Edit: OKAY EVERYONE CAN STOP TALKING ABOUT THE YAKUZA 3 TIME OF DAY THING I’M SORRY :’( Part 3? I guess? Anyway, you may notice there are some times where it sounds like I was running out of breath and dying and it's because I was :) but hopefully you enjoy the video regardless. By the way, I am fully aware that in Yakuza 3 you take a taxi to and from the airport. I was just making a joke :)

Speaking of Taxi fare, in Yakuza 0, the taxi near Tenkaichi street costs 10,000 Yen at night because it's too busy. This is likely to reflect on real-life Japan at that time.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who makes the characters spin around for no reason

10:30 About changing time of Day in Kamurocho, you can do it. For some reason, it's at the West Park where Majima Construction is building Kamurocho Hills. There is a hideout between Purgatory and the entrance to the park where you can talk to Nishida to change time of Day.

There's one consistent thing that annoys me: they keep putting in NY Hot Dog places but never let me go inside

Sprinting with R2 is a QoL improvement I never knew I needed until I discovered it, and now I cant go back.

Yakuza writing : 😍 Yakuza writing when there's a gun involved : 💀

"The worst decision ever made" Ah yes, Kiryu appointing Daigo as chairman

12:23 I grinded most of the SP points I needed for the entire game in Lost Judgment on Ijin Street because it will constantly spawn mobs at both ends of the street, so by the time you finish one encounter, you’ve already entered the next one lmao.

honestly they're so annoying, the most annoying one is them replacing mach bowl with rizap

I wonder if some of the exploration changes are deliberate to avoid thegames feeling too 'samey'. All new games have that awkward first few hours where you're learning the mechanics and it helps you feel like this is a new experience rather than just a continuation of the old one.

QoL changes I'm most grateful after going back to games that lack them: - Taxi, anywhere - Map button - Toggle to sprint - SKIP ANY CUTSCENE 😅

See this is why I like this channel; you make content specifically for me.

Yeah the differences in restaurants and shops are really annoying for me. Especially with the lack of restaurants in the northwest of kamurocho, DESPITE smile burger being at theater square since yakuza 3, you can’t eat there until yakuza 6

On the topic of save points and saving anywhere. You could modify a config file to allow the save anywhere feature in Yakuza 0 but the devs patched it out in patch 2. It makes me think that this was going to be a feature or that it was part of re-used code that OG Ishin's engine was using.

There’s an weird thing with Yakuza 5 where every time you go into a ultimate battle with Kiryu or Shinada, and you use their ground heat move, it shows the extended version, then switches to the normal version after. It doesn’t really matter but it does add a good 3 seconds

That photo you took of IRL Karaokehan in IRL Nakamichi Street in IRL Kabukimurocho looks so crisp it made me imagine how damn good the games will look with path-tracing capability. Also SnowiestAngeman IRL Kabukicho vlog when

you actually can switch time in serena in y3, just talk to mama and she'll ask you if you want to rest

Hey, I remember talking about Kurohyou 2 letting you save anywhere you want in the comment section once and now it made into a video. Cool

Bruh... You just dropped on me that you can save anywhere in yakuza kiwami. I was just running to savepoints all the time... uff

One of the weirdest inconsistencies I’ve ever seen is the ability to creat clear saved data, by talking to date, a small thing but very useful, you go in premium adventure to fill out the completion list and then creat a clear data file by talking to date, however for some weird reason you can not create clear data in yakuza 5. WHY??!!

Based acknowledgment of holding B/ZR if you're sexy. Switch Pro Controller gang. Great video, King.

In Yakuza 3 u don't have to go to Okinawa to change the time,u can change the time by talking to saki and by talking to Miki at the ryudou family office un Okinawa while in kamurocho u can change the time at majima family office by talking to nishida and at new serena

in the DE games when u run out of stamina you can go in a light jog by holding the stick about halfway then holding the sprint button its faster than walking and consumes no stamina

