[@danielortiz4591]

I took a break from the game for 3 months for the same reason.

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

To be fair on the Majima & Saejima fight, the game literally tells you to grind the arena before going there.

[@wrekkelz709]

Even after the arena I couldn’t beat this fight. About 10-15 shots at it, all side quests and business shit done, and I just gave up, watched KZbin for the rest of the story, and now am hoping 8 is back to the tried and true formula. Probably not gonna happen, but a guy can dream. Sucks I’m getting pushed out of a series I love so much cause I can’t git gud at RPG combat and mechanics. I really do hope 7 was a one-off. But it was really well received, so I’m worried the direction of the series will change due to that. But what do I know. I’m in the minority here as far as I know.

[@ВасилийПупкин-ж8и]

@@wrekkelz709 Please tell me it's bait, I refuse to believe a functional human being with two arms who supposedly played a videogame or two in its lifetime could fail this hard.

[@wrekkelz709]

@@ВасилийПупкин-ж8и unfortunately I just didn’t have the patience for the fight. I wish it wasn’t true, but I’ve given it at least 3 solid tries followed by about 10 -15 frustrated and annoyed tries. The game just wasn’t for me. To be fair, I was never a huge RPG player, but I’m well aware this is largely on me. Wish I was joking but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to beat this game considering I need to invest a solid 60 hours to get to the point that usually stops me dead in my tracks. But from what I played, I loved. Great game, I’m just bad at rpg’s I guess. Or at least RGG rpg’s lol.

[@alonemax2912]

For some reason people ignore Ichiban ability to survive the last hit, the game is not hard at all while using it.

[@Gustavozxd13]

I got my ass beat because I was no expecting a hard ass fight out of nowhere lmao. My ichiban was a fucking fortunetell ffs. Did some arena battles with hero cause I barely used the job, got the 1 hit kill survive ability and it was over. That attack that hits you with 500 damage no matter what didn't even kill my ichiban at that point so I didn't even need that ability. It's definitely a level check battle of sorts, if you get there and you're not strong enough you'll simply perish and you have no choice but to get stronger.

[@SerenHighwater]

im surprised you didn’t mention tanimura’s final fight in 4, that shit had me so upset

[@LeaderPenguin]

This. This was the reason I did not beat Yakuza 4.

[@shinoharuv2519]

Parry and pray to God

[@Aleksandr_Tararin]

get 3 upgrades: 1. invincibility during sucessful parry animation 2. heat gain after parry 3. parry heat action then just hold guard button and input parry heat action whenever you gain enough heat. Repeat until there are no guards standing. This strat notably doesnt rely on sacred armor at all (i beat the game without it using the strat above), as you cant be hit in parry animation nor in heat actions. The only problem is that this doesnt work on medium or easy, because guards dont spam attacks on lower difficulties.

[@isaacmurillo1811]

Glad to see you getting sponsored, your hard work is really paying off

[@geminigal16]

Fighting Munakata at the end of Y4 was the closest I've come to ragequitting any Yakuza game.

[@McSquizzy962]

I’m shocked that you never mentioned the munakata fight at the end of 4. I thought everyone hated that one

[@bricky7081]

I just finished 4 & bruh... it's so trash

[@Graymonke-]

one of the worst bosses ever made

[@Nomate31]

The sacred armor made it so much easier, but kiwami 1 have no item similar to that

[@lyricsghost2547]

Yes it is. Not nearly as bad as Jingu, though. At the very least getting shot with sacred armor makes bullets a joke. It's extremely annoying, but not as infuriating as Jingu. For the record, I'm one of those who likes not to heal at all in a boss fight because I personally enjoy the challenge. Jingu and Munakata are in the "fuck it, let's heal" category simple because there's no fun in not doing so and it's not worth my time.

[@Graymonke-]

@@lyricsghost2547 ITS WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WORSE THEN JINGU

[@Future_Doggo]

For me, the Yakuza 7 fight with Nanba and Reiji was the closest I've been to taking a hiatus from the seires. I can still hear the gunshots attack followed by Saeko being downed to this day. P.S this is from my first playthrough 2 years ago when I didn't know about Eri or any OP strategies.

