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DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



About the game:

Yakuza, or Ryu ga Gotoku (Like a Dragon) is a series of sandbox beat 'em up games by Sega. The series started with the original Ryu ga Gotoku in 2005, and that PS2 game was then localized (and dubbed into English, with 3000% more swearing) and released outside Japan as Yakuza in 2006. The series is known for its gangster melodrama, plethora of sidequests and activities in the open world, and manly men having fist fights. While all of that stuff is already present in the original game it's not quite as packed with content or as over-the-top as the later entries in the series. Still, this is an engaging story and well worth experiencing, even though the original PS2 release hasn't aged particularly well. The gameplay generally alternates between charmingly janky but satisfying and "JESUS CHRIST WHY THE gently caress ARE YOU PUNCHING THE AIR AND NOT HITTING THIS MAN IN FRONT OF YOU YOU MORON :argh:"

The main protagonist of the Yakuza series is Kazuma Kiryu aka the "Dragon of Dojima", who at the start of the first game is a young yakuza lieutenant on the cusp of starting his own family in the Tojo Clan... at least until he goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. When Kiryu is released on parole and returns to the Tokyo red-light district of Kamurocho (a fictionalized version of Kabukicho) ten years later, he's dragged right back into the politics of the criminal underworld as the Tojo Clan searches for a stolen 10 billion yen. Oh, and Kiryu's best friend is now a ruthless villain, and the woman Kiryu loves has been missing since he went to prison. That is probably something we should look into at some point.

About the LP:

If you watched my Grand Theft Auto IV LP a couple of years ago, expect a similar style here - fairly informative but laid-back solo commentary (with the occasional co-commentator showing up), no talking over cutscenes unless otherwise noted, no 100% completion but showing off all the interesting stuff I can manage. This time I'm even playing a game I don't actively hate, so maybe I won't sound completely dead inside (more so than usual, that is :finland:) throughout the second half of the LP! Well, I make no promises for the parts with all those annoying boxer and kickboxer enemies who dodge constantly, those fights were painful to watch while editing.

Boring tech stuff only I care about:

I'm playing my copy of Yakuza on a PAL PS2 with component cables, upscaled to 1080p using a Micomsoft Framemeister. The end result doesn't match the Japan-only PS3/Wii U HD remaster since the resolution is simply upscaled from 480i and deinterlaced, but this is still pretty much the best this game can look on original PS2 hardware. Well okay, my component cables are cheap and a bit shoddy so the quality is slightly lower than you'd get on the official cables, but that's it. The PAL version of Yakuza also has a few subtle differences to the North American release, but they're mainly interface-related and nothing that affects the actual game content. It also supports 60Hz mode, so I (and you) get the full 30 fps experience rather than 25 fps PAL bullshit. All in all, I set out to create the best-looking Yakuza 1 LP you're going to see - certainly on original PS2 hardware - and I think I managed that especially once I got the brightness and contrast settings nailed down and figured out how anamorphic widescreen actually works.

Hey, this looks familiar!

There have been a couple of VLPs of the original Yakuza over the years and ChaosArgate is currently doing the PS4 remake, Yakuza Kiwami. (I asked ChaosArgate if he was okay with me LPing the original at the same time, and not only did I get the go-ahead but also got him on board as an occasional guest commentator) That said, more Yakuza content is always a good thing, and as I was recording footage from the original game for a retrospective article I figured I might as well do an LP.

Since this wasn't originally planned as an LP, I spent the first couple of recording sessions clicking through some of the unvoiced dialog super fast, but I eventually stopped doing that (you'll be able to see the exact point I decide this is an LP). In the meantime, I'll summarize any dialog I skip through, so you won't miss out on anything. The bonus coliseum battle videos contain music instead of commentary, which you may or may not consider an improvement. :v:

