RGG Studio: It’s only gonna be a small game and it took us like 4 days to make so honestly don’t expect much from this game. (Casually creates one of their best games yet)

3:42 “Go for the fastest” Proceeds to use the slowest pocket circuit for the recording.

i love how the pocket circuit footage has the slowest car known to man

It just goes to show how talented SEGA’s musicians are when RGG basically considers these composers to be their B team

how did they just casually create another masterpiece in such a short development time

"Hey we need menu music for Akame" "I got you" *makes a club banger* The ambient music? Man... ethereal. lo-fi? Hell yeah. Fight music? Hard. Shin Ichizu Samurai. Main vein that shit.

Hakanaki Yume hit me right in the feels during the final fight, like damn, RGG didn't had to go this hard but they did.

Like every other RGG games, Gaiden doesn't miss when it comes to banger soundtracks.

They werent lying about Addiction being so damn addicting to listen to.

83Key is so quickly rising up the ranks as an rgg composer for me. Adore Soul of the Ogre and can't wait to see what they contribute to Infinite Wealth

Man the music in particular of the entire final long battle and final boss was just so. Bloody. Good. I cannot believe how hard it goes in terms of its story beats, and then being reinforced with such incredible music. Man RGG lost Nagoshi and just decided to cook one of their best games to date.

“Treachery” and “Unrequited” are two of my favorite songs now. Period! I wasn’t expecting such good music from this game, as Shoji didn’t have any tracks in it, but DAMN

Deadly Struggle is THE best final boss theme. It might even surpass Two Dragons. It's amazing.

Deadly struggle is such an absolute fucking beast of a track it instantly became my personal favorite in the whole series. Something about strings being in focus as a very cool metal guitar riff keeps the rhythm in the background just does it for me man.

Holy shit Cold Fire slaps 4:03

My favorite track from this game, had to be the simple good taste, because of it being Joryu's theme for dressing up. Plus, yakuza lofi.

SnowiestAngeman never fails to fill me up with his content.

This game is so close to beating Yakuza 0 for being my favorite, the gameplay, story and music are such bangers and 6 months... 6 MONTHS? LIKE BRUH HOW DO YOU MAKE THIS MUCH OF A BANGER IN 6 MONTHS?

Man I’m kind of sad that you didn’t mention who made wounded beast which is such a hype track and like the first time RGG put a cutscene ost into the soundtrack for the public to listen and fucking jam out to.

That's such a cool detail with the Omi Alliance battle, it blew my mind the amount of effort and love put into this game despite being so short. But no, Psycho's Anthem is so good. It hides the true nature of Nishitani III within its song. I just love it when they do storytelling in their music, adding a layer of depth to the character.

Assault by Shunsuke Minami was my favorite in the Gaiden. Second to Psycho's Anthem being the first place. Aside from that, RGG Studio just can't stop from making so many BANGER 💥

Psycho's Anthem, Unrequited and Deadly Struggle are my favourites. Such a great soundtrack!

I don't think deadly struggle is my favorite final boss track to listen to, but it IS my favorite final boss track to fight to

Appasionato was one of my favourite Tricks from YLAD you can't imagine how happy I was when I heard the remix

It's thanks to channels like yours that I started paying a little more attention to the music in this franchise. Not that I wasn't before, but a lot of the greater OSTs went underappreciated by me when I was starting out with Y4 and 5 way back on PS3. Not making that mistake ever again.

Finally, we have witnessed the long awaited return of the SnowiestAngeman signature editing style of "time the switching of the text on screen to the beat of the music"

83key has been killing it. Lambda, Vorarephilia, Soul of Ogre are so good

Small game BTW, proceeds to drop the god damn peak cuisine soundtracks - top 3 were definitely the final boss OST, unrequited and psychos anthem It's insane, good job to the composers both new and old for refining the Yakuza music taste without Shoji around

i honestly paused the fight and yelled when i heard un altro appasionato since i love appasionato (and RGG7) so much. that was such a perfect choice. addiction was another one i just sat and listened to lol

I've spent 5 minutes trying to come up with something to say about Gaiden and its OST but gave up because i'd be here all night. I loved this game so much

God bless this game for having the masterpiece that is Sayonara Silent Night. Easily one of my favorite karaoke songs in this series.

