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Wip. I’ll finish this later…

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THEY FINALLY ADDED THE SOUND OF BREATH TO WESTERN SPOTIFY

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Why does Crane have such a kick-ass theme in JE and proceed to be the worse of the two styles

at least Drumfire also goes hard, but the cops usually show up before you can get to the good part

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Alright, I've finished Yakuza 0 after 50 hours and a long money grind for the Dragon of Dojima style. (No, I didn't get Mad Dog style, after grinding real estate for so long, I didn't really feel like grinding at a cabaret club.) The ending was pretty cool, especially with the final bosses. Spoilers ahead

Hiroki Awano, while technically not being a final boss was a really cool fight, and I think he represents Majima's will really well. He vowed he would destroy the Dojima Family in Makoto's stead, and fighting Awano represents this well enough. The next boss follows this, and does it better than Awano. With Vengeance is a great song too.

Like I said a moment ago, Lao Gui is a great representation of Majima's will to end the Dojima Family in Makoto's place, as he fights and nearly kills the greatest assassin in all of Asia. Not only this, but Lao Gui also represents the person Majima wanted to avoid becoming: a mindless assassin only doing jobs because he was told to. He spared Makoto's life because he felt it was wrong to kill her, but Lao Gui doesn't care, and he shot her anyway, which caused this chain of event to unfold, culminating in Lao Gui nearly dying.

Kiryu only got one final boss, and it's quite short, but Keiji Shibusawa is a great final boss. Phase 1 starts out in Keiji's "Rush" style, represented by the pink aura he has, just like Kiryu. While Shibusawa fights for the title of Dragon of Dojima, Kiryu fights for what he thinks is right. Phase 2 has Shibusawa enter his version of a Beast style, and surrounded by tables and chairs. Phase 3 starts, with Shibusawa claiming "I AM the Dragon of Dojima!" and he enters his Brawler stance, eventually Kiryu beats him to the railing and just starts wailing on him, digs his nails into Keiji's skin, throws him back on the ship just to deliver one last punch that sends Shibusawa flying through the air, and when he hits the ground, all he can say is "I'm the Dragon of Dojima..."

this fight is

PEAK CINEMA

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Major Yakuza 7 spoilers below. TLDR: Yakuza 7's finale, while a little underwhelming, is incredible and so are the final boss themes.

Recently, I beat Yakuza 7 (or, Yakuza: Like a Dragon as we're seemingly moving away from numbered entries) and I have to say that both Triplet After Triplet and ism are incredible finale themes, and they both fit with their respective battles. Triplet After Triplet for the seemingly unshakable mountain of muscle that is Yosuke Tendo, and ism for one final match against your brother, Masato Arakawa.

One small issue I do have is that Tendo is kind of an underwhelming final boss, he doesn't really have any cool attacks or anything like that, the most menacing one is God's Right Hand, which can be ignored if you have Peerless Resolve.

Some people say Masato's fight is a disappointment, but it's more about the story when you fight Masato, Ichiban takes this fight so personally that it almost completely snaps him out of his delusions, where you fought Tendo with a baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire and electricity, now you fight Masato with your bare hands. Where once you were shooting lighting out of a magic ball, you instead grapple with Masato. QTEs return for this one fight and watching the first scene, you can see that even in reality Masato and Ichiban are taking turns hitting each other until Ichiban gets so fed up, he punches Masato THROUGH a glass panel and onto the floor below.

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you know, I miss install screens, some were really cool like Yakuza 4's

and MGS4's install screen

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I DON'T KNOW HOW I GOT HERE BUT THANK YOU TWEWYERS, NOW I PRAY FOR RUNAWAY

LULLABY FOR YOU IS FINALLY ON ENGLISH SPOTIFY YOU GUYS

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So aside from just learning that The Fear of God is on Spotify, all this talk about Metaphor: Refantazio and its battle theme reminded me a lot of The Fear of God from Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, and it's still so good over 15 years later

(btw the battle theme is Warriors in Valour)

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LULLABY FOR YOU IS FINALLY ON ENGLISH SPOTIFY YOU GUYS

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Alright I have two songs I want people to listen to because they're so good, and they're both MegaTen (or in DDS' case, MT-adjecent)

ALIVE from DDS2

and Battle A2

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As a sequel to my previous post, it's also a crime that Tatakai isn't on Spotify either, it's so good, the entire ost is so good and then we have a bunch of songs that are inaccessible to a lot of people

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It's an actual crime that Emptiness and was never uploaded to Spotify, it's such a good song to have just been forgotten about and trapped on the DS version.

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I've spent a year here??

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This is My Story is such a good battle theme it motivates me to blitz through y5 again just to fight Daigo with a better Shinada

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aa iji hatte iji hatte sakasemashou

moyuru hanabira chizome moyou

Doromizu sodachi no sono hana wa

iji sakura

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I think my favorite final boss character in the Yakuza series is Ryuji Goda.

SPOILERS FOR YAKUZA 2

I like Ryuji because in the beginning I thought he was just some dude who was acting way too cocky and had a dumb grudge with some guy he had never even met.

But as the story progressed, his character did too, he didn't act from the shadows like Nishikiyama did, he was loud and proud, but most of all, he had his honor.

Ryuji always followed his honor and did what he thought was the right thing. When Haruka was kidnapped, he got mad because it was a lowly trick, and a dishonorable thing to do. He chose to only fight Kiryu one-on-one, on equal footing.

He also was perfectly willing to defend his family, even if he didn't know they were related, and in the end he decided to try and spare her the sorrow of having to watch the two men she loves kill each other. He even grew to respect Kiryu, saying "I see how my sister fell for a guy like you."

That's why I think A Scattered Moment is such a good song for the final fight, this is the end of both of their lives, and there's nothing left for either of them to do but to fight it out, not just for honor and the title of Dragon, but because it's all they know how to do. Kiryu and Ryuji spent their entire lives fighting so they decided that they would go out fighting, not as enemies, but as equals.