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Surprise, we're back to Yakuza.
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This is gonna be the last one before we take a break
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for who knows how long.
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These ones are a lot.
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They're a lot of work, and we don't wanna overdo it
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if we haven't already.
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And while it is nice to have a break
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because I do love these games
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and it feels something like home to be doing this game,
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after watching the gameplay,
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which many of you guys will watch,
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it's like two, just under two and a half hours.
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It's a lot.
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Should we just start with the out of context summary then?
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Mm-hmm.
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In this episode, we meet a pistachio personified.
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Someone's dog is vomiting?
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And Kiryu really needs to teach Haruka how to run.
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She does not do it correctly.
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Yes.
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah.
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And my name is Cathy.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review,
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and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Cathy has never seen the games before,
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it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it'll be a similar experience for you.
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Chapter one, Letter of Blood.
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So we're in early 1980s Kamurocho.
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We follow a detective, I think,
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into a building where we see Kazuma shooting a man
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who says, you lying dog, though I die, we live on.
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The detective then runs to the dying man
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who asks him to save his child, which he does.
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Three minutes into this game and he slaps a woman
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to get her to calm down?
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I am livid.
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That's what I was waiting for you to say.
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We talked about this many times in the first game
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and Kiwami.
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The amount of slapping females is not acceptable, you guys.
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It's a bit much.
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Don't be doing that to get our attention.
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There's so many other ways you could do it.
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Instead, you just go to like fiscal abuse, slap.
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At least take it down a notch
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and just like shake her shoulders, you know?
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Snap her out of it in a less abusive fashion if we can.
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So yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it.
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We learned that those events were about 20 years ago
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and then we're back to December 14th, 2006.
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We see a man getting kicked out of Stardust,
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but then we cut pretty quickly to Kashiwagi
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in his Millennium Tower office,
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now patriarch of the Kazuma family.
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He's informed of the Stardust incident we just witnessed
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but says to leave it alone,
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there's no telling which spark could ignite a war.
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So it sounds like there's trouble brewing
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with the Omi Alliance.
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It always comes back to the Omi Alliance.
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And then on the lower, a lower level of the tower,
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a man on the phone says, it's been over 20 years.
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We've been waiting for this.
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The man on the other side of the phone says,
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get those fireworks ready.
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And they have a common goal, which is Kamurocho in flames.
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One, I miss Kashiwagi.
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That man has barely aged, so it's great seeing him.
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But I also find it kind of weird when he was like,
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oh, what would Kiryu do in terms of all this turf war?
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It's not like he doesn't have experience,
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but I'm wondering why do people value Kiryu so high up
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and why is Kamurocho still such a hot target?
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Yeah, I don't really get it either.
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And that was one of the issues we had in the last game.
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Like what has Kiryu really done besides Yakuza Zero?
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We see a few scenes from the last game and Kiryu wakes up
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and it was just a nightmare.
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Haruka and Kiryu are still living together
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and it's been one year since the last game.
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So they're heading to the cemetery to pay respects.
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Of course, his remaining impression of Yumi
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is just a slow-mo of her chest as he moves back to her face,
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which is so annoying.
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He's just looking at the tattoo, Kathy,
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just admiring the tattoo.
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Anyways, this is the part where Haruka runs out of the room.
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It's like a full extension of her knee rotation.
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We both at the same time were like,
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why is she running like that?
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Yeah, it's weird.
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So at the cemetery, you have the option
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to review the events of last game, but I skipped it.
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I recorded it, but I decided to cut it out
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because they go into way too much detail.
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It takes like 20 minutes.
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It's ridiculous.
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So I skipped that.
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But I do wanna mention that there is a scene included in it
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that we did not see in Yakuza Kiwami 1,
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which is Dojima's widow who will meet in this game.
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Basically confronting Kiryu.
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Why did we not see that in the game?
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Because it makes more sense now that we know who she is.
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Right?
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Yes, yes.
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I mean, I thought I was completely blacked out
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for her part in the previous game
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because I was like, one, who is this woman?
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Two, when did Dojima have a wife?
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And three, how is she now so high up the chain?
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Why would you cut that?
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It makes it so much more jarring
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when we suddenly meet her in this game.
