A Montage of Yakuza Reusing Assets
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Welcome to another episode of "please don't show this to anyone from RGG Studio because I don't want to get blacklisted from anything that they might do thanks". In this episode, we make fun of them relentlessly. The thumbnail for this video is me crying that there is no bowling in LJ.
No cap they even reused SnowiestAngeman's member thingy that he's got now wait what's that you can become a member that's so insane
/ @snowiestangeman
When creating a sequel, many video game developers will use a lot of what they have already made as a basis to begin work on their next project. Some things get replaced or removed; but some things are kept exactly as they are. RGG Studio do uhhh... mostly the latter. This video shows off mostly things that were brought back randomly from old games (like Kiwami 2 and Kaito Files having that Baseball heat action from Yakuza 1) and the asset's first appearance or at least something close to that.
This video does not include every instance of reuse as that would be a 50 hour video, but instead trims A LOT of it down to a nice and tasty 8 minutes because I am not your average 'oh my god click on this 30 hour video to watch 3 seconds of something interesting' CZcamsr.
Timestamps:
"Intro" 0:00
Heat actions 0:20
Fighting styles 3:52
Miscellaneous reuse 5:33
Songs:
Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files - (just look up Hasty Spirit because it doesn't have an official name)
Ace Combat 7 - Magic Spear 1
Tekken 6 - Dist Thins Out
Not the Remake of Final Fantasy VII - Nor is it Collapsed Expressway - Hry
This video was far more difficult to make than I had anticipated. I never really do this, but I kindly ask you to share this video with, like... your favourite high school English teacher or your local 7/11 clerk or whatever. Thank you :)
Yeah but you forgot that Jo Amon uses Kiryu's style and so does Sotaro Komaki
Quick question: Are you an Ace Combat fan?
@@yash3576 I watched my brother play Ace Combat 6 ages ago and recently beat Ace Combat 7. Very much enjoyed it and the soundtracks for all the games are amazing
DUDE, how could you miss the most reused heat action ever - the baseball bat one. It's the exact same in most Yakuza games I've played (I am completely sure about Kiwami, Kiwami 2, Y3, Y4, Y0, Y6) - the character hits the opponent in the legs, then does the batter pose, winds up a bit and hits the opponent straight in the noggin.
Awesome editing dude! Really blew my socks off.
How could Ichiban imagine all those crazy fantasy stuff, yet not once did he imagine a comically large traffic cone. Truly a tragedy
Judgement stole a cone from like a dragon, and then deleted both.
I mean, when one of your staple landmarks is a weapon commonly used to hospitalize people for 40 years, you’ve got to do something about it.
When I first started playing the Yakuza games, I thought it was a glitch or developer oversight, then I saw those huge cones in real life footage of Tokyo and realised they're an actual thing in Japan.
Other games:
-w-we reused the textures for trees and the vine swinging animation
-noooo game ruined!
RGG games:
-guys we made a new game with assets from 2005
-that's rad
lol exactly
Game Freak should take RGG as an example on how to properly reuse stuff lol
From software games too and they're rad ..
Probably the bigger offender of Reusing Assets is Ubisoft. Such as the case with Far Cry & Assassin’s Creed.
Deep Rock Galactic also has reused assets as far as the eye can see and yet no one has batted an eyelid thus far.
I’m not even mad about 90% of Kaitos move being reused. As a character Kaito feels like a massive call back to 1988 Kiryu, and I love him for it
it shows how nice a dragon engine yakuza 0 would be.
Kiryu if guys kept coming on him
@@AliTaimurXV Wish that were me...
i feel like if you took yagami and kaito and then fused them, the end result would be pretty close to kiryu.
Kaito is like Kiryu but without the refined element that Kiryu has.
if there’s one thing Kaito can do that Kiryu can’t, it’s getting the girl
@@Wayra_ feel like a lot of the draw of 0’s combat would be gone if they just redid it like the dragon games. Everything feels so light and you definitely survive on button mashing much more. Wouldn’t say 0 is particularly hard anyways, but at least there was more of a level of deliberation there
I love how RGG Studios has reused the same animation for catching someone in a chase battle for 13 years.
