Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - Bryce Fairchild Boss Fight

[@kurapees]

One of the bigger strengths of turn based is that goon based boss fights aren't miserable.

[@daedelous7094]

This guy was a TWISTED AS HELL villain, even putting IWAMI to shame in terms of how much of a complete selfish monster he is and that is a VERY HIGH standard to exceed.

[@shadowmamba95]

Do you think that RGG took a page off Jim Jones's book?

[@VioletOrbWeaver]

@@joseph86255pretty sure he already has been labeled as such on his TV tropes page. i was looking at it the other day and it’s all stuff in the same vein.

[@KingShibe]

Kuroiwa

[@daedelous7094]

@@KingShibe he was a bent cop and scary but indicating youngsters into killing goes way higher on the evil scale

[@nobu6833]

​@@KingShibe Nah, Kuroiwa is bad, but he's not bad in the levels like Bryce, bro is more like a monster than a human.

[@carbodude5414]

Been liking how the final bosses in the newer games are cops & government figures rather than another yakuza

[@martinr3648]

I don't know I feel it was better back when it was more personal Now at times the main villain is some we go out of our way for like Iwami in 6

[@axelnewmagicwand9626]

Only thing is I wish they gave the Palekana soldiers you fight along/before Bryce wouldve had a new moveset/attacks

[@lunerdytrenlal3]

@@martinr3648I mean, the main villain kidnapped his mother and haruka 2.0 and the other main villain kidnapped the capitan and is trying to make the yakuza do forced labor with radioactive barrels on an island no one knows the location of

[@Please_Stop_Me_Please_Kill_Me]

They are all gang leaders in some fashion.

[@xtr.7662]

Yakuza 4 and judgment both had cops as final bosses

[@LeXTReC-c2p]

The fact that Bryce easiest part of the fight is when he has to do things with his own hands, represented by the sword.

[@andreaswill615]

For real. I was worried that he even got stronger but he nearly missed all of his attacks

[@MinecraftianPony]

I ended up getting him to 1% health before the sword pickup cutscene and puppy playtimed him to death. Truly, a fitting end for the sage.

[@titus6573]

​@@MinecraftianPonyHaha same!

[@lifedeather]

He was desperate af wildly swinging and missing LOL

[@jordonvazquez7620]

Toru furuya give an incredible performance for Bryce.

[@breadburner7276]

even the questionable engrish

[@jordonvazquez7620]

his accent is noticeable, but it's not the worst engrish ever. there are worst engrish speakers in this franchise.@@breadburner7276

[@azizabdul8914]

It definitely sounds like Amuro- i mean Ribbons.

[@joseph86255]

​@@azizabdul8914Bryce ties with Ribbons as his most despicable role.

[@fwapkiwami]

Yamcha definitely got tired of being the underdog and chose to take over Hawaii

[@kirbonoir]

I'm just saying if I was one of those hooded dudes with the swords when bryce was monologuing I would've been like " Hold up did this dude just admit that he killed the previous sage and this whole he hasn't even been our official sage since he got a fake pendant??????" And then I'd probably die by getting stabbed by the other followers for being a heretic.

[@tropicturtle9021]

Those guys have been brainwashed since childhood to worship Bryce as their god and do everything he says without question. They pretty much don’t have any sense of independence anymore.

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

Ikr, Lani and the pendant doesn't really matter since all the Haku and people Bryce installed into society are hopelessly brainwashed anyway. Kinda weird how they just give Bryce to the police that he control lol

[@ennui9745]

I wonder if those particular members were so brainwashed that they didn't even care when Bryce was saying that.

[@lifedeather]

Trust me if you were in this cult to begin with it's because you didn't think for yourself so you would never have this thought and most likely be heavily heavily conditioned

[@lifedeather]

@@ennui9745 probably super super conditioned and loyal as they were his personal guard

[@dadkwashere]

Just be glad its turnbased to avoid a jingu

[@Fuhrudin]

Same VA as Yamcha!!

[@bimapradiga8853]

And Amuro

[@thedragonofdismashq]

Bryces theme song sounds like a fucking triple a movie trailer song! i honestly feel like that should have been used in the trailers.

[@MrBlue9020]

The Mr. Beast of Yakuza.

[@Ash_AA]

You guys are lucky, getting Turn Based combat for Bryce. If its brawl prolly this fight like Jingu and Munakata XDDD

[@zacharyhefner2208]

Bryce is so evil. He was likely the one who invented Hawaiian Pizza in the Yakuza universe

[@averybruhman5060]

This boss battle is basicly Leader vs Boss

[@ReapingRose115]

Not a particularly difficult boss fight but it's thematically quite appropriate. It fits the RPG stereotype of the final boss with a God Complex, which is par for the course of many RPGs as well as being a direct contrast to Ichiban. Ichiban's troupe may be small but his heroic and friendly personality makes dedicated friends with many. Compare that with Bryce who leads a fanatical cult that'd die for him. Bryce however is not a hardened Yakuza who can go toe to toe with Ichiban, his strength lies in numbers and political power. Much like Ryo Aoki, once cornered and with no weapons to his name, he'll swing but it's almost pathetic. He threw everything at you and still lost, and considering how much power he had, it's quite cathartic that the underdog crew again from rock bottom, climbed to the top the only way they knew how.

[@Omelanda33]

Bryce looks like bacchus

[@KishorTwist]

"he he"

[@joseph86255]

Would it be safe to call this guy one of the biggest monsters in the franchise?

[@KOFEnjoyer]

Totally

[@shadowmamba95]

I got Scientology/Heaven's Gate/People's Temple cult vibes with this mfer right here…

[@LaVitaNouva]

Only rival by Sadamoto Kyoya

[@joseph86255]

@@LaVitaNouva Wasn't he just a side villain? How can he be worse than Munakata, Iwami and Kuroiwa?

