I loved how Date was the biggest fucking bro ever in this game

@kevo300

5 ай бұрын

Yeah Date being a huge bro I hope hes lenient with Yamai

@UndyingHatred_

4 ай бұрын

He really was.

Yamai was a surprise favourite character. I didn't expect him to get THAT cool.

@rainbowtie18

5 ай бұрын

Same!

@ekio3572

5 ай бұрын

he became cool out of nowhere. when you rewatch the first few scenes with him, you cant find any depth in him besides another bad dude.

@passbyicecube

5 ай бұрын

They get Dio to voice him in Japanese, that really should've hint that the character going to be special and holy sh*t what a character he is.

@ryochan161

5 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie, after Yokoyama's words about how Yamai would overcome Majima in popularity had me doubting hard, but hell, I fell in love with him in the middle of the game already. Overall all the new cast characters are great. Tomizawa and Chitose are absolutely lovable, and Eiji is the biggest hate sink for me since Iwami.

@TheFoolTohru

5 ай бұрын

Me as well! He's fucking god-tier!

Walking into Anaconda Mall for the first time had me geeking

@Hellsing7747

5 ай бұрын

Great review dude ! Also, I was wondering if here are way to level up jobs rank faster?

Shoutout to Homiezawa 🤜🤛

@LuisMane1

5 ай бұрын

Shout-out to our homegirl chitose

This game is very much a case of B tier writing with S tier ideas and generally S tier characters across the board for me. Bucket List is such a good mechanic on a narrative and gameplay level in restoring Kiryu's will to live, and i adore just the wonderfully goofy and crazy shit you can do in Hawaii. The combat is by far the most fun ive ever had in a turn based rpg

@h4rshturtle456

5 ай бұрын

100% agree also tomi anf chitose beeing the only new character and also the best characters is amazing

@stevenclubb7718

5 ай бұрын

That's pretty much the LAD series in a nutshell. There's a couple of games that mostly hold it together until the end, but a lot of recycled plot beats (Y6 uses so much of Y3's Okinawa stuff) and nonsensical plot reveals (Y4's rubber bullets and Y6's Secret Of Hiroshima being the worst offenders). But lots of great character moments and scenes so you don't mind the bits that are kind of crap.

@Vibes-gw9qp

5 ай бұрын

​​@@stevenclubb7718I disagree, secret of onomichi was over the top but def not nonsensical like rubber bullets

@stevenclubb7718

5 ай бұрын

@Vibes-gw9qp The Secret is awesomely cool... but utter nonsense as you not only have the nearly magical mechanism to expose it (see also Castle Of Osaka), but would require quite a lot of work to keep it in that condition. It doesn't kill the story (that would be almost everything in the final chapter) like Rubber Bullets, but it's definitely one of the more nonsensical things to happen I the main story.

@Vibes-gw9qp

5 ай бұрын

@@stevenclubb7718 well first about the Osaka castle, idc about that coz it literally didn't have any effect on the story Now onto the boat, you say that the mechanisms required to reveal it don't exist irl and yes, yakuza is an over the top series but over the top doesn't mean nonsensical, in fact the twist actually made a lot of sense in context of the story and certainly wasn't dumb like rubber bullets

Id call Infinite Wealth Kiryu's Swan Song but just another Adventure for Ichiban

@thatdats306

5 ай бұрын

Ichiban was a side character in IW, Kiryu took over as soon he was introduced.

@KingShibe

5 ай бұрын

Ichiban didn't even get to meet Kiryu after Ebina's defeat or confront Ebina himself when they revealed he's also Arakawa's son

It really feels there should have been a chapter between 13 and 14 so a certain character in the ending felt a lot less confusing, since that character basically just left and then randomly show up in a very confusing way at the end.

@h4rshturtle456

5 ай бұрын

Feels like they ran out of time and had to rush the ending

@apthegoat1

5 ай бұрын

You mean ei chan the wheelchair guy?

