Do We REALLY Need a Kiwami 3? 

No need for a epic edit more the subject is more important

Imo the video would have been better with gameplay of yakuza 3 behind you 😅

bro just make more unedited its great and its really not necessary when just talking about stuff like that !

sometimes less edits its more preferable anyway

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@@The56567878 not trying to burst the bubble. But I feel like the series would've been fine without y3. To me. It didn't Add anything to the series they couldn't have put as flavor text about the kids

@@angelganon8213nah Y3 fleshes out kiryu the most showing that he does care about the kids rather than just leaving them off screen which would be lazy af

@@angelganon8213without 3 we would never essentially get the plot for 6 as well as the set up for saejima being introduced into the series through hamazaki plus majima saga beginning in the series. Even the daigo thing was important as it began to show his leadership in how he was leading the Tojo clan and guys like kashiwagi being the last of his kind to be from the old school era trying to adjust to the new emerging era of Tojo

I love 3 but I really don't think it's true that it was a shift from standard Yakuza stories to delving into Kiryu. Yakuza 1's story especially is incredibly laser-focused on exploring it's main character's psyche. As much as I like it it's a very flawed story so I really don't blame anyone for spacing out and just seeing the surface level Yakuza conflict but what the game really is all about is a person who puts no value in his own life and happiness if it means he can help his loved ones, and how this complete self-sacrificial nature can turn back around to hurt the ones you love. Kiryu's act of sacrifice ultimately lead the people in his life to feel lost and alone in his absence, and in Nishiki's case, to a feeling of strong inadequacy that it wasn't HIM who could stand up and take the blame, how he will always live in his brother's shadow, and frustration that Kiryu, in a way, abandoned him, which in the 10 lonely, lost and confused years of his absence festered into resentment. Kiryu valued himself so little that he failed to see the immense value he had to others, and how, by sacrificing himself for them, he in fact ripped apart from them the thing that mattered the most. This overarching theme is what makes me love the story in spite of the fact that it's admittedly kinda bad, because it's such an interesting idea that I've not really seen any other stories dedicate themselves to. Yakuza 2 is much more of a Yakuza story with it's intricate power struggles and more action-packed storyline but it still dedicates a lot of time to Kiryu's character. His romance with Sayama is after all one of the most important parts of the story. If anything I think it's after 3 that Kiryu's characterisation started to become a bit shakier. Not in 3 specifically, but the games that came after it. Not all of them, but he does feel flanderized in a good number of them and most frustratingly the lesson he learned in 1 that I described in the first paragraph got ignored and again and again which is what soils me a lot on the story of 5 and 6 even though they both have a lot of good elements. edit: The line from Yakuza 0 that he says to Nishiki in the forest, something like: 'We're still just kids, making trouble for Kazama and thinking that we can make everything better by dying' describes his character really well. It's one of his most important traits and flaws, and although of course it comes up again and again in the games, it's 1 specifically that goes into it the most.

I appreciate Yakuza 3's story, but the gameplay was a little rough to get through for me. I played the games in this order: Yakuza 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 3. The much more limited combos and the enemies blocking almost everything made the fights way less fun than previous games. I'd love to see a Yakuza Kiwami 3 that brings the game up to modern standards.

He made it three days before this one lol

And Leon will make a follow-up a week from now titled "Okay, but do we *SERIOUSLY* need a Kiwami 3 though??" and they'll just never mention each others' videos directly lol

I'd say this: If Kiwami 4 and 5 get framed as "Ichiban's Homebrew Table-Top Modules" playing fast and loose with the actual events and mechanics? MAKE. THOSE. GAMES! Otherwise? Yeah, don't bother.

Also people not wanting more Kiwami games is weird. They are not just graphical overhauls they are brand new ass games.

@@justabomb8629 im so on the fence about combat changes. I am in love with Yakuza 3 wallbound combos. It's my favorite entry for combat, i have 140 hours on the game just fighting bosses in the coliseum. If it was janky ass Dragon Engine combat, i wouldn't even touch it

@@sogflesh4030If we do get a K3 I just hope we see the return of OGDOD over Oryu/Yakuza style of course it would probably need some changes to suit the advancements of the dragon engine

All I want is seamless on screen encounters! No text box rubbish!

@@justabomb8629 Ehh, they add a few new things but they mostly are just graphical overhauls with the combat and some side activities ripped from the most recent game. Which isn't always an improvement, OG2 has better combat than K2 in my personal opinion. Still no bowling in the Dragon Engine too lol

So true!

judgment* kiwami* 🤓, but yeah, I prefer another judgment but obviously it would take more time than kiwami 3

@@GiluGian that makes no sense giving the fact that the first judgement already uses that engine

@@nickneal8676 Judgment* And it will take longer because it is a new game, new story, new characters, NEW mechanics, new secondary content while much of that is already done in yakuza 3, you just have to modernize it and if they follow the same structure as the previous kiwami (re use all the animations of the cutscenes almost changing nothing), it will take even less time than doing for example, all the facial expressions and motion capture

@@GiluGian I perfectly fine with that as long we get it got no problem waiting

@@queuedjar4578 Yakuza: Kiwami^2

Not trying to dampen your mood but they were also posting Kiwami 2 memes for a while before they switched to 3, so they might just be cycling through the games

@@Turtlemannnwe’ll have to see. We’re getting close to the summit and if they’re STILL posting 3 stuff then hey, who knows.

they did say they're planning on it just they dont know when they'll do it, atleast i read somewhere that they said that

I love your Answer! Y3 is indeed very Beautiful. Plus I really did love the combat! Such amazement to see and behold how far we've evolved!

