Playing Yakuza 2: Heating Up
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Today we're Playing Yakuza 2, after a bit of a rocky start with the first title Yakuza 2 is often considered one of the best stories in the series overall and a massive step up overall.
A year following the ten billion yen incident, the Tojo are on the brink of war with the Omi clan, with their coffers empty and most of their former leadership gone, it falls on Kiryu's shoulders to deliver a truce to Jin Goda. However the hotheaded Ryuji Goda will not let peace reign, and a mysterious foreign syndicate comes out of the shadows for revenge on the Tojo.
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INDEX
1. Yakuza 2 Intro 00:00
2. Story Intro 01:39
3. Recaps & Tutorials 03:57
4. Kamurocho: The Storied City 09:23
5. Kiryu & Daigo 10:42
6. Combat 11:40
7. HEAT 14:08
8. A Grand Time in Kansai 16:36
9. The Truce and Extended Stages 22:22
10. Carrying the Cut, No Markers and Runarounds 29:16
11. Story Break! Time for Side content 33:09
12. Side Missions 34:41
13. Friends and Few Foes 43:11
14. Kiryu’s Club Curation 44:30
15. Activities 49:38
16. Unlocks in Every Corner 52:37
17. The Omi & Yakuza Politics 55:50
18. Ryuji, Kiryu, and Honour 58:00
19. The Tojo & Continuity 01:00:23
20. Sayama and Contrasts 01:03:01
21. The Jingweon 01:08:24
22. Cops, Kage, and Interconnectedness 01:09:50
23. Killer Kawara & Family Drama 01:11:23
24. The Invasion 01:14:55
25. The Finale 01:21:11
26. Conclusion 01:31:01 - Hry
Kiryu going to a hostess club: ''i'm just here to relax and talk to someone''
Yakuza 2 NPCs going to a hostess club: ''i'm just here to say how ugly this carpet is''
"I peacocked your mom."
~Kazuma Kiryu
"They're both so stubborn, they could live in a house with no walls and the roof would stay up"
I'm stealing that line
Such a good line
"JINGWEON could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be JINGWEON anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE JINGWEON" he thought. Rouge of Love reverberated his entire car, making it pulsate even as the 949.52 yen sake circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of koreans after dark. "With a car, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.
My favorite rendition of that meme
I wish I knew its name.
@@diegordi1394
:^)
Kiryu wakes up to realize he's a Japanese, and now he( and everyone around him) gonna speak in Japanese from now on.
Till Yakuza 7 (and the Judgement series).
@@nicktoons125 I never played those with the English dubs, just felt wrong after 7 whole games of Japanese.
@@davetucker-dale3242 100% Understandable.
I’m trying to imagine Kiryu bringing back a whole sofa to Okinawa for the orphanage that he stole from Ryuji 😂
"Uncle Kaz, why did you bring that sofa with you?"
"Cuz fuck Ryuji! He owes me for all the shit he has done!"
@@AgentDanielCross "uh errr.... I mean ignore the bad words Uncle Kaz just said. Ryuji is a very bad man and this is how he is paying me back for being bad"
He is the only dragon and because of that he can claim the now dead other dragon's property
Just commenting as I see it, when I see the "Remember the events of last year? No." thing, I think of it in the sense of "No, I don't remember the events of last year." That interpretation just seems a lot funnier to me.
That's a hilarious interpretation.
"I got hit a lot in the head what were you expecting"
I still have the 150 page FAQ guide for this game. I remember printing it on my school's copy shop and someone freaked out of the amount of bullshit I was printing.
I wonder how many of those pages were the "legal notices plz don't copy without permission" or extremely dated unfunny jokes or the table of contents or the intro.
I did the same with a 100% guide for Persona 4. I figured the 100% would be as tough as Persona 3 and prepared accordingly
Welp... glad the Caberet Club management in Zero is just Dinner Dash on steroids and I love it.
It's a big improvement
It is a game by itself * - *
I want a mobile phone version of it that I can play at work or on the train lol it’s amazing
I’m gonna try dinner dash based on your comment
i do enjoy it, but they do need to get new carpets in the grande
I love how Sengoku looks like a weasel given human form.