@Subpar1O1

5 ай бұрын

I think you're talking about Eiji and yea he just kind of comes out of nowhere. He disappears after the nightclub scene and looks completely different. The ending in general could have done with a few extra scenes to bridge the gaps imo

@route77productions

4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed how rushed the final 2 chapters felt. This game could've used 2 extra chapters to further bridge out important issues.

@soldier_4th_class

4 ай бұрын

Yea i got confused during tatara channel confession when the person show up with mustache, i was like, WHO?

This game is incredible, but it's absolute treason that SEGA had to taint Kiryu's last game with the whole NG+ situation.

@angelganon8213

5 ай бұрын

You mean the ng+ situation that was the same for y7?

@omensoffate

5 ай бұрын

I say it’s more of a taint to screw it with yong yea

@JarendFromVietNam

5 ай бұрын

​@@omensoffate FAKE KIRYU

@alihorda

5 ай бұрын

At least that was somewhat fixed later ​@@angelganon8213

@darrylaz3570

5 ай бұрын

@@omensoffate Oh my god shut the fuck up already. To say YongYea being Kiryu more problematic than NG+ being paid DLC is legitimately insane of you.

The way Ryu Ga Gotoku made Hawaii is so beautiful and really captured this feeling of being a tourist there like Ichiban even in a Like a Dragon fashion of always getting into trouble. To think you can roam around Hawaii like that when its only a small area and mostly cutscenes in Persona 5(even Royal version didn't fix this) is really great plus being able to swim on the beach. Also this came with some of the best karaoke songs ever especially Honolulu City Lights.

@Rad-Dude63andathird

5 ай бұрын

Tbf neither Hawaii nor big free roaming worlds have ever really been Persona's thing.

@lifedeather

3 ай бұрын

Nice profile pic

@kennethshiro9500

2 ай бұрын

hawaii was ok. the npcs are ugly and everyone conveniently speaks fluent japanese.

wasn’t the ultimate kiryu adventure i was expecting but still loved it. and the gameplay improvements are a massive plus, as well as the beautiful hawaii map

@shunakiyama6275

5 ай бұрын

It litterly was tho

@shunakiyama6275

5 ай бұрын

Even the smallest characters from the kiryu saga came back

@user-ki8oc1zg7l

5 ай бұрын

@@shunakiyama6275 The smallest came back, but the biggest ones didn't (for example, who wouldn't want to look at all grown up kids - not only Taichi). I mean they could have handled it differently.

@shunakiyama6275

5 ай бұрын

@@user-ki8oc1zg7l the biggest absolutely came back, the kids are the only big thing missing

@returnofskurk1633

5 ай бұрын

@@shunakiyama6275 It wasn't, there was so many things they could have done and they didn't.

Danny Trejo did a great job. That added a lot to the story. Was a cool character too. The scene with him and Tomi was probably the high point of the story in my opinion.

I'd like to think that the reason kiryu is seeing thing in rpg mode even when ichiban isnt there is because his sickness is causing hallucinations and his ultimate move is him breaking free of it for a brief moment

@Synthpopper

5 ай бұрын

Good one. For me Ichiban just rubbed off on him and feeling in charge of a party again has got him playing into it and pretending. Whereas Ichi is dead serious schizo

@schionaltar8079

5 ай бұрын

@@Synthpopper better yet, it's a combination of both, Ichibans influenced along with cancer induced hallucinations lol

17:42 Can we talk about how built Adachi is? Dude is in his early 60’s!

@deanospimoniful

4 ай бұрын

Serious old guy strength.

