#these silly stories are why RGG is so good

[undercooked-spaghetti]

I just love that Sugiura is so used to Kaito and Yagami's stupid bullshit that he's unfazed and just making plans to treat himself after seeing those two idiots in another conundrum.

[raymend]

heres my y5 review. spoilers obviously and its long sooooo

i liked y5 a lot like it was fun and silly and the plot twists were really good and interesting. i loved the variety of game mechanics that kept things feeling fresh.

haruka's story in particular was PERFECT i really really enjoyed her arc!!!! i loved how everything progressed so much like i loved it its like the feeling of sliding back a door and seeing another door and another. haven't felt that invested in yakuza since 0.

i wish mirei had more screen time she was so cool + hot + awesome. that and like i wish yoko was treated more normally like the world if rgg studios could write women and trans people normally

i think saejimas story felt tedious at times and didn't communicate the theme of dreams as well as the other stories did. Like i get what they were getting at kind of with the bear but it wasn't really my thing. i did enjoy his friendship with baba a lot though. AND! baba's parallels with rikiya made me scream and cry and throw up when he was talking to haruka wahhhhhhh

kiryu's story was good but as i said before i wish we got a little bit of a refresher because after playing through saejima's, shinada's and haruka's stories i literally forgot who some of the guys were. wasn't the end of the world but yeah.

shinada's story was awesome too. i didn't really manage to understand his character fully but he's such a sweetheart and i love him and he's wonderful. peace and love on planet shinada. AND that scene with sawada where he fake kills him was FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH that shit made me lose my marbles!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i wish it were a little sadder to be honest i know thats a weird thing to wish for but honestly too many dudes did the Oh Im Dead Oh Im Not Dead thing to the point where it detracted from the experience and made me like 😐 Okay well hes not dead to me until i literally see him flatline. and guess what. The guy i was thinking of? Wasn't dead.

it's been interesting to see the stories become more complex as i get later into the series. i can totally see why y0 worked so well now. the multiple characters' stories linking into each others combined with the simplicity and effectiveness of 2 characters makes it easy to see why y0 works so well.

[mejomonster]

I still havent beaten Lost Judgement but like. What a game. If you like the yakuza games? Great time. Still has the mix of serious high angst crime thriller plot with very silly ridiculous slice of life side stories that still can also manage to hit your heart. I'm still thinking about the Ace Attorney spoof side story about missing dessert, and the fotune teller, and the haunted apartment. And the main story where I had to get a nice dessert for the coworker to help us, and god just. All of the guy whos ir friend in the sexy silk shirt as Usual these kinds of games giving gratuitious eye candy so theres always that. The anonymous mask wearing punk kid (who i actually really like).

The fact ur a detective but Not a yakuza this time i find fun, and NOT a cop so u can kind of live out the fun of playing out the equivalent of a crime drama u would watch without having ur lead be a cop. Instead hes a lawyer who won a defense case! But ex lawyer, cause his defendant killed again! But also it may have been a setup! Either way taku has lost his judgement (get it) over whats truly the truth or not! As is typical for rgg games Lost Judgements angst emotional heavy half of the plot IS fucking heavy! Which keeps my attention. While all the other stuff drags me off. I lose 20 hours being a small time case detective, i lose another 5 trying to do a romance side plot (and tbh i find these ones a mixed bag? The romances are good in that the girls have genuine character side stories i find fun and interesting and with meaning, much like the cabaret girl side stories in kiwami 2, but theyre awkward in that im making taku a cheater cause i dont wanna miss out on a story and ;-; im sorry taku im sorry girls! Whereas yakuza kiwami 2 kiryu was... very much just their friend... im mixing up yakuza games but theres one where u befriend tje cabaret girls and ones in a manga competition and thats the one). Like... i very much liked rgg7s friendship bonds, but hated the romances cause the romances felt like some kind of add on trophy thing where the party friendship bonds werw genuine side stories. And like why not make romance a good side story? Im only HERE doing a romance for rhe side story! ToT so like. Lost Judgements is a mixed bag. Better than rgg7s but i kinda prefer just friend bond side stories skip the dating altogether, tho i realize thats more kiryus style than other protagonists.

Possibly the most Intense element to me of Lost Judgement is. U sure do feel immersed. In being a confused fucking detective. I stopped playing the game for 6 months, came back to it right at the pharmaceutical company investigation. Fucking hell. I had to interrogate and answer like court related questions i didnt even remember the fucking case. I was afraid to game over. Or to dig taku in a very big hole of failure id be penalized trying to climb out of. I felt like OH NO i shluldve studied my case files for clues! In that terrible instant of remembering nothing i was whooshed back to memories of playing law and order on a windows 98 trying to solve the mysteries, and every mystery show i ever watched trying to pay attention to the clues, lamenting id forgotten and was about to ruin takus life. (For the record i guessed like a very amazingly lucky champ, and answered right enough to get thru it). But wow did i feel in the middle of a detective story.