WHAT IS THIS GUY'S PROBLEM WITH YAKUZA 5?

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Years of spread-out ranting on streams led to the creation and uploading of this video. Yakuza 5 is one of the biggest games in the series, and yet with that comes a mix of strange design choices and objective downgrades in some areas that sets it back gameplay-wise especially when it comes to replayability. This video focuses almost entirely on the gameplay aspect and why I find revisiting this game to be more of a drag compared to the other games. There are several things that I wish were different or better compared to its predecessors, but in spite of all of that, this game has a lot for fans to enjoy. A special thanks to Froob and CyricZ for contributing to this video in a couple of the segments! I hope you enjoy this video and thank you for reading this :)
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:45 The Endgame
00:08:14 The Upgrade System
00:11:26 The Dialogue
00:18:53 Quantity Over Quality
00:44:40 Combat Oddities
01:01:10 Random Encounters
01:08:08 Weird Game Design
01:10:36 Conclusion
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[@CyricZ]

I like how Quantity Over Quality is the biggest section.

[@Alex169o]

W!+!!!!!!!!

[@Gouda992]

Gamefaq god, I am not worthy!!!!

[@renchikun]

There's still quality though

[@H2ORaccoon]

Common CyricZ W!!!!!!

[@alphavarg123]

The goat himself commented, thank you for all your time and effort put into your guides good sir.

[@JacobGaming-zm6ec]

As a peakuza 5 enjoyer this video makes me want to get into some more random encounters in tsukimino

[@5persondude]

“Yakuza 5 will have seamless transitions into fights” 🙏 *(fights now occur every 5 seconds)* 💀😭

[@ExtremeMan10]

And RGG even added mechanics from other games too! Now every enemy will be master martial artist just like in Kurohyou 2.

[@sined9819]

On skibidi you aren't hating on Peakuze 5.

[@devilleon7]

What the sigma did you just say to me?

[@gianncmedina7805]

What in the Ohio Rizz

[@spyrocyndersword6516]

No to the three of you.

[@thebinksake8741]

On ohio he not be trifling on Peakuza 5

[@RufusM]

I will fight everyone here

[@Eustace_Winner]

The Yakuza 5 rant

[@route77productions]

After time and time again where he would rant on a live stream we finally have a dedicated video😭

[@gokudoni]

Oh dear... this truly brings a tear to my eye. You finally achieved your yume my dear kyodai

[@devilleon7]

Thank you! I've yume'd on the kuza til I ryu ga gotoku'd 😭

[@Haankaas]

Cue the Saejima saying "Baba-chan" compilation! Also, we got gokubroni AND leon here? Based.

[@iminmisery437]

This video is almost as long as the average street encounter as Shinada.

[@nicholaspaynter3581]

@iminmisery437 I disagree, I got bored in my street fight, watched the video, and I'm still only half way through the last guys health bar

[@smokedsanjl]

Peakuza 5 we shall die on this hill 🗣️💯

[@gianncmedina7805]

YEAAAAA

[@georgewashington5753]

devilleon7 hates the Thugs Everywhere System

[@Machine91]

"Local Man Loses Sanity by Yakuza 5" - Part 2

[@sonoda944]

Part n more like

[@justabomb8629]

WE MAKING OUT THE SNOWY MOUNTAIN VILLAGE WITH THIS ONE 🥶🥶🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🍖🍖

[@nickwash3r3]

not as replayable, makes sense

[@jemsyago7163]

It makes sense these gripes would be made known to Leon in particular since he tends to replay the games a lot.

[@coolwolf506]

Yeah I played it twice and my god yeah its one of those games you play once to the say the least which sucks to say about Yakuza.

[@virtualevents65]

WE AREN’T CHASING THE YUME WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Norrabal]

57:29 another thing ive been trying to get out there is the very strange mechanics behind Aizawas fight in 5. Its unique, but its far from any good, I personally despise it. For whatever reason, Aizawa tracks your movements in his final fight, to a point where you can't dodge behind him. In other words, he can't be whiff punished. And this is a yakuza 5 ism, but his guard can't be broken either, and he just uses his own knock back move to get you off When I tell people this they become suprised, and I can't say that they're at fault, because yakuza 5 lends itself into easily being cheesed, and I as someone who doesn't like to do that, imagine my suprise when as soon as I got to the final boss of 5 Masato Aizawa was fundamentally flawed in terms of combat, and nobody knew. Thats when I searched up his fight online, where 99% of all of the people who did used bounding throw loops, So just to prove I wasn't crazy i looked at your no upgrade of the game, lo and behold. That fight is an absolute nightmare without the necessary skills. Its honestly insane how they implemented something so weird and unfair, but managed to have it be unintentionally hiddeb by even more unbalanced design.

