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Music used (in order):
The Light Realm (Prologue) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Lights, Camera, Action! - Sonic Mania
Dialogue - Lost Judgement
Town Hall and Tom Nook’s Store (Animal Crossing Wild World) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Funk Goes on Kiwami - SilvaGunner
Double Cherry Pass - Super Mario 3D World
Outlaw’s Lullaby - Yakuza 2
Please, Listen Kiryu - Yakuza 0
Have a Drink - Yakuza 0

[@kevinjohn319]

Funny how the exact same problem happened to Hidenori Shoji, the creator of the Karaoke minigame. He proposed it to the higher ups after the positive feedback towards the waterfall minigame in Kenzan and was declined instantly. He kept trying until the proposal reached Nagoshi who he thought it was worth a shot so the minigame was added and became an immediate success in Yakuza 3

[@Eerorri]

Hidenori Shoji is a composer for the games, do you mean Ryosuke Horii?

[@kevinjohn319]

@@Eerorri wait you're right, it is Ryosuke Horii, I mixed up the names, thanks my guy.

[@engagex1]

Karaoke can be its own game honestly

[@jkeebla]

yakuza 5 part 3: sawamura haruka @@engagex1

[@wildguardian]

I wonder why most creative minds on this planet can't be the higher up themselves and must get approval to non-creative ones who have no clue about what will be a success and what won't.

[@RicardoCon94]

Apparently Shenmue is the reason Sega were very hesitant on another open world like game. Shenmue sold "decent" but it still under performed to make up development costs. The fact Yakuza 1 even got made at all and became a successful multi media series is a miracle.

[@Drums_of_Liberation]

Well of course Shenmue was going to underperform, it was released on a system that very few bought

[@blahdelablah]

​@@Drums_of_Liberation Shenmue supposedly sold 1.2 million copies, which would be a great result if it wasn't so expensive to produce.

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@Drums_of_Liberation It's also just a shittier Yakuza. Glad it lead to this, but the game itself sucked.

[@t_tmad5293]

@@CoralCopperHead it's not

[@shutup1037]

​@@t_tmad5293uuuhhh uuh you're scary

[@baron-chan6484]

I love this games series, because how they manage to combined serious crime drama, government conspiracy, and the underbelly of Japan, with some of the goofiest sh*t ever. And not just makes the map big with few or no activity at all, instead they chose to reused the same map but spice it up with each release make it more alive

[@OperatorMax1993]

I know right ? It feels like it got the same balance of serious and goofy like Metal Gear Solid

[@Spiderrtank]

Ishin is soooo close to what a Gintama free roam game would be like. It really helps that they're both set during the Edo Period lol

[@y.a.p8951]

​@@Spiderrtank how about kenzan remake. I'm still missing it playing Japanese version back in 2007 o 2008.

[@baron-chan6484]

@@y.a.p8951 what period does Kenzan set in again, with Musashi and everything?

[@y.a.p8951]

@@baron-chan6484 yes it's based on Miyamoto Musashi. I think the story is placed in old Japan around XVII century.

[@matglk2084]

The video quality is actually really good. I love the Yakuza game series, and also the Judgement spinoff series

[@AlphaFlare]

thanks, I appreciate it they really are some of the best games out there right now (especially Lost Judgement)

[@redhoodplays768]

man i would love it if someone actually talked about the kurohyou games too,they"re severely underrated.

[@nachardou.4780]

​@@redhoodplays768Same, I'll NEVER shut up about how perfect that duology is, literally my fav Yakuza games

[@mariobutevil]

to that one guy who just said “wouldnt it be cool if u could explore kabuicho in a game?” that singular person created history, we gotta thank that one

[@Hilversumborn]

Inspiration can come from the strangest places. I.E. the creator of Kingdom Hearts came up with the idea during a conversation in an elevator.

[@Delsin42]

​@@Hilversumbornima need that lore lmao

[@bnbnism]

@@Delsin42 Shinji Hashimoto and a Disney exec were in an elevator cuz in Japan Disney and Square worked in the same building and so he pitched the idea to him on the spot saying "hey wouldnt i be cool to combine disney characters crossing over with Final Fantasy characters" and the rest was history.

