YAKUZA: DEAD SOULS (Zero Punctuation)

[@Never_heart]

I was kind of hoping this game would be solely melee combat. like think about it, what's more badass? A guy with a shotgun blowing off zombie heads or someone kicking a zombie's teeth in as you switch into an uppercut decapitating him.

[@Plankensen]

I think guns more badass

[@JackClockerinos]

Constable Blimey Chips: undead rampage

[@shinobidaniel_12]

I would buy that

[@notloopers1110]

same

[@Penningtontj]

Brian Blessed should be an optional boss in every game, regardless of story, genre, platform, publisher, etc. Unfortunately the only game I can think of that he was in is Kingdom Hearts. Ah well.

[@alexlee4154]

But hes not an optional boss in kingdom hearts...

[@OhYouInternet]

There was Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior too, but we don't like to talk about that one...

[@Bruhx10]

@@OhYouInternet good news he plays gortrek in total Warhammer 2, so while not a boss he's a tough hero for whichever army gets hold of him

[@marshall4439]

“It’s be a cool mechanic is as you neared 100% completion Kazuma’s face gradually shifted into a warm smile.” I’m dying 😂

[@CaptainSeasick]

...if only you meant that literally.

[@pyrolee17]

Did you know? That the character of Majima was based off of the Joker from DC comics. They even had Mark Hamill voice him for the american English dub of Yakuza 1

[@JnEricsonx]

Another reason I loved the shit out of that first game.

[@FALG31]

Wait Mark Hamill voiced Majima in the dub? How the fuck did I not know that??

[@MrPerfect2000Z]

@@FALG31 Because Yakuza 1 was the only game dubbed in English? So you'd just used to Yakuza having Japanese voices

[@FALG31]

@@MrPerfect2000Z I know it was the only one dubbed in english, I was surprised by the fact that Mark Hamill voiced Majima and I didn't notice

[@MrPerfect2000Z]

@@FALG31 The scene at the Batting Cage is the most recognisable for his voice because he starts sounding like Joker. Every other scene he is kind of trying to use a different voice for Majima so understandable if you didn't realise.

[@531chaz]

I'm imagining Brian Blessed insulting a zombie to till it's head explodes.

[@Penningtontj]

531chaz Yes but that would run the risk of zombie Brian Blessed. Which would doom us all.

[@531chaz]

"Grah? GRAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" - Zombie Brian Blessed

[@Nomad-ts9nc]

531chaz that should be a game!

[@Schwallex]

I am imagining Queen Elisabeth II insulting you till you learn the difference between "it's" and "its".

[@Never_heart]

531chaz Why has no one done this yet?!

[@zenonella]

when I played the game I picked up a bicycle and hit a zombie with it and I started singing bicycle by queen

[@rockah12]

I want to ride my BIIICYCLE *smack* BIIIICYCLE *smack* BIIIIICYCLE

[@The-Game-Merchant]

Would anyone else play a game where you play as Brian Blessed shooting mouth lasers at zombies? I think it would make a good successor to Infamous.

[@themerchant5628]

Oi What the fuck

[@gigaganon]

since he skipped yakuza 5, hope he'll do a review of yakuza 0

[@TheCatVtuber]

Dang, are you some kind of fortune teller?

[@HOTD108_]

Why'd he skip 5?

[@Apemopo]

hehehe "yakoozer" "come for the sushi stay for the stomping" made me laugh pretty nicely

[@1pieceisdareasoniliv]

may the thumbnail for this never change

[@joemcbo6259]

"Real" zombies are actually cured by salt.

[@fictionarch]

One piece I take it

[@nuclearneo577]

Even if the game isn't very good at least it let Kiryu and Majima use guns in Project X Zone 2.

[@blondepotatoboi]

I personally liked Dead Souls. But then again, it was my first Yakuza game, so I didn't have anything to compare it to bar a tiny bit of gameplay footage at the time.

[@appabend]

They also did it with Sleeping Dogs, only with Vampires and Undeads instead...

[@princesshannah7]

"Brick-chewingly psychotic" is a phrase I've found myself adapting into my personal lexicon recently, whenever I start horrifically overthinking edits at my job.

[@thomas9435]

Not a huge Yak fan, but haven't all of them had guns. Just did 4 a couple months ago and not that i mained guns i know i had a couple of them. That 1 of each type of weapon trophy didn't exclude guns.

[@PSIHedgehogChris]

As someone who's played every Yakuza game released in the west aside from Dead Souls and Judgement, yes, there are guns in Yakuza games, but they're treated like every other weapon in that they have durability (or in guns' case, ammo) and once it runs out, you can't use it anymore (period if it's picked up off the ground, or until you get it repaired if it's one you have in your inventory), only in guns' case, the heavy attack button is used to shoot.

