I was planning to return to Judgment after a long absence, but little did I know that the game just wasn't like what I'd expected it to be compared to when I played it for the first time 4 years ago and at that time there was no LJ ofc. First of all, what was very awkward and uncomfortable for me was not mastering the game techs or comboing enemies, but adapting with the game speed performance and input reading itself. The movement is very slow and sluggish as I needed to time every dodge for the game to read my input and spamming the dodge button only made it slower and vulnerable to enemy attacks. For example, if I tried to spam the dodge after light attacks, the game will read my input very late, so I have to time it at the end of the light attack string to be faster, that it self made me get damaged and at that moment I realized how weird the input reading are in Judgment. Moreover, for dodge attacks, I had to time the heavy attack button very late as the window is so short. Running attacks after Instant Running tech and 180/360 degree reversal attacks do work just like LJ, but linking them in juggle is limited and slower because bosses tend to drop faster after 3-4 hits. I'm not saying Judgment combat is bad, it's just because of how fast and responsive LJ combat is makes it not feel the same anymore as when I played it for the first time back in the day. If you're reading this and new to Judgment series, I highly recommend you to play them in order starting with Judgment and then Lost Judgment for the full experience. It would make more sense to start playing like this anyway. In the end, LJ basically is what RGG's final product looks like and I had to keep moving forward with the series sorry 😥 Please let me know your thoughts in the comments and how you all felt about Judgment after playing LJ?
Replaying Judge Eyes feels like you’re moving through molasses and after playing LJ for so long,it’s hard to go back to JE,but I’m glad LJ used the foundation JE left to improve heavily.
I think Lost Judgement is one of the biggest glow ups I've seen with a game sequel, the first Judgement isn't bad but it felt like a relic to me within the first hour of Lost Judgement, although I already felt like JE was pretty flawed even before playing LJ and getting my mind blown
While Judgment’s combat does suffer from early dragon engine jank, recycling too many movesets, and poor balancing (Crane being a blanket downgrade of Tiger, fully upgraded Yagami doing WAY too much damage), it’s still one of my favorite RGG games combat-wise. There’s a very specific ebb and flow to it that makes it satisfying to play. Utilizing wall attacks for stuns or crowd control, flux fissure to gain heat, and EX mode to juggle enemies or brute force your way through incoming damage are all important aspects of Judgment and make the game way more fun to play once you get the hang of it. LJ is definitely better in terms of combat, but it had a really solid foundation to build off of.
Absolutely no denying about it, it's a great game that introduced cool features in DE and leads to the masterpiece we have today; flashy color effects within EX-Actions, dynamic style switching, amazing ost's and dark atmosphere feels to it that hook you in the story all of it unforgetable experience. I realized that it was in the past when it felt the best to adapt to its gameplay, not in the present.
Judgment honestly is the sekiro of yakuza games, never have i wanted to learn counter and techs so much until i started my legend playthrough for this game because yagami in many boss fights needs heat in order to stagger someone just from a rush combo and not get absolutely destroyed for attempting it. tiger drop in this game was everyones best friend as well as guard breaking for stun for flux fissure.
Me, who played Lost Judgment first as I started playing OG Judgment on Christmas 2022: This slow pace of fighting and switching styles is so painful...
Judgment is slow mainly because attack recoveries last long before the frame window for an input is allowed, usually the rush for attacks has the hitbox in frame 10/12 and the follow in frames 11/21, but for JE, the hitbox is in frames 12/14 and the follow is in frames *19/29*, and this is for all the rush attacks and unless youre in EX heat they arent switch or quickstep cancellable, JE just has a lot of these recovery frames that make it super slow
@@z-v-x8324 RGG generally focused more on the juggling in LJ so they fixed up stuff such as the first finisher knocking down the enemy (it does this in JE so the second finisher that launches doesnt work), faster frame windows so moves flow faster and have less recovery frames, a lot of it is just QOL changes the general combat that makes it feel better
That's quite a detailed perspective! It does make sense why the recovery frames take so long until another input is registered after light attacks. Even in EX-Boost there are slight of these recovery frames based on what I experienced and you need to time the input mid any attacks not too early or the input is not registered as well.
this may or may not be related but i dont like how the inputs for the same combos are different between both judgment games. For instance, hold light attack+2 heavy attacks=crane juggle starter in Judge eyes. Light attack+hold heavy attack+heavy attack for same thing in lost judgment. Thought i was going crazy until i needed to press some buttons faster than others in certain circumstances. But it's still def something that might disrupt replay value.
