Yakuza Heat Actions We'll Never See Again

[@kinsmanne98]

this has quickly made me realise that ishin’s heat actions are decidedly the most brutal ones

[@PansexualDumbass9169]

And have probably actually killed people

[@JukaDominator]

No it's either 0 or 5

[@reyhando]

I think the correct word is the most "deadly"

[@JunGaGotoku]

Kenzan.

[@Alex169o]

​@@JunGaGotoku he didn't play kenzan

[@theultimatebusta]

I love the fact that almost all of these heat actions, if preformed in real life, would lead to permanent injury or otherwise death

[@hel1140]

3:06

[@PlumEXE]

​@@hel1140 britain

[@personname-fw9jq]

not sure if it appears in the video, but essence of snowman

[@mapes2572]

wtf straight up murder@@hel1140

[@Handles_arent_a_needed_feature]

A few of them would only leave you with a few broken bones if you got lucky

[@JackInTheBack3359]

Something else unlikely to return is the anti heat action qte’s in Ishin. Some of the bosses activate a qte you need to hit before you can do some of the easier heat actions on them, it hasn’t ever reappeared, and it’s a shame because it’s cool and makes the game slightly harder

[@Hezzadude12]

100% agree with this. I actually pointed this out while playing Ishin, and I thought it was a really nice touch because not only does it add a cool animation (with a nicely done transition) but as you say, it also ups the difficulty just a little bit more in a non-annoying way

[@tokisugar]

another thing I noticed is the different options for how to continue a heat action. usually you just get the one qte, but in ishin you can do different follow ups which is so cool

[@rulingdiesout]

Also makes the bosses feel more competent, like no they're not just gonna stand there and take that, they'll at least try to counter you. Especially when the person you're fighting is hyped up as being really strong or skilled it adds a lot

[@jordanium5593]

majima kicking 2 people in the nuts not returning instantly makes every new yakuza game worse

[@flamaniax5728]

1:14, for anyone wondering.

[@coomcharger6105]

Well if they ever decide to give a character breaker

[@Koichi-Kun]

That’s originally akiyama’s

[@Raincl0uds12]

And the one where he catches the sword with his teeth

[@lucasbeck1391]

He kicks the first guy in the leg

[@vicboss03]

loved shinada's heat actions. some of those are prob my favs just because you can tell he's just thinking about shit on the fly to me

[@watersheep5535]

Thats pretty accurate considering he's a very unexperienced compared to most protaginist. He doesnt fight all the time like the others.

[@raydiiradius]

@@watersheep5535 Yeah, and taking all that into consideration he probably has the potential to be the strongest of all of them if he's this creative and strong enough to do these with absolutely zero prior training and practice.

[@bestmanJr]

In all honesty I remember playing the kaito files and after seeing them reuse heat actions from the first yakuza on ps2 it feels like anything is on the table in terms of asset reuse. Not that I have a problem with that especially how little development time the devs are given to make the games, I do appreciate the resourcefulness on the devs part.

[@suscat6301]

Ahhh the good old first yakuza that released on 2005 for the ps1

[@bestmanJr]

@@suscat6301 god I just realised the mistake I made, yeah it's ps2 dumb of me

[@whenthe59]

Seeing kaito using the ultimate slap was a great callback for an heat action, they even added a kick on the end

[@tomatosauce459]

rgg in the studio making majimas heat actions: "yeah this goes hard asf never use it again"

[@pudim6248]

One that also never returned is the Kiryu tauting heat action, that one is really cool and could be only done on normal enemies

[@gameparty-yt7290]

i could have sworn you could use that on all enemies

[@pudim6248]

@@gameparty-yt7290 Just non bosses that i know

[@_insomniac_423]

I’ve always found it weird that Akiyama never got that heat action since he is shown to be a chainsmoker and has several upgrades built around taunting.

[@TheKazuma410P]

​@@_insomniac_423 I think they're talking about a different heat action, where as the enemy runs in, Kiryu jumps on their knee and does some frontflip kick, I think.

[@ju2tunknown]

I mean, Yagami has a variation of that Essence of Smoking hasn't been around since y5 though

[@mecrowave4270]

Majimas umbrella heat action in 0 makes me wish we used an umbrella in the slugger style instead of the bat like in the intro of Yakuza 1.