[@yehuda8589]

so I got super lucky when I first did that fight and had Saeko charm Nanba making him just do literally nothing the entire fight

[@messmermusicals1367]

BLEACH JAPAN FUJITA IS CALLING REINFORCEMENTS! BLEACH JAPAN SUGIMOTO IS CALLING REINFORCEMENTS! Like you, this fight is so notorious to me I can still recall the 2 fake Japan Bleachers mooks that accompanied Ishioda and Nanba

[@yehuda8589]

@@messmermusicals1367 huh I guess I just got really lucky since I don't think the bleach japan guys summoned any reinforcements when I fought them

[@chrisrockett5897]

Bro, just grind Management for Eri and then go to the underground dungeon.

[@Suiiiivlaki]

Ooh boy, that brings back some PTSD. Since I had hardly any money, I couldn't unlock Eri and I didn't really invest the time in the different jobs so I was stuck with a base Ichi, Adachi and Saeko with mediocre weapons. Thank god I finished it when I did because the last five or six chapters of LAD 7 really redeemed the game for me enough to put it in my top 5 of the series (although before that I really, really enjoyed chapter 1 and 2)

[@vividlantern8854]

Yakuza 5 coliseum as Akiyama or Shinada imo

[@guilima256]

the most difficult part for me about yakuza games is playing one of them and not letting it progressively consume my whole life

[@Twisting_King]

To this day, the 7777 Pachinko Achievement in Y5 is the most aggravating moment in all Yakuza. The Virtua Fighter theme song still haunts me and I lost so many of the in-game fights that I was shocked when I somehow survived and won. It didn’t even feel deserved when I got it.

[@yash3576]

The kiwami car chase made me almost die inside. I’m quite good at the game so my first legend play through was going good but then came chapter 10….. I did this car chase 5 times and still always died on the truck part , m not very quick to anger but after the 5th attempt I almost threw my controller out the window.

[@lyricsghost2547]

Did it on console on legend. After my successful attempt, game crashed. I had a ragequit that lasted me an entire week or so. You're not alone. X'D

[@Someone_Else]

Your first sponsorship, son, I'm so proud of you 🎉 great video like always, man. Regarding the most annoying stuff I went through in the RGG games, I'd say some of them include mahjong when I first learned it in 0 (at least now I know why I'm losing lol). In recent memory, though, I'd say the blacksmith mechanics (and overall completion) in Ishin Kiwami. If you're a masochistic completionist like me, then get ready for some of the most tedious grind ever, even for an RGG game lol

[@Totallynotsane]

10:02 Ah FOTNS Lost Paradise the single handed MOST ANNOYING RGG GAME TO 100 PERCENT!

[@killakame-3434]

I Quit Yakuza 0 because i was burnt out after reading 2m+ subtitles everytime i turn down a street

[@joetheshow7888]

I love that you got a sponsorship! Shows that you’re truly one of the best, keep up the good work! Love ya man ❤

[@yondabigman4668]

6:59 Legend difficulty took 3 months to do because of this mission. Those 3 months include the time period of the game being uninstalled. Never again!

[@lyricsghost2547]

Those are pretty on point. I think Yakuza 4 prison jailbreak deserves a spot just for Saito alone. Saejima can easily become a powerhouse monster later in the game, yes. But consider that you just have been introduced to a much slower, different combat style compared to Kiryu/Akiyama and you're still getting how it works, this guy not does only strike hard and evade swiftly. No, this guy re-appears several times with a longer health bar than before when you don't expect it. And considering how few healing items are available in prison (yes, there are free healing herbs on the prison yard, but... who the hell did farm for them unless they were on a second playthrough and fully knew what was coming next?), it can be rough for some people. Sniper guy didn't help, either. And now that we're still on the topic of Saejima, hunting chapters in 5 are tedious, too. He becomes a really enjoyable character to play as later on, but it seems that his early chapters always get a negative effect on him. Dumbest "cutscene gun", logic-less scenes tierlist when?