[@runbaa9285]

It's funny how Kiryu is pretty much the face of SEGA these days. But on the other hand, he can't really become the actual mascot for the company because he comes from an M-rated franchise, lol. Plus, it's rather fascinating how despite doing yearly releases, there's not much burnout for the franchise compared to say, Assassin's Creed. I think it comes down to scale. Yakuza games are long, but they aren't BIG per se. They know that they're a conveyor belt of products and thus doesn't try to tackle more than they can handle each releases, meaning that while not game-changing, each new product are always mostly polished. Plus, even if the gameplay's largely the same, the story carries the game enough for it. Also, a fun fact. Despite largely targeted at the adult male demographic, the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise is somewhat more popular with the female audience in Japan, specifically the housewife demographic. It's something Kiryu's VA has amusingly noted about the difference of the fanbase between Japan and overseas, lol.

[@TheNrat]

U should see the number of manga and anime of girl falls in love with a yakuza man

[@RickMoren477]

Ah the good old odagiri effect from kuuga, made for certain audience but got a whole different demographics of people watching it instead

[@maxtubb8560]

Kiryu & Majima should seriously be in a SEGA All Stars games like a racing game or even a SEGA crossover fighting game similar to SSB I want to see a SEGA crossover game where I can see a Yakuza beat up Sonic characters. I know Toshihiro Nagoshi doesn't want Kiryu in a fighting game because he doesn't want Kiryu to punch women so maybe he would fit better in a SEGA All Stars Racing 3 (Not counting Team Sonic Racing).

[@the1whoplayz]

>Kiryu is pretty much the face of SEGA these days in what world lmao? As much as I like Yakuza (more specifically I LOVE the Judgement series), he's not even close to being SEGA's face.

[@cocaman1345]

@@the1whoplayzshut up Arap

[@NekoValtz]

I honestly wanted to hear about how the push for 0 went about as I had heard some people who worked on it begged for it to be a prequel to try to give it another shot in the western market.

[@Thy_Boss]

If so, it worked, right?

[@Xxandrew01]

And history in the gaming world was made. Seriously Yakuza is such a masterpiece of a franchise. I definitely recommend everyone play ALL the games in the series. Just so beautiful.

[@Supperdude9]

Though you should warn them of the tedium of Yakuza 3. Seriously that becomes a chore to even get through. But, eh, every series has its bad entry.

[@eurobeat_enjoyer]

I tried it and the fighting system is something horrible

[@benjobenjowherry]

⁠@@eurobeat_enjoyerreally? Which one did you play?

[@jkeebla]

​@@Supperdude9we are the yakuza 3

[@Hilversumborn]

@@Supperdude9I played Yakuza 3 and despite it's issues, it's actually one of my favorites from the series.

[@Corn_Pop1999]

Anyone that thinks Lost Paradise is bad is already dead.. To me

[@baron-chan6484]

It's bad... But pretty unique for RGG series

[@LongLiveSK]

@@baron-chan6484it’s so gas bru. have you played it?

[@logandunlap9156]

i wish i could have an opinion on the game but they need to put that shit on PC or something first

[@SpeedKeed]

NANI!?

[@FreedomFighterAsuka]

@@baron-chan6484 it's only bad if you're a completionist for a spin-off and an anime game, it's one of the best

[@Ecchilover]

There were actually two movies (a short promo and full cinematic), none of which were fan made. Also Fist of the North Star is a very good game.

[@lowestpoly64]

Another fun fact: Yakuza's movie was directed by Takashi Miike, one of Japan's most talented directors of all time. This man birthed Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, and Harakiri.

[@Embargoman]

What will be awesome is to make another Yakuza game based on the drug trade, but it will be banned in Colombia and South Korea that it is all related to the Liancourt Rocks and Colombia’s San Andres Island.

[@afsilver07]

We don't ban games over here at Colombia buddy, if anything my sad little country seems to love to celebrate our violent drug cartels history

[@Embargoman]

@@afsilver07 Probably you need to Google Liancourt Rocks buddy!

[@Thy_Boss]

@@afsilver07 I understood that Colombia has done some hardcore bans of online games and game companies recently, but it's generally been aimed at gambling and attempts to hide it through "prizes," which is hard to fault

[@JumugiDesunra]

It's kinda sad how it took Yakuza 0 to get the franchise super popular in the west. I've been a fan since the very first game via PS2.

[@nr2676]

Yeah i remember. Yakuza 0 and Valkyria Chronicles port on Steam - for 20 $. Both games sold 1M copies on PC, and Sega started promote Yakuza in West, unfortunately they abandoned Valkyria Chronicles, which had same success on Steam like Yakuza 0.

