Thank you to everyone who has subscribed for 35k subscribers! But what's more special is that I hit 10 million views!!! Even though at the time of writing this it doesn't display that in the about section on my channel lol. Pretty fricken crazy though so thanks again to everyone who has watched any of my videos :) hell yeah anyway I'm gonna go play more Infinite Wealth bye bye

This Infinite Wealth game looks fun, maybe I'll give it a go once I'm done playing Dondoko Island and Sujimon League.

I put the game down and cried myself to sleep after checking my banking app and realising that i did not, in fact have infinite wealth.

Somehow managing to talk about how much he loves Shinada in a video about infinite wealth is a certified SnowiestAngeman moment

"you're missing out on Infinite Wealth" GIVE ME SOME TIME, I've just finished Kiwami 2 last night 💀

I think the character and relationship carryover is a big part of the reason that I love the Ichiban games even more than the Kiryu ones, and I love those A LOT. I mean the fact that Shinada wasn't even a recruitable player for the baseball mini-game in 6 when other similar mini-games in the series let you recruit people that have no business being there was just pure nonsense. Shinada is life.

You're completely wrong about 10:39. RGG would just act like Saeko never existed and pair Ichiban with Chitose

My god Keith David as Kiryu would have been GENIUS.

I was pretty shocked how Waikiki is modeled as accurately as it is. Like, I know Yokohama and Kamurocho are also pretty accurate to their respective real life cities, but having actually been to Waikiki beach, its pretty cool to experience noticing the exact hotel I stayed at when Kasuga walked by it at the beginning.

I wonder what contrived reason RGG is going to give Yagami to come out to Hawaii in his next game.

Samurai and Desperado were fantastic. Every male party member either had lasso or fire arrow. The movement in the combat made it so much less of a chore compared to 7. I had a similar scenario with the quiz. Saw the space one. "I know space". First question. "I do not know this". I didnt do anything else but Dondokko Island when it unlocked. Ichiban just disappeared for 29 days. The funniest part is Chi-chan mentioning finishing up the video. Took her a month to edit the video which is a funny headcanon.

The shame of Yong's casting is, he is a fine actor. He probably could have played Tomizawa or the creepy trenchcoat guy and done a great job, and not been completely distracting. Meanwhile the guy who voice Sojiro in P5 would be PERFECT casting and he's all over the game as random Hawaii background NPCs. Plus whoever played Keith David in this game was not up to par, honestly.

when they said in the trailer "rgg studio brings you the ultimate entertainment" i didn't think they were being serious.

Quit playing game. That man is no thief.

29:03 THAT WAS SMOOTH AS ALL HELL, WTF

Infinite Wealth has the best turn based combat I've ever seen. It's a joy to play from start to finish.

I think Like a Dragon should go to more places around the world. It would be great if Ichiban's travels always take him worldwide, but there's always something going on back in his homeland related to whatever he's discovered in the new place. It makes it feel like a never ending hero's journey, venturing across the world, seeing new sights, fixing new things, making the oppressive dark world around him brighter one step at a time.

Fun fact, btw. According to the IW credits, Brian Bloom still voices Jo Sawashiro in the Eng dub.

This is like yakuza 5s length had a love child with yakuza 7s combat and out came the perfect mutation. 2 uneven numbers creating an even number or slmething idfk.

Speaking of voice actors, of course Danny Trejo's character would use twin machetes.

2:19 the fog completely dissappears (even outside the borders) when you explore the whole map

I’ve been having a blast with this game, and I’m only like 10 hours in currently. So many of the changes made have been amazing and genuinely improved my opinion of the turn based battling in these games immensely. Great video man!

Wanna commend you for not punching down on people who either like or dislike Yong when addressing the issue of his casting. Very refreshing. Also hoping for another composer highlight vid

Holy shit, the ending you with combining TTT2's Massive Piano Mix with IWs cutscenes was genius, combined two of my favourite franchises. Incredible stuff

Like a dragon infinite wealth composer appreciation when? :D

This video is a cerified classic yet again snoweest anger man

Been waiting so long for this video!!

