The Second Most Underrated Yakuza Game

[@SnowiestAngeman]

If Kurohyou was so good why isn’t there a Kuroh- No way.

[@sulthan3913]

If Kurohyou 2 was so good why isn't there a Kuroh- No wait.

[@albinwallen634]

When is the next yakuza vid?

[@albinwallen634]

When is the next vid?!

[@SnowiestAngeman]

@@albinwallen634 2024 I reckon

[@albinwallen634]

@@SnowiestAngeman if you dont post a vid within a week ill kill myself and it Will be your fault

[@detect-henlo]

i loved when tatsuya said i am the black panther 2 and ikuzo kora'd everyone

[@MiniDallas000]

live detect-henlo reaction

[@thegamingprozone1941]

10 years in tha joint 😂

[@MiniDallas000]

@@thegamingprozone1941 bringeth that shieteh

[@10-years-in-the-joint]

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[@Ticketman99]

Shinee bokeyaaa

[@joshsong1713]

i just hope we get to see Tatsuya in any future installment

[@volpe7436]

Honestly would of been great if they included in the boxing minigame in lost judgement as like an extra special secret fight you unlock after finishing the story of it

[@TheRealSkulldozer]

They wont because hes "too edgy"

[@ChimmneyMan]

​@@TheRealSkulldozer I don't think anyone finds him edgy by the end of the first game

[@Demour]

BORN TO BE WIIIIIIILD Ukyo supremacy If no one got me i know Ukyo got me

[@Silverman160Zero]

_He's no longer a Muppet. He's now Born to be Wild._ Sht joke aside, I love Kurohyou 2 a lot. The custom style is fun to mess around with, the side content is plentiful, and ost is still fire. (Speaking of ost. I hate how ougon soul was used once in a cut-scene and never again. It's an amazing song!)

[@lambda-m1676]

That's probably one of their reasons to name those songs the way they are

[@Sarahm2261]

going through it right now, and man is early game rough, since you barely have stamina and both styles you come with punish you even more with less stamina for some reason. Seriously if they ever remake it, boxer should be given a stamina buff with punch damage or at least not make it decrease stamina effectiveness.

[@TheDeadmanTT]

0:58 There's a Yakuza 3 remastered achievement for running into people. Been doing it ever since.

[@Captain_Spaghet]

The whole "getting bumped into triggers a fight" was already technically a thing in Y3 and Y4 (you pass right next to them and it triggers a QTE) and it's been implemented proper in Y5 as well (it starts the fight with a different cutscene than the usual fight start)

[@ExtremeMan10]

This game was direct upgrade in everything from first game, plus the new styles and biggest plus was when you imported K1 save file you got access to 2 insanely powerful styles right from the start even on lvl1 (they later got outclassed by *cough* wild dance mastery *cough* ). Shame this game never had continuation where we play as adult Tatsuya.

[@teneesh3376]

Even has a better translation. I know, done by fans and is an unfair comparison. Just saying. The first game's translation was unfinished and literally game breaking. While the 2nd has a mostly finished translation

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Adult Tatsuya is crazy, seeing how he'd still be the youngest male protagonist

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

​@@teneesh3376 K4L team actually finished the K1 patch earlier than K2, which still has some issues

[@TheDeadmanTT]

I swear to Akiyama-san, there better be a Binary Domain video in your pipeline.

[@SnowiestAngeman]

It gets mentioned I promise you

[@TheDeadmanTT]

MENTIONED?! I need a 25 min video on this M A S T E R P I E C E of video-game ART!

[@sonoda944]

Lifeline but better

[@craiczaibatsu8930]

I'm loving the usage of the Tekken Tag 2 soundtrack vs the usage of Tekken Tag 1 music in the previous vid. Nicely done.

[@Treen1205]

IMO Kurohyou 2 is by far the most direct sequel in the series. The two games are far more tied than any of the other games, that only gave a few ties between them

[@Leo-hb7mv]

I can't wait for the Kurohyou 1 full English patch to come out so I can finish this masterpiece and then play the 2nd. Tatsuya is such a GOAT protagonist.

[@OutsideWorldwideTV]

I got you G there a English patch for both

[@goodhunter1131]

I would like to see Tatsuya at least as a substory character in LAD: Infinite Wealth, since Tatsuya (presumably) and Ichiban are in America.

[@Highwind_Dragon]

The combat really said "I'm gonna be better than the main games"

[@layonyatsu7203]

DAN-GE-ROUS

[@vashido1866]

I know people say this every single time this game comes up, but damn it really has the hypest final boss theme in the franchise

[@meniseiridou678]

Game's forcing you to fight smarter till: I'M NOT GONNA SUGARCOAT IT Self Taught: Punch: Extreme Wild Dance + Punch Speed +9

[@ChimmneyMan]

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[@stulix505]

God I just want to get this game localised

[@technicrain0]

theres literally a english patch

[@stulix505]

@@technicrain0 Yea but an official way would be a lot cooler

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Nah watch we’ll come back to this comment in like 2 years and there’ll be a bunch of replies like “ask and you shall receive” bro I swear

[@ziqqerlad]

@@technicrain0 planning to download it. such a godsend for yakuza fans

[@jackmclean4120]

​@@SnowiestAngemanThere's already a fan translation!