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

I swear I don't know how they got me to buy the launch edition for PS4 that came with Kiryu and Majima's business cards but it was the best decision I've ever made lol

[@michaeldunn5788]

Am I missing something... Shenmue had violence against humans...

[@hardmancanada]

I was thinking the same thing and they are other Sega games like Virtua fighter and Street of Rage that have violence against humans

[@Mari_Izu]

Shen Mue was an enourmous expense SEGA hadn't recover, so at that time they only wanted to make family friendly games that would attract the western market, that's why they refused Nagoshi's pitch for the first Yakuza game.

[@livenishikireaction]

whose idea was ten years in the joint anyway

[@jkeebla]

kiryus idea, after nishiki murdered dojima

[@LJImutan]

As someone who's been with the series since the 1st on PS2, I remember how Sega was almost going to give up on it and not localize 5. They were consistent in localizing 3 and 4 after a year, but 5 they were quiet for so long that I imported it and saw a full fan guide with translations to help play through it. It wasn't until 4 was released as a free PS+ game and did well that they finally announced in late 2014 that 5 would be localized and we'd have to wait until a full year into 2015, but it only got a digital release. 5 originally released in Japan December 2012. 0 was what really kicked the series off into full gear since it was a great starting point as they perfectly wrote the story into 1/Kiwami 1 and Baka Mitai being a meme. Also releasing on Xbox/PC helped greatly.

[@y.a.p8951]

Greetings to the fellow old schooler. I'm with the title since mid 2006. I'm glad what to see expansion and popularity of the title now. I remember going to KR so I could hunt my freshly new Kenzan, Y3, Y4. the complete lack of support and half baked Y3 english version while Y4 was breaking charts in Japan. Good old day I say.

[@dangerouslysafe3]

Fun fact: Mark Hamil, despite his voice being the english voice of Majima, doesnt remember ever voicing the character.

[@lodziklocPL]

Prolific actors often forget their roles, if they can be counted in hundreds.

[@VOAN]

Yakuza didn't really save Sega, Sega was on the brink of bankruptcy until Sammy came and bought them and then let them stay independent. Sega did the same thing when they bought Atlus.

[@GAZZ707]

I still really wish that Namco bought sega instead of sammy

[@Nara.Shikamaru]

Bro. They straight up said no to the violence knowing full-well they’d already done Virtua Fighter AND Tekken.

[@hanscatzer3rd294]

Wasn't Tekken made by Namco?

[@dirtbikehussle61]

@@hanscatzer3rd294some of the developers who made Virtua fighter went on to make Tekken

[@Hilversumborn]

Nagoshi also worked on Shenmue, and that helped shaped his vision of the LAD/Yakuza series.

[@SharifSourour]

I guess you cut or fib a lot of the smaller details for the sake of a shorter length but you definitely seem to have got the overarching stuff right. Anyway it was cool to learn about!

[@AlphaFlare]

i tried to be as accurate as possible, but I did trim down some stuff for entertainment/time purposes

[@duongnhdn]

Funny how many fans think Nagoshi is like the God of Yakuza and the franchise would fail without him. They totally ignore other people who have been with the franchise from the beginning, Yakoyama included, who dedicated as much, if not more than Nagoshi in the last few years after he got that juicy position as a higher up in Sega.

[@yapflipthegrunt4687]

I feel like that myth is, or at least should be dead with Gaiden and Infinite Wealth.

[@bnbnism]

Its a shame people always do that with many studios and video game franchises. It seems to happen when theres "the big director" as the lead for a product, this obv comes with both good and bad things when bad games arise(but usually fans just huff copium and pawn the blame off on something like "higher ups" or "crunch" or "B Team" or something.

[@WertySensei]

Never seen your content before but love your editing and straightforward information delivery. Gonna definitely check out some more of your stuff.

[@Yarooooooooooooo12]

thank you for not dragging this video out to a 3 hour documentary

[@ArmadilloJohn]

God damn dude how I missed your content. I'm glad you're back! Awesome video!

[@AlphaFlare]

Thanks, I appreciate it. Good to be back

[@mattwo7]

0:34 SMTIII director Katsura Hashino: You mean in a _non_ post-apocalyptic setting right? Nagoshi: Shhh, you're not part of SEGA yet!

