Lost Judgment

Please for the love of god buy this game. The gameplay is so smooth and it’s easily the best action game rgg has released. Also the music is incredible as always. The judgment games are masterpieces and more people need to play them.

[b] Compared to the first game: [/b] 8.0/10 [h3] Judgment Was Driven by Its Characters. Lost Judgment Is Driven by Its Plot. [/h3] [i] Lost Judgment [/i] is still a great game. The gameplay, presentation, side content, and even its themes are all good enough to earn it a high score. But after finishing it, I still can't shake one thought: [b] Its biggest problem is that it never feels as much like a story about people as [i] Judgment [/i] did [/b]. What made [i] Judgment [/i] so good was that Yagami, Kaito, Sugiura, Higashi, and the rest of the cast never felt like they existed simply to move the plot along. We actually got to know them. We experienced the case with them, learned their histories, and watched them gradually become fully realized characters. By the end of [i] Judgment [/i], you didn't just remember what the truth was. [b] You remembered what these people had been through [/b]. But by the time [i] Lost Judgment [/i] begins, most of these characters have already completed their major character arcs in the first game. So the sequel has to find a new story to put them in—and that story is ultimately much more interested in Kuwana, bullying, vigilantism, and the conflict between law and justice. And that's where the whole thing starts to feel off. [h3] The first game was “we're watching Yagami and his friends' story.” The sequel feels more like “we're watching Kuwana's story through Yagami and his friends.” [/h3] This is especially obvious with Kaito, Sugiura, and Higashi. It's not that they don't have screen time; it's that they increasingly feel like supporting tools rather than characters with their own narrative weight. Kaito, who used to feel like Yagami's genuine partner and one of the defining personalities of the first game, sometimes feels reduced to simply “[b] Yagami's partner [/b].” Yagami himself doesn't completely escape this problem. In [i] Judgment [/i], his belief in justice was something he had to rebuild after the Okubo case and losing his career as a lawyer. It was something the story actually developed through his experiences. In [i] Lost Judgment [/i], it sometimes feels like “justice” has been turned into his [b] default dialogue option [/b]: “The law”, “Justice”, “Vigilantism is wrong”, “Sawa-sensei”, “Sawa-sensei”, and again, “Sawa-sensei”... And speaking of Sawa-sensei, I'm sorry, but she really starts to feel like [b] a plot device whose primary purpose is to give Yagami a reason to keep chasing Kuwana [/b]. By the later chapters, Yagami brings her up so often that even the characters themselves basically have to ask, “Is that all you ever talk about?” I actually laughed at that part. [b] Even the writers knew they were making him sound like a broken record [/b]. The problem isn't that the themes themselves are bad. It's that the game is so eager to [b] make a point [/b] that the characters sometimes end up serving the themes instead of the other way around. Bullying, vigilantism, the rule of law, and conflicting ideas of justice are absolutely worth discussing. But none of these are particularly groundbreaking themes, especially for a Japanese story. What I miss about [i] Judgment [/i] is that it did things in the opposite order: [h3] First, it made me care about these people. Then, through their experiences, it made me think about what it wanted to say. [/h3] That's what makes [i] Lost Judgment [/i] so frustrating. It's bigger. It's richer. In some ways, it's even better made than the first game. But I still prefer [i] Judgment [/i]. Because the first game made me remember [b] the people [/b]. This one mostly made me remember [b] what it wanted to say [/b]. [h3] A good sequel shouldn't just give its old characters another story. It should keep telling their lives. [/h3] And that's what I think [i] Lost Judgment [/i] ultimately gets wrong.

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As with all RGG games, Lost Judgment's pacing is terrible. It frequently interrupts high stake action or plot development with boring tutorials or mini-games. The main story and the combat remain the two most polished aspects of the game. Everything else is there as some sort of fillers. There are a lot of non-combat gameplay sequences. All of them assume you have an IQ of 80, and none of them are engaging or fun. Still, the core pillars that make the studio famous are still there. It can be a good experience if you can ignore all the fillers.