[@di-gun5791]

I never replayed 4 because of that Nope No thanks

[@chrisader8215]

I believe jingu’s fight in kiwami is rivalled by tanimura’s final boss in yakuza 4

[@ckn3481]

Congrats on the sponsorship, Leon!

[@TrueCrouton]

The first Shimano fight in Kiwami 1 was a complete wakeup call for me. Coming off the heels of 0 as my very first Yakuza game and having an all around smooth time with it, the amount of blocking and breaking out of combos Shimano did really shocked me. And then that trend didn't change at all for the duration of my time with the game. I got so fed up with it after a certain point that I literally dropped it somewhere near the end and just watched the rest online. It's funny because I don't recall having anywhere near as much trouble with K2. But then after I got to the remasters I started to connect some dots. To be honest, after having gone through the whole series now, I could probably go back and play K1 proper. And maybe I will someday. Also, as an aside, I really feel like the fight between Tanimura and Munakata at the end of Yakuza 4 belongs here too. Legitimately the worst fucking fight I've ever experienced in a video game. "Yeah let's give the guy with the combat style that works really well in one on one combat 30 guys to try and fight at once all while the actual boss runs away and shoots you every 5 seconds." Actually awful. "Oh but the sacred tree armor" I may hear someone say. Look man, I didn't have it for that fight. I didn't even know about it before I was ready to be done with the game.

[@J.P1981]

I knew someone who managed to get through most of these things with little complaint, but when they went through Yakuza 5 and got to know the character of Mirei Park, they turned away from the series entirely. I have seen no one who has hated the character so much as them.

[@ВасилийПупкин-ж8и]

Yeah she was a bitch who bullied a literal child yet the game somehow presented her as a """"""""""mother figure"""""""""", I was literally clapping when she died.

[@scarymeunster9095]

It still makes me mad they made her so unlikeable as a character. I checked her other roles and Romi Park seems like such an easy person to make lovable. I never celebrated the death of a character in this series who wasn’t a one-note antagonist like Jingu or Munakata before or after her. She was a horrible person. 5 just had a terribly written story, honestly. Everything felt either in-your-face or nonexistent. Dreams, dreams, dreams, that’s all that game is.

[@LucaxCorp]

Do not get me wrong, Mirei is unlikable and the game’s attempts to make her sympathetic are pathetic. However turning your back on a series for someone who is ultimately a side character is equally pathetic.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

I need to meet them. We will blossom in our shared loathing

[@harshvardhansinha5267]

PTSD is strong with 3:50 How did you forget golfing?

[@ahmeddridi5492]

Literally the worst thing about the video is that it ends Great job brother

[@ExtremeMan10]

For me it was Yuki from Kurohyou (screw his tight parry frame), Demon Bear from Y5 and toy machines in Yakuza like a dragon that left sour taste in my mouth.

[@fallaciousUnion]

6:12 Knife boots when golden wrapping

[@LargeToastie]

As someone who loves doing Amon runs of Yakuza games every year or two, Saejima's hunting sections in 5 are still enough to make me put off the game for like a month or two.

[@HIV_ALADEEN]

i think some things you missed was the following(based on platinum gathering yakuza 0-7 and judgment): - the bodyguard missions in kiwami 2(you had to compelte like 100 of them for the trophy and the last mission was all of the bosses you fough plus amon with a rocket) - ultimate batle 2 in Y0 (that fight against masaru sera sucked and he did like 2x damage, did half your health bar with a trip attack) - Dart and Pool minigames in yakuza 3 (hard to do due to very sensitive stick controls on controller) - The caberet manager minigame in Y3 and Y4 (took so long to get to #1 and you had to do all four for the substories to get to the amon bossfight) - The trophy in Y4 that can be only completed on normal Diffculty causing you to have one extra playthrough for the plat - Judgment dice game grinding for money - Trying to get specific hands in Mahjong(such as pair or something i dont rmemeber the name) - Fishing in Y5 (i probs had bad luck but it toook like 5 hours to get all the fish in the sea and rivers) - the high min game compeltion requirements for Y0(max bets are for 1k yen and you had to make 1mil) - Y6 clan creator and the trophy that requires 100 wins(grind wsas boring as fuck) - Saejima intro part in y4 (Prison escape to a kiryu boss fight -> legendary no ) Maybe some more shit that almost broke me on 100% run but yea thats all i can think of.

