Yakuza 4 - Long Battles: 2 - Prison Break (EX-HARD)

[@Roderickthegray]

Doing this with a fresh stat Saejima was one of the hardest things especially cause of those grapplers.

[@AzureKing963]

I went from no continues to 15 on this part alone.

[@kennethshiro9500]

No I agree, it's tough, especially getting down the strategy for Saito and Kiryu. But once it clicks you get it and it's not that bad.

[@REDEEMERWOLF]

I loved the challenge. Kiskcs your ass and forces you to adjust and learn with taigas style.

[@rct3terminator1000]

I gotta say that the bit with the Sniper (for me at least) was pretty bullshit tbh and where most of my deaths/retries occured, but overall the prison break mission was a pretty tense and exhilarating challenge. Probably one of the most satisfying to clear in the end too. :^)

[@Roderickthegray]

Oh yeah, you have to be wise on what upgrades you choose too, choose the right ones and this level can be a breeze

[@ivanhu]

This is the hardest fight I've done since trying to fight Daisaku Kuze for the first time without knowing about healing items back in Yakuza 0.

[@gagejohnathan9641]

Did you beat him?

[@ivanhu]

@@gagejohnathan9641 I'm halfway through Yakuza 6 now, so yes! XD

[@HairyJuan]

For me that first boss fight in Yakuza 3 vs Tamashiro was way harder than this.

[@xyouzoo]

same here, i was restarting him for like 2 hours, then beat him first try next day

[@squirtbrainz1219]

That Saito fight was infuriating and that Kiryu fight was hard in a very fun way

[@AlexDWolf]

2:28 "You planning a jailbreak? -Oh no, good fellow officer, I just wanted to go pick one or two flowers in the garden to make my room lovely, then I'll go gently back to sleep. Isn't that obvious ?"

[@unwornseal159]

Id just like to say. Whoever made this part of this game deserves a warm pillow on their head for the rest of their lives. Its literally just getting hit stun trapped and combo interrupted for 20+ minutes. And why does Saito have like 4 invincible moves, a combo that you can block for like 3 hits and then can't block or dodge the last one, an invincible move that stuns, a lunge move thats near impossible to dodge, a grab that it tells you to mash A to get out of even tho it literally doesn't work, and the ability to dodge like 90% of what you do

[@Majin_Koolaid]

Just playing through today and I wholly agree. Underated comment

[@slowpukezz]

and all of this for a saejima with no upgrades

[@mr.purple250]

I died a few times, but I loved this part

[@patrickmahomes3616]

I believe you couldn't escape the grab attacks because the Remastered version doubles the framerate, thus requiring you to mash the button twice as much as you would typically need to. I can seldom do it, and even then, I almost lose all sensation in my arm from pressing the button so quickly.

[@jacektalaga]

saito is the easiest part of this long battle by far, also his lunge is practically designed for you to dodge it

[@kennethshiro9500]

In case non-fans are wondering, 9:03 is why we keep playing Yakuza.

[@partialbullet2215]

Smashing prison guards face in a bar?

[@kennethshiro9500]

@@partialbullet2215 Pretty much, yeah.

[@deviljho4260]

Partial Bullet cool heat actions

[@stanleycrowley9333]

I mean story in yakuza games is pretty awesome and action battle system is fun, deep and hard to master as well.

[@gallantsteel8542]

@@stanleycrowley9333 hard to master? I don't think so. You just gotta build up heat and then exhaust your heat with heat actions.

[@hammerbro1947]

1:28 This is a way of saying: This bed sucks!

[@gaminggoddess85]

Saito really eats his Wheaties.

[@jamesnorman9160]

You have to give him some credit. Tough son of a bitch gets beaten twice by Saejima in the space of ten minutes - the second time by getting his face slammed into steel bars - and he still comes back for round three not long afterwards.

[@БогданКрименюк]

​@@jamesnorman9160 The original Yoneda

[@loruapollo6634]

I'm surprised Saejima didn't try to escape sooner, a prison break for him is easy mode

[@Ramenking247]

Honestly I'm kinda surprised as well.

[@gaminggoddess85]

It would've made a lot more sense to try to escape BEFORE he was transferred to the corrupt supermax prison in the middle of the sea too.

[@gaminggoddess85]

Although at this point I'm expecting Saejima to just start breaking INTO prisons because he seems to like it there so much.

[@kamikaze4172]

Let's look at it this way, he had his face in every newspaper, you "kill" 18 people, they remember your face. It's difficult to break out of a prison, but he needed not only evidence (I guess that's what that guy was looking for in the office), but to be free of shackles. On land, they know you survived if you escape. Out at sea, where's he gonna go

[@ComicWriter-ml3qt]

「Loru Apollo」 I thought it was because he made his peace with his fate and he accepted the consequences of what he did because in the end, he did it for his boss who helped him save his sister

[@gallantsteel8542]

Saejima is pretty hard to use without upgrades but once you level him up, he's like a friggin tank.

