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I wish I had a diving bell

If I knew that standart edition=budget edition I would have buy ''Deluxe Edition'' from the get go. NG+ locked behind paywall is the worst decision. I would survive not having bonus dungeon and dondoko/sujimon stuff AKA cheat items but NG+? C'mon and it doesn't end on that, also locking difficulty and achievements behind paywall?! Big L to SEGA or RGG I don't know who pulled strings with this decision....20$ you can buy new AAA(slop) game for that! I can already imagine Yakuza 9 editions it will be something like this; Rock Bottom < Budget < Standart < Deluxe < Ultra Deluxe

Biggest and longest in the series took me 130h to finish main story and little bit of the side content. Pacing of the story was great from start to finish and a story itself was great. Hawaii exploration felt great and a bucket list, no whole Kiryu chapter, literally letter to the fans. 10/10! If u wanna get it I recommend buying ''Deluxe Edition''(standart). DON'T buy ''Standart Edition'' or budget edition as I call it the reason is ''Master Vacation Bundle'' which contains NEW GAME+, yes NG+ is locked behind 20$ paywall and it's sucks, still not a reason to type negative review because the product is here and it's great!

I do recommend Judgment, at first I was bored but as story went by it kept getting more and more interesting, story pacing was well done. Characters are memorable and lovable especially your close buddys, almost on par with Y: LAD characters. Story is one of the best in Y/LAD series, it's more serious then your avarage Yakuza. Side content was meh, lacking and repeatable, you have your funny and qurky side cases(substories) and standart side content like baseball, casino etc. New stuff; street rep(buddy system) that unlocks new events, side cases and allies that help you with street fights, girlfriends, money making ''Paradisu VR'' board game, and a very hard drone racing. Your MC, Yagami utilizes two fighting styles; Crane crowd control style which has no upgrade tree and powerfull Tiger for single enemy, but you can easly finish game using tiger only, Yagami can also leap over enemy and wall jump, the second one is crucial if you want to stop 'mortal wound' strike from boss type enemy, MC can also use extracts that e.g. gives him ability to break enemy guard or throw em around like they are nothing. Now the bad and ugly, lack of interesting side content so you will be mainly doing main story and side cases, mortal wounds mechanic - it does not add anything, just makes you take a long trip to sewers so you can heal or buy medkit for a very expensive price, this exist only to waste time, Keihin gang - ''Majima everywhere'' system but 3x worse, atleast you can pull out your drone to reset random encounter spawn. Assassin's Creed style tailing missions that are slow and boring just horrible, especially the final one, it's like 15-20 minutes of walking in circle. Chases are not great either, at least they are quick, always funny when Yagami does some unnecessary goofy jump/dodge, still better then Y3 chases though. I will give it a score of 8/10 Main story carry this game, oh and also one of the best last bosses in the series

No heat actions, limited moveset like really? When you fight those guys in the arena they have full style package but when you play as them, it is so limited, Saejima feels weird like I don't even know they switched some combo buttons on him? Majima feels better then Yk2 Majima Saga one and Daigo is disappointing it's cool to play as him but again moveset is limited just enter arena Daigo vs Daigo and you will see. I got it for ''free'' pre-order bonus or something I guess, but can't recommend it even though price is okayish

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Good game, this is what Y6 should be. Cool new agent style and enchanced Dragon Engine DoD style(not as fun as original but still better then Yk2 and Y6 one). Arena and Clan Creator is peak in the series, in CC you can actually take part of the fight which is something that this minigame needed. In arena you can take control of your clan members which is huge, unfortunately some characters are disappointing because of limited moveset like Daigo for instance . Story is OK'ay, last two chapters are the best in Gaiden. You can also change Joryu's wardrobe, mix and match or cosplay as Takaya Kuroda. Minigames, we have some standart stuff, casino, darts, golf, pool(which is cursed, physics are all over the place), new karaoke songs Silent Night and modern version of Ichizu Samurai, slot car racing is back and cabaret club which personally I dislike and this one is the worst in the series, almost fell asleep and i felt burn out at the last two girls which reminded me of my Y5 Remastered burn out(took me 2 years to finish that game lol) they only did live cabaret club videos because deadline was chasing them. For the game made in 6 months I must say that RGG Studio did good, you can see some rough around the edges but it's good addition to the Taichi Suzuki saga(oh and I'm not meming about the name). 8/10 Pricing of this game is little to high. I hope Gaiden will become new series in the RGG Studio, Saejima Gaiden would be great. See ya'all in Infinite Wealth!

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Oh and also this one got rubber knife plot

Another MDickie slop is out. This is the first and only MDickie game when I don't get beat up every five minutes. What's new? Vehicles I guess, school tasks work most of the time, but the camera oh man it's f* atrocious. Locking on to characters is also annoying. It's another 'MDickie experience' if you played HardTime, Wrestling Empire etc. there is nothing revolutionar about this one, It's fun though

I liked it even though in some places Y6 looks rushed. Story is okay/good. I have a mixed feelings about 'The Boys' Rikiya's 2.0, especially Yuta, and don't even get me started on Haruka, which suprised me in Y6, but still I shouldn't be suprised after what she did at the ending of Y5. Kamuro Champion's and Hotel district are missing. lack of underground casino and COLOSSEUM. I think this is the first Yakuza game without colosseum. Less heat actions, NO ground finisher heat action!
8/10 It's a good Yakuza game, but is it a good end of Kazuma Kiryu Saga? No in my opinion.

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