With Fog and Soul Of The Ogre, 83 key has solidified themselves as my favorite composer in the franchise

Rintaro Soma and Kenji Mizuno mostly work on SEGA's arcade rhythm games (maimai, chunithm, ongeki). Seems SEGA have been getting composers from that team to work on their recent console games too (they worked on Sonic Frontiers as well, along with Kanon Oguni, another composer from the rhythm game side), which is cool. Hiro has also worked on maimai, though has also been at SEGA since the 80s

Keitaro Hanada went SO HARD for this game, honestly all the newbies did, genuinely a massive surprise.

tbh when first playing it i wasn't expecting anything from this game. And it managed to be one of the best on the franchise for me, def a top 5 and the soundtrack is a big reason for that, mainly because of hakanaki yume and i'm fading away.

Gaiden is honestly one of the best yakuza games to have grace us. For a game that been supposedly made in 6 months, for them to make a tight short story with "the ending" despite reusing assets. A celebration of kiryu's story & yakuza from the music, substory, minigames. Honestly one of the few game companies that i would pre order nowadays.

No one talking about the peak transition at 12:11

It was really awesome to see Hanada back fully, especially with that absolutely gorgeous final boss theme. The final phase theme kinda reminded me of Rhapsody of Chivalry a little bit from Ishin

8:55 Mitsuharu Fukuyama COMPOSED IT?! it sound so different from his other works in the series

I like how Kenji Mizuno's Reception at the Coliseum was derived from the SF6 Character Select music.

Fading away is still my favorite song to come out of any yakuza, hell any video game ever so Good on Chihiro Aoki man she the GOAT 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Lost Judgment was already super exciting because, in 2020, all the different sound teams at SEGA were merged into one, so we got to see some different lineups as anyone was on the table to make music for the series. But, just bringing back 2 returning artists, it was only a taste. Then Ishin was a different taste, with 3 composers who's never worked on the series before, but only a track from each of them and no album to spotlight with. Now we can really feel what it's like for the one SEGA SOUND TEAM (and guests) to make a Like a Dragon soundtrack. Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin and Yakuza 6 are probabky the most-respected soundtracks in the series, so I appreciate It is a weird feeling to not have Shoji creating music for the game. Instead, he helped out with the arcade game porting, probably FIGHTING VIPERS2 since that was his original work. Fumio Itoh also helped on that front, gotta be his game DAYTONA USA2. Yuri Fukuda always has amazing songs that fly under the radar. There's been a lot of prominent, funky songs recently, but it feels like she's gone back to her roots with the series, going for the subtle drama. Keitarou Hanada, it's amazing that he's basically the lead composer in this game. It feels familiar, but it's a twinge different. I've learned as much as I can about mysterious Hanada, the man who erased his face, and have loved him ever since SOUL SURFER. Rupture is my standout song. Saori Yoshida, I always enjoy, but for some reason there's been one time when I've really gotten hooked on her work. Maybe I'm not down with youth culture like she is, despite being about a decade younger than her... she's unfortunately still in that zone where a song comes on and I go "woah this is awesome! Who did this? Oh it's Yoshida? That's nice." Ryo Fukuda is a beast of a newcomer. Has he only been around since 2022? He got a thank you in Sonic Frontiers, with one of this game's sound effect creators Hiroki Kiriyama, and, like most of Gaiden's composers, just worked on Sonic Superstars. We will watch your career with great interest. Btw Psycho's Anthem is one of my highlights too! Speaking of watching some's career, I remember telling the WAVE MASTER Twitter account, when Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown was new, that I didn't know Rintaro Soma, but was excited to see him grow. Now, he's a Sonic superstar in his own right and I see so many people always excited tor his music! Hideaki Kobayashi, long ago, made the original score for Yakuza 4, so most people don't know about it. I feel like, in the same way Shoji and gang have been in Yakuza hell for years, not getting to work on other stuff, Kobayashi's been in Phantasy Star Online 2 hell. But it's not hear some different flavours through Sonic Colours Ultimate and Superstars, Sin Chronicle and now LADG. Mitsuharu Fukuyama, he's been amazing forever, and of course we love him for Yakuza. He's kinda been in POS2 hell with Kobayashi since 2012... but also Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games! He did, far as I know, come back to play trumpet on Yakuza: Like a Dragon, though, so that was a promise. I wasn't personally blown away by his song in Gaiden, I think I was surprised when I checked in the middle of hearing it and saw it was Fukuyama, but I don't I've relistened to it enough. Takahiro Kai... you're bringing some new sounds to this! It's so long since that genre was everywhere, but some themes are dubstep, right? The jazz in Lost Judgment was a different feeling too. He seems more experimental with Like a Dragon, whereas his work on CHAIN CHRONICLE, Wonderland Wars, Sonic Superstars, even some maimai, it feels more like it shares DNA. Good to see your electronics can shred just like you play shred guitar! Junpei Mishima is getting comfortable. It sounds like classic heavy orchestra from BORDER BREAK or Shining Force CROSS. Much easier to feel it's him than in Like a Dragon Ishin where I kept going back and forth on which song was his. Kinda the same for Yasuyuki Nagata. Because of 404 GAME RE:SET, the first public photo of Nagata has been released. His electronic metal stuff is just as familiar to me at this point as his close co-worker Mishima's. Y'know, Nagata's somwhat recently defined the sound of a new SRGA franchise, with Eiketsu Taisen, but that later brought on Junpei Mishima and Keitarou Hanada as guests. Hiro... you're a changed man. Or the same man? Master, the instruments you designed for the SANGOKUSHI TAISEN reboot are still being used, and to just have an erhu in sudden SEGA titles, it's so cool. And the other samples. Let's see what will sound Chinese next. Or sound like your old FANTASY ZONE work again (although I saw today he's experimenting with Game Boy sounds, check him out at Hiro Music TV on KZfaq). I feel like I'm overblowing how much I adore Satoshi Oike, considering there's only so many songs he's made that I've heard. Maybe a dozen? But I appreciate him getting to work on diverse games and always do new things much like he said he wanted to in 2017. Also, my wish came true and, when you factor in the sound effects designers, we have SEGA's Satoshi Oike, Naoto Oike and Satoshi Okamura all working on the same game for once. Kenji Mizuno said we'd feel a different flavour from him in this game. Sure, he's probably more know for happy stuff, but it's still suave. He is also a Sonic superstar now, after he was with Kai and Oike on Wonderland Wars and the many rhythm games. I wonder if it's the most up my alley song in the game? Also... I still wanna know why Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and Kenichi Tokoi are credited as composers in the game, but don't have any songs on the album. Are there some songs in the game that weren't included? Is it a mixup and their songs are actually going to be in Infinite Wealth? I thought Tokoi made sense for this game since singer Steve Conte, who Tokoi wrote for in Sonic and the Secret Rings, plus Tokoi'd favourite engineer Dave Darlington, were in this. And as for the non-SEGA people... Shunsuke Mikami hits different under his real name. It's interestinf what you said about it sounding different from NEXT DESIGN's work. I can't vouch for it since I only know him from Like a Dragon. The game isn't listed on nextdesign-jp.com, but that could just be because it's so new. 83key, I'm always interested in. Over on RadioSEGA, Gavvie seems to unknowingly be a big fan of 83key. I hope I can recommend he check out the new songs first. Hyd Lunch, I have to listen to again. Somehow I don't remember if they went their iconic rock direction or the more recent dramatic direction for Gaiden. It'll be enthralling either way. Well done ZENTA on the arrangement. It's nice to hear the source again and see what the guitars add to it. And finally, Tomoyuki Tanaka. I remember his rock song reminded me a ton of something specific, but can't remember what it is now. I'll have to edit this when I can listen again.

