Yakuza 5 Remastered - Boss Battles: Final Boss (LEGEND) 

chad

The Mole is imo but Aizawa is close

The fucking spin off they could do with this man keeps me up at night

@@i-papiseacucumberi-3278 The Mole is one hell of a boss, shame he doesn't have a single QTE in his final fight

@@i-papiseacucumberi-3278 I’m probably in the minority here but Kuwana is better.

LOL

This... weirdly makes sense, hm.

🤣🤣🤣

Kiryu: Is that why Morinaga's suddenly dead? Aizawa: Yes. Kiryu: Bruh.

Rikiya's spirit: That's dumb, at this point, I might as well be Haruka's husband.

Amazing perspective glad you shared it

I love it, it's both literal and metaphorical.

@@REDEEMERWOLF the sacred and the propane

On a meta level it's also the signalling the beginning of the end for the tojo since their lord and saviour kiryu himself almost died in snow

kiryu’s dream is just to meat haruka again, he got that at the end

literally top 5 boss fight and top 5 worst final boss at the same time

@@SammOBracketBracketBracket jsjs true

@@SammOBracketBracketBracket no you don't get the point

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@@SammOBracketBracketBracket u good?

He didnt spend enough time pocket circuit racing

@@orangesoda4535 Well neither did Kiryu!

Bro spent all his soul orbs on health bars

That's literally the case. There's a cuts cent where's he seen fighting a coliseum dude

​@@angelusvastator1297in that scene, he was trying to get info from the Florist.

as said in the other comment, like mirror nishiki as well, both having a carp tattoo, wearing white and ofcourse being the final boss

I disagree with this reading of Tsubasa. Yes he wanted to leave something behind and prove his stance on yakuza to be better than that of main cast, but he chose Aizawa specifically and more importantly, he didn't want Aizawa to go through the same process he did to get to the top. Aizawa's too naive to notice this unfortunately.

Good take. Also fits with the dream theme of Y5. Is Aizawa fighting for his own dream or is he fighting on behalf of his father's dream? It mirrors Haruka's struggle in this game, in which she was still figuring out if the idol world was really Haruka's dream or was it Park's dream?

With this is mind, his instant retirement is a massive middle finger to kazama

@@DrearyMiri I wouldn't say that. Kazuma never wanted Kiryu (or Nishiki) to join the Yakuza, they basically begged & guilt tripped him. Hell, it's outright stated that part of Kazama's plan in 0 was that Kiryu could try to make a legit life in real estate. So Kazama would have at least approved of Kiryu leaving to be a father and leaving the Tojo in (what was thought to be) capable hands with Teru, who was Kazuma's ally. He at least got to meet his future surrogate granddaughter before he sacrificed himself.

Congrats on determination

"Essence of Cleanliness."

@@MrRAGE-md5rj *Hell yeah*

Keke

Haha same

Retired Idol beats up an ill old man who is the chairman of the Omi More Kamurocho news at 11

Kurosawa: "I reached the top of the criminal underworld, but I've lost interest. I will take on a more worthy challenge: DANCING" Haruka: "the world of idols is SO MUCH MORE than you can handle"

Based

DANCE BATTLE - OPPONENT: KUROSAWA SONG: Comin' at ya, girl

@@RZ_2K Technically correct

Aizawa's reveal reminds me of shibusawa The most unexpected character became the final antagonist

@@authorbhattacharjee4957 Well, at least Shibusawa tatto was hidden until very end and you didn't know about his abilities. Also you knew that he is enemy to you and after teasing with Awano you probably started to think that all three lieutenants are capable fighters(or at least that was my case). Aizawa, on other hand, loses two times before final fight and he was looking like a good guy- impulsive and emotional but still positive character. And yes- I love both fights

@@lothar4085 Amazing explanation.

@@authorbhattacharjee4957 i expected shibusawa to be the final boss honestly

@@authorbhattacharjee4957 I don’t get what you mean because shibusawa was actively being built up to be a final boss in the later chapters.