THE VIDEOS

Playlist with all episodes

Episode 01: Dragon Attack
Episode 02: Ten Years
Episode 03: Blood on the Dance Floor
Episode 04: Funeral of Fists (uncut commentary feat. ChaosArgate)
Episode 05: Bacchus
Episode 06: Somebody Put Something in My Drink
Episode 07: Mizuki
Episode 08: Improper Dancing
Episode 09: Haruka
Episode 10: Bar of War
Bonus 01: Ryu ga Gotoku HD Edition (PS3)
Episode 11: Brawl for All (uncut commentary feat. ChaosArgate)
Episode 12: Mad Dog at the Bat (uncut commentary feat. ChaosArgate)
Episode 13: Chapter 6 Substories, Part One
Episode 14: Chapter 6 Substories, Part Two
Bonus 02: Komaki's Training
Episode 15: Young Hearts
Coliseum Battles, Part One
Episode 16: A Stray Child
Episode 17: Dragon and Carp (slightly :nws:)
Episode 18: Take Your Daughter to Work Day
Episode 19: Chapter 7 Substories, Part One
Episode 20: Haruka's Trust (Chapter 7 Substories, Part Two)
Episode 21: Brothers of the Oath
Coliseum Battles, Part Two
Episode 22: Streets of Rage
Episode 23: Wife of a Yakuza
Episode 24: Tokyo Highway Battle (uncut commentary feat. ChaosArgate)
Episode 25: Turning Point
Episode 26: Kamurocho Hostess Bar Crawl
Episode 27: Chapter 11 Substories, Part One
Episode 28: Mad Dog of Shangri-La
Episode 29: Shibaura Wharf (uncut commentary feat. ChaosArgate)
Episode 30: The Fourth Chairman
Episode 31 (Story Finale): Sunflowers
Episode 32: Chapter 11 Substories, Part 2 (uncut commentary feat. ChaosArgate)
Coliseum Roundup + Jo Amon

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DMorbid fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Jun 8, 2019

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ChaosArgate
Oct 10, 2012

Why does everyone think I'm going to get in trouble?

Oh poo poo I didn't realize this was going up so soon! Then again you said you had like half the game recorded, so it makes sense. :v:

Oh my god I forgot how much loading this game has to do as you're walking around Kamurocho. I'm so glad the team's tech has gotten better by leaps and bounds since then.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

EDIT: Since I forgot to reserve the second post, I'll just use this one for character bios (ones I've written, not the in-game bios) and any other extra stuff.

CHARACTER BIOS:



Kazuma Kiryu

The Dragon of the Dojima Family is a stoic badass with a heart of gold, strong sense of right and wrong, and an unwavering sense of loyalty to those close to him - to the extent that he'd take the fall for a murder he did not commit and consequently go to prison for ten years. Kiryu's face-stomping abilities are unmatched, and he has no off switch for basically anything he does, which will become more apparent in the sequels. Voiced by Takaya Kuroda in Japanese and by Darryl Kurylo in the English dub. The dub also aged him down seven years because I guess someone at Sega thought nobody would want to play as a 37-year-old geezer in their badass gangster game.



Akira Nishiki (JP: Akira Nishikiyama)

Nishiki grew up with Kiryu in the Sunflower Orphanage, run by Shintaro Fuma. The two became sworn brothers and once they grew up, they joined the yakuza to emulate their foster father. While Kiryu and Nishiki have remained best friends and brothers, it is quite obvious that Nishiki is somewhat jealous of Kiryu and not entirely happy to always be living in his shadow, especially when Kiryu is about to start his own yakuza family at the beginning of the story. Nishiki also has a younger sister who is suffering from an unspecified illness that is apparently terminal, and he does his best to be there for her.

By 2005, however, Nishiki has changed. Now the patriarch of his own family, he is looking to earn success and power at any cost, and while we've only seen him briefly thus far it's obvious he's no longer treating Kiryu as a brother. Nishiki is voiced by Michael Rosenbaum in the dub.



Shintaro Fuma (JP: Shintaro Kazama)

The foster father of Kiryu and Nishiki, and the patriarch of the Fuma Family. Fuma still has Kiryu's back even after the latter is expelled from the clan, and seems to be one of the few people who know what's going on with the plot early on. He's also the recipient of the most obvious name change between the original and the dub, as Kazama was most likely deemed too similar to Kazuma (although they could've just called him Kiryu and avoided the whole issue). Fuma is voiced by Roger L. Jackson, one of the few voice actors in this game who can actually pronounce Japanese names correctly.



Futo Shimano (JP: Futoshi Shimano)

The imposing patriarch of the Shimano Family may look like Tor Johnson, but he is not a dumb brute by any means. In fact, Shimano is one of the most intelligent and ruthless yakuza in the Tojo Clan, with ambition that is every bit as sizable as his frame. Shimano is voiced by Michael Madsen in the dub, and while Madsen is a fine actor he's not exactly the best person to voice someone as consistently loud and boisterous as Shimano in my opinion.