When i go back and play Judgment from time to time, i always gotta use ex boost or dance fighter extracts to make it enjoyable and i forgot you take no damage when enemies hit you during ex boost.
I understand what you're saying, but that's a yes and no. Having the AI helping you in JE battles was nice, although the AI is not balanced as if there's barely any recovery time for your partners to stop attacking and leave you to do your own combos. In LJ they fixed that, but instead of the AI being helpful they become useless, If they put JE AI in LJ just imagine how they will obliterate most of the fights leaving no second for you to do your combos. I mean it's good to have it, but it needs to be balanced in between not too helpful and too useless or maybe RGG could add some special features like pressing a button that allows the AI to do supportive attacks.
Same, I had great time the first I played it in ps4 though now it dosen't feel the same anymore and my movement are so locked. I'm just glad I played Judgment before or I wouldn't bear to keep playing it after LJ 😆
@@xtealover799 yeah stiff is a good word to describe Judgment, move cancelling feels awful in Judgment comparatively. I struggled to have a juggle actually work most of the time in Judgment either, every enemy drops half way through one.
الصراحة لما ترجع تلعب جدجمنت تدرك عظمة لوست جيمبلاي جدجمنت اول ما لعبناها كنا نعتبره ممتاز واسطوري، بس بعد لوست صار بطيئ وسيئ وذا يوضح قد ايه لوست طورت على الجيمبلاي بشكل مرعب
بالضبط تماماً، وقتها كان لعب جدمنت طبيعي ومتفوق لانه اعتدنا على سرعة اللعبة وادائها وبهذا السبب ما حسينا اللعبة بطيئة كذا. تظل جدجمنت من اقوى العاب RGG في كل الأحوال، لكن كل شي تغير مع لوست وعرفت انه جدمنت كانت تمشي ولوست حرفياً تجري!
Hey, sorry I've haven't try any mods in JE myself, but I did saw Detective Essential mod before from others who I know. I think it's very well made, and it does capture the JE/LJ core gameplay without adding some weird looking movesets/animations for Yagami.
I recently went back to Judgment myself cuz I'm going for the platinum and I must say that vanilla Judgment combat (no mods) has that Yakuza 6 feel to it, very slow movesets and the block bounce being a bitch. Such a shame cuz everything else the game has to offer is spectacular (story, content, music), but it's combat is really just not that good considering Lost Judgment improved on it A LOT by making juggling much more consistent, Yagami being much faster with his movesets and removing that cancerous block bounce for the most part.
So true. Actually I wanted to try Y6 next, and based on what you said it looks like that it would feel the same as JE. I couldn't handle how slow the combat is since my inputs are way faster for JE to register. It was definitely amazing to experience it in the past, way before LJ.
@@xtealover799I disagree with him, had a blast with Y6 combat, it is my favourite on par with Y0/Kiwami1, while I agree with the opinion about Judgement combat, it felt too slow. Didn't play LJ, so couldn't compare unfortunately.
@@nickvolkov3422 I think you'll love LJ if you ever tried it in future 🙏 you'll even notice the speed difference and how responsive the gameplay compared to previous DE titles.
@@xtealover7996 is WAY faster than JE (if you have the speed upgrades, worst fucking part of the upgrade system in these games, WHY would you make the combat intentionally feel shit until you've grinded for hours RGG, what the actual fuck), I don't know what OP's on about. It definetely doesn't have LJ's depth but it's still fun.
Haven't personally played LJ yet. Starting with Judgment. Gotta say, the movement feels a bit jank and slow even compared to most Yakuza games. Reminds me of Yakuza 6 slow combat and Yakuza Kiwami Dragon style without much upgrades.