Yeah because the entire driving force here was “lol I am strong dumbass bodyguard” to “lol my dad is the omi chairman let’s fight”

In the end, Aizawa chose to fight for a hollow victory and lost.

I think there's a lot of room of potential for Aizawa, he seems like Ichiban, a shounen protagonist rising to the legend status. I wish they'd revisit him but that chance seems slim. If there was more screentime for Aizawa, I think he'd probably be one of my favorite antagonists. He still makes for one of the best boss fights in the series (if not the best), so kudos to him.

What hesitance?🤡

He literally betrayed and killed his aniki, but yeah, protagonist vibes, for sure...

Facts. Its just beautiful

Could someone actually pull this off in real life ??

@@Lnblackberry48 most of them, yes, but the "reverse someone when both of you are falling" and "swing a wooden sculpture with one hand" is impossible

Thanh Hảo Lê pretty impressive most of this is actually humanly possible. You look at things like these and then look at other things and realize how ridiculous this game series gets

@@LThanhHao232 you forgot about Aizawa throwing Kiryu so hard he went through a door and landed into a wall, and how Aizawa kept fighting despite landing face first into the ground from 20 ft. Mad lad devs...

After the first fight he started "Training in the shadows", he wasn't holding back in the first fight.

I think he is supposed to. Remember with Ryuji, he said that he reminded Kiryu of Nishiki, and because of that, he deserved everything that Kiryu had in him, hence him throwing off his suit. He only does that to worthy foes(cept Shibusawa, he was still young so he probably thought this was just a battle against dragons).

@@arsenal4739 he does that to every final boss and iwami wasn't a worthy foe, aizawa is just a epic fight but shitplot even kiddo from Y4 has a better plot

@@Killingblow976 I'm not fully finished with 5 or know much of 6. I accidentally spoiled myself when I saw this funny modded video of Y5 that had the 1st Aizawa QTE against Haruka. He does feel somewhat bland to me but the fight is cool. Sucks that Iwami wasn't much good though, I thought he'd be more of a good final boss since Y6 is Kiryu's last game, and it was the first new game after Y0(Ik about Kiwami 1, but that was a remake, 6 would be a new one).

@@arsenal4739 oh my bad, sorry i didn't knew, but iwami is weak for a reason the devs can't bring themselves to make kiryu lose, so they did this last game pretty easy and do new things like Y7

Aizawa: To be honest, you’re gonna have to ask the writers about that one. Could have went several better ways if you ask me

I don't know if this tops the plan that Kiryu's gang in Yakuza 4 had. You know. Bringing a bunch of money to the Millennium Tower so that their enemies would show up.

Honestly i just beat Yakuza 5 two days back and who was he again? Like I honestly forgot about him, seriously when did he show up-

@@SolidN8 he was one of the 2 bodyguards who went to Kiryu in the first chapter for help trying to find Daigo, the one Morinaga claimed to have killed and buried on top of a mountain

@@elianwilliams What happened to Morinaga? Does he just end up getting killed off screen?

even Aizawa and Kiryu are confused why Aizawa's the final boss.

@@_____2219 honestly i liked how the way aizawa thinks. He's not completely wrong, but he's somewhat hypocritical by letting his father (kurosawa) doing the whole plot just to descent both clans to him. If only he stopped kurosawa doing all this before, everything in Y5 wouldnt be happened. Im interested to meet Y5 people from ichiban's perspective. Judging that Watase still serves as Omi's captain in Yakuza 7 looks like its Katsuya who stepped up as the chairman. Hoping to meet Aizawa and Katsuya as Ichiban, maybe also Kuze and Shibusawa from 0. Also trivia and spoiler, Aizawa and Ryo Aoki (other name Masato Arakawa, main antagonist in Y7) shares the same first name (masato), and they both sons of some yakuza top boss (kurosawa and masumi Arakawa both served as chairman of Omi for some time).

@@nahrafe It's not necessarily the same name, they only share phonetics. Arakawa has his given name written as 真斗, since it is taken from Masumi's own name and his father's (*To*shio). Aizawa's name is written as 聖人 instead.