RGG released Yakuza 0, Kiwami, 6 and Kiwami 2 within three years. They don't *need* to save up time and resources from remakes to make "new and innovative" because they've already shown their ability to do both

@@carcinoGetenicist true but yakuza 6 and kiwami 2 are seen as more mixed games by the community. So tbf. While they CAN do it. Should they, is the question we should be asking.

@@carcinoGetenicist True, but both Kiwami and Kiwami 2 have flaws that could have easily been ironed out with time. 0 is the most polished of the 3 but even then, something like the gear system is something they likely would have scrapped if they had a bit more time to playtest, or they would have realised that playing Kiryu with the Quick-Change-Clothes is so much more fun than without it and allows for so much more interesting tech and skillful gameplay that they either would just have made it the default or at least would have given it to Majima too, while maybe fixing the completely skewed balance his fighting styles have. Of course this was at a time when Yakuza just started gaining western popularity, the little faults of older RGG games are easily forgiven because they did not have the budget, but as things are now, with Yakuza finally getting worldwide appreciation I really wish they spent the resources they now have more wisely. I haven't played the 3 most recent titles (Gaiden, Ishin remake, Infinite Wealth) yet so of course I won't comment on them but for instance in Lost Judgment it felt like the game was super bloated with a massive amount of side content, a lot of which just overstayed it's welcome. If the game had half the amount of school stories with twice the quality I would have loved it way more than I do now. And if the quantity of side content wasn't so overkill so much more focus could go into pushing the main story's presentation to the next level. Not that it's bad, necessarily, but once again Lost Judgment specifically seemed to especially suffer from the common LAD problem of having way too much expository dialogue, and with more resources allocated to the story, the amount of dialogue could be cut down with a bit more smart writing, and what remained could get more interesting direction, and more fully animated cutscenes instead of the dry press x to skip shot reverse shot delivery. Or ishin could have been more than a port to unreal engine with gameplay changes that people who played both the original and the remake seem to almost universally dislike. I again won't comment on Gaiden since I haven't played it but people always talk about it being developed in 6 months positively, like oh, this is so cool and impressive and sure, it's very impressive but it's also completely psychotic. I don't know how good Gaiden is but I can guarantee it would be way better if it was given anywhere near a reasonable amount of development time. Yes, they can do both, but they could make much better games if they didn't.

@@carcinoGetenicist I like your Pfp :)

I'm honestly really surprised no sort of mod has been released on PC that specifically adjusts block rates. Though personally I never had problems with Yakuza 3 (remastered)'s combat though that is subjective.

@@queuedjar4578Same ngl.

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Honestly you guys just suck at the game lol

@@ldking5132 Blocking is easy to get around anyway lmao. Leon literally said in the video just because you don’t mind an issue doesn’t mean nobody else does 😭😭😭

yakuza 3 is hell but a fun hell

Or judgement 3

​@@nickneal8676 found judgment

I disagree

I agree

These two previous replies.. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

@@devilleon7LMFAAAAAOOO the duality of yakuza fans

That's how I feel about 4-5 and 0.. Unnecessary but it's gonna happen and they probally will still be diffrent enough and have enough quality of life fixes to make them worth it

Yeah but where does it end? Going from Kiwami 3 to 4 Remastered is probably going to be equally jarring

@@GunGun-cf3ss not really as the jank in 4 doesn’t compare to 3. Hell you can do amazing wall bounce combos with Akiyama. No one really complains about the combat in 4

@@peterparker1683 Yakuza 3 has the exact same wallbounding mechanics, it's just a little trickier to set up.

​@@GunGun-cf3ssYakuza 5 is very close to 0 so I'd say you could definitely end at kiwami 4 but honestly even a shift from 2 to 4 would at least be a little bit less jarring

Considering Johnny and Associates is a dumpster fire rn I don’t think we’re gonna get a Judg3ment anytime soon.

​@@idfkimaclown Yeah true, but the new agency seems to be much more liberal in its policy and it resumed full operations in April this year, so I think while we won't see Judgment 3 this specific RGG Summit, I can see it being announced next year or 2026. Hopefully.

@@obafrog Yeah fingers crossed on that. If we don’t get a Tanimura Gaiden then I wouldn’t mind him having a role in Judg3ment.

@@idfkimaclown Ooh yeah, he's literally perfect for Judgment. Could even fit Shinada in there tbh if they decide to go to Nagoya for whatever reason.

the is still 7, judgemnet and ishin while he waits for kiwami 3