Thank you for watching! Here are some timestamps if you want to revisit a specific segment. I hope you enjoyed it! 0:00 Context for the tier list 1:40 Objective ranking for comparison 1:57 Personal rating criteria 2:40 Yakuza 3 and Y3 Remastered 5:29 Yakuza 4 and Y4 Remastered 7:34 Kurohyou: RGG Shinshou 11:11 Yakuza Dead Souls (no placement) 11:44 Kuroyhou 2: RGG Ashura Hen 15:04 Yakuza 1&2 HD 17:40 Yakuza 5 and Y5 Remastered 21:12 Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin! (no placement) 21:39 Yakuza 0 25:17 Yakuza Kiwami 27:51 Yakuza 6 31:38 Yakuza Kiwami 2 33:35 Lost Paradise & HGG 38:47 Judgment Remastered and Judgment PS4 43:12 Yakuza 7 (a.k.a. Yakuza: Like a Dragon) 45:07 Lost Judgment 48:46 Like a Dragon Ishin (a.k.a. Ishin Kiwami) 51:54 Final placements 52:08 Thank you :) And here are some extra links I've mentioned in the video: Ishin Blackmith Guide by AllstarBrose: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMtoZbBo39CVYps.html&ab_channel=AllstarBrose The article on Ishin differences by Skeith: story-arc-blog.com/2023/02/27/a-thorough-list-of-changes-in-like-a-dragon-ishin/ As for video sources, the links are in the description, as always.

Hearing other people mention CyricZ guides feels like a blast from the blast. I've been reading his guides since his early LEGO game days, and now he's my go to Yakuza guy.

I worked through the Y0 platinum with my brother in law over Christmas break 2018 while we were snowed in by a blizzard. In some ways it was a great experience, but in some it was a bizarre nightmare that feels like it didn't even happen. By the end, we were alternating between Mahjong, Pool, and Catfights if I recall correctly. Nearly lost our minds, our family did not understand the struggle to say the least. I'll never forget when we finally got the plat, we just kind of walked outside into the snow like zombies - "dude we did it............what now?"

I heard Like A Dragon Gaiden is by far the easiest Yakuza game to Plat

I'm scared to see infinite wealth trophies list when that game comes out because that game seems so massive

I will never forget the agony that Yakuza 3 Remastered pool put me through

Congratulations on 5k and here's to 100k, buddy

Yakuza 5 being my first Platinum in the series was my biggest achievement and mistake. I loved it but the coliseum grind especially killed my soul.

The 1500 time trooper card challenge was a hell of a grind but I ended up popping it before I beat 100 dungeons because I put 2 “orders from the north” and one “Divine Luck” trooper on Wild dancer and had them on Auto activation so they’d pop every few seconds while I was grinding for the Repentance seal.

This is one of the most interesting kinds of videos I can imagine watching. Everything on Netflix is pure boredom in comparison. I also platinumed pretty much everything except the PS3/PSP titles and this video was great to reminisce about all those games I have positive memories about! ❤

Dude you are so cool! Ever since I have subscribed to you, I get all Yakuza info from you

Congrats on the 5k, Gokudoni! Great list as well, and after the last video aired, I've changed my ways. I'm a mahjong master now. I've completed every entry (on Xbox, so no Lost Paradise), except 3 and 5. Anyways, awesome work and I'm always looking forward to your new videos!

Idk if you’ll see this, but this video actually inspired me to go and platinum all the games I currently have. Rn I’ve finished Kiwami 1 and 2, 7, and Gaiden, and working on 3. Those climax battles are a real ball clencher. So, thank you for chronicling your journey and inspiring me.

Great video, this is bound to blow up really soon!

If you can endure Hostess Maker, nothing in the world can break your willpower anymore.

My thoughts on the 5 and 0 plstinum is exactly the reverse of yours. I love the 5 platinum

as someone who platinumed gaiden yesterday, i would definitely put it as the lowest in C tier. very fun and easy game to platinum, also on a side note I am just happy to see content about people platinuming yakuza so thank you for this video

Congrats on 5K!! Totally enjoyed the vid, thanks. Judgment PS4 took me a while to plat because of Puyo-Puyo. Got the PS5 plat well before the PS4 version. Puyo-Puyo is cute but utterly evil 😭 Yet it's amazing how some folks are actually pretty good at it. Ishin Kiwami Platinum took me a few weeks. The crafting was tedious BUT nowhere as painful as Puyo-Puyo.

