Kiryu English Dub Comparison - Yong Yea and Darryl Kurylo 

Woods as Watase, Chris Redfield as Daigo, Leon Kennedy as Majima, and Scorpion as Saejima

Yong sounds okay here, I still prefer Darryl's voice because he fits a 50 year old man more, but wtf did they do with Daigo's voice??!?!

Bruh you can tell something's happening in the dubbing department, there's a massive drop in quality after Lost Judgment and apparently they don't do lip sync anymore?

You know when someone tries to make their voice deep and rough but can't quite do it, it sounds like Yongyea performance, sounds like he is out of breath all the time because it takes too much energy to fake his voice 😅

WTF were they smoking thinking yongyea was good for kiryu?

Yongyea is not a bad voice actor. It just he doesn't sound old and there's zero roughness in his voice.

They should’ve had Robbie Daymond voice Kiryu. He voiced Kenshiro for Lost Paradise. It would’ve been great

woods is still watase? LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

he's just so miscast, he doesn't sound like a man in his 50's. Yong would have been great if they did Yakuza 0 and needed a VA for him then

Darryl is so much better it's not even comparable

Darryl will be missed, also diago sounds horrible here, prefer his old voice actor

Darryl’s Kiryu sounds like a guy who is tough, Yongyea’s sounds like someone trying to sound tough.

Hearing yongs voice is always funny to me now that he’s a big voice actor. I remember him as a bitty RU-vidr making Skyrim videos.

God i forgot how off kiryu looked in 7, gaiden's kiryu looks perfect

I’m playing Yakuza 0 for the first time. First game in the series for me. I’m about 35 hours in. It’s amazing. It’s also the first time I’ve played a game that has Japanese voice only. I actually looked for an English option when I first started. I’m so happy that it didn’t have one. The point of all of this is to say that I would NEVER ever be able to play a Yakuza game with English voices. The Japanese VAs are just so good and contrary to what I originally thought the Japanese voices immerse me in the story so much more. I thought it would take me out of it. I now need to go back and play Ghost of Tsushima with the Japanese dub (and yes I’m aware it’s originally English).

Such a crime they didnt recast darryl

Both Daigo & Kiryu in 7 sounded better

I think the issue is that a lot of these VAs can talk in a deep tone but some intonations can't be hit because their range in that section of notes isn't broad enough. Yong hits more natural high portions but can't hold the lows.

It sounds like Yong Yea recorded this on a streamer mic remotely in an untreated room, and the original dub actually sounds well recorded on top of it just fitting the character way more. Yong yea isn’t an awful actor, it’s just embarrassing how much he claimed to be a great Kiryu and how he earned the character when it literally just sounds like a 30 something year old streamer, when he’s a 52-53 year old former yakuza that’s been smoking cigarettes since the late 80s.

I'm surprised that I never saw the meme with that "I'm a surgeon" template, but instead it's yongyea "I'm a Kiryu".

Why did they bring Darryl back after 15 years, then switch it 3 years later? I honestly feel like Darryl probably just didn't want the role anymore for whatever reason

When Kiryu lets out a small smile when Ichiban took off his shirt 😮😭

I wish they would’ve done the lip flaps too like Y7

I think the perfect English Kiryu would be a middle ground between Kurylo and Yong’s performances.

Darryl Kurylo>>>>yongyea

the grunt from yong in the first punch actaully sounds pretty good

are they are colored more...euro looking on the right side? its way too different just to be lighting

They replaced Roger Craig Smith for Daigo, by the way

Bro what happened to the lip syncing in gaiden. Did they remove it??? Also why did they change kiryu’s va. IT WAS THE FIRST MAN TO VOICE ENGLISH KIRYU AND THEY REMOVED HIM AFTER HIS SECOND DEBUT

I still can't believe that Yakuza like a dragon takes place in the same timeframe as like a dragon giden

My favorite part of this scene besides Kiryu returning is that Watase is trying to bullshit, "i don't know what you're talking about, he's just some body guard i hired. I couldn't even tell you his name." lol!