@PianoHypnoshroom

4 ай бұрын

Virgin Kiryu (can't beat cancer in his 50s) vs Chad Adachi

@ericbaker8781

3 ай бұрын

I think that that’s how Ichiban sees him as opposed to how he actual is, I could be wrong

Leon, as a old time fan who didn’t really connect with Y7 combat, I totally love this gameplay, I even told my self, let’s go grind because I wanted to lmao, Having Kiryu and ichiban as a duo, nostalgia & future was an amazing choice, I never thought that a turn base yakuza game would be on my top 3 of yakuza games ever

@devilleon7

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome! Glad to hear you're having a good time :)

@TheFoolTohru

5 ай бұрын

♾️ Wealth is Peak!

@UndyingHatred_

4 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@descendantofartorias2067

4 ай бұрын

I enjoyed 7's combat but I think IW proved how flawed it was and massively improved it.

My biggest problems are the different minigames that they keep introducing you to during the plotline and the continued substory ambushes when you are going somewhere.

@illupo300

4 ай бұрын

welcome to yakuza

@Boyzby

Ай бұрын

As I was playing the game, I was trying to think if it's just gotten progressively more annoying with shoving the side stuff into your face and forcing you to do it. It's so bad in this one, with the worst offense you having to stay on Dondoko island for days before moving on. Just have the things on the map and I'll check them out if I want to.

@SolidSnake240

Ай бұрын

​@@BoyzbyDodonko Island def slowed the pacing down. I hope they change this in future games but they probably won't lol.

Can't wait to use skill inheritance to get Birthday Bash on every characters move list.

IW is probably my favorite mainline game to date, and it also came out on my birthday - I absolutely loved it

I also felt a little unsure on certain parts of the story (especially towards the end) but looking in retrospect, I just think Infinite Wealth gave us a banger package of a game - So it makes up for it for me. And yeah while the whole NG+ stuff sucks, I feel like 99.9% of people "boycotting" this game weren't even planning on buying it lmfao.

@BLACKSTA361

5 ай бұрын

I was. And I will still buy it eventually. But you just gotta send a message. You start giving them passes and they'll eventually exploit us all. They're just testing the waters

@omensoffate

5 ай бұрын

I think something bad is gonna happen to our boy ichiban in the 3rd game

@highwind9984

5 ай бұрын

more like paid bombardment towards the game, just like RE4R

@chukyuniqul

5 ай бұрын

Oh I was 100% planning on buying it. Just not at a 70$ price tag. I refuse to condone this shit. The ng+ thing and the localization thing, yeah those only really validated me.

I feel like they had trouble tying everything together at the end Like A Dragon had amazing writing and a satisfying conclusion in comparison But Infinite Wealth has a lot of great moments and side content to always keep you engaged, there wasn't a single point during my 110 hour playthrough that i thought "man i'm tired of this game"

This game came out on my birthday, but my pc broke a few hours into through my playthrough. PAIN. I can't play it now.

Would love to hear your honest thoughts on the ending, cause it left me with ALOT of mixed feelings 🫤

I looooove the bonds system. The conversations were so interesting and surprisingly real. As soon as the bonds opened, I cleared the map actively searching all the conversations.

@77-7-

4 ай бұрын

Go outside

Cool strat: Using Smackdown is SUPER handy to get easy levels for new jobs that have been equipped at rank 1!! The higher your level, the easier it is to rank up your new jobs with smackdown

@hulkasaurus

4 ай бұрын

Once they fixed the stat bug i used this as a super easy way to level every job to 10. Only took 2 fights maybe 1 minute per job as i was at level 40 but boosted my stats like crazy.

@EastmanWestman

4 ай бұрын

@@hulkasaurus what stat bug?

You just spoke the truth so much fan service cant wait to do every substory and the island and the combat change mind blowing

Yea I am with you on the NG+ debacle its a damn shame people are not willing to give the game a chance for one known issue with the game.

@SentientPotatoXIII

5 ай бұрын

A lot of consumers don't want to support companies that make questionable decisions like that but that doesn't mean the game is horrible. It's like the whole issue with Hogwarts Legacy but not as controversial, I've heard it's a good game but people want to hate it and not support it simply because of JK Rowling.

