Yakuza's First Revolution

[@SnowiestAngeman]

This is apparently my 100th Yakuza video in my "Yakuza Videos I Made" playlist. Time to celebrate by beating the Shogi CPUs without using any cheats (it is an impossible task)

[@fabianpacukiewicz]

It's not cheating if the other side is.

[@stevedimitrov]

Keep up the very sexy content snowiestangryman 😍

[@errordude889]

why would you favourite your own comment, loser

[@sexybrathuhnmitsose]

@YakuzaSeriesGenerationOfficial it wont because of child courtisans

[@aussieseal9979]

​@YakuzaSeriesGenerationOfficialin American???

[@blinxman4956]

Fun Fact - Kenzan was only developed in 10 months, on a console that was difficult to develop for it's design and impressive for an early PS3 game and the first in HD.

[@x-ray_channel2226]

And somehow, developers after Kenzan bitch about how difficult it is to develop for ps3

[@joshuabrien2970]

And then they made 3 in 8 months which is wild 4 and dead souls where probably similar then that changed for a little bit with 5 then right back to it

[@somethingthatisntcringe757]

@@x-ray_channel2226because it was???????

[@x-ray_channel2226]

@@somethingthatisntcringe757 yet some people just did development fine

[@somethingthatisntcringe757]

@@x-ray_channel2226 Because those people were able to wrap their heads around the insanely complicated architecture or worked closely with Sony to get teaching for it. The ps3 for the average developer was a nightmare.

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

This game's got such a mid 2000s time capsule vibe. Feels like those days when I'd marathon entire anime seasons as a young teen.

[@iskraiskra_9007]

ah kenzan, the origin of my samurai obsession. no matter how janky it was it's still so close to my heart due to the fact it was deciphering the plot and item names that gave me a boost in my never-ending japanese language study

[@iskraiskra_9007]

also miyakiryu musashi hot as hell, i'd love to see him in glorious kiwami hd

[@yasahana4447]

Do they block as much as in Yakuza 3?

[@marleonka.]

I love Kenzan so much. I even got a physical copy of it not too long ago and Im so happy about it. Its honestly one of the most unique experiences in the series and I wish it got a remaster and a localization.

[@webb6133]

How much did you end up spending on it? I love this setting in particular, having it in a Yakuza game would be too cool but I eventually gave up hope on getting a copy lol.

[@marleonka.]

@@webb6133 The one I got was about $25 and if was very good condition for second hand. My friend found it for me on a video game flea market

[@joshuabrien2970]

​@@webb6133 about 40 but ive seen it being around 30

[@marleonka.]

@@webb6133 I got it for around $25, it wasn't too expensive

[@SalesmanWave]

​@@webb6133 Just emulate it.

[@goldenenero9976]

Fun fact: Did you Know that soujia boy did in fact buy this game when he went to Japan. Just search up soujia boy goes to Japan and you can see him hold the game when he is showcasing the games he bought.

[@Idk-wg9gl]

Ty for making this video. As one of the 3 people who actually played this game, I greatly appreciate you making this video.

[@pseudochel]

PS2 Kiryu having girl’s pockets is so true 😭 give that man a purse at least

[@KeanuRhys01]

As someone who recently beat Like A Dragon Ishin, I really dig the look of the atmosphere and areas in this game.Was not interested in a remake, but now I am

[@sufyaanbulbulia4455]

3:22 damn that transition was pretty clean

[@vladislavgritsenko3636]

I love this game so much. Cant even explain why exactly. It has a beautiful atmosphere; simple,but very engaging story.Its simplicity has its own charm.(for me at least) The cutscenes still hold up. I want a remake,on UE5 or upgraded Dragon Engine so badly,but I doubt it will ever happen

[@Name_man]

I think UE5 would work. I want the combat in all it’s outdated glory.

[@FlameOfUdun96]

As someone who has actually beaten the game, I did enjoy the story. It’s not the best, but as a history buff it appealed to me in a similar way that Ishin did I also love how you learn all your abilities through engaging with the side content, it made it so much more rewarding than a skill tree

[@thericordochannel6640]

I bought it 2 months ago for 10€ and I really liked it. Egomaniac's guide was a great help (bless that man)

[@Hezzadude12]

Great video, it’s interesting to learn a bit more about this game that has more or less been forgotten, outside the die hard fan community of RGG’s games. It’d be cool to see a remake, but I don’t think we will and I don’t blame the studio for it either. It’s totally fair. Shout out the sick SOP Gilgamesh theme though!

