The Pirate Yakuza Game Has Something for Everyone – Even Newcomers

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ahoy, besties! This week, the crew sets sails with Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, a video game that’s as silly as its name suggests. Unlike its predecessor — our best game of 2024 — this entry features a new(ish) protagonist, old-school action combat, and a potpourri of new min-games that borrow from a wide range of Besties favorites, including Cooking Mama and Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag. Note from Plante: Last week’s description said Obsidian, the developer of Avowed, had previously made Fallout 76. It should have said Fallout: New Vegas. Sometimes I only have a chance to write the description/newsletter late, late, late in the night before we publish an episode — not an excuse, just an explanation. Needless to say, the mistake was human error and not the result of my co-hosts replacing me with a Content Bot.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	So it's cold and flu season, and I got an important question for you guys.
0:03.6	Sure.
0:04.8	Where are you putting those sneezes?
0:08.4	Explain.
0:09.5	Well, it took me about 27 years to realize that, you know, to do the elbow sneeze.
0:15.5	Crook of your arm.
0:16.5	Crook of your arm sneeze, which is now generally considered to be the healthiest place to sneeze.
0:20.9	Yeah.
0:22.2	Apart from, I guess, a tissue.
0:23.9	But then it's in the crook of your arm, so where are you putting that sneeze?
0:28.6	Oh, well, you kind of zip past the thing that you're probably ashamed of, which you...
0:33.5	What?
0:34.4	Come on.
0:34.8	What you would do back when we worked together like 10 years ago Griffin do you remember
0:39.1	this that Frush would carry around a Ziploc bag and sneeze into it every time that's a very
0:45.3	good way he called it his nasty sack yeah he would carry it around and he would it was so big
0:51.6	that he couldn't like put it in his pocket so he always just had his nasty
0:55.3	sack sort of like bundled up and it was a biohazard so he would just staple them to his bedroom
0:59.9	wall across the season until we did a big nasty sack emptying yeah so yeah i mean that that certainly
1:07.5	i would hate for you to go to fall back into your old ways for us yeah the new guidance
1:12.9	i've seen coming out of rfk is to get real low down to the ground like you're doing a push-up and
1:18.2	just blast it down onto the ground because your sneeze particles settle so his his point and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Besties, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Besties and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.