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 You know this whole project started because I wanted to show Grace Yakuza 0 before we played Final Fantasy X-2 As usual, no spoilers since this game is brand new to both Grace and I  Episodes!Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 1 - Going To The Fukuoka Municipal Zoo And Botanical Garden
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this is the best yakuza game
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Oct 14, 2023 21:48
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Kiryu, why in the world of gently caress are you a cab driver in Fukuoka now despite the previous game ending with you going back to the Tojo? What happened 6 months ago. Also, why the double gently caress is Haruka an idol now? Also, Gion is the name of a famous shrine and festival in Kyoto. A monogram is kind of a logo made by combining letters, usually initials. In this case the monogrammed bag is a legally distinct Louis Vuitton bag, which has LV monograms all over it, and is indeed hideously expensive for Reasons.
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Oct 15, 2023 01:30
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Of course Kiryu knows how to drive a car. Remember when he took Nishiki's car and left him in the woods?
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Oct 15, 2023 02:52
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Kiryu is driving a taxi and Crazy Taxi is a Sega property. I'm just saying.
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Oct 15, 2023 09:08
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Danaru posted:before we played Final Fantasy X-2
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Oct 15, 2023 10:56
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 2 - A Baller Move I mean it's nice to have a boss that we don't immediately suspect we'll have to kill later for once
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Oct 15, 2023 18:49
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 3 - Probability I have so many questions
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Oct 16, 2023 18:39
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I like how you equipped both the encounter rate boosting items last episode and then immediately the next recording session were wondering why the encounter rate was so high. You were really close to hovering over the item descriptions for one of those items at the end of the video too.
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Oct 16, 2023 22:16
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gently caress me this lp is off to the races. i gotta buckle in, always was curious about 5 but never got around to playing it.
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Oct 16, 2023 22:59
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Why is Grace saying you guys will never go to Japan? You should! It's a fun place, very friendly, surprisingly cheap. (especially these days due to currency markets, but honestly it's never been super pricey) Live the dream of being disappointed that Don Quixote is sort of a Walmart but visually busier!
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Oct 17, 2023 01:18
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I'll never go to Japan because I'd rather not project the image of an idiot tourist who can't speak or understand the language one bit. Also, I have the bigger issue of no money.
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Oct 17, 2023 08:09
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Yeah it's mostly the money thing  Less "we'll never go" and more "we'll never get to go"New Episode!Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 4 - We Will Not Be Well Loved Everyone gets nervous when I can drive in a video game, couldn't tell you why
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Oct 17, 2023 17:17
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Now I'm sad we'll never get a Saboteur II. Imagine what that'd be like on something like the Dragon Engine? Going furniture tornado on nazis with the nun you just ran over? I feel we haven't fully grasped the Young Dashing Lad being Old Man Komaki's son yet. He's like early 20s, so that would mean someone saw Komaki in the late 80s and thought "I can't not let this man Tiger Drop my pussy". Just Winging It fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Oct 17, 2023 |
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Oct 17, 2023 17:25
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When I used to play GTA 4's online mode I was banned from being the driver in game modes as I'd never brake and drive at full speed all the time, so the car would roll over a lot.
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Oct 17, 2023 17:33
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funny enough, mizutaki basically means cooking in water. which is what it is, it's just hot pot with a very light broth. generally you'll get some dipping sauce to go with so it's not so plain. as for collagen chicken, you're on your own.
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Oct 17, 2023 23:58
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 5 - Cider Terrorism Despite the name, it's not actually my fault
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Oct 18, 2023 18:16
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Above all else, Kiryu is the fourth chairman of the Tojo Clan, he can't just melt into society and become a regular Joe, people are always gonna come looking and anyone around you will be pulled in.
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Oct 18, 2023 18:40
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 6 - Deja Vu Turns out the taxi missions are a lot easier when you remember what side of the road Japanese people drive on!
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Oct 19, 2023 21:44
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Just remember that Y0 is the sister game to 5 so a lot of things will feel familiar.
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Oct 19, 2023 21:48
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 7 - I Recognize That Truck I'm sure it's just a reused asset but I'm having Majima Everywhere flashbacks
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Oct 20, 2023 17:44
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The race missions is just life-size Pocket Racing and it wouldn't be the weirdest thing for the writers to have Majima show up with pink truck-chan at some point.