[@je2848]

I now use "why the scrambled eggs on fuck toast" in regular conversation, thank you Yahtzee you mad bastard.

[@mattrobertson112]

Huh, duel wielding custom pistols, a rather terrible looking vest over the rest of his clothes, fighting demonic creatures. Sound familiar anyone?

[@FALG31]

We need another game like the first Prototype where we can beat the shit out of zombies (with improved, bigger and a little bit more complex combat mechanics) and fly away Just Cause style.

[@pesokpesok]

+Fernando Langalú You just described Dying Light except that it also has parkour and dune buggies in the upcoming the Following DLC. Beat the main game 2-se and cant wait for the Following that hopefully comes as scheduled and not delayed like most AAA games love to do recently.

[@FALG31]

+Pesok I said "like Prototype", I know there are many games that allow you to beat the shit out of zombies with style and stuff, but they're not "like" Prototype

[@Tursam]

+Pesok "where we can beat the shit out of zombies and fly away Just Cause style." Where do you see the resemblance to Dying Light?

[@DarknessAmongUs]

+Fernando Langalú So... Prototype?

[@FALG31]

+DarkestScratch That's the thing, the only one that exists so far is Prototype, we need more than just that game

[@Akay4444444444444444]

Yakuza 5's being localized, in case somebody hasn't heard.

[@brandonhankins1755]

and Project Nexus 2 is coming out soon.

[@pyrolee17]

And my boner continues to intensify

[@blitzburn2871]

If i wanted to play a yakuza game, should i start with game one or can i start with any of them? Does the games have a ongoing story or do they all stand on their own?

[@pyrolee17]

BlitzBurn buddy the yakuza series is like an amc show. You can start any where because at the beginning of every game they tend to recap the previous games. But you should really start at the beginning....

[@pyrolee17]

Btw dead souls is non Canon

[@CrimsonNick171]

Dead Souls was what got me into the series. At first it was for killing zombies. But then I really got immersed into the story. Because of it, I gave the series a try and now I have all the games.

[@sebastianlacroix5871]

One way that I know I've aged is that when I saw this video at time of release, I didn't know that 'town bicycle' was an actual thing. I thought it was just a non-sequitur to break up the rule of threes. Oh, to be young again.

[@Gunman610]

Little bit of trivia: Doogie Horner, the comic who made it to the semi-finals on America's Got Talent, is a graphic designer when he's not doing comedy. And his best known work in that field is the cover art of 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'.

[@TheStranger52]

Who else saw the thumbnail and said, "Ohhh, this will be interesting"?

[@SuperArppis]

Hilariously, Resident Evil 4 uses the left analog stick for aiming as well... :p

[@andregon4366]

+SuperArppis I only played the best RE4 version (the Wii edition), so I can't relate.

[@SuperArppis]

Andre Gon Lucky you! :)

[@chukyuniqul]

SuperArppis aye, but then again it wasn't until later in the series when people started being able to move while aiming so you would kind of expect that if you are familiar with the series (in the old games you also had to aim with the movement controls, was more than a bit unpleasant as a transition from the silent Hill games for me.

[@vistea1]

@@andregon4366 You can Pat from Two Best Friends Play flipping his shit over this comment, to this day.

[@Biodeamon]

To be fair you can invert the controls to re-invert the aiming to the "proper" way (much like the human eye does ironically)

[@Jaceblue04]

Once you learn get the hang of the shooting controls, they shouldn't be a problem. Just because it's not what you're used to doesn't mean it's badly designed. Or you could just use melee weapons and fuck guns altogether.

[@MrPiccoloku]

"Why the scrambled eggs on fuck-toast..." THAT IS FUCKING WONDERFUL!!!

[@zackgilmore2504]

How little we knew, the oddness of Yakuza would only grow. A zombie spin off would be quaint now looking towards Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth or Gojima pirate spin off that's getting. 😅

[@TailsTheFox31]

0:17 - okay, seriously, is Yahtzee EVER gonna tell us who that guy is? He's in soooo many videos. Who is he?

[@BirthOfSmiles]

yakuzer

[@The2econd3vil3xes]

I really want a game to feature Brian Blessed shooting lasers out of his mouth.

[@comradedima9791]

we need a bicicle fencing spinoff

[@TheTropicthunder13]

Thanks man! Forgot about the Good ol' website!

[@Gamesta100]

The aiming controls are only hard for a bit but are easy to use once you get the hang of them.