Glad to see his design in the remake is faithful to the original
@@noriakikakyoin1423 it's also faithful in like a dragon Ishin
I haven't finished the video yet, but the thugs not picking fights with you indicates you've unlocked an "encounter boss". these are minibosses that show up once you've fufilled a quota of thugs beaten up. you have to find them, beat them, then you can continue doing random thug battles until you unlock the next one. I'll admit it's one of the worst side distractions in this game, there's little to no hints or explanations and the bosses that spawn are totally random and too hard to find. defeating every boss is even more of an obnoxious grind than the club minigames.
Ah, thank you for the explanation, I really didn't pick up on that at all.
Having replayed 2, I can say this isn't entirely true. The game has an exp cap per chapter where the limit makes encounters disappear when the criteria meet (like 12 bars of exp being the limit for chapter 1). The amount of upgrades you put into your also affects this. Basically, if you're "overleveled" or reach the exp cap, chances are you won't get encounters for the chapter.
Any time I see there are no encounters, I could not find a single encounter boss in either city. So in a way, the street bosses don't really affect encounter rates much. Either way, its a very weird detail.
@@blackwind677 so in conclusion it's entirely random and even worse than I thought it was
Kiwami 2 definitely improves this particular aspect.
pretty late but Ive just finished 2.
apparently on some chapters there just wont be random encounters, regardless of encounter bosses, cant remember which ones are affected though.
For real, once ive got to Chapter 6 or smth, the encounters outright stopped until just before ive got to the final chapter. The encounter boss from (or supposed to spawn in) Chapter 7 only spawned at that point as well.
It's honestly a dumb system but KINDA understandable since it can be easy to max out shit close to ending the game.
i noticed that majima gets an easier fight in each game, and it ties into the plot of him getting soft in y5
To be fair, 0 majima is fucking terrifying, kiwami hes primarily holding back the whole game and even in his final fight thats...definitely not his whole moveset. K2 seems more for the fuck of it, and he barely seems phased after the fight, lost or not. In 3, seems more like a formality than an actual fight, 4 i mean, do YOU wanna gut your sworn brother like a fish after suffering the days of guilt and sorrow as to their circumstances? I wouldnt be in much a fighting mood myself, plus saejima just kinda collapses so at least hes still a scrapper, and in 5, he was fucked up himself, not in good condition, and yet he had the energy to, yknow, summon shadow clones for some reason. Hes just built different. That, and it could be anybody, a street thug or a deity, you are the player, you WILL win. So no matter who you are playing as, your character comes out on top.
@@lordsickomode and then he goes balls out in 7
The “you’re Japanese!” joke on Kiryu waking up gets a laugh every time and I feel it’s under-appreciated
The Yakuza series is how you make a game that is both a weird niche masterpiece full of Japanese cultural weirdness and stereotypes and a story experience that is well written, that hits the major high points of any good crime story, and has characters that are believable and wacky at the same time. The Yakuza series would never be a book, movie or comic and could only exist as a video game and damn it if it doesn't do what it set out to do in stunning fashion. With Zero and Kiawami 1 & 2 out and selling well for the first time in the west I hope that the series gets the Kiwami treatment so that people that missed it the first time around can experience it.
Never played any of the games, never had any interest in playing them looked grindy and kind of boring.
I watched the first video in this series and thought well the story looks kind of neat, saw that Yakuza 0 was on a deep sale and thought "ehh I've spend a lot more for a lot more retarded shit".
Oh boy had I been wrong, this series of games is just pure awesome and now I'm going through the rest of the games with glee, I just hope we get localizations of the spin off games as well, as they look fucking awesome as well
It's like the Persona of beat 'em ups
Now a days this is not considered Niche.
Well, there is one Yakuza film.....never seen it though.
@@Xegethra the 2006 one with "weird" majima?
@Tehsnakerer I wish you would not worry about your videos being too long. One of the reasons I like your channel is that so many of your videos are so long. Maybe I'm in a minority, but I prefer long form content that goes really in depth over short videos. Most creators only make short videos, so its great when I find a channel that makes good quality long form content like you do.
for people who, like me, enjoys a team doing a little "hommage" to the past
at 6:18 the cheeky dialogue is actually a nod to the previous translation team who worked on the franchise, that's why the thug says "something might have gotten lost in translation" because in the japanese version kiryu just says "i'm very sorry" in the second dialogue choice
it's thanks to devileon7's channel and the community i know that >v>'
Hearing the Persona 3 music go on makes me REALLY want a Persona retrospective.