[@Vi_Renders]

I don't know what it is about this format you went with but I think I'm in love with the whole "short but info dense" style of game history coverage. This was great:)

[@AnotherDudeNamedChris]

Damn bro this amazing good quality. You should continue making stuff like this.

[@AlphaFlare]

thanks, I'll do my best to make my future videos just as good (if not better) than this video

[@macacodasilva4558]

Very good video, i just wish you went a little more in depth on the financial state of sega before and after the first game's release and also how much money Y1 made in comparison to other sega games at the time

[@DJD02]

Nagoshi is a genius up there with yu suzuki

[@nr2676]

Not genius, because he fucked up Sakura Wars reboot on PS4. He is ,,one job, one game series man'', and he proved that by destroying Sakura Wars franchise.

[@DJD02]

@@nr2676 how is he one game man if he made monkey ball and yakuza

[@nr2676]

Oh 2 game series. He directed 2 series: Yakuza and SMB + 1 game from not ,,his'' series (Sakura Wars 2019), and as i mentioned earlier he fucked that. Genius is Yu Suzuki, but Nagoshi not.@@DJD02

[@DJD02]

@@nr2676 he also directed a bunch of Daytonas and an f zero game and more I can’t speak on the Sakura wars game cuz I’ve never played it but it’s got decent reviews and one bad game doesn’t discredit everything else he did even yu suzuki had a couple not so great games

[@maxtubb8560]

This is a very small detail but one thing I love about the Yakuza series is that it has that distinct SEGA vibe that you would see on a Dreamcast game. From things like the Music to UI to the various minigames and side activities you do in between the story it feels like something that you would play on one of SEGA's consoles like the Dreamcast back in the 1990's. It’s almost like the whole company ported it’s entire identity into one series after dropping out of the console business.

[@Garrett938]

And now the latest game in the series has locked content behind pre order/editions...

[@nr2676]

And game cost 70$ not 60$ like previous games in series.

[@Devixicus]

Great video! I enjoyed the informative but funny nature of it, and I'm really glad you attached sources in the description for further reading. A couple of minor errors I noticed: Majima has noticeably different models between Yakuza 1 and 2, unlike most of the returning characters. It's also misleading to only attribute the bad Monkey Ball games to RGG Studios considering Nagoshi originally came up with and directed Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball, and Super Monkey Ball 2. It was his studio, Amusement Vision, that later took on staff from Smilebit (Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, and legacy staff from Sega AM3) to create the original Yakuza and that merger grew further and came to be officially renamed RGG Studios by the time they made Binary Domain.

[@garryhlambert]

this editing's golden bro, and your voice is actually fit for commentary, unlike *some* people

[@ROYALCONJUREMUSIC]

Yakuza in America. Hawaii, San Francisco and Los Angeles's Little Tokyo would be nice but a stretch lol

[@noriakikakyoin1423]

You do know the most recent entry is set in Hawaii right

[@bpcgos]

I think its Sammy ,well established Pachinko bussiness owner that trully save Sega 😅

[@x3ll3nmusic]

Yakuza games are phenomenal and what ultimately brought be back into gaming

[@paulg6790]

The Fist of the North Star game is actually pretty good fun - a few flawed aspects like some bad minigames, but still good overall

[@AlphaFlare]

I won't lie, I haven't played that much of it. maybe I should go back and finish it someday

[@wonderwonka1774]

Fist of the north star game was the first game from RGG that had juggle combos like judgment. plus it's underrated as hell and the combat has depth to it. the only 2 main flaws in my opinion, is the grind and the wasteland traversal was kinda meh.

[@Mari_Izu]

@@AlphaFlare Talk shit about a game you didn't play and end it the video shitting on Monkey Ball, how do you want people to take you seriously?

[@jkeebla]

maybe judgment took inspiration from it then, if so that'd be cool@@wonderwonka1774

[@kyotanaka920]

