Recent reviews by LordofBeards

To me this feels like the modern take on a point and click horror game.
The atmospheres are great.
I really like the concept of controlling 1 person in two worlds, that's kinda cool and links to some nice problems to solve.
Sound design was occasionally off and had to adjust to hear voices properly but there was very little in this game to dislike.
Oh, and NEVER EVER put a save point before a cutscene, no matter how small.

If you have played Yakuza 0, and the Kiwami games, this will feel unpolished and a step backwards, both in gameplay and storytelling.

The movement feels clunky, the fighting is poor compared to the previous games. The enemies feel like they can read your mind and instead of fights being challenging, they take a long time because the enemy bosses block all your attacks.

I get how this continues from Kiwami 2, but the story just felt weak compared to what came before.
I feel that from this I will probably skip the other remasters and jump into Like a Dragon instead.

This is a enjoyable game until you get to the end game and you realise that there are quite a few quality of life things that could make it a better experience.
The collections do my head in as a want-to-be-collector the fact that some things are and arent on the map, that there is a day-night feature that you dont know what time it is. The gear slots did my nut in. The revelio pages also, I liked the fact that there were entries, but not for all of them?

Anyway, if you're a collector, there are better collection experiences, but for a fun 20 hour play the game, finish the main quest and put it away, it would be a very fun experience.

I feel that this is a far more polished game than Kiwami 1. The graphics are better, being able to go in and out of the buildings without loading screens is so good, and in general being around the world is better.
The minigames which are a staple of Yakuza are back and again feel well polished. I hate the gambling games with a passion though anything like that which is integral to completion or plot can go in a hole.

The sound and music is great, but the main thing for this game; the plot.
The plot is great and the finale to the game is fantastic!

Excellent game well enjoyed!

I played this for 10 hours before stopping, and I stopped for one simple reason. This game grated on me.
I get this this basically hits all of the JRPG tropes and doesn't just hit them, it smashes them repeatedly with a baseball bat. This made it feel less than original.
Sure the setting and the idea feels original but the casing of these tropes makes it feel lazy.
But the killer for me was the combat. I just did not enjoy the combat. I dont know why but this would have been 10x better if it was turn based, but as it was i hated every moment I was in a fight.

I got to the point where I asked myself "how much more of this is there" and when I saw I was only a 1/4 of the way through, that was it. I knew I couldn't do this for another 30 hours.

Bitterly disappointing as loads of people had said to me that this game was really good.

This game is good, a great narrative story where the quicktime events do feel like they add to the immersiveness you feel.
The flowcharts also add to the time you can replay the story, but honestly I feel that this is good for 2 playthroughs at best.
QD's decision to make the cutscenes unskippable or no fast forward button for a new-game + is frankly infuriating and this stops me from looking to investigate the many routes that they've programmed into the game.

Good, but game mechanics on replayability could have been better.

This game is fantastic.
A great story taking place in a half-visual novel, half dungeon crawler, half school-simulator and yes that is 3 halves because there is a lot that this game has to offer.
The soundtrack is addictive and ear-wormy and though the style is perhaps not to the style of a modern game it holds up well and has been amazing to play on steam deck

Another outing in the Yakuza universe which bundles together crazy minigames, excellent story and supremely satisfying combat.
The skill systems are good, and there isn't much that isn't likable about the game for me.
I started with Yakuza 0 and I loved this.

Having been on the internet for a number of years I feel that I've seen everything to do with this game prior to playing.
When it came to actually playing it, I found no enjoyment in it.
The humour didn't make me laugh. The game didn't feel entertaining.
It just didn't click with me.
If you've seen alot of this game on the internet and want to play it yourself, you may not need to.

Excellent game.
Superb level design really shows how you can be so open within a closed environment.
Fantastic story telling and easily can be played for multiple playthroughs.

Get it