Two larger-than-life heroes, Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu are brought together by the hand of fate, or perhaps something more sinister… Live it up in Japan and explore all that Hawaii has to offer in an RPG adventure so big it spans the Pacific. Like a Dragon 8 is the next installment in the Yakuza series that will feature Ichiban and Kiryu as dual protagonists.
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Tiene: una Vtuber, Danny Trejo, escenas delirantes, mejores mecánicas que el juego anterior, etc.
May very well be the best Like a Dragon/Yakuza game and one of the best video games ever made, they crammed so much into this game that I genuinely can’t think of what Like a Dragon 9 will or could even be, but I’m excited to see what’s next!
Major improvement for Like a Dragon 7. The battle system and job system are tweaked to be a lot more fun. Positioning matters and the new jobs are just simply more fun. Some familiar ones do return though.
Story is good and almost as twisty as Like a Dragon 7. Maybe I'd say that this one starts off stronger and ends juuust a tad weaker, but even so the mystery behind Akane makes for a fantastic start to the game.
The Hawaii map is great. I played this one with the Japanese dub and was nice hearing the mix of Japanese and American English actors whenever they decided to use them. There's a few weird ones, like Bryce having this very thick Japanese accent, but some of the side characters like the Cops, gang members, and some random civilians have excellent English that added to the immersion.
One of my biggest complaints about LAD 7 was the difficulty balancing. It felt like there were at least 2-3 moments where you had to grind, usually at an arena or a boring underground place. I never really had to grind in Infinite Wealth. I decide to grind 1 single time for the final boss at the Tartarus-esque dungeon, but this was actually kinda fun compared to the options LAD 7 offered you.
I did have a few issues here and there, the biggest one being the length of the mini-game tutorials. There's only really two big offenders. Sujimon and the Dondoko Island Mini-game.
The Dondoko Island tutorial did NOT have to be 1-2 hours long and I hope that they consider adding an option to skip it in a future update. I do not care for Dondoko and I'm sure i'm not the only one. It interrupts a part of the story where things are starting to get really good too and is a total pace breaker.
But enough complaining about the island, after all it was after just about an hour and thirty minutes out of a 72ish hour game.
Big props to the music team. Some of the battle themes are absolute fire. Slugfest and the Palekana battle theme are hype shit.
Overall, I would say that I really enjoyed this one! Like a Dragon 7 left me with some mixed feelings. It was a great, but frustrating game for me. The team seemed to learn that gating progress behind money and grinding isn't always fun and it shows. One of my favorite features was showing the recommended level and level of equipment for each story mission.
It isn't my game of the year but it's a fantastic game through and through.
Story is good and almost as twisty as Like a Dragon 7. Maybe I'd say that this one starts off stronger and ends juuust a tad weaker, but even so the mystery behind Akane makes for a fantastic start to the game.
The Hawaii map is great. I played this one with the Japanese dub and was nice hearing the mix of Japanese and American English actors whenever they decided to use them. There's a few weird ones, like Bryce having this very thick Japanese accent, but some of the side characters like the Cops, gang members, and some random civilians have excellent English that added to the immersion.
One of my biggest complaints about LAD 7 was the difficulty balancing. It felt like there were at least 2-3 moments where you had to grind, usually at an arena or a boring underground place. I never really had to grind in Infinite Wealth. I decide to grind 1 single time for the final boss at the Tartarus-esque dungeon, but this was actually kinda fun compared to the options LAD 7 offered you.
I did have a few issues here and there, the biggest one being the length of the mini-game tutorials. There's only really two big offenders. Sujimon and the Dondoko Island Mini-game.
The Dondoko Island tutorial did NOT have to be 1-2 hours long and I hope that they consider adding an option to skip it in a future update. I do not care for Dondoko and I'm sure i'm not the only one. It interrupts a part of the story where things are starting to get really good too and is a total pace breaker.
But enough complaining about the island, after all it was after just about an hour and thirty minutes out of a 72ish hour game.
Big props to the music team. Some of the battle themes are absolute fire. Slugfest and the Palekana battle theme are hype shit.
Overall, I would say that I really enjoyed this one! Like a Dragon 7 left me with some mixed feelings. It was a great, but frustrating game for me. The team seemed to learn that gating progress behind money and grinding isn't always fun and it shows. One of my favorite features was showing the recommended level and level of equipment for each story mission.
It isn't my game of the year but it's a fantastic game through and through.
the story of this game was a really special rollercoaster, i enjoyed it quite a lot and the overall developments in the story with various characters (and the separate arcs in the end) are something truly unique in this series; i hope to 100% this game this summer, as it is one of those games that i want in my full completion list
Un très bon jeu, très riche en contenu (cette générosité est paradoxale vu le coup de fdp de sega de mettre le ptn de NG+ en tant que dlc payant ??????). J'ai préféré l'histoire et les personnages de l'opus précédent, qui était mon premier de la série. Je ne le recommande surtout pas pour ceux n'ayant pas joué aux jeux de Kiryu ou ceux souhaitant commencer la série yakuza par cet opus. Les graphismes n'ont pas énormément évolué par rapport à l'opus précédent, même si je trouve les visages "transpirants", vraiment un effet bizarre. Sinon le tour par tour a été bien peaufiné, on peut vraiment faire des tours bien efficaces, et les bizarreries de l'ancien opus comme les hitbox sont désormais de l'histoire ancienne. Je n'ai pas aimé la structure du jeu avec les deux points de vue et certains chapitres servent juste de transition de niveaux et on doit farm la ville entière, clairement pas la meilleure expérience, surtout quand le scénario a l'air d'avoir été charcuté (surtout pour un personnage à la fin). Là encore le 7 est au dessus. Les antagonistes sont cools mais je les trouve moins marquant que dans son prédecesseur. Bref, un très bon jeu à faire pour les fans de la licence ça c clair
old men in my video game... could you believe it.