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

[COKTOE]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

COKTOE said:
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.