#nagumo tsuyoshi

[worstmalerggcharacterpoll]

Round 26: Besties for life. Maybe?

It’s not about who you like more! It’s who you think sucks more as a character!

[aleksikesa]

▸Games Played in 2023

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (2016) dev. Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

[danielladigitalbunny]

Yakuza 6 / Ryu Ga Gotoku 6

The Song of Life

[torajira]

[nebjamin]

These are some of my favorite screenshots I got while playing Yakuza 6.

[rggdriptournament]

ROUND #77: THERE SURE ARE PATTERNS ON DISPLAY HERE

REMEMBER! IT'S NOT ABOUT WHO YOU LIKE MORE! IT'S ABOUT WHO'S SERVING!

[kamurocho-confessional]

"this series has fucked me up so much that by the time I got to 6 and Nagumo said he was gonna go to Kamurocho with Kiryu I immediately started crying because all I could think of was Shinji and Rikiya and oh God I need like ten whole minutes"

[satoshi-mochida]

Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies launches August 8 - Gematsu

Mystery adventure game Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies will launch for PC via Steam on August 8 for $12.99, developers ALTERCIWS and Lobstudio announced. It will support English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese language options. A demo featuring the first chapter of the story is available now.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Rookie human detective and energetic zombie detective, a mismatched buddy tackle mysterious cases! Get to the truth with the zombie’s super powers and human deductive skills in this Japanese mystery adventure! She’s the only one who can conduct this investigation… (because she’s a zombie). Zombie Police: Christmas Dancing with Police Zombies is a mystery adventure game featuring the odd-couple buddy duo of newbie detective Yasu Tamura and zombie detective Akemi Kabane as they take on cases together. Based on the testimonies and evidence collected, you will ultimately deduce the truth behind each case. The game features multiple endings that vary depending on your deductions.

Investigate and Gather Information

At the crime scene, conduct interviews together with the zombie detective. Important information about the case can be checked anytime as TIPS.

Make Deductions

You can enter the deduction phase at any time during the investigation. You can either gather all the information first or rely on your intuition! Based on the collected evidence, solve the case and deduce the culprit. Don’t give up even if you fail. Those who persevere will surely find a helping hand…

Live Streaming and Fan Works

When sharing on social media, we would appreciate it if you could use hashtags such as #ZombiePolice.

You can live stream the game without permission, regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporation, for profit or non-profit. We would appreciate it if you could include the game title and the Steam store URL in the title or description.

In principle, fan works related to Zombie Police are freely allowed.

Staff

Executive Produer: Kiichi Kanou (ALTERCIWS)

Project Planning, Development Production, and General Direction: Tsuyoshi Manabe (Lobstudio)

Scenario: Sanehide Haigami (ALTERCIWS)

Illustrations: Niku Marukane (Lobstudio)

Backgrounds: Miharu Nagumo (ALTERCIWS)

Watch an old trailer below.

Official Trailer

[konnanjanai]

Duckiryu and the aniki ducklings

[qentin-fuckre]

Yakuza 6: “He Means Nothing to Me”

I’ve been thinking about Yakuza 6 a lot lately. I have some issues with it, namely the fact that it feels unfinished and Majima got unfairly shafted in Kiryu’s final game. But most things there I really like. It’s an emotional, focused plot centered solely on Kiryu and his conflicted feelings about the yakuza, and has a solid set of supporting characters who almost all have great, satisfactory character arcs. Yuta, Someya, Nagumo, etc are all really cool and really good.

But an aspect that I don’t see talked about that often is the main antagonist of the game and final boss of the Kiryu Saga; Tsuneo Iwami. And it’s not hard to see why. He’s not a particularly memorable or complex character, and neither is his conspirator Sugai. The only thing that makes him stick out is how slimy and heinous his actions are, and even then it’s not enough to make me really hate him. Not genuinely.

So what is there to say about Tsuneo Iwami? Personally...I think that something about him really works. Kiryu’s sheer disdain and disregard for the man extends all the way into Kiryu’s description when he fights him.

“He means nothing to me.”

The final boss of Kiryu’s story means nothing to him. This really struck me while going through it, and it’s taken me a bit to realize why. And I’ve come to realize that Iwami and Sugai being so forgettable...is kind of the point.

Yakuza is full of charismatic men who rip their shirts off and fight for masculinity, honor, to see who’s strongest, and the like. But the Kuze’s, Ryuji Goda’s, Watase’s, and Nishiki’s of the series are often the exceptions to the rule as men who exemplify or try to exemplify the yakuza’s ideals. 

Far, FAR more often...the yakuza are nothing more than garden-variety power-hungry assholes. From the thugs that Kiryu continually fights off every game, to Shibusawa in 0, to Sohei Dojima, to the schemer Takashima in 2, to Katsuragi’s weird-ass in 4, to the man who outright loathes charismatic yakuza Kurosawa in 5...Kiryu’s games are filled with unremarkable assholes granted power by the yakuza and he has to continually fight them off over and over again.

