A gigantic improvement to Judgment in terms of combat. A few steps back in terms of story. It has some really great moments but when the plot goes into its grand narrative, it becomes insufferable.
The way RGG tries to comment on morality and politics is so unbelievably childish that it rivals Persona 5's representation of politics, which is basically just dumb teenagers saying "adults bad, adults lie, teenagers good". Infinite Wealth's antagonists suffer the same problem as Lost Judgment's, and it's partly because of how they tried to take a lot of themes and ideas from this game for their central plot.
Yagami has practically no character development in this game because his biggest emotional hurdles have already been overcome. He's dull and boring in this game and the way the game tries to make him not be this way is to force the player into pretending like a certain character was a central part of his life when he's barely even seen this person. He also has an equally childish response to the antagonist's childish political views which makes the scenes where they try to preach morality to each other extra excruciating.
But when the plot is just about the mystery which slowly unravels, it's almost as good as the first Judgment.
The combat is so good that it cancels out all all the shortcomings of the story. This is the 3rd best combat for me right behind #1: Y5 and #2: K1. Three styles with an extra boxer style with DLC was so fun to play around with. Crane was buffed really hard this time. It's still not as good as tiger, but the game rewards you really hard for constantly switching styles. You can get some insanely cool air juggles with boxer style.
The side content was insane. School stories were mostly really good. I wish they weren't as long though. There are definitely some that should've just been removed like the gambling club. My favourite was the robotics club once I figured out all I had to do was make a beeline to the enemy base.
Great OST. Unwavering Belief, Final Destination, K.O.G., Blue Stompin', Green Vibes, In The Groove, Mutual Justice to name some of my favourites.
Don't play this game before Y7 if you don't wanna get a big plot point spoiled like I did.
The way RGG tries to comment on morality and politics is so unbelievably childish that it rivals Persona 5's representation of politics, which is basically just dumb teenagers saying "adults bad, adults lie, teenagers good". Infinite Wealth's antagonists suffer the same problem as Lost Judgment's, and it's partly because of how they tried to take a lot of themes and ideas from this game for their central plot.
Yagami has practically no character development in this game because his biggest emotional hurdles have already been overcome. He's dull and boring in this game and the way the game tries to make him not be this way is to force the player into pretending like a certain character was a central part of his life when he's barely even seen this person. He also has an equally childish response to the antagonist's childish political views which makes the scenes where they try to preach morality to each other extra excruciating.
But when the plot is just about the mystery which slowly unravels, it's almost as good as the first Judgment.
The combat is so good that it cancels out all all the shortcomings of the story. This is the 3rd best combat for me right behind #1: Y5 and #2: K1. Three styles with an extra boxer style with DLC was so fun to play around with. Crane was buffed really hard this time. It's still not as good as tiger, but the game rewards you really hard for constantly switching styles. You can get some insanely cool air juggles with boxer style.
The side content was insane. School stories were mostly really good. I wish they weren't as long though. There are definitely some that should've just been removed like the gambling club. My favourite was the robotics club once I figured out all I had to do was make a beeline to the enemy base.
Great OST. Unwavering Belief, Final Destination, K.O.G., Blue Stompin', Green Vibes, In The Groove, Mutual Justice to name some of my favourites.
Don't play this game before Y7 if you don't wanna get a big plot point spoiled like I did.