... It does a lot. But yeah, it's just it's the you know, it's a real star of Persona 4 Golden, so it has to go in. OK. All right. Like a dragon, then, slash Yakuza. What do we pick here? Because depending on the game you pick, that depends on which one or two or three locations you end up with. I feel like it has to have Kamurocha at the core. Yeah. Agree. Because I still think that's the best the best area they've done. ...
... Well done, us. Yes, we fulfilled our own criteria. The bare minimum has been met. Yes. But I think that I think that makes sense. Persona 5 is so comprehensive in terms of that parts of Japan you've seen before rendered extremely, you know, rendered beautifully plus parts you've never seen before. It does a lot. But yeah, it's just it's the you know, it's a real star of Persona 4 Golden, so it has to go in. OK. All right. Like a dragon, then, slash Yakuza. What do we pick here? Because depending on the game you pick, that depends on which one or two or three locations you end up with. I feel like it has to have Kamurocha at the core. Yeah. Agree. Because I still think that's the best the best area they've done. Like I'm not as into Yokohama as much in like the newer games, like it's not not quite as fun. It's a bit a bit more sort of generic office space to run through. It's a quite tough location to put in a video game, because what is great about Yokohama is a little bit spread out. Yeah. ...
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01:33:32 - 01:34:46
Whether they count as a celebrity obviously shuhei yashida voices an arcade loving Is it a duck or a frog in promise mascot agency? Oh, yeah one of those. Yeah the thing the thing that owns the arcade That's i'm pretty sure that's him. Um Uh in pirate yakuza that came out this year. There's this slightly shades of gray villain character called rodriguez who's played by oyumi tanida who is the um, The big villain in tokyo vice that actor the guy who plays the yakuza boss Who's like the the main villain of tokyo…
01:29:32 - 01:30:34
And it's just him running around tokyo trying to make a story out of anything he sees and It's just great. The guy's got a really great face Um, everything he does is really funny Like good to see a freelance journalist, you know get the protagonist role. Um Yeah, those uh, those are my picks. Yeah good suggestions. I've got a magima pre-bin from yakuza zero Big fan of him. That's that's my sole suggestion. Actually. I just really like that pre-bin just a man, you know stuck in like a particular situation under…
00:30:05 - 00:30:41
... Well, I was going to kick us off with like a bit of a broad open question, which is you have to have a persona in the mix, but what persona do you have? Great question. I've thought about this, too. I also wonder if the same question should be asked about Yakuza. That's my second slot is a Yakuza game. ...
00:39:09 - 00:41:04
Also, because the game is quite sort of acrobatic and you end up like flying around and jumping over rooftops, like you really feel like you can they've built this area and then you can really explore it properly, which is quite fun. You know, Yakuza, you only ever see it from, you know, very, very particular angles and a lot of it's locked off from you. And there is something quite fun about just going like mad on the rooftops of this place. ...
01:25:25 - 01:25:58
Um, I just uh, yeah, just everything is so reasonably priced versus because of the pound versus yen difference at the moment But imagine we're on a bin really matthew. Um, that was your category But uh, yeah, that's that's got a lot more specificity because I definitely associate with Whenever they have a like a goofy western character in a yakuza game They're always like the biggest clown you meet like a total idiot who's like stumbled into some terrible situation You know, it's always a side quest. They've…
01:17:41 - 01:18:14
... Yeah, I mean, I guess also like if we did exist in the Yakuza universe, there's no way we're a protagonist. We're, we're like, we're one of those side missions where like a guy's getting beaten up by three hoodlums and you just hope that by the time the player encounters us, they're not bored of doing that and just walk past it. ...
01:15:46 - 01:16:19
... Like I don't particularly want to see that happen, but the front bit, the hotel bit, I really like that. Yeah, that's cool. I like that. That's uh, nice and specific. Like I really went with the boring pick of Sega World from the Yakuza games for this. Um, I think just because my first trip ever to Japan, I went to Sega World in Shinjuku and obviously it's gone now or I think it's been turned into some other bullshit. Something like that happened. ...
01:11:48 - 01:12:21
... It's just so visually distinct from everything else is in the list as well. So I think it's a good little list even if not seeing the word yakuza on it is making me freak out a tiny bit. But um, here's what we got for our canon of game Hall of Fame Matthew. So we've got Persona 4 Golden Judgment, The World Ends With You, Ghostwire Tokyo, Sekiro Shadows Die Twice, Promised Mascot Agency, Attack of the Friday Monsters, Shenmue, 4-8's Shibuya Scramble and Street Fighter 2. Feel strong. That's a banger of a list. I…
01:14:04 - 01:14:39
... Do you know the problem I had here is I think that this is actually something that the Yakuza games don't do super well. You've got to like broad strokes of locations, but I'm never really in a bar or restaurant in that game. They're thinking this place rules. It's so iconic. Um, ah, like they put so much effort into the detail of X. ...
00:49:03 - 00:49:41
You know, that never happened. So it's it's fine. Okay, I think let's put let's put Sekiro in at number five and then shadow tactics in the in reserve then purely because I think the expectations wise. Sekiro is almost on that persona and Yakuza level of like, you would expect to see it in this kind of list, you know. Okay. And maybe that's unfair. But what's your next pick, Matthew? For a very different slice of Japanese living, promise mascot agency. Oh, this is one of my picks as well. Oh, excellent. Yeah, it…
00:25:41 - 00:26:28
It's probably something like Onimusha renting that one appears to at some point. I think the opening level of No One Lives Forever 2 is set in Japan and is set in sort of like a traditional Japanese town, you know, lots of sort of sliding wooden doors and little wooden sort of noodle stands and all this kind of stuff. But I don't think I was like, what the fuck? What's this place? You know, I can't remember having a moment where suddenly all this stuff came alive. I mean, part of the appeal when you read about…
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