A Definitive Look at Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth

I thought nothing could have topped the school stories side activities of Lost Judgment but Memories of the Dragon in this game may have done it. This game is like the Avenger Endgame of the Yakuza series. Too bad we didnt see the trio protagonists (Kiryu, Ichiban, and Tak) together in Kiryu last game. So sad!!!

I disagree with the people you mentioned saying the game doesn’t have a plot.

no it does wtf do they mean? there’s a clear goal in each chapter that cumulate to the final act i disagree STRONGLY imo.

I was confused for the breadth of the pacing segment, since doing all the side content usually had me over the recommended level significantly.

By the time I finished chapter 4, I had enough exp until the 2nd Dwight fight. Then a single run though the dungeons had me 4 levels above both of the final bosses for the respective parties.

I got the DLC, not for NG+ but for everything else that comes with it.

We're lucky they actually bundled it in with stuff instead of standalone NG+ DLC.

When it comes to Ichiban, the way I'd describe him is that he's a man with all the strengths of Kiryu without his weaknesses.

Without mincing any words, this is my favourite game in the franchise and ties with Elden Ring for favorite game of all time. Having completed both Kiryu and Ichiban's completion lists, the only flaw I see is the arcade game choice. Gaiden was perfect, I expected the same here. Spikeout was utterly painful, and I couldn't find an ounce of enjoyment in it (not even when I realised R1 was a lock on that allowed you to move faster... the game's idea of dodging), VF3 is the worst entry in the franchise and I cannot fathom how anyone would like Bass fishing and its cryptic controls.

Thankfully literally everything else more than makes up for the stain that is the arcade. Especially karaoke... I must have spent over 10hrs just doing karaoke for immersion and enjoyment.

I still dont think this is it for kiryu. I think we'll have another gaiden with kiryu post IW

all in all, top 3-5 games in the entire RGG lineup easily, the only thing that wasn't the best was the story in a few minor places, otherwise 9-9.5/10 easily

You joke about it but playing that game for hours to 100% 0, Ishin and Judgment actually made me love Mahjong.

I can't wait for the next yakuza game. Do you guys believe it can come out in 2025 ?

Great video once again :). I feel like an absolute psycho having 100% both completion lists for Ichi and Kiryu and only just finished my first play through

Very cool video. As if the 4 hour Yakuza 8 discussion super cut wasnt enough 😊

I’m trying my best to speed through P3 Reload with a guide so I can pick back up my save file. Had so much fun 30 hrs into the game and didn’t even unlock Dondoko island, any of the essence skills or jobs lol

Thanks for making these videos on the Like A Dragon games. I enjoy your takes and really appreciate the time and effort you take to do this! Go balls out Gokudoni balls out!

Fun Fact: If you take the fist letter from each of the command options, it spells SEGA (Skills, Etc., Guard, Attack).

Tekken JRPG Turn Based wish they had the 2 Crazy Ken Band songs from OG2 in Infinite Wealth cause their music rocks

I gotta admit, i'm surprised by you mentioning a mandatory grind to meet the recommendation. because i was constantly overleveling the recommendations without even trying, and the only way to let the game catch up to me was to deliberately avoid doing anything except main story for a chapter or two lol

Like, the only thing i did to get all those levels was explore the city, do available substories and fight some of the street bosses that were near my level. those grant tons of EXP and unique rewards besides so i really wouldn't call that "grinding," it comes pretty naturally as part of just playing the game to me.

Just beat the game last night and now I'm ready for this video. 🤩

Now we wait for Judgeman 3 which gonna be mix of turn based and real time combat trust me guys!!

Even though I miss a lot the old Yakuza games "feel" (the stories, narration, gameplay, characters and so on, which I think changed with 7), I found LAD 8 a beautiful game, and I am having so much fun with it, and I'd like for at least the last appearance of characters like Akiyama, Tanimura, Shinada, Yuta (which I was sad I didn't see in the game with Haruka and Haruto, and also confused, why wasn't he with them? I hope that Haruka and Yuta didn't break up or something) and so on in the next game, which could probably be the last Kiryu's game, I want them to be the Yakuza 16 all walking towards the Millenium Tower well dressed like in Yakuza 4 with the amazing group, the Yakuza 4, God I miss the Yakuza 4, the best Yakuza 4 of all time.

Anyway I played on normal, but I didn't have any problem with the levels, the opposite, I was WAY over the required level, probably because I did almost all the dungeons levels before the end of the game, but still, I was more than 11 levels up (I know it was more than 11 because when you had to run with the gang and there are Barracudas or I don't remember who everywhere I could smackdown everyone), which wasn't the best since the bosses were really easy, they should have made that the enemies, at least the important ones, not the street idiots, leveled up with you lets say, like, if I'm at level 58, the boss is at level 55 or 56, but eh who cares, being super strong can be fun too.

Anyway, good video as always :)

A banger as usual Gokudoni, keep up the good stuff.