Two minutes ago I was thinking: “I wonder if he’s going to do a Gaiden music appreciation video.” I opened KZfaq and there it was XD

"psycho anthem" at the end was the perfect choice for this video 🔥

With soundtracks as good as what we get with RGG games I just can't help myself from uploading OST mixes on KZfaq. The moment I saw Un altro appassionato on the soundtrack... I knew this was going to be a banger.

I absolutely love Psycho's Anthem so much, I've practically had it on loop since i fought him

I can’t imagine any fight in this game without fading away playing now

Chihiro Aoki, my beloved. Silent Night was incredible.

Ah yes chicken man being the best character in the game at 9:05

I'm still so happy with how gaiden turned out. What a fantastic addition to the franchise.

Keitaro Hanada made Son of a Gun and End of Drama in Yakuza 1, and to this day, Yakuza 1 is my favorite RGG soundtrack and it deserved SO much more for its Kiwami version. Hearing him come back for the FINAL BOSS theme of all things, among everything else, is great, and I hope he sticks around.

Correction on 0:36 : Kobayashi was actually previously involved in the series, doing the score for Yakuza 4's cutscenes.

My favorite track in the game has to be "Wounded Beast" by Keitaro Hanada. Kinda crazy that it only plays in a cutscene but man, does it fit there!

