Yakuza Kiwama review scores. (83 Metacritic, 84 Opencritic)

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Mr Puggsly on 22 August 2017

ThisGuyFooks said:

Mr Puggsly said:
I'm buying it, but I feel like these games are reviewed by Yakuza fans.

I'm playing my 6th Yakuza game and this series doesn't do much to keep it fresh. I keep playing them because it scratches an itch I don't get in other games.

Will every person reviewing the Seventh iteration of Forza (for example) will be a fan?

These games are reviewing great because they are really good games bro.

Well if you're gonna play Forza, you gotta play the first. Otherwise many of the tracks won't make sense.

Seriously though, Forza is a straight forward racing sim experience while Yakuza is a story driven games with lots of random battles. When I boot up Yakuza I'm not sure if I'm gonna play or watch long cutscenes.

Jokes aside, I wouldn't recomend Yakuza to anybody really. The series is hundreds of hours of repetitive gameplay, Yakuza 5 being the biggest offender. But I'm too far in to stop playing now.

For those considering dipping their toe in though, Kiwami seems like a good place to start.

On a side note, I find it funny people tend to be more critical of western series being milked but Japanese series don't seem to get the same criticism.

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COKTOE on 22 August 2017

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

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I often wonder how these games don't score a bit higher, but it's personal preference in the end, and I'm a huge Yakuza fanboy. Still, a few extra metacritic bleep-blorps would be nice. Really curious about this one since I've only played the 3 PS3 games. It looked freaking amazing from the vids I saw, but wondering how different it will be from the original, which from what I've read, is a slightly different formula from the 3, 4, and 5. Is it revamped to be more like the the Gen 7 games, or is it more faithful to the gen 6 games I never played? My understanding is that in terms of gameplay, the combat is main change between the 2 gens.

Angry Joe's review sums up pretty well why it doesn't get scored higher. Comparisons to stuff like GTA.

Kinda sad

Yeah, the "Japanese GTA" thing has been around for a while. If the reviewer playing it has that misconception in their head going in, I'd like to think that any comparison would die as soon as they start to play it though. Not even remotely similar games.

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Lawlight on 22 August 2017

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Hmm. I typically don't go after games with less than an 85MC unless the game just speaks to me. And with no prior association with the series, I have trouble pushing myself to get it.

Yakuza 0 has a score of 86. That means that you would play Yakuza 0 but not Kiwami even though they are probably on par in terms of quality.