[@Hezzadude12]

Tatsuya slamming people into a vending machine with Tekken music in the background goes very hard

[@ChamplooDandy]

excited to hear all about my man shinada in the next video

[@turvimania]

8:16 Need a sub story helping out a Bunnings employee making snags.

[@Spherecode.]

Imagine making a Kurohyou 2 video and never mentioning the game featuring like 3-4 Shonan no kaze songs that play during some cutscenes like when Ougon Soul played when Tamotsu found his courage to fight an opponent way stronger than him with all his strength and the lyrics being something like "stand up, get up run until you collapse" or when "M" is dying and Tomoyo plays a song about friendship and the lyrics being "don't lose my friend wait for me" or something or how could we forget born to be wild? The picks are something else it's like Shonan no kaze made these songs specifically for these particular cutscenes but they didn't there was just a dev who was a huge fan of them and knew the right songs

[@SenpaiKillerFire]

Born to be wild

[@CrimsonNick171]

If it weren't for a weird technical issue in chapter 5 (unable to outrun the thugs at the start of the chapter), I'd be enjoying both Kurohyou games on my emulator. But since I don't want to keep messing with my emulator setup, just to get through a specific part in 1 game. I can still be happy with having just the 1st game (with a fully finished English patch) I still have hope both games get a legitimate western release someday. I mean if Ishin can get a western release, I don't see why these can't.

[@godhimself9396]

Snowiest died playing yakuza 5 haruka sections

[@tylorpeacemaker3199]

Btw, decrease frame limit in kurohyou 2 very important for about 2 times in story mode

[@roonsuya]

There's also an substory that contains an chase section and you also need to decrease fps

[@robertbakker7485]

as always, nice job snowie

[@guyonheadphones]

Note about bumping in to the yakuza dude: *THE MAN HAS EITHER GOD HAND OR GOD LEG AS A FIGHTING STYLE DEPENDING ON WHICH CITY YOU ARE IN. THE TWO STYLES ARE BOTH STYLES YOU’LL FIND IN MIDGAME/ENDGAME AND CAN EASILY STUNLOCK YOU FOR HIS ENTIRE COMBO. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING, SAY GOODBYE TO EITHER YOUR LEGS OR HEAD BECAUSE THEY WILL BE SHATTERED WITHIN TWO SECONDS*

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Thug aka Yakuza Dude when I introduce "grab centered styles" to him

[@slickbuster8346]

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it Back D-pad + O God hand is very easy to counter imo God legs is.... pretty hard tbh. It has a perk where the back attack (Spinning back kick for the style) cannot be countered and the front attack doesn't have a wind up like god hand Both styles have easy to counter recovery attack though

[@WickedParanoid]

Don't know why, but the one thing I truly remember about this game is the godawful starter stage stamina. Not even Taizan style made things more tolerable on that front, it's "suffer roughly to level 15" and then it, thankfully, gets better. But, other than that, I still enjoyed it for the most part.

[@keifujitora6587]

Thank goodness for the infinite stamina perk you get Takes a bit of equip space but it's worth it, makes most of the cooler styles usable

[@WickedParanoid]

@@keifujitora6587 It takes quite a bit of time to get it though, IIRC. Wasn't it supposed to be given to you upon upgrading Extreme Awakening? I mean, that's the style with the aforementioned perk.

[@mangopie7602]

​@@keifujitora6587I don't think stamina becomes a problem after a little while though? I haven't gotten any stamina problems after I've reached halfway through the game

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

And yet, Ironically enough, most starter styles aside from Boxing are grab centered

[@WickedParanoid]

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola And one of those early styles, while supposedly being grab-centered (yes, looking at you there, Pro Wrestling), has a DEBUFF on grab speed. Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? Who thought it made a single lick of sense?

[@ephemera-noctourniquet]

Well, this is my stop. This series has been great but I'm getting a bit burnt out so I'll probably finish Yakuza 5 in like. A year from now and I'm not risking spoilers so I'm stopping here. Thanks for making these videos, they're seriously great!