@marilagi

5 ай бұрын

@@SentientPotatoXIII hogwarts legacy was best seller because of the controversy 😂

@SentientPotatoXIII

5 ай бұрын

@@marilagi yeah but you know how much hate it received because of the controversy? I legit lost friends just because I said the game looked fun 🤣

@archersterling6726

5 ай бұрын

I have a question regarding that. Can you play higher difficultues without NG+? In Yakuza 7 higher levels were kind of a must

@SentientPotatoXIII

5 ай бұрын

@@archersterling6726 pretty sure he says it in the video but no, you can't.

I've put overall 69 hours into Infinite Wealth and nowhere near completing the game yet. Took a break after hitting chapter 8 or 9. I'm really enjoying it a lot more than Like a Dragon. Just wish they didn't release the game a week before Persona 3 Reload.

@yourboyrussell6738

5 ай бұрын

Nice.

@dirtbikehussle61

5 ай бұрын

Sega competing against its self.

@yourboyrussell6738

5 ай бұрын

@@dirtbikehussle61 Thought the same thing; why the need to compete when both games are under the same publisher anyway? And both have their own established fanbases as it is? Why not pick both, right?

when you talked about soundtrack the barracuda theme just popped into my head :D

Amazingly said, as always

Would've loved to hear Tomizawa in karaoke, but since he's the vocalist of King Gnu, that's out.

Can finally use Essence of Roadside weapon on Ichiban as a shared skill. 10/10

I'm 27 hours in and just started chapter 6 😅

@monlei1020

5 ай бұрын

Same bro Life and responsibilities have made me only play on weekends 😭

@deffloyd

5 ай бұрын

I'm around 37 hrs in, and I just started chapter 7.😂

@TheFoolTohru

5 ай бұрын

​@deffloyd I'm currently on Chapter 8, 40 Hours in barely touched on Sub-Stories. I only do those when I'm done everything else. ♾️ Wealth is the biggest RGG game as of yet.

@asmabalaska2428

5 ай бұрын

Question can i finish the game in 1 month if i play like 4 hours a day

@h4rshturtle456

5 ай бұрын

Took a week off from work 107 hours in at the dlc dungeon now will finish that and the see how ng+ is

Thank you my friend , not only for the video but replying to my question on twitter ! Always been my favorite channel since your awesome streamathon of all the games! Highly value your opinion regarding these games🤟🏻🔥

Exploring Hawaii feels so great its so gorgeous definitely my favorite location in thw series. I'm on chapter 8 and without spoiling for anyone else I love what they do for both main characters, Ichiban on another awesome adventure and Kiryu approaching his last adventure

This review was awesome! My fav game series of all time. One thing unless its right under my nose but I can’t find a way to pick and set my favorite battle abilities instead of going to the list and find my favorites.

Boy the fight with the 3 old friends is amazing, and they joined you in turn based combat in the end is just cherry on top (even better had a we able to control them)

Thank you for making so many awesome yakuza videos. I love your content, keep it up man💪🏻

This game looks promising will def look into buying it soon. Love your content btw Leon keep up the amazing work

I didn't know the taxi change. I just was doing it the same way that I did in Y7.

I had an absolute laugh about your critique with NG+. That blank stare was priceless!

Your review is very detailed and you touched on a lot of points that are absolutely true. There are a lot of quality of life improvements in this game from 7 and even compared to the other games. Minus some story issues (and Sega DLC bs), this game is very solid and definitely one of the best games overall, in the series to this point.

I just want to say, it was a joy to watch your stream. You really do deserve all the success, you have achieved. Yakuza 8 really improved in all aspects. Despite ng+, it's still good value for money. I agree with stars like danny trejo, being involved displays the strength of the series. I have a feeling the next setting will be in south Korea. I predict that some groups will target kiryu.