After finishing Judgment, it was by far the best writing that rgg has ever done. It was satisfying. However, as I begin Lost Judgment. It was difficult to go through the first half due to the stakes wasn't that high as much as the first game. After finishing it, I will never find a game like this ever. The dragon engine combat was a huge improvement from the previous and the story is a lot deeper than the plot you heard from the start. I don't know if there ever be a game like this. Man.

A very solid refinement on Judgment though suffers in some unique ways. The story, while very interesting with compelling villains, is markedly lower stakes than the first game and that hangs over the story until the last few chapters when things finally start reaching a climax. The story drags a fair bit especially towards the middle, but has a pretty good conclusion. Side content I'm a little mixed on, it repeats a lot of side content from the first game, but then also introduces a lot of new content that is segmented entirely behind the "School Stories" side content. It's enjoyable for a bit but quickly becomes very repetitive and exhausting, and the progression really just starts phoning it in about halfway through the clubs. The combat is noticeably improved over the first game, which already had some great combat. Crane style is dramatically improved, rather than languishing as an almost useless style compared to the overpowered Tiger style. Also introduces Snake style, which rounds out the three styles as each viable in their own contexts and I found myself actually using them all a fair bit over the course of the game. Though I will admit in Legend NG+ I still mostly used Tiger style, occasionally Crane for mob battles. I think, much moreso than Judgment, this game is held back by virtue of being a spin-off of Yakuza/LAD rather than its own thing. This game probably has the most recycled content of the entire series, which already recycles plenty even in mainline titles. There's only so much you can do when you're completely limited to retreading ground from the main series, and while I think Judgment did a good enough job with its own story running parallel to the main series, this one felt a lot more lacking. There hasn't been any sign of a third Judgment title, but I don't really feel like this series could pull it off unless it can fully break away from spin-off status and introduce its own new locations and factions rather than just repeating the Tojo/Omi in Kamurocho with Judgment or the Liumang/Geomijul in Ijincho with Lost Judgment. I would hope that a potential third Judgment game isn't just Yagami going to Hawaii or something.

Un juego con una historia bastante profunda y hermosa en muchos aspectos. Toca temas los cuales creo yo que muchos hemos vivido de cerca, eso sin mencionar la dura crítica que hace al sistema judicial... Esta crítica no se aplica solo a Japón, me atrevería a decir que es mayoría la cantidad de países en los cuales funciona todo de una forma estrepitosa, corrupta y desinteresada. Jugablemente desde mi punto de vista es de lo mejor que hizo RGG Studio hasta la fecha, mi único punto de crítica es que llegando a la recta final, los combates se vuelven basados en cantidades ingentes de enemigos, se acaba volviendo un suplicio acabar... Esto, en la última misión del juego me hizo putearle a la pantalla de forma desmedida... Más allá de eso es un muy buen juego. Hay una parte que me gustó muchísimo, parte en la cual participamos en un juicio y se siente totalmente fuera de lugar en el mejor de los sentidos, pasás de jugar un Spinn-Off de Ryu Ga Gotoku a jugar Ace Attorney por un instante. Y para cerrar, hay una frase que creo que resume muy bien lo que es el corazón de la historia de Lost Judgment, la cual me gustaría acotar en mi reseña: [i]"El Derecho es la única herramienta humana que nunca se termina de construir."[/i]

Arguably THE best "yakuza" game to date. The story revolves around amazing characters, the soundtrack forces you to have eargasms, the combat has such fluidity and satisfaction to it, having been refined on top of previously released titles, IT'S JUST AMAZING. Even though the game is a spinoff title, it doesn't expect having played previous titles in the chronological order, only acknowledging certain events from the mainline series as a tiny tidbit in the story. It surpasses any other RGG game, maybe duking it out with Yakuza 7 or its predecessor, Judgment/Judge Eyes, on certain aspects. Final takeaway is that I cannot glaze it enough, it's a must play. Also main antagonist is literally dmc3 vergil. John Judgment and Ben Belief you are peak.