Been putting about 70 hours into the game and I'm barely out of chapter 7. I've been waiting for you to talk about it even though I've been absolutely loving it. You're my favorite LAD/ yakuza tuber

Glad you mentioned the way the series keeps on writing people out of the story for no good reason. I constantly hear people say "well, duh, they can't keep every character around, you just want fan service, but it's more realistic that way" but I swear those people must have either missed the point or have severe brain damage, because in what way is this more realistic? I get that writers shouldn't bring back characters for no reason other than fan service, but a good writer also doesn't just suddenly forget their previous characters. Wrap up their stories in satisfying ways, show us what happened to them, and _then_ you can leave them alone. Besides, even when they don't play an active role anymore, an important, well-written character leaves their mark on their world and the people inhabiting it. Small references here and there have never hurt anybody, just _anything_ to acknowledge the fact that they still exist, or at the very least _used to_ if they're dead. People see fan service and immediately freak out, but there is nothing wrong with giving fans what they want as long as it's not forced or excessive. Just like everything else in a story, it simply has to serve a purpose, this one being consistency and world building. IW may have some writing issues in other areas, but this one thing it did so much better than pretty much any other Yakuza game aside from Y0 that it's still one of my favorites story-wise.

The fog of war is fun to uncover, but when you uncover most (like, 99%) of it and open the map, a notification will tell you you've explored all of Honolulu and reveals the entire map - including areas you couldn't access Edit: people are telling me this hasn't happened to them, I've done it twice so far, in base game and NG+, best guess is people are still missing the ocean tbh, that needs to be fully uncovered

I feel what you said about never returning to LaD7. Because although I absolutely fucking loved every second of it, this game is such an incredible improvement. It doesn't mean I love 7 less than I did at the time. But I love 8 so much more. And regarding Yong, look, I don't even think it was that bad. Sure, some characters were weirdly cast (particularly Daigo and Akiyama), but the directors and actors were so coordinated that they were still able to make it work somewhat. When Kiryu has a sick fit, Yong definitely sounded pretty sick. When Akiyama got mad, he definitely was mad. Were they the best? Maybe not. Did they *do their* best? Absolutely. The directors put their whole directussies into their work too.

I am currently playing through 7 and i have been loving it, nice to hear infinite wealth is even better

As someone who has 80 hours in the game I freaking loved it i love the story Ichiban remains as my facorite and Kiryu story full of fanservice and a love letter to all the yakuza series

At least according to the credits, Brian Bloom did return to reprise Sawashiro in Infinite Wealth.

the big swell paywall is worth the $10. especially after everything you said about fleshing these characters out, its an endgame dungeon with slice of life cutscenes. I loved every second of it

I think my favorite 100% true fact about Yakuza is that they have deadass reuses Tanimuras hair more than they have used Tanimura himself

i now have 90 hours in and am still going on my first run, this is absolutely the best yakuza game for me; its just beautiful.

Its funny because a few weeks ago i posted about how Shinada is the proto-ichiban and someone said i must have been watching your videos which I hadn't. Now watching this, im glad to see someone else saying what ive been saying for weeks, that Keith David should be Kiryu. His work as Dr. Tenma in Pluto solidified that for me, and he can sing, too.

Honolulu City Lights is a straight banger!

When you started to describe Shinada I had a lightbulb moment. The way you described him. Optimistic, average person, loyal and friendly to his friends I immediately went; 'So, kind of like Ichiban' and that's when it clicked on why I actually liked Shinada so much originally in Yakuza 5 when I played the game. It made me realize that Ichiban has a lot of common traits shared with Shinada.

i didnt even realize how after nagoshi left, the series started becoming more consistent KLFDJSAL also i will still die on this hill that shinada should've had a separate rgg game instead of being shoved in yakuza 5. because while i do enjoy his part i still struggle to understand what his part had anything to do with everyone else's story

i played at least 200 hours of this title and i dont know. im yet to be convinced this is worth my time. maybe they will impress me with yakuza 9 but im going to need at least 300 more hours to figure that out

Finally, someone who has actual criticism for Yong Yea. I've said it before, but hed be perfect for YOUNG Kiryu. Like, 0 and Kiwami Kiryu. Also the ABSURD autotuning for the english karaoke is ass and balls. Especially since Best Character Ever Joongi Han FINALLY works up the courage to sing on stage and the english dub is autotuned because his VA just can't hit high notes is piss. Not to mention is Yong Yea JUST autotuned for every song. Like holy shit, I've never wanted to not listen to the karaoke more than now.