[@EvilMightyTrash]

That’d be interesting actually, though I feel like the bat is going the better option, but they could’ve given the umbrella a unique moveset or something

[@Handles_arent_a_needed_feature]

​@@EvilMightyTrashi wish more weapons had movesets as fleshed out as slugger

[@Tuschi17]

Love the Yakuza 5 bike ride heat action. Very fun.

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

I can see Yagami using some of Akiyama and Tanimura's moves. I'm conviced Snake Style is what they tried to do with Tanimura back in Y4.

[@lovely6196]

coming back to this video to say that the Majima neck snap animation is back in Like a Dragon 8 Gaiden: Pirates in Hawaii

[@Remoxe]

Seeing Majima's Y0 heat actions again makes me realize how fitting some of them would be for Yagami, hopefully if there is another Judgement game with Yagami they end up reusing some of them for his moveset because theres for sure some EX moves I never even bothered using.

[@JunGaGotoku]

Higashi maybe the knife ones

[@BuryTheLight-tds]

Well, the opposite did happen recently

[@RaquelLmao]

@@BuryTheLight-tds i dont recall majima reusing a yagami EX action

[@moonwalkerboy162]

Man do I appreciate that The heat actions were recorded in 4K and no hud! They have never looked that beautiful! To top it off the in-game music is even off.

[@cryguy0000]

I never really had a problem with reused heat actions or enemy movesets, if the heat actions look fine I don't mind seeing them again and there's only so many ways you can make someone punch even new movesets are bound to have some overlap

[@Hezzadude12]

Also this video has made me realise that the animators at RGG Studio are insane. Considering the dialogue cutscene animations we get (that have literally been reused since the PS2/3 era), it is crazy to see the dial turned all the way up to 11 when you press Triangle with some heat bars filled lmao

[@StefKa02]

True but at the same time, I really do wish they finally updated those dialogue animations lol It really clashes with the great graphics at this point

[@JackdotC]

​@@StefKa02nah the goofy old ass animations are a staple of the franchise. Every time I see that weird laugh animation or the wacky finger snap my heart is filled with joy

[@kuuroh3266]

rip about all of tanimura's heat actions 🙏

[@darthvaderbn]

The truth is... we will never see heat actions from kurohyou 1/2 😭😭😭

[@bovod6278]

theres a fair reason to why tanimura's and shinada's (hands throwing) HA were never reused, its because of that his heat actions are too unique compared to other characters

[@CLKiryu0331]

RGG Summit June 15 let’s go! Gaiden news! Hype!!!

[@MidnightPlus1]

Ah oh no I'm going to be sick that day and I won't be able to go into work :)

[@SnowiestAngeman]

SMH 15th of June ass dudes REAL men are in timezones where it’s the 16th

[@CLKiryu0331]

@@MidnightPlus1 Me too!

[@CLKiryu0331]

@@SnowiestAngeman ok you hyped though?

[@MidnightPlus1]

@@SnowiestAngeman haha me :DD

[@stormysoup1083]

Honestly I'm kind of glad Majima's heat actions haven't just been given to another character, the mix of unorthodox acrobatics and cruelty feels so distinctly Majima that giving it to another character would just kind of cheapen there impact for me, I've got no problem with asset re-use but it's important that it fits the character first, getting to re-use those assets does sound like a decent excuse to make Majima playable in another game tho c;

[@_insomniac_423]

Even if these heat actions won’t appear in future games, RGG could very easily reuse these animations for new skills/abilities/summons in LAD 8 and beyond.

[@pudim6248]

One of the few that makes sence is the one that Tanimura arresting the enemy, he's a cop, so he had hand cuffs at his arsenal

[@otakuoscar9207]

4:53 I'm going to miss this one in particular

[@beginninging]

That old dude is really something

[@gunnarsgames8669]

9:25 nice yakuza 5 gameplay

[@thepassivepasta4982]

it made me extremely happy when I realized a good chunk of yagami's ex actions are ripped straight from tanimura

[@ennie7287]

This video was really well done you definitely outdid yourself here 👏

[@MerolaC]

I love your channel. Thank you for existing!

