History Awesome / Yakuza0

** There's also the point following their final face-off where Kuze displays a clear understanding of exactly ''what'' Kiryu is, and that he and his fellow lieutenants made a ''[[OhCrap huge]]'' mistake in getting Kiryu's father figure locked up and set the kid off.

** What makes Nishitani's final moments really awesome? The guard is the one with the gun, and has riddled Nishitani with lethal bullets. And yet, [[MookHorrorShow he's the one scared shitless of Nishitani.]] Plus, it's heavily implied that Nishitani [[TakingYouWithMe killed the guard before dying himself.]]

** There's also the point following their final face-off where Kuze displays a clear understanding of exactly ''what'' Kiryu is, and that he and his fellow lieutenants made a ''[[OhCrap huge]]'' mistake in getting Kiryu's father figure locked up and setting the kid off.

** In a blink and you miss it moment just before the above, Kuze tanks a prototypical ''Tiger Drop'' from Kiryu. Just goes to show just how tough and relentless Kuze is and how much Kiryu has grown between their fights.

* The cutscenes that play once you unlock Kiryu and Majima's 4th styles.

-->'''Kuze:''' I'll be damned. The punk kid's finally turned... turned into a true yakuza.
** There's also the point following their final face-off where Kuze displays a clear understanding of exactly ''what'' Kiryu is, and that he and his fellow lieutenants made a ''[[OhCrap huge]]'' mistake in getting Kiryu's father figure locked up and setting the kid off.
* Tachibana's display of influence in Kamurocho, showing that he is - to some extent - on even footing with the Tojo Clan by shutting off the power in the city, if only for a few seconds.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76chEyJjKw Majima's introduction]], where he pacifies a belligerent drunk at his cabaret without raising a hand to him while the house band plays him off.
** This moment highlights how incredibly cunning Majima can be. He took a public disturbance, turned it into an improvised floor show, convinced the man to apologize and buy drinks for everyone with nothing more than well placed words and sympathy, convinced the patrons of the Grand to forgive the man, and in doing so not only improved the reputation of the Grand but also boosted profits ''significantly.'' There's a reason that the Grand became Sotenbori's ''#1'' under Majima.

** Tachibana get his own awesome moment before that, managing to secure Kiryu's safety from the Dojima Family with the Tojo Clan using nothing but his own negotiating skills (and a hefty sum of cash), showing just what a shrewd businessman he really is. Nihara even remarks that with those skills, it's no wonder Tachibana's been causing the Dojima Family such a headache.

* Kiryu taking on the Dojima Family right after he's expelled, particularly when he jumps into a bathroom through a window, beats up everyone in the bathroom, and destroys a toilet with Yoneda's head. It ends with Kiryu delivering a dropkick so powerful, it not only sends Yoneda out the same window but almost sends himself flying out as well.

* Kiryu taking on the Dojima Family right after he's expelled, particularly when he jumps into a bathroom through a window, beats up everyone in the bathroom, and destroys a toilet with Yoneda's head. It ends with Kiryu delivering a dropkick so powerful, it not only sends Yoneda out the same window but almost sends him flying out as well.

* Majima easily kicking the asses of three street nobodies that had previously assaulted him during his apathetic stage earlier in the game.

* Nishitani, whom Majima and the player have known for a grand total of fifteen minutes, being so won over by Majima's character that he sacrifices himself to give Majima a chance to escape, holding the guard off while riddled with bullets, howling for Majima to live his life on his own terms.
** What makes Nishitani's final moments really awesome? The guard is the one with the gun, and has riddled Nishitani with lethal bullets. And yet, he's the one scared shitless of Nishitani. Plus, it's heavily implied that Nishitani killed the guard before dying himself.

* By the end, Majima finally snaps, raids the Dojima Family HQ [[OneManArmy and kicks all the members' ass on his own]]. Bonus points if you already have his Legend fighting style, which makes him really batshit insane.

** Awano, a very tough Yakuza boss with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower, and even Lao Gui right after him, said to be the deadliest hitman in Asia, were no match for Majima's rage.

* On a meta level, ''0'' finally saw the ''Yakuza'' series break out in the West after years of false starts and near-cancellations, to the point where the fandom began bitterly assuming at best they'd have CultClassic status. Thanks to this game being a prequel and coming out in a generally uncontested time (alongside 2017 in general being such a good year for Japanese gaming that all eyes were on the Land of the Rising Sun), ''0'' wound up surprising a lot of people and getting them into the series, leading them to try the rest of the franchise out. ''Yakuza'' finally broke big, and this was where fate finally turned for the series.

* The fact that one of your opponents in [[BloodSport the Bed of Styx]] is [[BearsAreBadNews an actual, literal bear.]]

* TheStinger is as much this as it is hilarious.

'''Kiryu''': [[TheAdventureContinues (slowly smirks and the screen cuts to black)]]

* Nishitani, whom Majima and the player have known for a grand total of fifteen minutes, being so won over by Majima's character that he sacrifices himself to give Majima a chance to escape, holding the guard off while riddled with bullets, howling for Majima to live his life on his own terms.

*** Also doubles as a for Majima himself. Since Majima literally tanked that punch and was still able to go on, it just proves that being a Mad Dog can turn you into something MadeOfIron.

** Awano himself has his moment right after the fight, when he finally realizes he lost his way as a Yakuza and takes a shot for Majima. And another during the fight when, if you succeed a QTE and Majima dodges, punches a wall so hard ''[[BeyondTheImpossible it creates a massive crack from the impact]]''. Majima [[JustForFun/HolyShitQuotient (and often the player as well)]] has a brief moment of looking in [[StunnedSilence wide-eyed, silent, shocked awe]] at the large crack in the wall where his head once was, before he shoves Awano back and the fight continues.

[[caption-width-right:350:'''Dojima Family Lieutenant, Tojo Clan''' '''Daisaku Kuze''']]

[[caption-width-right:350:'''Dojima Family Lieutenant, Tojo Clan''' '''Daisaku Kuze''']]

[[caption-width-right:350:'''Dojima Family Lieutenant, Tojo Clan//
Daisaku Kuze]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[{{Determinator}} As long as I'm alive, I'll keep coming back for more]]...NOW DIE, YOU LITTLE SHIT!"]]

* The "Rise of the Dragon" substory is a big one for Ryuji Goda. The future Dragon of Kansai was not only pretty much as tall as Majima was back in 1998, he was also more than capable of going toe to toe with him in combat (He gets beaten, but still). And this was all while he was in sixth grade.

* If Kiryu gets accosted by thugs in a district that the player has posted a security guard in (through the Real Estate Royale interface), there's a chance that the fight will start with a cutscene of the security guard running up and jumping in to aid their President. It's especially gratifying when the guard is Officer "Stop-and-Search" Kikuchi, a CowardlyLion cop whom Kiryu helped to regain his courage during his sidestory.