[@joobcoob1129]

I've platinumed every mainline game except LJ so far and I agree with this list lol. The hostess games for 3 and 4 were atrocious. My fishing grind in 0 took longer than it did in the other games; probably because it was my first platinum.

[@HIV_ALADEEN]

​@@joobcoob1129 hello cultured fellow

[@aisladov]

Ultimate battle 2 - it's hard till you learn that you can block his attacks lol

[@vergil2746]

The Majima and Saejima fight is one of my favourites. It's the first time I was forced to grind to come close to beating a boss.

[@GearMasters988]

Yakuza 7’s Kiryu boss fight and final boss fight are definitely up there. I got got Kiryu first try but it was still difficult. However, the final boss of Yakuza 7 can straight up ONE shot Ichiban making you restart the entire tower if you don’t have money. Definitely worth mentioning ngl Edit: please make this into a series it’s very entertaining seeing what people found difficult in Yakuza

[@ishii5861]

If you didn't know Ichi does have Peerless Resolve as an attainable move from Hero that can carry over to all the other Jobs, and Peerless Resolve makes it so that Ichi can withstand one "Knockout" whilst it's active basically nullifying Tendo's one hit K.O

[@GearMasters988]

@@ishii5861 I’m aware, but it became a problem when tendo would double gods fist ichi with peerless resolve, I’m assuming because my agility wasn’t high enough? Blew my mind when it happened

[@ishii5861]

@@GearMasters988 Good God I didn't know that could happen, a double turn for Tendo's one hit does not sound fun 💀

[@GearMasters988]

@@ishii5861 lmaooo yeah dude it’s ridiculous I remember quitting for a day or two when that happened out of frustration and disbelief. I hope that’s not a common thing that he does

[@VAZENchannel]

The most frustrating thing for me is enemies with lots of stun abilities, some of the chonkers are harder than bosses for me, I play pretty casually overall.

[@NPCPlayerOne]

Honestly, what killed Yakuza 3 for me was the final dungeon, to keep it spoiler free. Specifically, there's this fat guy with brass knuckles. His attacks are unblockable, he has a ton of health, blockuza, he was legitimately tougher than the boss he was guarding, which I guess makes sense outside of video games. You don't know how much it knocked the wind out of my sails, because I thought I was just awful. Then I mopped the floor with Mr. "Un the ruff" and was just like "never fucking mind, I guess it was just that one guy."

[@azzypics]

After learning a bit of shogi and winning some games, I got a bit cocky and went to play challenge shogi in Yakuza 3 Remastered, some of the later challenges are really infuriating. I ended up forcing my way through those using a shogi engine, and even then it was like punching your way through world war tier nuclear bunker wall using a piece of wet cardboard. I'm very glad that got replaced by puzzle shogi in later games.

[@sanctityninja9345]

Saejima not being responsible for the kills he had to commit and the rubber bullets stopping that, ruined the most interesting part of his character

[@LucasRCD]

Hot take: The Areshi climax battle where you need to obtain 30 million Yen in 3 minutes as Breaker style is worse than Proving Grounds 8.

[@chrisdraper1788]

In yakuza 3 "remaster", i think I was playing on hard... every enemy and boss blocked EVERYTHING and were practically turtles with how often they blocked

[@arahman56]

Thankfully K2 has Muscle Soda that cheeses every boss. AND THAT INCLUDES ALL THREE AMONS. As for Y7/LAD, Reiji2 is a much better example. One word: GUNSHOT. Doubly bad if you skipped the business minigame and so are fighting him with just 3 characters. PAIN (not like later Reiji fights are much better). And from the final battle..."God's Right Hand". Hope you have Peerless Resolve/Curse Substitute.