I think RGG can create incredible combat systems with enough time but the development cycle of just one game isn't quite enough. The pattern is there throughout the series. The original PS2 game was a good foundation but it was sluggish and clunky, but Yakuza 2 improved it tenfold. It was faster, more responsive, it had more depth, it just felt better to use. It's some people's favourite to this day. I didn't play Kenzan so I'll ignore it and say Yakuza 3 came next and I actually really like Yakuza 3 but even I can admit it's a flawed game. Bounding is insanely fun but the enemy behaviour really puts its stain on the experience especially in groupfights. Your heat gain is also crap and your heat actions aren't even worth the hassle with how low their damage often is. But then 4 comes along, gives us Akiyama, the bounding god, fixes the enemy behaviour, gives you improved heat gain and makes heat actions do stupidly high damage. Oh it also adds Tanimura, and one of the most unique fighting styles in the series with him, and Saejima's there too I guess (jk he has some neat bounding in this game which saves him from being completely awful but he's still my least favourite). Then comes 5, which removes bounding and thus most of what gave the previous games depth. It's fine, it's fun, but it's one of the simplest combat systems in the series. Again it's a great foundation but without much built on it. Then zero came along. I don't think I need to say anything. Then Kiwami 1 came along and sweet mother of the holy Jesus Christ. But okay, okay, relax, that was too much awesome at once new engine, new combat. And it's okay. I actually think Yakuza 6's combat feels pretty great to play and it suffers from the same thing 3 does where people just don't really understand how it works and what you need to do to actually have fun. But again, kiwami 2 is far better regarded because of the improvements it made. Then, Judgement. New character. New styles. And it's great. But it's a bit slow, it can be really unresponsive and the balance is way off, with Tiger Style mopping the floor that Crane Style vomited on, and sure, some people may slip on it but ultimately being hit in the cranium with a mop handle still hurts more. And so, Lost Judgement is made and holy fuck, what, oh my god, sweet jesus. And we can actually see the pattern in the newest mainline release, Yakuza 7. A fun game but it's been criticised for its turn based combat being a lot slower, simpler and less strategic than other games, even if it's still a fun time. And I'm hoping the pattern will complete with Infinite Wealth being a fantastic turn-based RPG.
Nice catch up with the series ✨ RGG definitely learned from one game after another. I'll keep high expectation for LAD:Gaiden to deliver a great experience and fast combat, can't wait for more combat showcase!
@@xtealover799 I definetely think it's incredible how capable RGG is at constant improvement and iteration. Aside from shifts in console generations which changed the entire feel of games, or yknow, a whole genre shift, Yakuza 5 is the only downgrade in terms of combat I can think of throughout the series and they instantly bounced back from it marvelously and not only that, basically every sequel makes massive positive changes. One of my favourite things about this series is how I can see it develop and become better and better with the passing of time. I talked about only combat so far but even in the story, or the exploration, or almost any concept or theme that the series pursues you can see constant improvement in how the games tackle them. edit: thinking about it, this is something that really sets apart Yakuza from other game series. It's never content to just do the same thing again, it's always changing and evolving, and I think that's what allowed it to stick around for so long. Because think about it, this is a series that has been around since 2005, since the PS2! And it has releases numbering in the double digits. How many series are out there with that kind of longevity? Sure, the fact that it's only been in the public eye since 2016 in the west might be a part of it but I definetely think it's ever-changing nature is the biggest reason.
You might not see it, but the exact same feature exist in LJ and the methods to it is different than Judgment. Personally I dislike Judgment guard breaking(stun) approach as the enemy state is just standing waiting for you to break their guards whereas as in LJ you gotta setup the guard break, the enemies does not cross their arms casually Also what did you meant by "LJ might have had easier juggle opportunities"? You mean Tiger style specifically right.
