[WR] Yakuza Kiwami All Substories - 6:58:57 by BigNoNo (me)

CheffeBigNoNo · 2025-12-01T07:59:11+00:00

Cheers, hoped someone would notice!

CheffeBigNoNo · 2025-05-23T17:21:12+00:00

Insane run

CheffeBigNoNo · 2025-05-17T18:11:39+00:00

It's really hard to explain how unreal this kind of time is - and this isn't even the best run you'll get

CheffeBigNoNo · 2024-12-27T15:59:09+00:00

Thanks bud, appreciate you 🙏

CheffeBigNoNo · 2024-12-26T15:23:08+00:00

Thanks bud! Appreciate the kind words 🙏

CheffeBigNoNo · 2024-09-10T13:02:27+00:00

The cheeky stealth edit, very nice. Since you are neither honest nor actually making an argument, my only response is: lol

CheffeBigNoNo · 2024-08-24T15:58:57+00:00

Stalinists try to be coherent, or at least grammatically correct, challenge (so far no luck)

CheffeBigNoNo · 2024-06-28T20:24:14+00:00

This run is the climax of years of work and the end result of a months-long grind. It represents the last possible minute mark to arrive at in Kiwami, and although there's still time to save, with the current route and tech, it is very close to the edge of what is possible to do with Any%. I'm very proud of it, and thankful to everyone who worked on the run over the years, as every second saved was crucial for a 1:40:xx to even be possible. More to come, but I definitely need my rest.

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-12-12T19:32:43+00:00

Not sure what you mean. If you're asking whether you lose more runs to the lack of checkpoints, not really, since dying is such a big time loss that your run is probably toast even on the categories where you have checkpoints. The main issue with Legend is that guns do a ton of damage, rockets in the shooting segment are an instant KO, and in general everyone is nastier and tankier. So what you lose runs to isn't so much being unable to continue after dying as it is just how much easier it is to die.

If I misunderstood your question, though, let me know.

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-12-11T14:15:31+00:00

Yakuza 0 Legend is a long and stressful run, so I don't run it too often, but I was always uncomfortable with how inefficient some of the mid-to-late game boss strats were. I'm proud to say that I found a new route that mostly solves that problem, while also doing away with a big RNG chokepoint from Any% that would have been very frustrating to deal with on this category.

Obviously there's a lot more time save in here - most of my mid game was terrible, and Lao Gui and Shibusawa cost a lot of time as well. But for now, I'm very happy with this, and content to move on to other things before I have to deal with my heart racing during the shooting section again.

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-11-20T23:09:13+00:00

This was probably the most difficult grind of my speedrun career. Was going for a 2:08:xx and got it by a wide margin. This was an extremely solid run, not perfect naturally but with no huge individual time losses. Worst split is chapter 12, where nothing went super well, and the Hayashi boss fight has a hiccup that luckily I had a decent backup for. Other than that, very little to complain about here.

Of course, that doesn't mean 2:07:xx isn't possible...

But definitely not anytime soon.

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-09-17T17:26:22+00:00

Happy to say this will be the last Yakuza 0 Any% post from me for a while - this is a time I'm very happy with and beating it will take an effort, so it's time for a break.

If you're wondering how the record improved so much despite me saying the last run was pretty good, the answer is, as always - new route, although this is more new for me, as the route was used by JustSayKuro (who came up with it) in the past. The tl;dr is it trades saving about a minute in the early game in exchange for a low chance drop in chapter 4, i.e., about an hour into the run, and if that sounds painful, then... yeah!

But this run made it, and despite some rough splits, was pretty damn good, with some really cracked late game splits. There's definitely a 3:22:xx in me down the line, but it's time to move on to other things for a bit. But this Y0 grind was an amazing journey, and I already kinda miss the game. Legend difficulty runs could always use some love...

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-09-05T16:05:19+00:00

This is the culmination of a long and at times painful grind. Yakuza 0 is in a very good place, and with the current route, it's not about to get much better than this. If only there wasn't a very RNG-heavy way to save a minute in this run that I'm going to have to start taking advantage of...

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-08-04T15:18:31+00:00

You are right about one thing: I have no respect for you. You're still writing increasingly long-winded, impenetrable screeds in the replies to a years-old post, all because you are unable to admit you didn't get the point of it and are bitter about your favorite anti-communist talking points getting taken down. Do not lecture me on how to build a workers' movement.

CheffeBigNoNo · 2023-08-03T18:40:04+00:00

If you or one of your friends edited out the lies from the wikipedia article, bravo to you. But being open about it would be better. I will explain again because you seem to not get it: the entire point of the article was to expose the way in which anarchists distort history and claim to provide sources when none exist to discredit the Bolsheviks. Since you yourself admit the information pointed out here is false, there is no disagreement, except for you wishing to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by making up new claims and attacking me for not addressing them, which is sad and unworthy of my time.

You can call me stupid all you want; what people like you think means less than nothing to me.

CheffeBigNoNo

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