This game sucks but its core is literally yakuza 2 so it gets 3 stars by default. With that being said don't get filtered by idiots who think anything made before 2013 is the stone age and go play the amazing original Yakuza 2 insted of its soulless counterpart

Gameplay is great and the fields aren't as rigged against you as I remember (Serra and Aya's can still fuck off tho), however the dialogue is clearly written by people on Twitter down to it being way too long for what it wants to say

This game is fine but honestly it's the classic first game that lays the foundations but is kinda clunky in many aspects both writing and gameplay. Nothing is truly awful but nothing is great outside of the last hour which feels like it was made first and the rest of the game second

Very overhyped, has some of the best moments in the series but takes way too long for that to happen. Can't wait for Walter's return in Kuro and playing it in 2029

Dungeon crawling should be permanent in Trails if it makes games as good as this

This game is so good I wish cops were real

I think some of the bad parts are overlooked (mostly having one good villain and the rest kinda goes from mid to whatever Ian was as well as him surviving which was so important he hasn't been seen or mentionned once in the following 6 games) but the rest of the game is so solid in all aspects that I can't rate it any lower. Shoutout to Garcia for turning Lloyd into the best protag since Kevin please beat me up so I can turn into the ultimate badass too

Sky FC but worse except for the soundtrack which goes hard I thought I was playing Azure

I was about to write a long review ranting about how the finale isn't actually the ending and instead it's a shitty and useless chapter leading to a reskin of the previous game's final boss that literally tells you it's pointless to fight him, how you spend most boss battles jobbing in the next cutscene or how there are like 3 characters that get good development but I held back

This feels like an apology for the 2 previous games

"Trails of Cold Steel has reached it's conclusion" is the best part of this game

This game was good then Ubisoft turned it into the blueprint for every mediocre open world game they released after it and makes me wish it didn't exist

A good game that also proves you can gaslight people into thinking the most basic and least subtle "believe in yourself" story is somehow groundbreaking if you jingle keys in front of the most annoying people online.

Far Cry 3 for Sony cinematic AAA experiences (tm), decent game that had a negative influence over the industry as a whole

Fuck Neil Druckmann