The Kaito Files finally has a new one and it plays once lmao
Nah dude, you're forgetting about the enemy reinforcement animation that has been the same since around Yakuza 5 and onward
That bit with the character select for reused movesets was great with the announcer voice just being character names screamed
Yeah this Tekken character select was super cool, I was a big fan of that
Glad you like that bit because I was rather proud of it :)
TESS OH OH
announcer voices in fighting games were always great comedy. lots of dumb inside jokes from the goofy announcers
7:46-8:09, They were on their way to mourn the death of the Large Traffic Cone, of course they weren't in the mood to fight.
R.I.P Cone (2005-2020). You'll still be in our hearts forever as one of the best hiding spots for Majima.
wdym theres a giant cone behind my house
@@vynicle2284 Does Majima live under that cone behind your house?
@@nugget7thtojoclanchairman525 dude hasn't replied yet, probably sliced to death by Majima
Don't check it unless you're capable enough to defend against a knife attack
Maybe Majime left Kamurocho with it
Honestly, I care less about the fact that they reuse most of their assets, and more for the fact that they can make assets from 2005 look super good.
Also, that Tesso character select screen AI voice gag made me spit out my water lmao
Well I couldn't think of any instance where a character screamed Tesso's name so I just did it myself lol. But yeah there were a few more from the PS2 games that I didn't include but genuinely it's hard to tell that they are animations from many years ago in the later games. Pretty sick how they do that
@@SnowiestAngeman Well, it wasn't a scream, but I'm pretty sure there's a line before the second Tesso fight where Yagami says, "Oi, Tesso!"
I honestly care more about the assets they DON'T reuse. Kamurocho Hills being just a whole lost block in the game, after Y5 have it fully modelled, Kamurocho underground stores and parking, Kamurocho buildings you could go up, Kamurocho shortcuts from Judgment, etc. Also, Sotenbori and Hiroshima, at least, should be in every game after Y6, just for the sake of "why not?" I don't even care if we didn't have nothing to do there besides beat people up(that's the fun part) and eating at the restaurants, just like it is in Y7.
@@filipe7851 agreed
How much less?
Even though the animations are reused, I must say that the sound design and particle effects are so cool in newer games, ESPECIALLY Lost Judgment. Even the camera work too. That heat action from Yakuza 1 that somehow made its way back into the Kaito Files looked amazing with the lighting, particles, camera work and insanely hard hitting sounds!
Some sounds are great in the DE, but I do miss the OG crunchy bass from Kiryu's uppercut (which I believe only lasted up to Kiwami 1)
The bat heat action from Y1 was actually reused in K2, so they probably took it from that game when making Kaito files.
@@speeddemon144p That's still quite a ballsy move of them
I adore RGG's asset reuse (saying that entirely unironically, it's fantastic) and your editing style ties all of this together wonderfully.
Thank you Hazza (x3)
I Don't see a problem in that tbh, all the games are similar, i don't think they need to make new animations, fighting styles and heat actions for each game
If it ain't broke why replace it?
@@21centbeing fighting styles for the enemies? ok, yeah reuse it, cool, but no new heat actions? Maaan, that's one of the coolest parts of a new Yakuza game, the new heat actions for basic stuff, like Heat Action for grabbed enemy or Heat Action on prone enemy. Shame they usually reuse those
@@gamingmaster6377 i mean you're right, they should make some new heat actions, but at the same time why shouldn't they reuse old ones? it's not like that prevents them to make new ones too
4:39 Loved when Kei Ibuchi screamed MAJIMA.
And the same VA's voice can be heard in the teaser for LAD 8
dio
Man the section covering Mine’s reused style should have been like 10 minutes
They put in a lot of effort for his style in Yakuza 3 and someone must've said "Damn. Real shame that this will only be for one boss in one game" and some lead person clearly took that personally
@@SnowiestAngeman I mean yeah aside from Kuwana he’s my favorite boss in terms of used moveset, it absolutely deserves more use than one game (maybe keep it to coliseums tho lol)
I feel like Mine's fighting style reminding me of Spikeout in some way, with how the animation looking similar.
@@M0rinkashii think it's from an old sega fighting game or something idk
Majima went to Sotenbori and took the comically large traffic cones with him
I'm shocked that you didn't talk about Kuze's pipe moveset, i can't comprehend how much I saw that moveset in games after 0.