@@gold3263301 thank you for the correction Still, it's kinda nice coincidence

This is my opinion, but if Aizawa was going to be the final villain of the game, they should've had him be the one to kill Aoyoma at the end of the early Kiryu portion instead of his oath brother Morinaga. Had they done this, the build up for this character and him being part of some sort of Yakuza conspiracy to the final villain would've felt more natural. Having Morinaga act like the one of the main players of the conspiracy, lie about killing his oath brother and then die off screen before all the playable characters unite leaves me to question, what the heck was the point of this character?.

I never saw that part at the end for the older videos of this fight. Must’ve been restored content

That’s the one good part of it really

I like how Kiryu tells Aizawa to get to the top however long it takes and then he can come and try again, and Aizawa is just like 'No dude, I'm good' *passes out*

I loved heck out of it and Yakuza 5 is pretty underrated

@@alexstidham4612 Nah Leon just cut it on old video

Funny thing is daigo didn't even want to be chairman, it was kiryu that forced him

@@ginomontella9429 "Sometimes, The Need outweighs The Want"

@@ginomontella9429 Man. This just makes Kiryu's note in 6 even sadder in my opinion.

​@@ginomontella9429 I mean was he? He said he wanted to take control of those 3000 men

@@MariusBoss11458 Absolutely

* and then unfakes his death because Daigo sucks at his job once again, surprising no one*

@@gaminggoddess85 How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?... (and true)

@@gaminggoddess85 then disbanding of the yakuza isn't Daigo's fault, it's simply a different era where organized crime family can't hide anymore.

@@gaminggoddess85 they are policed? Crazy times

@@SIGNOR-G Yeah, there's been heavy crackdowns on yakuza for a while where before they were kinda viewed as just something that's there. It's probably what inspired the Bleach Japan stuff in 7, the writers like to incorporate current events into the games.

Aizawa is the Hamazaki of Yakuza 5.

And Kanai is the Saito

@@gaminggoddess85 Ha yeah. Except I guess Aizawa's problem is a little bigger considering he's the final boss.

A little bit more? He needed like a few hours more atleast.

He have the opposite problem that iwami has

Really?! Out of the whole series

@@shakursteadman8169 The boss fights in 0 were all amazing too. This fight would have to contend with every fight with Kuze.

Fun fact: Kiryu shares a quote from shibusawa to aizawa in this scene (“Talent alone can’t get you to the top”). I don’t know if it’s in the remastered version though.

@@emergence109 Oh wow, that's sick.

@@editsofawesomeness kuze is amazing but this fight on another level from how epic it is

Can't argue

Pretty accurate

Couldn't have said it better

The whole schtick leading up to the fight was S tier in itself, the part right before the fight in itself bumps him up several ranks to me, he woulda been better if he was given more scenes obviously but this entire confrontation did not miss.

S+ tier soundtrack

You understand what RGG was trying to convey. People give Aizawa a lot of shit. But I think he's a good character.

did you know hanawa is morinaga

​@@ldking5132Definitely a good character. He was a good pick. I just wish we had a few more scenes after the coliseum.

​@@Hizelly76Just a theory. Not canon.

@@yellowgetbright nuh uh. Yokoyama confirmed.

He's an honorable opponent, more so than Mine (who tried to shoot Kiryu first) and Ryuji (who used a sword at first). The only thing that drops him a point is that he didn't refuse to fight upon seeing Kiryu's wound, but then again Kiryu had already dropped the gauntlet and the stakes were already way too high to step back.

@@daedelous7094 wdym mine tried to shoot kiryu first??? He was missing on purpose bruh

@@revolt_4588 he wanted to try and rage kill him just like how nishiki tried to rage kill the people that killed fake yumi

I think towards the end of the fight he had a few shots in, like the shot of his wound bleeding a lot more, maybe to signify that he was not truly ready to go 1 on 1

He literally headbutts kiryu in the wound lmao

Leon? Like from resident evil??????????

