Yakuza's First Ever Good Platinum Trophy 

I can't believe Shinada got into Tekken before Kiryu did.

What if you wanted to take the platinum trophy, but God said: Complete a 1-Shot Challenge on normal difficulty.

Fun fact, you don’t have to even play a match of poker, koi-koi, or even the arcade games Just hit start, exit the minigame and it still counts as you playing it

Gaiden was my third Yakuza Platinum/all achievements, after 6 and Like a Dragon. The common point between them being no requirement to clear the completion list, which removes A LOT of the tedium and grind! I definitely hope games keep that direction in the future too.

As someone who has done 100% for all yakuza games, i can confirm i'm insane.

I platinumed Yakuza 0-4 and both Judgements and right now sit on 5th. When I first started this tradition at 0, I loved the game even when it drives me crazy with catfights and material shop in sotenbori. Because thanks to 100% I was pushed to try all the stuff game gives you - if I didn’t go for completion list, I’d skip lot of fun things. And usually after I get the platinum it just fills me with confidence and happiness, don’t know how to explain that further. Although I still don’t know why I did platinum in first borderlands - 8 hour arena grind solo is too much for anyone.

I think one good part of Gaiden is how it divorced Achievements and the Completion List. Achievements were less like chores in Gaiden compared to Lost Judgment Achievements "Obtain all equipment", "Obtain 50 pickups in Hama of the Dead", and the reason I stopped myself from trying... "Achieve 100% completion of TownGo" with by extension includes bullshit objectives like "fly the drone for a full hour", "Get 2 million points in Space Harrier", and "Defeat 3 Tigers in Dice & Cube". In fact, I specifically recall see some of the completion list in Gaiden and thinking "oh god, I am not doing that for Platinum" only to learn it was optional. And that's what caught my eye the most about Gaiden's completion list: It's worse than Lost Judgment, but isn't required for a genuine major achievement! To give an example, Lost Judgment and Gaiden both have Sonic the Fighters, and as such, have it in their completion lists... but not the same objectives. Lost Judgment merely asks you to defeat each playable character. This means you get all Sonic related completion list objectives in a single playthrough, and you don't even need to beat the Final or Bonus Bosses. Hop over to Gaiden, and there's less but more time consuming objectives. It asks you to win 20 matches total, which is two playthroughs. That's already double Lost Judgment... and that's not counting the objective that asks you to beat the mode as every character, which is 8x Lost Judgment's "beat every character". The bullshit of TownGo Master would be worse if Gaiden's completion list was there... but it isn't. There's not even an achievement for getting Akame Network to max level 30, stopping a full 10 levels earlier. Achievements in Gaiden feel like they want you to at least give everything a shot, but focus on the core of the game. Achievements in Lost Judgment are asking me to literally 100% the entire game within a single save file except for Legend difficulty. Lost Judgment is still my favorite RGG game though, missing 13 achievements after 140 hours isn't going to change that.

While I do enjoy that they made the 100% for Gaiden a lot less tedious, I do think they may have pulled it down just a bit too far, and surely there could be some sort of middling ground between 'grind these side games until your head hurts' and 'open a minigame for half a second and closing it immediately'.

Maybe a hot take/unpopular opinion, but I love doing the Completion List for platinum. It makes the Yakuza games stand out to me, and without that requirement the platinums are far too easy.

Gaiden's platinum felt like I lost all purpose to play the game rather than any sense of achievement

The sync of the kick with the trumpet in Changing Seasons was great(and the other one with Changing Seasons Reload). I always love the care and attention you give to the music in these games, and especially in your videos. It goes a long way to adding a degree of depth and attention to detail. Good stuff.

There was no achievement for eating at all the restaurants in this one (very sad, I always like getting that one), but I was relieved to see that the 100% was straightforward for once. This was also my first 100% for a Yakuza game, though I’m closing in on Lost Judgment as well.

10:49 i miss that dude. The baseball player. His character and story was very heart warming. Him and akiyama had most of the funny scenes in Y5

gaidens plat was far too easy and am worried for infinite wealths plat

great video! that new persona 3 music at the end it goes hard.