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I have to point out that poor Nishiki,
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just his grave is right next to Yumi,
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so close yet not close at all.
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So cruel to put her and him next to each other.
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Yeah, I question a lot of that.
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And where's Rena's grave?
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She did so much.
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Who cares about her?
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Who cares, Kathy?
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Forget about her.
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Anyways, moving on to Tarada,
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who's about to have a rough day.
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Yeah, so he shows up and he wants to go
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into the cemetery alone despite warnings of an Omi threat.
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So then we quickly cut back to Kiryu,
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who we hear him saying that he's choosing civilian life
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and raising Haruka right.
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That's gonna change pretty quickly.
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And as Tarada approaches,
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he tells Kiryu that he plans to swear an oath
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with Chairman Gota of the Omi Alliance to avoid a war.
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And Kiryu gives him response and tries to walk away,
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not get involved, but Tarada just keeps pressing him.
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Some Omi goons show up and attack.
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And for whatever reason, Kiryu decides
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it's his job to beat them up.
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And he tells Tarada to leave with Haruka, but does he?
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No, so after the fight, what happens?
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He gets shot.
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That man did not expect his day to go like this.
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One, having to beg for help from Kiryu.
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Two, then getting shot.
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Three, then all his men die.
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Four, then he dies.
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So what a rough way to end things.
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Of course he does conveniently have a note
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to give to Kiryu so that he can take it to Chairman Gota.
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While in an ambulance, it appears that Tarada
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does not make it.
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And then Haruka offers to stay at Sunflower for a while
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so Kiryu can do his Yakuza stuff.
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I don't know about you,
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but I think he agrees to that way too quickly.
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Especially for a man who just said
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he'll give up his Yakuza life,
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the only thing he knows to raise it right.
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And then immediately, 180.
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You know what, Haruka?
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You could stay by yourself
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and you're probably gonna get kidnapped
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because we know that's happened before.
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He caved way too, I don't understand why he's doing this.
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All right, so this is where we finally meet
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Yayoi Dojima, acting chairwoman,
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who reacts to Tarada's letter.
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Kiryu still wants to deliver the letter
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despite the extreme risk,
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simply because it was Tarada's last request.
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Cause yeah, who gives a crap about Haruka?
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That's not your top priority at all.
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Well, she has experience living as an orphan,
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so who cares if Kiryu dies?
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Right?
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She's a pro at it.
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And then he feels like he needs to pay Nishiki's debts.
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That's his reasoning.
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I don't get that.
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Yeah, I said not good enough for me.
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I get your brothers and everything,
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but it makes no sense.
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Well, and Haruka is a debt from that situation.
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She lost her parent in that situation.
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Taking care of Haruka is part of paying your debt too.
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This is why I was texting you
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when I was editing the game,
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but I was like, I don't like Kiryu in this game.
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He's pissing me off.
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Yeah.
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I mean, he's already got a frustrating me
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and we're only 20 minutes into the game.
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I know.
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And then Kiryu wants to find Daigo before he leaves
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so that he can help rebuild the Tojo Clan.
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But Lady Dojima warns that Daigo is not what he used to be.
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The Daigo we remember is a young, cute schoolboy
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who plays baseball,
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and we're about to see punk Daigo.
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He does eventually track down Daigo though
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and begs him to come back to the clan.
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And it turns out that Kiryu kind of let Daigo down.
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So they fight about it.
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And then they have a nice fireside chat by the dumpster.
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Of course they have to fight it out.
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And of course they find pretty much
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the only two benches in Tokyo.
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There are no benches in Tokyo.
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There just are not.
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Ask my feet.
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They'll confirm.
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Daigo insists on going with Kiryu to the Omi,
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saying that he has his own score to settle
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and says that they set him up five years ago.
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I think deep down he's just a very hurt child.
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I can't wait to see if he has a really good character arc
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because this setup of meeting him in Y-Zero
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as a young boy to where he's about to get
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a little bit of redemption arc,
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and maybe this is me missing Nishiki too much,
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but I hope Daigo gets some kind of really cool,
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not really a redemption arc,
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but a huge character growth moment.
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All right, should we move on to chapter two?
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The Dragon of Kanzai.
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On their way to Omi HQ, Kiryu asks Daigo
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who he faced five years ago.