Congratulations on 5k dude great video as always

I love you Goku I'm thinking of doing a review of the entire Yakuza series for my channel and stuff like that, I wanna say every yakuza content creators I've watched so far have inspired me to work on it, so thanks!

Great vídeo. I'm missing only Fist of The North Star and recent Like a Dragon Gaiden. Regardless of how hard they are, you get into a flowstate after you platinum an RGG game.

Great list, personally i found Yakuza 0 harder than 5 and Ishin but overall pretty much spot on. In terms of difficulty I'd probably put Y3 2nd I think, but its definitely less grindy. I've only completed the latest versions of 0-7 (Kiwami 1/2 ver), Ishin, Judgment & Lost judgment. Looking forward to Gaiden coming soon

such a great video

Another banger 🔥🔥🔥

It's funny hearing your agony over 5's completion list, because I actually kind of enjoyed doing it. I truly got to see everything this massive game had to offer, which made it feel like a huge journey. I was also going through a huge physical health problem at the time, so the game kinda helped take my mind off of it. The effect completing 0 had for you, 5 did for me. It was already a favorite of mine and I got to truly embrace the whole package. Fuck pachinko and cochin cup, though, my god.

What crazy about Yakuza series is how they keep taking away the icons for side missions, the money grind can be easy or very difficult and the insane amount of crafting you do for each game

I see yakuza content I subscribe! Great video

Great video

congrats gokudoni very deserved 5k

I platinumed Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and even though it traumatized me, I still like to think back to it. 😂 At that time it was the second Yakuza game I've ever played, with Yakuza:LaD being the first.

I’ve done the 0,6,7 and LJ plat, and the hardest was def 0 > LJ > 7 > 6. LJ was the most fun tho, the school stories were some of the most fun I’ve had in a RGG game and just the game itself feels great to play. I’m currently doing a 4 platinum run and after that I’ll continue with Kiwami which only needs the completion list done.

congratulations on 5k!!! I recently platinumed 9 RGG titles I have on Steam (well, excluding Binary Domain lol) which are Yakuza 0 to 6 and both Judgment games, looking forward to getting Gaiden eventually and make that my 10th RGG platinum. I gotta say, I agree with MANY things you said about the games I have platinums on, and gave a notice to never, ever, ever try platinuming games like Ishin (which I doubt I'll ever even get due to it's mixed reviews from the fans and the dogwater Unreal Engine 4 optimization) or Lost Paradise (which I desperately want on PC but seeing people constantly shit on the platinum makes me sad). keep on grinding, you're def one of my fav RGG channels on here and I can see you achieve great things if you keep putting in the work 🙏

I played 5 on hard the first time through which doesn't give you the trophy for beating it on normal so that added an extra playthrough to a pretty long game. I also did Akiyama 1 v 100 on hard which is one of the most frustrating things I've done in a video game. It takes forever so to get to the last 10 and die is soul crushing.

Ishin was by far my most difficult platinum of all but I finally prevailed.

Finished all 12 of the rgg/yakuza pc releases really looking forward to infinite wealth to come out so i can get the platinum :)

whoa you started the video super crazy, if thats yakuza 6 it makes me wanna play it; if its a different yakuza then im still on 5 lol