Back in the day, we had to complete perfect minigames just to appease Haruka... even the minigames that are RNG heavy gambling

as someone who has 100%ed all the yakuza games; I'm the top dog. You're NOTHING. you are an ANT beneath MY BOOT and you ALWAYS WILL BE

This was also my first RGG platinum, for pretty much all the reasons you described. I've K2, 6 and Y:LAD at around 85% and honestly not having some weird difficulty spike for one last trophy made me much more interested in playing everything I needed to plat in Gaiden.

I got the cat achievment my first playthrough of judgment! didn't even know it was an achievment, as soon as I heard the meowing I went into full search mode lol, it was one of the best parts of the game.

Might be just me but Yakuza Like a Dragon and Like a Dragon Gaiden were two of the easier games in the series to plat. Not as much bs.

Laughs in Judgment: puyo puyo mean bean machine challenge.

7:36 ...Yes you can ? I did my Legend playthrough with New Game +

Every time Shinada appears in your videos, It's like a cry for help. Please SEGA, Listen to this man.

I do really hope this isn't the standard moving forward. Yakuza platinums are very satisfying to get (i have all of them) but Gaiden felt like a spit in the face to those who do enjoy going for the platinum trophies in the rest of the series, which are who they should be tailored to. In an already bite size entry, they really should've given completionists something more substantial.

I did K2, 4,5,6, Gaiden, Ishin Kiwami and Both Judgements platinum. And honestly I dont regret doing them they can become mind numbing ( running Ishin dungeons, slow ass saejima hunting, mahjong, Judgement Mario Party) but overall they enhanced my enjoyment of these games

So far the only games I have 100% ed is Like a Dragon, and Yakuza Giaden, and I felt so much more satisfied finishing Like a Dragon, mainly because the final acheivement I did was the hardest series of fights in the game.

ahm, someone forgot LAD 7.

They pussified the yakuza plats

Just letting you know I appreciate the quality of your videos and yes I read the descriptions

Did the Kiwami 1 & 2, Y0, 6,7, Gaiden, Ishin and both judgment. Still on my way to finish 8 and then come back to plat 3-5

You take the grind in the castle and the pocket circuit trophy where you have to win like 7 races away and I would say its a pretty easy plat.( also 100 % completion is a whole other beast enterly 😈)

I think you equate easy with good going by the title. I haven't watched the video yet but I thought this games plat was WAY too easy. It tied all the side content together nicely and I like that you can finish the story and get the platinum together on a first playthrough, but there was no major challenge in this one and I played it on Profession as well. Other than the One-Shot Challenge on Normal, which I don't think is required, nothings that bad this time around

I literally just got the platinum The hard trophies are two : 1. Pocket circuit Just search a guide for what parts to use on every race 2. Finish 1 shot on normal Just search them on RU-vid and try to Mimic the moves in the video

Spent like 2 months straight this year replaying Y3-5 on both PS3 and PS4 just to have the playing of both versions. Yes I’m insane, yes I also finished Gaiden’s completion regardless of necessity.

The original Persona 5 that came out in 2017 had some really tough trophies, especially Futaba's navigation lines trophy, but then it got moved to an Ingame achievement list.

Tbh I do like how LAD does the Amon fight, just tying it behind another final tower which is much harder so it feels more like a natural progression than something like Judgment or LJ

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was the first and currently only RGG game I've obtained all the achievements in. While I originally had no intention of 100% completion, I felt motivated to pursue it after realising that I only had 6 achievements left to unlock after beating the game. That being said, I really hope LAD8 doesn't have a mind numbingly boring grind just to even beat the first room in the dungeon. The most fun I've had in obtaining all the achievements in a game (and imo should be the gold standard for achievements) is Risk of Rain 2. While some are normally unlocked as you learn the game, most of the achievements generally revolve around specific challenges and discovering secrets within the levels, and completing them will either unlock a new character, or a new item that could allow for new creative builds. Both these rewards help keep the gameplay fresh while giving the player an incentive to unlock the achievements. Also, after spending 3 hours learning mahjong just so I could fight Shin Amon, I actually like the game now and no longer relate to the people who complain about it (I still suck ass at it though).