[@TheSSJSnoop]

The car chase on Legend was insane, but i did it on PS4 without losing my mind lol How? After i lost a couple times, I stopped playing that day. I told myself this is going to require complete and utter concentration. I went to sleep early that night, was well rested for work, and when i came home I approached it like it was a Dark Souls boss. I knew i would die so i mentally prepared myself and after 3 tries i did it. I actually loved how intense it was.

[@Ranakel]

Yakuza 5. No, not talking about the encounter spawns. I'm talking about the hunter's test.

[@petervanheerden2133]

For me it was 100% the Snake flower triad chase in Yakuza 3 on legend. The fact that you have to do that hellish long battle again every time that asshole gets away drove me to saying screw this

[@WiffleYK]

The thing that probably caused me the most annoyance was the yakuza 4 remastered prison break, im pretty sure when I first played the game i was on hard and the sniper just kept bodying me. I also missed out on like one or two of the possible heals you could get and I didn't know how to trigger the cutscene with Hamazaki, so it definitely took a few tries first time around 😂

[@frannncis]

my most rage moment was fighting Kuze in Yakuza 0 for the first time since i was a moron who never played fighting games, but now even in legend mode is easy af, but to this day I still fear the jingu boss fight

[@dashinxkatchin]

I gotta say if that's not real love for a series to be uploading about it for more than a decade then I don't know what else is!

[@NoForksGiven]

I don't mind completion lists since a lot of the minigames have cheat items you can buy. HOWEVER, playing baseball is another form of hell. No cheat items, RNG bullshit and to top it off the items that are supposed to "help" you are either locked behind substories or the minigame itself. So I need to git gud at playing a hard minigame, so I can unlock the things that make it easier, so I can git gud some more. Good lord I hate the baseball minigame. It's not even one of the gimmick ones that are only in one or two games like catfighting or Cabaret. It's one that gets brought back every game. RGG please, stop

[@waserjo7834]

For me there were couple more frustrating parts in yakuza games like Kanda's boss battle in Y3, Kiryu's boss battle in Y4, the police chief guy that you fight with Tanimura in Y4 and of course the final boss in Y5 i only beat him because i found a cheese strat

[@munge3563]

Bro, Munakata's fight was so ass that I didn't bother trying to complete Y4 since I'd long since known how the story ended and everything from a year prior. Not only was it one of the most rage inducing fights I've attempted in Yakuza, but I'd already started losing interest by that point due to the plot being needlessly campy with Munakata's 5D chess BS.

[@JohnBigMac]

Eyyyy congrats on the sponsorship man! That's awesome. Hopefully RGG offer you a cameo even as a DLC like Ishin one day

[@Alex169o]

"I love yakuza 3" mfs when they gotta do the lau ka long, long battle again because they lost in the shitty chase (i still love it)

[@RadJordy]

The only time I really *quit* a Yakuza game was when I was going for the final super dungeon in Yakuza 7. Less because of how hard it was, but moreso because I didn't want to spend an additional 20 hours grinding to get all my party members to max level to even stand a chance against level 99 enemies. The time investment just wasn't worth it to me. That's about it.

[@XellosDarkSlayer]

I still have PTSD from "collect 100 kittens" quest in both Kurohyou games

[@erin817]

The fire extinguishers in that one part in Yakuza 5.

[@sol9231]

Y3 chase scene in legend mode jesus

[@MNB730]

Saejima's prison escape segment was definitely the worst segment in all Yakuza games for me, got the wrong upgrades and repeated that section 5 times. I finished Y0 and Y5's ultimate battles with a much better experience, they were legit pretty fun for me. Honorable mention to Yakuza 4 Akiyama's climax battle with the slippery oil challenge, didn't even bother finishing it anymore because that was bullshit with my really shitty controller.

[@thanatoast]

Majima + Saejima in Y7 is a little easier if you got Namba as a host since he can spam both Pyro Breath and Ice Spreader (or Essence of Rose Typhoon/ Essence of Champange Wave if you're high enough job level) though the hard part there is keeping Namba alive to do the thing. (Enforcer Adachi my beloved)

[@sirattlich1893]

Yakuza 3 chases, ESPECIALLY the one with the Snake Flower Triad officer. Good luck catching him on any difficulty above Normal because you get Mack's running training AFTER this.