@karumina

5 ай бұрын

Yeah and in gaiden someone kidnapped shishido. I'm sure he won't forget

Great video! Are you planning to do a spoiler review with some more discussion on storypoints or characters?

Small clarification about kiryu's awakening system. Only the traits that have the stance names are the only ones exclusive to Kiryu. Kiryu keeps the resistances he gains from the awakening system

Agree with all your points about the gameplay, so many QoL changes from 7, it's so much fun to play and you don't feel penalized switching jobs often.

Leon gotta do a new tier list of dynamic intro fights, also I agree with everything you said on here, well said.

This is a must play 🌊🐲

The actual story was a bit bad with how rushed everything came about in the end. There were many things we should've seen in Ichiban's final area and they never showed it. The final fights were also a bit underwhelming. But everything else was stellar. The substories coinciding with one another made Hawaii feel so *alive* it was so cool seeing npcs interacting with each other. The memories were great and felt like a love letter to the fans. (Where tf is the florist memory tho? Hes gotta be dead or something) And the interactions between the party chats were funny and charming. Story gets a 7/10, gameplay 9/10

@liahknight56

5 ай бұрын

Ever since 6 the florist and purgatory have been banished to.... a literal purgatory. they both exist and don't exist because he's too much of a plot device.

@zura8879

5 ай бұрын

Also I'm bothered so much by Haruka and Kiryu's reunion being hinted to have happened off-screen. Like what the hell? That's one of the most important parts of Kiryu's life and you don't show it on screen?!

@Neskess

4 ай бұрын

​@@zura8879dont worry we will see Kiryu with Haruka and Haruto in Y9 😂

Been waiting for this one. It was a wild enjoyable ride, watching all the streams. I had a blast. Edit: B A R R A C U D A is a banger fr fr

@devilleon7

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for hanging out in the streams! Loved having you around And yes, Barracuda peak track fr fr

SPOILERS: The ending was sorta bittersweet with Kiryu now seemingly being physically unable to fight ever again. However him not meeting Haruka nor some reuinion with the sunflower kids kinda makes it feel incomplete?

Favourite game of all time by far. So much content it’s unbelievable

Gaiden got me to cry, Infinite Wealth didn't. Now that doesn't mean IW is bad, far from it but I wish it was more emotionally charged. Still recommend that long time fans give it a shot 😊

@solace2679

5 ай бұрын

IW is damn near the most well-written game in the series in my opinion, and because of that I didn't particularly care if wasn't as emotionally full as the others.

@user-ki8oc1zg7l

5 ай бұрын

@@solace2679 what a joke! The most well-written game? When they forget about important characters and plotlines? When the antagonists are as bad as they can ever be? When Kiryu gets less time than Ichiban in the epilogue and it is supposed to be the end of his story? I don't even mention some wasted potential-characters and the fact that lifelinks contradict to the main plot.

@AnimeSimp234

5 ай бұрын

@@solace2679 I have to agree. I think the only stories I liked better were 7 and Lost Judgement.

@kazumakiryu1617

4 ай бұрын

Ebina was an amazing antagonist wym.​@@user-ki8oc1zg7l

I feel like they missed an opportunity with the Memoirs of the Dragon and the Bucket List. They could have made it so at the start of the game Kiryu is a monster and made the combat easier and faster then constantly get a little weaker and weaker till when he gets back to Japan when he is at the same level as the other party members. And then by doing the Memoirs of the Dragon and Bucket List he gets back his strength as he is getting back his will to live.

I *just* described the story to my friend as being the LJ to Y:LAD's Judgment! It's really the best way to describe the differences in how personal the stories of both games are.

@SpaceCattttt

4 ай бұрын

But with both LAD and Judgment, the first games are superior.

@RoyalBlur97

4 ай бұрын

@@SpaceCattttt from a story perspective, yes. Gameplay, LJ stomps over the first game, same thing with this game.

