Dodonko Island Is MANDATORY | Castle Super Beast 256 Clip

[@nyarancia]

It took me 40 hours to get to Dodonko Island and I've spent another 20 hours on Dodonko itself without ever going back to Hawaii yet. This game is crack

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

I spent 60 on the island before going back. Game is too good

[@JackgarPrime]

Would it give you incentive to go back to Hawaii if I told you that sidequests unlock more possible guests?

[@nyarancia]

@@JackgarPrime I figured they would, I'll definitely take a break from the island after I clear it all out and farm some money lol

[@fenris5932]

Woolie is gonna lose his shit when Pat reports that "Secret Vtuber" is one of this game's core plot twists

[@Gunzerkingidiot]

I lost my shit when I saw that. And there's even an actual vtuber as a character!

[@UrLeingod]

We've come a long way from Secret Koreans.

[@HumanoidCableDreads]

Woolie clearly hasn't played enough Yakuza, Kiryu is one of the biggest goofballs in the history of video games.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

everything he does he gives 110%, especially being a goofball.

[@huntsworthdoom]

@@miguelnewmexico8641his seriousness in silly situations is what makes him a goofball

[@Sergei_Nohomo]

I love that this game makes Kiryu explore all the things he did all the wild shit he did. After play ALL the yakuza games this new side we get to see him with a group of friends, where he is that goofy guy who loves karaoke and pocket racing and has tons of wild stories, it’s just he’s never had the chance to express that to legitimate friends and I’m so happy to have seen that.

[@leithaziz2716]

Spoilers for Chapter 8: The Dragon Memoirs are one of those things that go beyond fanservice and instead feel like it's rewarding your investment in the series and all its history. Like a last hurrah celebration of everything we've gone through.

[@Sergei_Nohomo]

⁠@@leithaziz2716 Yes totally, it’s really rewarding after following the entire series and even the spinoffs that you get some form of payoff for sticking with it. Let’s just say I didn’t think I’d cry the hardest over pocket racing lol.

[@godsplayingfield]

a couple of specific scenes catch this perfectly: 1, during the recording of Kasuga's vid, Chitose and Tomi are like "wow, Kiryu's surprisingly into this sorta thing" and it's like "no, you dont know. he EMOBDIES this stupid shit" and 2, when Kiryu is singing and the group is talking about other things, he gets all pouty that no one is paying attention, then sets em up by already having another song set in for when they paid attention again. he LOVES this shit and they are all surprised (and one basically floods the place) seriously, seeing in game characters reacting to the dragon of dojima's silly antics is one of the absolute best things about this game.

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

It's even funnier when he brings up shit even YOU haven't seen if you didn't do literally every single substory but generally know the deal with how that shit works. He'll bring up fighting a giant octopus and even I who's played every game so far did a double take and went "BACK UP A MINUTE, KIRYU???"

[@ProfesserLuigi]

​@@UltimaKeyMasterDidn't that happen in Yakuza 6?

[@arthurgomes5188]

9:24 You heard it here folks: fighting a cokehead is the IRL equivalent of a late game encounter.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

i sure hope it's not late game, i do not want to fight a junkie in my 80s.

[@notsoy]

It's the drug dealers

[@JackgarPrime]

Ichiban's Brain Problems have broken down the barriers between the two Yakuza dimensions

[@digitalbooklett9357]

Despite the wild silly nature of it, as someone who recently went through K1-K2 + 3, Kiryu did have weird stuff going on. He had his own blog. Even revelations were just weird events happening in-universe. I think Ichiban is just the best excuse to fully integrate what was already there.

[@Redahoge10]

You got Ichiban with his schizophrenic hallucinations, now Kiryu joins in on the fun with hallucinations from his cancer medications.

[@BobbyHopp]

Ive never been into animal crossing but ive spent 15 hours at Dondoko and im experiencing an "I get it" moment

[@angrymushroom26]

Rare Montreal Sujimon, you open a closet door and there is a little balding goblin man eating candy.

[@venomoussocks1017]

You have to do a mid health QTE where you press X to call for Elmo

[@zombotics12]

I think they kinda just breezed past the knowledge of a secret underground sex dungeon called "The Boom Boom Room"

[@CassiePhoenix]

Tbh it's not that big of a deal, a lot of big cities have those.