Only sort of completion i do in these games is whatever is needed to fight amon. After that, everything else acts as a bonus whenever I'm bored. Usually, getting to amon means you've seen the majority of the content the game has to a reasonable extent and got all the major rewards.

Nice backflip

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but i really liked Gaiden's game size. I mean, as an adult, i don't have that much time to play a game. A game that finishes under 20 hours is a good ride for me. Not only that, but story was a lot more direct. Sometimes i feel the story on Yakuza games take waaaaaaaaaaay too much turnarounds. One or 2 is great, but there are games that the bad guy is good, then bad, then good again, and then holy crap he's the final boss. And the Platinum was also such a good challenge for me. I didn't feel overwhelmed at all in the whole experience. Yakuza 0 in the other hand i specifically remember being stuck for 2 weeks trying to finish the last 3 trophies.... TLDR: I hope RGG start delivering these shorter experiences again. Maybe with other characters that didn't receive much love in recent years. Maybe keep the 'Gaiden' name since it's literally 'side story' in English and deliver us some good stories that didn't get too much explained in the mainline games.

I dunno if this is Stockholm or whatever but I actually really like the plats in 0,1, judgment etc. only ones I didn’t like were 4 cause of the numerous files, 5 cause it overstayed it’s welcome a little, and 3 because of the minigame that shall not be named

At least we know Amon in Infinite wealth is gonna be good if it's anything like Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon's Amon.

Are you going to beat YaD:IF and platinum it in a week and make a video about it just so you can play P3R and make a video about that too tho?

10:00 funny enough, in Kiwami 2, beating Jo would make all four amon brothers to appear at the Coliseum, for a rematch.

I've been replaying the series lately and I've mostly been focusing on the main stories, and side content when I feel like it. The only platinum ive got so far is like a dragon but I havent played gaiden yet so possibly that'll be the next one, again only if I feel like it, which I probably won't. The only reason I platted 7 (almost twice now cause I frickin love the side content in 7 specifically) is because I just like grinding so it was (mostly) fun. Fuck part time hero though. Maybe when 8 comes out I'll plat it since I'll be grinding my balls off in that game too. It depends on the achievements you have to get for it. Throughout the years I've only got a few plat trophies anyway because it really depends on the game.

I platinumed K2 and I gotta say that I’m glad that they’ve made the plat for Gaiden easier

on tha yakuzillionaire grindset

A classy man who played and completed Metal Gear Solid V. Well done son.

I feel like you just don't like the side content in these games lol.

What if i enjoy side activities in Yakuza? I 100%ed yakuzas from 0 to 4 so far and it was satisfying for the most part lol

Gaiden gives out trophies like candy. The perks of being a short game.

Got platinums in 0, 1 and 6 and don't regret a single minute of it. It was a very fun experience

I have to agree wholeheartedly with the Amon point - only 2 times I can say I don't agree is (spoiler technically) The robot Amon fight in Gaiden and lost judgment - Gaiden one was just a normal coliseum team fight but with robots and lost judgment felt like I was actually playing the game and not going into the menu 20 times a minute to heal.

i want shinada back too

Brother collab when?

At this point after getting the platinum in 0-7, both judgments and Ishin it's just a matter of habit to 100% Gaiden (and then IW, and then another new game, and another, and another....💀)

See I got this brilliant idea for achievement hunting for the PC version and that being finishing the entire game on legend difficulty with Mouse and Keyboard and name the Achievement "You're not a Real Yakuza" . This way everyone will get the motivation and the pure experience of playing a yakuza game on PC.

to summarize, it's Mahjong

I got 100% on Y6 and the only bit I didn’t enjoy was Puyo Puyo, which wasn’t required for the platinum trophy. There are good reasons why it’s my only RGG plat though

This video was perfect timing for me I got Yakuza 0 platinum yesterday so lol. I didn't expect a Yakuza platinum video on my notifications right after.