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Then he responds,
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second patriarch of the Goryu clan, Ryuji Goda.
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We learn that he is the son of the chairman
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they're about to go meet.
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It sounds like they were baiting the Tojo
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into invading Osaka, and Daigo fell for it
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and was arrested as a result.
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Are we gonna learn more?
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Because I feel like I'm slow with this.
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How would he have got thrown into jail for something?
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How do you fall for this trap?
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You know what I mean?
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It's like, I don't know if he's naive or what.
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I think some of it is him being naive,
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but he was arrested simply for having a gun.
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So it was just like a setup to get him arrested.
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They get to Sotenbori.
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Daigo calls it a night,
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and Kiryu wanders around finding himself at the Grand
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where he eavesdrops that some Yakuza are hanging out there
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and he figures that's maybe a good thing
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to figure out what's going on.
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And he leaves to figure out how to get into the VIP section.
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Any reactions to being back at the Grand,
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being back in Sotenbori?
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I almost expected Majima to just pop out of somewhere
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and be like, ha ha, I'm back.
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It's weird to go back.
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I like it though.
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Now starts the first wild goose chase of Needless Gameplay
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about how to get in the VIP section.
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We meet some guy, I didn't write his name now.
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It's like Kuro.
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Oh, I wrote Kurokawa.
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Yeah, Kurokawa.
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The purple guy.
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Herefore known as the purple guy.
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And he gets him into the VIP section
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where Kiryu soon meets the Dragon of Kansai.
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Kiryu introduces himself by tossing one of his men
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over the balcony onto the piano.
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So he's pretty much our villain of this game, I'm assuming.
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And I can tell that he's one of those
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wants to be powerful but isn't.
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And it's just the complete opposite
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of all the main characters we have met in this game.
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I don't think we've seen anyone as power hungry as him
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in his level.
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Yes, there's Nojima and everyone else.
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But at his age, at his level,
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he's probably like the biggest threat.
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I kind of like him.
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He seems just like a brute,
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which I feel like you should see more of in the Yakuza
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and we haven't really.
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You do bring up a good point.
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So far, most of the top guys are all about strategic war
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and he seems to be the guy who is going to be
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all about physical war.
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Yeah, exactly.
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But they officially introduce themselves.
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His name is Ryuji Goda.
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He doesn't believe Kiryu at first,
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who says that he is Kazuma Kiryu.
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He says at some point during conversation,
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tonight Kamurocho is gonna see
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the biggest damn fireworks show ever.
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Basically, his whole thing is he wants to become
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the one true dragon.
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So Kiryu has to die.
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This guy's really overestimating himself.
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He's obviously heard of Kiryu and his skills, his history,
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and yet he still thinks he can take Kiryu on.
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So at midnight, an explosion goes off
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on an upper level of the Millennium Tower.
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And then we see the detective guy
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that we saw at the start of the game in the flashback.
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He's watching the news broadcast and says, so it's begun.
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All right, so we quickly cut
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to the Kamurocho police station.
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Sudo is on the phone and he indicates
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he thinks a foreign group could be involved in the explosion.
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And he ends the call by saying,
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Date-san is the only one capable of that.
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What that is, we don't know.
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But I don't understand why he needs other people
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to help him.
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There can't be only one guy in the entirety of Japan
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who can help with the situation.
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Well, should we keep flying through these intro chapters
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and go to chapter three?
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Chapter three is the Yakuza Huntress.
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We're back to Kiryu and Daigo as they head to Omi HQ.
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Then we're quickly introduced to Sayama,
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an organized crime detective in Osaka.
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Tokiopedi asks Osaka-Pedi to protect Kiryu
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as he delivers Turada's message
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so that they can ensure the deal is made
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and a war is avoided.
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It feels like there's multiple parties invested
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in this potential war.
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You have Omi Alliance, you have Tojo Clan,
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then you have now the police.
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And it's a question is,
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if the police are willing to step outside of their boundaries
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and start helping the Yakuza and Kiryu to prevent a war.
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Also, there's like ramen bowls just on the floor
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in the police station.
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I couldn't stop looking at them.
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All I could see was the ramen bowls.
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My eyes were locked in.
