Don't let the title fool you, this is just another Yakuza game. Exactly the same combat, exactly the same stupid, frustrating mini-games, exactly the same kinds of characters. And that's not a bad thing necessarily, as the Yakuza games are enjoyable enough. I've only played 6, 0, and one of the Kiwami games, and I've liked them but always felt varying levels of anger and frustration with their formula, which hasn't changed in the slightest.
The story is pretty deep, lots of characters, lots of stuff happening, goes to some very dark places at times, goes to some extremely light hearted and goofy places too....Its impressive writing for a video game. Graphics and music are fantastic, its always one of the things I love about these games is the presentation and attention to detail.
These games live and die by their side content though, and a huge portion of your play time will be running around (and taxiing) to complete these side quests and mini games. I'm just gonna give a rating for each of these in Lost Judgement, so without further ado:
Dance Club: 7/10. Fun rhythm based mini game, great music.
Robotics Club: 2/10. Awful. Most frustrating and hardest (often due to bad RNG) mini game. Also running around endlessly to find random parts to upgrade your bots is so boring and time consuming, and expensive too.
Boxing Club: 7/10. Fun boxing game that is fairly nuanced and enjoyable to play, hard but not too hard.
Biker Club: 4/10. Not particularly fun, and fairly hard mini game. the awful forced camera angle ruined it for me.
Skater Club: 6/10. Way too easy, literally finished it in like 5 minutes. But its pretty fun.
Photography Club: 2/10. Awful story, only 2 easy as piss missions. Yawn.
E-sports Club: 3/10. You play Virtua Fighter 5 a few times against easy as piss AI. Boring.
Casino: 4/10. Way too short and way too easy. But blackjack and poker are fun to play.
Girls Bar: 1/10. Jesus Christ this sucks. Time consuming, expensive, annoying as fuck, all the girls are fucking robots with no brains. Made me really miss the hostess club game from yakuza 0.
yeah, so mostly very average to fucking terrible in quality. And that's about 60-70% of the total game time, so a real time sink. I mean, I skip every single cut scene and dialogue scene, because its time consuming and also really really boring, and it still takes up like 20-30 hours. Its fucking ridiculous.
One last thing that never gels with me about these games: the weird balance between super violent, super dark, at times super fucked up adult story telling. And then the absolutely ridiculous, over the top, silly, goofy side quests and story moments. Like, one minute Yagami is super emotional about a teacher who gets brutally fucking murdered, the next minute he's teaching dance moves to a high school girls club. Its just really really weird, and for me it just never really sits well. But that's just Yakuza isn't it?
The story is pretty deep, lots of characters, lots of stuff happening, goes to some very dark places at times, goes to some extremely light hearted and goofy places too....Its impressive writing for a video game. Graphics and music are fantastic, its always one of the things I love about these games is the presentation and attention to detail.
These games live and die by their side content though, and a huge portion of your play time will be running around (and taxiing) to complete these side quests and mini games. I'm just gonna give a rating for each of these in Lost Judgement, so without further ado:
Dance Club: 7/10. Fun rhythm based mini game, great music.
Robotics Club: 2/10. Awful. Most frustrating and hardest (often due to bad RNG) mini game. Also running around endlessly to find random parts to upgrade your bots is so boring and time consuming, and expensive too.
Boxing Club: 7/10. Fun boxing game that is fairly nuanced and enjoyable to play, hard but not too hard.
Biker Club: 4/10. Not particularly fun, and fairly hard mini game. the awful forced camera angle ruined it for me.
Skater Club: 6/10. Way too easy, literally finished it in like 5 minutes. But its pretty fun.
Photography Club: 2/10. Awful story, only 2 easy as piss missions. Yawn.
E-sports Club: 3/10. You play Virtua Fighter 5 a few times against easy as piss AI. Boring.
Casino: 4/10. Way too short and way too easy. But blackjack and poker are fun to play.
Girls Bar: 1/10. Jesus Christ this sucks. Time consuming, expensive, annoying as fuck, all the girls are fucking robots with no brains. Made me really miss the hostess club game from yakuza 0.
yeah, so mostly very average to fucking terrible in quality. And that's about 60-70% of the total game time, so a real time sink. I mean, I skip every single cut scene and dialogue scene, because its time consuming and also really really boring, and it still takes up like 20-30 hours. Its fucking ridiculous.
One last thing that never gels with me about these games: the weird balance between super violent, super dark, at times super fucked up adult story telling. And then the absolutely ridiculous, over the top, silly, goofy side quests and story moments. Like, one minute Yagami is super emotional about a teacher who gets brutally fucking murdered, the next minute he's teaching dance moves to a high school girls club. Its just really really weird, and for me it just never really sits well. But that's just Yakuza isn't it?
FunkyNassau
8 months ago