That's a good comparison.
That's why this game is not just simply a spin-off. That guy is not cheap to hire.
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Judgment - Review Thread
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That's a good comparison.
That's why this game is not just simply a spin-off. That guy is not cheap to hire.
Only story is voiced. Side stuff, bar some of the girlfriend moments are voiced. Which I prefer. 6 had great side stories but had too few of them. Judgment works better because it has way more stuff to do. Just my opinion/
Not Kiwami difficulty I'm afraid. Too many people complain about it going by everywhere I read (which frustrates me as it actually made the game not pathetically easy like past games).
Its harder than 6 and Kiwami 2 for sure though. Bosses are actually pretty dangerous, even groups of enemies will fuck you up if your in a corner (I've gone from full to no health in seconds when getting ganged up.
Yeah, songs are in (which is great news, as I love the songs).
Thats the power of Sega marketing. Im a huge Yakuza fan and i just knew the game was coming out soon because i checked what games was coming out soon in the website of the store i usually buy my games. I tought the game was coming out near August.
Had this pre-ordered since last year, cant freaking wait.
Appreciate they put English audio in the game, easier to recommend to friends. I don't typically play games in anything but English but after playing a handful of Yakuza titles, the Japanese voice acting is top notch and it would feel weird not to play this as well in Japanese now.
Appreciate they put English audio in the game, easier to recommend to friends. I don't typically play games in anything but English but after playing a handful of Yakuza titles, the Japanese voice acting is top notch and it would feel weird not to play this as well in Japanese now.
Now if we could only get a Binary Domain sequel.
Binary Domain was the shit.
Bummer, I'll skip this for now, but I'm glad it's reviewing well
Thanks for the info!
Great thanks, I'll probably pick it up in the next two weeks then
Kind of unfortunate that the consensus from the reviews I've seen so far suggest Yagami is the weak link here. I do wonder if it's a voice acting issue, or if the character is just generally flat no matter what language you play in. I'm not expecting another Kiryu so I'm hoping his absence doesn't feel so noticeable to me.
I'd argue that point in the couple of reviews I've seen it mentioned is rubbish. Yagami is excellent in the game, especially late in the game. I genuinely have no idea where the reviewers are getting that opinion from.
Sorta self-promo, but over at GameXplain I gave the game a "Liked-A-Lot" score, the tick below their highest. I more or less agree with the general critique against the game, though I was more positive about it than some.
I held out hope through the entire game that Judgment would eventually take us to a new city, which didn't happen. You do get to go somewhere entirely new for the series, which I don't want to give any detail on as I personally refrained from talking about the plot elements that take you there to help keep the surprise of the story twists, but it's not somewhere you really experience in the same way as a city. That said, while I was disappointed about this, Judgment gives us the best Kamurocho that's ever existed in terms of its feeling as a place. A lot of the restaurants and stores have a minor NPC character who has a struggle you can help them with, and as you interact with them more you'll fill up a friendship gauge. Some of these people you'll see out and about on the town, too, which is awesome after so many games of never seeing named NPCs just doing their thing around the town. It's a small touch, but as you engage with it more and more it really helps you bond with the city. I don't ever want them to move back from this element as it really helped make up for being in Kamurocho again.
I held out hope through the entire game that Judgment would eventually take us to a new city, which didn't happen. You do get to go somewhere entirely new for the series, which I don't want to give any detail on as I personally refrained from talking about the plot elements that take you there to help keep the surprise of the story twists, but it's not somewhere you really experience in the same way as a city. That said, while I was disappointed about this, Judgment gives us the best Kamurocho that's ever existed in terms of its feeling as a place. A lot of the restaurants and stores have a minor NPC character who has a struggle you can help them with, and as you interact with them more you'll fill up a friendship gauge. Some of these people you'll see out and about on the town, too, which is awesome after so many games of never seeing named NPCs just doing their thing around the town. It's a small touch, but as you engage with it more and more it really helps you bond with the city. I don't ever want them to move back from this element as it really helped make up for being in Kamurocho again.
It's definitely not the VO. Greg Chun killed it as Yagami - the EN for Yagami is better than the JP, honestly.
Well, its hard to rank one over the other. But I'd say both are among the best the studio has released. This is definitely the best game using the new engine, no doubt about that. If you loved 0, I'm sure you'll enjoy this one loads as well. Only thing I might say people might like less or more is the combat depending on their opinions on 0s combat.
Well, I can't agree with liking the English VO more than the Japanese one, but I do like how nice the English VO turned out in this game, nice to see the series really put an effort into it and I'd be happy to see them continue to include dual VO work for future games starting with Shin RGG.
30 of course. PS4 aint running games in the new engine at 60FPS. Best hope for PS5 patches/ports in the future if you want that. Or just wait for PC releases.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying all the EN VO is better than the JP (tho I did love it for the most part) - I'm just saying I like English Yagami better than Japanese Yagami. Kimutaku has never been the best actor to begin with, and his voice sounds the same in almost every scene in this game - it gets annoying fast.
Reviews sound great. Can't wait to play it tomorrow.
Going to be interesting to see if we get 60fps games as the standard from this studio on PS5.
Im hopeful they just improve the same engine we have now, which (specs willing) should give us 60FPS. Nagoshi actually talked about his interest in improving AI with next gen, so hopefully that means goons that are a little smarter in PS5 Yakuza games!
Totally get where your coming from, I just prefer his Japanese VA myself :)
Yes. For a small amount of experience points, you can buy a skill that lets you still purchase things from a store immediately after wrecking it, too. It's hilarious.
Considering how this studio operates I have a feeling we will be getting PS4 Yakuza games for a long time so 60 FPS for PS5 doesn't seem too unlikely given the game will probably be cross gen and the console is supposedly getting a huge pump on the CPU front. I would have no issues with that at all. A dragon engine game running at 60 FPS sounds good to me.
I feel like a lot of stuff went over my head in FotNS because I wasn't a fan of the series.
Also the side stories looked pretty tame/boring compared to actual Yakuza games.
100% agree on the side content, FotNS was basically a straight linear game through the main story for me.
FotNS also had the detriment of coming out like a month after K2, and I personally didn't have enough of a breather between the two. Doctor Ken mini game is one of my favorites in the series though lol.
After a few months of break though, I'm so ready to dive into Detective Yakuza
Kiwami 2 and 6 do, I assume this does as well. Kiwami 2 and 6 are 900p on base PS4, 1080p on Pro.
I dropped the game after realized that i can't go and play these arcade games like the other yakuza style games. They make you doing long side quests to grind parts for each arcade cabinet lol. It is by far grindiest and most tedious ''Yakuza'' game and i feel like the 72 MC score was generous.