The Ryuji Goda’s and Kuze’s of the world are rare. But people like Iwami have populated the entire series, and Kiryu has taken them down every time. As the yakuza themselves have worsened, those charismatic yakuza have found less and less of a place in a criminal enterprise that at the end of the day is about power and money.

So in the end, another “big rival to Kiryu who wants to prove he’s strongest” doesn’t work. Kiryu’s final boss is a representation of every smug prick he’s had to grind into the dirt to keep him and his family safe, without the veneer of masculinity, honor, or strength to guise it. The yakuza is Kiryu’s curse, and Iwami is representative of just how pervasive that curse is in Japan’s society.

The yakuza as a whole mean nothing to Kiryu. 7 games have whittled him down to the point he wanted nothing to do with it. But even after he leaves, assholes like Iwami will keep on popping up, whether he likes it or not.

[thecindercrow]

So this is Kamurocho!

[tarokro]

Character Introductions Hirose Family

Hirose Toru Nagumo Tsuyoshi Usami Yuta

From the Yakuza 6 guidebook,  龍が如く6 命の詩。　完全攻略極ノ書 (ファミ通の攻略本)

[majjiktricks]

FINALE CO-OP HEAT ACTIONS - YAKUZA 6: THE SONG OF LIFE

Tagashira | Matsunaga | Yuta | Nagumo | Akiyama

[danielladigitalbunny]

Yakuza 6 / Ryu Ga Gotoku 6

The Song of Life

[atahensic]

Nagumo serikli, kimse beni aksine ikna edemez

[nebjamin]

I finished Yakuza 6 yesterday, and now I have some thoughts about its OST:

(MAJOR YAKUZA 6 SPOILERS and one small Yakuza 7 spoiler)

- The epic battle themes are great, but the softer, calmer themes (Snack “Kiyomi”, Arrived in Onomichi, Clumsy Blues, etc) really stand out and are absolutely worth a second listen.

- I loved the varied fight themes for the various factions. Not only does it keep them from getting old, but it makes it easier for me to include them in my d&d campaign.

- Brother, Brother is a great opening fight theme to reel in the newcomers, and Nagumo absolutely deserved this banger.

- Whoever named the normal battle themes (Kamuro Again, Town Bully) deserves a raise. Kiryu is just done with Kamurocho by this point, as he should be.

- Akiyama 100% deserved a less generic-sounding boss theme - I would have preferred a reprise of one of his themes from 4 or 5. Through isn’t bad, though.

- I have a soft spot for a good long battle theme, and Yakuza 6 absolutely delivers in that regard. Rushin’ and Lots of Lights are some of my favorite long battle themes of the series.

- Bloodstained Philosophy is not only a great name for a boss theme, but serves as a great theme for a recurring boss like Someya. Someya deserved better.

- I am a Joon Gi-Han fanboy. Oh, and Theory of Beauty is pretty good. It would have been cool to see a different final battle theme like they had for Someya (Destiny) or even Kuze in Yakuza 0 (Oath of Enma), but I have no complaints about more Theory of Beauty. At least he’ll get a new theme in Yakuza 7, right…?

- No comment on the creepy dude in bondage in the basement of an abandoned brothel, but his theme is fittingly creepy.

- No idea why they had to bring the French into this, but Qui Garde Un Secret est très bien. Au revoir, Kazama 2 Hirose.

- I was a bit disappointed when I didn’t see Sugai at the top of the tower, but any complaints I had evaporated as soon as Destiny kicked in. Proof of Love is a good song to cry your eyes out to right after. Did I say that Someya deserved better yet? Because Someya deserved better.

- I feel like there should have been more of a buildup to the real final battle, but Body and Soul for the Koshimizu fight certainly pumped me up.

- The Way of Life isn’t the best Yakuza final boss theme, but it’s definitely up there. Also, where was Akiyama during the final fight? All of the Hirose boys were there, but no Akiyama?

- The substory themes are fun. Dirty Boy deserved to be used in more fights.

- I’m still in disbelief that they brought Sodachi and Saigo, but they certainly got good music for their returns.

- Sandlot Baseball is such a great theme for such a mediocre minigame. Yakuza baseball just isn’t the same without Shinada…

- On the contrary, Baby Sign is a perfect theme for the perfect minigame. More Haruto on my screen, please.

- Yakuza continues the pattern of using the best themes in optional minigames with the fishing and clan creator minigames for whatever reason. Never change, Yakuza. Never change.

- Today is a Diamond is the best Yakuza Karaoke song since Machine Gun Kiss.

- Like a Butterfly is pretty good and - no way, Kiryu rapping?!?!?!?!?!?

- OH MY GOD THEY BROUGHT TONIGHT BACK WHY IS NISHIKI ON MY SCREEN AGAIN I’M GONNA CRY

Like a Dragon: Ishin is next for me, wish me luck!