North Star is a really good Yakuza type game main story wise. As someone that attempted to platinum the game... The side content is easily the worst in the series. Driving was ass, the karaoke replacement expects you to perfect EVERY songs, you have to compete against each coliseum boss a minimal of 9 times each, and there are 12 different fighters. Hostess is the same but with 4 tables, with some missions expecting you to fuck up really badly, but not too badly to progress through that substory. There's just a lot of good things in North Star that are just... Overshadowed by all the bad stuff. Even moreso than Dead Souls. And as fun as juggling combos were, I think using the Zero engine over Unreal or the hot new Dragon Engine is what REALLY burned the game in the end, even if it meant going for a more realistic look than anime. Especially when it came to salvaging for materials in the wastelands, fuck that bit in particular. North Star is a black sheep. But I'd replay it over 3 any day, at least it's less tedious to play than that dated mess. Don't ever attempt platinum on North Star, worst mistake of my life. You're looking at: Perfecting ALL karaoke-styled minigame songs, ALL minigames (casinos included) 100%, dealing with a substory that has an issue spawning just outside of Eden (Oh Father, Where Thou Art?), grinding Kenshiro to level 99 (go southeastern most of the map, grind endlessly there), fighting in coliseum over 200 times, with one boss having 3 minutes worth unskippable heat actions (Devil Rebirth), 100 BILLION ingame currency (hope you like hostess minigame), and salvaging materials in the wasteland with some of the shittiest driving mechanics ever. And then there's maxing out all Talismen, which functions like how Ishin handles DPad equipment... Which requires you to spend HUNDREDS of playtime on each minigame to get a material of each character, 100% minigames isn't even enough. It felt like this game was designed in a way that forces the players to squeeze every ounch of playtime the game offered. North Star deserves a second chance, the IP itself didn't drag the game into the mud

[@XWingToast]

Quick correction: the movie is official, not a fan movie

[@Ono_Michio]

Not sure Yakuza actually saved SEGA at the time. Especially since it's struggle for 10+ years to succeed overseas.

[@thesoupman]

Only 500 views? Incredible video? Your content is gold!

[@AlphaFlare]

thanks, I appreciate it

[@maxtubb8560]

@@AlphaFlare The Yakuza series is more successful than every but I kind of wish that SEGA and Sumo would team up again to make another SEGA All Stars game like a 3rd racing game (not counting Team Sonic Racing) or I would like to see a SEGA crossover fighter similar to either Smash Bros or Power Stone though Nagoshi is a bit strict on Kiryu being in fighting because of Kiryu not hitting women in the Yakuza games. But if SEGA and Sumo did do another racing game, I would love to see Kiryu and Majima be playable racers but in terms of the vehicle design I was thinking similar to Ryo because other SEGA characters on the roster have cartoonish looking vehicle, but Kiryu and Majima would have a more realistic looking car considering that the Yakuza series is set in the real world so I think a more realistic looking vehicle would fit their character but a Kamurochō track while a cool idea might cause some problems with the ESRB Rating.

[@Hifuutorian]

This video was cool. I've subscribed to you!

[@shlokwaghela9560]

I dunno if it saver Sega quite if it was not for Yakuza 0, 6 would've definitely been the coffin sealer

[@bugdugtrincado]

You made me buy all Yakuzas

[@KarimJovianVlogs]

You completely missed the fact he worked on Shenmue...was violence on humans. But that was a masterpiece and way ahead of its time

[@awesomemanspiff]

Entered this world with yakuza 3 after creating a Japanese PlayStation account so I could get the demo! And I’m soooooo glad I did! These games are some of my all time favorite games! And every time I pop a new one in and I see kamurocho and hear the familiar night life sounds! I get a huge rush of happiness down my entire body and I just sink back down into my chair and feel a “I’m home” feeling!

[@leftindarkness870]

Never thought sega would have gone defunct since they merged with sammy, or sammy bought them pretty much, i think

[@AlphaFlare]

that probably helped them significantly

[@leftindarkness870]

Yep!

[@werpu12]

Yakuza in the west really took off in the recent years, guess also with the PC rereleases, Sega probably made a ton of money by bringing the series to the PC in remastered form!

[@ArjanSnijder]

roshiro ''lets'' nagosh''iate'' about something bigger :p. awesome stuff. The team of yakuza should give the shenmue series the reboot it really deserves. including 3.

[@goldensus7778]

Respect to Nagoshi for doing this out of his own passion which give us a game that let us see the iconic cities in Japan

[@ascaredemoji6334]

0% intro 0% stuff that i didnt ask for 0% sponsors 0% too detailed 0% misinformation 100% straight on point 3711% yakuza

[@3DSage]

Such a great and fascinating story!

