Let's Play Yakuza 3: We're Back...Again

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mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

It's been a while, huh? Stuff happened and we just couldn't record for a long time. But now we're back, and we're gonna finish this gosh dang Yakuza game! So let's get back into it!

Previous Thread

Yakuza 3?
This is the third Yakuza game, released in 2009. There's a PS4 remaster coming at some point, but I have no idea when, so we're playing on PS3. We played the first game in 2015 (holy poo poo) (LP Archive Link). We also played Yakuza 2 throughout 2016 (LP Archive Link). AP hadn�t really come into contact with Yakuza before meeting me, and he�s still liking it so we�re gonna keep going as long as that�s the case (and we can make our schedules work!).

It�s also worth noting that there was another game between 2 and 3 called Kenzan what never came west. Since it�s not in English we�re going to be skipping it (though I may stream a bit at some point). If you want to see that game, I played a little bit during Extra Life 2015. Egomaniac also did a fully translated LP of it that�s very good (http://lparchive.org/Ryuu-ga-Gotoku-Kenzan/)

Who are you?
Game Kiwi is an internet in-joke turned into a real thing. Once again I�ve got AP joining me at the wheel. AP lives in Wales, and I live in California. This is our 4rd LP together! It�s getting to be a lot of them!

When will you release?
We plan on releasing videos on Mondays. There will also be bonus videos. Once I introduce minigames and side stuff to AP I plan to stream (and archive on YT, naturally) me playing more of those unless it�s something AP personally wants to see more of. Streams will likely come on Fridays when I'm not recording actual eps. This should let us both keep the LP focused as well as being able to show more of the side content than before. Once we're closer to the end/finished with the game I'll release faster since a backlog won't be as valuable for me to keep.

Anything else?
Yakuza has gotten a lot more popular since the last thread, so this is probably a good starting point for people who have only played 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2! Our individual recording setups have also changed a lot in the last year and a half, so there will probably be some audiovisual differences between 1-28 and the rest. Hopefully it won't be too jarring!

:siren:

Spoiler Rules: :siren:

Please don�t. This is a very story-centric game, and AP is getting it for the first time (as may be other posters). Please don�t ruin it for them. If you really really want to talk spoilers, there�s the Yakuza General Thread for that, or you can PM me for spoilery tips or things you want me to try and check out. If you absolutely have a burning need to talk spoilers, then blackbar tag them and any responses to spoiler comments, otherwise AP can�t read the thread. Please don�t make AP sad he�s a very sensitive boy.

Episode List: (Series Playlist)

Recap Episodes:

**Submitted Art**

mikeycp fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jun 25, 2019

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 00:23

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# ¿ Jan 14, 2025 16:28

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Captain Walker in the last thread posted:

Yakuza 1 Recap Summary
This is a really dense game and most of the relevant plot happens right near the end, sorry if this summary is crap!

Kazuma Kiryu was an up-and-coming young yakuza working for the Dojima Family, a subsidiary of Tokyo's dominant organized crime syndicate, the Tojo Clan. His foster father, Shintaro Kazama, ran the orphanage where Kiryu grew up with his fiancee Yumi Sawamura and best friend Akira "Nishiki" Nishikiyama. But Kiryu's fate is changed forever when the Dojima family boss kidnaps Yumi, and is killed in retaliation by Nishiki. To protect Nishiki, who joined the yakuza to pay for his ailing sister's treatments, Kiryu takes the blame for Dojima's murder, and is sent to prison.

In late December of 2005, Kiryu is released, and returns to his old turf in Kamurocho, the heart of Tokyo's red light district. Almost immediately, he's back in the Tojo Clan's crosshairs; 10 billion yen is missing from the Tojo vaults, the Chairman has been assassinated, and it's civil war in the Tokyo underworld as Tojo underbosses vie for the top spot, including the ruthless Futoshi Shimano, Shimano's unstable lieutenant Goro Majima, and a corrupted and cold-hearted Nishiki. At the center of it all is a young orphan named Haruka, who grew up in the same orphanage as Kiryu and came to Tokyo in search of her aunt Yumi. Haruka is believed to possess the key to the missing money, and is pursued not only by the Tojo Clan, but also by Osaka's Omi Alliance and the Chinese Snake Flower Triad, headed by Lau Ka Long. The mysterious assassin known as Jo Amon has nothing to do with any of this, but attacks Kiryu anyway and loses, becoming one of Kiryu's most dangerous recurring enemies.

Taking Haruka into his protection, Kiryu sets out to find Yumi. Along the way, he makes a number of allies, including Date, a disgraced police detective; the Florist, a mysterious information dealer also known as "Kage"; and Terada, a lieutenant of the Omi Alliance. Ultimately, Kiryu reunites with Kazama, who had worked to find Yumi and discovered that Nishiki, not Kiryu, was Dojima's killer. learns his true enemy: Kyohei Jingu, a government official with sinister aspirations for Japan's future, the owner of the missing 10 billion yen, and Haruka's father. It was Jingu who abducted Yumi after Dojima's murder, and the key to locating the missing money is a pendant given to her daughter: Haruka. As the truth is revealed, Shimano attacks. Terada kills Shimano, but not before Kazama gives his life to save Haruka from certain death, and entrusts a document revealing the late Tojo Chairman's chosen successor to Kiryu.