@SpaceCattttt

4 ай бұрын

@@RoyalBlur97 I'd mostly agree with that. But there are too many jobs. And there's no point in leveling up more than the basic ones, because you can't use the best weapons with whatever job you'd like. So all those cool outfits? Forget about them.

@bankai7623

8 күн бұрын

​@SpaceCattttt LAD7 gameplay is unplayable after playing 8. Plus your certified of the jobs makes no sense . Also lost judgment is a lot more fun to play . The msq while I agree with you it's not bad. It's subjective.

Of the 100hrs on my playthrough (not beaten it yet), at least 6 were spent on karaoke. This game is perfect.

Very cool video. I am still on chapter 14 of this game so I am glad you didnt spoil anything super duper late finale wise 👍

I'm 20 hours into the game and I'm still on chapter 4. Haven't even unlocked the chick as a party member and I'm still using the default jobs. Can't wait to get to the other island

Best yakuza channel on KZread W vid as always🔥

@devilleon7

5 ай бұрын

Best viewer on KZread W comment as always

@hartantoanggoro

5 ай бұрын

@@devilleon7 Sorry that SEGA overlook your efforts in Yakuza lore and thanks for your content

One thing I really liked is the new weapon crafting system. I grinded my ass off in 7, and to this day I never got a single weapon to EX EX. Meanwhile in 8, I just made my 5th weapon +50.

This is the best turn based combat I've ever experienced. It's not even particularly close. RGG took everything wonderful about Seven's combat and dialed it up to eleven. The story may be lacking in some ways, but the wonderful exploration, fantastic characters, and brilliant combat make this a must play for any RPG fan.

danny trejo is basically majima everywhere for movies glad to see him doing games i think he's a perfect cameo reminds me of how yakuza 6 had beat tekashi a very popular japanese actor even westerners would recognise straight away

Last boss was pretty good i feel. And the track playing to it with the dynamic intro is eargasm as well as awesome as always. Though i personally didnt find the boss battles all that challenging or interesting mostly.

That was a good review.i do wish you brought up the funny hawaii radio show but its alright of course

Outside of the main story, this game is 100% the most fun I've had out of all Yakuza games topping Y5 for sure, the only side content that I didn't enjoy was Dondoko Island(I tried but its just so boring) but almost everything else felt like a classic Yakuza experience, and the gameplay itself is a massive improvement from 7. I was baffled with JackSepticEye recommending this game as a first for people, but honestly I started to agree a little after finishing the game. I know that Gaiden is made after Infinite Wealth but where the fuck is Watase? The dude that is Co-CEO with Daigo for the security company just disappeared, thought he was dead until Sawashiro briefly mentioned him.

Just finished the game recently myself for the first time. Overall a good experience! Most of what is conflicting to me is storywise (especially towards the end), but I had a blast. I wouldn’t call it the best Yakuza game, but is certainly a good one

Just finished it, fantastic game! NG+ issue aside, my other gripe was some of the pacing in the story towards the last 2 chapters. IW truly is the Lost Judgment, the combat, content in IW is superior to 7 but 7 has the better story. 9/10 game for sure!

i still havent bought the game so im avoiding most of the videos/streams but i hope i get it soon :), i skipped the story parts of the video and im just listening to it

8 is definitely one of my favourites now, but I only have one gripe and that's the story just... ends? Likd of course it does, but I feel like they could have added a few more scenes. Akane and Lani don't show up at all after you split between Hawaii and Kamurocho, there's no follow up to how Sawashiro is doing, we don't see Ebina getting taken away, it just feels like it was brushed aside to dedicate more time to Kiryu and his final few scenes. I have no problem with the ending we got, this is definitely one my favourite games period, but the ending maybe should have had a few more scenes. That's just me though

I am in love with the game! Currently 30 hours in and just got to the splash screen of chapter 6. I think i'm getting lowkey overleveled. I am level 28 and the enemies in Chapter 5 were around 17-18