I have to say the biker missions for Lost Judgment made me almost lose interest in who the Professor was and just stop playing lmao.

[@SpaceMan101South]

My ragequit moment that legit forced me to load a super old save to grind was Yakuza 4's end boss. All the bosses I had barely any trouble with and genuinely had a blast fighting. Then I got to the last boss out of the four, The Deputy Commissioner fight, Oh boy I love getting juggled by three guys with knives and three guys with guns at the same time. Got to the point where I maxed Tanimura out and filled his inventory with as many health items as possible, and I still couldn't beat it. Had to look up guides on how to beat it until I found one with a exploit on dodging, basically made you invulnerable for the rest of the fight after glitching out.

[@michaelsologor2130]

Ending of Yakuza 7. Could have been the greatest scene in the series if they didnt go for cheap shock value

[@AlexRedknot]

I used to be a real yakuza, until I got to the car chase in kiwami on legend difficulty and switched to mouse and keyboard.

[@EddySteel]

when I first played Yakuza 4, the fight with Saejima against Kiryu on the beach made me incredibly angry and I was shouting and swearing so loud that my flatmate heard me from outside the apartment building and thought I had cut off a finger. Had to restart the entire Saejima prison chapter so that I could get the right upgrades to make the fight beatable. Fuck that whole section

[@raikoedgymoto]

I'd actually rather deal with a Yakuza 6 crowd battle consisting of nothing but big tanky dudes with Kanai's moveset over suffering the man in black any day of the week

[@armedweiss5531]

Funny enough, I managed to beat 0's Proving Grounds 8 on my first attempt, and Kiwami''s car chase on Legend on my second attempt. The REAL hell in Kiwami was getting Haruka's trust to SSS Level because of the Pool minigame. If you know, you know

[@hermano6603]

Shot out devilleon7 for making me not ragequit yakuza 7. Fr bro the Nanba fight without Eri is such a nightmare, after playing all six games that made me nearly call it quits.

[@teejota22]

Crafting and seals in Ishin Kiwami

[@Boyzby]

I've said this a bunch before, but it's surprising to me I got as much into the series as I did after starting with Kiwami. The Shimano fight, bosses having healing, Majima at the batting cages kicking my ass so hard I finally stocked my inventory with sushi, only for him to annoy me forever with his random battles everywhere, Jingu, and then the impossible Climax Battles that I still can't complete, but looking up how to beat them was how I found your channel. Oh, the most annoying thing I've experienced was during my Legend playthrough of 7. I got to the first dungeon and got all the way to the little crane fight underground but it kept destroying me in 2 hits. I tried several times trying to buff everyone to survive, until I realized the reason it was so hard was because I was trying to level jobs before I went in and had a lot fewer stats than the ones I had higher up. So despite the fact I made it to the end, which was incredibly grueling, I couldn't finish it because can only change at Hello Work for some reason. PLEASE, for Yakuza 8, at least let us change jobs at save stations too.

[@Crispierbug]

1:40 I played 0 first and it took me 20 hours to notice you need to unlock the essence of extreme heat actions.

[@Splat-pu9gk]

7:50 Man Jingu was so hard for me, mostly because my computer froze when I to the cutscene before you fought Nishiki.

[@Apollion720]

6:34 honestly i had a couple of coworkers telling me that this fight (saejima and majima) was insanely difficult and that they would get oneshot almost everytime, but when i got to the fight it was almost a breeze, saejima was tanky but that was it i didn't get oneshot nor i found it difficult just a long fight. Well also i did most of the sidequest available at that point and i was on par or even a couple of levels above the boss and maybe that was a key factor.

[@RifferFrog]

Congrats on our boi Leon doing his Substory, which is sponsorship! I remember soft-locking myself on Y3 Legend chase battle because I didn't know you could upgrade the stamina with Mack's training, and I have to abandon my Legend progress, load my finished Hard playthrough to get the upgrade.