[@toxicrush]

This game is amazing. I finished it about a year ago and still remember it fondly. The progression is very satisfying (it actually feels like your learning skills lol) as well as the gameplay, and the open world was gorgeous as well. The story was pretty okay, but the actual long battles SLAP.

[@morado1999]

Oh, I had the red tint issue as well, it’s actually very easy to fix Go into custom config and instead of changing the default resolution, keep it 1280x720 and instead use the resolution scaling below it to scale it to 1080p, that fixed it for me

[@nisnast]

That's actually the correct way to change resolution for all games

[@tomasgill935]

I just started playing Kenzan and with the help of Khhsubs' translations and some guides and aside from some of the bad touch elements the story has, I've been enjoying it and writing notes on the story. Great video as always.

[@Nosfera22]

The usage of Stranger of Paradise music is amazingly based

[@Thegunnerinyourhouse]

Ok good, another video by the goat

[@Akira_Nishikiyama_reaction]

Kenzan and dead soul are the most underrate Yakuza game. Both have amazing story

[@HenriqueHCA14]

That's one of the most bold statements i've ever seen

[@Akira_Nishikiyama_reaction]

@@HenriqueHCA14 lol, I don't have any better thing to say

[@cleversmart0303]

@@HenriqueHCA14 The stories ARE really good though. And the games are incredibly underestimated, though Dead Souls has some janky controls and FPS on PS3.

[@HenriqueHCA14]

@@cleversmart0303 Dead Souls is like the Star Wars Kinect of the Yakuza franchise. If you get pass the bad controls and just mindset yourself to have fun, you can actually get enjoyment out of it. Kenzan though, I can't much agree since unlike Dead Souls they did another attempt, and Ishin is way superior

[@TheExFatal]

I really hope the translation patch is coming this or next year, this game looks really goddamn cool

[@yourguysheppy]

Apparently all the text has been ripped, so it's just a matter of it being translated. So at least they aren't doing a lazy machine translation. Honestly they should consider doing some kind of github or community based thing to speed up the translation work.

[@B0K0691]

The menus are translated at least

[@boutedecracton7572]

wake up honey, a new snowiestangeman video!

[@SiPakRubah]

If they can remake Ishin, what's stopping them from remaking Kenzan

[@revbladez5773]

Nothing but it will take more effort than Ishin did.

[@Jamal0602]

Interesting fact, its the first Yakuza game to have ragdoll.

[@Jamal0602]

@@協420 dude Kenzan had a ragdoll

[@Jamal0602]

@@協420 again there were. It was a mix between animations and ragdoll. I played this game back then when I wrote this comment and clearly remember that Kenzan has ragdoll physics.

[@Jamal0602]

@@協420 there is at least 1 video on KZbin that showcases it best Even in combat demonstration videos you can notice that they definitely had ragdoll

[@drool3616]

there is an English patch to this game coming soon, but the team have been really taking their time with it. Idk what reason that is because Kurohyou 1/2 have been translated fairly quickly but this one hasn't. Also, good video. Kenzan is in my top 3 for story and gameplay.

[@Noizers]

Oh, there's an English mod coming? I know there is one that they say is a temporary solution, is that the one you're referring to?

[@hesiolite]

Don't take my word for it but it seems making translation patches for psp is much easier than the ps3.

[@drool3616]

@@Noizers nah i'm talking about a full patch, also dont get your hopes up I've got a feeling it wont even come out.

[@authurstretchygreenthing8464]

Starting to think the translation team for Kurohyou should take the reins on Kenzan.

[@drool3616]

@@authurstretchygreenthing8464 Honestly yeah. Considering they were able to translate two entire games it really does make you think

[@929Finn]

Fucking Gus lmao Also thanks for the slightly more cohesive guide on emulating it, a lotta online sources only complained about the issue then never put an answer

[@keit99]

Just a note emulation is not piracy, downloading the "ROM" (aka the disk-image) is. (So if you know how to make a disk image for the game you want to emulate, you're not breaking any laws)

[@conradojavier7547]

Petition Ryu Ga Gotoku to Remaster Kenzan!