[@SnowiestAngeman]

I love you. Thank YOU for existing

[@MerolaC]

@@SnowiestAngeman:

[@loudvoices101]

Imagine RGG does an poll for which heat action to come back and all the choices are tanimura’s heat actions as their way of saying he’s returning

[@initjum]

no dead souls footages because in rgg summit theyre going to announce dead souls kiwami☝️

[@papieverett]

Haven’t played Yakuza in a while and forgot how beautiful these were

[@harima9597]

Dunno man, if there's a Judgement 3 and they made the whole Yagami gang playable to top the last game, some of these heat action would really fits for them.

[@badtree]

I didn’t see the video yet but I know this gonna be good as hell

[@SnowiestAngeman]

I have seen the video 84 times and can confirm that it’s the greatest video of all time

[@Alex169o]

I hope essence of face granting comes back, that was a goated heat action

[@cokezero9254]

Kiryu's smoking taunt and normal taunt heat actions are really really satisfying, so sad that they never made a return after 5

[@suckassmork2972]

Instead we got dynamite cigs.

[@timberry3795]

Fabulous no doubt hard work on the video! Working my way through Yakuza 3, started 4 after hearing 3 wasn't worth it but went back, it's not as bad as foretold (block fest). I just have 4,5,6 left after 3 having played Like a Dragon, Judgement, Lost Judgement first but it kicked off my desire to start at Yakuza 0 and play them in order. I'm excited to crack some heads with all the heat actions I saw with characters I haven't even played with yet!

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Yeah 3’s not at all a bad game, just a little tedious to playthrough compared to others. Not just for blocking and whatever too but also for some sections where you have to just walk back and forth and do nothing until you can progress, but I mean a lot of games have that

[@timberry3795]

@@SnowiestAngeman 3 definitely stands alone in it's story style, pace and somehow even more wooden Kiryu movement than his character in Ishin. Jarring in fact and you can't sprint around, wth

[@TheKazuma410P]

6:16 Hello, "Hell's Floor full length except it does no damage".

[@edqwert6704]

I still don't understand why they removed that "riding bicycle heat action" from 5. Like it makes more sense to do it that way and both "ridiculous and realistic in rgg way"

[@SnowiestAngeman]

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just because of its length considering the OTHER bike heat action was like 2 seconds long but I dunno

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

do the people who designed hell's gauntlet really concern themselves with length

[@CallForGrandPappy]

Even with the reused heat actions and assets, I fucking love these games man

[@kt1787]

This is off topic, but your editing and the inclusion of Yakuza OSTs are amazing. I’d figure that if you made videos of other action games’ combat with Yakuza OSTs, people will flock to it. At least I would.

[@jayloner5950]

A good chunk of Kenzan stuff is just stuck there, with a few making it to 5 and 0. Anyways rip Saejima

[@sufyaanbulbulia4455]

Its a shame most of the majima heat actions from 0 havent returned since most of them go hard af and could maybe work for yagami too

[@Hi-Yanto]

here I thought that there'll be Y1 and Y2 PS2 footages for *some* older heat actions that never got to port in Y3 and after Y3

[@GunGun-cf3ss]

This editing is gonna make me act up, sick man

[@hanakoisbestgirl4752]

Two I'll miss are both majima heat actions. Him grabbing the sword with his teeth one and probably my favorite heat action "you're so pathetic". The pliers heat actions though? Those can leave and I don't think anyone would miss them

[@diorama6945]

My favorite one is the heat action with a cigarette, I miss it.

[@swaggymungdaal]

same i was surprised he didn't show it in this video cause it's in 3, 4, and 5 for kiryu

[@sometwithtoomuchfreetim3842]

That heat action at 1:02 was also used for swords in K1, I believe.

[@johannavori8698]

That heat action is now used in Gaiden lol

[@cramsalesman]

I like how essence of Dragon King had its kick repurposed for Yagami and the Poundmates summon.

[@valekstormhowl4999]

I really do hope they bring some of these back! Awesome video btw🥰🥰

[@Lishimian]

Please keep making these but with the dragon engine ones. Humor in action has definitely gone in another direction but curious this video is mostly of the 0-5 era

[@ShadicRothZz1998]

Inb4 Kiryu has a party of all former Yakuza protagonists and literally all of these return as their special moves in Like A Dragon 8.

