Yakuza 0 Director's Cut

I put off playing the Yakuza games since the 00s. I put them off because the only people who told me to play them when I was a child were very creepy, [i]very, very creepy.[/i] However I am now an adult, the only person who can creep on me is me, so I decided I'd start with them in chronological order. I'm saying this so that whoever reads it knows I went into this game with 0 expectations, so that when I tell them I was [b]completely and totally blown away[/b] they know it isn't coming from a place of preexisting bias. I loved this game. I dumped nearly 100 hours into one save, still didn't get through all the content, and enjoyed every single minute of it I spent on the process. The story, the voice acting, the modelling, the combat, the minigames, I literally did not have a single thing that I didn't enjoy. That's not to say there weren't things I was critical about. Goro's side content felt kind of poorly thought out, even if fun, and lacked a lot of significance later compared to Kazuma's side content. I sincerely believe this was a justifiable trade off for the straight-up volume of content and the amount there was to do in the game. I will probably end up going back to play NG+ and wrap up the content I missed for completionism's sake, and because I enjoyed what I experienced so much that it would bug me relentlessly to not experience the rest. I liked the game so much I bought the remainder of the series. Absolutely great experience.

日本にクルド人の居場所はない (Nihon ni Kurudo hito no ibasho wanai) Japonya'da Kürtlere yer yok -Kazuma Kiryu

I want to preface that this game has a good story, the graphics are really pretty, and it's really well optimized for steam deck. But the gameplay is showing it's age and it's filled with open world slop activities and an entire mechanic that literally destroys player progression if you are unlucky enough to get into a fight with Mr Shakedown. Cons: The High school girl panty selling quest was FREAKING WEIRD. I am constantly reminded that Japan has some deviant behavior with how normalized everyone talks about the used panty selling. Mr Shakedown as a mechanic is just not fun or respecting of your time. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have a mechanic that literally resets player progression needs to retire from video game development and learn not to be a sadist. I cannot stress just how genuinely unfun it was to lose 10M yen just bc the story demanded I lose bc they wanted to introduce this mechanic. It did not motivate me to get stronger, it motivated me to just watch cutscenes on youtube and tell others not to buy the game. The Sidestories are straight pace killing open world slop. yeah some of them are funny or teach a valuable "lesson of the week" but I don't think it actually adds to the story of Yakuza 0 in any way that is actually meaningful narratively because the sidestories don't have any consequences. The combat is absolutely dog water. The movement is clunky, enemies have more invul frames THAN YOU, and the button inputs just choose not to listen to you sometimes. It is so much fun that the dodge button doesn't actually guarentee a dodge, such rivetting gameplay. /s Pros: It's well optimized for steam deck, like you can run this game on Ultra-High and still get 70-90 fps on 1% lows. The story is genuinely good, I really liked the mystery and the plot twists. Going in blind was pretty fun. Summary: Do not buy this game. It is absolutely showing it's age and it aint beating the pdf allegations. Japan kinda weird for this one. This is definitely a "Just watch the cutscenes for free on youtube and spare yourself the actual dog water gameplay" I can totally see how shortly after this game, they stopped doing brawlers for Like a Dragon.

我操好想桐生一马

Absolute cinema.

又是恨没有中评的一天。虽然剧情比起系列的其他作品算是勉强好了一点但还是比较糟糕，说是剧情巅峰但实际上只是和自己比好了那么一点。玩任何《如龙》最好都别对主线剧情抱希望，全是无聊至极的君君臣臣父父子子，支线更是做到呕吐，两个人加起来100个任务。不过金钱岛和勒索哥确实让人感受到了泡沫经济时期钱不是钱的氛围，算是独特体验。

хороший сборник мини игр, на удивление еще и с сюжетом, советую

Played the original 0 nearly 8 years ago, and never got around replaying it, but I guess this was good excuse. At it's core, it's still the same, great game, but with some improvements. However there's still many annoyances that were in the original in my books. Some dialog boxes seem to be taking "forever" compared to others, and it just all in all still doesn't feel as fluid as you would want from a "remaster". I had to google to see which exactly were the additional cutscenes and there are some incredibly frustrating retcons, especially considering they have no effect on the future of the games. Still, despite the retcons, it's not bad. I'd like to recommend the original version above this though (due to the retcons), which you CAN still get from GOG apparently!