I thought I heard some Catherine music too.
@@zombiecarnivore yh the bar theme
Fuck the robot, Shinji.
Yakuza 2: Carpet Hate Simulator 2k8
HAHAHA!! 😂
It’s the anti Persona 3
I loved the club management so badly that when Goda was goading me towards the final, bomb-filled show down, I replied to him "Sorry bud, my totals just came in, can you postpone that?"
Yeah, I found it a great distraction compared to the Host Club which was mostly just checking a guide.
As many Jingweon survivors as pop up in the plot, I gotta ask: did _any_ of the Jingweon actually die?
As it turns out, the Tojo didn't so much kill every Jingweon member as enter their HQ, fire a couple of shots into the lobby, and call it a day.
It could be that the jingweon shown being massacred was just a side branch or they just recruited more members in the time it took to get to Yakuza 2 I personally believe that they are just very good at playing dead
rubber bullets
@@gonb5434 One of those bullets fixed a crick in a Jingweon lieutenant's back, the other smashed a lamp and a senior enforcer is kind of miffed about that, another guy had the phone shot out of his hand while he was on the horn arranging a date...
@@terribledeadlinegameplay "Damn it Saejima, not again!"
-Dojima, probably
I remember the first time I played Yakuza 2. As soon as I heard Outlaw's Lullaby, I knew this game would be better than the first.
I definitely appreciate a lot of the changes that Kiwami 2 made after seeing this. Especially Majima’s much better goatee, lol.
Kiwami 2 is definitely more beat-for-beat than I would’ve ever expected, though.
Both of the Kiwami remakes pretty much try to do a shot to shot remake of the original games' cutscenes.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe those are just nitpicks, kiwamis are great
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe the first paragraph of your reply I can kind of agree with. Anything after that is just personal preference
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe The Go-Ryu invasion is especially weird in K2 since the finale if (K)2 and the Snake Flower invasion in 3 is pretty much what you'd imagine it to be
@@amarson2322 I am of the opinion that they aren't good remakes of the og, but are average yakuza games.
the Kiwamis are less remakes and more re imaginings, with kiwami 1 being the guiltiest one out of the two. throwing out most of the original tone and setting og 1 had in place of Yakuza 0 but again. Which makes it cleaner and easier to jump into, sure,
but makes it sterile basically. im also ignoring the atrocious amount of re used movesets in both kiwamis for important characters. hayashi deserved the treatment in og 2.
I would highly recommend the Japan only HD collection if you want to play these over Kiwami. The frame rate goes from 30 to 60FPS. Tweak things like Yakuza 1's lock on and letting you store items at telephone booths. They even improve some boss fights like adding shooting baseballs that damage both sides in the bating cage fight with Majima
Hopefully someone will do a ROM hack with English subs, because these games are VERY story heavy and you miss 90% of the game without the subtitles IMO.
Why not just play kiwami
@@jacobh2147 kiwami is bad
@@aidancorgi5608 why
@@aidancorgi5608 yeah why?
Glad to know "I peacocked your mom" was a prompt in the original.
This must take so much work. Much respect.
If people enjoy it it's worth it
Definitely worth it IMO. Love your content.
I did notice Sayama has a more Korean look to her. Might just be me though idk if it's an intentional choice or if I'm noticing something that isn't there.
Yeah....For spoiler reasons, you might be right. Play it or watch a let's play of it on CZcams to find out.
@@GenAqua You were far from goddamn subtle. But then again, this IS a plot analysis.
thats because she is korean, and she is Ryuji sister
I'm surprised to see how faithful her K2 face is to the original (and more detailed, compared to the other characters in this game), her Y3 face looks like someone else.
@@inconemay1441 yakuza 3 they were like GET THIS BITCH OUTTA HERE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everyone when she left: :(
Right before Kiwami 2 drops and in comes Snake with a gloriously informal 25K sub celebration!