[@JaneryusMyWord]

Interesting Snowiestangeman, another great video 😉

[@MsSaskue360]

Surprise no one has ever use all the English patch work that was posted the full game on that KZbin channel and made it into an English patch everyone can use on both ps3 emulator and actual ps3

[@Kreidoodle]

Yakuza videos with Xenoblade music and now Uncle Ben references? I like this guy

[@djernogoldenvideo]

Oh so nice to see a well made video on Kenzan! Imported the game and started playing it a few weeks ago after finishing Ishin! on PS5. I gottta say I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying RGG Kenzan even though there's a massive language barrier.

[@Shillian88]

I think their next games after Infinite Wealth will be Judge Eyes 3 and probably Kenzan Kiwami, with the announce this year or early 2025.

[@DiabolicCrusher]

Here's hoping this gets a fanmade translation patch because remake's pretty unlikely at this point, at least not in the next few years.

[@shadowmamba95]

The funniest thing is that Kenzan has the perfect combat system for Ichiban, should he be in a brawler combat game, considering his wide array of weaponry and such from all of the classes.

[@Marshsticks]

Look kiryu chan, now i'm am a samurai

[@MadDogSolo]

About the camera, you could control it in Yakuza 2 but not 1, and they added that for 1 in the remaster, but Kenzan did improve the camera though.

[@wist2277]

nice

[@agwzh]

fun fact: 'baile con la mariposa' stands for "Dance with the butterfly.", pretty cool how there's a spanish song title in a japanese game.

[@bardo-samaexpoppy-sama4755]

Japanese people seems to like Spanish culture, most likely Argentinian culture. An example is "Esperandote" from Silent Hill for psx, it's a Tango ( I'm from Argentina by the way xd)

[@revbladez5773]

Ishin also has La Muerte Del Gobierno.

[@revbladez5773]

@@bardo-samaexpoppy-sama4755 I wonder why that might be though. They have very minimal historical connection with Spain.

[@Ticketman99]

@@revbladez5773 I'm not sure about minimal, when a Shogun kinda had concerns about it back then. That Shogun? Hidetada...who actually shows up in this game(he's the brother of Hideyasu, who died at the end of the game's very first long battle)..

[@revbladez5773]

@@Ticketman99 Japan was heavily involved with Portugal. Even when the King of Spain also became the King of Portugal, Japan remained largely a Portuguese territory as far as the European powers were concerned until the sakoku was implemented.

[@Aotearoas09]

Sadly my Kenzan-disc has a scratch and i'm stuck in chapter 8. :(

[@urbanizeddreams]

I never played Kenzan, but the gameplay looks better than Ishin for me. Probably because I loved Yakuza 3-5 and this just feels like them. Ishin remake I was let down with.

[@cruzmatt22]

thoughts on the new mwii season?

[@MageLufaine]

All 5 Kenzan fans (I'm included in that) really appreciate you touching upon the game that everyone, whether you're a western fan or not, just forgets exist. Anyway I guess it's time for me to make a video going over the entire story of Kenzan or something as it's pretty interesting (I much prefer it to Ishin's tbh)

[@cuppedcup]

SnowiestAngeman make a bad video challenge (beyond the realms of possibility)

[@robertbakker7485]

Nice, snowie

[@KanyeWasRightFr]

If Kenzan gets localized the world will explode

[@katarakta3]

7:10 disabling native float16 support in the advanced tab fixes it

[@syahizanmahadi8890]

I can't find that setting in the current version rpcs3 😢

[@Krow621]

Yokohama denied a Dead Soul remake but went on to mention to say a Kenzan remake is not out of the question. Although if they did remake he says it’ll be more a remaster than remake. Which basically what Yakuza Ishin’s remake did. Which might’ve work for Ishin because Yakuza 5 and Yakuza 0 still holds up but Kenzan is older Yakuza 3. I would’ve liked a full on remake like Kiwami 2 but with the combat improvements of Gaiden but here we are.

[@Safersephiroth777]

I didn't know this game exists. Hope it gets remade like Ishin...

[@andrewstencel]

To be honest, it had one of the best stories in the series, even though the gameplay was even worse than the first game for the ps2. I'm not fluent at japanese, but the whole journey got me gripped. What's complicated about actually completing the game, though, is the ammount of "hidden" content that was common in that era.

