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quick reaction 5 > 2 > 7 > 0 > 6 > 4 > 1 > 3

The new era of Yakuza is off to great start! Ever since it got revealed as an "April Fools" joke I've been looking forward to this new turn based direction on the series. Kiryu had a great run and I was excited to see what they would do with it. Despite being worried early on if Ichiban was going to be suitable replacement for Kiryu, he quickly won over the hearts and minds of everyone myself included. If Kiryu was basically a Kenshiro type (which he was!) then Ichiban is more of a Goku type. He makes friends out of everyone and is goofy and loveable while doing it. The entire cast is really a step above what the series has offered in the past and it was apparent whenever they would run into older characters in the series seemed to be lacking depth in comparison. I think it's a credit to the localization which I think is one of the best I've ever seen in a video game. These games have had pretty good localizations ever since Yakuza 0, but it seemed a step above even that. I went with the English voice acting this time because everyone said it was so good and it didn't disappoint.

The battle system was good, but there's definitely room for improvement in Yakuza 8 if they choose to continue on with Ichiban. Character's frequently got stuck in geometry during battle and you have to wait for them to teleport to the enemy once they realize they can't get there and there seemed to be some wild balance issues in the back half of the game. However the actual combat is fast, the jobs are fun and the skills are entertaining to see. Being turn based the moves maybe lose a bit of their brutal intensity compared to Heat Actions in the old games, but they make up for it with JRPG anime wackiness for all the abilities. The most important part is it still managed to feel like I was playing a Yakuza game despite the change to the battle system.

The Platinum is a pretty long one I think only Yakuza 5 was longer. Overall it took me 104 hours to complete. A lot of it is typical Yakuza stuff beyond finishing the story like doing a ton of substories, playing a ton of minigames (and completing the 3 big new ones: Part-Time Hero, running a business and Dragon Kart) and crafting a ton of weapons and equipment. There's a ton of new ones though that are out of other rpgs like Persona where you have to max the bond levels of all your party members or Dragon Quest where you have to get a honk-honk (puff puff) from all the various women around town. The romance stuff is also straight out of Persona 5 including everyone finding out you're dating all the women at the end.

There's a big post-game bonus dungeon though where you need to raise your character level and job level to 99 (and it doesn't hurt to have learned the basic elemental skills in the other jobs as well) to even survive so I spent a decent amount of time grinding the game's equivalent of Metal King Slimes in the sewers just for that. Even then enemies can kill you in 1-2 hits and you have to be constantly healing and exploiting enemy weaknesses to survive. It felt satisfying to finally finish that dungeon though and get the platinum.

Definitely looking forward once again to what they do next whether it's Yakuza 8 with more Ichiban or something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HjviSmv1Tc

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