[@maxwellpaynewell5305]

You've put more work into dissecting that fight than any no damager ever will. For what it's worth, I think they wanted that fight to be more spectacle than substance. It would explain the obnoxious amount of non-interactive segments. His moveset being the most counter-punishable in the game (besides Kanai, arguably) means that most players will just stun and pummel him until they get to watch another QTE sequence. They also probably just never considered that someone would play the game in a way different from their very specific vision for the game. Either way, valuable information to have, so thank you for that

[@Norrabal]

​@@maxwellpaynewell5305 that was my first take after beating the game, he was a mechanically flawed fight carried by its own spectacle.

[@hub_1.15]

Holy fuck this As a person that doesn't do any side content on 1st playthroughs This fight was genuinely fucking hell with no sorts of counters And as u said i dont like cheesing fights with grapple loops so it genuinely was one of the worst and longest fights in the series for me Its so flawed yet i see it praised by everyone cause they are blinded by cool music and 3 qtes Its baffling how bad the fight is on a technical lvl

[@blessedbybobo]

this truly was our yakuza...

[@H2ORaccoon]

I say this as a completionist for every Yakuza game: I love Yakuza 5, but oh my God, I do not want to go through that game again. Every point you made here I agreed with in one way or another. Whether it was the bloated content amount (which is fine if you're casual, I'm just a masochist), the weapon crafting (which is really only practical on Shinada, but also the Equipment Skill Levels didn't help either), the insane amount of dialogue, especially the Coliseum and half of the tournaments with the most annoying gimmicks ever (I'm looking at you, Limited Berserk w/ Akiyama) etc. I really would love to go back to this game, but I just can't bring myself to do it because of how much the game seemingly does not want you to play through it again.

[@dragoknighte48]

5's weapon crafting I have the least problems with of any Yakuza game. Unlike 3 or 4 you don't have to go on wild goose chases just to be able to find blueprints that'll tell you what you can craft in the first place, on top of needing the items to actually craft them (and in 3's case, the game straight up lies to you what items you need for crafting). And 0 is the worst of all, throwing you into a gambling waiting simulator where you throw millions of yen into the abyss and stand around to see if you get anything decent, heaven forbid if you actually needed to unlock something specific

[@H2ORaccoon]

@dragoknighte48 my main gripe with it was specifically for completion, the other games was not (as) bad, but since you had to craft every weapon in 5, I think the only game worse than 5 is Ishin

[@keonmerrill1941]

18:56 I feel the victory road contestants could've just been the street boss mechanic in Kiwami 2. The punks just standing there like in Yakuza 6 would've been great also

[@OneManCast]

Hot Take: I want you to do some essays involving the Trails series.

[@SrBones1234]

This whole time I didn’t know you could skip those dialogues. I was just smashing my A button like crazy 😭

[@andresashura5550]

I’m going to be honest bro, I thought “hating on yakuza 5” was a joke and yakuza 5 was actually your favorite game LMAOO

[@greybigfoot1722]

Have not watched the video yet but I bet he’ll include the crazy unavoidable encounter rate when he was playing as saejima that one time

[@sawt32]

Glorious, i've been waiting for this!!! You finally converted the stream rants to video form lmao 😅

[@SarmInTheHat7030]

This video made me realize how little i remember of yakuza 5 idk if blocked out of my memory or it all the bad paddling i like i can remember the basic gest of every other yakuza game probably due to the design of game i still love it mind you Great video btw ❤

[@jffj1425]

True, what is the deal with this guy and yakuza 5?

[@devilleon7]

He has to stop

[@buy_skyrim6945]

WHAT IS THIS GUY'S PROBLEM WITH DEADSOULS?

[@MrMyNameIsBifana]

My favorite despite its flaws and I will die defending this but yakuza 5 ran so yakuza 0 could fly. Will watch the video now xD.

[@koschwarz275]

Akiyama missing side content were in Kurohyou. Where Tatsuya making ramen for him to finish it. It was there all along.