Yumi Sawamura

Yumi is a childhood friend of Kiryu and Nishiki from the Sunflower Orphanage, working as a bar hostess and still close to the two yakuza in 1995. While Yumi's exact relationship with Kiryu isn't specified, the manual refers to her as "the woman [Kiryu] loves" and NPCs on the street talk about her having a yakuza for a boyfriend. Yumi goes missing after the incident that sends Kiryu into prison, and her whereabouts remain unknown ten years later. Her voice is provided by Eliza Dushku in the dub.



Goro Majima

A violent and deranged yakuza who runs the Majima Family, a subsidiary of the Shimano Family. Majima's unpredictability and hair-trigger temper have earned him the nickname "Mad Dog of Shimano", and he also seems to have some sort of a mancrush on Kiryu whom he calls "Kiryu-chan" (or Kazuma-chan in the dub). Majima is voiced by Mark Hamill in what is easily the standout performance of the English dub.



Haruka

While looking for leads, Kiryu encounters this mysterious 9-year-old girl who has come to Kamurocho looking for her mother. Haruka's mother is supposedly Yumi's younger sister that Yumi didn't know about, but at this point we don't know if this is actually true. We do know by now that the yakuza are after Haruka, as her pendant is "worth ten billion yen"... Haruka is voiced by VA veteran Debbie Derryberry in the dub and by Rie Kugimiya in Japanese.



Mako Date (JP: Makoto Date)

A former homicide detective who got moved/demoted to the Organized Crime Unit due to his reluctance to close the Dojima murder case ten years ago (having realized immediately that Kiryu wasn't the actual killer) and became estranged from his family as a result. Date is now investigating the hit on the Tojo Clan's chairman and helps Kiryu escape the funeral when the proceedings get a bit too intense. Kiryu decides to assist him in the investigation because he "owes him one" and also feels responsible for screwing up Date's life. Date's voice actor in the dub is Bill Farmer, better known for voicing Goofy since 1987. Gawrsh!



Reina

The owner and bartender (mama-san, as female bar proprietors are traditionally called in Japan) of Serena, the bar Kiryu and Nishiki used to frequent since the late 80s (I'll say she's aged remarkably well, looking younger here and in Yakuza Kiwami than she did in Yakuza 0) and where Yumi worked at prior to her disappearance. As an old friend, Reina still offers Kiryu her help and support, letting him use Serena as a hideout and keep Haruka safe there. Now, I could've sworn Reina's family name is mentioned at some point in Yakuza 0 or Kiwami, but couldn't find it anywhere so maybe I'm mistaken. Voiced by Rachael Leigh Cook.



Shinji Tanaka

Shinji used to be Kiryu's right-hand man in the Dojima Family, and is now a Nishiki family lieutenant. Shinji is actually Fuma's man on the inside, spying on Nishiki and relaying information back to Fuma as well as Kiryu. Not that anyone really cares, but he's voiced by Daniel Capellaro.



Kazuki & Yuya

Kazuki is the owner of Stardust, a host club on Tenkaichi Street. What's a host club, you ask? Well, you know how Japan has these hostess clubs where you can pay money to hang out with women? It's like that, but with guys instead of ladies. Anyway, Kazuki is an acquaintance of Fuma, who puts him in touch with Kiryu and tells him to help out Kiryu however he can. Yuya is Kazuki's friend and employee of Stardust, and while Kazuki's the one running the show you can't really mention one of these guys without the other. Their voice actors in the dub aren't credited, but in the Japanese version Kazuki and Yuya are voiced by Hiroshi Tsuchida and Kenta Miyake respectively.



Kage (JP: Hanaya [The Florist])

Kamurocho's legendary informant, who has set up shop in a secret underground red-light district because why the hell not. As you probably figured out by now, Kage (whose name was changed for the English version presumably because flowers aren't hardcore enough) deals in information and provides it to those who can afford it. He also runs a fighting ring where Kiryu can participate in a variety of tournaments for fun and profit. Kage is voiced by Howling Mad Murdock himself, Dwight Schultz.



Mizuki

Haruka's mother and apparently Yumi's younger sister, who runs a bar named Ares in the Millennium Tower. Mizuki's whereabouts are currently unknown.

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DMorbid fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jul 6, 2018

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
I will enjoy watching this LP. :D

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 02: Ten Years

ChaosArgate
Oct 10, 2012

Why does everyone think I'm going to get in trouble?