Yeah I'm pretty sure there's even a guy in The Kaito Files that has that one but oh well
@@SnowiestAngeman bloodstained bludgeoner is his name
@@SnowiestAngeman The RK guy in the abandoned building fight also has it
Can't believe how you forgot that like several bosses just straight use Majima's very same knife AI in Yakuza 3 smh
I didn't want to relive the nightmares if I'm being honest
Sonic fans freaking out that Frontiers uses textures from Forces vs Yakuza enjoyers recognizing that goon #324 has Mine's moveset 😳
Not Based SEGA fans vs Based SEGA fans
3:58 a Yakuza fighting game would just be the best, I wanna play as Shinada and Akiyama again :(
And uhh. Karaoke.
I always wanted a yakuza spinoff with urban reign style ..
Btw, the large cone is actually in Lost Judgment!!! In the dice & cube parkour challenge, the big cone is one of the objects that drop down and drain your stamina. Really is a shame that we can't use it as a weapon tho ):
So basically Tashiro-kun stole the cone. Damn. Can't have shit in Kamurocho
Amazing.
@@SnowiestAngeman ^ this guy is like a dragon
Shinada (some guy who can kinda fight barehanded) having Hell's Gauntlet (The ultimate finishing move of one of the most legendary and fearsome Yakuza members alive) as just a regular heat move he can do whenever is by far my favourite bit of asset reuse in Yakuza.
Also weirdly enough he has that heat action where he slams your head on the wall multiple times that Majima eventually gets in Y0. It was very bizarre starting from 0 and making my way to 5 and eventually seeing the origin of that move lol
Shinada the goat frfr
I love dealing 7,000 damage to an enemy as Shinada because they tripped over their shoelaces
@@C_Ranked Did the picking up and slamming into the wall start with Shinada? Cause I've only done that with him and beast Kiryu
Bro your editing style is fucking amazing, can’t even put into words about it.
Ay bruh those are the only words I need. Glad you like my stuff :)
Essence of Reusing Assets
for some reason, Yagami having so many heat actions from Akoyama just... makes sense to me
Akoyama?
@@kurozunakabuto9682 shun akoyama
@@dooruser9989 new yakuza 8 character
@@dooruser9989 Shin Akoyama
He might have seen him Fighting in the streets when he was young.
3:54 Great, now you have my hopes up for a potential tekken style yakuza game
Isn't kiryu a dlc in Tekken 7
@@kema3780 um no???
5:30 That flip dagger throw is ODDLY similar to Lao Gui's phase one flip throw.
I just checked it out, it is actually a different animation. Unless they mirrored it, changed the height, the ending & beginning which at that point is so much extra work it doesn't even matter.
And amon bomb throwing in kiwami
7:47
Me and the boys going to raid Kamurocho Hills again for another 10 minute long battle
seriously tho why doesn't RGG use this space for something other than long battles lmao
For the re-used fighting styles ya forgot:
- Hiroshi Hayashi using Baba's moveset in Kiwami
- the last fighter (scarred naked dude in red speedos) from Bed of Styx using Saejima's style in Zero
- Kashiwagi in Zero using Liquid Kazama's style from 3
- Raiden (bald Victory Road dude) using Mine's moveset
- Gary Buster Holmes from Kiwami using Aizawa's moveset (other offender is the Pleasure King from Zero)
- The older Akai brother from Kiwami literally just using Majima's Breaker style
Kanai's knife moveset, from what I've seen, is used by the Hannibal Lector-wannabe coliseum fighter from Zero (he's the first fighter Majima beats in a story chapter) AND is used by Shota, the host who tried blackmailing Date into repaying his daughter's debt.
There's probably a ton that I'm missing, but that's everything I can think off of the top of my head.
Actually the Hannibal lector guy uses Manabe’s moveset from yakuza 5 and dead puncher(last bed of Styx fighter) uses knuckles tamashiro from yakuza 3. The rest are all correct
Everybody and their brother using the pistol moveset Jingu has in Kiwami, Ibuchi included in Kiwami 2
Dual pistol moveset reused on Andre Richardson from Yakuza 3 to Kazuto Arase in Kiwami and Takeda in Ishin.
Pretty sure unarmed Richardson moveset is also used a fuckton of times.