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So Sayama asks for the assignment.
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Besho, the police chief, eventually agrees,
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but he was hesitant.
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She says with him and with Kiryu in their custody,
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it's their ticket to investigate in Tokyo.
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And as a response, the chief says,
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you aren't still hung up on the Tojo Clan, Aria.
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Got some history.
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I really do like the introduction of Sayama.
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Gives me Tang vibes from Sleeping Dogs.
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But I like how they establish and just wow you
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on the spot with her character,
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because then she goes to one of the other Yakuza members
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and takes the wooden sword, I guess,
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and just whacks the frame and she's just unafraid.
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And this is why the chapter name is called Yakuza Huntress.
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Very fitting.
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So Kiryu and Daigo are welcomed into Omi HQ
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and they meet with Chairman Gota.
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Sorry, I just made myself laugh.
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I had in my notes in parentheses, literally a chair man.
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Oh.
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Because he's in a wheelchair.
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You're so mean, Leah.
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That's so bad.
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But really funny too.
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So Gota introduces his officers.
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We have Takashima, who was Toronto's sworn brother,
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and Sengoku, who looks like a pistachio.
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He is a pistachio personified.
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It's all I see when I look at him.
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Pistachios.
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We learn that there's tension between the chairman
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and his son, who we just met in the Grand.
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He has been stirring up trouble with the Tojo for some time
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and they reference the Jingu incident.
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So that's from last game.
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So was the whole last game just Ryuji messing
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with the Tojo clan?
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I don't know.
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I mean, it could be possible, but I
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feel like Ryuji doesn't have that much power and authority.
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The fact that he's not one of the guys sitting
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next to his father, but instead just out and about.
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Because yeah, they're making it sound
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like he kind of stirred that up.
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But I'm wondering if that's just like, oh, we
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didn't know we were going to make a sequel.
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Let's have him.
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Let's have played a part in that.
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Because it seemed like Jingu was more like the instigator.
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Right?
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He had motive.
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So I don't know.
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But he was involved in some way.
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And then Sengoku leaves at some point.
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And why does he walk like that?
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People do not know how to walk or run in this game.
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No.
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The waddle.
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But in this entire interaction, Daigo
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is just sitting so casually.
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It's hilarious.
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I think we both made a comment about that.
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Oh, I was laughing at how the way Kiryu was sitting.
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Oh.
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He's laughing at how Daigo's sitting.
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Also, Kiryu wears black socks with white shoes.
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I mean, we established from Y-Zero
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that Kiryu doesn't have much fashion sense.
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Yeah.
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I mean, his belt is black.
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But I feel like then your shoes should be black.
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Something's not right.
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But in no scenario should you be wearing black socks
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with white shoes.
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That's just unacceptable to me.
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But overall, in this interaction, though, I
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feel like if only Ryuji's dad could get
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a better control of his son, so many things
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could have been avoided.
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And if Ryuji really did have a hand in everything
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that happened in the previous game,
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only his dad held him accountable.
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So much things could have been avoidable.
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Speaking of Ryuji, right after Gota
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accepts Turada's message, Ryuji busts in with a bunch of men.
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He's against the alliance.
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He does not want it to happen.
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Daigo confronts him, but gets trounced.
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And I hate it, but I also love that Ryuji says,
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take a nap or something.
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Basically, he's staging a coup.
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And he captures all of the men that we just met,
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except Sengoku, I guess, because he walked away.
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And then afterwards, of course, Kiryu has to fight off his men.
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And Daigo stays to fight Ryuji.
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OK, during the fight, it's at an hour, 28 minutes, and 21
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seconds.
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What is that noise?
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This is what sounds like a dog throwing up.
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So I have to show you.
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RAR!
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RAR!
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How did that sound?
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RAR!
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It sounds like he's about to puke.
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It does.
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It really tickles me.
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So after fighting off everybody, Kiryu catches up
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to the chairman outside.
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Daigo's not far behind, but he's not looking so good.
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Kiryu tells Daigo to leave with the chairman
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and go to Tojo HQ, while Kiryu faces Ryuji.
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However, their fight gets interrupted by the police.
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Ryuji runs off as Sayama arrests Kiryu.