I can’t believe you forgot the very thing that makes this the best Yakuza game: Joongi Han Karaoke

Finished the game last night. I'm not gonna say how i feel about the story in this video as i don't want to run the risk of ruining anyone's expectations on it.... This is the most fun i've ever had in a Yakuza game... they fucking cooked

Missing out? I've been playing this near two weeks and haven't stopped, send help.

Just leaving a comment here to say thank you for putting the music you used in the description.

another banger video snowiestangyman

This year is a great year for jrpgs

Seperate comment to say that the devs made Kiryu's ass so huge in Infinite Wealth and I can't prove it, but it DID improve the story significantly.

My favourite part of the fog of war mechanic is that one you fully explore Honlulu, it all goes away. Cramming Ichiban into every corner truly paid off.

Game of the Year.

Last Steam Summer sale I got kiwami 1/2, the remastered collection, 6 and 7 after only playing 0 a long time ago. Since then I have started playing through them all because I'm crazy and wanted to see what the story/games were like. I wasn't a huge Yakuza/RGG nerd, but after playing a couple YT started recommending me videos on the games, and I'm glad they did because you're a great creator. It does come through the videos that you are passionate about the games, and it's an interesting perspective for a casual fan like me to see how someone really into these games feels about them. I do look forward to what you talk about in the future, I know branching out after making mostly Yakuza videos might seem scary, but I think what comes through your videos isn't that this is an RGG games channel but that this is a channel about games that you care about. Meanwhile, I just finished Y5 and have started 6. I know people rag on 3 for having that section at the orphanage, but as I'm only really playing through these games once, I do appreciate the different tone of that section, and similarly after listening to the overly elaborate plot of 5 I really like starting off with taking care of a baby. Something I've noticed is that the writing is both so good and so completely ass in these games. Everything that has to do with the "plot" / villain's plan usually makes no sense, but everything involving characters talking to each other is usually really amazing and can get emotional. After hearing what you said about Shinada in so many videos I was excited for his portion in 5, and I was not disappointed. Though, as part of my curse, I really liked Tanimura in 4 and the fact that both of my fave new protags disappeared into the ether does make me sad. Can't wait to see how 6's story turns out, it has me hooked with the drama of Haruka being in a coma and learning about what happened in those 3 years. (I do watch all your vids, I just stop at any story discussions and come back after I've beaten the game to compare my thoughts with what you express in the vid)

This might just be the best thumbnail ever

I'm excited where they go next in the series

I wish they kept more of 7’s musical style. I love the yo mama battle theme

You know that a game has good site content when you cant wait for the Sequel just to play more of it. Dondoko Island 2, Dondoko City,Like a Dondoko 9, Dondoko Island Kiwami. I dont care what they called but i need more of it. They already teased more summon stuff but damn i really need that dondokodong

Awesome video. Subbed

Played crazy driver for 2 hours straight. Yeah this game is the game of the year for me

To add to your thoughts about Yongs Kiryu voice, people who complain about voice acting for Japanese media even though if you showed them some of the best acting in the world they'd still say it "sounds terrible" They often compare the sound of a voice to bad delivery or bad acting when those two things aren't the same. Yong does mostly fine on his acting and delivery, but you can tell he's just too young for Kiryu and his ability to sound tough is actually holding him back a bit. He's fine. He gets a lot better I think in the second half of the game, but he's not like some abysmal performance that some people think he is.

Kiryu's voice would of been strange if he was voiced by a black man. But a cool black party member would be a cool adition to ichiban's party.

New subscriber! I’m in Japan. I’ve lived here half my life and speak both Japanese and English. I love love loved LAD 7, and the new characters, especially Han Joongi and Zhao. I was so excited to get to play as Seonhee, as well. The story is incredible, and maybe I’m a cry baby, but I cry every time I play the game. It’s such an emotional, heartfelt game. There is sooooo damn much to do, so much you can grind and so much Kiryu is asking to do. The only complaint I have is not actually wanting to get good at mahjong, koi koi, Oicho Kabu, or play all the gambling games, just to satisfy Kiryu. 😂 Edited to add: I love your breakdown of the characters. A+. I’d love to hear your thoughts of the individual characters, your breakdown of how the characters became how the are. You’re very insightful!

