You can only ride it on streets, and actually doing that riding looks and feels like it just got copied and pasted from Kingdom Hearts II. There’s one traversal element I’m not sold on: the skateboard. This is, for all intents and purposes, the ninth mainline game in RGG’s broader “ludic universe,” and at this point there’s probably no studio better at creating a virtual city as rich as Kamurocho or Ijincho. It should come as no surprise that the game looks and feels incredible. You can parry attacks to rattle enemies and then do an EX-intimidate move to scare the literal shit out of them and force a TKO. In fact, you have a whole new fighting style, snake style, to help you deal with weaker enemies, principally children, whom you don’t want to send to the hospital – even the shitheads – with contusions.
You even fight – and this will feel awkward – high school students.
In addition to the following/chase missions from the first game, Lost Judgment also includes stealth (in/exfiltration) missions and parkour. This is mostly fine, because the majority of chapter one consists of a lengthy tutorial on the many systems, new and returning, that have been baked into the game. As far as I can tell this early in, neither the Seiryu Clan, the Liumang or the Geomijul have much of a presence in Lost Judgment, aside from maybe showing up as random street fights. But even in Yokohama, the criminal underworld seems subdued. Kamurocho is still a vibrant and interesting neighborhood but, just like with Like a Dragon, there don’t seem to be any more stories here to tell (for now). Literally, the big fight to end the chapter is interrupted by a phone call from one of Yagami’s buddies, the hacker Tsukumo, who started their own detective agency in Ijincho, Yokohama. Yagami and Kaito fight some pathetic ex-Yakuza remnants in the game’s prelude, and everything in this case – where a woman hires the pair to find out what her presumptive boyfriend, a gambling addict with a penchant for human trafficking, is up to – positively screams shoddiness. The events of Like a Dragon (2020) have been solidified and by December 2021, when Lost Judgment takes place, the Tojo Clan are already a distant memory. Now, almost four hours (roughly one chapter) in, I have some spoilerific thoughts.įirst, it’s official: the yakuza of Kamurocho are absolutely dead. As soon as work ended today (9/24), I started playing Lost Judgment, the sequel to Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s 2018 Kamurocho-based Yakuza-lite detective thriller, Judgment.
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