I feel like the taxi thing in y7 is to push players to walk around and get their lv up as far as taxi prices and the real estate placements in various titles, iirc it's to reflect their real world counterparts; the amount of cross promotion for yakuza and a lot of the franchises featured (kanrai. gyu-kaku, don quijote) in insane so I wouldn't be surprised if little changes like gindaco crossing the street or the beef bowl spots rebranding are for legal purposes given they are intended as promotion for real world biz

the running/sprinting in Kiwami 2 and 6, you can sprint forever after you drink that prolong your sprint time from vending machine. You literally can sprint forever after drinking that. The drink says prolong your sprint time for a certain time but it's a lie lol

My petty complaint is that I can dress up during the story in the Fist of the Northstar game and Ishin but not in any other game. (Except Yakuza 7 during combat). This inconsistenty annoys me. I always asked myself... what's the point of funny outfits if I can't use them when it would be funny! Why can't I use the diguises in Judgment whenever I want. It's right there. There's a fucking menu for it in your phone but it's blocked off. Why? I just wanna kick ass in cutscenes and boss fights as Shinada the Shrimpman or Yagami in a golden tracksuit.

I really wish you could turn of the guide buttons in LAD in LJ. It's kinda annoying it takes up screen space. I also which you could just switch audio in-game without going back to the main menu like the persona ports.

4:10 this might the most subtle subscribe message I've seen in a video lol

I don't think the quickstep strike in Judgment requires a double tap, I think they just have a specific timing window.

the biggest inconsistency for me is that the lockers Ichiban was left in when he was born in the 80's, aren't actually there when you play as Kiryu in Yakuza 0/1 (which is supposed to happen during the 80's)

12:40 I half expected you to talk about Ijin Street? Which I'm surprised you didn't. In LJ that street has guaranteed and constant enemy spawn on either side of the street, which makes it an endless gauntlet. Chances are by the time you finish a fight, two more groups of thugs will be spawned before you even finish it. Fear Ijin Street..

I think you can change the time of day at New Serena in Yakuza 3 too, by talking to the Mama. She should ask Kiryu if he wants to rest and that will pass the time of the day, but I'm too lazy to reinstall this game to confirm or deny it.

Crazy timing, just bought Ishin and saw this on my feed 2 minutes after questioning why M was pause

Recently played smt 4. Vibing to the background music made me forget I was watching the video lol

Judgment not having a rotating minimap option took me a while to get used to.

For the Y5 near Serena encounters, it’s probably cuz the game saves the RNG seed so you will get those same encounters every time you load that exact file. You can see it best with the lottery where you’ll get the exact same results just reloading a save

Ohh I just thought of an interesting topic for a video. Talking about some of the city stories I guess you could call them. You know all the small stories about the people of kamerocho that happen across the games that aren't usually part of the main story but always really cool. I mean stuff like the park with homeless people in 1 and 0 getting turned into the kamerocho hill's construction site in 2. Which is then slowly being constructed in the background until being completed in 5. Another example, that's actually related, is all the homeless people who had to relocate from west park because of the construction and the new places they have to call home like the dragon palace, the sewers, or underneath kamero theater. It could also just be substory characters that get to continue their story across Multiple games. An obvious example of this komaki in basically every game teaching you new moves and furthering his Dojo a little bit each time. Then there's the couple from 1, 2, 3 who are just the worst. For a more recent example we also have pocket circuit and the Order of Munan Chohept Onast. Which both tell three part stories that led these side characters interact with the protagonists at various stages of their life. I don't know all of this lore about the city of kamerocho is probably one of my favorite things about the series, it really makes the world feel real and lived in because it actually evolves and changes as time goes by. and I would love to see a video going through some of it.

no loading on the judgement pc ports is single handedly the most annoying thing to ever exist

I always hated how in at least Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2, Serena is in a different place each game. In 0, when entering through the backlot, it's 2 flights of stairs up, but in Kiwami, it's only one flight of stairs up, on the right side of the building. In kiwami 2 it is for some reason on the left side of the building.

