This review contains spoilers
So i bought yakuza 0 and it came with kiwami and kiwami 2 in the steam sales of 2023. It took me a while to start because my laptop coudn't run it, so for a while i just had the kamurocho in the 80s acheivement. The combat is a little confusing, and it wasnt until post kuze that i found out you could change combat styles off of rush and also heal mid fight. Anyway i slowly started to figure things out.
The plot is always very gripping and the way they intertwine over time is very cool. I thought that they would be completely sperate plots when the whole mr moneybags thing happened but the first real sign that things were getting real was when in the pan down on the hospital bed, the audience is shown he has a bat tattoo, and you have to remmber that makoto had said that the man who abducted her had a bat tattoo so i was thinking tachibana was a monster during all his cutscenes about how card his life is, but then he turned out to be a g. Some very cathartic story momets and it was a bit annoying how none of the good guys actually ever kill anyone but i suppose its a prequel and they have characters like that alive and involved later on?
Minigame variety is super cool, most of the gambling games are things ive never heard of but some of them are fun. darts is tricky, bowling is easy, dancing is difficult with controller. Normally i have a pretty good run of knocking out side content before i finish the game but there is just too much here so i beat the game first and then they included the an awesome explore afterward mode(premium adventure?) which is dope tbh more games need something like the clean distinction between that and a new game plus. probably wont start kiwami until next year. Also the ending credit thing kinda spoiled stuff? like it said nishiki might go power hungry after he was such a g in this game and it says that dojima dies ect ect. anyway very fun game, this is the third game i have played since starting and before completing tears of the kingdom (pikmin twice, persona 5 yakuza 0)
better fast travel would be good after you beat the game
The plot is always very gripping and the way they intertwine over time is very cool. I thought that they would be completely sperate plots when the whole mr moneybags thing happened but the first real sign that things were getting real was when in the pan down on the hospital bed, the audience is shown he has a bat tattoo, and you have to remmber that makoto had said that the man who abducted her had a bat tattoo so i was thinking tachibana was a monster during all his cutscenes about how card his life is, but then he turned out to be a g. Some very cathartic story momets and it was a bit annoying how none of the good guys actually ever kill anyone but i suppose its a prequel and they have characters like that alive and involved later on?
Minigame variety is super cool, most of the gambling games are things ive never heard of but some of them are fun. darts is tricky, bowling is easy, dancing is difficult with controller. Normally i have a pretty good run of knocking out side content before i finish the game but there is just too much here so i beat the game first and then they included the an awesome explore afterward mode(premium adventure?) which is dope tbh more games need something like the clean distinction between that and a new game plus. probably wont start kiwami until next year. Also the ending credit thing kinda spoiled stuff? like it said nishiki might go power hungry after he was such a g in this game and it says that dojima dies ect ect. anyway very fun game, this is the third game i have played since starting and before completing tears of the kingdom (pikmin twice, persona 5 yakuza 0)
better fast travel would be good after you beat the game