Yakuza: 8 Best Final Bosses In The Series

There’s something special about fighting the last boss.

Many things are known about the Yakuza series. It has great personalities, minigames, quirks, and places like Kamurocho that are well-known. The end bosses are also a very popular part. Most of the time, the endings of these games are big and exciting, and the final bosses hit hard. These fights are unique and stand out in the series because of how well they use Quick Time Events (QTEs), great music, and story action.

Even though it’s not the series best known for its bosses, almost all of them are good. Keep in mind that these are the real end bosses. All of the Yakuza games where you can play as more than one character have a final boss, but only the big event will count.

Yakuza 0: Keiji Shibusawa

Yakuza 0 is a predecessor, and the final boss’s importance to the story depends a lot on that fact. Kiryu’s dragon tattoo, which isn’t even coloured, tells the whole story on the boss’s title card, while Keiji’s is done. Kiryu must win this fight to become the Dragon of Dojima, a character who will appear in other games. The boss is good and has many stages, but the Quick Time Events (QTEs) make this fight much more fun.

When Keiji is almost done, Kiryu just keeps screaming at him. Then Keiji falls asleep, and Kiryu keeps dropping bombs. Kiryu then picks up his dead body and gives it one last powerful blow. It’s a great way to end the show, and it’s never happened again in the series.

Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: Akira Nishikiyama

The boss at the end of the first game is great because everything in the game led up to that moment. Some of the series’ weaker final bosses can have a problem where the second-to-last boss feels more like the final fight than the real one. Jingu, the second-to-last boss in Yakuza 1, is the hardest fight in the game, but Nishiki feels like the right choice for the last boss fight.

Kiryu and Nishiki used to be friends, but now they hate each other very much. The whole game has been leading up to this point. The music is great and adds a lot to the fight, especially in Kiwami. This time, there aren’t any amazing QTEs, but the emotional drama and feeling of a climax make this fight one of the best.

Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: Ryuji Goda

Ryuji Goda from Yakuza 2 is thought to be one of the best bad guys, if not the best in the series. He is so well-known that he became an available character in Yakuza: Dead Souls, a game about zombies. The last boss fight with him is epic and has a lot at stake. Both will probably die from a time bomb, but what counts is which dragon is stronger: the Dragon of Dojima or the Dragon of Kansai.

The fight is good, but it’s not that different from the other times you’ve fought Goda. The last QTE is easy, but it gets the job done. Kiryu and Goda end up giving each other one last big punch. Both hits hit their targets, but Kiryu is still standing. This last meeting is a great way to end the story of one of the series’ most popular characters.

Yakuza 4: Seishiro Munakata

Before Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Kiryu fought every final boss in all the other Yakuza games. Besides Yakuza 4, that is. Tanimura is one of the most underrated characters in the series, and it’s too bad he didn’t show up in later books. Since this is his only game, having him face the last boss makes sense. Munakata has a lot of help, even though he is an underrated bad guy in his own right.

This fight is the hardest in the game because you have to deal with so many enemies at once. You’ll get a lot of applause, but that will make it even better when you get through this. It fits Tanimura’s personality and his problem, and out of the last four bosses, this was the best one to end on.

Yakuza 5: Masato Aizawa

In Yakuza 5, Kiryu meets Masato Aizawa again as the last boss. Everything else about this boss is great, but the story isn’t nearly as interesting or important as those of the last few. The music is one of the best boss tracks in the whole series, and it fits the main theme really well. The fight with Aizawa is great and very different from the first time you met him earlier in the game.

But the best part is the great Quick Time Events (QTEs). All of them are well-choreographed and hit so hard. The first one is a real test of strength for wrestling. Just because of the QTEs, this is usually the first final boss you think of when you think of the Yakuza games.

Yakuza: Like A Dragon: Ryo Aoki And Masato Arakawa

The cool way the last boss in Yakuza: Like a Dragon changes things up makes it stand out. With all of his helpers, Ryo Aoki’s last standard boss is a great and difficult fight. But the fight doesn’t end when you kill him. You have to fight Arakawa on your own from now on.

Since the beginning of the game, this is the first time you’ve fought someone one-on-one. This makes the moment more powerful. This fight is also the only time that Quick Time Events (QTEs) appear in a boss fight, which makes the end hit even harder. This is a unique way to change things up, and it’s just what the first final boss of the new Yakuza era needed.

Like A Dragon: Ishin: Takechi Hanpeita

Like a Dragon: The final boss for Ishin might be the most fun of the whole series. First, it’s a big turning point in the way Ryoma and Hanpeita feel about each other. It feels like this fight has been building up since the beginning of Flappy Bird game. Second, this is the best boss in terms of how it works.

Ishin’s fight system is up there with the best in the series, and out of all four styles, Hanpeita is the most fun to use. The QTE cutscenes are also really cool and show how even the two figures are. It’s not the coolest or most exciting final boss, but it’s the most fun and interesting to play as.

Judgment: Mitsuru Kuroiwa

Like the final boss of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the final boss of Judgement is one of the best parts of the game because it flips the script. The way the fight is played is great, and it’s the hardest one so far, but it throws you around a lot. In the whole game and even most of the rest of the series, there is never a time when a main boss’s health goes down to 0 but then goes back up.

But Judgement does it, and it’s a great way to trick people.You do think you’ve won because the fight has been going on for a while, but there’s still a lot more to go. When the bad guy comes back, you feel like the hero in those action scenes.