[@SnowiestAngeman]

I’m gonna cry tears of joy if that happens and tears of anger too lol

[@isnotbaldeagle4580]

6:17 Pretty sure that’s yakuza 3’s hell’s gauntlet kiryu gets from a revelation

[@rebelz926]

3:06 Shinada was really brutal.

[@SnowiestAngeman]

What no baseball does to a man

[@ofaznadarxmkiii8476]

2:55 Ultraman ARC pulled this one in his Debut Fight

[@finalninju6021]

it does make them feel special, even is it's sad we'll never see funny sword biting majima again

[@Hezzadude12]

Crazy to think that Kiwami 2 and the subsequent Dragon Engine games brought back SO MANY heat actions... Yet, there are still a crapload that have not reappeared to date. Kiwami has heaps of them man. Same with Majima, and based Shinada. The umbrella heat action is reserved only for the GOAT, so it makes sense that it won't come back unless Shinada also comes back.

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Yeah Yakuza 6 having like 5 old heat actions and then Kiwami 2 just adding in like 700 old ones lmao

[@Alex169o]

​@@SnowiestAngeman thats why kiwami 2 is goated

[@Yakazoo]

Hi SnowiestAngeman

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Hi Whyonme

[@lazyrenki]

the most peaceful youtube conversation

[@gebhartattack]

But if I watch the video again I'll see all these heat actions again. Checkmate angeiests

[@SnowiestAngeman]

So what you’re saying is if I have the video endlessly loop, then I’ll never have to say goodbye to these heat actions? Checkmate indeed

[@thedarkderp2520]

I miss essence of smoking that was a great heat action

[@swaggymungdaal]

same, i was surprised he didn't show it in this video cause it's in 3, 4, and 5 for kiryu

[@Unwavering_Baka]

You're the inventor of new type of videos - YMV (Yakuza Music Videos)

[@zzk8616]

perfect video to watch before rgg summit

[@garryhlambert]

modders on their way to mod every single one of these heat actions back into the games

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Modders on their way to turn Kiwami 2 into Lost Judgment so that they don’t have to buy Lost Judgment because that pretty much happened when LJ came out lmao

[@OneTrueBelmont]

I will miss the 0 heat actions that just beat the money out of thugs as though they were all cash pinatas.

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Yeah I’m honestly still waiting for a game from any franchise to have a more satisfying impact effect than Yakuza 0 haha

[@XxDragon345]

that thumbnail is goated

[@Yellowballs321]

That Saejima hate is uncalled for

[@swaggymungdaal]

i love him as a character but i get the hate for his combat, it feels very limited compared to all other characters, he has the least heat actions and least amount of combos, sure he's strong, he's just the least fun to play as imo, even shinada is more interesting at least

[@Yellowballs321]

@@swaggymungdaal there’s actually a descent amount of stuff you can do with him, you just gotta experiment. I also watched some people no damage with him and learned how to cheese some bosses with him. But yeah I agree he needs more heat actions.

[@smauguh]

The super long heat action is actually a finisher in 3 originally :D

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Yeah but I didn’t have a recording of it with no music and no HUD so I just did it with Shinada. A lot of the heat actions in the video aren’t their first appearance like I said in the description

[@Taptun39]

7:40 Majima's umbrella heat action on Mr Shakedown

[@lyricsghost2547]

3:20 Daigo: HIRAMETA!

[@ossewa3939]

1:14 i still think this is the best heat action in the yakuza series

[@21b4tsumiki9]

I seriously love your videos Mr snow angriest man Wait dead souls had heat actions?

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

Of course, it still is a Yakuza...