Mourning the loss of the man he called father, Kiryu storms the location of the missing money: Millenium Tower, a massive skyscraper in the heart of Kamurocho. Upon arriving at the top of the tower, Jingu reveals himself and attacks Kiryu with his private army and a number of turncoats from the Omi Alliance. As Kiryu defeats them handily and incapacitates Jingu, Nishiki appears, intent on retrieving the money. Only Kiryu, chosen by Kazama as the next Chairman of the Tojo clan, stands in his way. As Nishiki is defeated by Kiryu, Jingu attacks again. Yumi gives her life to save Haruka, and an enraged Nishiki kills Jingu. Knowing that Haruka and Kiryu will never be safe as long as the criminal underworld hunts for the money, Nishiki kills himself by detonating a bomb, destroying the vault where the money is stored. The 10 billion yen scatters across the streets of Kamurocho. Despondent from loss of his true love, best friend, and foster father in one night, Kiryu considers turning himself in to the police, but finds new hope in Haruka, now an orphan. Kiryu relinquishes control of the Tojo Clan to Terada and abandons the criminal underworld, beginning a new life as a foster father.

mikeycp fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Nov 13, 2018

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 00:23

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Art Will Go Here:

mikeycp fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Nov 13, 2018

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 00:23

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

We're glad to be back everyone! It's in the OP, but here's our first new episode of Yakuza 3 in like over a year! I hope you all enjoy!

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 00:24

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

The fires passed me by. If it dies it's all on you, binch.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 00:34

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I know this series likes to backload plot heavily, but I didn't remember it being this extreme in 3.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2018 23:34

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

We've got a new episode. It's time for everybody's favorite Yakuza gameplay feature...chase sequences...

mikeycp fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 19, 2018

# ¿ Nov 19, 2018 17:31

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I wanted to name the episode beautiful eyes, but I also wanted it to come as a pure beautiful surprise so I didn't.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2018 01:59

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Just a warning the next few eps will probably be side quests since we're so near the end and we have a tooooon left.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2018 16:02

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Here's the last ep from the last recording session. Hopefully there won't be a delay till the next one.

mikeycp fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Nov 26, 2018

# ¿ Nov 26, 2018 17:04

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Another Person posted:

dont subtweet me

sorry.

i meant to say.

hopefully ap being unreliable won't make another 2 year wait till the next batch of episodes.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2018 17:49

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

it's probably a rule.

also i can confirm we've got 3 more eps coming!

i hope y'all like long ones, because, uhhhhhhhhh

first one will be served up tomorrow (monday)

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 06:18

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Here's the first of the long eps! Please enjoy.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 23:48

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

BTW if anybody has sub-missions they want us to hit before we finish the game let us know and I'mm be sure to prioritize them.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2018 20:48

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Amon probably ain't happening, but I can try to get through all the hitmen, sure.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 03:42

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Here's the new ep! Enjoy!

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 00:00

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Oh. I guess I uh...forgot to post this in here. Whoops.

Enjoy!

# ¿ Dec 18, 2018 05:06

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

So I don't have a proper episode ready this week (there will be one ready on Monday though!), but I do have the archive of our first attempt at the revival episode.

It'll be clear pretty quickly why I opted to rerecord it, but I hope you enjoy anyway!

mikeycp fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Dec 27, 2018

# ¿ Dec 27, 2018 17:47

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Yeah and I didn't realize my extra life profile didn't separate the audio tracks like my normal profile so I couldn't fix anything. What I got is what I was stick with.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2018 19:33

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I'm actively walking out the door so I don't have time to make a fancy banner yet, but here's episode 35!

Episode 35 - The Corsican Panther

Enjoy!

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 17:33

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Episode 36 - Return to Ryukyu

Again no fancy banner yet because I've been lazy, but you've not here for that so who gives a poo poo?

Enjoy!

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 00:17

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I swear we're gonna be recording more soon. Carl just keeps getting loving busy. Idiot.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 22:35

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I try to bother him every day about it.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 22:58

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Just a quick update. I've come up with a solution to the issue of AP's reliably unreliability.

It's uh...different, but we'll see how it works out.

With any luck we'll record in the next few weeks? It's still all up to scheduling, but planning should be much easier this way.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2019 18:48

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

More Yakuza 3 will be recorded tomorrow.

# ¿ May 3, 2019 06:31

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

we have finished recording yakuza 3

please look forward to videos, soon

# ¿ May 24, 2019 23:05

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Episode 37 - Recap

It's finally back. And it's not stopping until we finish the game.

# ¿ May 27, 2019 17:22

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Yeah. Gave me plenty of time to look for a random drunk on Okinawa.

# ¿ May 28, 2019 05:37

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Got a long one comin' up!

Episode 38 - Little Kazuma got them long boys

# ¿ Jun 2, 2019 04:53

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Episode 39 - Joji In The Club

# ¿ Jun 3, 2019 20:49

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Same

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 01:32

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

Let's celebrate Papa's Day with the best papa in games.

Episode 40 - That's Bull

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 15:42

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I tried earlier, but I couldn't get it to trigger.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 17:10

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

The day is finally here. We have reached the end of Yakuza 3. It's time to say goodbye to this game that has haunted us for so long, as well as a few other things.

Thank you to all those who stuck with us.

Episode 41 - End of an Era

# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 01:31

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# ¿ Jan 14, 2025 16:28

mikeycp: Nov 24, 2010; I've changed a lot since I started hanging with Sonic, but I can't depend on him forever. I know I can do this by myself! Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!

I'm glad we finally got it finished!

I'm also looking forward to the next stage of the journey, which I'm gonna start working on in August!

# ¿ Jul 1, 2019 06:51

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