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What I'm wondering is what benefits would Ryuji get
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if there was a war besides power, reputation, probably
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monopoly?
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I feel like there's some other component that we're missing.
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I don't think so.
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I think it's just those and wanting
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to be the one true dragon.
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And that's kind of what I was saying about this is a first
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just straight up thug who just wants those thug things,
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like power and status.
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And it's kind of refreshing to have a villain that's actually
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that simple.
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Should we start in on chapter four,
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the last chapter of this episode?
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Chapter four is The Four Kings of Omi.
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Date's back.
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He is met by Inspector Kawara, who we've seen a few times
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already, so now we have a name for him.
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But Date calls him Killer Kawara.
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He's the guy we saw from the beginning,
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like that 20 years ago, right?
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Yeah.
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And then we get a Sudou Date reunion.
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So in this meeting with Sudou Date and Kawara,
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there is also a fourth man present.
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He is Kurahashi, chief of foreign affairs.
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He and Sudou say that they think an Asian mafia is involved
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in the explosion.
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They suspect Ryuji of heading up the Turada hit based
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on the phone call that we saw at the start of the game,
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but they need to ID the other man.
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So they ask Date to get close to Kazuki from Stardust
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as Ryuji met with him the one time that he was in Kamurocho.
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And they say that Kazuki is actually Korean.
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OK.
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So what?
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Sorry.
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I just don't understand why they're making it such a big
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deal to have the Yakuza working with the Triad,
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or what's the equivalent of Yakuza in Korea?
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I think they say mafia in this game.
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They still call it mafia?
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OK.
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Yeah.
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I don't understand why that's a big deal.
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And maybe we'll learn more down the road.
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So moving right along, we're back
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to Kiryu, who is cuffed in Sayama's car.
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And she explains that his arrest was just a cover to get him
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into protective custody.
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However, she's doing a horrible job
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so far because someone is able to take two shots at Kiryu,
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who does not get hit somehow, but Sayama does.
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Kiryu tried to cover her and get, she still got shot.
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And it's a flesh wound at the shoulder.
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It's not fatal.
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Calm down, everyone.
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And it's in the one shoulder that was 100% covered
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by Kiryu.
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And then we got mad because he like,
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well, she tells him to find a bar called Aoi.
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And he leaves her to go find it.
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And we were like, what are you doing?
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When he gets to the bar, the woman there, Tamiyo,
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was like, why didn't you bring her with you?
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And then so he has to go back and bring her.
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But keep in mind, she's still in the car.
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And right outside of the bar is a car park.
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So we know cars could drive through there.
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Yet he still tries to piggyback ride her
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and try not to jostle her as he runs back.
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Well, now everyone's at the bar.
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And Kiryu will soon get a call from Daigo, who tells him
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that he and Chairman Godo are driving to Kamurocho.
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Kiryu decides to leave.
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He does return to the bar where he learns that Tamiyo is
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Sayama's adoptive mother.
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And Sayama is also an orphan.
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Small world, two orphans, one room.
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Maybe they're siblings.
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After Sayama wakes up, they discuss the attempted hit.
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Then she says it wasn't Ryuji's style
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and that the bullet is smaller than a usual rifle bullet.
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So she thinks that they were not shooting to kill,
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which I guess explains the flesh wound,
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but doesn't explain the rest of the issues
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we have with the shooting.
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Kiryu wants to figure out who he's dealing with.
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And Sayama asks him to take the bullet
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to an information dealer.
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After another wild goose chase, we eventually
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get to the dealer who tells Kiryu that the bullet is
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from the Takashima family.
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So that's Turata's sworn brother.
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How do you tell that from a bullet?
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Yeah, I don't know how.
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And especially if it's like outsourced hitman,
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then you really can't tell who it's from.
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But we then cut to Takashima on the phone.
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And it sounds like Sayama was correct.
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They did not intend to kill.
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They just wanted Kiryu to trace the bullet back to them.
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But basically, they're just trying to get
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Kiryu freaked out, I think.
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What was the point of making Kiryu think it's one family
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and not the other?
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That if you doing this is just to kind of incite a war,
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it coming from anyone's family is going to do that.
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You don't need to specifically pin it down
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to Takashima's family.
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Didn't Ryuji just capture Takashima?