GoneRampant kiwami 2
?*
47:47 Wow the actual hatred in you voice makes me want to play the game more then anything else.
had a bad day man, i needed this
Hope you enjoy it
you bet your sexy voice I will!
He picked the best time to upload this video lol
It was a bit of a happy coincidence, I only realised a few days ago "Ah shit, Kiwami 2's nearly here!"
Can I thank you for still helping grow interest in the Yakuza community man, I've been a fan of this series since I was 7 back in 2006 with Yakuza 2 and to see you cover it with a great deal of finesse and a great attention to detail in this day and age is fulfilling to say the least, I and I'm sure many others are very grateful...what's your favourite entry in the series? (I had to ask, it's my nature as a hardcore fan to find out haha)
It's a bit of a mixer, 4 is likely my favourite overall, though it has reasons in that the plot is so ludicrous that I adore it, and after having played 3 first it's the entry that really got me into loving the series, 5 for wealth of content and the the general quality of that content, and 0 for how refined, slick, and just filled with personality it is
Great way to sum that up, but the "reasons" in Yakuza 4's ludicrous plot can be summed up very elegantly, RUBBER BULLETS SON!
@@Tehsnakerer Are you gonna cover Kiwami 1 and 2?
You are such an under appreciated channel!
Heh, I got a Kiwami 2 ad before the video
mAceOfHearts whatis that
Can we all appreciate the fact that Yakuza 2, one of the best Yakuza games came out the same year Sonic '06, one of the worst Sonic games came out?
For a second I didn't understand the comparison, until I realised they were both made by Sega.
@@classydoctor5864 Yup
@@classydoctor5864 honestly that's how I feel when I remember Sega publishes the Total War games. Because by God is Empire the Sonic 06 of the series
Its the worst in the series beside yakuza 4 and 5
@@markhirsch6301 you guys must be v young. Sega have an amazing back catalogue.
the first of these conviced me to get both 0 and kiwami 1 so gonna put this one off until i get through kiwami 2
I held off watching either until beating the Kiwami's, so watching these could help me see how similar/different they are.
@@Redblaze27 Yeah same here. Just beat Kiwami 2 a couple days ago.
Ayy one year has passed but did you enjoy Kiwami 2?
40:50 a yes, my favorite part of childhood: Playing in the park while the local town drunk yelled at us coz he had a hangover.
Never change Yakuza
So does your Patreon need to be £0 for Yakuza 0?
I gave this comment its 100th like. Like for 200.
Yakuza 0 (& Kiwami) sit at $600
We got it to 200 guys. Let's get it to 300 now.
301 now
reminds me of the ol days of under 301 bug on yt
This series is great. Even though I'm pretty familiar with the games, it's nice to hear your analysis. I really like your style in general. Very informative but also entertaining.
In the span of 2 weeks ive binged all of your videos and have only watched you
Glad you enjoy them and hope this video stands up
As always no doubt in that
It's a remarkably easy thing to do. I just keep clicking new videos, and they never end. Such bliss...
Love the use of Shoji Meguro's work as background music: Keiichi Okabe notwithstanding, Persona/Catherine and Like a Dragon series are everything soundtracks should aspire to be.
Just reached the stabbing bit in Kiwami 2 - man, the music in the remake during that scene is downright horrendous. The version here had so much more oomph with it's jazzy soundtrack.
17:50 I think you should start making dub patches for Yakuza games because this performance's freakin' impressive, buddy.
I thought I was the only one who forgot Shindo actually exist in Yakuza Kiwami and 1
Been saving this for watching, I binged all your longform video reviews to the point I ran out, made me so happy to see you pop up in my feed
it still surprises me that you only have 25k subs
hell, this video only has 5k views
this channel is a hidden gem, never stop
Starts playing Persona music
getting to watch your yakuza videos after i've finished the respective game is always a treat, ended kiwami 2 yesterday and couldn't wait to watch your video on it the next day. thank you so much for your detailed videos on these games!
To be fair canonically that is Kiryu reaction to anything going bad with the orphanage, he is just a real bonafide dad for them
Binge-watched! Thank you so much, man, it was tremendously entertaining. Don't ever quit, please.
