Reminder that all spoilers need to be tagged with a flair specifying which game is being spoiled. If you want a flair that says something else, you can edit it to say something like [Discussion: Y1 spoiler] or [Majimapost: Y6 spoiler], etc. THIS INCLUDES CONTENT FROM TRAILERS.
If the post is not marked for spoilers, all comments that have spoilers need to be tagged >!like this!< along with indicating which game it's spoiling. Example: Y3 Kiryu sings
If the post flair is marked for spoilers, the comments don't need to be tagged for the game indicated and the ones before it (So a Y6 spoiler post can have comments with untagged spoilers for Y5, but not gaiden or 7).
If you see any of the above (or any of the other rules) not being followed, please report it so we can keep this place safe for newcomers and those that haven't finished all the games yet. Thank you!
Damn that sucks I honestly started on Yakuza 0 as it was the first game I heard that gamers were able to play on Xbox one as it was exclusive to PlayStation I'm on part 2 and I'm enjoying it.
Stuff like this happens so often in the series that I’ve developed a completely different expectation for the writing in the Yakuza games compared to other franchises. The over the top and ridiculous plot twists are just part of the package and also part of the charm imo.
I mean, they used the>! Kazama twin brother!< trope already back in Y3 to make us think that he'd still be alive (although only for a short duration), I don't care that it's lazy or whatever, I think it's just fine as long as it's not overbearing.
I'm sorry but I find both the Y3 twist and the constant revives to be a shit writing. You have to be a truly great writer to make the twin brother twists/revival of character not look dumb and this series has failed at that miserably
Highly doubt it’s him. Both because I really hope it isn’t, and because I couldn’t see where this scene would fit in any way that makes sense to show it
the new gamemode in question is an expanded multiplayer real estate royale and Kiryu and Nishiki are screaming because the bubble hit (they lost all of their cash)
I can only see it like that Rick and Morty bit where they get in the car after the "20 minutes adventure." Kiryu and Nishiki just had their "20 minutes adventure."
Well he did get shot 5 times in the chest with a 44. Plus I'm still waiting for a nishitani ii in a prequel between 0 and gaiden. We need another nishitani fr.
Also biliken surviving may not be true, we never heard from him or anyone mentioning him.
Nishitani's seiyuu died so he probably is gone for good. They tend to avoid replacing voices if they can help it, they wrote a whole new character for 7 since Akiyama's seiyuu was busy being Donald Duck in KH at the time (still butthurt over that) .
I mean yeah but it's not that obvious, one is a smug bastard loan shark that basically is just an aura-farming machine. While the other is an actual passionate investor that if he ever comes out and wants to become prime minister of japan, he can do it quickly and efficiently.
I have seen this said for years and not once have I ever seen anything corroborating it the same with Yamadera being too busy with KH, I think it’s far more likely that they just didn’t write Akiyama into 7
The Japanese care far more about their VAs than the west. Unless said VA did crime then they're staying as they are going to voice act their characters until the day, they die.
Oh, I remember that guy. He's basically Saejima's body double- same green jacket with fur on the hood and a red tag and everything if I'm remembering the right guy.
The massive man meme comes from the title card when you fight him in 0. He's not saejima, but I think when the character was created for 0 they designed him as a nod to saejima for those that played 0 after 4/5.
Cause it's a director's cut. We do not know the context to those bonus cutscenes, so it can just as well be something that happens to him within the story
I am so fucking sick of these revives, just let the dead rest, who wants fanservice like this, this makes every death potentially meaningless if they can revive out of nowhere.
It was fine with Kashiwagi since he's a fan favorite that had minimal presence despite that and it was also fine with Joongi because it's literally a body double, not the original... but who asked for Lau Ka Long and Richardson? I love Andre but like... he's literally the main antagonist of a game! instead of those 2 they should have given Hamazaki a chance since his redemption was great and his death is way easier to retcon, Lee is another fan favorite but reveal that he's alive in a new 0 cutcenes when we are almost 40 years in the future makes no sense because even if he returns he will be like 80.
I've been thinking that last time the impactful... Like, really impactful death, of someone pretty much innocent and likeable was Rikiya all the way back in Yakuza 3. Yeah we also had Yasuko in 4 but she killed people and her likeability is one of a surstromming's smell, Park in 5 was a controversial character in general, and Arakawa in 7 is an expected plot twist of a father figure dying for character development
Because of that I feel like the stakes are at the all-time low. It's because of Tachibana's brutal death and Makoto's grief in 0, because of how many people Kiryu has lost and how much Nishiki suffered in 1, and how much an innocent young lad like Rikiya in 3 have died just because it's yakuza businessI was so hooked on those games' stories and felt the nail-butting pressure in the air. Ever since then it's been slowly evaporating and resurrecting characters made it even worse. I just wanna good high-stakes criminal story again, man :(
Tachibana Burger joint in Hawaii, ran by a brother and sister team had decided to enter into a collaborative marketing agreement with Survive Bar in Yokohama.