Feels like yakuza fans are the only kinda fans that love when they reuse assets at least from what I seen and I feel the same
Cant fix what ain’t broke yknow
Except in Judgment where it gets tiring fighting the same movesets over and over again
As a completionist, it gets pretty tiring having to play the same minigames again for each game, especially the RNG-based ones (aka, almost all of them)
From software fans too ..
Idk if its just me, but its kinda fun fighting against an enemy and going "oh hey thats x moveset".
Tiger dropping "Kuze" in Judgment was fun
Same tho
Pipe Kuze or Kuze Kuze?
@@lionelk.y7233 yes
For real tho. Going back to 0 and fighting the pleasure king and realizing oh it's Gary Buster Holmes. I know how to wreck that now :p
RIP Large Traffic Cone 🙏
Another brutal beautiful video, thanks as always for your hard work!
Also, my personal favorite reuse is the Kiwami 1 Majima knife QTE in Shangri-La, I'm playing through the entire series and getting to see the same animation used in Y3 was very hype
1:35 you cant just add that in and not warn us about it
Kiryu when he finds the perfect specimen for managing his real estate business at the bowling alley.
I would watch the 30 hour version with every instance of reused content tho
Hey, great video as always! I’m slowly making my way through this series, just beat 4 for the first time yesterday, and watching these videos on how this series evolves (or how it sometimes doesn’t) is fascinating. Thanks for the effort you put into these, these vids look super smooth and crisp. Keep it up!
Even after their employees passed away they will still reused their work its almost poetic.
I have been waiting for a video that is literally just this for ages, and I honestly don’t think anyone could have done it better than you. Great video!
I actually like the PS2 heat actions because of how brutal and quick they are. Gets back into the action really fast.
Clicked on the video expecting a simple comparison after the other, found some absolutely superb editing and many cool facts. Really nice video!
I really like the video, specially the part with the character selection screen and the the tekken music
Lol, can't be bothered about Kanai's knife moveset but Shota in Yakuza Kiwami reuses that
The host dude doing huge tanklike stabs is just so funny
5:58 The giant cone finally manage to get a wife and exit from RGG studios, now he's son continues with his legacy...
Hide this from the Sonic fandom or they’ll go feral.
Another victim of the "steal your moveset no jutsu" is poor Joji.
He may no longer be with us, but he's still here through the thousands of mArTiAl ArTs MaStErS who yoinked his karate.
-seriously why does Media King know such a powerful style for no reason-
RGG studio is probably one of the best on reusing old assets on their games.
This is the video I needed, ffs thank you so much
I've started playing Yakuza 0 and I'm having the time of my life (Cabaret and Real estate are real time consuming, but I gotta get them legend styles). This video honestly made me realize just how many reused animations and combat styles the games managed to pull past me when watching heat action compilations. Some are of course easier to notice than others, still it's a great showcase of how RGG can make the old look fresh. Great video as always, can't wait for more from you
its always nice starting a new yakuza game and seeing the same heat actions, it feels like home
Back in the day, did any of you watch that one Assassin's Creed music video for a song called Beautiful Lies? It was fanmade, with all the cool transitions between the three different characters (watch it right now if you haven't!)? The heat action part of this video really reminded me of that but with the RGG boys instead, and now I wanna see a whole video dedicated to that sort of thing. Really great work there, not just on an editing level but also on doing the legwork for recording the footage. I think people tend to really underestimate the amount of work that goes into that stuff as well.
I love how much of Akiyama's kit gets reused by Yagami in Judgment.
Love u and thank u for your hard work doing this kind of videos
Love you too Spanish table person
@@SnowiestAngeman no problem but it actually says table desk, for no f reason tbh🤑
That segment with the character selection made me realize how much I really want a yakuza fighting game. Question, if there was ever a RGG fighting game, which characters would you main? Anyways, Great stuff my dude
I would main Ryan from Judgment/Lost Judgment
They should do something like, all kiryu's moves are changed to non-hitting versions if he fights a woman character, thatv would make it compatible.
100% a Kuze main, all the way
@@SnowiestAngeman honestly, that sounds pretty cool. For me, either Kuroiwa or Kiryu. I would love to see the mole’s/Ryan’s moveset in action in a fighting game
@@foxgirlq128 solid choice
Honestly the only one I mind is really recognizable Boss movesets being given to random jackoffs.
rip giant cones
rest peacefully in the big blue sky..