[@dominadaemonisociopataenpr6498]

Will be waiting this story related video impatient.❤

[@V_Kurgan]

The primary thing I noticed in Y5 during my time playing through is that it really can be summed up into the term "Series Hybrid". Y5 in part sometimes feels to me like it's having an identity crisis on what it's trying to accomplish. Does it wanna be it's own thing? Does it want to be a Previous Yakuza games? Does it want to shift into something new? I get the fact that the engine shift meant more work had to be put into the game, but you can't just look at me and tell me that there's direction to what's going on with the game, be it story, mechanics or something along those lines.

[@mashtikasiokart2169]

Finally, the video we've been waiting for ages. The Ultimate 1 hour Yakuza 5 Ranting.

[@CrystalFissure]

Exceptional work with this - definitely keen to hear you talk more about the story at a later date too.

[@raisklose6785]

I just realized I could watch Devilleon7 content like this for a really really long time and not get bored. Somehow it always scratches the right itch at the right time

[@torchila]

24 views and 25 likes in 1 minute, bro transcended

[@NeonArcaneSaint]

I really like when you make videos like this , it's nice to see your thoughts on these yakuza games considering how many times you've played them cause you always point out some things I never noticed lol great job as usual my dude.

[@devilleon7]

Really appreciate the kind words thank you ❤

[@shaheen5281]

Hello devilleon, as a long time fan of your content who's also from Bahrain I love watching your videos!! Please do a fan meetup here in Bahrain, there are a lot of kyodais here in Bahrain who love watching you and who would also be open to the idea. Please keep doing what you do :))

[@devilleon7]

Hey hey! Appreciate all the love, man. I've spoken to a few Bahrainis sometimes during my streams but I'm not sure how much will show up if I ever did a gathering. Maybe one day though ❤

[@matek1704]

40:45 Can we have y5 bike heat action? -We have that at home: 43:29 Rare moment of Devilleon actually looking for encounters

[@taahanajam8634]

A follow up video on Yakuza 5 story would be great. Also would love to see more essay videos on potential future Yakuza titles.

[@TheSifitisifi]

I love when you make videos like these cause I just watch them in one sitting while I work. Well done 👌🏼

[@SMT_Enjoyer69]

Leon has achieved YUME

[@jonnycoldcutz6825]

What you hate about the victory road, I love about it. I even stopped playing ng+ on legend mode because the victory road doesn't reset and I wanted to go through and beat it all over again. So I restarted the game on legend mode with a fresh save just for that

[@Al-xl8pg]

Thanks for this. Everything you said resonates with what I've been feeling about the game ever since I completed it. Man, why did they need to make the dialogue such a chore with that "new" style of in-game cutscene? Also, about Akiyama not having a side story, I always thought it would have to do with Elise, but they couldn't come up with anything much different from what they did in Yakuza 4, where you have to scout the hostesses and train them, so they just made that "event" in which you have to reunite all of them in there so the final one may become available.

[@walterb.3592]

Baba Chan

[@ahuman5192]

1:02:05 I've racked up a lot of hours and I never knew a random encounter could start because two guys decide to settle their argument by fighting you

[@ZappBranniglenn]

KZbinrs in 2020: I just don't like the word "Content" you know Yakuza 5 players: We tried to warn you.

[@walterb.3592]

Great video, Id love if you did a video about the story

[@matheusgaldino6657]

Great to have my comment on a video. ACTUALLY both Shinada and Akiyama parts in coliseum are a pain in the ass for 100% it... Still have nightmares with it.

[@regalcartoon5932]

That’s what is great about this series. Me personally, Yakuza 5 is my favorite game in the series while Yakuza 4 is my least favorite by far. But I’ve seen people who will live and die by Yakuza 4 but don’t like Yakuza 5 that much. But when every single game in a series has a sizable number of people that say it is their favorite…you know the series is good. Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4, Yakuza 5, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, Judgement, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Like a Dragon: Gaiden, Lost Judgement, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. There are supporters and detractors for all of these games. All of these games are beloved by people who claim their favorite game is the best in the series. It is actually really good that we can’t agree on which game is the best.