Every time snow talks about any Yakuza/LAD game I get this feeling to go back and play Lost Judgement and get all the achievements

Nice thumbnail. I can't wait to find Shinada, Kaito, and Dante from Devil May Cry 😂

Great thanks now I will never be happy until Keith David plays kiryu

I love this game so much, such a treat, perfection almost

Playing yakuza like a dragon right now I'm on chapter 12 then I will jump on infinite wealth. The man with no name is fun as well.

Probably doesn't mention it in this video (or maybe he does and I haven't gotten there yet) but the inherited stats bug has been fixed in the most recent patch. Anyone reading this in the future, when the game launched, there was no point in leveling any job past 30 because you wouldn't get the inheritance stats from those jobs. That's been fixed now. People are saying they suddenly feel wasaaaaaaay more powerful because of it.

It’s fun. Even after story..so much extra content

i've been playing yakuza for around a year, and right now I'm at chapter 10 of Yakuza:LAD. Seeing all of these videos makes me want to rush the story so bad to start playing infinite wealth

Another banger!

Peak thumbnail, peak game. It comes very very close to toppling my favorite game of all time, that being Yakuza 5, and I'm only on chapter 10. I'm so very happy with this game and will be playing it for the next few months to completely finish the Sujimon and Dondonko storylines

Hope you make a story video becuase I want to hear your thoughts on the finale

IMMENSELY BASED Miguel enjoyer

Thank you for this video, brother!! Hate to sound greedy, but could you also do a video next on best jobs suited for each character? Someone did that for the last title and it was a life saver for me

The sr1 speech fit way too well on that clip.

I got yakuza 0-6 for like 6.24 AUD each, plus 7 for like 18 bucks. I sure ain't paying any more money for DLC for an already expensive game, when I can just wait for another game I want to play to go on sale. Despite the lack of post game content I did enjoy the game from start to finish. The new jobs were all fun but Samurai and Kunoichi were so OP that I just made everyone that, except Nanba and Tomi, I made them hosts. I also put Cho back as mafia after I got the samurai skills for him. All three jobs are OP since they excel at fire and/or gun which most enemies are weak to. Plus Samurai's iza shutsujin move is such a quick way to fully buff your attack when you've got two samurai on your team. (I played the Japanese version so I'm not sure what it's called in English) Outside of the jobs it seems the game really rewarded the player's exploration and experimenting with everything they get their hands on. I felt OP and I didn't even use the workshop much, I just used the equipment I found in Hawaii and in the 2 dungeons and I was mostly strong from those. Plus ichiban's laser and the countless delivery help people were an extra layer of damage goodness. I put nearly 100 hours into it and there are still Sujimon masters I haven't beaten, side quests I haven't finished and equipment I haven't found. honestly I was going to 100% it if it wasn't locked behind a paywall. Apart from that my only major complaint is that there isn't much point in grinding beyond level 53 (which I think is the final boss level) I was the same level as the final boss and I still felt overleveled as I could kill almost any non-boss encounter before it could get a turn. Even though most of that is because I could just summon and deal 1000 damage for $5000/500000 yen. It feels like there's a difficulty spike a little before the halfway point and then it's pretty easy from there, and the weapons you get from just exploring are so strong that grinding materials to craft weapons just doesn't mean much. (though I felt that way with the last game as well) I do still think that this game is a lot better than 7, It does a lot of things better but maybe the bigger scale of the game just made some of the issues already in that game just stick out to me. Luckily the game's positives are way greater than the negatives though.

Thank you for pointing out how prozd is in these games yet no one talks about him. Like any time i saw someone complaining about the new kiryu voice 99.9% of the time they never played a single one of the games in dub

Skill inheritance is so good dude.

That's all cool and all but the real question I have is where the heck did Joryu disappear to?

*LOVE seeing the franchise finally get the mainstream success it deserves 😍 I beat like 7 Yakuza games last year so I'm taking a break 💀 but I'll most likely buy it this summer and go crazy* 🌴🌈💃