@devilleon7

5 ай бұрын

I was overleveled especially later on too, but I didn't want to take risks, and also the dungeons gave really good rewards

@daniel____4236

5 ай бұрын

Same here. I just started chapter 6 and I'm level 36. With all 3 party members having bonds over level 50

@GiveMeTheDragonBalls

5 ай бұрын

Best thing about these games is you can choose what you wanna do i as well over leveled myself and it felt so nice to breeze through enemies and enjoy my surroundings while still having fun!🔥

@TheHiddenOne690

5 ай бұрын

@@daniel____4236 woah level 36? You must've been grinding street fights or the dungeon

cant wait for the review with spoilers... lots of stuff to talk about

I was loving, placing the auto battle on. Adaptive was the best. I was healing and using sp. Helped me watch a video on tips and tricks lol.

Question: Will there be a spoiler version of this review where you go more in depth about the story later on?

@devilleon7

5 ай бұрын

There will be something like that, yes, look forward to it!

You said everything right Leon...this is the best game I've ever played. Judgment had the title before...but ♾️ Wealth is built even more different. (Also Chau Ka Long's theme is fucking amazing! 🔥)

@Connor.trashy

5 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure it’s Ogre has reborn from Yakuza Kiwami, I was so happy to hear that play during memoirs of a dragon

I'm only on chapter 4. Great game so far!

@MiniDallas000

5 ай бұрын

Great to hear, I'm on chapter 9 and now I'm able to make Infinite Wealth without dondoko island or sujimon

18:15 lmao I expected Kiryu of all people to not join the squatting part because of his seriousness and I'm glad that he did 😂

I would have liked some kind of music in the background for the DLC " big swell"

I've never had so much fun playing a new game in quite a while , I put a 110 hours in it to do all the side content , maximize the personality tree and especially complete kiryu's awakening cause I felt he deserved my time as we'll never get a chance to play as him again . I am not a fan of turn based games as they don't hold my interest for more than an hour tops so I didn't get Yakuza 7 , but I was willing to make an exception for this and boy it didn't disappoint but rather exceeds most entries in the series .

great video

My only huge issue with this game's story is to do with *that* one character at the end. Besides that, I love everything about this game. I do wish though that Kasuga didn't feel overshadowed towards the end.

The gripe i have with dungeons is that the enemy variety is not amazing, so you usually fight the same enemies for a good while. And of course the dreaded NG+ Paywall. But i am enjoying the game safe to say

You say you and others care about NG+ and it matters that it's been taken away, and I agree with that entirely despite not caring too much for it personally. The point I wanna make is that we are already having things we care about taken away and its been that way for a while, I'm talking about costumes, its like 40 something costumes locked behind dlc? I really like customising my characters in any game and the fact people brush it off as "well its just costumes it doesn't matter" now the same thing is happening with NG+ , its a sad state of affairs.

Game really was an incredible experience and I’m honestly really happy with what they did to improve from 7. The only thing I’ll say about the story is I feel like there should’ve been another chapter or a couple more cutscenes for the last 2 chapters. Feels like a lot of loose ends or “oh this character is just gone now” and that was sad to see.

Was waiting to see your thoughts on this. To me, the finale with kiryu made the meaning of my favorite yakuza song, Im fading away by Steve J. Conte, absolutely meaningless. I felt more pain seeing kiryu having to slowly die instead of a badass death with an amazing reunion with his family.

Yea man this game is very addictive 😆. I've been playing it nonstop since I got it 👍

awesome review. 30 hours in on chapter 6

I appreciate that they fixed the difficulty issue compared to 7 (just them becoming bullet sponges who barely give any more EXP.) That said, locking them and NG+ behind paywalls is really low. Without that, it would've definitely been the best game of the franchise with 0 (and Lsot Judgment f we count it.) Regardless, i'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.