I just remembered something else, also specific to console versions. It’s the lack of separate volume sliders for music, sound effects and voices. I don’t remember if there were any at all before Ishin remake (that’s where the sliders finally showed up), but they are definitely not there in all of Dragon Engine games on consoles. Usually it doesn’t bother me, because I find the default levels of volume acceptable, but there is an exception. In the first Judgment game you just can’t hear the music, because the voices and sound effects during the fights are SO LOUD and you can’t do anything about it. Fuck this. I can’t come up with a single reason behind it, given that there ARE separate volume sliders in these games on PC. I hope that in Gaiden they won’t randomly disappear for some reason again

You earned a sub for that microsoft flight stick bit 😂

Nah I'm with you on the Sprinting fiasco. I remember when I first played Kiwami 2 I immediately got pissed Kiryu couldnt run for long without losing his breath. I remember I basically had a weak ass Kiryu halfway through K2 and Y6 because I would spend all my points on getting the Sprint high enough where it would not piss me off

Bro in 3, I'm sure Serena has that ability too

My first entry to the Yakuza franchise was the very first game, on the OG PS2 back in 07. It was such a new experience for me. However, I never got the second one, as by that time, I sold my PS2 for 360 games back in 2008. The following year, I got a PS3 Slim & picked up 3 & 4 years later. For my PS4, I got 0 ( already finished ) Kiwami ( already finished ) Kiwami 2 ( already finished ) & 6 ( currently playing ) I also have one of the Judgment games. So yeah, I'm pretty big into the franchise.

Hold up u sure u cant change the Time in kamurocho (Y3)? Im so sure u Just talk to the mama in serena and she lets u change the Time Just like saki

btw i think in yakuza 3 you can also change time at the Ryudo's family office

"Activating" taxis in Y:LaD so they would be available later. wtf?

umm ackshully… …using a Microsoft SideWinder Joystick to play Yakuza is chad behavior. 😤

yeah not being able to load from the pause menu in judgment made scamming gambling early game to get some money a lot more annoying

I’m pretty sure in Judgement, they changed quick step to only work if you were holding lock-on, which I’m too stupid to know how to use

God bless consoles and their never changing layout

9:00 Having been to Kabukicho recently, Gindaco is at its current location because its real-life counterpart is there as well.

An annoying thing I’ve encountered recently is that in the original Yakuza 1 and 2, the button to exit the inventory is TRIANGLE for some reason instead of circle, so I had to get used to that. Then when I went back to one of the newer games I kept accidentally pressing triangle trying to exit the inventory

I know I'm really late on this video but another thing to add to the map button is being able to put a pin down on the map for a secondary marker, it's so helpful when it's there and missed when it isn't

10:30 you can talk to the mama at serena to rest and change the time of the day

I like the Fire Emblem Engage song at the beginning :) My fav song to play at the Somniel.

Oh boy, I also DESPISE Kim and his messages of the god damn Keihin Gang... perhaps one of the most annoying gimmicks in Judgment.

I feel the same with how they changed the camera reset button to the analog stick instead of rt/r2 at least it is rebindable though

hey ange. great content!

“and B/ZR if you’re sexy” ah yes, switch pro controller for judgment :)

I wonder if some of these inconsistencies like the sprinting could be fixed with mods?

I love your commentary style so much. Great video.

god this channel is so good

Saki has the power to change the time of day

I counted 7 smiley faces in the description and it took me a minute to realise it was sarcasm

Man the inability to load without going to the main menu was really frustrating for me on Yakuza 7 on PS4

You are right about the console loading thing

I did NOT know you could just call a taxi from wherever you were in Like a Dragon, i wasted so much time running to the nearest taxi to go across the map, holy fuck. Well, i'll take this into account for new game + i guess.

Funny addition to the whole thing about taxi prices, taking a taxi directly from the map in LAD:IW is more expensive than walking up to a taxi on the street, I guess thats the cost of using ride sharing services

another inconsistency that probably only fucks me over is that in dead souls the map and items are swapped compared to, say y4. good video as always man

I missed the notes about music you were using a few times, and I thought my brain was split in half as I heard Atlus-affiliated music in a Yakuza video. What are you doing to me, man?

they should've brought back sprinting stamina for when kiryu runs in LAD Infinite Wealth

So, really dumb workaround for Ishin's pause button. Use Autohotkey to reassign escape to whatever you have the menu keybind set to. So when you press escape it thinks you're pressing M, for example. Legitimately, if you play games on PC frequently, learn how to use Autohotkey. It's like the easiest way to fix weird control issues. It also allows you to multi-bind stuff, which is also nice. Like you could set, say, ctrl + alt + middle mouse all to fighting stance, so you can use any of them whenever you wanted to. This is particularly useful for games that ask you to mash buttons frequently, as you can set multiple keys to the same input and basically just double mash to really cheese stuff lol (or just set up a full-on autoclicker type thing for the mash button, but eh.) The reason I say use autohotkey is that it's extremely easy to utilize just for one specific game, as it's just a script you run and the script can even include it's own quit function keybind.