11:11 As someone who knows Dead Souls in and out, it's got one of the easiest plats and 100%'s in the series (other than one specific minigame). It's effectively just 4's trophy list but replace all the combat trophies with shooting ones. Substories are quick and easy (and really good I might add), weapons are easy to upgrade, and combat as a whole isn't a challenge. In terms of trophies, the only annoying ones are maxing out your character, which is a grind if you don't wanna do NG+, doing 50 floors of Endless Subterranea, which has a chance to make your console crash, and beating Dead Souls mode. This difficulty makes all zombies permanently enraged, which makes them spam an attack that *always* knocks you on the ground. On top of that, you can't do NG+ into the difficulty so you're forced to grind out levels early if you don't wanna be destroyed. The 100% is also really easy except for one thing: fishing. For whatever reason the fish are incredibly resilient and refuse to be pulled in, with some taking up to 10 whole minutes to catch. Having to use JP guides to figure out the best items for fishing (and trying for hours for some of them) was an absolute nightmare, it's part of why I did a video guide on it so people can see exactly what I used so my text guide doesn't seem completely random. It's the one thing that keeps me from recommending doing the 100% for the game. 19:22 Also you get like ten or so Mystery Stones throughout the game, so it's not as bad as you'd think. There's also a trick where you can just use one to craft every item that needs it at once which is really nice. 21:39 I'd say OG Ishin is a worse plat than the remake. Some of the changes to KIshin have made the grind less miserable despite the bad creative and combat changes, namely the reduction of grinding for a lot of Diligence Records (like petting animals, collecting eggs, and cooking), the cards trivializing a lot of combat, and most notably the patch that increases drop rates in the dungeon to a massive extent. OG Ishin doesn't have any of these, so the plat is effectively as grindy as the US version of Lost Paradise (except you're effectively trading the awful buggy race grind for the dungeons). I think I spent a good 50-60 hours of my 85 hour playthrough strictly grinding the dungeon compared to about 40 in KIshin (which would have been much shorter if I had done it after the patch). I definitely would never recommend platting OG Ishin at all, it's truly mindnumbing. Fantastic video by the way, I was wanting to do something like this sometime but it's nice to see someone else's opinions on it and you've done a really good and comprehensive job covering just about everything. And a big thank you for the shout-out at 49:30, making that video was a lesson in misery and I'm praying RGG never does anything like it again.

I just recently finished my second platinum (6 and Gaiden) and was looking for a list ranking the difficulties because I wanted to do them from easiest to hardest. I would definitely say Gaiden has one of if not the easiest plat in the series connsidering that just 2 weeks after release almost 10% of players have it

As someone that platinumed Dead Souls be prepared because Dead Souls difficulty is hard. It makes every zombie more agressive, faster and stronger. It made me do most of the substories again to get levels and the best weapons for each character.

I have platinumed both the original and kiwami version of ishin. I will say that the kiwami version is easier than the original for everything EXCEPT the blacksmith. Almost all completion list requirements were cut in half. However the in my opinion the baffleing changes to the blacksmith outdid all the posititive changes. Turning the weapon synthesis system into the rng based symbol system they have in kiwami and also locking some symbols behind rng drops in the dungeons was one of the most infuriating changes I've experienced.

I eventually ended up loving Mahjong once I had to play it so much to learn the rules, but the Exposed Dragon achievement in 3 was probably the most I got angry with the series.

Great video! Completely agree that the Japanese version of North Star is the hardest in the series.

I originally gave up on the PS4 version of Judgment thanks to Puyo Puyo, but I decided to go back and try again and I finally beat it. All that’s left is the Legend playthrough and I’ve got the platinum for it.

You should do a Recieve You tier list next

Ishin was extremely grindy. I spent 2 or 3 days just doing the final dungeon over and over again so I could get enough of the crafting materials to craft the best sword and gun in the game. This was before the patch. I'm just glad I did it before the chicken glitch was patched because grinding for money would honestly be even more annoying with how expensive crafting is.

Took me a few tries but i didn't hate Puyo Puyo, I was pretty consistent with it got alot of 28 wins all because i used to play Mean Bean Factory when i was a kid so naturally it was nostalgic for me instead of rage 😅

I came sooo close to 100% lost paradise in the western version at 98% and only needing 4 mini games to reach specific level and the shitty rythm trophy but at that point I had over 180 hours and was completly drained, I might go back and complete this monstrous plat lol

Congrats on 5k, just wanted to say that imo the Yakuza 4 platinum is slightly harder on ps3, just because you need 3000 balls a.k.a 2 full jackpots for the pachinko king trophy, whereas you only need 1.5k in the remaster.

I gave up on obtaining the platinum for Like a Dragon Ishin. 90% is where I’m going to stick to because of the horrendous Seal system. Who at RGG Studio thought that was a great idea?!

