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Before I rate Lost Judgment

Retro vote for Judgment - 10

I retract a statement I made a while back when I said 13 Sentinels is the best story I have experienced in a while. That distinction goes to Judgment without any dispute now that I have finished this game about a month or so back.

Despite being a huge fan of the Yakuza games, It admittedly took me much longer than I should have, to get to finally playing RGG's spin-off series to its beloved Yakuza franchise. I approached the game with a great deal of scepticism with the assumption that it was likely a shoe horned entry riding on the coattails of Yakuza like most spin-offs do in their respective series. And how can Kamurocho possibly be the same, playing as a what I presumed at the time to be a low stake story of a small time Lawyer/Detective instead of the Dragon of Dojima or the Mad Dog of Shimano or even a rookie Yakuza looking to climb the ranks of the Tojo. I stand corrected and admit I made a judgment (*wink) far too prematurely.

What I got was part Yakuza, part Ace Attorney, part Shenmue on steroids. I admit the beginning chapters were quite slow but once the story got going, it made me experience a wave of emotions that only great storytelling can effortlessly do so, like Judgment has. The characters make you feel for them. The story puts you on the edge of your seat. The mysteries and revelations of the overarching plot makes you wanna know what happens next.

Judgment is the real deal and the whole package when it comes to great story telling. It is also the best RGG story in my opinion and I hold them in the highest esteem when it comes to storytelling and character interaction in video games. I'm not gonna discuss the issues I had with the gameplay and certain things being unnecessarily padded out in the first Judgment game thankfully, because this a topic for story only. I'm gonna end the post by saying Judgment is just an incredible story that far surpassed my expectations and throughly deserves to be reconigzed as one of the best video game stories ever.