He’s not my favorite character, but I totally agree with you. I don’t understand why people shit on him so much, he makes sense to the story and it’s messages and themes. 5 is my favorite game and a part of that was this fight and how I felt it was a fantastic culmination of the entire game’s narrative goals.

I mean you can draw all the parallels and potentially interesting things you want, the fact remains is that story-wise it wasnt well executed. A good concept that got wasted.

Yume Yume yume YumeYumeYumeYumeYumeYumeYumeYume

​@@BazoinkerzPeople hate him because he have 0 development , plus too less screen time.

​@@Akira_Nishikiyama_reactioni dont hate him but i loved him tho

This boss fight is one of the best of the series no 🧢

Yeah and some different movesets after each qte

A man desperately trying to find someone to take his sister's virginity vs A man desperately trying to keep his

>Gets approved by Kiryu to keep improving, to one day battle him again.

Fr 😹

Yeah they reused kuze's last qte in nishiki's fight as well

RGG reuses a lot of things... Not _that_ big of a deal but then again...

@@ShadowMark3_ don't fix what not broken

Kiwami being lazy? Surely not!

Don't try to apply logic of physics to a Yakuza game lol In Y5 everybody gets anime powers

And Ryuji

Goda and Kiryu rolling around on the ground and beating the shit out of each other as they both bleed to death just tops it for me.

Tough decision between this and Ryuji tbf. Ryuji has infinitely more weight thrown behind which gives it the edge.

I’m sorry, the one from Gaiden is better than this one…. Lol

​@@andresashura5550nah this is still on top

He meant that Daigo reach the top without being the strongest. He may have it all but to be at the top he needs to beat kiryu which is what he’s willing to do unlike other yakuzas

@@NaveenJeyaBalan except Daigo already fought Kiryu and while in Yakuza 2 he was almost same as Kiryu in Yakuza 4 he still had a long way to go (even though he kicked asses of many people playing the game back in the day)

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola defeat Kiryu or you’re a chump. The minimum requirement is to be on par with him with the exception of majima

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola thats not the same

Except he's bad, lol You can easily counter all of his attacks, QTEs are good, but that's all this fight has to offer, Battle for the Dream is too obnoxious and the entire point of the fight makes no sense

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Aizawa final boss fight is one of best Yakuza moments, you're the only one who hates it lol

@@REDEEMERWOLF nope It's just bad, lol Literally Nishiki/Ryuji/Mine, but with a slight model swap I can understand Shibusawa, cause hur hur canonically before other games hur hur. Even then, Nishiki and Mine never wanted a fair fight and Ryuji fought Kiryu while both were wounded

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola you just hatin men, go away bra

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Damn dog, sorry you didn't like it. But I can assure you, most normal people would think that fight was hype af.

He probably continued to train in the shadows to be able to rematch Kiryu one day, but then Yakuza 6 happened so Aizawa probably will never come back.

Probably will never return as Spoiler alert ahead Kiryu faked his death and in yakuza 7 the Tojo and Omi are disbanded.

@@theanonymousone2149 Probably will never return as No spoilers RGG doesn't care about bosses once they've served their purpose as an emotional climax

Froze to death, probably. Either that or he was killed by Tojo/omi clan members when they eventually went back to hq

He got severe hypothermia since unlike kiryu there was nobody who’d help him

That's also Kiryu's suit in 0

@@aryabratsahoo7474 no. It’s a different one. The jacket doesn’t match.

but like kiryu had an opening bullet wound didn't he? so like he can't even beat a severely injured kiryu

Kiryu was literally fighting him half dead , lol how are they equal?

@@JJsAdventure23 eh IDK I don't know the story of yakuza 5

I always thought it was more like he’s nowhere near his level yet but he has the potential to be a yakuza legend so kiryu proves that by beating the shit out of him with an open wound literally bleeding out during the fight to show him how much he still has to go.