Gaiden was indeed the easiest to plat and yet I still went 100% of the completion list making roughly 135 hours which the closest other Yakuza game was yakuza 6.

Yeah I felt that was silly when you defeat the hardest optional boss and get some really good item that you have no one stronger to use it on

After platinuming 14 RGG titles, I can honestly say I would’ve preferred a 100% completion trophy. IMO it makes the journey so much more gratifying! However, I do acknowledge that it’s a huge undertaking. So I also wouldn’t mind them streamlining them to be more easier and smoother experience.

Wish me hope, I gonna platinum Yakuza 3 remastered

Yea I'm a psycho this plat was an entrée and I insta went back to 6 and then Kiwami in which spent a whole day numb playin mahjong before i finally understanding what i even needed to do to void the hardest part of that game's list after that it become "fun" so you ain't wrong (imworkingon3now)

I have every platinum except for Yakuza 3. I got really burnt out from the minigame master trophy.

Yakuza 6 was a godsend, since you only have to do 100 different things. Being able to choose what you want was nice, I'd probably die if I had to do advanced PuyoPuyo.

So far the only platinum I have for the series is from Like a Dragon. Took me around 70 hours according to the in-game counter. Thankfully it lacked all the stupid minigame completionist stuff from the log. No, I am not learning Mahjong well enough to win consistently in it just to get 100 % in Yakuza.

I payed my way through some Yakuza trophies (mostly last 10% of the 100%)

I wouldn't be offended if they kept the platinum viability to something of this level, because they still have all the in-game achievements in every game. It'd be pretty easy to make the platinum easier to get, but still give some type of reward for players that went to the trouble of 100% the game. I'm one of the psychos that actually enjoys 100% every LAD game, so I'm probably going to do it regardless, but it would be nice to not have to grind for specific trophies like the seals in Ishin. That was actual hell. Even the 100% list in Gaiden doesn't require you to do/collect everything, so there's still wiggle room in that aspect which was really nice.

I have never platinum any of these games because i refuse to even look at Mahjong, let alone play it. (Glad to hear the experience isnt as miserable in Gaiden though )

Just Got The Platinum (My First Yakuza Plat) i Gotta say it's ez and doable it doesn't have the bullshit grind certain minigame (mahjong 🤬) type trophies and no missable ones. Hopefully they keep trophies more simple like this in future games.

While making the platinum more accessible in terms of time dedication and grid is always a good thing, I wouldn’t necessarily call this the best platinum trophy. I have got the platinum for Yakuza 0 and on my way for Yakuza 1 (Kiwami), and for all the work putting into both, it’s something I feel proud of doing, not just having it as a thing I did.

LaD wasn't bad. Apart from a few achievements, it didn't feel like a chore at all.

Based Miguel enjoyer

I completely understand your feelings on the platinum trophy on the Yakuza franchises. The easiest platinums are Yakuza 6, Yakuza 7 and Gaiden. Im currently going back to some of the games to tie up loose ends. I like doing the platinums because im poor and cant buy new games so this keeps me occupied til i get extra money to buy a new game lol

100% agree with everything you said man. The Amon stuff in particular bothers me. Like in FF7 Remake specifically, you can use the Götterdämmerung for your hard mode playthrough, which significantly helps you but also rewards the players who did a very difficult challenge. And then later they added the additional challenge with Weiss, but you couldn’t use Götterdämmerung, so it added like another layer of challenge for everyone in a unique way which you could then also use in a hard mode playthrough if you wanted. And, ya know, you could fight those bosses again if you wanted to, unlike Amon lol.