Back in September I made a half-baked prediction that Infinite Wealth would be Yakuza 5 2 in terms of "big game with lots of fun stuff but holy shit is it long". I hate that I was at least 50% right on the Yakuza 5 2 prediction in the "lots of fun stuff" category, "hellscape pacing" category, and "thoroughly divisive final boss" category. Despite those last two issues I still found it to be a fun package that I can't wait to talk about with friends if they ever get to this point in the series.

I just need to level Kasuga to 70 and I’ll have the Platinum trophy.

These series have fell off massively. So corny.. and turn based combat? Yikes! How can og fans even play these new Yakuza games?

Honestly the RPG guy in me is kinda glad they split into two parties because it gave me more of a reason to use everybody and make me feel like everybody contributed, even the ones who join late. In LAD, you start out with the OG 4 and then at a certain part, I always recruit/max the bond of Eri so she gets her time to shine and then when Joon-gi and Zhao join, they stay in my party to the end. Here, I usually go with my usual 3 but feel like theres a good balance between the two parties gameplay wise.

how did kiryu even find where the jimas were hiding again?

maybe it's just the way i play but because i ran around doing all the side stuff available first i actually found myself overleveled for everything story related

Your video has spoiler especially in video format. You should definitively put SPOILER in capital letter in the title, or at least don't put spoiler videos

It took me all this time to finally finish Infinite Wealth and I really loved it. Of course one of the biggest highlights of finishing it was finally being able to watch the Gokudoni break down /hj

Great video!

I bought a diffret region infinite wealth and i want to play bog swell DLC but i can't

I loved this game so much, the only issue I saw was if you level to fight every enemy in the open world, this will make the boss fights very easy.

Okay, here's how you fix the pacing. It's a very simple solution. Let's take Sujimon as an example. So, the gang wants to infiltrate District 5 to find Chitose, but, they need to stock up on some gear first. Therefore, they go to the mall as suggested by Tomizawa. Once they get there and begin their shopping, Ichiban notices the Sujimon Sensei entering the electronic store and wonders why is he here in Hawaii. He then says to himself that he should check that out later on. You then get a UI prompt telling you that you should come back here later to find out what's going on with the Sujimon Sensei. After that, the gang resumes their shopping. By using this method, you remove the need to interrupt the main story in order to introduce some side content. You leave the player freedom to come back at any time to explore it.

The level gating system was always a nonissue to me.
Every time "reccomended level" showed up I was consistently always ten levels above the reccomendation.
Idk how the difficulty selection works but that was on hard first time blind playthrough. To be underleveled in both LaD and Infinite Wealth, you need to basically refuse to participate in any side content.
The game was already laughably easy on "hard" and Im no expert Trun Based gamer. Like a Dragon is just that easy and designed to be simple, that I can not agree with the idea of making it even easier. As that would just invalidate gameplay since there is literally already an automatic mode.
I would not want the game to be so easy it plays itself. I'd question why you bought a video game if you wanted a movie.

I must have completely missed something.... I only had access to 5 songs for Karaoke and ended up doing them over and over... How do you unlock more?

It's disgustingly disappointing locking out new game plus options and restricting them to digital only editions and I'm 1000% against it, it's what has held me back from buying this game and I absolutely loved Like a dragon, I'll get this game in the future at some point, but yeah locking out new game plus has prevented me from wanting to get this in the first place and when I do eventually get the game that does not mean in the slightest I support this locked out feature tactic, great overview review you've done, I'm really not the only one that thinks this way either so many of my other friends and streamers haven't got the game because of this reason, there definitely missing out on profits on this game because of this reason

Chitose hooked me from the first scene

I wasn’t a big fan of the plot of this one, mostly the antagonists.

To me 7 still is the better game, even combat on 8 should be better but is so easy that to me felt wasted

Excellent video. Found your channel from the Like a Dragon podcast after trying to find people who wanted to discuss all the spoilery details of the story. Infinite Wealth's new additions pretty much lay the groundwork for many future games being fun and exciting to play, from the quality of life improvements, to the new lore, locations etc.

I really hope the next game takes us back to some Y5 towns.

The fact that it released with dlc is just scummy. If you made content before release it should all be there. If this continues it will hinder my enjoyment of the series

I haven't seen anyone mention this, but this game gives me this feeling of time marching on. Kiryu is a relic (like the Threejima) of a time long past. He roams his old stomping grounds, but everything is different and no one really remembers him (outside of those that have also remained behind). His power isn't the same, and if he did not have others with him, he would not make it to the end.

A big thing is just recognizing that as the years go on, your power and capabilities fade. Your memories get twisted a bit (like Kiryu being sentimental about Kamurocho, where he states hating it in 6), and what makes you special to others gets long forgotten beyond rumors and legends.

People may hate the story and pacing for the next year or so, but I do believe it will be loved years from now when someone puts together how this is a secret story about time carrying on. All the high-stakes story plots pale in comparison to the handing off of the torch to Ichi and co.

You mentioned that you don't need the DLC for the platinum in all platforms. Do you know if this applies for Steam?