[@subtheman2136]

Bro he easy to use at the beginning of the game just have skill

[@らいどう-c5m]

Ive beaten all the yakuza games without dying on hard But this shit… this shit was fucking torture

[@VFG204]

Same here. The last time I've ever died in a fight was back when I played Yakuza 0 for the first time and since it was my first ever Yakuza game, I sucked. But I failed this shit like 7 times on Hard and never had an issue playing other games on Hard or Legend. I finished Yakuza 4 a few weeks back and I'm currently playing through 5, but if I ever decide to replay Yakuza 4 on Legend, this long battle will traumatize me even more.

[@HairyJuan]

This is nothing compared to Yakuza 3

[@VFG204]

@@HairyJuan this is just me but I never had this much trouble when playing Yakuza 3. Yakuza 3 wasn't hard it was just kind of annoying

[@HairyJuan]

@@VFG204 I think a lot of people such as myself find Yakuza 3 so hard because it requires such a different change in fighting style. When I first started, it was super hard for me because the enemies blocked everything and you could hardly grab, also the sidesteps weren't as fast as I was used to, but once I got down the method of waiting for an attack, side-stepping behind them, then comboing them it got much easier. I can see how it could be easy for some people with the sidestep then combo playstyle being such a simple and easy-to-follow strategy, but even after I got the hang of the game those IF7 virtual reality boss fights were hard as shit; that Lau Ka Long fight was hell for me and I'd take the prison break any day of the week over that. The strategy for the Lau fight is relatively simple, but because it was so annoying with three of him all over the place is what made it so hard for me. In retrospect the final Saito fight took me like 4 or 5 tries to beat, but I didn't mind it nor find it annoying because I enjoyed the fight and had much fun playing around with Saejima's moveset.

[@SquerolBoss]

@@HairyJuan yakuza 3 isn't hard it is just tedious because passive as hell dumb as fuck predictable enemies combined with straight idiotic hp/defense values. I've finished it on clear ex-hard at first playthrough (got save file from internet to do that) and don't want to engage in those easy as hell but so fucking long boss fights ever again. Also komaki parry is just ridiculously broken and ridiculously easy to trigger in this game.

[@bernardbenlevi8002]

Saito must be Kuze's or Yoneda's son.

[@brucewayne7037]

Material Delights kicks in, and it jumpstarts the hype. Loved this section of 4.

[@Chadfill8348]

Ah yes, the long battle that made me miss Jingu

[@aniqnxbil]

I got grappled, stunned by a flashbang, dropped by an elbow and shot in the head with a sniper rifle all in the span of five seconds

[@LudenTK]

5:50 First time playing I thought Saejima was going to pull some Dragon style out for us. Made me a bit excited. But, Saejimas style is so satisfying.

[@maxmoore5857]

i hate it so much at the point i’m at. akiyama’s was much more fun but this is just painful

[@GoldRustt]

@@maxmoore5857 you just have to learn and adapt. Akiyama was quick and speedy, now you have to keep going at the same speed just tankier. It gets better, trust me.

[@derpycke649]

@@GoldRustt true yakuza 5 saejima is insanely strong

[@coolwolf506]

@@derpycke649 Hes op in 5 when you get herculean spirit. In 4, HS only applies while he was attacking which made it strong but not as strong as in 5 where it doesnt matter if hes attacking or not, he can litrally stand still and you wont get faltered at all. It made the game go baby mode when you played as Saejima with that upgrade. I unironically wish there was a way to turn it off because of how there no challenge anymore when playing as Saejima in 5.

[@TheRealFredbearPlush]

@@coolwolf506well, it’s probably too late but that move only triggers with heat. Thus, it won’t activate if you had a calming towel

[@HFMurasama]

Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to give saito a block parry that stuns this early in the game like WTF?

[@vhsninjaccoon7705]

Saito the security officer should get paid more for actually putting up a fight, I mean so could all the other officer's but yeah.

[@HairyJuan]

Yeah he's an absolute prick, but that man didn't go down without a fight. I was expecting him to be a total pushover the way he tortured restrained prisoners.

[@Riazanov-xy6gn]

I did the game in extra hard, and the jailbreak was the most difficult part ! Good job bro! What do u think guys ? Is this the most difficult part for u too ?

[@Skirish]

Oh it definitely is, like I easily breeze through Ex-Hard Base run on this game...except for this part, like Lau's Car chase in Kiwami too

[@kennethshiro9500]

Kiryu was the hardest, there's a big luck element with that fight I feel.