Shinada’s movset was also reused in Kiwami, being used on the “B-King” boss during Chapter 6 (but I doubt many ppl will remember it)
Also Shindo used Okada’s (Samurai Nishiki) sword-style.
P.S. Shota (also from Kiwami) uses Kanai’s knife fighting style
More fun fact time
Shirakaba uses Rush Shibusawa as a base
For some reason Fudo used Yagami Tigers block in Kaito Files
Shindo uses ishin hamazaki moveset
Lao Gui from 0 and Charon Martinez from Kiwami 1 also share a moveset... as do Patriarch Shimano and the Mr. Shakedown quartet.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and Mine's moveset is also used by G.J. from the Bed of Styx.
These are some legendary edits.
Funniest ones I can remember was that one hitman boss in Yakuza 3 that re-used Andre Richerson's moveset and a Street boss in Kaito Files reusing Akutsu's.
There was also shimano in kiwami with mr shakedown's moveset and Diabol in 0 using Saejima's
This is so well-edited, what the fuck? I've never been so HYPED about reused assets before! Yakuza is the sickest
Ryosuke horii is my dad he says that he's going to remove joon-gi han from y8 because you made this vid
Dam
the montage is just perfect, allows to learn more about the licence while laughing
Funny thing I’ve found out is that kaito is a rused model from a cutscene in yakuza 5
the one before he fights the 100 Tojo men
Yeah lmao but the actual lore reason behind that is because Kaito is a time traveller wizard man
@@SnowiestAngeman Also, didn't Yakuza 5 take place while Kaito was still in the Tojo Clan? Or am I wrong?
@@ethanedwards3357 Maybe Kaito was one of 100 Tojo members Kiryu fought, granted Kaito already had Kiryu's moveset when he met Mikiko.
@@ethanedwards3357 Probably he existed before or since Yakuza 5 but only debuted in judgment, so it's not canon
Omfg i just Saw It what the fuck i never realized It, that's so funny tho it's strange why would they make that model just for like two seconds of screentime
honestly, most of the heat action animations they recycled are pure fire, i'm always happy to see them again!
so kaito really is kiryu's replacement
The HACT from Yakuza 2 at 3:12 is also used by Mr. Shakedown when he grabs you and you don't escape him (its really easy to miss though because the game is lenient with his grab for some funny reason)
The music syncing up with the kicks is so fucking baller.
Shimano: You know, I'm something of a Mr. Shakedown myself.
Nice job on the editing dude, my favorite part was the tekken segment
1:33 Feel like there's lot of people who missed out this important bit.
Ikr why is no one talking about that it was so funny 😂
I have noticed times where I would see a heat action from an older game show up when I'm playing a newer one, it's quite fun to see them still even if you've used it a million times previously in another. I don't mind RGG reusing heat moves/fighting styles from older games since personally I barely notice similar fighting styles and it's always a treat seeing a returning heat move. As always, thank you and I really enjoy your videos and can't wait to see what you cook up next. Also, I really like that little detail where you made the Y7 logo transparent to show the skill's name. I love little details like those when I notice them. Thanks again.
Thank you for noticing that little thing with the 7 because I legit always wonder if anyone would ever bother to notice stuff like that hahaha
Yeah, I really liked that. By the way a little addendum, I have to replay Y7 since my save data corrupted due to an unfortunately timed power outage last night. And actually, the huge traffic cones do exist in Y7, however as far as I know only in the very beginning when you chase down Ushio. So, between that and 18 years later something happened to the cones, or that RGG is using an older version of Kamurocho during that timeframe before Ichiban's arrest. But I like to think Kiryu destroyed all the huge traffic cones.
Ok yeah, the cones are there throughout chapter 1, but sadly Ichiban will only kick the cones towards enemies and not pick it up to use as an actual weapon. I'm heartbroken.