[@gkeNz]

I think I almost dropped Yakuza 0 completely because I unknowingly equipped Charismatic Autobiography on Kiryu

[@supemanfromdrahgonball7998]

The Shimano fight took me forever, I thought the healing items were too valuable to use so I had to fight Shimano almost perfectly, I’ve never been so mad playing a game. 😭😭 (Kiwami was my first Yakuza game btw)

[@bluscout6440]

For those who played Yakuza 0, definitely encountered Mr.Shakedown. If you remembered his moveset, you can easily defeat Shimano in Kiwami 1 too, it just takes a bit time, since you don't have your upgrades yet.

[@Gustavozxd13]

yeah I spent so much time praciticing against mr shakedown that the shimano fight was super easy, a bit surprised when I saw him in this video and not like, the Y4 prison escape 😭

[@Fatterfixer4385]

It's not that it's hard, he has insane amount of hp and add to that fact that he heals 2 times and the game doesn't even tell you that you need upgrades to do kiwami moves.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

My PTSD kicked in whenever shimano hit me and then I remembered, "oh wait, he's not him!". By kiwami, dealing with mr shakedown moveset had become second nature tho

[@TheXBladeist]

Hell ya for your sponsorship. I got no moments cause I only played bits of Y7, but I'll come back when I get more games under my belt.

[@MyNameJefff]

Okay but as scrubby and annoying as it is to hear, Yakuza 3 does have way too much blocking. The story is great but I genuinely couldn’t bring myself to actually play it past a certain point because there’s like no way of getting past the blocking besides one combo string and grabbing and even then (I don’t know if I’m the only person who faced this issue or not) every enemy would break my grabs IMMEDIATELY. It was the worst experience I’ve had in the series.

[@maousadao9572]

There was one climax battle in yakuza 3 where you had to beat the enemies within time limit. And it was in an elevator, with the heavily armored dudes, they had weapons, and they also engaged blockuza the entire fight

[@AndrewTheYouTubeCommentator]

What made me dropped Yakuza 3 was when I beat the game and wanted to do all substories and the Amon fight, however, one substory is locked behind the golf minigame, and you have to be nearly perfect for it for the substory to be active. The substory I heard is a golf 1v1 where you don’t need to win, but still, it’s so bs, the golf minigame sucks ass

[@scarymeunster9095]

You need Par to unlock Presidential Golfer, which I gave up on a week ago. Even when I miraculously score a stroke below, I always end up with a putt that doesn’t make it in or rolls over the hole. The wind is completely random and fucks with you constantly, and the power is so damn sensitive that a single pixel over the point makes it either too weak or too hard.

[@AndrewTheYouTubeCommentator]

EXACTLY! Wtf were RGG thinking?!? If you are going to make the enemies block 99% of all my attacks, fine, but don’t gatekeep a substory behind the most broken minigame

[@shadoekim]

Me but with Yakuza 0 and the disco substories.

[@AndrewTheYouTubeCommentator]

Meh, the Yakuza 0 substory of the disco minigame was a bit hard but not too much. After about a dozen tries maximum, you would be able to do it. HOWEVER, there is NO way anybody can do the golf minigame in Yakuza 3

[@isaiahfojtasek7768]

Replaying Yakuza 0 on Legend and... holy crap... the media king boss fight made me want to walk into oncoming traffic. I remembered him being annoying but he was a serious pain this go around

[@syndixel9857]

Media King, Tsukiyama, and Kotomi's lackeys were all pain in the ass fights (though I speak as someone who is playing the game for the first time)

[@manukau5271]

You really just have to save up for the golden gun during 0 legend run

[@isaiahfojtasek7768]

Didn't have that, but the Marlin was definitely used@@manukau5271

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

I don't like cheesing but those are the times I save the cheese mastery for, ya know

[@dDeckon]

