"he hates orphanage because he was an orphanage" is a 10/10 line

I feel you about Mine. I thought he was boring character for most of the game, then you get all his background dropped on you when the game is about to end and I went "This guy is so cool please don't kill him off!"

Your reaction to Lau Ka Long is very much justified

21:59 LMAO THAT CAUGHT ME OF GUARD SO MUCH

17:14 so u just gon ignore that

I really like that you discussed the worst qualities but also some of the best things in the game. It took me like a year to beat Y3 because of the combat and the age that it showed after playing Yakuza Kiwami 2. I remember screaming like angry german kid at that chinese spear guy.

if you had the tiger drop, you’re able to use it on andre’s running attack. however, the tiger drop in yakuza 3 doesn’t negate the possible damage the attack does as if it landed anyway.

Actually on that kanda stone plate phase, u can smash it without the heat move by doing the lotus flare fist. I use that move a lot in 3 & 4 cuz it's the fastest way to charge heat + knocks down most enemies

Kyriu Bullies everyone and takes their lunch money for 42 minutes.

I completed the full story of Yakuza 3 without any of Komaki training moves, it was the living hell

Interesting commentary but you could tone down the earrape parts a bit

29:40 "Oh hey, it's this fight... AHH!!!!"

Fighting Kanda for the first time almost made me quit but after that fight, I found Komaki, and was able to enjoy the game finally. I would have definitely quit by Majima 2 if not for the counter attacks

Only realised recently that you fight Lau Ka Long on the same roof you fight Kashiwagi in Yakuza 0

I do see why people hate Yakuza 3, or simply see it as a skippable game: Beyond his "curious gameplay", his story feels like a "What now?". As you said most of the characters that appears came from literlly nowhere, the story for my taste feels really rush and that It doesn't have a certain point, and Mine as a villain feels really lazy and rushed: When I first play it I thought that Anderson was going to be the final villain and not some random who even tho his actions are somewaht noble (In his way) feels like a last time change. I believe that what makes Yakuza 1&2 so enjoyble is their conections beetwen them, seeing how the conflicts from the 10 Billion are about to provoque a War beetwen clans, how the characters presented make sense to the plot, of course they have their downs as any other story, but I hope YOU understand. Sorry for the long text, I felt inspired.

i liked rikiya, it was one of the only bosses that made me think about actually start dodging and punishing with a combo, he probably changed how i played yakuza in general, treating it as that i cant just spam a combo and win

Got my popcorn ready

I'm starting to think I beat Yakuza 3 wrong, more than half of the attacks this guy did I never did in my game, and didnt know it existed until now.

that first fight with Majima looks like one of Tekken 6 stage, just lacking the rain

I actually felt like Mine was pretty well developed over the course of the game. He starts out seeming like he’s a homie or at least one of the only sane men left in the Tojo, but that mask starts to slip as the game continues and more about him is revealed. Yeah, the dump at the end is a lot, but you don’t really need it to understand his character, which I think is a good thing. It just provides additional (possibly unnecessary, even) context for why he is the way that he is. I should also mention that Shibusawa does a VERY similar thing in 0, which not a lot of people criticize, and it’s arguably a lot worse in 0 considering that Shibusawa’s whole thing was hiding in the shadows until it was his moment to strike, which had the side effect of meaning that we knew jack shit about him before he became Dojima’s right hand man near the end.

i come back to watch mine getting punched in the face over and over it’s cathartic

very impressive skills you have. awesome video

15:30- Are you sure about that? I only went through Y3 once almost a decade ago and I still very distinctly remember doing that on my first run.

"Oh hey it's this fight AAAARGHHHHHH!!"

I definitely rushed through 3 and looking back at a maxed level Kiryu it definitely looks like more fun. But grinding through 3 can be a pain and I understand why people don’t take that time to max him out

You can parry Mine's heal

Rikiya blocks much less in the original. In the remaster, I installed the quickstep restoration mod and just sidestepped his attacks, which seems to be what you're supposed to do.

Damn 13 Boss Fights... Maybe Yakuza 3 needs the Kiwaki Treat

bruh i didnt even know there was i parry in yakuza 3

What ive found quite usefull was weak attack + 2 strong attack while the enemy is on the ground. the 3rd hit will reset him to the ground making it super easy

15:39 ._.

I feel like rikiya was supposed to be a tutorial fight to show the importance of parry’s but the problem is 1. That’s not intuitive enough and 2. That’s not exactly a good idea, having a boss that forces you to learn a defensive mechanic like that because it bogs down the pace.

Nice commentary and gameplay of that fun game I played not that yakuza 3 game I didn’t try it yet so nice commentary and no damage video 👋 🙂

How you kick him like that? 00:13

This is pretty helpful because i started a new game on legend just be majima 2

I'm curious why you don't use Tiger Drop, is it just because the timing is so tight that the risk isn't worth it?

to me Andre 3's shotgun was the easiest to cheese, his burger king ass is too slow to turn around if all you do is roll around him and spam xxxy

17:12 KIRYU, NO!

How do you have komakis training right from the first boss fight ? If you start a new game doesnt that progress go ?

UHMMMHH 39:27

Such badass....

This is the normal version or the remastered one?

in the feel the heat moments how did you decide which move to use?

What's the name of the youtuber that taught you how to avoid Lao's attacks?

No fight tilted me more than kanda, I hated this boss I just couldn’t get used to his move set, never doing a new game because of him

I on my first try found every boss fight fair and not annoying but kanda sucks he blocked the whole time and the fight got dragged out to like 25mins :/

thats combo string you do, how do i unlock those moves?

bald

I had to use the bicycles to damage him

All the little ins and outs you gotta learn to be good at combat for the bosses is just a further illustration to me why I never really wasted the time 100%ing any of these as I'm playing through them

How are you raising heat automatically?

Eh. Whats the point if this is with clear data? Then again itd be boring if it was a fresh game. All my regrets for playing this on hard, especially against the big guy. It was only very late when i learned not to connect the start of my combo on enemies. The biggest pain werent the bosses but group encounters and getting womboed.

Why is the gameplay stuttering

how do you do a kick instead of a stomp to enemies on the ground?

19:10 Ever heard of distance katana heat action ? :>

Berisik kali 😂

I am first

17:15 Sega’s favorite QTE

Okay this is hot