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Judgment |OT| No delay for Judgment day
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Played a couple of hours just now and wow. This is the first game I've played on the Dragon engine (played 0, 3, 4 some 5 and working on kiwami right now) and holy crap the difference is massive. I will say playing in 30 fps is a huge bummer coming from the stellar PC ports of the yakuza games, but it's definitely something I'll get used to after playing for a couple more hours. It's pretty clear that even though this isn't a yakuza game by name, it is a yakuza game through and through. And I'm totally fine with that :D
Tokyo specifically (since yakuza features other locations) is a recreation of Kabukicho, as others have pointed out. Even though you can't use it as a map, the atmosphere and feeling of downtown Tokyo is captured incredibly well!
I'm conflicted on the voice acting. The japanese is fantastic and the natural fit but I'm enjoying the english as well and being able to not just stare at the subtitles. I might keep jumping between the two.
I started with Japanese, which is fine, but I'm thinking about switching to English just so I don't have to read so much.
Surprised at how "balanced" the fighting is. I'm not a big Yakuza guy, so this is probably dreadfully easy for most of you, but for me each boss fight I basically lose with the boss still at like half-HP, then on a second try I win with like a sliver of health left. I'm not using the environment as much as I should, but I find that balance is just right for being hard but fair for a beat-em-up.
Remember you have a block button. That was a big one for me when I first started playing Yakuza games. You get so focused on offense you forget to block.
You'll have fun. Especially when you decide to play Yakuza after this
Oh man I didn't see this coming.
Playing as Saori!
That was so unexpected and honestly I loved that little part. Soari is great.
That was so unexpected and honestly I loved that little part. Soari is great.
Im enjoying the game so far.
A little hint i want to pass on. later when you meet one of the friend interactions "Tanago" Mr. Try and Hit Me. Save yourself the trouble and one hit him with EX drunken fist special. Just be at the alcohol level higher than six and hit triangle.
A little hint i want to pass on. later when you meet one of the friend interactions "Tanago" Mr. Try and Hit Me. Save yourself the trouble and one hit him with EX drunken fist special. Just be at the alcohol level higher than six and hit triangle.
The performance has its problems here and there. It gets better. First chapter is a bit rough around the edges performance wise.
In the first fight I was confused at how it was running but it's been great since then
Can someone tell me how many stray cats I'm going to have to find in the investigation scenarios?
You can spoiler it if need be.
You can spoiler it if need be.
1 per investigation scene - if you hear mewing, there's a cat that needs to be found.
Was there one in the very first tutorial investigation scene? I heard a mew in the second and been watching since but not sure if I missed one
On the fence with this, tempted to pick it up as I like the look of the detective side of things. I played Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 back to back last year and when Yakuza 6 came out, I couldn't get past the first three chapters. Not sure if this is different enough or if enough time has passed to jump into.
Which is the first tutorial one? If it was in the Champion Street alley with the detective, yeah there is one there you need to find.
Well, I played the Japanese version 6 months ago, sorry I can't recall every last investigation scene ;) Plus I don't know if all the optional side quest ones count either (I got them all to be on the safe side). There's loads.
I get the opposite feeling, playing Yagami is like some Jet Li shit compared to playing Kiryu for me outside of Y0 Rush Mode.
Spent tonight clearing through a load of arcade gems:
Beat Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown for the umpteenth time.
Beat The House of the Dead: Dead Souls Edition (Kamurocho of the Dead). God it gets crazy in the last two chapters with all of the Virtua Cop timers on the mini bosses and bosses. Really enjoyed it though. I'd love to see it expanded as an actual lightgun arcade game spin off. It's what the original Dead SOuls should have been in the first place!
Beat Motor Raid. Which is new to me, never played it before but damn it's really fun. There was so many of these sci-fi fast paced racing games back then like F-Zero. I will be returning to this. Always a joy when some SEGA arcade game you've never heard of and never got to play back in the day gets ported to the games that RGG makes. Still keeping my fingers crossed for Planet Harriers one day!
Played some darts. Played the crane games, getting the toys, just i nthe off chance there's another side quest involving them (and just for fun as well I suppose).
Not tried the gambling games again yet.
Still on Chapter 1 after having the game for like 3 days now haha. Can't stop getting distracted. Looks like the friendship missions are going to be really addictive too.
Beat Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown for the umpteenth time.
Beat The House of the Dead: Dead Souls Edition (Kamurocho of the Dead). God it gets crazy in the last two chapters with all of the Virtua Cop timers on the mini bosses and bosses. Really enjoyed it though. I'd love to see it expanded as an actual lightgun arcade game spin off. It's what the original Dead SOuls should have been in the first place!
Beat Motor Raid. Which is new to me, never played it before but damn it's really fun. There was so many of these sci-fi fast paced racing games back then like F-Zero. I will be returning to this. Always a joy when some SEGA arcade game you've never heard of and never got to play back in the day gets ported to the games that RGG makes. Still keeping my fingers crossed for Planet Harriers one day!
Played some darts. Played the crane games, getting the toys, just i nthe off chance there's another side quest involving them (and just for fun as well I suppose).