[@Nahan_Boker94]

Well i do agree Kiryu & majima appear more than sonic in mainstream media nowadays than sonic. They can be said what define sega nowadays. And Lost Paradise is such a good game especially for you HnK fans and their attempt to change the story and some wacky minigames is fun compared to what Koei Tecmo or others did. Also at least in my country you can still find people that own SNES, NES, PSX, and someone having original doom/wolfenstein in their old PCs than someone have sega consoles such as Dreamcast/Saturn. Sonic, Megaman, etc. only popularize with PC emulation of it in my country and ofc western media. And only resurfaced after the movie and they loving it bcs Jim Carrey lol. Kiryu, Majima and Ichiban should be the new Sega mascot lmao

[@maxtubb8560]

Kiryu & Majima should seriously be in a SEGA All Stars games like a racing game or even a SEGA crossover fighting game similar to SSB I want to see a SEGA crossover game where I can see a Yakuza beat up Sonic characters.

[@gamalsaad1545]

sonic has 2 movies 2 t.v shows mobile games how is kiryu is more mainstream 😮😮

[@maxtubb8560]

@@gamalsaad1545 I actually have a list of Yakuza crossovers in other games: Rainbow Six Siege - Kiryu and Kaoru appear as DLC costumes. Virtua Fighter 5 - Unlockable Yakuza Costumes Takio no Tatsujin Portable DX - Machine Gun Kiss is a playable music track. Hot Shot Golf: World Invitational - Kiryu is a playable golfer. Binary Domain - Kiryu and Majima are playable DLC skins. Project X Zone 2 - Kiryu and Majima appear as playable characters in the main story. Phantasy Star Online 2 - Majima, Ichiban and Saeko appear as DLC costumes. Mafia City - Yakuza Collaboration SEGA Heroes - Kiryu, Majima, Akiyama and Saejima appear as playable characters.

[@yapflipthegrunt4687]

​@@maxtubb8560 I still love how Kiryu couldn't be in a fighting game because it would mean hitting a woman, but shooting a woman in R6S? He's fine with that!

[@hikari67]

Yakuza fans talking about this shit show of a franchise that got butchered, censored by SEGA to death and turned into a giant meme fest trying to say it should be more famous reminds me of the Silent hill fans trying to defend their series when a single spin off of Capcom's worst Resident evil sold more than the whole franchise total revenues LMAO.

[@Taitosalad]

2:50 on the topic of this if Mark hamill went for joker for his performance as majima he would’ve nailed it.

[@return_h3669]

Ah…….yes. The time when a f**king kick saved SEGA.

[@greatestgamer00]

garbage take monkey ball is peak

[@gc3k]

00:46 how old is Kunio-kun (River City Ransom), Kenka Bancho, the entire 1v1 fighting game genre?

[@ea5328]

I won't take this monkey ball slander!

[@mcnichoj18]

I wish you went on to explain how Sony despite initially denying the game would go on to help Sega localize later entries. Then the game would finally hit a wave of western popularity when they teamed up with Microsoft to bring Yakuza to GamePass and also advertising rights alongside a timed next gen exclusivity deal for Xbox Series with Yakuza Lika A Dragon.

[@marche800]

I thought people liked the Fist of the North Star game?

[@DaakkuuYRS]

I loved it. It is my favorite anime liscened game ever.

[@Tieigo0]

Sega owns Atlus...ALWAYS remember that...

[@CaptainF123]

Ah a video about Sonic Unleashed.

[@CaedusRising]

Who the hell doesn't love fist of north star It has best combat in series and i only ever see it talked about with love in yakuza communities online

[@deatheater6222]

Better combat than Lost Judgement? Hell no

[@liamstrand9295]

3:52 NAHHH NO WAY HE CALLED IT “RijU Gaggo TOcku” 😭😭😭

[@gc3k]

It's not that bad, just the "Ryu" part is off (though that's become the "accepted" pronunciation in English, especially by Street Fighter tournament commentators)

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

The Kenshiro game is not bad, come on.

[@VinnytotheK]

2:30 What made you think this movie is a "fan movie?"

[@JobSChool-pw5ii]

Are we sure that the guy who made it isnt yakuza?💀

[@jbk19xx57]

Without Shenmue, there wouldn’t be Yakuza.

[@jkeebla]

without japan there would be no yakuza irl

[@gc3k]

The developers of Jet Set Radio and SpikeOut developed RGG

[@lutfimakarim8258]

It saved Sega but killed Shenmue.

[@VictorHugoSoares.]