Yakuza Like A Dragon's Legend difficulty literally does start every enemy at level 60 like you asked, it's just in terms of stats and not the actual number of their level lol

Yakuza 6 was an easy platinum compared to the other Yakuz gams too. I look at the other Yakuza Platinums and am terrified. It felt good getting the Yakuza 6 Plat lol

Its a shame completionism in these games isn't for you. Personally, the vast wealth of stuff in these games is the appeal for me. I love all of it, and in my eyes the best way to experience these games is to get immersed in everything they have to offer. For me, RGG doesn't have one single main gameplay style, and the combat is one of the many side dishes the game has to offer, just one required to see the story to its end. I personally can't fathom liking the games as much as you do without enjoying every piece of content in them, but you do you.

BRO WHY DID THEY MAKE THE PLATINUMS SO EASY

Like you I had an easy time doing the one shot challenge the first time. But then I went back to do it for the akame mission and just couldn't do it, that 3rd shot is absurd, seriously screw that pool mini game

did i just see a based miguel tekken main?

Lol. Is My Name is Mayo your favorite platinum or something?

I got a platinum trophy while watching this 💀

3:23 real

You forget Yakuza 6 was such an easy platinum. You didn’t need close to 100% of the completion list unlike the previous game and legend difficulty unlocked after the ending and you could just change difficulty and beat the game again and get the legend trophy right away.

Hol up. Yakuza gave us a lagit way to play daytona 2?

The only thing i hated in gaidens 100% was pool, fuck normal pool puzzle. Should play Mahjong tho

My closest to a platinum of a Yakuza game was actually kiwami 1. I don’t think that game is as bad as the others prob because I didn’t get bored fighting majima a trillion times lol.

Amon has an extra cutscene with Kiryu in the true final millenium tower in LAD. And you can rematch him and get a unique 2nd reward :) It's pretty cool

Honestly, I'm not a fan of how so many people are praising Gaiden's platinum for being attainable by everyone and not requiring you to complete everything. The whole thing about platinums was to be there for completionists essentially. There's no benefit to having or not having a platinum on any platform really, and the fact that the last few yakuza games have just nuked any rewards for actually interacting with the completion list, aswell as nuked the actual requirements for completion list things really hasn't helped matters. For me personally, if it hadn't been for the platinum and the completion list, I would never have learned how to play mahjong, shogi, koi koi, oichu kabu and so on. I would have just ignored them entirely. Having them be required was the only reason I touched them, and I've gone on to love playing several of them, to the point that the moment I see them in a new title, the rest of the game ceases to exist because its now just mahjong time. This effect isn't going to happen as much if they continue to insist on things like Akame Network / Part Time Hero, and how there's no benefit to filling them out.

The only Yakuza game I got platinum in is Yakuza 6. Because no Arcade or Japanese mini games are required to get it. Was relatively easy

7:40 I don't think this is accurate? You definitely can in the remaster at least.

I remember having to play 15 hours worth of pure Koi Koi just to get the hang of how it works, and then 5 more hours trying to win in Yakuza 5, or the absurd AI in pool. Yakuza 5 genuinely sucked all energy out of me trying to 100% it. Compared to THAT, Gaiden's platinum is a gift from God himself.

I love a little bit of Persona 5 slander. It’s a rare treat

I am one of those few that has the platinum to FOTNSLP. And yes, I do have PTSD from the experience

Infinite wealths platinum is also prty good 👍

Having platinum'd all the mainline games + both Judgments (first Judgment, 0, Kiwami 1/2, Y:LaD and Ishin Kiwami twice) I didn't really get burnt out of any of these games, and god forbid how grueling were 3 to 5 remastered... I guess I'm just at a level of nerdiness where I can tank all they have me to do and still enjoy it. I think it's not inherently bad to tie some trophies to minigames and completion lists, but then every minigame needs a cheat item and less grindy requirements (fuckin' baseball in 3 amirite...)

the interesting thing about Persona 5 royal Is that they pretty much made the achievements in the game disgustingly easy compared to the original THE amount of nonsense you have to do in the first game is AGONIZING One of the ones I LOATHED getting was the passionate listener trophy. Trying to find out what lines you heard from Futaba was just.......well it WAS NOT FUN O_O They removed a lot of those type of achievements from Royal in large part because we already did this once before. NO need to torture us again