[@someraccoon4690]

Only real downside I had with this game is that the problem you touched on in the first game's video with all the bosses feeling like weekly shonen anime villains who just get completely thrown out and forgotten after you beat, which I sorta think is even worse in this game due to how Tatsuya's character is set-in-stone from all his development, so he doesn't really "play off" any of the villains or have anything to learn from them like in first game. Don't get me wrong, I *do* think Tatsuya keeping all his character development was the right call to prevent falling into that same trap that quite a few of the mainline games fall into, but I also feel like it *kinda* resulted in us getting a weaker boss roster overall this time around. As it stands, the only villains in this game that I feel made an impact in this game were: -Kinjo, for being pretty entertaining, having my favorite piece of the OST with Struggle Gold Castle, and for a certain VERY villainous act that I won't spoil, but if ya know ya know -Akita, for actually having a consistent presence throughout the game as the head of Ashura (the rival faction) -The final boss, who I won't say anything about to avoid spoilers...but trust me he's an amazing final boss, especially in comparison to the first game's final boss

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

That's true, however I think it works less with 8th Legions of Ashura, which literally lose all of their value after their loss. I do kinda wish Tsurumi's goon had a better presence in-game, seeing how he's one of the few characters from the first game to make it into the sequel

[@softsoundd]

but you didn't even play this omg how is this a retrospective 😤😤😤😤😤😤

[@SnowiestAngeman]

I’ll play with your heart in a second, dog

[@darthvaderbn]

​@@SnowiestAngemanbro what

[@paul-nj1ig]

​@@darthvaderbnhe's gay(yakuza fan)

[@SaysThe_Lau]

They gotta make a kurohyou kiwami

[@metwie_33]

no they don't considering how they treated ishin

[@BuryTheLight-tds]

They should just copy paste Nishki's face onto Tatsuya

[@sonoda944]

I want Daigo's gunman training spin-off I don't care how dumb it sounds (because it is), but we gotta know why he's so cracked at firearms that could rival Kazama.

[@JunGaGotoku]

​@@sonoda944Daigo in Gaiden

[@roonsuya]

Nexus mod page

[@Hi-Yanto]

Both Kurohyou games I guess, Tatsuya uses both brawler and boxer canonically because of cutscenes and the stories from both games. Also got a PSVita just to play these 2 games because I want to try out while remembering that it has the Nintendo 3DS type battery unless playing while charging.

[@HithereJimHerald]

Your battery must be bad, replace it and you’ll be able to play for hours and hours (or emulate on pc haha)

[@HithereJimHerald]

Your battery must be bad, replace it and you’ll be able to play for hours and hours (or emulate on pc haha)

[@Hi-Yanto]

Tbh the battery's aight right now as I reply here and I do emulate both PC and mobile

[@lemonov3031]

You can just emulate it you know

[@livenishikireaction]

damn my son is going places

[@Marse913]

Ten years in the joint?

[@marleonka.]

I really like how the bosses were integrated into the story in this game compared to the first, since you usually spend the entire chapter figuring out their little scheme and they are a major dick to you the entire chapter, so its satisfying to be able to beat the shit out of them at the end of it

[@jackleighfield4507]

BORN TO BE WILD

[@wall883]

i completed this one, i cried a little.

[@impointr]

The best part of this game is the cat café where cats will swarm Testuya and sit on his head, shoulders, legs...

[@tetsutobey]

So...was it ever explained why Tatsuya looks so much like Nishiki?

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Nope, in game he's just Nishiki while the HD render is just Mine

[@AeriaVelocity]

DONNA MON DA KONNA MON JA NEE

[@BuryTheLight-tds]

IKUZO-KORA

[@azureskeith6417]

DANGEROUS

[@TehNewParalyzer]

While I don't see this game ever getting localized I don't see a reason why Japan can't get these games on PS+'s Classic Catalogue. We also have trophies on a few of the PSP titles like Locco Rocco.... So Japan has a lot of potential to see these games re-released Then us in the west can just change region and download them....and then I guess learn Japanese too

[@JunGaGotoku]

Nozaki Ryo's boss theme goes hard

[@bananabike279]

Really hoping we get these games ported to modern consoles someday

[@andrewstencel]

I loved this game, but it was probably one of the hardest games in the series, specially at the beginning.

[@obino8325]

really dont understand why they doubled down on the problems with the first one. the group encounters are still horrible to go through, they made enemy grabs even more annoying to deal with and your stamina decreases even faster also they added a crowd that sorrounds every street fight your in that exists just to be annoying.

[@gowtham8909]

I thought i downloaded the dubbed ver when i saw the first cutscenes.

[@EmeraldTaurus96]

I would love to see these games in the dragon engine. Also Dead souls.

[@collisions4615]

If kurohyou 2 is so good then why isnt there a kurohyou 2 2?

[@sonoda944]

Because "portable console" doesn't exist now. Everything is either pc, game centered pc that goes to the living room, or slightly more compact pc that goes in the bag.

[@possiblymatt7970]

​@@sonoda944if kurohyou 2 is so good then why isnt there a kurohyou 2 2?

