#mr shakedown

[nochangeintheplan]

Part of this massive hell-challenge

#yakuza #yakuza 0 #rgg #like a dragon #pocket circuit fighter #mr shakedown #habu #bacchus #majima goro #kiryu kazuma #nugget #miracle johnson #bob utsunomiya

[worstmalerggcharacterpoll]

Round 11: NPCs that just plain suck to deal with

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

#mr shakedown #akimoto #yakuza #WHY IS THERE FOUR MR SHAKEDOWNS #the person submitting this didn’t clarify which one #so it’s just. all of them now i guess. #sorry. #rggsworstman

[hero-in-high-tops]

GHOST OF MR SHAKEDOWN

#yakuza #yakuza 0 #mr shakedown

[pittabreadandhummus]

MR SHAKEDOWN YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED

I JUST FOUND OUT I HAVE A FUCKING KNIFE

#yakuza #yakuza 0 #mr shakedown

[anotherfagontheinternet]

i just got mr shakedown'd for the first time in y0 :( it was new game+ too so he got like, a shitload of money

#yakuza #yakuza 0 #mr shakedown

[gin-juice-tonic]

its hot out man

#giving ol mr tummy the shakedown #Pbbth

[mnyehlike]

the finale of my first yakuza 0 playthrough is certainly going

#kazuma kiryu #yakuza series #rgg #mr shakedown didnt Get Me but he showed up in the phonebooth scene as a wandering npc and i was like WAAAAAIIT #boreal doodles

[krispyweiss]

Song Review(s): Phil Lesh Quintet - “Night of a Thousand Stars,” “New Speedway Boogie,” “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and “Shakedown Street” (Live, March 6, 2024)

A bunch of “Wheel” teases - that’s who the Phil Lesh Quintet are.

Taking the stage March 6 in New York, the band sung an a cappella section of the Grateful Dead number before rolling into “Night of a Thousand Stars” an original from its 2002 album, There and Back Again. A bit rushed, it was nevertheless a fine performance and a real treat to hear this long-neglected gem from Lesh’s small stable of self-penned material.

The same preference for sprightly tempos marked the version of “New Speedway Boogie” that followed on the band’s generous livestream sampler from the gig. Keyboardist Rob Barraco sung this one and the mid-song jam found the musicians slowly tearing the music apart, eventually devolving to the threads of formless, but not uninteresting, improvisation, before they pieced it back together for the final verse and a cappella conclusion.

A prime example of how post-Grateful, Dead music should be explored.

Warren Haynes was back on the mic for “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” another quickly paced number that found the singer engaging with fellow axeman Jimmy Herring in a thrilling inter-verse duel that continued until bassist Lesh and drummer John Molo nudged the Traffic song toward Jamaica and a reggae jam that eventually led to more vocals and the outro.

Haynes kept on singing when an atypically slow “Shakedown Street” emerged from the post-“Fantasy” silence. The song’s essential backgrounds were rough and the livestream faded before the track ended. Seemingly no great loss, given this “Shakedown” didn’t seem destined to seriously poke around, though Sound Bites’ll never know for sure.

No matter. In the nearly 55 minutes of music that the band gave away, it reinforced why its now-periodic reunions are so highly anticipated and why - when it was a going concern during the aughts - the PLQ was such a beloved institution.

Grade card: Phil Lesh Quintet - “Night of a Thousand Stars,” “New Speedway Boogie,” “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and “Shakedown Street” (Live - 3/6/24) - B/B+/A-/I

3/7/24

#Youtube #phil lesh quintet #phil lesh & friends #phil lesh #grateful dead #warren haynes #gov’t mule #the allman brothers band #jimmy herring #widespread panic #rob barraco #dark star orchestra #john molo #bruce hornsby and the range #the wheel #night of a thousand stars #new speedway boogie #dear mr. fantasy #traffic #shakedown street

[atanx]

That one Y0 substory where Kiryu pretends to be a producer gone wrong XD

When I get that choice it always cracks me up just the mental image of Kiryu just SLAMMING his fucking fist into the dishes, shocking the shit out of the camera crew lmao

For context: one of the camera crew asks Kiryu to "jeer the dishes" and "strike the set"

#started a replay of Y0 and Legend difficulty because I got really fed up with the grinding I have to do for YLAD and wanted to go back to #good nice action games #Stumbled into this subquest fresh out of Mr. Shakedown's loving embrace and HAD to sketch it #yakuza 0 #rgg 0 #yakuza #yakuza fanart #kiryu kazuma #sketch #atanx draws

[rhinobeetl]

How can y0 be so powerful that I feel nostalgia for the 80s, a time I did not exist for

#i am listening to judgement ; _ ; #its only been a year since i finished y0 but its..so good #i miss the simpler times... cabaret club...mr shakedown...disco mini game....majima story...nishiki...

[angrybatart]

Basically how I react anytime I run into Mr. Shakedown. Just nope on outta there. At least until I figure out a strategy.

#Yakuza 0 #Kazuma Kiryu #Mr. Shakedown #fanart #sketch #I only fought the one the game forces you to fight and I already hate him #Not entirely sure if I even won that fight or not #Dude hits like a dump truck

[dirt-str1der]

So bored of y5 colosseum i went back to bully mr shakedown

#Yakuza liveplay #maybe i should replay the main story .. becoming clear to me that i only do one kind of grinding #gonna get a trillion dollarss #i like that mr shakedown scales up with how much cash you have ... like he'll just keep giving you moer and moer money #oh i know ill finally try to emulate y1 and y2 hee hee #and shen mue ...