I'm only just finishing chapter 4 so I haven't even unlocked the whole game yet but so far I like it so much better than 7, and I liked 7 a lot... everything feels better, combat, the substories are really fun, I absolutely love the humor, it's such a goofy game and kasuga is the perfect honorable fool character...one gripe I will say is I wish they expanded the roster further with a whole new party, instead of only a few

I do feel the bucketlist a bit lackluster with some parts as the finish for kiriyus story

Its the first game when i've gotten first place in karaoke ever (especially pog for being first try) so I'm pretty hyped about that

the recruiting enemies thing reminds me of shin megami tensei. they thought of everything the fight system is octopath/ xenoblades idk this game is crazy. for someone that plays everything this is everything like nier automata was everything you know what i mean? its a must have for real.

Beta flying sojimura is the best OST track.

Hey Leon, been playing through IW and in Chapter 5. I looked over the skill inheritance stuff and after watching your video this is HUGE for me. I have a few questions about it though. Can I use Dragon of Dojima job moves with other characters? And is skill inheritance gender specific, like can I give Nanba housemaid skills? Or give Chitose hitman skills? Guessing that Joongi will have his hitman class in this game like in 7 Oh and does this only apply to jobs that you get from Alo-Happy or Hello Work? Or does skill inheritance work with character specific classes?

@EastmanWestman

5 ай бұрын

Wait nevermind, figured it out. Still an extremely cool feature! I love using Chitose's charm as a ninja

Sadly, I still need to finish Like a Dragon (up to Chapter 14), Lost Judgment, Ishin and buy and finish Gaiden. I got my work cut out for me. That reminds me, I don't think you made boss videos on Ishin. Are you planning to?

yo is the new game plus worth it? well the deluxe edition

Honestly the amount of times I had cried for the whole Kiryu bucket lists and everything based around his story. I cried like a baby

I have to gush about the soundtrack. honestly, most of the games have a couple songs I save in my playlist but nothing crazy, but this game literally has 19 (I had to count this, but yes its 19 lmfao) battle themes that I REALLY like. I've never had yakuza music speak to my personal tastes so much, and honestly it might be the first LAD game I replay because the music is top tier, and hawaii is such an amazing location

Quick question about skill inheritance though, Does it only let you pick moves unlocked past level 1? They moved the peppermill attack to level 1 and I want it permanently as it became a running joke with my friends and I.

@duskyui

4 ай бұрын

level 1 skills are inheritable, you just need to switch into that class once and you're good to go

Do we know whether it was a rgg decision or a sega decision to lock ng+? Its extra sad to me if it was an rgg choice...

This game's story is the only one which gave me no goosebumps at all. Can you make a video for the people who already played the game, talking only about the story ? I did not understand a few things and the ending left me a bit ... idk. It was not as good a story as Yakuza 0 or Yakuza 7 in my opinion.

Leon forgot to mention is that Infinite Wealth and Yakuza 7 both suffer the same problem which is both Ichiban and Kiryu die and it make them game over which you can't revive them at all.

@sladelius6174

5 ай бұрын

Like Persona, if the protagonist goes down, you fail. Always try to keep your HP reasonably safe.

@omensoffate

5 ай бұрын

That’s fine. Get good

@devilleon7

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it would've been nice if that wasn't a thing but eh

@darthvaderreviews6926

5 ай бұрын

While it can _feel_ unfair, I understand why it's there. Otherwise, enemies would need multihit attacks that can wipe the whole party to actually pose a threat to you

@Yes917

5 ай бұрын

@@darthvaderreviews6926Thats still the case, at least in my play through it was. Most of the time when i died it was to bosses spamming AOE attacks. Its pretty frustrating to die this way especially when you cant perfect block some of the AOEs cuz youre not controlling the party leader.

I have a lot of issues with how they handled the bucket list, I feel like it's a damn shame if this truly is Kiryu's last game. Secondly, I don't know if it's just me, but the main villain(s)/final boss really wasn't it for me.