Solid entry in the Yakuza series, this being a spin-off.
Judgment basically is Yakuza with detectives. Lots more mystery involved in the main plot and you can actually take role as a detective in finding clues like in the Batman Arkham series. This little change actually forced me to know and remember bits of the story more than most Yakuza games would. Oh, there also trailing missions too. I'm going to be honest, trailing missions can work but they need more flavor to it. In this game is nothing but a major annoyance.
This is also a Yakuza game through and through so there is combat too. It isn't my favorite to be honest.
Yagami feels slow while on combat. After some attacks he does a little recover animation to then be able to attack again, this takes about 2 seconds to perform and this kills a bit the pace of the combat in general. Same goes for some attacks, they take way too long to perform and aren't as instant as I hoped they would be. Two combat styles both for different purposes. I stick with the Tiger which has more development than the other one.
The story was nice, the best writting in the series for what I've played. Most characters were alright, nothing major but the antagonists were great. Big twist as usual, not as ridiculous as past games, everything ties together nicely.
If I had to pick something bad from the story is the pacing, there is so much filler at times that doesn't add too much to the overall main story by the end.
And, as a good RGG game it has trillions of things to do outside the main story. But, this is all well known by everyone at this point.
In short. A great first entry in this spin-off series. If you have already played some Yakuza games you will feel at home with this one, besides the combat system. Maybe.
Judgment basically is Yakuza with detectives. Lots more mystery involved in the main plot and you can actually take role as a detective in finding clues like in the Batman Arkham series. This little change actually forced me to know and remember bits of the story more than most Yakuza games would. Oh, there also trailing missions too. I'm going to be honest, trailing missions can work but they need more flavor to it. In this game is nothing but a major annoyance.
This is also a Yakuza game through and through so there is combat too. It isn't my favorite to be honest.
Yagami feels slow while on combat. After some attacks he does a little recover animation to then be able to attack again, this takes about 2 seconds to perform and this kills a bit the pace of the combat in general. Same goes for some attacks, they take way too long to perform and aren't as instant as I hoped they would be. Two combat styles both for different purposes. I stick with the Tiger which has more development than the other one.
The story was nice, the best writting in the series for what I've played. Most characters were alright, nothing major but the antagonists were great. Big twist as usual, not as ridiculous as past games, everything ties together nicely.
If I had to pick something bad from the story is the pacing, there is so much filler at times that doesn't add too much to the overall main story by the end.
And, as a good RGG game it has trillions of things to do outside the main story. But, this is all well known by everyone at this point.
In short. A great first entry in this spin-off series. If you have already played some Yakuza games you will feel at home with this one, besides the combat system. Maybe.