[@kamikaze4172]

@@kennethshiro9500 They don't call him the Dragon of Dojima for being a punk bitch sussy, that's for damn sure

[@sinclairguess1187]

How do you unlock Ex-Hard ? I finish the game weeks ago and the only new difficulty i got is Legend

[@mitsubishilancerevox8707]

@@sinclairguess1187 Ex-Hard was the old ps2 and ps3 version of Legend difficulty , in the remaster it was renamed Legend and same with all other games after yakuza 5.

[@Kiproll26]

I've had my fair share of bad times with the Yakuza series but I think this might be where I call it a day.

[@wardenunknown]

I’m so glad this Saito died so I don’t face him again, I swear if they bring back that Triad guy for a 3rd time I am gonna lose it

[@joeloyo4920]

This part is cancer in new game ex-hard

[@raalzuune871]

This shit on legend on a fresh file was a new form of torture.

[@massiveman4]

easily the hardest part of the game, but also one of my favorites. the music made the long battle all the more badass, was so hype sending guards flying into the air while that banger plays. and that feel the heat was rad as hell

[@kamikaze4172]

For such a big guy, and someone who put Kiryu's face in the sand, be should do some more damage. I think the problem, at least from watching, is that he's not quick. At all. You play Kiryu, Akiyama, Tanimura, from when I started playing, Majima, you play as rather speedy individuals. And then you get Saejima who's a tank

[@LThanhHao232]

he is playing on ex hard with low level after all. I played on easy and Saejima a beast, he is not fast but his charged attack hit hard

[@kamikaze4172]

@@LThanhHao232 I guess I really was expecting a tank of a man

[@LtheOriginal]

While this part of the game was an absolute nightmare to beat. I still think it's one of my fave parts of the entire Yakuza series. From a story perspective.

[@HairyJuan]

I absolutely agree and I would say it's actually my favorite part in the entire series. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that it wasn't even that much of a nightmare for me because I had no problem replaying it over again, the only part that really annoyed me somewhat was the sniper part. Along with the story, just the whole atmosphere the game sets up with the music and environment I find amazing. It took me around 6 or 7 retries to beat Saito in that final fight, but with that badass Rebellions theme playing I enjoyed every second of it.

[@HairyJuan]

To add-on to the story part, the whole character arc of Hamazaki across Yakuza 3 and this game is just soooo perfectly done. A lot villain redemption arcs feel cliche in a sense where the villain just magically turns good, they really skip over the part emphazing how most of these bad guys only act this way because of loneliness, a lack of love and care in their lives, but in this case the game makes you really feel what's going on inside Hamazaki's head in such a beautifully simple way. He loses everything and wants revenge on Kiryu, so he pretends to be friendly to Kiryu and Kiryu trusts him despite warnings from others, only for Hamazaki to brutally stab him. Kiryu gives him a speech about redemption and Hamazaki even mocks it, but later you can tell Kiryu still put a tiny something in his head. Then in Yakuza 4 he again plots to betray and use the protagonist (Saejima) to escape from prison, and like Kiryu, Saejima puts his trust in Hamazaki despite his malintentions. With Hamazaki now gaining everything with Saejima breaking him out of prison, as opposed to in Yakuza 3 him losing everything from Kiryu foiling his plans and sending him to prison; just the simple act of Saejima calling him his Kyoudai made him break down thus beginning his redemption of his past ways, he decides to do something selfless for the first time ever and holds off the guards just to make sure Saejima could fully escape. Looking back you can really see that all Hamazaki wanted was a friend, someone who trusts you and shows kindness and care. He simply was a lonely man that never had anyone like that in his life, so he had no reason to show kindness, selflessness and trust to others when he received none. Near the end of the game, his arc finishes off in an amazingly poetic fashion where he sacrifices himself for Kiryu, the man that took everything from him, sent him to prison by putting unwarranted trust in him which resulted in Kiryu receiving that knife in the stomach, which began Hamazaki's whole character arc in the first place. The Loki TV series which came out recently also has a similar character arc that I was extremely impressed with which focuses on narcissism in particular. What bothers me often is that a lot of people don't seem to realize that deep down, narcissists are actually incredibly insecure and unsatisfied with themselves and act self-important, mean, etc, to cope for those deeply hidden feelings. The Loki series does an incredible job of illustrating this by having the narcissistic Loki fall in love with an alternative universe female version of himself to signify his gaining of self-love which results in the changing of his narcissistic and selfish ways.

