Judgment

As expected from RGG. Another banger story. And also the closest you can get to play Jackie Chan in modern games.

The graphics is your usual RGG type of game graphics which was great for 2016 but for now, it seems a bit lacking. Kamurochō never gets old with all the wacky stuff happening in each game.

The soundtrack was acceptable. Nothing groundbreaking. But also not bad at all.

The gameplay just doesn't scratch my itch personality anymore. I loved Yakuza 0 gameplay, and got through Kiwami 1 & 2 but even after years getting back to the Yakuza world with Judgment, I got a little bored. I'm glad they changed the gameplay in 7 and can't wait to get to it. Also the detective style gameplay was a fresh breeze but it was a little clunky and felt too experimental (which I'm glad they took the risk and I can't wait to see the improvements in the sequel)

Now for the best part... As always... RGG is a master in creating stories with many characters and twists. I got attached to every single character, because they had life in them and every single of them were important parts of the story. The Protagonist and his cast of characters had many small but heartwarming details, like everyone close to the Main Character calling him Tak, or the way Saori interacted with everyone. Kaito and Sugiora also very fun teammates to have and etc. The Villains were not as good as Kiwami 1 and definitely not as good as 0. But nonetheless it was a roller-coaster fighting against them both in court and street.

I have yet to encounter a game with mediocre ot average story in the Yakuza world! For now, all of them are amazing.

As a yakuza game enthusiast I can say this game does live up to the hype. Judgement is a yakuza spinoff that utilises the dragon engine to create an entirely new and fresh cast of characters and a story that’s both captivating and emotionally driven, judgement reverses the roles a bit instead of playing as a yakuza you play as a former later turned Detective. This shift in roles is captivating and very similar to that of the police missions in yakuza 4. As this is a spinoff of the yakuza series it is all set in kamurucho making it familiar and engaging story for fans of the other games. Judgment also utilises a new fighting style. Rather than a typical yakuza brawl style judgement sees us shifting between the tiger and crane style both taking elements from Chinese mixed martial arts and karate. This new style is amazing. Overall judgment is a really good yakuza game with a weird story that manages to captivate the players. Really solid game only complaint is there was no karaoke😭

A torture to finish.
The story was ok with some good twists but it sure doesn’t make up for this garbage gameplay,the only good thing that they did were the 2 main characters.
The missions were all the same dumb bullshit of pointing and clicking on something to investigate,thats a feature of a ps1 game! Couldn’t they innovate?fights are as bad as any other yakuza game,chasing missions made me wanna die and the city was as dead as i wish to be on any given weekend.

But i have to admit thefailed cop turned detective vibe and his office were 👌.

Finished Last Judgement now I'm playing this one, so excited!
Only 30 ISH mins in and loving it

"That's no pigeon. Thats a cat" is my fav line in the first section aha

Nice game with a nice story but longer than it should be

A solid entry into the Yakuza franchise. This spin-off is really solid fun and has a gripping story. Not quite on the level of Yakuza 0. But not many games are!