Not tried the gambling games again yet.
Still on Chapter 1 after having the game for like 3 days now haha. Can't stop getting distracted. Looks like the friendship missions are going to be really addictive too.
This is kind of a specific question, but does anyone know how big of a role ProZD's character plays? I'm a big fan of his so I was tempted to play some of the game with English VA just to hear his performance, but it just seems wrong to play a Yakuza game with anything but the original dub especially given the star power in the game.
Ive had similar feelings, I think he is a bit over animated and tiger style feels so slow to me. I really want those speed upgrades because of this. Hard mode seems to take the fun anyway with enemies auto blocking too much, don't know if normal is like that. I wish it was a bit more like DMC or KH where even on hard difficulties, if you find an opening, you can make good use of combos.
He's in the game? I had no idea. Must not be a really major role, at any rate.
Same thing for me, been playing yakuza games since the original on ps2 and something about the tiger stance just bad to me, not sure if its the gaps between in basic strings or the animations themselves. Also what does the "reverse" mean is it simply when you attack someone behind you?
This game is amazing, loving everything about it so far. Taking the Yakuza setting/gameplay and adding the detective elements feels like it was made just for me.
And the English voice acting is surprisingly good!
And the English voice acting is surprisingly good!
Yeah he posted on twitter he voices "Tashiro" as well as some random NPCs. I'm guessing it'll end up just being a sidequest voice. But if he's one of the random people who assault you on the street I might switch to english VA for some free roam sections just for kicks.
Oh my god you weren't kidding, Tiger Drop finally feels perfect in this engine. So fucking satisfying to pull off.
Playing it on hard as well, and it can be irritating at times but I thought Yakuza was always kind of like that too.
They're not kidding when they say Tiger is better for one on one and Crane is for groups though . Basically unless you're fighting a heavy boss you shouldn't use Tiger, and if it's a boss with underlings Crane that shit until it's just you two. Then Tiger kicks ass.
you're gonna have to use tiger for groups if you want the plat
Neither sidequest characters (outside potential girlfriends) nor random street thugs have English voices, so it's not that. It's probably bit parts in the main story that I haven't gotten to yet.
I'm finding tiger to be useless on bosses though, I can't seem to pull of combos or even sometimes get hits in without taking damage, it's just so slow and they auto block everything so easily. I just end up spamming wall attacks and grabs as it feels like there is barely any openings for anything else. I don't remember having these issues with Yakuza games before even on legend, and especially before the Dragon engine. I can also mash attacks and occasionally get a hit but that feels wrong as I usually take damage while doing so.
3 thoughts:
1) The intro to this game is pretty awesome.
2) The 2 DLC packs look like shit that should be in the game by default. Camera filters, drone skins, and little figurines things? Come on Sega. Seriously?
3) What is this Play Pass thing? Do I need them? Why thy selling these things? For a single player game? I just don't get it.
1) The intro to this game is pretty awesome.
2) The 2 DLC packs look like shit that should be in the game by default. Camera filters, drone skins, and little figurines things? Come on Sega. Seriously?
3) What is this Play Pass thing? Do I need them? Why thy selling these things? For a single player game? I just don't get it.
Auto save is life. FFIX froze on me when playing the switch version and I had not saved in 2 hours. I didn't want to close the game and accept the fact that it was frozen. Reloaded the game, hit continue and couldn't believe it auto saved.
My first Yakuza game and yeah.....it's awesome! I love the slow burn of the beginning, setting up the story and getting you familiar with the characters. It seems it's a lot deeper than I had thought.
I also got sucked into playing Virtua Fighter for a while, lol. Mad it to Dural but lost.
I also got sucked into playing Virtua Fighter for a while, lol. Mad it to Dural but lost.
OK, got around playing an hour or two.
- It's great to be back in Kamurocho and seeing the most recent iteration of it.
- Pressing X once to continuously sprint is a godsend, no more holding it down or tapping frantically.
- Yagami is a lot more nimble than the Dragon Engine iterations of Kiryu.
For all intents and purposes, this game is giving me all the same feelings as a titled/numbered Yakuza game would. And I am A-OK with that.
- It's great to be back in Kamurocho and seeing the most recent iteration of it.
- Pressing X once to continuously sprint is a godsend, no more holding it down or tapping frantically.
- Yagami is a lot more nimble than the Dragon Engine iterations of Kiryu.
For all intents and purposes, this game is giving me all the same feelings as a titled/numbered Yakuza game would. And I am A-OK with that.
Well several mini games in Judgment are harder than they were in those games, but I never really thought Kiwami 1 or 2 had hard mini games.
For stances, I found myself using tiger more and more on small groups, it seems faster than to use crane. But also I almost never use the wallruning tricks as I usually miss and also it's annoying to lure enemies near walls.
Also, I found a Yakuza 1 reference,
Also, I found a Yakuza 1 reference,
had a smoke in the Little Asia construction area and one of the guys there started talking about how the Bantam bar used to be called Bacchus and that many people were murdered there once.