They’re just places to go to for stuff to happen. Apart from the school, all locations around Isezaki Ijincho (returning from Yakuza: Like a Dragon) and even Kamurocho have no meaningful interactions, form no emotional connections for the player. Which ends up making the cities you explore almost irrelevant as locations. For example – the fantastic concept of Friends and getting to help the community from the first game, something that had a meaningful and awesome payoff in the end, is now entirely gone. You have more fighting styles, more locations, more mini-games, more skills, more stuff to do… And as it usually is with this approach, a lot of what made the previous game so great gets muddied and lost in the process. In general, Lost Judgment follows the same trend as a lot of Like a Dragon sequels in that it tries to do more of everything. Oh and disguises are still almost never needed and when they are, it doesn’t matter what you use. And it’s an amazing concept, yet, more often than not it’s so automated it feels like it’s underutilized. The Chatter that you used to talk to people all the time in the previous game is now used for 4 contacts in total, only one of them writes you often and you never have any choices or abilities to contact anyone yourself… You can now do the word filtering process yourself, though, which was just a cutscene thing in the previous game. The drone is now almost never used by Yagami himself, despite the fact that instead of introducing new gadgets (and a dog) it would’ve made far more sense to put all of those features into the drone and make it more interesting and integral to your arsenal. There are barely any tailing tasks in the entire game, for example, despite the great improvements, but you still have skills you can unlock for this almost unused feature.
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Oh and now we get stealth sequences too, which sound like something that fits the game perfectly… but mechanically they are some of the worst stealth segments I’ve played in the past 15 years, like they’re from the early 00s PS2 era of bad stealth titles.Īnd unfortunately, the mechanical improvements that I’ve listed often feel pointless.
Same goes for the chase sequences, how much more improved the sections of looking around in first person view are… You also get plenty new gadgets to play with in addition to the drone and even a dog that can be used to track smells. I know some people disliked how the mechanic was overused in the original title, so the developers made it far more fun. For better and for worse.įor example, detective Yagami still occasionally uses disguises and tails people, but tailing has been made far more freeform in the way it plays. And Lost Judgment improves on basically every mechanic from the previous game, while additionally introducing some new ones. But the adventure parts have more detective-y things than the typical Like a Dragon game. It’s still clearly divided into the adventure and action elements, fights can still be challenging and combat with randomly spawning groups of enemies on the streets continues to play a big part.
Just like its direct predecessor, Lost Judgement is an attempt to slightly tweak the Like a Dragon formula of beat ’em up action adventure in an open world into something that feels more like an investigation game. Luckily, it’s still a very solid entry in the Like a Dragon series, at least mechanically. Yet, despite being, on a technical level, a more or less straight improvement on everything the previous game had, I couldn’t help but feel disinterested in most of its contents. After loving Judgment so much, I went into Lost Judgment with very high expectations.
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