I'm not much of a fan of Daigo's new voice, however I do much prefer the delivery of this line 2:26 from the new VA. His voice just sounds too deep in both versions though tbh. I love Roger Craig Smith though, he could have totally pulled off a higher pitched Daigo voice similar to the Japanese voice. I wish that's what they went for instead of this weirdly deep sounding voice that doesn't really suit him.

I like how in LAD daigo sounds like he was suprised that kiryu is still alive But in gaiden daigo sounds like he was searching kiryu for a very long time

A shame it doesn't have new game plus. But the english dub is the excuse i needed to replay it, YongYea sounds a little bit better than the Infinite Wealth demo but i don't think i'll ever get used to it, it's an horrible casting but I'll mindset myself that it's a fandub mod i just downloaded

Kiryu got a voice lift. That's why he sounds so young now 😅

I honestly would had played 7 and 8 dubbed if they kept Darryl. But YongYea is not the pick so I’m gonna have to keep playing in Japanese just because of YongYea

Anytime I hear Darryl Kurylo’s impression of Kiryu. I only think of him yelling “NISHIKI”

Did you edit the cutscene? Because in Gaiden Kiryu doesn't smile just after Ichi remove his shirt...

discount masterchief and ProZD's lost twin, incredible

that first scream sound like yagami doe

As someone who's a bit new to the yakuza series, are these the same game, or is one a remake? Bit confused

this is the first time hearing the dub past Yakuza 1 and LOL at Ichiban being voiced by Nishikiyama

Honestly they both good. I like the old one more, but the new pne also sounds good

Finally, I can watch this without spoilers

Ok now that i tested it, here's the Karaoke songs: The ones he actually sounds ok: -True-Hearted Samurai (probably because the original already has auto-tune) -Baka Mitai (practically anyone can sing this song, it's very low pitch and easy) The ones he butchered: - Sayonara Silent Night (The chorus has some high notes that he tries to hit but it hurts your ears) - Hands (probably the worst one, you have to listen YongYea trying to hit high notes with autotune for three minutes) - Tonight (this one they didn't even mixed his audio right, the autotune is so high i rage quit) - Like a Butterfly (Akame's voice is really good, though in the chorus her timing is all wrong. YongYea did good on most of the song, but in the end he tries to do that high ''OH YEEEAAAHHH'' that Ichiban does and ruins everything)

Judgment

What are your thoughts on Roger Craig Smith and Yong Yea?

Okay, so we complained about YongYea, and the performance is hit or miss... But can we talk about Daigo's new voice? Because that's another downgrade At least I'm glad that Mercer still voices Majima, and still does a decent job of it

Have you checked their mouth movement as well? Cause I see there's difference

Darryl Kurylo was better.

Why is Gaiden that goddamn dark? I had to play it with much more brightness to even SEE something. And the voices are both ok.

Well it sounds like when you dub over anything live action from Japan. Like it doesn’t fit totally. The first voice had mote strength to it.

Race based casting is bad and no one can convince me otherwise. Daryl is obviously better but got passed over because hes white

Switching Kiryu's english voice right after Yakuza: Like a Dragon was confusing as hell, aside from Yong Yea not being much of a singer as I really noticed in Machine Gun-Kiss. I always liked Darryl Kurylo's voice as Kiryu the best since the original version of the first Yakuza game.

Does anyone know who the new VA for Daigo is?

I think the new va of kiryu did a good job

I didn't realize how shitty the lighting was in LaD.

Anyone remember when mark hamill was majima for some reason

neither sounded good to me tbh, needs more age, roughness and depth imo

What hdr does to a mfer

he sounds like a random yakuza npc trying to sound like a tough guy but coming off as a lowly scrub

Unfortunately, Yong is using this same deadpan voice for Larry in Pokémon Masters. DID YOU CASTING DIRECTORS NOT LEARN?!

They did majima dirty

I’m less about the voices and more about how much of an improvement the renders and lighting are.