[@inferno232]

We don't know that it was a sex dungeon. Gene just says you could watch "it going down in there." They might just be playing Street Fighter in there!

[@Dabajaws]

@@inferno232 Evo 2025 needs to be held in the boom boom room

[@godsplayingfield]

i like to think of it like this: sub stories are all cannon, BUT NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT THEM. like, Kiryu has done ALL THIS STUPID AND INSANE BULLSHIT, but he doesnt bring it up till it's relevant. cause why would he? and he's never been a part of an actual "party of people" before. sure he's teamed up and such, but hasnt "hung out" with anyone for a significant amount of time like this in literal decades. this is just the first time people are seeing Kiryu DO the goofball shit. so everyone being surprised by how "yeah this might as well happen" he is to shit like dondoko island or Ichiban getting roped into almost dying for a movie by running into very real and very on fire exploding traffic is just great to me lol

[@User5770]

"You get kidnapped by muppets" Ah, classic Yakuza

[@NDenizen]

I hope the guests enjoy all these Majima Helmets

[@ARB1452]

my bedroom is just wall to wall Dream Machines. Life is good.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

I fuckin love when Gene shows up, he fits the team dynamic so well. I love you, Uncle Gene!

[@FightCain]

23:20 I haven’t played Yakuza 8 but I think the goofiness tone would make serious moments more impactful. It’s the kind of storytelling style I like since I really love Gintama. Also I’m kinda tempted to buy the game to see if I could find my aunt/uncle’s house.

[@JackgarPrime]

Funny thing about the Bryce thing: His japanese voice actor is Toru Furuya, who plays Amuro Ray

[@jaye5716]

God if woolie would just name his price I would pay any amount of dondokobucks for him to come back to the LAD series with Reggie it was MADE for them..

[@valekstormhowl4999]

Good news! Yakuza 0 playthrough has started again!

[@jaye5716]

I'm very aware, thx u 🤙

[@dingleberryliespewer3177]

Don't think I've heard of Gene before but he was a great addition to this talk. Would love to hear from him again in the future!

[@Nosferocktu665]

Next DLC: Kiryu and Ichiban go to Guam and fight the US Navy for control of the island, Battle Royale Style.

[@SeruraRenge11]

I spent time on Dondoko Island past completing it, until I realized you get way more money just farming the dungeons and I was wasting my time for little actual gain at Dondoko. I maxed out every stat building an ugly city that prioritized points and filled my room with grand pianos, I was done.

[@The0Kyuubi0Kid]

Make many love hotels and sell them then convert points into money for infinite wealth

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@The0Kyuubi0Kid I can earn 10x of that in half the time by just being really good at mahjong.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@SeruraRenge11 you lost me at "really good at mahjong" my brain can barely parse regular-ass dominoes. im a card games guy.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@miguelnewmexico8641 You can earn like 500 million yen in the first hour of the game if you just keep winning at mahjong.

[@fartface8918]

@@miguelnewmexico8641 mahjong is card game type game

[@bleack8701]

The Gachapin and Mukku overlords have blessed us!

[@OriginalKasym]

Pat complaining that Schizophrenia Man is Schizophrenic

[@noobasaurus117]

The next judgement is 100% gonna use that Hawaii map

[@HarrisBoe]

“Next Judgement” 😢

[@plazmadood]

It's wild how much there is to do in this game, I'm actually afraid of how much more the next is going to be.

[@deanospimoniful]

Just wait till you get to the penultimate dungeon... Where you fight a megalodon, a giant squid, and it's left ambiguous whether the boss is actually immortal.

[@valekstormhowl4999]

I love that ichiban fights giant monsters and the closest thing to a god, all are very typical jrpg bosses. Meanwhile kiryu fights yakuza thugs and a helicopter

[@Jhylla81]

Thats what I love about RGG; instead of obsessing with reinventing the game every sequel, they reuse assets and just cram their games full of all kinds of stuff you can do

[@Lonequacker]

It really is crazy that I saw people on Twitter complaining about the game being full priced a few months back when it was announced. Because this game has more content in it than any game I've played in fucking years. And it has 2 maps that are both just filled to the brim with so much along with 2 separate parties and 3 Nintendo games just shoved in there. No wonder they kept telling people not to rush through this game when it came out.