@@xtealover799 Yeah I definitely know how to do tiger juggle starters by now in LJ just don't like the change. As for my first sentence, I meant how u could juggles with 3 styles now with crane, tiger, boxer (not sure w snake tho). I also see ppl having an easier time doing juggles with crane compared to first game
@@angelusvastator1297 I see, guess it depends on each person experience because I've played both and LJ juggling is way faster, many different approaches to start a juggle and rewarding at the same time than JE ever could.
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I was planning to return to Judgment after a long absence, but little did I know that the game just wasn't like what I'd expected it to be compared to when I played it for the first time 4 years ago and at that time there was no LJ ofc. First of all, what was very awkward and uncomfortable for me was not mastering the game techs or comboing enemies, but adapting with the game speed performance and input reading itself. The movement is very slow and sluggish as I needed to time every dodge for the game to read my input and spamming the dodge button only made it slower and vulnerable to enemy attacks. For example, if I tried to spam the dodge after light attacks, the game will read my input very late, so I have to time it at the end of the light attack string to be faster, that it self made me get damaged and at that moment I realized how weird the input reading are in Judgment. Moreover, for dodge attacks, I had to time the heavy attack button very late as the window is so short. Running attacks after Instant Running tech and 180/360 degree reversal attacks do work just like LJ, but linking them in juggle is limited and slower because bosses tend to drop faster after 3-4 hits. I'm not saying Judgment combat is bad, it's just because of how fast and responsive LJ combat is makes it not feel the same anymore as when I played it for the first time back in the day. If you're reading this and new to Judgment series, I highly recommend you to play them in order starting with Judgment and then Lost Judgment for the full experience. It would make more sense to start playing like this anyway.
In the end, LJ basically is what RGG's final product looks like and I had to keep moving forward with the series sorry 😥 Please let me know your thoughts in the comments and how you all felt about Judgment after playing LJ?
use dodge roll imo
Replaying Judge Eyes feels like you’re moving through molasses and after playing LJ for so long,it’s hard to go back to JE,but I’m glad LJ used the foundation JE left to improve heavily.
Thats exactly how I feel about it, RGG definitely learned a lot because of Judgment.
Yeah JE was definitely a big step in developing the dragon engine combat
I think Lost Judgement is one of the biggest glow ups I've seen with a game sequel, the first Judgement isn't bad but it felt like a relic to me within the first hour of Lost Judgement, although I already felt like JE was pretty flawed even before playing LJ and getting my mind blown
While Judgment’s combat does suffer from early dragon engine jank, recycling too many movesets, and poor balancing (Crane being a blanket downgrade of Tiger, fully upgraded Yagami doing WAY too much damage), it’s still one of my favorite RGG games combat-wise. There’s a very specific ebb and flow to it that makes it satisfying to play. Utilizing wall attacks for stuns or crowd control, flux fissure to gain heat, and EX mode to juggle enemies or brute force your way through incoming damage are all important aspects of Judgment and make the game way more fun to play once you get the hang of it. LJ is definitely better in terms of combat, but it had a really solid foundation to build off of.
I love how many stun loops you can perform in this game 💫
the high attack output is simply a dragon engine thing not a judgment thing. its alot more busted than prev games imo although lad 7 is the exception
@@angelusvastator1297 Very true, it’s just that I never actually maxed out stats on any DE game other than JE so it was more noticeable for me.
@@oldwaterbottle2872 only need it for amon tbh but i wish in retrospect they had the attack reduction gear like in LJ
Absolutely no denying about it, it's a great game that introduced cool features in DE and leads to the masterpiece we have today; flashy color effects within EX-Actions, dynamic style switching, amazing ost's and dark atmosphere feels to it that hook you in the story all of it unforgetable experience. I realized that it was in the past when it felt the best to adapt to its gameplay, not in the present.
Judgment honestly is the sekiro of yakuza games, never have i wanted to learn counter and techs so much until i started my legend playthrough for this game because yagami in many boss fights needs heat in order to stagger someone just from a rush combo and not get absolutely destroyed for attempting it. tiger drop in this game was everyones best friend as well as guard breaking for stun for flux fissure.
What I like about Judgement is that Yagami's speed and actions are more realistic while in LJ he's just floating all over. LJ is still better though.