Great video nice to know which ones are the hardest and easiest I wish I could Platinum more of these games but mahjong is what always kills it for me I've tried looking up videos for it and still don't really understand it Even had people try to help me and I still couldn't do it I think if it wasn't for the Mahjong I have a lot more of these Platinum Kind of wish I did because I absolutely love this series honestly it might be my favorite Anyway amazing video thanks for uploading up❤😊

Yakuza 5 Remastered had a couple of really gut wrenching bugs (at least the PC Steam version) that I remember that made the 100%/Platinum even more gruesome. Revelations were really tedious to unlock because you had to keep spamming a SPECIFIC move in order unlock a new attack/heat action while having no visibility on progress or even hardly any information on how to actually trigger it. Once you actually progress enough to unlock the revelation, there's a bug that occurs very frequently in which it freezes completely and soft locks the game. Finally, there's another bug with Haruka's street dance battles where the results screen bugs out and get permanently stuck there. If you see Komaki and have a dance battle with him you can raise your max level from 20 to 25. However this has the odd effect of causing this glitch to happen and it occurs 100% of the time you attempt to complete a street dance battle. In my game, I completed *EVERYTHING* and the absolute last thing I left to do was the Amon substory for Haruka. It starts by a street dance battle, and it was impossible for me to complete those. This was already like 120 - 140 hours in, and my only save I had before I caused the glitch to occur was 40 hours in, losing 80 - 100 hours of progress. I was utterly defeated and I knew I wasn't about to go through that again. At least being on PC, I was able to download a working save online where it got the 100% at the Haruka Amon Substory again which essentially put me exactly where I was stuck. However I now forever feel like I didn't "truly" get the Platinum for Yakuza 5 Remastered and that I cheated.

I'm going for both Judgment trophies and i'm only having trouble with the minigames so far, mahjong is kinda kicking my ass lol 😅 but this is a nice and informative video all around

I liked to plat Fist of The North Star, I really enjoyed the Game

for someone who has played all the games (outside of the more unavailable ones like Dead Souls and the PS3 versions of 1 and 2) but never done any platinums, would u recommend just going through release order, series order, or just picking what seems easiest?

You are absolutely crazy for getting the platinums in the psp games

35:35 Yeah, This was probably the most difficult and frustrtating things I've ever had to go through. It was fun for what it was but the moment I missed one note I was just done for a day and took a break.

The damn PuyoPuyo requirement in Judgment was nearly the death of me.

Ive done the full completion list in most games and man how painful it is in some games. Y7 is extremely grindy, probably HGG levels of grind. I found the batting in y4 to be even harder than in 3 but maybe thats just bias. 6 list is also very grindy due to puyo puyo and spearfishing requirements. Kenzan's list is probably the hardest completion list in the series. Both kurohyous are very buggy especially 2 and it can just fuck you for no reason. Also, dead souls plat on B and OG Ishin on S

CyricZ, aka the Dragon of GameFAQs

Wait there was a patch that made the dungeon grind easier in Ishin Kiwami? I grinded Amon like week one and that grind was miserable

Im cool completing completion list often, but yeah in 4 having to go through the game several times is something i doubt Im going to do. I beat it on hard and that unlocks legend, it doesnt give ylu the trophy for normal. So id have to do a normal and legend.

Gaiden would definitely be a C-tier thanks to how easy it is, as well as how little you need to grind (aside from the Justice fight, there's nothing that had made me grind for equipment or stuff.) Now, if only the PS5 version could recognize my PS4 saves so I can get this auto-pop and actually try to 100% it without having to redo all the cabaret stuff...

Fuck the coliseum achievement in 5. Holy shit.

I've gotten nearly every trophy on the PS3 versions of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5. Of those, I'm looking forward to finally closing the book on the first two. With 5, though, I think I'll be even happier the last time I ever play the game, without going for completion. I've done everything but the minigames, and honestly I'll probably do them eventually, but I have about 300 hours in the game, from about five playthroughs plus Premium Adventure grind, and all this time with the game has made it impossible to enjoy. I wouldn't gain anything from completing it, and I would get a lot of spiteful pleasure knowing I got so close and didn't follow through. So yeah, the Yakuza 5 platinum is so evil that it makes me want to purposefully never get it so I can vicariously laugh at RGG Team.

im actually really close to Y5 platinum. All i need is pachinko but im so burnt out that I cant do it

I got the platinum for the ps4 version of judgment back in the days and let me tell you, you dodged a really big bullet by going for the ps5 version 😅 that last character that shows up only after 20 rounds of puyo puyo can burn in hell. And the freakin fish as well

I’ve never played any of these games. I might one day…

I find like a dragon being so rare to platinum crazy. I know some people complain about the grinding for the final amon fight but to me it was one of the easiest.