[@NECHALLENGER]

My boys gachapin and mukku really are everywhere these days. They've even gotten into a CSB thumbnail

[@hassanico9999]

Considering the new main Yakuza dev is the kind of moron who genuinely believes "violent games make people violent" and unironically quotes Jack Thompson, it's not surprising the franchise took a bizarre turn.

[@SeruraRenge11]

Wait, this is the same Gene from the streams who has continuously more and more outlandish stories to tell about his life in Hawaii? To the point that Pat now just instinctively says, "Gene I don't think that's true"?

[@aussieontherocks99]

Correct

[@digitalbooklett9357]

Since woolie has been checking out turn based RPGs with some of these last LPs, I'd love to see a return to the RGG series. At least 7!

[@Jibjabberwocky]

He can't stop at 7, just 8's combat alone is worth experiencing. It's so engaging. 8 is too good to miss out on.

[@vincenttorrijos9680]

Sometimes i wonder if those actual yakuza who said the Yakuza games were very realistic regret saying that

[@theangriestpigeon4403]

The Sujimon and the Island aspects of the game are so good, I avoid sidestories because they're not nearly as good. You should still do them, many of them give unique gear, skills, poundmates, etc, but man... Sujimon/Island easily add about 30 hours of game time combined. And then there's the roguelike dungeons, which is GREAT for grinding other jobs, so just toss on another 15-20 hours there. This game is massive, excellent execution in nearly every regard, 10/10. I've never played a game that made me feel so much joy and just smile.

[@MrCeratix]

Is Woolie explaining himself on every contextual knowledge he has, for him or for the audience? I still cannot understand all these years later

[@devsleeps54]

As someone who plays gbf finding out Gachapin and Mukku are just like JP muppets and in Y8 is WILD

[@cyrushalberd624]

Presently in Chapter 9 myself, and right now I am not looking forward to grinding out the rest of Dondoko Island (only at two stars right now).

[@godsplayingfield]

it's not that long to be honest. it actually gets faster as you get more island sections. just a warning for guests, they do NOT travel between sections. like the north and south are split and they do not cross between them. and for some reason they rarely leave the lighthouse section if the lodging is there (i ended up making it like a mini main island section for a while cause the guests just wouldnt fcking move into the center where all my doko-bucks up places were)

[@adams3627]

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[@leithaziz2716]

I think I've spent 2-3 playsessions on just Sujimon, just recently reached Chapter 9, while Pat made a stream relegated only to Dondoko Island. And that's not to mention the usual sidequests which are as goofy as ever (with some emotional ones sprinkled here and there). I haven't invested this much time purely on a game's sidecontent since The Witcher 3.

[@santiagomarin1116]

i love the faces of woolie and pat 11:58

[@Mistercrapshoot]

I've spent about five hours on Dondoko island, largely because I know that if I did any more I wouldn't be done with the main game in time for Rebirth

[@PredictableEnigma]

23:04 HyperBitHero has complained about that very vocally. I love most of his Yakuza videos but he really isn't fond of how 0 and every game after it went so hard on the goofy stuff. Agree to disagree. But I like the old serious PS2 games too.

[@DemonFireRain]

once I got there I didn't leave for about 18 hours until I finished the story and got everything S rank. Dat shit was addictive. I'm 92 hours into this game and I'm only in chapter 11 lmao.

[@FlutterSwag]

The Vancouver Secret Boss : Moose

[@crimsonking440]

I just got to the island. Help me.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

Also guess pat forgot about judgment directly referencing persona 5, so saying its influenced by persona at this point is obvius

[@danwoods8195]

discount is mandatory 4 this generation.

[@mrEli111]

Ichiban!

[@bokkimi2528]

I feel like the way Pat describes it here is both really funny and true, but at the same time overselling it a bit. I think the most impressive part about all this side content is the sheer amount of it being present in one game. The individual quaility/depth of it is not something mind blowing. Like the Sujimon battles aren't all that engaging really.