Literally my favorite game series ever. In all of gaming... I've been gaming since OG NES release and on, my mom was an Attari kid. We both did arcades a bunch. Yakuza is my favorite gaming series in all of gaming from NES and on. I'm not joking. Not everyone will love it, but it is unironically taking me back to my childhood. The first time I played Mario, Metroid, Zelda on NES and SNES, my first Ocarina play threw, ect. I've never played a series with such well-crafted continuous story and character development, were talking 8 games and spin offs that all go hard and play off each other, like old school comics or something. Story continuity. Also, no other game ever has contained so many different emotions successfully conveyed without throwing things off. You know how sometimes you see a movie, it's trying to blend humor and sadness, but the balance is just off? It makes it all feel wrong. Yakuza can make me tear up as a 34 year old man, from happiness, sadness, romance. It has absolute balls to the wall action, it has that over-the-top ridiculous humor, it tugs at your heartstrings, it has drama, mystery, noire, jokes, sarcasm. Like everything in one game. Normally I play a game and it's like oh this is a action game with humor. Yakuza literally does everything, mini games, incredible side quests. It's my favorite series ever dude. You owe it to yourself to buy kiwami1 on sale and give it a shot! Everyone says start with Yakuza 0 but actually imo start with Kiwami 1 and 2, then 3 and on until Infinite Wealth. Even the side games are amazing imo, Lost Judgement go hard af!!!

Yakuza montage with Tekken Tag 1 Intro song goes hard

This game is so kino. More than any other game in thw franchise im dumping wntire days into the side games. Sujimon, dondoko island, getting all the ally chat bingo cards. Its amazing

I love the shitposty vibe at the end of the voice acting segment, and we did in fact come to the same conclusion. Yong is okay, and my brain is prone to acquired taste (Stockholm syndrome), so I was like "yeah, that's just his voice" partway into Gaiden. Half the time he runs too high, but the other half is literally Kiryu, and I've just accepted that he's inconsistent, but that's okay. I do feel bad for people that can't do the same, because this game is fucking incredible and makes my heart happy on so many levels. Nice review, Snowiest!

Decided to play all the Yakuza games in order, cause this looks incredible and I don't want to miss out, but I want the story to hit to its absolute fullest

I can't wait to mod some of Infinite Wealth's songs into Tekken 8 once its own version of the Jukebox mod comes out (I will never replace Twilight Party Cruise though)

Loved this game man. Its amazing. Sad im finished with it

Good video, agreed on all points

I agree with you on Kiryu's English dub, but also want to thank you for talking about it in a constructive criticism sort of way. I don't think he's a bad voice actor, just that they should've gone with a different voice for a 50 yr old legend whose seen a lot of crap go down in his life. In an alternate timeline, we could've had Kevin Conroy (R.I.P. legend) as the voice of Kiryu. I just imagine his iconic Batman voice, but with some tweaks, and it would fit Kiryu really well.

Darryl Kurylo 🐐

I'm only just getting to Hawaii but I did notice that in ichibans apartment in the background you can actually see Yuki's dress from Yakuza 0 hung up witch is a nice little nod if it's not just a re used asset and actually meant to be an Easter egg

Japan has the most tripping nature after Australia, what are on? It has cities sure, but the countryside is beautiful.

I played for 10 hours straight *just* on Dondoko Island. So yeah, it's pretty fun.

That got me hyped man

I'm 105 hours in now, and running a bunch of dungeons because this is FUN. I just like the combat, characters, animations, everything. Do I NEED to dungeon this much? Nope. But the ultimate weapons all look cool too. OK ok maybe I'm just delaying the final mission because I don't know if I'm ready for what may happen to Kiryu, but hey. Seriously, though -- I'm a huge fan of FF14 and thought Endwalker was amazing because of how it concluded 10 years of story. And a lot of the vibes I'm getting from Infinite Wealth are similar and I'm enjoying this so much. I only joined in on the series back when I first saw Like a Dragon come out. I thought it looked cool, but knew there were the other games in the series and I wanted to play them first. So I did that in 2021. And I loved them. It wouldn't be wrong to say they reignited my love for non MMO gaming that had honestly completely flagged towards the tail end of the PS3 era and for pretty much all of the PS4 era. I've gone through and replayed 0 and 1 towards the tail end of last year and Infinite Wealth is making me want to go through 2-6 again too. Yeah.

I know I'm missing out. Sadly, I do not have the Infinite Wealth available to purchase games as I like. :(

Finished the game yesterday, and all I wanna hear is how much people are enjoying this. Honestly 10/10 experience. Plus I am a Chitose simp and if RGG makes her vanish I will cry. (SPOILER WARNING) The Akiyama crumbs they gave us is not enough. I need him in the story and we need a Gaiden like game for him.

So much game, and so much game in all of the game.

that transition at 29:03 fucks so hard, damn