[@LaVitaNouva]

@@joseph86255 by how sadiatic he was, he's the only one so far who got so much amusement in killing many random people.

[@kendonl.taylor5111]

I'm surprised that Bryce Fairchild is Ichiban's Final Boss.

[@VioletOrbWeaver]

i thought he made more sense as a final boss for kiryu. kiryu’s entire character arc centers around dealing with his mortality, and finding the drive to keep going and keep making the world a better place. bryce is the perfect opposite of this: he’s someone whose awareness of his mortality led to him doing shady shit that is completely unsustainable. while kiryu worked to leave the world better than he found it, bryce’s actions hinged on him not caring what happens after he’s gone. bryce’s nuclear waste scheme is totally unsustainable, but he doesn’t care, cuz he’s gonna die soon anyway.

[@aicai.]

​@@VioletOrbWeaver kiryu's character arc revolves more around his regrets and him trying to atone for the errors of the yakuza and the tojo clan, given that he is an icon of the tojo that represents the yakuza lifestyle. Fighting Ebina, a victim of the yakuza that had his revenge stolen from him after the dissolution, which made him desperatly refuse to let go and try to punish all of the ex-yakuza for what he went through, is a good way of wrapping up kiryu's arc of atoning for his and the yakuza's wrongdoings.

[@elianwilliams]

It makes sense, Bryce is basically the polar opposite of Ichiban as both of them and their power is mostly in their “party”, however Ichiban leads his party/friends with love and actually caring for them while Bryce commands his party/followers through just having a cult, using them for all their worth and then killing them without a second thought

[@TheMixedPlateFrequency]

@@elianwilliams I thought it was brilliant that they made Bryce as Ichibans final boss too, and how much stuff Bryce controlled as far as organized crime groups across the world, government sectors from all over the world and various other big and most elite corporations. Crazy part is that Bryce was doing it for multiple decades and mentioned stuff about before the 1970's.

[@unclekaz3153]

I thought eiji would be ichiban's final boss

[@dapapeyu1]

here because the cutscene of bryce trying to kill himself glitched out for me lmao

[@dcrediah]

MJF and Adam Cole DOUBLE CLOTHESLIIIIIINE

[@dinoblade8167]

Damn, Ichiban's final boss was lame compared to Kiryu's final boss in every way, even the music and dynamic intro is inferior. No reason for Ichiban to take off his shirt.

[@magnus5747]

Idk I think the opposite, I just didn't like Ebina as a villain. At least Bryce was so damn evil that I needed to kick him down and for the music and dynamic intro I disagree hard with you, imo it was so symbolic+I really like choirs, you really did fight a false god and his blinded followers.

[@JoshuaPerez-zi7ci]

The reason the actual Yakuza protagonists even take off their shirts is to show dedication to who they actually are as a person. It makes sense during this fight because Ichiban is fighting against a heretic who took over being a sage to a religious order and turned it into a cult who uses people like writing on paper and trashing it right after it. Meanwhile Ichiban has spent the better part of (3-4 years) gathering up allies from all walks of life both criminal and semi-legal standards to help fight against corruption and actual evil criminal organizations and leading them to a better life or as better people. It's why people who are ambiguously good like Joongi and Seonhee even decided to help "The Party" in 7 and join officially in 8.

[@Woad_Brah]

such a stupid, disappointing ending. it took me like 12 hours to muster enough interest to get through the final dungeon/boss. the quality of story in the yakuza series has declined dramatically. it's sad.

[@magnus5747]

Idk I do think 8 was too rushed towards the end but I will say that 7 is one of the best stories in the franchise. 8 just had an amazing built up, but couldn't meet the hype in the end.

[@bullylowenthal2683]

"Yakuza went downhill after 6" - every generic yakuza beat em up fanboy

[@matitone]

7 has the best story in the mainline series but ok

[@Woad_Brah]

The story in both Yakuza 7 and Gaiden were good, but the story in Yakuza 8 was crap. Facts are facts lil fellers. If the fan base is fine with a very unique, niche series being hollowed out solely for the reason of being more marketable to a greater number of people then so be it Enjoy the paid new game plus I guess lol

[@bullylowenthal2683]

@Woad_Brah oh look at this little boomer crybaby saying stuff with no evidence and crying DLC like it's 2011 lmao

[@zed4807]

An Amazing Villain But The Battle was really ez 😅

[@shadowmamba95]

At least you won't have to deal with the brawler way. Otherwise, it is another Jingu/Munakata again.

[@squirtbrainz1219]

@@shadowmamba95Man you’re right, this fight would be miserable in a brawler game

[@ryleygriggs9840]

The Giant Squid was harder

[@MikeTolosa]

For me it took quite some time and had lots of fun with it! I was level 46-7 when fighting him, tho, so they might have been a cause for it

[@jimmys8492]

​@@ryleygriggs9840It was especially when it was throwing them inside its stomach.

[@michaelsartori1881]

I get what they were going for with him being useless by himself, but damn this was one of the least interesting boss fights I’ve ever seen in a game, let alone final boss fights. It was boring, and it doesn’t help that it came after two of the most interesting boss fights in the game.

[@TheMixedPlateFrequency]

I feel like the true final boss for Ichiban was the Giant Squid. and this battle here with Bryce is just all for pure plot. Just like in Yakuza: Like A Dragon. I feel like Tendo was the true final boss, and anything with the Governor of Tokyo / Masato Arakawa battle at the end was just for pure plot and storyline.

[@lifedeather]

Symbolic being useless by himself