[@MAYOFORCE]

It's not one of my favorites either but it did have an emotional effect on me after I beat it.I really felt a kinship with Shinada for personal reasons and thinking about how certain parts of the story related to my own life got me feeling pretty emotional towards the end. But if I wanted to replay an overly bloated game about a big man with a tie, a cool speedy red guy, a little girl with attitude, an even bigger man with a bigger heart, and an inexplicable 5th guy with a funny face, I'd replay Donkey Kong 64

[@Gokinaf]

Btw idk if you add this in the video but: If you wanna start play new game after you made breakout to 25 lvl for Haruka, it gonna break all Haruka part in new game + , its problem of remaster, idk if is it the same for original Yakuza 5 (I started replay all Yakuza games on new game + and find this critical bug) edit: If you wanna make new game + with your Premium Adventure you can simply just rename your PA Save file in CL Data file and stuff you get when played PA, you get in new game + (tested)

[@LKD7997]

While Yakuza 5 is personally my 3rd fav in the series, your points are COMPLETELY valid. Thats the great thing about Yakuza. Every game has its fans and haters (except 0 everyone loves that game)

[@axothesleepdeprived]

Yakuza 7 3hr rant when?

[@devilleon7]

I have maybe 5 minutes maximum in terms of ranting with that game

[@axothesleepdeprived]

​​​@@devilleon7 damn need me some hours long vid explaining the never before noticed flaw of 7's story, combat and minigames (Which is just an excuse for me to listen to some lovely guy making hours documentary about 7)

[@maxwellpaynewell5305]

​@@axothesleepdeprived doesn't cover minigames, but the single negative video I've found about Yakuza 7 goes into good depth about a lot of problems I hadn't even considered when I finished it, and I didn't like it in the first place. I have literally at this exact moment learned it is deleted. Day ruined. Sorry I couldn't share it before that happened

[@FilthyCasualty]

@@maxwellpaynewell5305 The single negative video of Yakuza 7 that the Like A Dragon team doesn’t want the public to know about. Don’t let them censor us 😔 (I’m joking I would have liked to see that video because I enjoyed the game but I felt like I had gripes with it but don’t have the words to describe what my issues are).

[@limppickle4306]

​@@maxwellpaynewell5305 where might I find this video?

[@adilrashid9884]

Been waiting a while for this video bro I’m glad we get to hear your gripes with this game

[@jahnhub]

LETS GOOOOOO (ive never played this game)

[@walterb.3592]

I'm still currently in my first playtrough of the franchise (at judgement now), but even on my eventuall replay I will play it for the story firstly, which means i will not skip dialouge and cutscenes so that doesnt bother me in yakuza 5

[@jeannecaelum5167]

I understand your points about Peakuza, now that i look back and probably have big fat glasses of nostalgia on. Was a great watch!

[@etherealenchantment5742]

There was actually a time in yakuza 5 where I somehow managed to get into three consecutive fights with no normal gameplay in between them.

[@003SONE]

Great video. Where did you get your shirt from?

[@NeonIceyy]

Actually didn't expect this to be all technical, no story involved whatsoever, but you're right in that it's more subjective. (Can't wait for that specific video, if there will be one) I agree with a lot of points you brought up still. Especially whenever you made comparisons to previous games. As I feel on their own, a lot of these changes wouldn't really hurt Yakuza 5 that much. But the combination of it all is what essentially drove me mad, little by little. The Upgrade system, Colluseum, No shared item sets, IF8, Encounter rate, and enemies being more aggressive in general with grabbing and surrounding you, ect.. And there are some I wasn't even aware of like the Premium Adventure lock.. Very ironic for this game specifically where you're spoiled for content, but aren't allowed to properly keep it... I also really appreciate the combat comparison to 4. (I had a feel those Twitter polls would lead to something) I just grew so attached to the tight, fast paced combat of 4, that I knew the jump to 5 would be slightly difficult to attach, but.. it's honestly just such a painful downgrade for me.. Kiryu and Saejima not as much, it's more just the engine probably. But Akiyama is such a bizarre change to me, he ended up becoming my least favourite character to play as in the game. (Even Shinada I was able to find some enjoyment in.) Since you asked how many times I accidentally did that weird accidental flip move; EVERY SINGLE ENEMY, I'm not kidding, it happened at least once each encounter, I eventually just gave up and just accepted not having any control over him. Nothing against people that still enjoy him in 5 obviously, but he was easily my least favourite part of the game, which I never would've expected coming after 4... On a positive light, I think this games' biggest saving grace is the vast amount of exploration and side content. (I hate to admit how much I returned to the dance rivalries just to listen to those specific songs) This is easily where I also believe the writing gets really good and shines proper. I can see a lot of the care the devs put into the world of Yakuza 5! It's just a shame it ended up in kind of a mess I suppose hahah.