I love how in shishidos boss theme, you can hear in the background a remixed version of the piano from ryujis final boss theme

I love that for this OST, they very clearly gave the head honchos like Chihiro Aoki, Saori Yoshida, Zenta, 83key, etc, two or three songs to work on, but most likely had them focusing more on Infinite Wealth, and put new names on the rest of the OST. All I'm sayin, Keitaro Hanada, Ryo Fukuda and Shunsuke Minami are my bets for joining the main ensemble of composers in LAD 9, they are the outstanding talent from this entry imo

If you think about it. This game was the distillation of all of Kiryus struggles for the ENTIRE series. And yakuza 8 is his swan song.

Such a brief and short game relative to the rest of the series, but man was it good and full of good soundtracks and etc. Psycho's Anthem, Fading Away, etc are so good

Was sitting and watching real close to see if you would include Psycho's Anthem, glad to see it was also your favourite!

RINTARO SOMA YOOOOO MY GOAT GRAAAAHHHHHH His work in both Sonic Frontiers and Superstars are both stellar, so i'm glad to know he also did fantastic here too. Cold Fire is a banger

i was WAITING for this video

6:51 i swear power of death is giving me katana zero vibes and i like that

Ngl I'm addicted to Psycho's anthem rn

I can't choose anything from this list, they're all absolute BANGERS!

they all cooked, but Ryo Fukuda was really cookin with Jaki and Psycho’s Anthem. WHEW

this entire game is a medley (musically and narratively) of why we all loved kiryu in the first place

Just gotta love how, every time one of these banger games comes out, we get one or two banger albums of music along with them.

Some of My favourite track of it is the clothing theme and her melancholy

That edit at the end goes so hard.

Good to see Keitaro Hanada is still around after his phenomenal return in Lost Judgement, and he's making more straight bangers

I really enjoyed this video, maybe you could do more of these types of videos for other SEGA games.

I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

Ngl that secret composer doing Heaven’s Gate was fucking awesome to learn about, since he just made an absolute banger sounds like Heihachi’s TTT arcade theme and should have been in Tekken 8

Nishitani was definitely one of the best highlights of the game

I'm literally just commenting because the timing edit on soul of the ogre is that good, thank you Snowiest

Sega Sound Team cooking up bangers as usual.

One of my favorite : Memento Sound different of the other song, just a pleasur for the ears

Fun fact: Hidenori Shoji actually composed a track for Sonic Superstars (Speed Jungle Act 2). Thought that was worth mentioning because it's funny that game has more Shoji tracks than Gaiden.

absolutely love rumbling at the fort, very underrated track

🔥🔥🔥👌 Excellent video👏👏👏👏👏

Real yakuza cry at the end of Gaiden.

Booooy Good Taste and Addiction hit every damn time yo 🙏🏾😭

They don't miss ( RGG for the music and Snowy for this video and the sick edits)

And we still didn't get an official release of that goddamn version of Recieve You that plays during the Feast.

There's actually a song that plays in the story when you have to ask to various homeless people about akame. Unfortunately i don't know the song name. it's such a good and chill song and if anyone knows what the name of it is i would appreciate it

Aww man, imagine heat actions taking into account whether or not your doing an air combo

The game is surprising to me cause they actually mastered the songs for a album track release online. Which I'm assuming that they are possibly gonna also do it for Infinite wealth aswell..

a game made in 6 months but better than most AAA games. Certified RGG moment

I will never not love that ending where shishido get's dragon engined of a roof

Gotta say that In Full Blast and Deadly Struggle are my favorites. Those are fire

RGG: we need to make our beloved Kiryu a final game in 6 months.. RGG proceed to do a S tier yakuza game lol

Before I watch this video (I'm waiting to go back home to watch it with my wife and get fangirling every time we gussed the composer right lmao) - I just wanna say I very much enjoyed the soundtrack, but I still think that there are better ones in Yakuza series (LJ lmao). Though some of them are such a freaking bangers GEEZ

Been a while since you felt like this

Addiction is peak 🔥🔥🔥

My two faves: Two Faced Castle and Coliseum reception ❤

My god that reception song had me bouncin

god damn i just finished the game and now i find out theres some crazy souped up versions of the gadget moves in dragon spirit

I am an all in fan of RGG Studio's games half in part because there's many songs and music that I have saved in my Music to My Ears Playlist.

Shunsuke Minami - Sponsor Wanted. Reminds me heavily of Tusk from Yakuza 0 for some reason, like it is such a good song and it is giving me flashbacks to Yakuza 0.

there were no tracks from him on here, but hiro is Segas Koji Kondo, and its cool to see him do a couple tracks. also unlike sonic superstars sound director jun senoue, chihiro aoki knows how to sound direct because the OST is actually cohesive sounding lol

6:22 The perfect cut tho