had a fun time with this for about 18 hours, which is when i finally succeeded in completing my first actual run, and then i never picked it back up again. and honestly i think i'm fine with that, but its a cute game for sure.

i am a singular ant walking across a vast corpse

i have been beaten numb by the sheer length of the whole thing, but yeah its good, i'm gonna go watch all of nichijou to recover and then not touch a video game for like 4 months

gave it a revisit a year or two ago, hadn't played it since high school. didn't especially hold up for me, no game should have to bear the burden of "being made on a bethesda engine"

in deciding where to start with the yakuza series, it was either this, kiwami 1, or the original ps2 game

and somehow the ps2 game was the one that won out in my heart, so ill get around to this game in like, 10 years

yeah i can see why this was a big deal, pretty neat

i tried this during release but i didn't get very far, i remember being annoyed i could use the mp3 player while trekking, but i like the vibe it gave the delivery stations to just chill out and put on Pop Virus by Gen Hoshino, take a shower and then chug 6 monster energy drinks in a row before checking my in-game emails. so i appreicate it on that level i guess? idk, i'd like to play it again one day, seems real interesting, mechanically

played a bit, decided to try it out for the story, but it ultimately couldn't hold me with how mediocre the actual shooting felt, think i dropped off after the england mission(?)

played through this with a friend online via the master chief collection on steam and lol, this game sure does not like being played huh?

had weird crashes several times a session with no obvious fixes as we tried to drag this game kicking and screaming through a disjointed and fractured campaign who's scripting always seemed like it was on the verge of just falling apart completely? like whats up with those wait times between enemy waves, it always took -just- long enough for you to think something in the game broke before finally loading in more dudes for you to shoot.

luckily when there are dudes to shoot and cars to drive and stuff it feels like, yaknow, good, so whatever, no big deal that the whole thing kind of feels like its held together by duct tape.

arbiters cool tho

having a good time with this so far, good podcast game, been listening to Friends at the Table's Marielda season during it, though i got to the part in both the game and the show where i had to start paying actual attention to both and i'm a bit sad to say that i can't really do both at the same time anymore, alas

i fucking hate this game
"so stop playing it?"
no

i have trouble forcing my brain past the mental hurdle of "no, do it all perfectly the first time!" to fully appreciate the hitman series as a thing i can play unfortunately, but one day...

i'm not playing this unless i can date the robot

finished! very good! Arrgh! Avast!! and so on and so forth (incredible detective game hampered down a lil bit from its pulpy orientalist mysticism veneer imo)

you should play this game just for jc denton's vocal performance alone. the rest of the game is also pretty good! (i got halfway through the game like 8+ years ago, one day i'll get back to it)

quite frankly the perfect video game, just pure joy

i miss toad's n64 era voice, it was cute

this expansion is immediately so much better, its unreal, what the hell?? this rules

pretty tight gunplay, real fun in quick bursts of pick-up matches, questionable visual aesthetic imo

yeah this is pretty alright. idk seems like a lot of work wading through a bunch of bullshit to get to the point where the narrative is just consistently Fine

but then ya hit that last 20% of the expansion and its like oh whoaa, payoff and pathos and it finally crosses that finish line to becoming actually really good