The prison fight's also substantially easier in Kiwami because it's a tutorial fight there to teach players about the new Kiwami attacks. :v:

For the people not keeping up with the Kiwami LP, Kiwami attacks are special heat actions you can do at certain points of a fight when an enemy starts concentrating, usually also regenerating health at absurd rates. Kiwami actions (and normal heat moves, for that matter!) interrupt and stop the regen right then and there, which is vital for keeping fights at manageable lengths.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

ChaosArgate posted:

The prison fight's also substantially easier in Kiwami because it's a tutorial fight there to teach players about the new Kiwami attacks. :v:

For the people not keeping up with the Kiwami LP, Kiwami attacks are special heat actions you can do at certain points of a fight when an enemy starts concentrating, usually also regenerating health at absurd rates. Kiwami actions (and normal heat moves, for that matter!) interrupt and stop the regen right then and there, which is vital for keeping fights at manageable lengths.
Yeah, somehow I completely forgot the prison fight was also the Kiwami move tutorial even though I just watched the video from the Kiwami LP the other day. :downs:

I'm really not a fan of the whole Kiwami attack mechanic, and especially the health regen kinda sucks. The boss fights in Yakuza tend to be huge slogs at times, and giving those bosses health regeneration abilities... nope, I don't like it. That being said, the difference between the Chapter 3 boss fight in this version and Yakuza Kiwami's take on it is kind of hilarious.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 03: Blood on the Dance Floor

Sorry about the hum you may occasionally hear in the background, I had my windows open because my apartment gets super hot in the summer and I was trying not to suffocate in here. I didn't expect the mic to pick up the noise that well, but it did and some of it still remains even though I obviously did the usual noise gate process. It shouldn't be hugely noticeable in the video itself, at least.

White Coke
May 29, 2015

Doc Morbid posted:

I had my windows open because my apartment gets super hot in the summer and I was trying not to suffocate in here.

That's probably hypothermia. That or Finns are even more resistant to the cold than popular stereotype has lead me to believe.

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
You were asking about Shimano's English voice in the latest video. It's Michael Madsen, who's famous for playing tough guys in a lot of gangster movies. Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarentino's Reservoir Dogs is probably his best known role. Click here for his full IMDB resume.

There's a lot of other great talent in the game too. Mark Hamill as Majima is probably the best character casting, but I was most impressed with Michael Rosenbaum as Nishiki personally.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

achtungnight posted:

You were asking about Shimano's English voice in the latest video. It's Michael Madsen, who's famous for playing tough guys in a lot of gangster movies. Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarentino's Reservoir Dogs is probably his best known role. Click here for his full IMDB resume.
I know the big man himself is voiced by Michael Madsen, I was wondering about the guy we fought at Stardust. He sounded really familiar.

White Coke posted:

That's probably hypothermia. That or Finns are even more resistant to the cold than popular stereotype has lead me to believe.
God, I wish the stereotype of this country being cold was actually true. Well, it generally is in the winter, but right now it's hotter in Finland than it is anywhere else in Europe. :gonk:

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Ah, ok, I misunderstood. Sorry. I couldn’t find anywhere where Kazuki and Yuya’s English voice actors were listed specifically. But the “additional voices cast” for the game includes veterans like Cam Clarke & Quinton Flynn, so it may have been them. It does sound similar.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

achtungnight posted:

Ah, ok, I misunderstood. Sorry. I couldn’t find anywhere where Kazuki and Yuya’s English voice actors were listed specifically.
Was talking about the Shimano family goon with the gun, not Kazuki or Yuya. :v: But yeah, Cam Clarke was my first guess.

White Coke
May 29, 2015

Doc Morbid posted:

God, I wish the stereotype of this country being cold was actually true. Well, it generally is in the winter, but right now it's hotter in Finland than it is anywhere else in Europe. :gonk:

God created Arrakis Finland to train the faithful.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 04: Funeral of Fists (Uncut Commentary)

I am joined by ChaosArgate as we visit the Tojo Clan HQ to pay our respects (actually to sneak in and meet with Fuma-san, but never mind) at the chairman's funeral, and duke it out with Patriarch Shimano (and his freakishly tiny head). Many men are punched, kicked and otherwise brutalized along the way, because that's how Kazuma Kiryu rolls. This is the uncut version where we talk over all the cutscenes, I'll be uploading the cut version later on if there's interest, but since only one of these videos has more than 20 views thus far I'm not sure that's worth the effort.

