Oh shit this game is good!
After learning that yakuza kiwami 2 cut couple of content from the original, I choosed to play og one and glad I am glad I did it.
Superb atmosphere!
There is really something in this fixed camera points of kamurocho. They show the npcs in unique ways and also show details of the city and blur and bloom effects really gives the illusion of city that lives at night!
Superb Gameplay!
I was thinking how much I am gonna get bored playing this game because it doesn't have styles and I didn't get bored one bit. Because it's too arcady and fast to keep you engaged! You kick an enemy than turn back and punch an another enemy than turn to the left of him to grap and throw him to an another enemy with a super speedly. Kiryu feels like he is in a turbo mod constantly! And that's prevents gameplay to get boring even without different styles to choose with!
Superb Story!
Even after Kiryu choose to be away from the tojo, things he did comes back to haunt him in this game, after he punched everyone in the tojo, of course there is no one left except him to protect the city from the Omi Clan! And damn what a struggle it is! You keep thinking what the hell is gonna happen every point! And that's super good!
But there is a small problem, game's story is too big for it's own good to miss couple of potentials. There is a new romance for Kiryu that can't bloom fully because of the constant fights, there is an old mafia group that comes back from kiryu's past that kind of limits omi's story because story needs them mafias to shine for some reason. But I still damn liked the story! Why? Because Ryuji Goda too damn good to take any problem as negatives. He really pushes Kiryu to the absolute limit and it makes me super excited! Because of that, I forget any miss potentials and keep focused on Ryuji to kick back him to his place! And damn what a fight that is!
Meh side content
It's still the times when side activites feels side thing rather than the focus of the game. But still there is pretty fun stories to go through and activites to take part in. For example friendship introduced in this game and if you help somebody, they give you a unique heat action if you are near them, or there is a mini game where you become a host and manipulate people to spend money(it plays the same way hostess mini game does but it felt more entertaining to me with how insane it gets as it goes through), there is a cabaret minigame that you need to train hostess for a big income. But unfortunaly it's fun as watching a person sleeping. Because someone thought, you need to wait for hostess to do their job for 5 minutes after every session is fun?
There is also some side missions tied to minigames that exists and they are downright evil. Because they require you to finish the hardest version of minigames and hard is an understatement! Beating them wastes so much time that if you are not going for amon don't do it
There is also the usual small stories at every corner of the city. They are pretty short compared to the later titles but still they are fun to do, even if they don't explore things that much. But at least you can finish them in seconds, so they don't tire you like the later titles does
But amon is damn fun in this game! You really need to bring your "A+" game for beating him! So at least it felth worth it after the tiresome minigames.
I thought long that should I give 5 or 4 but I damn like this game so 5 starts worth it in my opinion. Of course maybe you won't like it or will I won't know that, but I say this is a game that is worth experiencing(after you play the first one of course, because there is some story moments tied to it)
After learning that yakuza kiwami 2 cut couple of content from the original, I choosed to play og one and glad I am glad I did it.
Superb atmosphere!
There is really something in this fixed camera points of kamurocho. They show the npcs in unique ways and also show details of the city and blur and bloom effects really gives the illusion of city that lives at night!
Superb Gameplay!
I was thinking how much I am gonna get bored playing this game because it doesn't have styles and I didn't get bored one bit. Because it's too arcady and fast to keep you engaged! You kick an enemy than turn back and punch an another enemy than turn to the left of him to grap and throw him to an another enemy with a super speedly. Kiryu feels like he is in a turbo mod constantly! And that's prevents gameplay to get boring even without different styles to choose with!
Superb Story!
Even after Kiryu choose to be away from the tojo, things he did comes back to haunt him in this game, after he punched everyone in the tojo, of course there is no one left except him to protect the city from the Omi Clan! And damn what a struggle it is! You keep thinking what the hell is gonna happen every point! And that's super good!
But there is a small problem, game's story is too big for it's own good to miss couple of potentials. There is a new romance for Kiryu that can't bloom fully because of the constant fights, there is an old mafia group that comes back from kiryu's past that kind of limits omi's story because story needs them mafias to shine for some reason. But I still damn liked the story! Why? Because Ryuji Goda too damn good to take any problem as negatives. He really pushes Kiryu to the absolute limit and it makes me super excited! Because of that, I forget any miss potentials and keep focused on Ryuji to kick back him to his place! And damn what a fight that is!
Meh side content
It's still the times when side activites feels side thing rather than the focus of the game. But still there is pretty fun stories to go through and activites to take part in. For example friendship introduced in this game and if you help somebody, they give you a unique heat action if you are near them, or there is a mini game where you become a host and manipulate people to spend money(it plays the same way hostess mini game does but it felt more entertaining to me with how insane it gets as it goes through), there is a cabaret minigame that you need to train hostess for a big income. But unfortunaly it's fun as watching a person sleeping. Because someone thought, you need to wait for hostess to do their job for 5 minutes after every session is fun?
There is also some side missions tied to minigames that exists and they are downright evil. Because they require you to finish the hardest version of minigames and hard is an understatement! Beating them wastes so much time that if you are not going for amon don't do it
There is also the usual small stories at every corner of the city. They are pretty short compared to the later titles but still they are fun to do, even if they don't explore things that much. But at least you can finish them in seconds, so they don't tire you like the later titles does
But amon is damn fun in this game! You really need to bring your "A+" game for beating him! So at least it felth worth it after the tiresome minigames.
I thought long that should I give 5 or 4 but I damn like this game so 5 starts worth it in my opinion. Of course maybe you won't like it or will I won't know that, but I say this is a game that is worth experiencing(after you play the first one of course, because there is some story moments tied to it)