[@Marshsticks]

Your knife feels good

[@lutw0]

blond kiryu on the cover

[@Joselo3280]

How TF this had autosave and Y5 not?

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I'm pretty sure it took until Kiwami 1 for mainline series to introduce Autosaving and Manual Saving, even in 0 you're stuck with Phone Booths and that game was made in 2015 ffs

[@mangopie7602]

I just wish the yakuza dudes you randomly bump into didnt use the extreme styles

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I kinda wish they used random styles (except for Extreme Man) and had beyter music variety

[@AveryatTwoohFive]

at 10:09 you mention playing the game on a PS Vita. Curious about this, is this playing on a PSP Emulator on the Vita, or is there a native way to play PSP games on a Vita?

[@SnowiestAngeman]

You can play PSP games on the Vita, but only digitally. I'm sure there's some way to get the iso from the PSP discs so you can chuck them on your Vita to play them, but because the online PSP store is gone and not everyone has a physical copy lying around the easiest thing is probably just homebrew your vita and use the Adrenaline PSP emulator. So yes it is possible to play PSP games natively on a Vita, but I just played Kurohyou 2 on a PSP emulator on the Vita

[@iskraiskra_9007]

tournaments in krh2 were easier than 1 but GOD DAMN were they fun with the improved (in my opinion) gameplay its so sad that rgg studios cant see the potential localizing this game has - there are aplenty fighting game otaku around the world, since the story is separate from mainline yakuza you dont need previous knowledge of the lore, and if they fall in love with the world, they could reach for other yakuza games. Maybe it's some sort of an issue with synsophia? they were kinda dormant for a while, so maybe some shit happened behind the scenes i just think that its weird that money loving sega wouldnt pump out khy to the west when they sent off goddam Dead Souls.

[@BuryTheLight-tds]

Thankfully, it's already been localized...by fans

[@YaM8Kraken]

8:16 I mean, Saejima could beat a bear, why not Ichiban vs kangaroo?

[@whatvrooooo]

when yakuza 5 retrospective

[@SnowiestAngeman]

5.5.2025 mark your calendar

[@collisions4615]

​@@SnowiestAngemanAussie did you die during the saejima section

[@crab-manSorghame]

this is the 4th time yakuza has amazed me with the spinoffs, this time going all in on the psp after it was already out of place

[@macx_08]

ikuzo kora

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Ikki natte jane zou

[@lonewolfmerc9665]

God i wanna play black panther so bad but only have a Jailbroken Vita running Henkaku

[@ToroTor0]

Should I play the first then second or start with the second

[@potay-toez3923]

I’m prolly never playing this game , sadly

[@Demour]

What is stopping you? The games too good to give up and not try to run it

[@BuryTheLight-tds]

There's already a fan localisation, nothings stopping you

[@thegamingprozone1941]

Try this out man the combat,ost kicks ass!

[@dmcfail987]

​@@Demourhow do you play it with English sub?

[@Sarahm2261]

​@@dmcfail987cdromance has it if you look online

[@joestaen]

nice ppsspp filter it makes the sound an aluminium can being crushed does but to my eyes

[@SnowiestAngeman]

RIP :(

[@joestaen]

@@SnowiestAngeman the Yakuza 5 video better be run through a shit upscaler with mobile emulator GUI obscuring the screen

[@sergiocable]

RGG make this game Kiwami!!!!

[@maher496]

good game👍

[@garryhlambert]

how did bro not include self taught style

[@dmcfail987]

I think this game used def jam fight for ny the takeover engine I'm seeing allot of moves from tht game

[@comebackkid1216]

Same Devs

[@johncampos-cd6dv]

haganle un remake a esa joya

[@DragonD_Dojima]

where bro at?

[@SnowiestAngeman]

I'm right here, brother

[@DragonD_Dojima]

@@SnowiestAngeman good to know

[@goodgoodnotbad9573]

I hate how people use '05 nishiki as Tatsuya

[@vortaheadthebeast8072]

No mention of born to be wild? Not cool man

[@Gaff.]

I enjoyed my time overall but I find this game has a huge amount of filler compared to the first game and the story to be much worse. A lot of positive changes as mentioned, but overall, given I like to do these games 100%, I liked the first game a lot more.

[@YaM8Kraken]

10:18 Not accurate. Needs pistol jpeg

[@DamperMoney]

RGG really doesn’t like love interests do they? WAIT WAIT WAIT! They completed the sequel translation first and then went back to the first game to translate it? What kind of shit is that? 😂

[@hayasher]

يتم عرض فيلم سونيك في الرابع عشر🗣🗣goober

[@garryhlambert]

it will!!!

[@alanbossdon1386]

Kurohyou 2 > Yakuza 3. Sorry not sorry but i had to say it.

[@fabianpacukiewicz]

Shitkuza 5 next