DMorbid fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jun 4, 2018

ChaosArgate
Oct 10, 2012

Why does everyone think I'm going to get in trouble?

gently caress this boss.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

ChaosArgate posted:

gently caress this boss.
They really couldn't balance the difficulty of this fight properly in either release of the game. I'd rather fight the PS2 version of the boss, but there should be some happy medium between this and whatever the hell that bullshit in Kiwami is.

Thanks again for coming on board for this video, by the way! Like I said after we finished recording, it's great to have someone to play off of and it just feels more natural than solo commentary. I was a bit nervous during recording because I hadn't done co-commentary before, but this was a positive experience and hopefully we get to do this again.

White Coke
May 29, 2015
This dub sounds like someone took a fan-sub and just turned it into a script.

ChaosArgate
Oct 10, 2012

Why does everyone think I'm going to get in trouble?

Doc Morbid posted:

They really couldn't balance the difficulty of this fight properly in either release of the game. I'd rather fight the PS2 version of the boss, but there should be some happy medium between this and whatever the hell that bullshit in Kiwami is.

Thanks again for coming on board for this video, by the way! Like I said after we finished recording, it's great to have someone to play off of and it just feels more natural than solo commentary. I was a bit nervous during recording because I hadn't done co-commentary before, but this was a positive experience and hopefully we get to do this again.

Yeah it was fun! Let me know if you want me back on board later down the line because now I'm interested in seeing how radically different Kiwami bosses are from their original counterparts.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

I mentioned how good the music in the Shimano fight was, but you didn't get to hear it that well because we were talking over it and the fight didn't last very long in the first place. So, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXSWl33FhQc

The Yakuza games have always had some badass fight music.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

The next three or so videos are taking me a bit more time to edit than the first four episodes, because Chapter 4 is where the game opens up and I spend three hours running around Kamurocho looking for sidequests and collectibles. I will post an update by the end of the weekend, though. EDIT: welp, other stuff came up so I had to change the weekend's schedule, will update as soon as I have time

I've also been playing Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan, one of the Yakuza spinoffs that were only released in Japan. I'm not sure why Sega thought we wouldn't want to play a cool samurai game where Kazuma Kiryu is Miyamoto Musashi, but I assume it had something to do with some of the more questionable Edo period elements that appear in the game (mainly involving the yuujo, who were the precursors to geisha). Or it was just Sega being Sega, who knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH7R2otAMSA

DMorbid fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jun 3, 2018

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 05: Bacchus

We escape the funeral with the help of a familiar face and team up with him, get our next story objective, and avoid going to that objective because we've got sidequests to do and keys to collect (the latter mostly off-screen). Also, I apparently forgot to adjust the brightness/contrast on the recording so it looks a bit more washed out than usual, but that shouldn't be a massive issue.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 06: Somebody Put Something in My Drink

In which several upstanding citizens of Kamurocho attempt to scam Kazuma Kiryu out of his hard-earned money, and get curbstomped for their efforts.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

I may have just bought a copy of the Japan-exclusive PS3 Yakuza 1 & 2 HD compilation on ebay. Yes, I'm most definitely a stupid idiot, but more importantly that means I can do some video comparisons and show off the HD remaster's improvements later on!

(Is anyone even watching this?)

Blue Link
Apr 22, 2014
I am, and it surprises me just how much of what I played through in Yakuza Kiwami was already there in the original.

SilverFire
Dec 31, 2012
Yes, I'm watching this. It's interesting to see how other people play the same game. This was the first Yakuza game I played. The order I played this series was 1->2->3->started 4->0->finished 4->Kiwami 1->Dead Souls->5->6.

animeluva1
Aug 9, 2003

Hopefully I'll have that
problem someday.
Yes, I am. I agree with SilverFire. Every LP of the Yakuza series prioritizes different side quests and minigames, with varying degrees of success. So yes, the main plot might be the same, but all the non-plot stuff people decide to do makes each LP different.

In summary: Watch all the Yakuza walkthroughs :getin:

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Watching, enjoying, will probably continue both long as the series goes on.