[@ShyRanger]

Finished the game, and without giving spoilers I'll say that I like this game more gameplay wise, but like the first Like a Dragon more story-wise, but because of all the mechanical changes they did to upgrade the combat, I literally can't get myself to ever play the first game again still.

[@annenxf]

I got off Dodonko asap.This is partly cause I was mainlining story for the most part so I could be done before Reload released. That and Sujimon are the big things I ignored, partly cause I knew they'd be the most involved side content and I needed to run away from them before I got sucked in for hours.

[@Kinma15]

I gotta watch Blue Blazes all the way through

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

Ive played enough ff9 to know that japan loves hawaii

[@juancarlosfernandezperez6843]

So... Persona + Pokémon + Animal Crossing?

[@The0Kyuubi0Kid]

Yes

[@Kaarl_Mills]

But instead of adults writing about teenage problems like persona, it's adult problems, and each time it's like eating a tiger drop

[@sp4cehouse]

you know things are going to be interesting when Capitalism embraces Surrealism

[@HelFrostKara]

I can see some folk feeling this game is a little bloated but I love it. I seemingly have over 100hrs playtime and I have yet to finish the main story elemayo. I think on the whole it may be one of the best in the whole series. Oh and the thing is you think they've upped the sillyness but also like the drama and violence in the story is still very intense and like in some ways more so than it has been. I mean think of the intro. The characters are all great, the combat is great, the music is great, the minigames are great. How does it all work together??

[@animefreak780]

Hey uh Pat....you might wanna be careful of crazy talk during the Infinite Wealth run cuz....well, She talks crazy talk She could make a man a ruin

[@ice_queen9]

i should hope so

[@unnamedx2]

I kinda don't want them to come to brazil, cuz if they do they'll go to the most boring, identityless part of the country bc that's where most of our japanese population is located

[@SuperBrutalCabbage]

Love the gameplay, but man the story and narrative is such a let down compared to 7. Can't wait to hear pat's thoughts when finishing it.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

shenmue doesnt take place in the like a dragon universe pat crazy talk going again

[@Kaarl_Mills]

Im super split on the sub vs dub argument here: on one hand literally anyone that isnt Kuroda speaking as Kiryu sounds super strange and off-putting to me. But on the other hand Tomizawa in English just sounds like such a pathetic loser every time he opens his mouth and it's precious, super strong ""i can fix him" energy.

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

we get it, you hate people with slight lisps. and wait a second, how are those 2 separate hands? there is no other hand, those are the same hands.

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

It's the biggest mood in the universe when Tomi starts his turn with a debuff or an ailment and he just deadpan goes "Aww man there's no way." Like he's given up on even taking part in this bullshit so much he puts no emotion into even feeling like shit and it's amazing.

[@diegomedina9637]

I love how people use Palworld to shit on Pokemon when Yakuza has a better Pokemon Clone in it than Palworld. Was it really the guns and the promise of Sex what made Palworld so popular? Knowing the internet... Yeah probably that was it.

[@chuck1162]

There’s nothing I’ve wanted to do less than dondoko island. I placed fifty majima construction helmets on the ground and never once came back. I appreciate side content in yakuza games but forcing me to do something that is so removed from the main gameplay and story is very frustrating. At least it isn’t tied to upgrading like the yakuza 0 business stuff.

[@ceriani1234]

8:08 pat just accidentally spoiling a major plot point of the game without even knowing it.

[@LordZazas]

He was talking about Kson, so it's not a spoiler

[@weewer3369]

This just spoiled me by implication, why even bring this up

[@ceriani1234]

@@LordZazas yeah sorry but 99% of people who play wont even know that

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

oh boohoo.

[@ceriani1234]

@@miguelnewmexico8641 im not complaining, just found it funny

[@megakaioken9386]

Dude I skipped through the mandatory dodonko section as fast as I could and it still took me like an hour. I appreciate the side content but jesus christ just let me go back to the main plot.

[@hunningtonnuo9213]

NO, YOU WILL HELP THESE MUPPETS

[@PredictableEnigma]

I am hype about it, but I always in the past respected how much content the developers were willing to allow to be missable and discoverable. In this one they seem afriad that any player won't see the one system they worked on. Like its ok to keep them optional

[@blackdragoncyrus]

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