[dapskie]

picked up yakuza again and there is some intense chase music going on but I do NOT remember why

I think it's very funny that this hint doesn't help me remember

#why are you running #i'm very bad at liveblogging also #mr shakedown appeared right next to me while i was writing this post and i almost lost all my money because i didn't pause #very fun

[jigensass]

Day 2 of Ishin

Wait there was a plot I was just fishing and running errands and praying to statues for two hours

It’s all still super political blah blah politics

Btw It’s Shinsengumi Time

Okay the difficulty curve is starting to show, but it seems to be only in the optional content. If I can beat Okita with a gun I get brownie points

Also this is another nitpick. I can now start to see which models got little touch ups and which ones got the full HD 4K rework, as well as who went back in the booth to do voice work because of once again how subpar the audio balancing is.

Hidenari Ugaki was not one of those people because his “Shinpan-chan” line sounds exactly the same and comparing it to Ryoma’s sensual ASMR audio it’s like night and day.

But don’t worry Okita is still thirsty for Ryoma dick and they did keep the ‘calling Okita handsome’ line in.

But KUZZZZEEEEEEEE

Also Awano’s model is really good if they did a Yakuza 0 remastered port (literally change nothing about the game, just up the resolution on everything) I would be all over that shit in a heartbeat

In regards to Zhao replacing Baba, Zhao’s VA does a terrific job, but the glasses are honestly a distraction.

….why did I think Ichiban was in the Ishin remake

Ryoma trying to justify why murder is bad when I have slaughtered hundreds with a firearm (Ryoma: his justification is that they’re rubber bullets)

Harukkkkkaaaaaaaaa

As it seems from my perspective, the UI for gardening and cooking has literally not changed at all from the PS4 original.

Miss Tatsu is also here. With guns.

How long until I find Bacchus in some random back alley and I just hear ‘HEY. BOY.”

#yakuza ishin spoilers #would not surprise me if they brought mr shakedown back LOL

[piduai]

i don't like 0 majima and his greasy ass disgusting ponytail, i think his brooding emosona is a disservice to the fun, chaotic, likeable and charismatic guy he becomes once he gets his snakeskin jacket. like there's 983943043092 Deeply Depressed Traumatized Sad Guys out there but a precious few trash goblins who exist to create chaos. otherwise tho i do love his breakdancing and pummeling bat fighting styles over any of kiryu's Not going to lie

#kiryu's beast >>> the others but it's slow af and mr shakedown IS going to beat your ass if you use it. sad! #also majima's dagger style rules. but you have to grind for that shit so so much. a tragedy #as far as my sympathies go kiryu and majima are the equivalent of sugimoto and ogata to me lmao #kiryu > majima in the same way as sugimoto > ogata but i love them all #rggposting

[classicjdog]

wahey i finally 100%ed yakuza 0

i’m definitely never doing that for any of the other yakuza games lol. i usually have no interest in 100% completing games but i made an exception here cause zero, as my introduction to the yakuza series, has a special place in my heart haha. i didn’t realise how much i missed it until i started playing it again after i finished like a dragon (which is an amazing game as well), everything from the combat to the soundtrack to the substories to the villains it’s all just so so good

also, this time i played through the game on legend difficulty without using healing items, and i think playing that way helped me appreciate certain sequences and fights more than i did before. i’m thinking specifically of the first time you fight kuze, and the fuckton of dojima goons you have to fight through to get to him. that level’s never really given me much trouble before, but this time it was BRUTAL. not being able to heal up all the little scrapes and hits you take when fighting the big crowds of enemies is bad enough, but when i finally got to kuze for the first time i quickly came to the realisation that i basically bruteforced all the boss fights the first time i played zero lol. my strategy was legit just run up & flail in their face, mash quickstep if i get hit, use an item if health gets low, repeat until dead. obv with no items this strat is no longer viable, so having to actually fight the bosses was a bit of a trip, but DAMN does it make certain boss battles wildly enjoyable, ESPECIALLY the kuze fights

one thing i wanna mention. naturally as part of getting 100% i had to play all the minigames, even the ones i hadn’t touched at all. and while some of them were as not-my-thing as i expected them to be (batting centre, koi-koi, baccarat/oicho-kabu), there were a couple that were actually pretty fun. the dice games in the homeless camp are the first ones to come to mind. one of them, cho-han, is MEGA simple, literally just 50/50 guessing so there isn’t much to it, but the rounds go by really quick so it’s easy to wanna keep playing. but the other dice game, cee-lo, is legitimately really fun! it takes a second to learn the rules, and i did have to refer to the rulebook quite a bit when i was playing it, but man i would LOVE to play cee-lo with friends/family irl. there are a LOT of opportunities for shit talk lmao. also, i had to bite the bullet and FINALLY learn mahjong, and you know what? it’s pretty good! took a while for me to get the hang of it, but not as long as i thought it would tbh. i think i’ll actually go out of my way to play it for fun when i play the other yakuza games, it’s legit pretty enjoyable. although it would prob be way more fun irl than against the ai

anyway yeah. yakuza 0 is an excellent game. 10/10

#tbh i only really have two complaints about the game #and they aren't even particularly important #one is that the mr shakedown fights are not fun at all #the other is that the catfight arena is an absolutely dreadful minigame #oh and i guess the fact that it doesn't have some of the quality of life stuff from later games can be a little annoying sometimes #but yeah those aren't massive complaints or anything #also this prob goes without saying #but HUGE shoutout to the legend cyricz #without his guide i would absolutely NOT have gotten 100% #honestly without his guides i don't think i'd even get to the amon fights haha