I don't think so. Aizawa is definitely strong, but I personally doubt that he could compare to Kiryu at full strength. I think it was only such a difficult battle for Kiryu because of his wound. If Kiryu was at full strength, I imagine Aizawa would only have like 2 health bars for him to beat.

at least its not Like A Dragon's last punch qte against Masato Arakawa, where it will literally loop over and over infinitely until you hit it which isn't a complaint, I just find it really funny when it happens

also I definitely was wasted and missed that last QTE the first time I did it again on legend lmao

Final boss of Like a Dragon Gaiden comes pretty close But Kiryu vs. Aizawa will always be the best fight

My arm almost fell off during that QTE sequence in the first room. Maybe I didn't need to mash it that fast, but still.

And then this but with Kiryu and Ichiban vs Ryo Aoki and Aizawa will be Yakuza 9: Unlimited Health

I'll tell you more: Watase Family, Yamagata Family and that other family pulled up to Kamurocho just to say "Akiyama, you're fucking great. Thank you for your greatness" Akiyama ks fucking god tier, but atleast someone could pull up to Tojo HQ, since Kiryu is fuckin' wounded and tired

It was because he didn't care about his father lagecy this was about him and kiryu couldn't fight kurosawa because he was sick and old either way kurosawa was a loser he didn't care about anyone but himself and he was delusional to believe that hard work gets you to the top any body can do hard work also the people he hired to fight for him were incompetent weak or had a change of heart also everything he did was for nothing and all he did was made everyone he hated strong and exposed his weakness

I expected Morinaga

I didn't think his boss fight was hard. But I might play the game on Legend Mode

Nah THE SELFISH DEED ISNT FREEDOM AND no there’s no change in the plan is way better

@@hello_nishiki you got selfish deed wrong, its: THE SELFISH DEED, IS NOT FREEDOM! Even if, it falls down.

@@Celticjamz JUST DEFEAT!!!!!!

6:07

"The son of a chairman shouldn't get to be the chairman, that is why I, the son of a chairman should be the chairman" ???

The studio spent all their brain juice on the design of the fight itself but they ran out of it when they had to justify it

enzo gomez they could have had Aizawa murder/overpower Morinaga onscreen to give Kiryu a reason to fight him for example if they decide to kill Morinaga anyway. Such a dumb move imo. With more development Aizawa would have been one of my favorite villains.

Thank you for understanding Aizawa's character.

@@faburos9012 You're a fellow underdog, too? I'm in my 30's, but I still believe that whatever Aizawa's been eating is what I need, too. Even working out isn't always enough. Hope that you're training your Legend styles in real life, too.

@TuTíoJefferson I wonder if he's heard of Daigo's and Watase's big decision in Y7 as well.

@@tonyc.0451 I've been training seriously ever since I was 15 or 16. I'm 26 now. Couldn't easily train in the gym because of the pandemic so I just did calisthenic at home mostly.

@@faburos9012 Then you should be mastering your Legend styles by now. I only started working out seriously in my late 20's. Since I'm an ectomorph and a hardgainer, I'm still way behind many others. I do watch martial arts tutorials, though. Only a matter of time before I perform Tiger Drops for real.

This has always been my biggest gripe woth the dragon engine games. Especially things like weapon attacks look really wimpy sometimes.

Nah, Shishido is n.1 🐐

Symbolic for what? Getting punched in the face?

@@cleversmart0303 Nope. Think about what their tattoos symbolize, especially the Koi. And then look at the conflict between Nishiki and Kiryu. It's about facing destiny.

@@cleversmart0303 And considering the theme of the game (dreams), I'd say it's plausible that it was intentional. In 2, Ryuji doesn't look away at the ending of his fight.

@@Spinomaks You're giving RGG too much credit. The animation would've just looked weird, if they didn't turn his head.

@@cleversmart0303 How would you know that?

Masayoshi Yokoyama ova here. Its not stated yet

I swear comments like these are getting repetitive. The whole Aizawa thing just started as a joke but then its getting serious. He wasn't even the main bad guy. He is just a final obstacle.