A step up from the last game with a better skills system, giving you more freedom on what to unlock. Being able to play as 4 different characters with distinct fighting styles makes it all the more fun, specially with the different kinds of heat actions and abilities they each have. I will say that the mechanic they introduce during Saejima's chapter is very annoying and just makes it a drag to move around town.

The plot is pretty good, although with some twists repeating themselves so much that it becomes comical at some point, but the many twists and turns makes it very engaging. Where the writing really stands out is with the characters, we already know who kiryu is, but delving into these 3 new characters is great, all of them have great personalities that lead to great moments during the plot and they're all very likeable. Personality-wise i liked Akiyama the most, but Saejima and Tanimura don't fall behind either. I specially loved everything that happened with Saejima in Purgatory (his speech + his meeting with a certain character).

Overall, another great entry in the Yakuza series, and i can't wait to keep following Kiryu and Haruka's story now with a new cast of amazing characters, surely none of these characters' VAs got caught using drugs and we will never see their character again.

Has everything that makes a good single player fps and more, just wish it was a tiny bit longer, clocked at 5 hours on regular.

The weapons are really fun to handle and the movement, while very hard to master, is sooo smooth and satisfying, the level designs are great so much fun with interesting one off mechanics but the platforming specially is fantastic.
The plot is really good and while tbh you don't get enough time to really know the characters, cooper and BT's relationship is really nice.

100% recommend, we need way more of these type of shooters. I'll take the chance to recommend Binary Domain, a bit more rough on the gameplay but it's a great shooter with a fun plot

A bit lacking compared to 0, K1 and K2 (completely understandable) but it's got HEART.

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Another great Yakuza entry, altough a bit rough compared to the kiwami engine it's still an enjoyable journey. Cheesiness aside, the plot is very solid with fun characters and very engaging plot.
Although i felt the "main" villain was a bit lacking on motivation, he more than makes up for it by, like many other yakuza villains, redeeming himself and bonding with Kiryu through their fists, cause every Yakuza game gotta have that shonen manga SOUL. Knowing that the series continues to follow Kiryu's AND Haruka's whole life fills me with expectation and i can't wait to see more of these character's growth, new appearances and ofc the cheesy subplots.
Also Richardson is such a metal gear ass character lmao i love it.

What a disappointment, i went in expecting more of Shadow Warrior 1, just a regular ass doom clone (compliment) instead i get this wannabe Monster Hunter? i like the idea of side missions to break up some of the story and add some spice to the plot, instead you get like 3 or 4 areas you keep going back and forth on killing getting an item, rinse and repeat.
They added this dumbass rpg weapons system where you can get different skills and elements to weapons (ranged or melee) which is just annoying, i'm not playing an mmo, but also that goes out the window when a toxic sword mows throw every enemy in the game.

Speaking of the plot, there's some major world building details that are just straight missing and it goes beyond just "visual story telling" but whatever, the plot itself is lame specially compared to the 1st one which wasn't some oscar winning script either but the characters make up for it, here lo wang is way more annoying than fun (i legit heard the same "you demons look all the same" phrase 5 times in a row + tons of unfunny jokes) and Kamiko is so annoying for over half the game, miss my man Hoji.
Anyway plot, characters just come and go it feels like they just put together whatever they found for it, but most egregious is the gameplay, it gets so monotonous besides a couple boss battles the rest are just "demon/robot" or "larger demon/robot", not a lot of variety when resistances don't matter much.

I'll just stop here, anyway visually great but bland game with none of the charm of the previous one with horrible looter mechanics that goes on for 2 extra hours than needed and it's only a 7 hour game, hope 3 fixes itself a bit.

I'll add some positive things, the music was cool (not great VA tho) and i guess the combat mechanics are not that bad but for how many guns there are on the game you really just end up using whatever you get on a mission and is stronger than your current (i didn't spend a single coin in stores)

Really solid game, around 9 hours to complete (just 1 collectible left of some bs minigame).
The world, characters and music are great, many cool designs and atmospheres from bosses to just places like the garage or whatever.
I will say, gameplay is not that deep, pretty mindless besides a few stealth sections or bosses.
But for being just 9 hours you get a really cool story with solid entertaining gameplay, shame they never released a next-gen AAA trailer with otherworldly graphics and cool characters. Definitely never tried to recruit artists to give away their work for free to then never again talk about it

Daniel Mullins just kicks it out of the field every single time. Super engaging game, unlike Inscryption there's really not any "real" gameplay but the writing is just superb and the visuals are amazing. Around 5 hours to clear the story but there's sooo many secrets even outside the game itself, as cryptic as always. 100% recommend for such a great plot, i ended up going backwards but i'd advice on playing pony island first, then hex and finally inscryption since each game is inspired and grows from the previous

It's not bad but it's a really mid game, the plot is average nothing that stands out maybe even a bit corny (not to mention the ending calling lara a "survivor" minutes after the insane cult leader called himself that). Gameplay is classic ps3 era cover shooter so it's not horrible, weapons are a bit limited but it's fun going for all headshots. Played on hard and never got stuck. Puzzles are not hard and exploration is kinda minimal. Also on pc can't play on really high settings cause it causes glitches with QTEs and some checkpoint events. So yeah very mid game you can get over in around 10 hours less if you don't loot