I played 0 first so I was surprised when I played 3 and learned that Kiryu's taunt came ALL THE WAY from there
Also I'm surprised you didn't cover the funny reused substory offices
every time I see that one big open space with the stage up front I go "hey it's that one sex cult place" (only because I played 0 first)
it's been popping up a lot in 5 because of Haruka
unrelated but this is some high level editing, made this video so much more satisfying
Not unrelated at all haha. Thank you
The front grab heat move of Majima's in 0, is the same one of Shinada's at the end if his wall splat QTE segment
You just made me realize how much a yakuza fighting game would kick ass
The character select screen bit is hilarious, thank you
4:27 "Kanai moveset is overused"
Tamashiro joined the chat
Glad the Akiyama/Yagami ones are here. Those are the ones I immediately noticed when I first saw Akiyama's gameplay
And then there's Ishioda's counter which reminds me of one of Yagami's EX Actions so bad
Yakuza 3's Coliseum uses Richardson & Mine's moveset so many times it's insane. Also honorable mention to Joji Kazama who's moves get used very often by enemies in future games.
The one of the most reused assets that hasn't been mentioned in the video NOR has it been mentioned by ANYONE in the comment section, is that one idle animation where a character holds their stomach while panting whenever it's meant to be shown they are hurt or exhausted in some way. I think it's been first made for the original PS2 Yakuza game and has been reused in basically every RGG game ever since.
Random people using Kuze and Shibusawa's movesets make sense. Not because they'd appear from kickboxing that Kuze's always talking about, but I'd like to think they taught some of their subordinates how to fight and passed it down
The grab counter heat action has been around since Yakuza 3, it's over a decade old lmao
Straight in like every game too haha
Video: look at this reused animations
Me: oh shit I didnt know those HE exist
My man's went hogwild with the editing! For once the subscribed to not subscribed ratio is completely valid
I actually love seeing my favorite attacks in other LAD games. It's nice to see.
How is it that when other games palette swap enemies I just roll my eyes, but when RGG palette swaps fighting styles and animations, I don't mind that much?
Honestly even though they reuse a lot, there's so much variety in the presentation of these games that I think that makes up for it all
@@SnowiestAngeman Plus I'm sure they don't expect people to shotgun their way through the series or meticulously record everything.
I think it’s because you’re rewarded for remembering styles. You know how to fight against them. In other games, it doesn’t matter too much.
Also, each style (even the copied ones) has a slight shift to make it special. Like how Amon’s throws are different than Kiryu’s.
@@elijahfyffe5176like in y5 Jo amon uses Kiryu’s fighting style but if he hits you in dragon spirit he starts air juggling you like Akiyama
I’m still waiting for the Kaito Files dynamic intro, qte and action sequence music sync
most efficient devs in the industry. giving new meaning to the phrase “using the whole animal.” my goats fr
shockin how they reuse assets from a PS2 game and still made it look good
Shota from Kiwami uses Kanai's knife moveset
That's the main weakness of this series.
I noticed one with Kiryu's superman punch heat move, it's re-used in Yuya's QTE if you miss it.
Yagami and Akiyama got those 100kg single-leg knee raises mastered to perfection.
1:47 that music sync was lit.
They missed the chance to make the giant cone a boss fight in LAD, they could have done something comically large with it.
of course they would, the heat animations are still sick as hell
Actually splendid montage. I'm bluffed
Thank you Jesus Christ himself
Bless you, son.
I would like to add the following
- The Deadly Tiger Extract (Judgment) is a reuse of 0's and Kiwami's Kiryu when he has brass knuckles equipped and hit circle. There could also be more games that use this animation as well.
*{I could be wrong in exactly where the origins of this move came from, but it's the most memories to me}*
this made me want more yakuza heat action montages
Sodachi in Infinite Wealth: "Please... update my resolution. I've been crunching since Yakuza 4" 😢
Comically Large Traffic Cone has always been in my top 3 favorite characters within the Yakuza universe
It's nothing major but I've always loved the little fist pump NPCs do when you help them out in substories.
I came for the ripping into, stayed for 8 minutes of glorious animation.
I think the biggest asset reusual to me was the Fukuoka highway being used in the chase sequences for both 0 and K1
im pretty sure 1:05 is from yakuza 2 for PS2, and I think the bowling ball one is from PS2 too
Yeah I'm pretty sure you're right but some of these ones I just used clips that were easier to record or that I already had tbh haha. Like the one where you bash their heads in with a stick or a similar weapon is from Yakuza 1 but I used footage from Yakuza 2 lol