Gotcha Now Flare-Chan

[@hergzcool]

mark hamill probably has this game next to rapsittie street kids for “voice acting roles i completely forgot about until you just mentioned it to me and what i mean by that is that this is a blank in my memory please stop following me i get your a fan but calm down”

[@mattwo7]

4:05 I thought everyone ignores it because they are already drunk?

[@sca8217]

And that's how you Nagoshi-ate a deal...

[@SpongeBob38]

What a thumbnail! 😂

[@LefYakuza]

Long live the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series!!! Best series to ever have been made! Perfect! The worst Yakuza game is better than the best non-yakuza!

[@SolCalibreAtWork]

"Eh, who cares" LOL, he just wanted to make the game.

[@NachtKaiser666]

It probably didn't help that Sega was one of those companies often suspected to have strong ties with the actual Yakuza back in the 80's and 90's...

[@notmus]

And now Yakuza 1&2 for ps2 is some of the rarest games to get and expensive.

[@thundersquid5715]

GTA had a big influence on the popularity of Yakuza games imo, ot got me to try it out and then I realized that Yakuza is it's own thing. A funny RPG with cinematic fights.

[@sirizalot]

The only influence GTA had on the series was the amount of cussing in the Y1 English dub.

[@RyadMax]

​@@sirizalotI disagree with your statement. People used to call Yakuza: "Japanese GTA"

[@sirizalot]

@@RyadMax People still call it that. It's nothing more than ignorance. That has no bearing on the devs and how they're influenced in making the games. Edit: I re-read the original comment. To say that GTA had an influence on the _popularity_ of the Yakuza games is certainly true to some extent. My bad for misunderstanding the comment.

[@basedalex]

Next video idea: how cheese gyudon destoryed yakuza.

[@FaZaFurhod]

still holding up for them to put Kiryu in Tekken

[@brittislove]

The reason I keep buying their games is because they keep being outrageous. Every game I have could be milked so much harder, but I don't have a chance to do that because I keep buying new games. I really love this series, the story, characters. As kiryu said when he was simping in y6 J A C K P O T

[@yourRussianBoi]

Mark Hamill doesn't remember voice acting Majima in PS2

[@Drums_of_Liberation]

Well let's be fair when Yakuza 1 was dubbed the actors didn't even have footage of the cutscenes they were voicing. All they had was paper scripts with notes telling how to emote certain lines. If Mark had access to the game footage he'd have a whole new trademark character to play besides the Joker.

[@jkeebla]

it could've been perfect.. absolutely perfect@@Drums_of_Liberation

[@AngryJT]

Yakuza 0 almost broke my cynicism in gaming. Greatest thing I've played in years.

[@HProtagVtuber]

Nice! I have one of those demo discs. Only cost 100 yen!

[@KiryuKazumawastaken]

i liked it when john yakuza starting yakuzaing all over the place

[@ThanuG15]

It seems they're doing great lately. Buying Atlus and rebooting old classics are great moves.

[@MC_Hammerpants]

0:46 uhhh violence against humans has been common in Japanese video games long before Yakuza was ever pitched

[@wildguardian]

Fist of the North Star is pretty cool. Garbage is the zombie one. But at least we can watch their dialogues and cutscenes in youtube without having to play that.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Sonic was really cool back then but thankfully we had something like Yakuza around to settle is down with joy.

[@ZXUmi]

shenmue walked so yakuza could run

[@snowpain02]

Its a real shame that the games have fallen off now with the combat snd story since the release of like a dragon

[@yomang6614]

I hope you were only talking about modern Monkey Ball since 1 and 2 are peak multi player games.

[@Optimal848]

thank you KZbin algorithm, subbed

[@ErickGameplaysN64]

How did people make a fan film in that time?

[@revbladez5773]

It was not a fan film, it was made by Takashi Miike, a prominent director with over a hundred credits.

[@samuraiboy497]

I would like them to make a battle angel alita game they could totally do it if they can bring kenshiro back give us back alita😊

[@neMgieTV]

Awesome vid

[@AlphaFlare]

thanks, I appreciate it

[@lobov1959]

Huh, funny... now SEGA is Paywalling features like the New Game+... I love Yakuza, but fk Sega...

[@zidannemaulana1537]

Even not only Football Manager

[@ArninoStorm]

Actually the Fist of the North Star one rules

[@reversecolin1256788]

nothing with a sound track as awasome as lost paradise deserves to be called bad and the world design was amazing if you don't like it fine but bad is ac vahalla bad is the naruto games lost paradise is crammed into a story that ended in 1987