Me, who played Lost Judgment first as I started playing OG Judgment on Christmas 2022: This slow pace of fighting and switching styles is so painful...
Judgment is slow mainly because attack recoveries last long before the frame window for an input is allowed, usually the rush for attacks has the hitbox in frame 10/12 and the follow in frames 11/21, but for JE, the hitbox is in frames 12/14 and the follow is in frames *19/29*, and this is for all the rush attacks and unless youre in EX heat they arent switch or quickstep cancellable, JE just has a lot of these recovery frames that make it super slow
really interesting insight, any clue on what makes juggling in LJ function so much more smoothly in comparison to janky it was in the OG judgement?
Omg it's the DMC5 V guy!!!!
@@z-v-x8324 RGG generally focused more on the juggling in LJ so they fixed up stuff such as the first finisher knocking down the enemy (it does this in JE so the second finisher that launches doesnt work), faster frame windows so moves flow faster and have less recovery frames, a lot of it is just QOL changes the general combat that makes it feel better
That's quite a detailed perspective! It does make sense why the recovery frames take so long until another input is registered after light attacks. Even in EX-Boost there are slight of these recovery frames based on what I experienced and you need to time the input mid any attacks not too early or the input is not registered as well.
this may or may not be related but i dont like how the inputs for the same combos are different between both judgment games. For instance, hold light attack+2 heavy attacks=crane juggle starter in Judge eyes. Light attack+hold heavy attack+heavy attack for same thing in lost judgment.
Thought i was going crazy until i needed to press some buttons faster than others in certain circumstances. But it's still def something that might disrupt replay value.
When i go back and play Judgment from time to time, i always gotta use ex boost or dance fighter extracts to make it enjoyable and i forgot you take no damage when enemies hit you during ex boost.
True, it's much more bearable to play with dance fighter and relying on EX-Boost for canceling attacks.
I started with LJ and then JE, so I can really relate to it! I can't control how LJ attacks, but I really like the gameplay!
Absolutely. I knew that you would feel exactly as I did when going to play JE after LJ. It was awesome to experience JE before in the past.
😭😭
Still appreciate you comin back and trying the tech out in JE 🐐
I will try find something to post with your LJ techs in JE soon..
You our only hope in this game 😪
Who needs a tealover when there is 🐐♥️ Patr anyways.
If there is one thing you can't deny about JE? The COMPANION AI WAS GOD TIER in this game.
I understand what you're saying, but that's a yes and no. Having the AI helping you in JE battles was nice, although the AI is not balanced as if there's barely any recovery time for your partners to stop attacking and leave you to do your own combos. In LJ they fixed that, but instead of the AI being helpful they become useless, If they put JE AI in LJ just imagine how they will obliterate most of the fights leaving no second for you to do your combos. I mean it's good to have it, but it needs to be balanced in between not too helpful and too useless or maybe RGG could add some special features like pressing a button that allows the AI to do supportive attacks.
when the mastermind of LJ tech tries the stuff in JE
fully understandable that its not gonna be to ur liking hahahah
i dont blame ya
I tried 😭 the game want me to walk, but I am running you know!
I still love this game, the gameplay is still wild but it's not LJ. The opportunities for juggling is not nearly as grandiose in Judgment.
Same, I had great time the first I played it in ps4 though now it dosen't feel the same anymore and my movement are so locked. I'm just glad I played Judgment before or I wouldn't bear to keep playing it after LJ 😆
@@xtealover799 yeah stiff is a good word to describe Judgment, move cancelling feels awful in Judgment comparatively. I struggled to have a juggle actually work most of the time in Judgment either, every enemy drops half way through one.
الصراحة لما ترجع تلعب جدجمنت تدرك عظمة لوست
جيمبلاي جدجمنت اول ما لعبناها كنا نعتبره ممتاز واسطوري، بس بعد لوست صار بطيئ وسيئ
وذا يوضح قد ايه لوست طورت على الجيمبلاي بشكل مرعب
بالضبط تماماً، وقتها كان لعب جدمنت طبيعي ومتفوق لانه اعتدنا على سرعة اللعبة وادائها وبهذا السبب ما حسينا اللعبة بطيئة كذا. تظل جدجمنت من اقوى العاب RGG في كل الأحوال، لكن كل شي تغير مع لوست وعرفت انه جدمنت كانت تمشي ولوست حرفياً تجري!