Currently going thru the Series for the First time to 100%... I've Done Y0 to 100% and on Kiwami right now: ~The Proving Grounds for Y0 took so long and yes was very frustrating; but, as someone who skipped over the Extra Content on First Playthrough in order to do everything on Legend, I feel like it taught me more about the combat of the game and got me excited to try many of the thing I could unlock when going into the Legend run. K1 Proving Grounds were more fun at least. ~Shimano 1st fight took me 30 mins or so to complete; but, I got very excited when I realized he was basically Mr.Shakedown... Which Y0 Climax battles helped me on... full circle

[@oldwaterbottle2872]

Big congrats to Leon for his first sponsor, well deserved. Keep it up 👍

[@fazhound]

Protip to anyone still struggling with Kiwami's car chase section: When the truck shows up, deal with the guy standing in the middle first. After the 1st person on that truck is out, the truck will move forward so much the guy in front will be out of range

[@baygamer96]

I might just be extremely lucky but the Man in Black in YK2 didn't take me multiple tries to beat, but funnily enough I had the toughest time getting into the series because I was getting my butt whooped by the first kuze fight in Zero as a complete newcomer. Genuinely almost made me quit the game and whole series.

[@EvilMightyTrash]

You say Shinada's weapon one was bad, but you didn't mention the damn forklift! That one made me wanna dip my head in acid

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

That thing that they didn't consider they broke when they decided the games wouldn't be 30 FPS? Among the many things they broke, I mean

[@Milty2001]

I remember reaching the car chase in kawami i died about 10 times because i kept thinking that doing headshots would do serious damage on enemies, it took me almost 2 hours to figure out that you have to shoot the white circles for the cutscenes to trigger, then after reaching the truck part i was about to break my controller.

[@gemma3]

havent watched yet but the thing that pissed me off the most was SAITO the PRISON GUARD OOOH that made me mad. just the whole escape the prison at the start of saejimas route when u got no moves or items aaaaaaaaa-

[@youseenednedisdead]

the endgame coliseum in kiwami 2 really pissed me off. fighting the damage sponge CEOs and then them just getting all their health back out of nowhere made me wonder if i was missing some kind of mechanic

[@ratboy1999]

getting sponsored? what you think you’re better than me?! bring that shit devilleon7!

[@gconalgo]

Munakata on y4 was the only time I almost ragequit a game

[@ethanthompson7741]

The main thing that annoyed me with the Shimano fight was that he KEPT GRABBING ME EVERY SECOND HE COULD! By the time the fight was over, my fingers were cramped cause of the mashing I had to do to break free and I'd hear kiryu shouting 'HANASE' in my nightmares for weaks

[@DemonicPresence666]

Man i hate the fight in prison in yakuza 4 with saejima it was nightmare for me do to lack of healing item and first time playing with saejima after playing with akyama i wanted quit the game

[@omega6826]

Yup, even I ragequit from the kiwami car chase in legend, and i just literally just give up, i dont even bother to do it anymore

[@virtuousevent]

Yakuza 3/Ishin Akimoto climax battles

[@GyroMan5136]

The joji climax battle in Yakuza 3 is also quite tough due to having almost no upgrades

[@virtuousevent]

Yeah except Joji fight is fun

[@GyroMan5136]

@@virtuousevent I can agree with that it's a hell of a lot more fun than akimoto

[@GhostCT3]

6:58 I actually had trouble with this on hard mode instead of legend. I kept failing to the point I had to switch difficulties to progress

[@ihavenoson3384]

They say that on PC, the post-game Kiwami quest Haruka's Whim's is bugged because the Rotation billiards game mode does not work right. Most people skip it by doing the task until the baccarat one and then saving a game clear data and then immediately loading it, replaying the baccarat one and finishing the quest that way. There is also the 950+ Otometal MY LIFE karaoke task in the skipped part of that quest, which is somewhat demanding considering it is the most difficult song after Ishin remake's Ichizu Samurai (Truehearted Samurai) [they added Baka Mitai and this one to that game with the remake]. Haruka's Whims is pretty much a challenge list of every single minigame with some restaurant visits sprinkled in between the tasks.

[@captain_n00by]

Lost Judgment robotics club

[@smailchali5102]

you should've mentioned the parrying galore that is called kurohyou enemies parry alot