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I also think that despite the similarities between 0 and Kiwami, the latter is somehow unbelievably worse – probably due to the regeneration system brought in to entice you into different styles. I’ll predominantly be talking about Yakuza Kiwami in this piece, as the sheer frustration of having to button-mash my way through crap fights in between excellent storytelling sequences is still pretty fresh in my memory.
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Speaking as somebody who came to this series nostalgia-free in 2020, Yakuza’s combat is irredeemably outdated – which is probably why Sega swapped to a turn-based RPG system for Yakuza: Like A Dragon.
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Those are all pretty terrible, mind, but level design isn’t great either, nor are the mobs, the bosses, the healing item economy, the narrative integration of combat scenarios, or the overall skill system at the heart of it all. Yakuza’s combat is bad – and not just in terms of specific mechanics. I can see why that might cause certain people’s nostalgia to flare up, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. I know that a lot of Sega kids will disagree with me on this purely because Yakuza is an homage to classic arcade games. So why on earth is the combat so god-awful? Yakuza’s attitude is raucously loud at all times, even in its most somber moments, due to how unflinchingly unpretentious it is. In fact, that’s exactly what it is – nobody’s business. Yakuza games juxtapose phenomenal soundtracks with immensely stylish art direction, flitting between campy graffitied objective instructions and refined cinematographic set pieces as if it’s nobody’s business. Similarly to 0, I absolutely adored almost everything about this game – the story, the characters, the sheer suit-and-cigarette flair of it all. Last week, I started Yakuza Kiwami, which I finished last night. I went back to it in early 2021 and completed it lightning fast, bulldozing my way through legions of Kuze’s muscle in order to earn my notoriety as the Dragon of Dojima. I played for several hours straight the first day I downloaded it, but had to put it on hold to concentrate on more timely releases like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Cyberpunk 2077.
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I started my first Yakuza game in November – Yakuza 0. You Are Reading : Yakuza Is The Most Perfect Video Game Series Of All Time Except For Its Awful Combat
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Yakuza is exceptional in almost every single way – the only thing that lets it down is its ridiculously outdated combat. Yakuza Is The Most Perfect Video Game Series Of All Time, Except For Its Awful Combat
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