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 8 - Something Offall I'd dead rear end rather put a gun in my mouth than hang out with my coworkers after hours
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Oct 21, 2023 17:55
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I think the castle in the middle of town you were asking about is a bath house. That big ゆ banner is for hot water, which typically on a building means baths/onsen.
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Oct 21, 2023 20:50
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The lapel pin was a Tojo one yes. A stylized rendition of the second character of the name I think.
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 9 - Sorry Kaoru  Whoops!
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 10 - I Have A Gun Too You know this gun might not be the instafix I want it to be
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Oct 23, 2023 19:03
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Now you see why everyone hates Daigo, he's a weak as poo poo leader who surrounds himself with people, Majima aside, who think he's a useless failson.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:58
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Maybe Daigo was right back in Y2 about not wanting a leadership position and barely wanting poo poo to do with the Tojo in general.
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Oct 23, 2023 23:00
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We kinda strongarmed Daigo into the position Then strongarmed Majima into helping Daigo ...hm
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Oct 23, 2023 23:03
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Kiryu being Kiryu, smartest option would be to just get Daigo out of clan business, let Majima be himself, and forget everything else. Majima can take care of himself, Daigo probably isn't gonna have anybody making trouble with him after he leaves the picture entirely, and the clan can figure its own poo poo out or go down the tubes. The parade of crises never ends with the Tojo and one thing Kiryu isn't really good at is figuring out how to keep the stupid thing going after they're resolved without just ending up roped right into the next one when either the bandaid fails or it turns out to be the spur of the next crisis. But.. Kiryu being Kiryu, he couldn't ever do that since while he doesn't want to be a yakuza forever, the Tojo has been his home too long for him to be able to just let it tear itself apart and steadfastly turn away anybody new who showed up on his doorstep trying to get him reinvolved... Second smartest option for him would be to actually stick around the Tojo after a crisis is dealt with and train up a lot of people in his mindset, maybe bolster Daigo and actually help him convince people he's not just a failson. It'd be the smartest if not for prior games proving that Kiryu is bad at picking good horses to bet on; it'd probably just result in a new plot where a third of the people he trains are secretly power-hungry assholes or deluded, a third of the people he trains are undercover cops/Omi/etc., and the last third who are legit on Kiryu's wavelength get murdered by the other two thirds.
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Perhaps I'm wrong, but from the ending of Yakuza 4 I really got the impression that *this time* Kiryu was going to stick with the Tojo for once. Either I was wrong about that, or Something happened.
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I kinda respect the series for observing how ridiculous their own series of plots is, and how utterly fragile an organization the Tojo are to rely over and over again on on specific guy, who spends most of his time trying not to be involved at all, pulling their asses out of the fire. Watase is totally right that it's just Kiryu, Kiryu, Kiryu! Which on one hand is just the nature of a recurring protagonist, but yeah, if you've ever been in an organization where one person constantly fixes all the problems, and then that person retires for real... it's not a recipe for longevity.
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The Tojo Clan falling apart for real would likely have the undesirable effects of inter-family fighting over the scraps before someone like the Omi comes in and takes power. And the Omi are easily just as prone as the worst of the Tojo at getting up to some awful poo poo, if not more so. But an actually effective solution is beyond even Kiryu's reach, if it's attainable at all.
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The truth of the matter is that organized crime involves all sorts of nasty poo poo, from drugs, to prostitution, to human trafficking, to extortion, and more. A system that by its very nature draws in all sorts of assholes who don't mind the misery they inflict on others, or even revel in it. By that measure the ideal boss isn't someone like Kiryu, who's a decent, if not too bright person, or Daigo, who so far has had barely any characterization beyond being a reluctant failson, but someone like Shimano, the kind of ruthless monster that nobody dares betray.
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Oct 24, 2023 02:09
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Shimano and Kazuma both dying more or less kneecapped the Tojo from that point onwards, Shimano was a ruthless bastard but he could actually command respect from his followers and Kazuma was constantly playing 4D chess.
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Just Winging It posted:Perhaps I'm wrong, but from the ending of Yakuza 4 I really got the impression that *this time* Kiryu was going to stick with the Tojo for once. Either I was wrong about that, or Something happened. no that totally seemed to be the setup and then they just decided "lol no" it feels like???
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Oct 24, 2023 16:22
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Wild. I'll guess we'll see if the writers actually address it or if it's indeed just "lol no".
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New Episode! Let's Play Yakuza 5 Episode 11 - Where Did We Park? I love this loving game
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hell yeah, Chekhov's Daruma comes through
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