"I've got a rad idea! KEEP STILL!"
I REALLY like these videoes, and I dearly look forward to the next one
Had no idea you were planning on reviewing the entire series. Going to put this on hold, though. Gotta beat Kiwami 2 first.
OH MY STARS AND GARTERS. I've missed you, Snakerer.
videos like this are why I love that I found this channel. I love long form videos like this, and only wish they were longer
1:14:50
The cleanest cuts and edits in this review.
Man, Tartarus is such a good song.
Enjoyed the review too.
Yakuza 2 is a good game.
Good stuff as usual.
I'm gonna need a music list for every background song used.
Most of the music used in this video is from the Persona series. Specifically Persona 3 and 4. There are also some tracks from the game Katherine sprinkled in there
That Baby section still disturbs me...
Yakuza 2: Kinkshame Boogaloo
Perfect timing for this video snakey boy.
That Terada QTE is the *only* QTE I've ever failed unintentially because I was spamming buttons to hit him then the beam showed up
Thank the heavens Club Marietta was replaced with Four Shine.
Yeah. It's an improvement.
I've been waiting for this!
It's always great to have you upload. Digging this shit
I've been binge-watching your reviews all week and I'm halfway through your first Yakuza playthrough, guess I'll be watching this one not soon after I'm done :D
This is cliche, but you deserve more views. For me, it was a great way to pass an hour and a half. Looking forward to more.
Personally I would wait until the Yakuza 3 remaster, because they said they're re-translating the whole thing and adding back in a HUGE amount of content cut from the English release.
When?
Great video. I think Yakuza 2 is one of the best games in the series. Great story and the soundtrack is awesome.
what you said about the credits (in the "Conclusion part") was probably my most favourite line of a "review" video ever.
Ive recently been deep diving into the series and one of the highlights for me is when I finish one I get to watch your video on it
yessssss, the absolute lad is back
Kiryu gets shot.
Kiryu : ''I needed some iron in my blood''
CSI Sunglass' moment
Most bullets are made out of a lead-antimony alloy
20:31 the FUNNIEST fucking scene i've seen so far (1/4th of the way through 3, started at 0)
The way that Kiryu just shrugs of the bottle is the pinnacle of comedy.
i played kiwami 2, and the finale was sad of course, but I haven’t cried or anything. But seeing those scenes here, brought tears to my eyes for some reason. I must say, you have made a great video, again! Three down, two to go
After following this video for a bit on twitter, my legit delight at finally getting my greasy mitts on it cannot be expressed
0:12
look
the yakuza 5
Love the random persona music throughout the video.
I've been waiting for this. Your videos are always superb.
At 50:00 isn't that a song from persona 5 🤨
Yeah, I generally prefer to use music from whatever game I'm covering but that wasn't much of an option, I couldn't find anything but the fight music anywhere, so I used a bunch of Catherine, P3, 4, 5, and a bit of Sonic CD
@@Tehsnakereraha so I wasnt going crazy! Well that sounds actually very smart on your part
MAAAh Dude thanks so much for your hard work
Thank you
Throwdown...
Your punwork is always really good, me and the lads always seem to come away appreciating it.
Just in case you ever doubt yourself, lmoa
I've been playing Persona 3 so when I heard that music used in the background I got really confused.
Goddamn it Snake, I've been bamboozled again.
So this review has done 2 things. I now want to play Yakuza 0-2 on steam and the persona ost works in Yakuza way too well.
I literally love you
whaaaaaa! You're back, time to kick back to your smooth voice with some snacks.
These completely acceptable audiolevels, what is this?!
Hearing all this Persona music I really hope we get Persona retrospective like this Yakuza one. One off videos on one of the other SMT videos would be awesome as well.
