This review contains spoilers
For 13 years I have been an ardent defender of the orphanage segments of Yakuza 3, and with the final scenes of this game I am at long last vindicated.
Pretty standard pre-LAD Yakuza, but smaller. Maybe a little smaller than I expected going in, but it's fine! Everything is just fine. The combat, the minigames, the running around maps you've been playing for several games, it's all there. There's something I can't quite put my finger on though that makes the formula feel a lot more tired than, say, Lost Judgment. Not sure why - maybe something to do with it originally being planned as DLC? Regardless, there's definitely an undercurrent of Well, Here We Are Again, even if Here is a place I enjoy. Ahh, who cares, doesn't matter, the last act is great even with the extremely rushed "MEANWHILE, IN..." montage to hastily explain what part of the LAD plot we're about to land in, none of which made any sense to me having made no real headway into that game. Final scenes had me sobbing. It's cool to know that after all this time, Kiryu is still a powerful character to me!
Also I loved that the Yakuza 2 golden castle section is shouted out in this, hell yeah. Not a fan of the hostess stuff now being sleazy FMV! I can see the ring lights reflected in their eyes and I don't like it!
Pretty standard pre-LAD Yakuza, but smaller. Maybe a little smaller than I expected going in, but it's fine! Everything is just fine. The combat, the minigames, the running around maps you've been playing for several games, it's all there. There's something I can't quite put my finger on though that makes the formula feel a lot more tired than, say, Lost Judgment. Not sure why - maybe something to do with it originally being planned as DLC? Regardless, there's definitely an undercurrent of Well, Here We Are Again, even if Here is a place I enjoy. Ahh, who cares, doesn't matter, the last act is great even with the extremely rushed "MEANWHILE, IN..." montage to hastily explain what part of the LAD plot we're about to land in, none of which made any sense to me having made no real headway into that game. Final scenes had me sobbing. It's cool to know that after all this time, Kiryu is still a powerful character to me!
Also I loved that the Yakuza 2 golden castle section is shouted out in this, hell yeah. Not a fan of the hostess stuff now being sleazy FMV! I can see the ring lights reflected in their eyes and I don't like it!
DJSCheddar
5 months ago