I'm gonna be honest, Yong's yell at the beginning sounded nearly exact at first

Yeah, I thought Yong was going to sound horrific based off of the backlash

More power to you if you play the games with english dubs but Japanese voices are the way to go

Not gonna lie, starting to warm up to Yong's voice a bit here.

Yong talks through his nose a lot

Neither are bad performances, but neither are a good match for the Japanese performance.

They should use Kratos voice for Kiryu

Darryl Kurylo still the best English Kazuma Kiryu I don’t like like a dragon (love the yakuza franchise but dislike the rpg games) but it’s feel very respectful that’s we got the ps2 english voice actor for kazuma back for it.

when you tought it couldn't get any better, it got better

To be fair, I do think Darryl's voice is a little too deep with a little too much vocal fry, but it does fit Kiryu better than Yong Yea's voice.

0:04 Okay, this... Actually goes kinda hard

Yongyea will never be John Yakuza

they shouldn't have changed Daigo's VA... I LOVED SONIC !!

Yong is fine. Definitely better here than the initial demo drop. Darryl will be missed, but not much we can do about that. Daigo though, not a fan. Apparently, Roger Craig Smith was too busy so we got (looks up) Tim Friedlander. No I haven't heard of him either.

Yong sounds so wrong here

The english dub is just funny but mostly yakuza games are meant to be played with japanese dub

Darryl pauses to time the lip-sync whereas Yong does not… is it even a debate who was better?

Wait, Gaiden had an English dub?

i'm gonna be honest. none of them sound good compared to the jp voiceover. i don't think either one's better than another, i just don't enjoy both of them equally.

I played Like A Dragon Gaiden in the dub and his voice acting is very overhated. It's not the best and he could have done better but to say he "Ruined Kiyru" is too much

WHY ENGLISH KYRIU SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE PS2 ONE!? AAAAH...I HAVE MENTAL BRAKEDOWN!

Yongyea dead ass ruined both Gaiden and Infinite Wealth dubs for me, man. Which sucks because I prefer the english Ichiban over the original. He does not fit the role of Kiryu. I wanted to give it a chance too. If they just brought back the old actor or hired someone with more range.

This is beyond ridiculous man, everybody talking in the trailer would've been a better fit for Kiryu. What a major disappointment, I've never been so pissed for a miscast

Okay but Kiryu isn't the only miscast here... Majima's VA is doing a great performance here, but he'd be way, way better fit if Sega wanted to say, go back and give LaD 0 an English dub. I genuinely think he's fuckin' _killing_ the character, he's just another dude who sounds way too young lmao.

Yongyea sounds much more like the original Japanese voice. The first one sounds too “American.” I think they made a mistake to cast Darryl just because he was the original voice of Kiryu for the very first Yakuza.

ProZD could have done it too

Darryl's voice was way better than Yong Yea...i really can't get to grips with Yong Yea's voice for Kiryu. It doesn't justify Kiryu in the English Dub.

ichiban need voice actore of angel of CRISIS CORE FFVII

Everyone in the gaiden dub sounds horrible. And no yong yea will never be kiryu, darryl did a better job at potraying kiryu’s voice. Wish he was back.

Man, I feel like neither of them are fitting for Kiryu. It's like one is too young without any rought voice/experience and the other is way too rough with its voice. It'd have been perfect if it was smth in the middle.

they sound almost the same bruh

Yeah Darryl was better no doubt. His voice just sounds so gruff gritty and worn out like the old man that Kiryu is. If Kiryu spoke English I think that voice would be fitting. Yong Yea's just sounds to young and youthful, he might make a good younger Kiryu if they ever dub the earlier games in English, but his voice lacks the deep tone and the gruff and grittiness that Darryl's voice possesses.

The original is so much better, it has a certain feel to it, sounds like experience, Yong was the wrong choice.

honestly after all shit he got i think this voice is fine i guess it's horrible i prefer the other one but' it's not abysmall give him 7 years or so to deepen his voice and he would fine

Yong is not a bad VA, but he does not fit a 50 year old man

Should of kept Daryl