Watching a Yakuza video with Perona themes really does feel good
great vid
Very well done video the hour and a half just flew by. Best yakuza 2 rewiew I have ever seen. The only thing I slightly disagreed with is the problem with super armor on enemies and some bosses while I did find it tedious on normal foes on bosses there are several ways to go around this for example: during the fight with the guy who pulls out the pipes save your heat until the 2nd phase then grab the cones on the side and hit him till the weapon is on its last durabillity point and then perform the heat action since weapon attacks ignore his armor just build up heat with every swing and this way you can bypass the 2nd phase almost completely. As for the 3rd phase a good strategy is too dodge an attack and then punch twice to agro him into doing his heavy attack at that moment go behind him and grab him this always works since grabs from behind cant be blocked. As for everything else your rewiew has an excellent pace and you never waste time by pointleslly repeating something youre the only person I saw go this in depht in analysing the substories and how well they develop the people inside kamurocho and sotenbori. Good job youve more than earned my sub.
Watching this made me wanna revisit this game. Also made me wish Kiwami 2 was a better remake. It's good, but I think I still prefer the original
Can we appreciate how Kiryu in the cinematic used a tiger drop to take down an actual tiger?
I think the Millennium Tower might be the most bombed building in gaming
20:37
“Guess it’s time for a throwdown.”
Absolute genius.
Lovely!
There is some slight input lag if your emulating the game, which messes up the QTEs. Atleast, that was my experience.
cookieface80 A way to fix this is to reduce audio latency to about 23. That should help out a lot :)
Great take. Gotta remember too that this was 2008 when we finally got it ported to US. This game came out in Japan in 2006, one year before Mass Effect. I mean, the writing and storytelling standards were so low back then. We didn't have high expectations in general. Mass Effect was the first to open up a new way to experience storytelling that bled into other games that came after it. The amount of thought and consideration put into Yakuza 1 and 2 was immense compared to what we were used to. Especially when NA was not considered high priority/quality translations back then. Often we'd get just awful very basic ports. But the writing and consideration came through even the translation. Yakuza will always be one of my favorite series of all time.
I remember seeing comparison screenshots to the real location the game is based on. And the details were so spot on. And they didn't have to do that, but took the extra time to do it. It definitely made for a more immersive experience.
I disagree, there were still plenty of franchise that had good written back then from the us and Japan alike. Like Metal Gear, Silent hill, The og fallouts, KTOR 1+2, Halo, God of war, Shadow of the Clossus, Ico, Final Fantasy,
Final Fantasy has been doing story based games since the late 80s, plus a bunch of other games from the time
How were the storytelling standards low in the mid 2000s when a lot of highly regarded games are from the 90s
@@chronica6457 You can't point out exceptions to a rule and disregard the rule. If you wanna talk about 90s games, most NES games were simple gameplay crash grabs with no story whatsoever. PS2 catalogue similar. What was the overall story of Contra? of Qbert? What was the impact of Need for Speed on plot?
Even when you had good stories, translations would often make them garbage by the time the west played them.
You know hearing all this Persona music makes me wish that someone like Kiryu, Majima or maybe even Ichiban would show up as a social link in a future Persona game. Also yes I am aware of the Yakuza costumes in Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight, Ann dressed as Majima makes me think that she'll turn into the Mad Dog herself.
They should do it the same way they added Lars into Naruto. Have it be an adaptation of the character to match the setting. Since Persona is all demons or shadows they could do the creatures on their backs, themselves as demons similar to what Tokyo Mirage Sessions did, or do shadowy humans like in 3-4 and have them resemble the characters.
Majima is already, man can make shadow clones. He might already have presona powers.
The main villains in at least the first few games are a foil to Kiryu: Nishikiyama is a reflection of Kiryu should he go past the Despair Event Horizon, Ryuji is a corruption of Kiryu's noble traits and Mine is a dark reflection of Kiryu's self-destructive desire to help others.
I know this may very well be very far down the line from now, but I think there is enough interest for you to revisit this in your longer form. Either the same game or the remaster I would be happy with. I'd love to see your extended review and synopsis of the plot. Thanks once again Snakerer, you're the Kiryu of Yakuza reviews and truly Like a Dragon
I got into these games with zero
I'm in 5 right now and played the kiwami versions of 1 and 2
So.its weird but oddly charming to see the ps2 games when I'm used to the same scenes but in a ps4 engine
This dude needs more subs
They stop fighting you based on your level, to prevent grinding and/or to make you want/need to search for the sub-stories to level up further.
Really good m8
No dislikes yet :) Your presentation and editing are getting more refined. Good stuff.