@@xtealover799 جدجمنت طبعًا تفضل لعبة حلوة، كفاية قصتها
بس فعلًا صدقت، لوست مستوى عالي لازم يثبتوا عليه أو يخلوه احسن بطريقةً ما
I played JE after LJ and I can say this is the worst thing I've made Gameplayvise JE is objectively is 9/10 but after LJ it felt like a 6.5/10.
I'm with you, I understand it completely 🙏
Holding L2 will let you do triangle attacks without accidently activating heat actions.
Tealover, have you taken a look at the Crouching Tiger hidden Crane mod or the Detective Essentials mod? If so, what do you think of those mods?
Hey, sorry I've haven't try any mods in JE myself, but I did saw Detective Essential mod before from others who I know. I think it's very well made, and it does capture the JE/LJ core gameplay without adding some weird looking movesets/animations for Yagami.
I recently went back to Judgment myself cuz I'm going for the platinum and I must say that vanilla Judgment combat (no mods) has that Yakuza 6 feel to it, very slow movesets and the block bounce being a bitch. Such a shame cuz everything else the game has to offer is spectacular (story, content, music), but it's combat is really just not that good considering Lost Judgment improved on it A LOT by making juggling much more consistent, Yagami being much faster with his movesets and removing that cancerous block bounce for the most part.
So true. Actually I wanted to try Y6 next, and based on what you said it looks like that it would feel the same as JE. I couldn't handle how slow the combat is since my inputs are way faster for JE to register. It was definitely amazing to experience it in the past, way before LJ.
@@xtealover799I disagree with him, had a blast with Y6 combat, it is my favourite on par with Y0/Kiwami1, while I agree with the opinion about Judgement combat, it felt too slow. Didn't play LJ, so couldn't compare unfortunately.
@@nickvolkov3422 I think you'll love LJ if you ever tried it in future 🙏 you'll even notice the speed difference and how responsive the gameplay compared to previous DE titles.
@@xtealover7996 is WAY faster than JE (if you have the speed upgrades, worst fucking part of the upgrade system in these games, WHY would you make the combat intentionally feel shit until you've grinded for hours RGG, what the actual fuck), I don't know what OP's on about. It definetely doesn't have LJ's depth but it's still fun.
@@JosephJoeseph that's a fair point. I'll replay Y6 in any case and check how it performs now.
Not even the goat could fix je
If the game could just make me run I would've changed it, but it want me to walk. Goat Patr is our only hope.
Haven't personally played LJ yet. Starting with Judgment. Gotta say, the movement feels a bit jank and slow even compared to most Yakuza games.
Reminds me of Yakuza 6 slow combat and Yakuza Kiwami Dragon style without much upgrades.
It's great that you started with Judgment 🙏 you'll come to appreciate this decision more once you try LJ in the future.
@@xtealover799 Ya, LJ combat looks hell fun. Judgment combat looks cool too, but it doesn't feel as snappy as I wanted it to be.
Only LJ is mostly free from that signature Dragon Engine sluggishness, we're right back to terrible quicksteps and slow ass attacks with Gaiden
@@stormysoup1083 LJ is way better. Agent style is good for crowd control, quite fun to use honestly.
I think RGG can create incredible combat systems with enough time but the development cycle of just one game isn't quite enough. The pattern is there throughout the series. The original PS2 game was a good foundation but it was sluggish and clunky, but Yakuza 2 improved it tenfold. It was faster, more responsive, it had more depth, it just felt better to use. It's some people's favourite to this day.
I didn't play Kenzan so I'll ignore it and say Yakuza 3 came next and I actually really like Yakuza 3 but even I can admit it's a flawed game. Bounding is insanely fun but the enemy behaviour really puts its stain on the experience especially in groupfights. Your heat gain is also crap and your heat actions aren't even worth the hassle with how low their damage often is.