[@ShatteredPedestal7]

Something that’s similar to the Victory Road is the Beigoma in Eiyuden Chronicle. Where you have to run around battling people by spinning tops, it’s like Beyblade. Only thing is that it’s a tedious process as the starting Beigoma is trash. You have to go in areas where they drop Beigoma. Okay so I do that and come to find out, there’s different tiers and elements of Beigoma. The bronze Beigoma you start with is barely enough to start the entire side quest, as Reid, a character you have to recruit for the true ending, is your first hurdle to start the quest. Then I realize I don’t even get the Beigoma from the generic characters I beat, instead it is low level items. The boss Beigoma can be obtained, but not the generic npc’s Beigoma. To get more Beigoma, I have to run in areas and beat monsters…yup, not other npc’s that play Beigoma, monsters. Fortunately you can increase the item drop in the game with accessories but wait! You want the top tier gold Beigoma’s? You’ll have to wait until late mid game to open the areas for you to get them, and even then, some gold Beigoma are trash! I understand games needing extra content to justify the prices they’re selling, but both Victory Road and Beigoma are just not worth the hassle. Now lucky for me, Eiyuden has a new game plus feature where every character you unlocked stays unlocked, even at the beginning of the game. You only recruit them again for story reasons.

[@ShatteredPedestal7]

Also to get Reid as a playable character, you have to beat 11 bosses. 6 of those with Gold Beigoma. It’s a tedious and long task and the stats Reid has is not worth it, he’s level 11 at END GAME. Now that might be no problem, just level him up. He still has worse stats than a level 80 character when he’s 99.

[@RoboticEdward]

I'm excited for this since I definitely enjoyed it but the issues certainly piled up as time went on. It has some good highs but the lows are either super bad or just middling.

[@wanderlust_gaming]

Oh, I have been waiting so long for this video!

[@VirtuousAezon]

Your longer videos like this are my favorites of yours, i hope to see more

[@TimotheusVA]

What ?! The funny KZbin man has a problem with the greatest game ever?! Truly this must be his evil twin brother angelleon8 that is secretly working for the jingweon mafia that is behind this video

[@limppickle4306]

I cant find the ng+ speedrun for IW on Froob's channel. Am i dumb?

[@xkaosdark]

Doing 100% on this game really made me realize how much of a downgrade the gameplay side of 5 is unfortunately. This game went from S tier to B tier for me personally. And as you said, the dialogue is such a chore to skip through. Glad you were able to make this video after a long time; you got the dream Kyodai.

[@collinhenson3401]

Akiyama's Launch Kick is a great move in yakuza 5 if you dont actually launch the enemies as you can infinite them on the ground and do a decent amount of damage on those unbreakable colisseum bosses. When I grinded everything for platinum (including those weapon revelations yeah they sucked) dodge launch kick was my main form of damage for many enemies and infinite looping enemies on the ground with launch kick. Yakuza 5 is still one of my less favorite yakuza games (y4 and yk2 probably lower due to prison section in y4 and I just didn't care for yk2). Also, one massive chore you didn't talk about is completing the hostess storyline. Where you have to complete all hostesses for each character. Go to Kamurocho as Akiyama to his club to start it and go back and talk to all the characters and then with each character go back to their city and talk to the hostess there and then back to Kamurocho to check in with that hostess before finally unlocking the final hostess and still having to do a regular hostess grind before then switching back to Akiyama to finish the section.

[@pandagrog8957]

funny thing is that i agree with most, if not all of your criticisms , but i still think this is my favorite game in the series. I just adore the characters and the storyline, and while im probably in the minority i loved the Haruka section. I highly recommend Majuular's video on the game as i think he nails why the games story is really special.

[@dragon666777]