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Oh, yeah.
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That's actually a really great point.
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But now he's in an interrogation room at the police station,
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where apparently you can just make a phone call in there, too.
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Yeah, that doesn't make sense.
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Why is Kiryu not thinking about that?
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Lots of questions.
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But in this interrogation room, he's being interrogated by Besho.
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And somehow Takashima knows about Sayama.
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Everyone would know who Sayama is,
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because she's part of Osaka PD.
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So I don't understand why they're making it such a big deal.
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I think it's the fact that he knew
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that she's protecting Kiryu.
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So back to Kiryu, he asks the information dealer
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about Takashima's plans.
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But that'll cost him 300 grand.
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And Kiryu says, I'm not paying that.
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So where does he go?
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Kurokawa, purple guy.
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And his information eventually leads Kiryu
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on another wild goose chase to gather some blackmail
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that he can use to get information out
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of the information dealer.
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We learn that Takashima has connections
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to government officials.
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And that's kind of all we get out of it.
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And as he's telling this to Kiryu, he gets a call.
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Kiryu now has 100 million yen hit on his head.
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So they try to kill him as he would.
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Kiryu fights them off and then beats information out
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of the information dealer.
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And we discover that the Sengoku family initiated
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the bounty, and that's Pistachio Man.
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So it's coming at him from multiple ways.
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You have the Takashima's family, and you also
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have the Pistachio Dude family.
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We know that it seems like the Gourou family, so Ryuji's dad,
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is on board because he's willing to go with Daigo to Tojo Clan.
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But it seems like not everyone is with him.
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It seems like nobody is with him at this point.
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It's confusing, but my next note is
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that we learned some more confusing backstories.
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So should we just get into it?
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So we see Sengoku talking about Kiryu's escape from the hit
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and talking about the Gourou clan.
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He then opens a trunk with 1 billion
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and says, make it rain over Kamurocho.
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To be honest, I'm not sure if that ever comes back.
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I don't remember money falling out of the sky
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later in the game.
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Kiryu then heads back to the bar.
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And as he approaches, he decides to eavesdrop
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on an argument between Sayama and Tamio about her parents.
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Tamio says they have nothing to do with the Yakuza,
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but she won't tell her who her parents were
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or anything about them.
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So Sayama says she's going to keep following Kiryu
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because he's part of the Tojo Clan.
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Kiryu?
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I think he throws a can in the hallway
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to make a little bit of noise to warn them he's coming.
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And then he enters pretending like he
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didn't hear any of that.
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Which is very gentlemanly of him to do so.
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The moment he enters the door, Sayama
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is so aggressively mean to him.
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And it's not the first time.
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I think previously where he was going to go out and explore,
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even though she told him to go look up information,
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she's threatening him to jail if he skips.
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And I'm like, calm down, lady.
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This man saved your life.
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Yeah, I don't know what Kiryu's doing to indicate to her
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that she needs to try to control him.
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Because it seems like he's cooperating.
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But then Sayama gets a call from the chief, Besho,
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wanting to talk to Kiryu.
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He tells Kiryu that Daigo and Chairman Koda
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have been kidnapped and that the kidnappers were
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speaking a foreign language or with a foreign accent
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and that the plates on the getaway car
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were from Kamurocho.
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What is happening in Kamurocho that it seems
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like everyone's targeting it?
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I don't know.
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This game, I mean, obviously we covered four chapters
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very quickly because it's just a lot of setup.
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But they throw a lot at us really fast.
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Aku and the Omi Alliance, we've got foreign mafia.
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We've got Daigo's beef from the past.
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We've got other shit from 20 years ago.
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We've got Sayama's mystery parents.
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So many characters.
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And then we also have in the background minds
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fear for Haruka to be kidnapped again.
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They know where she's going to be.
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Sunflower is no secret.
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That's a lot to digest.
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But hey, we have it under 50 minutes
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and it's going to be a lot shorter when we trim it down.
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Exactly.
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Two hours of gameplay resulted in 50 minutes of recording,
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which is about half as much as a normal one would be.
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So that tells you how much fighting and just running
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around there was in these chapters.
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Yep.
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And with that, I'm going to count us off
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with a little audacity on one, three, two, one.
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