[@Wanooknox]

Jesus Yahtzee you slay me. My god you're just damn funny. I don't even care anymore when it's a game I like that you're ripping on.

[@strife17O7]

"Why the Scrambled Eggs on F*ck-toast..." Another reason I've always loved these. So colo(u)rful.

[@SnakeOfBacon]

yes! absolutely! I love it, I'll have to come back to it soon and finish my Dead Souls Mode runthrough, feels like an entirely different game like that

[@Gecoma]

there are about 50 eps ahead on thier website

[@dudeamagiger]

He already did. It can be viewed on the Escapist website.

[@TheRedAzuki]

yea, youtube is just used to give ads to their actual website(Which is sickly popular after all, ZP gets 4 million hits per week and sometimes not even the most popular)

[@savric]

Is the song at the start an actual song, or is it just an intro? :D

[@leroyjenkins6117]

Scrambled eggs on fuck toast... fucking gold!!!!

[@ZPM7]

How could I not click on a thumbnail like that?

[@bootsscoot]

this is actually a very interesting yet fun game. a couple weeks ago i cleaned out my game inventory yet i decided to keep a couple of games i had suprisingly chosen this game as one of my keepers

[@woodhawk109]

Hopefully Yakuza 5 gets localized so Yahtzee can review that one as well. From what I've seen, there's now a pop idol dance battle minigame. Can't wait to hear his opinion on that. If he thinks the story and gameplay in these games are two cards that are driving in two different direction, Yakuza 5's story and gameplay might as well be a car and a spaceship at the opposite ends of the earth; one moving toward the moon and one toward the sun It's still a good game though.

[@lakelandbuzz2252]

Anyone here going to talk about that Masterpiece of a thumbnail?

[@hippytimefunbox]

With a thumbnail like this, who could resist watching?

[@MrItalianmustard]

Actually, in an episode of the original anime, they show some normal fish. They are then never heard of or seen again.

[@MyScorpion42]

THEY KEEP CALLING MEEE

[@tangosgetpwned9128]

Is it me, or did anyone else get a Japanese ad because of the title of the video?

[@RenaissanceHeavy]

He has, on the website.

[@matthewmelilo3680]

Brian blessed would be an amazing Warhammer 40k commissar

[@callummegginson554]

In war of the roses: kingmaker you can play as his voice

[@ir0nsquire]

HAHA thanks EU4 for allowing me to get that Oman joke XD

[@gordonbelowfranklin1607]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in the open. How refined of you.

[@BunchaDudes]

Nice review, as always.

[@liger1022]

rot wilers are nice depending on how you raise them

[@cybertramon0012]

An idea I had that would be hilarious for this game is if the zombie showed up, tried to create more zombies... and everyone and their grannies just powerbombed and smashed it with bicycles and park benches until it manages to split into several zombies out of sheer frustration. And then it's not so much saving the citizens from the zombie hordes as it is racing everyone else to take them out first.

[@AnaglyphicHacker]

Actually, Red Dead Revolver was designed to be a western horror shooter where zombies would be the main enemy. It devolved into a western and it's successor Red Dead Redemption followed off it. UnDead Nightmare was simply Rockstar getting to utilize their original idea.

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

The talky episodes of Game of Thrones are the best ones bruh

[@eliasliolis782]

Ok, I look down at the featured videos column and think to myself: " A rather obscure thumbnail that consists of five or six themed characters crowded around a tanned arse like they're about to dance around it naked and sacrifice to the flying spaghetti monster? Don't mind if I fucking do!!!

[@PyramidHACK]

0:31 Omg! I can't believe I never realized that!

[@nicapp984]

Why didn't they just have them fight zombies in melee then?

[@salzergon]

It's a full song composed for Zero Punctuation, just google Zero Punctuation full theme and you'll be bound to find it.

[@ryancarter2959]

I chose this out of well over 500 ZP videos strictly for the thumbnail

[@Willie_Pete_Was_Here]

I’ve encountered aiming with the left stick in other Japanese games. Maybe it’s a typical Japanese developer thing?

[@Jay_Rainstorm]

I'm going to be that guy that points out the 10mm smg from Fallout 3 used as Yahtzee's gun in the credits.

[@mickobee]

Why is this video only in 240p?

[@pikkisful]

Yahtzee should review homefront

[@TyuErt]

It's arguably pretty good.