White Coke
May 29, 2015
I'm watching and I'm enjoying this LP. When paired with Chaos Argate's it's like watching the theatrical cut versus the remastered director's cut.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 07: Mizuki

Oh hey, it's the plot! For about five minutes at the end of the video, but still! We also screw up our chance for 100% completion, and find some secret establishments around town. There must be a thriving secret door industry in Kamurocho.

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
Ah man, you failed a substory! That doesn't just lock you out of 100%, I think you'll miss the secret boss now too, who requires all substories to be successful before he challenges you. Sorry. I think there are excellent walkthrus available on GameFAQs if you want to try again or have trouble in the future. Your choice how much to use them or repeat your past progress of course. The main story is entertaining enough without 100%. Good luck.

And the guys walking around with baseball bats and golf clubs are the power walkers with weapons I mentioned in the Kiwami thread. Their fight is IMO a bit more challenging in this version and it's very amusing to see them walking around armed intent on an obvious trap, then try to scam you. Glad we can teach them a lesson.

achtungnight fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 8, 2018

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

achtungnight posted:

Ah man, you failed a substory! That doesn't just lock you out of 100%, I think you'll miss the secret boss now too, who requires all substories to be successful before he challenges you. Sorry. I think there are excellent walkthrus available on GameFAQs if you want to try again or have trouble in the future. Your choice how much to use them or repeat your past progress of course. The main story is entertaining enough without the secret boss. Good luck.
Yeah, there's a walkthrough I'm using for the substories but I just didn't realize you could actually fail that particular one. I also fail another one a couple of episodes from now because I'm not paying attention, but aside from that I should be able to do most of the stuff. Maybe I'll 100% the PS3 HD edition when I get that :v:

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

Well then. I bought a Blue Yeti mic to replace my busted old Snowball ICE, and holy poo poo this audio quality is infinitely better. :staredog:

I mean, the Yeti cost over twice as much as the ICE so that's to be expected, but I didn't realize just how much of an improvement it would be. Seriously, I'm listening to the quick test recordings I did and my voice sounds... kinda good, actually. What kind of voodoo is this thing even made of?

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 08: Improper Dancing

Well, that happened. I wonder how much time that hitman spent practicing the dance routine, he's got some moves. Also, if I were Yuya, I'd be slightly more concerned about the shotgun.

edit: Sorry about the slight wonkiness with the brightness and contrast again, the first clip was from a different recording and I forgot to adjust the settings on that one.

DMorbid fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jun 11, 2018

achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
At least the strip club assassin wasn’t Majima!

We haven't seen the shotgun stripper boss encounter in the Kiwami thread yet (or it was cut, I'll let Chaos Argate confirm). Many good examples of how combat differs in the games in this video, especially involving weapons. I prefer not having to switch styles personally, but the updated gameplay has merits too.

achtungnight fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jun 11, 2018

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

achtungnight posted:

At least the strip club assassin wasn’t Majima!
Majima wouldn't stoop down to underhanded tactics such as a surprise attack with a shotgun. :colbert:

quote:

We haven't seen the shotgun stripper boss encounter in the Kiwami thread yet (or it was cut, I'll let Chaos Argate confirm).
The quest is in Kiwami as well, and I seem to remember the fight against the hitman being a bit less annoying in that game. You also earn a trophy named "That's a Man!" which I assume is an Austin Powers reference.

edit: Oh yeah, and Yakuza 0 and Kiwami have been confirmed for release on PC! :getin:

ChaosArgate
Oct 10, 2012

Why does everyone think I'm going to get in trouble?

I have that quest recorded but not edited yet so it’s gonna be a while before it shows up there. For reference, we recorded commentary for episode 25 the other night.

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

Speaking of recording, I just finished the game and now it's just a matter of editing all this footage. I'll try to get the next update out tomorrow, and I'll also start recording what may or may not be the LP I'll do after I finish this one... (I have ideas. Great and terrible ideas :getin:)

Now, there's a couple of things (mainly hostess club related stuff) I haven't recorded yet, but of course there's plenty of time to do that as well.

DMorbid fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jun 14, 2018

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY



Episode 09: Haruka

We meet one of the least annoying child characters in video gaming, although the English dub does its utmost to ruin her. More importantly, we get an adorable puppy! :shibe::neckbeard:

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achtungnight
Oct 5, 2014
I get my fun here. Enjoy!
That dog really is adorable, and Kiryuu’s catch and throw back of the rock is one of the most satisfying beat downs in the series imo.

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