[@ultronzero4156]

I really hate saito when he grab me i keep tap x button but it did not work and he hit me i think saito grab me like 3 or 5 times and plus i got snipe 5 times i think

[@yenice3652]

Master Rogue13 yeah you always lose a shit ton of health when he grabs you idk why

[@shoelaces]

I would rather pull my own teeth out with pliers then do this ever again

[@morkgin2459]

Well with upgraded, this is a breeze

[@Thememejima]

17:00 UUUUUUHHHHHHHH

[@umpteenthreason9627]

Oh god, that felt good, a playthrough where someone actually knows what they're doing with the beast that is Saejima, instead of playing like you were expecting he would be a mashfest like Akiyama. I swear, some of the people I've seen play act like it's the game's fault they barely read the memos OR how to do the skills they were buying

[@HairyJuan]

Surprisingly this part wasn't actually terribly hard for me because I just really liked Saejima's moveset. This is actually one of my favorite parts of the series, the whole atmosphere the game sets up with the story and music, especially later during the last Saito fight with Rebellions theme playing I just find amazing.

[@thirdanimator3347]

Try doing this on hard with no skills unlocked? No weapons, no healing items. Yeah, little image in your head when half of the guards use either grenades or katanas. Then Saito, you have to do a mashfest in the end if you don't want him to sidestep and break your back. I feel like a lot of the people here never played the game.. Cause of the fact that we read the memos. Why else do we buy the moves if we don't know what they're going to do? It's that the moves are weak if you don't have the proper upgrades for said skill, and chances are, you wasted all of those orbs on a skill like knockback or a speed combo. Then again, you have no idea what the gameplay is like, if you're considering it easy, which it isn't. I have played Yakuza for a long while now, going from 0-4 on hard mode. All of the Yakuza games (Besides Jingu) are very easy, just not this part, or Munakata. Now, on to a different term, you're saying a mashfest is not just using the basic combos, thats what a mashfest is.. Spamming the basic moveset, that's the only real way to do this prison escape without a guard or two immediately reeling their fists back for a fisting artist session with you.

[@umpteenthreason9627]

@@thirdanimator3347 I get it, it is a notoriously hard part, I remember struggling against it myself. But what i'm complaining about are some really bad gameplays were they just... clearly are not reading the mechanic of what they bought, or at least dont understand things beyond passive. They never once used a charged attack beyond the tutorial, even though, at least for me, doing those properly was pretty vital in this part, and most infuriating, kept spamming the tackle move once just using the basic rush combo didnt seem to work like it would with Akiyama. And then complaining that this session takes too long, i mean, of course its taking long, they kept using nothing but a low damage move that enemies can just block or dodge... It's one thing to complain about a difficult part, but its another entirely to complain while ignoring instructions and insisting on mistakes instead of improving your approach, like I've seen. So it's very satisfying to see it being played properly in a video like this.

[@maxmoore5857]

the first 5 guards took me down to 1 hit even with the toughness Z they gave me. now i’m constantly dying to the next three taht you have to fight.

[@w4kk022]

How the hell did he just beat this guy's ass that easily- this man dodges every attack I use

[@thirdanimator3347]

Simple, he used the power of the gods.

[@nuclearprotocol]

You need to quickstep behind him and combo his back

[@Gastondesana]

On easy, this is the hardest fight I've seen in a videogame

[@serpentwolf5582]

Saejima just literally walks out of jail here XD

[@Lucols4]

Saito is the cheapest battle in whole game game

[@morkgin2459]

Good news when you fight him as kiryu

[@xxjer23xx91]

putting this shit on hard was a mistake 😢

[@jimmyhopkins5145]

Felt like yakuza 3 combat

[@BELIAR.]

Imagine Yakuza 5 Saejima (gameplay wise) doing this... Way too easy lmao 🤣

[@venomsnake5750]

5's Saejima has the tiger dragon drop so it could be really easy if you know when to hit

[@TangguhGalih]

Man this stage got me panicked a little bit

[@WiffleYK]

In the remaster the sniper is so fast its so bad

[@OrpingtonFeller]

0:34 Dunno why but I thought he was doing the 👌 sign

[@biz117]

hamazaki a real one fr fr

[@luca9ccc676]

0:48 and 1:09 Is that GTA III's walking/running sound effect? :O

[@kamikaze4172]

The walk maybe, the run no. That wrong was not nearly as bouncy as GTA 3's

[@azuresapphire220]

@@V_For_Vigilante its still great though

[@djmexicanodetx249]

I hate that sniper!!

[@GomerJ]

I've been trying to google the soundtrack for this section but all I can find is people bitching about this segment of gameplay lol. Anyone know the name of the track?

[@nippy9744]

Material Delights

[@magpatocx]

Saejima is a badass?!!!

[@KodiiViibes]

I need the song that plays just before the fight starts, with the violin.

[@thirdanimator3347]

It's the average fight theme..

[@krwnlfro]

This was easy but long

[@EricNguyenLe]

17:04 Xd

[@yungpipecleaner]

this battle is annoying

[@kaianderson7025]

THIS WHOLE PART SUCKS

[@Elegy7]

For noobs

[@Elegy7]

I died 6 times in this part but in the end, when you learn how the guards fight, it's easy