[@duelgundam]

"there's literally nothing they won't try to sprinkle zombies on to appeal to a broader palette they did it with Red Dead Redemption, they did it with Call of duty, they did it with resident e-oh wait." haha,lol i liked that line

[@MurderousLlama]

Well, I'm not into horror games. But making ammo scarce and enemies tougher really add to the tension of the game since you are always worrying about ammo. The only one I can think of is Metro 2033 on Hardcore Ranger, or whatever it was called

[@SongaruGaming]

Eh, I wouldn't say games are a waste of time or else going out and having fun would also be a waste of time because essentially what you're doing is having fun. You're entertaining yourself. Albeit non-active (In the case of most good games) entertainment its still fun to be transported to a far off land with the ability to beat the shit out of pretty much anything you come across.

[@CM421]

Gordon! nice to see ya buddy!

[@squidyy2k]

2:14 hey so haha, that “Japanese attitude” apparently spread to the us sometime between 2012 and 2019 because holy shit, life is pain.

[@treemanakoc4882]

what is the name of the begging song?

[@LinTekKim]

"Scrambled eggs on fuck toast" Fucking Awesome

[@tinyman1144]

0:23 Oman, I love conquering that country! It has such an annoying name that it's satisfying to remove it from a map Along with Ottoman, Abbasid, France, and Francia

[@ValkyrieBane]

Game of Thrones and X-Files references in the same episode... Christmas has come early :D

[@venaretro5444]

Yahztee knows his Honeynut.

[@SageofTalos]

And it's an inevitable conclusion when making survival horror games. Once you get around to understanding what the enemy is (over the expanse of a series or in one game), they are typically no longer terrifying. Resident Evil is the best example: we know what makes zombies, and have strong characters who have experience in dealing with them. Only thing to do now is lock and load and kick ass.

[@therealdirtydan908]

the piss comment in the beginning was amazing because its me

[@chriskoloski32]

Didn't the resident evil games have you aim with the left stick while holding the aim button

[@haltopen12]

and the car is being driven by chewbacca after drinking a bottle of shampoo and roofies, and the car is spaceship is being driven by the dukes of hazard after a lobotomy. Still a fun game though

[@CplYakob]

Now we know that Yahtzee doesn't invert the camera.

[@taillessboo9599]

Weird how this was the game that got me into the Yakuza series.

[@cfortson1354]

I dunno....I always thought it was sort of a tomato tamato thing, you know?

[@Jaceblue04]

So, is it really that bad, or is Yahtzee exaggerating again?

[@Jimmy2e_]

I think that there's a bit of a difference between when he's taking the piss and when he genuinely doesn't like a game. Like, Kane and Lynch 2 (an extreme example) vs Brink.

[@Jaceblue04]

MCFrenchTheLlama That wasn't what I asked.

[@Greener221]

Exxagerating. He liked Yakuza 4, and the gist was that he liked this, too. His only problem exclusive to this one was the gun mechanics

[@hawkeyegough9090]

he always exaggerates the bad things

[@killertoadstools]

Sorry bout jumpin on the bandwagon a little late, but yeah, he is exaggerating a bit. The two only real downsides are that the story is a little too short to be called it's own game and a bit "Okay, that just happened!", and the gun controls are a bit whiffy. Apart from that, it is pretty epic. I mean, you not only get to play as recurring badasses Akiyama and Kiryu, but like Ben said, you get to play as Goro Majima, who has appeared as a boss and key character in each Yakuza game, and you also play as the main antagonist of Yakuza 2, Ryuji Goda, who happens to have a Final Fantasy 7 Barrett styled gun arm.

[@willbond0]

The same thing can be applied to Silent Hill, just replace Capcom with Konami. Both were originally adventure games, but for some reason turned into action shooters.

[@crossbones116]

There needs to be a game where you can play as Brian Blessed.

[@HerryLaff]

There needs to be a game where you play as Vaas Montenegro from Far Cry 3.

[@adambaker2232]

its a singing game, the more you sound like Brian Blessed, the more points and you NEED to make normal words sound epic

[@dedmnwlkn5796]

a better yakuza zombie game would either add bladed weapons and heavier gore or VERY. GOOD. GUN CADA.

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

They should add pirates in the next installment.

[@Joocebakz]

actually the term doesn't stress the U as an oo sound. It's more of a "kuh" than a "koo".

[@willbond0]

True, I do

[@eleanorfudge7288]

Does anyone else have a hard time distinguishing Yahtzee's zombie-sunken faces from just a green face making a really non-committal frown? Like they're trying to choose between a bunch of unappealing gas station hot-food items (that "unappealing" is probably redundant).

[@ubergo]

0:45-0:50 - And now they're doin' it with "Injustice" via "Blackest Night skin pack.