[@MikeJr9284]

Kenzan should get a Kiwami if RGG altered the plot a bit.

[@xtr.7662]

they will just like ishin kiwami a lot characters from current games 0, like a dragon will be changed from the original

[@sapphire3084]

@@xtr.7662 That will be a ton of characters if they decide to change them to fit in a lot. The cast of Kenzan isn't really that huge to begin with. I say if this will get the Kiwami treatment, just keep the current roster of characters.

[@seka1nix]

I honestly wish they'd just remaster Kenzan with good localization and tweaked controls but I might be alone in this. And it's very likely not gonna happen after we got Ishin Kiwami.

[@AyoMousy]

"That's not what happened"

[@garryhlambert]

i'm kenzing this ishin

[@jaysilva5854]

With Ishin remake Kenzan should come too. I'd love to play it in English sub.

[@momocblack]

They could reuse so much from Ishin to remake this one

[@wall883]

Score some fucking games RGG!!!!

[@authurstretchygreenthing8464]

I actually hope you manage to complete your playthrough of Kenzan so you can give a story analysis video of some sort, because honestly, the misinformation has to stop. Also it's probably a good enough story for a Yakuza game anyway.

[@JunGaGotoku]

Snow, let me explain the story over discord

[@blondeboi2132]

Kenzan dragon engine remake

[@Ticketman99]

2:47 spoilers, man Lol

[@ovensmuggler5207]

Soulja Boy has a copy of this one

[@bananabuns1369]

look, if dance with the butterfly (the epic spanish song) sounds bad, then the entirety of kenzan kiwami fucking sucks also i really like how the characters look, like yeah its kiryu and majima, but theyre different enough that i can genuinely believe theyre different people i know its probably because that they did a crap job, but its way better than 1:1 face usage, it was a semi problem to me in ishin, but its just me being a petty bastaed

[@PlankJunior]

The fact you admitted to never finishing the story to Kenzan! and just said "I did a lot of research" and don't really talk about it seems really disrespectful to it. On top of the fact you don't really go in-depth with the mechanics and just gloss over everything in the span of a couple minutes, and mostly just mention how "Yeah this game is only in Japanese and the only real way to play nowadays it is to emulate it unless you manage to get a ps3 copy." The game takes a good amount of inspiration from some of the books and stories of Musashi and a lot of it is really interesting, taking some inspirations and adding new things to it or just changing it you glossed over entirely. Changes like how Gion wasn't really all that important in the book, the waterfall minigame and story to that, or just how Musashi in real life was a really dirty fighter and would literally angle himself while dueling an enemy so the sun would get in their eyes to get an edge in battle. You say you do a ton of research but don't actually explain anything about the story, it just seems like you went through the first 4 chapters of this game for the video and stopped because it's not in English. Which that's fair, yeah, but if you're going to make a entire video about Kenzan! you should really put in more of an effort since this is one of the least talked about RGG games that exists and one of the harder ones to get into. This whole video just seems like you made a bunch of cliff notes while playing then just put it out so you can get done with talking about this game and acknowledged it exists.

[@HareHeadGFX]

I'm someone who has played kenzan, its easily my least favorite rgg game (having played all of them except either Ishins, Either Kurohyou, or FotNS). I didn't like navigating the overworld, I didn't like any of the move sets, nd the story was okay but weaker than almost everything else in the series IMO. I'd prefer they not make kiwami games in general, but if kenzan did get a kiwami game I seriously doubt it would be well recieved no matter what they did.

[@xtr.7662]

no dead souls was still worse and you cant fully understand the game when you dont understand japanese and only play the game and read the plot

[@HareHeadGFX]

@@xtr.7662 I can understand japanese though? Besides I enjoyed dead souls far more than I enjoyed Kenzan.

[@xtr.7662]

@@HareHeadGFX dead souls was ok but its still the worst one in the series for me

[@samuel.jpg.1080p]

@@HareHeadGFX in fairness, dead souls is the worst one. combat is very clunky, story is all over the place and the zombie theme is just pandering. It can be fun tho and it's only "bad" compared to the other RGG games. Kenzan is still better but I agree with you that if Kenzan gets a remake, it will probably receive little attention, same like Ishin, unless they really go all out to make it an almost completely new game with better story and comparable fluid gameplay like the Dragon Engine games

[@sinisis_sinisis]

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