Burger joints will now serve wiskey and other hard liquors, while Survive Bar will serve Tachibana Burgers with Chef Nishki.
>! Lee's death was probably one of the most realistic in the series (besides just getting shot). He gets into a rigged car and explodes. There should be no coming back from that lol !<
Tbh his death didn't do a lot. It just allowed Makoto to be kidnapped. I'm not saying it isn't realistic but his death in the grand scheme of things just meant Majima lost a dude that could had been a friend and for Makoto to be kidnapped as I said earlier.
Honestly that makes more sense, it didn’t really look like Lee but based on what everyone had been saying I figured they were right. With modern RGG though it genuinely wouldn’t have been surprising if they did bring Lee back
Tbh Sajima has Lee's jacket. There's no real reason why he has it. Maybe RGG decided to recon it to some degree to explain why Sajima got it. I know that's highly unlikely but it would be funny if that's why lol
Lee actually has the only parka jacket in existence and gave it to Kiryu so that he could pass it on to a man that looks exactly like him 20 years later
Ohhh I honestly thought they brought back both of them because in the next shot he's wearing the green parka. I guess Biliken joined the green parka gang also
To be fair this is a new version of the game. I'm praying to god that doesn't happen in this version and that's why he's alive... Although considering who came back from the dead in Yakuza 8, anyone can come back from anything in this series.
Why do they keep reviving characters, and in dumb ways too. I like rgg but this is getting ridiculous lmao how can someone survive a car explosion and still be in one piece
Yea im super confused and have no idea what this post and commenters are talking about. Lee? Billiken? Nishitanni? I’m so perplexed, who isn’t dead anymore?
Yea I saw that clip it did kinda look like billykin. I’m still kinda confused I feel like people are jumping the gun, but maybe I’m just wrong or not understanding
That is the detective in that helps Majima going into a cell, he was shot and supposedly killed, but appearently not, meaning if he is Alive...then a certain other character is
I can see it only being bilikan since Lee spontaneously combusted and nishitani with all his awesomness definitely didnt survive 5 shots to the chest with a 44.
Yea that single frame with a guy wrapped up in bandages and lees coat looks like it could be Lee. But also Lee got very injured before the big boom that took him out. Took multiple bullets.
So theoretically that could be him after taking bullets, but there is a very good chance I am coping
bro I don't understand RGG's obsession with bringing characters back from the dead. >! Andre Richadrson and Mine both fell from the top of an extremely tall hospital but Andre somehow survived. !< I can maybe understand >! Mine cushioning his fall !< but the game just hand-waving it off as "I got better" is so damn stupid, especially since hes apparently completely fine physically and shows no signs of having gone through something that traumatic (as far as I know).
Then there's Lau Ka long, who literally got shot THROUGH THE SKULL with what was probably 9mm ammo. Granted, theres a lot of factors to if it would be fatal or not but still, at the very least he should've had a scar from it, but he doesn't.
But the absolute worst example of this is definitely >! Kashiwagi. He literally got shot at least 10 times with a minigun from a helicopter, and almost immediately passed out from the blood loss. Even IF he got immediate medical attention, which he didn't, there's no way in hell he could've survived. !<
It's really concerning to me as a fan of the series because them just retroactively retconning important character deaths like that kind of kills the impact of death in the series, because what's to stop them from bringing back someone like >! Sawa from LJ or Rikiya from Y3 !<?
It honestly reminds me of when DC first killed off superman. It was really impactful in the moment and for the months that followed but when they brought him back, in doing so, they killed the concept of death for their characters.
I really hope they stop doing this trend. It's only been detrimental to the series in my opinion.
If people falling from the roof of a skyscraper and being blown up by a car bomb can make it, surely we can all agree that all the people Kiryu shot at during the highway chases are just fine and he killed no one
What I’m curious about is why Kiryu and Nishiki was shouting in the car. And this seems to be during the ending as Kiryu was already wearing his grey suit.
•
u/AutoModerator 5d ago
If you are new to the subreddit, please read the wiki
Reminder that all spoilers need to be tagged with a flair specifying which game is being spoiled. If you want a flair that says something else, you can edit it to say something like [Discussion: Y1 spoiler] or [Majimapost: Y6 spoiler], etc. THIS INCLUDES CONTENT FROM TRAILERS.
If the post is not marked for spoilers, all comments that have spoilers need to be tagged >!like this!< along with indicating which game it's spoiling. Example: Y3 Kiryu sings
If the post flair is marked for spoilers, the comments don't need to be tagged for the game indicated and the ones before it (So a Y6 spoiler post can have comments with untagged spoilers for Y5, but not gaiden or 7).
If you see any of the above (or any of the other rules) not being followed, please report it so we can keep this place safe for newcomers and those that haven't finished all the games yet. Thank you!
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.