Ha, sad sam kod Leona čuo da si iz Hrvatske 😀 pozdrav iz Novog Sada, legendo, napokon i da ovdje ima hardkor fanova 😁😁

I enjoy the grinding bits but lord, the Sega minigame completion, the drone racing, fishing in 3 and 5, are the ones that make me quit going for completion. Kudos to you sir for even manage not to lose your sanity to pop those trophies

i really hope some kind soul works on a new rom for dead souls because the only english one currently available is absolutely awful to try and run with an emulator. my laptop can't run it at all either, and my friends with really high quality gaming pcs said even they experienced constant crashes, framerate drops and bugs throughout. it's such a shame because i wanna play the silly zombie game so badly 😔

dead souls low B but has a glitchy throphy

Y6 and Judgement will always be frustrating because I am millimeters away from finishing their completion lists. But, Puyo Puyo just fucks me up.

So what was it that made 3 A tier despite it not needing the completion list?

I feel like most of the trophies i dont have are not so much difficult just easy to miss or just annoying. Like the one trophy im missing for plat in 7 is the honk honk one, the honker never shows up rng nonsense. Or in judmement i missed those cats.

I finished Ishin a few days ago and while I liked the game I doubt I’ll go for 100% because of how much of a grind it is. I noticed they got really greedy with the micro transactions (though I think they rolled back the one purchase per save file nonsense) which is probably why the crafting grind is so bad.

I have every platinum in the series except for Yakuza 3. The Minigame Master trophy made me give up. And it's my least favorite game so it was hard to keep playing it.

I don't envy people who try to platinum RGG games.

Honestly there are a lot of yakuza games that i would love to 100% but I really just do not care for doing the completion list (and also learning entire japanese gambling games)

I didn’t like the tedium of the completion list. Which is why I loved the Y6, Gaiden, and Y7 b/c of the RPG aspect. However for the life of me, I platinum’d Lost Paradise. No idea why I did but I just did.

I personally feel that Dead Souls is a lot easier than the other games. It has none of those annoying combat challenges and minigame requirements and the hardest trophy is just beating it on the hardest difficulty which admittedly can get pretty annoying at times, mainly before you get access to the general inventory for each character. It's also pretty terrible. Craft the shotgun as soon as possible and you'll have an easier time of it; no other gun matters on Dead Souls mode. Play the EU version of the game as you get a whole lot of gambling cheat items which can make more money than you need in like 5 minutes and because this is before they got really greedy with DLC you can use a fresh batch of them in every playthrough. Apparently the NA version didn't get those items. Also the blocking is pretty bad even in the original release of Yakuza 3. It was always pretty infamous for that but yeah it was much worse in the remaster. I picked Easy on that version just to make it bearable but it was still awful in that regard.

Counter for everytime bro says "proverbial."

I honestly have more trouble with arcades than with mahjong. If you know the basics its just a matter of time to complete the task, but arcades are completely annoying.

Honestly after 0 and ishin every other platinum in the series seems easy by comparison

Judgement on ps4 alone is an S tier. Took more time to complete that puyo game than pool on y3

man if you played yhe ps4 version of judgement , you would put it in S tier easily , judgement puyo puyo is so much harder than in the yakuza. Opponents are a level above

I like to much ishin and i didn't platinum yakuza 5 so yeah my teste it a bit rubbish 😅

Assassination of bodhisattva rocked hard for outro

The hardest are card mini games and legend difficulty trophies

every gambling achievement is hard for me............

For money grinding in Judgment, i used a video for Blackjack, save and load until you get a specific card (forgot which one it was), and then you would be able to get tons of money following a patern. It takes a while to sell every item but man was it worth it!

Where do I go for the best yakuza guides I plan on getting the platinum in 0-6

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Mahjong and Shogi makes my brain melt

Yakuza 3 is absolutely the worst if you also do the Haruka Requests.

As someone who had to actually learn koi koi and mahjong to play this series, I really enjoyed how it forced me to persevere and throw myself at stuff untill I could beat it. Winning ten times with the catfights was by far the worst, most annoying and boring thing to me. Worse even than the hostess BS of 3 and 4.

finally got to judgment. ps4 of course. funny enough, I didn't have trouble with drones or puyo puyo. what i hate is damn thumb turn minigame. its awful beyond human comprehention

To me 3 and Ishin were the most annoying. 3 had really hard mini games because they're so dated, and Ishin has smithing which took 30 hours alone for me. I got all the plats and they were all worth it though

This is why i do not 100% play games lol

Ratchet and Clank and Yakuza? Man, you got good taste