But then 4 comes along, gives us Akiyama, the bounding god, fixes the enemy behaviour, gives you improved heat gain and makes heat actions do stupidly high damage. Oh it also adds Tanimura, and one of the most unique fighting styles in the series with him, and Saejima's there too I guess (jk he has some neat bounding in this game which saves him from being completely awful but he's still my least favourite).
Then comes 5, which removes bounding and thus most of what gave the previous games depth. It's fine, it's fun, but it's one of the simplest combat systems in the series. Again it's a great foundation but without much built on it. Then zero came along. I don't think I need to say anything. Then Kiwami 1 came along and sweet mother of the holy Jesus Christ.
But okay, okay, relax, that was too much awesome at once new engine, new combat. And it's okay. I actually think Yakuza 6's combat feels pretty great to play and it suffers from the same thing 3 does where people just don't really understand how it works and what you need to do to actually have fun. But again, kiwami 2 is far better regarded because of the improvements it made.
Then, Judgement. New character. New styles. And it's great. But it's a bit slow, it can be really unresponsive and the balance is way off, with Tiger Style mopping the floor that Crane Style vomited on, and sure, some people may slip on it but ultimately being hit in the cranium with a mop handle still hurts more. And so, Lost Judgement is made and holy fuck, what, oh my god, sweet jesus.
And we can actually see the pattern in the newest mainline release, Yakuza 7. A fun game but it's been criticised for its turn based combat being a lot slower, simpler and less strategic than other games, even if it's still a fun time. And I'm hoping the pattern will complete with Infinite Wealth being a fantastic turn-based RPG.
Nice catch up with the series ✨ RGG definitely learned from one game after another. I'll keep high expectation for LAD:Gaiden to deliver a great experience and fast combat, can't wait for more combat showcase!
@@xtealover799 I definetely think it's incredible how capable RGG is at constant improvement and iteration. Aside from shifts in console generations which changed the entire feel of games, or yknow, a whole genre shift, Yakuza 5 is the only downgrade in terms of combat I can think of throughout the series and they instantly bounced back from it marvelously and not only that, basically every sequel makes massive positive changes. One of my favourite things about this series is how I can see it develop and become better and better with the passing of time. I talked about only combat so far but even in the story, or the exploration, or almost any concept or theme that the series pursues you can see constant improvement in how the games tackle them.
edit: thinking about it, this is something that really sets apart Yakuza from other game series. It's never content to just do the same thing again, it's always changing and evolving, and I think that's what allowed it to stick around for so long. Because think about it, this is a series that has been around since 2005, since the PS2! And it has releases numbering in the double digits. How many series are out there with that kind of longevity? Sure, the fact that it's only been in the public eye since 2016 in the west might be a part of it but I definetely think it's ever-changing nature is the biggest reason.
@@xtealover799”Fast” 💔
Imo I dislike how the juggling inputs are not the same between the games especially for tiger. Took me out at first😭😭😭
You might not see it, but the exact same feature exist in LJ and the methods to it is different than Judgment. Personally I dislike Judgment guard breaking(stun) approach as the enemy state is just standing waiting for you to break their guards whereas as in LJ you gotta setup the guard break, the enemies does not cross their arms casually
Also what did you meant by "LJ might have had easier juggle opportunities"? You mean Tiger style specifically right.
@@xtealover799 Yeah I definitely know how to do tiger juggle starters by now in LJ just don't like the change.
As for my first sentence, I meant how u could juggles with 3 styles now with crane, tiger, boxer (not sure w snake tho). I also see ppl having an easier time doing juggles with crane compared to first game
@@angelusvastator1297 I see, guess it depends on each person experience because I've played both and LJ juggling is way faster, many different approaches to start a juggle and rewarding at the same time than JE ever could.
@@xtealover799 well if u juggle in ex boost in judge eyes it's technically just as fast
@@angelusvastator1297 if it wasn't for the fact that changing styles in je is just as slow as in 0 & you drop combos way easier in je
Only with mods bro. After LJ only with mods
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