I had no idea that you can call taxis with your phone in Y7... I wasted all that time running to that fucking taxi when I could have just pull up my phone and get a cab...

You know what other game has the pause button at M? DOA 5. The N button is set to N by the way.

Hey guys wake up snowiestangeman dropped an another banger!

The worst inconsistency for me is that one of the judgment games (I think the OG) for some reason just requires the minimap to be in a fixed position, while every other game lets you rotate it with the camera.

Is that colony 9 music or Gaur plains?

9:37 did you sing there????

This is not an inconsistency, but what I started to really hate when replying the Yakuza games is have limited save files. In Lost Judgment, I try to get all the main story and substories battles on a save file to replay them any time, but they have a stupid limit for how many you can have. Which is infuriating with how many battles exist in Lost judgment.

I'm shocked how in the Yokohama enemy pack spawns you didn't mention the one that spawns just outside Survive to the left EVERY time you leave the place without exception. I'll go there for like karaoke or a bond convo or just health recovery and come out and that mf pack is always there.

Sprint toggle is so great, but sometimes Ichiban repeatedly runs past the safe I want to open cause I'm in a hurry

1:23 wait it's a toggle? I'm on chapter 7 and I'm just now learning this

This is something pick-ish from me but I really hate the inconsistency on STUNS in Yakuza games. "In this game you can stun by jumping off a wall then press x/square, on this one you can only stun by using an ability locked in two other styles by doing quicksteps, on this other one you gotta do charge attack that won't fucking hit, on this one you gotta do the komaki parry but on the other game the stun lasts 1s" Like can they make up their minds on that 😭? Oh and another extra two things, no matter how shitty the port handled by QLOC is, why can't SEGA fucking try to make a load save? Like, yeah I might have a decent SSD now so I can just exit out over and over but it gets annoying when I'm scum loading saves.

My gut feeling would be that taxis are more expensive in soutenbori than in kamurocho because they are in real life aswell

At least you can do a little jog in 6 and K2 so you can actually get around without losing all your stamina instantly. But holding the stick not the whole way is kind of annoying

4:01 Finally an actual massive inconsistentency, that stuff annoyed me when I went to kiwami to kiwami 2

The taxi fare in infinite wealth is 1100 yen now

To be fair, it does say ‘airport(to Okinawa)’ so he takes a plane off screen

12:20 I find it weird that the Men In Black in Y0 always appear in front of the Kamurucho karaoke bar

Let's not forget that if you go south in Kamurocho (I think it's Senryu Boulevard or something like that, it's been awhile) in 0, the fair jumps from the 660 to 10,000 because of "demand"

104 hours in ylad didn’t know yoh could call a taxi

3:56 Well now you have to speedrun the entire series using that controller

the weirdest thing is the serena/sky finance location

what if the pause button is M in ishin because the devs also couldnt figure out how to set it to esc

I don't think you're forced to hold down sprint button, at least in LJ. I'm using default settings on my XBOX controller and I have to press A once to make Yagami sprint.

You forgot about the biggest inconsistency... in yakuza 3 the florist said that he built purgatory himself, but it's in like a dragon Ishin 🤔

15:35 as a console Player Yes ffs i hate this so much especialy on legend playthroughs of the judgment games if i die it always loads u back into the God damn main menu Same with Just loading idk why its like that but its such a pain in the ass

one thats been getting to me lately is kamurochos hotel district flip flopping on whether or not it has a taxi. yakuza 4 was the first to have that specific taxi and it was in next couple games after it but starting w yakuza 6 its gone due to the top parts of the map being blocked off. kiwami 2 restores the lost parts of the map along w the taxi that was in it. and then judgment removed the taxi there and its been gone since. its not the end of the world that its gone but at came in handy when you needed to be in the north center of the map since the other north taxis are all the way in the corners. i get why 6 couldnt have it, but i dont get why every DE game after kiwami 2 removed it.