| Barozi said: Currently about 10 hours into Yakuza 0. This is the first time I properly played a Yakuza game (owned but barely played Yakuza 3 on PS3). 9 hours of that within the past two days. Looks like I'm really digging the game but I wouldn't go that far. I have plenty of criticism for the game. 1) Way way too many cutscenes. Also I don't get why they change the type of cutscenes they're using so often. From artistic (almost) still images with voices to in-game text boxes without voices to in-game text boxes with voices to pre-rendered cutscenes. 2) No English dub. Not even every line is voiced in Japanese. 3) meh-ish graphics. Everything pre-rendered looks fine but the difference between that and in-game graphics is quite big. Every NPC other than the main protagonists and antagonists look pretty bad. Face detail is very low and so is skin texture complexity. Hair looks terrible as well. Surroundings look alright but not impressive. Game runs at 1440p on Xbox One X and yet I can cleary see aliasing artifacts in the distance. So either the game is using a bad type of AA or they should aim for 4k in future releases. The game's originally from 2015 so I guess the more recent ones will look a bit better. 4) I still don't know what the game is trying to be. It's around 70% cutscenes, 15% running around districts and 15% fighting (distribution changes if you include the optional mini games). I wouldn't even say that the fighting is that good. Some fighting styles seem to be much superior to others (could change if you fully upgrade their abilities). It's pretty chaotic and hard to hit a specific enemy. Especially if you use something like the capoeira style or using objects with the beast style. Honestly I prefer the combat in Sleeping Dogs. I'm quite happy that Kiwami 1 and 2 seem to be much shorter in comparison (~18 hours each). Not sure if I would touch them if they were also 30+ hours like Yakuza 0. Yakuza 7 on the other hand.... 45 hours for the main story. |
Yakuza 7 is going to feel completely different from all the other Yakuza games since it will be turn based. Yakuza 3 on PS3 was also the first Yakuza game I played. Kiwami 1 plays similar to 0 and Kiwami 2 plays similar to 6. I enjoyed all the Yakuza games I played so far still have to finish 5 and I have 7 pre ordered on PS4.