1:09:05 i remember reading somewhere that akiyama wasn't part of their original plan for yakuza 5 at all, and he was only included in the game because of his popularity in yakuza 4 i don't know how true this is, but it would explain why he feels so randomly inserted into the game compared to the other 4 characters, as well as having the shortest standalone story and the least amount of dedicated side content, he is more of an extension of haruka than his own character and it shows in basically every aspect of the game between the gameplay and even the story, he's there in haruka's story because she can't fight and does it on her behalf also as an addendum to this, voicing my own thoughts as someone who considers yakuza 5 to be the best game of the kiryu saga, I can definitely attest that the game is much more overwhelming than its brethren in how much content there is, I had initially started my first playthrough with the intent to do all of the sidestories and substories, only to be massively fatigued by the time that I reached the end of shinada's chapter that I said "I don't care, I'm finishing the game", completely ignoring all of the final few substories that only open up for each character during the final chapter after having made the effort to complete all of them beforehand because I had already spent over 60 hours getting to that point and the game was failing to keep me engaged, shinada's story being as good as it is was what kept me going enough to finish the game instead of dropping it for a bit because of burnout, something I hadn't felt at all when I was replaying the older games, even during yakuza 3 which I considered to be the absolute lowest point, the game's content bloat is extremely apparent and i do think that while it's nice to have so much to do, it's much more easy to get burnt out on it than any of the other games from my opinions a lot of the game's side content also doesn't really feel good to do at all, from what I can currently recall. minigames like pachinko speak for themselves in my experience in how they're something I didn't want to engage with at all, but haruka's sidestory especially mainly consists of just repeating the same performance of so much more and almost none of her other songs that it's mind-numbing, just repeating the same task over and over with the game pretending it's any different, and a lot of her tasks are similarly just asking you to do the same thing you've already done, but slightly different or "more difficult", there isn't really a lot of variety in it and it's where the side content fatigue started to set in massively for me

[@LThanhHao232]

The most annoying thing about this segment (40:05) is that the animation is very elablorate and cool that it should have been a heat move. Heat move would at least make those weapon revelation worth getting.

[@lukecwolf]

The quantity over quality thing being the largest section was understandable, but what I didn't expect was the length of combat oddities. And the weird thing it also kind overlaps with quantity over quantity. For instance, In one regard you have Kiryu and Saejima who essentially gains superhuman powers. In another regard, shinada has the weirdest moveset but it's simple and effective. And then Akiyama got nerfed but got weaker superpowers. And then all their abilities and stats are weird ... But at least that sort of paved the way for 0's style changing gimmicks and the Judgement series by extension?

[@CogzillaOfDojima]

Learning about holding r1 to auto skip dialogue from this video is huge for me lol I'm going for 5 platinum right now and didn't know this

[@VirtuousAezon]

Oh to add on, i made a mod for Yakuza 5 that lowers the enemy encounter rate to be something similar to the rate of the beads of fortune

[@StellaHamms]

Fun fact about the Akame cabaret club visit mission and your talk of DE being able to skip everything: You can skip the entire cabaret club thing first thing. Just press start and quit. It counts as finishing it.

[@WozViral]

Damn Yakuza guy having a beef with Peakuza 5? You're gonna have some random encounters with me

[@Shade497]

That special weapon attack would have been a cool feature if there wasn’t a grind attached even though it’s a bit useless

[@sliippy2152]

yakuza 5 is so peak I could die

[@spamhands6993]

The weapon revelations make me think that it really should've been something you can do from a low cost upgrade. Especially the ones where you run at enemies with an item, which 0 does, with Beast.

[@ima4248]

Haven't watched this yet and I've just skimmed around, but I will definitely listen to it in full while doing something else at some point My view of the game boils down to how incredibly bloated it feels, to the point I found myself playing it out of a sense of duty towards the series rather than actually enjoying the unfathomable tons of extremely dissonant content (which you're forced to engage in multiple times) Also the combat was off, and while everyone now has extremely clear quirks (Kiryu having insane backturn combos and Dragon Rage, Saejima with forced restand combos and so on) rather than just working off bound like the past games there was such a clear power gap between protags If the entire game was designed the way the entirety of the Shinada section was, I would have enjoyed it a LOT more since it felt extremely refreshing RGG has finally moved on from playing off of people's nostalgia and is branching out into refreshing and coherent innovations in the later entries, but the PS3 era suffered the most from the stagnant formula they had been holding on to for so long Still, at the very least, the game's highs were unbelievable and the music is a top 5 contender throughout ALL of the games, but I'm never replaying the fucking game I'm not going through Saejima's hunting sidestory ever again

[@shunshirai]

This is the one game that almost broke my completionist streak, and every point you've brought up is 1000% valid. I still remember the torture of grinding to the top arena spot with *each character* and how long that awful grind took me. 😭

[@owlplus001]

DevilLeon video essays are GOD TIER

[@apurpledragon]

Can't believe my meme comment was right on the previous stream, gonna listen to this while I play some of my modded games.