[@21b4tsumiki9]

@@thatrandomcrit5823 my bad I forgor

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

@@21b4tsumiki9 💀

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

Aside from a couple of heat actions attributed to the wrong game, it's indeed a nice video! I can only imagine how long this took to make, so a couple of mistakes is alright Edit: the thumbnail is funny

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Read points 2 and 3 of the description thanks. I know a fair bit about these games

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

​@@SnowiestAngemanOh fuck, I read the description but thought it ended in the video links, my bad

[@lucianaryeh3001]

7:26 dat time sync tho

[@aidancorgi5608]

Sometimes i feel like these videos are just excuses to make cool edits

[@SnowiestAngeman]

You would be correct

[@peace-and-tranq]

this just reinforced my will to play every RGG game

[@generalchicken09]

Don't forget 90% of Kurohyou heat actions😥

[@bootlegspinjutsu9966]

That Akiyama sync was clean

[@destitute1331]

Haha it would be so funny if all the Kiryu ones came back in Gaiden

[@RandyButternips]

1:02 this ishin heat action with the sword I’ve seen before in Kiwami 2

[@adamharits2630]

every fist of the north star heat actions, bro. we may never see them again

[@MadDogSolo]

Coming back to this video to point out some of them are reused in Gaiden, that game also reuses some things that haven’t been reused before that point.

[@fossilgaming65]

theres almost no way some of these we wont see again

[@ProblematicSwag]

I do wish we had gotten the face scraping Heat Action in Gaiden

[@Dante_Sparda796]

RGG: "Our protagonists never kill" The protagonists: proceed to execute close to Mortal Kombat brutalities.

[@healthyfruitsnack8720]

Babe, wake up, SnowiestAngeman just uploaded

[@zamza989]

Weird comment but i always liked y4 Akiyama's battle cries. Been trying to see how i can use them for a tekken mod-- it would sound great in a fighting game lol

[@somethingimportant3101]

wait, i think i recognize that judgement heat action isn't that the one from 4 or 5 where you throw an enemy against a chainlink fence in the arena?

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Yes and in Judgment you can just do it by grabbing someone in Tiger style and bringing them to any wall

[@somethingimportant3101]

@@SnowiestAngeman thanks, i thought i was just seeing things lmao

[@darthvaderreviews6926]

I was really glad to see Gaiden bring back Essence of the Dragon God from 5, I think it also uses the basic katana slash heat action from Ishin?

[@yudi-weiss3827]

4:45 is where you got the thumbnail LMAO

[@SnowiestAngeman]

Yes indeed. That frame was one of the auto generated thumbnails and it was hilarious so I made it the actual thumbnail haha

[@spidermarcel]

One of my fav heat actions is essence of terror,shame we havent seen it yet on dragon engine,it probably would have fit well in lad gaiden since kiryu has those rocket shoes lol

[@s.kanessuperbiatv6464]

I feel like alot of the more acrobatic heat actions could be brought back pretty easily if we ever get a 3rd Judgment game

[@Mot-dh5sx]

yagami's grab ex action with tiger near a wall in judge eyes is first appearing in yakuza 3 which is pretty neat. You can activate it by grabbing an enemy from behind near a grated fence, e.g. the coliseum, and exists in yakuza 4 and yakuza 5 if I'm not mistaken. (I'm not sure where you can activate it in yakuza 4, but in yakuza 5 Kiryu's final long battle has one spot that I know of that can activate it) as an interesting aside: in yakuza 3, this specific heat action randomly will bug and deal double damage

[@JudgementBruno]

No love for Saejima, ok 😔

[@freshdarkdreams4810]

essence of armbarring may be long but its the best heat action in the series fr

[@viniciusgoncalves5948]

Some heat actions are restored on legend remix 0/K1/K2/Y6/Gaiden

[@yourtendermadness8267]

the one of the nunchucks heat action was reused in yakuza 3 it's the second one in the video :3

[@clu3hd607]

I just started playing kurohyou 1 and i noticed the knee strike that yagami uses is exactly the same animation used in that game

[@fallentrash1673]

Ermmm ackshually so many of these reappeared on the next game wirh the same character, SnowiestAngeman 🤓👆

[@gameparty-yt7290]

people be like wow look at this video that clearly took time and effort to produce and is really well made and edited how about i go complain in the comments

[@SnowiestAngeman]

The life of making videos about this game series lmao

[@SooengPoh]

“Kiryu doesn’t kill” proceeds to shoot a man 3 times in the stomach in yakuza ishin

[@nicunicucaesar2893]

Idek what’s its called but the one from 6 and Kiwami 2 where you go extreme heat and spam the rush combo till you go into a heat action of Kiryu just continuing to throw wide ass hooks and destroying the target 😂