[@tacomerchant]

personally i feel like victory road was such a super, super cool concept that isn't executed that poorly outside of three things: 1. it's almost ENTIRELY LUCK BASED finding the dudes in the first place 2. the contesters only occasionally have visual distinction from normal thugs. if i have to find him, why do i have to guess which one is him? 3. the contesters are also somewhat difficult to find, anyway, though there are spawn points

[@shingkung3974]

16:26 i think this is one of the examples that yakuza 7 really mimics the traditional jrpg games’ design into their game. IW paved their way of making their own style of jrpg

[@queuedjar4578]

I remember catching some yakuza 5 slander on one of your streams, then purely out of arrogance and spite booting up the game just to play a bit and enjoy it. 5 steps out of serena got into 3 encounters in a row. Lost all my motivation to continue and got humbled really quick haha.

[@synthiandrakon]

The dream segments could have been cool, like imagine if instead of it being a weird detour in the story, the dram segment was just something you had access to at any time as saejima when he was in prison. Where like at any time you could return to his room and dream of the city and it let you have access to like minigames and stuff in the city. Maybe not substories but maybe just let you walk around fight people, so some karaoke and pool when you felt like fucking around in saejimas part

[@P0ly558]

Been waiting for this video for a while let’s goooo

[@JogVodka]

This is a really interesting video to me as someone who love Yakuza 5. I agree with a good amount of things in this video and I have only recently found out about a few things about this game (the weapons and colosseum stuff especially). Things that effect replay value dont really bother me since i like to stay in premium adventure and never start a new game.

[@wadewilson2369]

It may be weird, but I love Yakuza 5 because it's insane. The story gives Rubber Bullets a run for its money. The gameplay range goes from "Dragon God nuking thousands" to "Shinada breakthrough". I love it. I love the JPG shops. I love the nonsensical minigames and upgrade systems(Fuck the weapon system though). This is no defense of the game. I'm a masochist. I may need professional help.

[@coolwolf506]

Tiger dropping in Yakuza 5 was the easiest game to perform it in as well as being able to combo it multiple times in a row

[@Esteban-ul9pe]

I love you Devilleon 🦖🦖

[@jamesb687]

HAHA he finally made the video! Finished watching this the other day. You made a lot of good points in here. Yakuza 5 is certainly a game of all time. I still enjoy it but it's sooo long. I have also got 30 or 40 eps of Fist of the North Star left. Been trying to savor it. Wonder if I will play the Ryu Ga Hokotu cross over or not!

[@MustafaTurgutDenizer]

26:48 YOOOOO I'm so glad my tweet made into the video! Mom I'm famous now 😂

[@JaylenKiwami]

To be quite honest, I think meteor tackle is much much more useful than the air combo, mainly cuz... Meteor tackle actually works on (almost) everyone. Even if you get stopped super fast you can use your heat action with mashing, and using it near walls will just deal a bit more damage Meanwhile Akiyama can't even use it on Kanai. Even Saejima and Shinada can use their climax heat moves on him (provided you change the characters around with mods so you can actually get those two to fight Kanai in the first place)

[@-seijuro.k]

At least I like they used bosses qtes in the ultimate battle

[@sonicslayer0]

I just finished yakuza 5 and I thought it was great. Every character felt very fun to play..... except for Shinada. It may be me just sucking at playing him but I felt that he relies on grabs WAY too much and it just made him super unfun to play with. I love grabs and grab heat actions but the fact that any enemy can just slip out of my grabs and block 90% of my hits unless I get behind them. It makes the bosses a slog to get through since you have to get behind them or you aren't going to do ANY damage at all since you cant even do the mediocre meteor tackle since they just break out of it. It seriously sucks that you're forced to use weapons that you HAVE to store in your inventory which takes up space I could be using for healing. Otherwise the game was great.

[@suscat6301]

Yakuza guy 7 Yapping for a full hour about the best dream Random encounterkuza game? I'm down

[@ikedatike2533]

As someone who literally just finished Yakuza 5, I understand your qualms especially with random encounters. I feel like that's the one thing that really really got on my nerves

[@chosarang9488]

I'm not sure if you mentioned the thing with Haruka and Locker keys but that really pissed me off. Atleast make her inventory shared with Kiryu or smth, I just lost 20 items 😢

[@UkyoTatsuya]

Platinumed Yakuza 5, and I'd do it again!!!

[@Alex169o]

Is yakuza 5 our majima everywhere? (We can't never talk of it)