Here's my review of judgment. Hopefully I did well, and I hope it will help those on the fenceJust beat judgement. Here are my thoughts:Gameplay: 7.5/10The gameplay plays similarly to Yakuza 6 and kiwami 2; however there are improvements that make it better. I do feel the main characters fighting style is meant to look flashy and captivating, which sometimes it is, but the two styles were never really much I alternated between. I found myself constantly fighting in tiger instead of crane. Maybe if the incentive to try each was a little better, I could find myself between the two, but crane was really only used for the wall finisher to knockout multiple foes. I played on hard, so I was really looking for damage, but maybe on a different difficult I would switch between the two more often. Also, tailing missions are not too enjoyable (a gaming curse plagued in the community) and some of the better detective mechanics were thrown to the side. I feel if these detective mechanics were incorporated more, and tailing was done less, the gameplay would be an 8/8.5Story: 9/10The story takes on the role of a lawyer who managed to learn martial arts from his father at a young age, and proved the innocence of a man put on trial for murder. (Only .1% of cases like this are proven innocent) That quickly changes as he becomes a disgraced-lawyer-gone-detective attempting to solve the mass homicide plaguing the town. To me, the story remains very consistent with engaging characters, maze-like twists, and a depth of unraveling that forces you to question society as a whole. Moral grey areas are brought to light as the serial killer known to take eyes from his victims run rampant. Easily one of the best stories in the Yakuza universe(Also, as a side note, I love yagami and kaitos friendship. A true bromance that's subtle and not overbearing)Extras: 9/10Honestly, it's an RGG studios creation jam packed with mini games, side cases, and cat pictures. What I love about the few side cases I played is that each one takes on an interesting story worth solving. Whether it be finding the elusive panty thief, the hidden stalker, or chasing down the wind casted "hat" made so obviously of hair. Each side case feels special as it involves the player in a developed world. If you are looking for a game that gives you a lot more excitement once the games over, look no further.Graphics/Music/Voice Act:8/10The graphics are always extremely impressive for the Yakuza series. Maintaining expressive faces, beautiful environments, and an aesthetic that matches the overall tone.The music for this game is enjoyable, but not an entire soundtrack download. I feel it hits all the right notes for certain scenes though, and that's still something for me.For the first time I played this universe in English, so the voice acting is different than what most fans are used to. I'm sure the Japanese was great, but I found the English to be mostly enjoyable. The team had a hard task, especially with how expressive character are with their mouths, and managed to pull it off. Some lip syncing is off, some voices are odd choices, but the cast is full of familiar voices that mostly do well.Final thoughts:Overall, this game will probably be my top game for 2019. While tailing missions become extremely boring, they don't happen often and the fantastic narrative paired with improved gameplay manages to keep the player going. During Yagamis journey of redemption; friends are made, morals are questioned, and a struggle dealt within the whole plot feels real. I found true relief, sorrow, and excitement as a nail in the coffin is finally placed and a dark force is brought to justice. I personally rate this game a 9 or a 9.5/10, but objectively give it an 8. A Fantastic game and world worth diving into.My grade 9.5 (hoping it comes to PC to play again)I have been waiting on this game for quite some time... But does it really live up to the hype?Answer? Yes, and so much moreThis game is made with the new dragon engine, which was featured in yazuka 6 and again in yakuza kawami 2 so it looks really good graphics wise.This story takes place 2 years after yakuza 6. While you may get small references to previous games (such as a mini game that is a reference to yakuza dead souls) , there will be no cameos or returning characters from the previous yakuza games. Seeing as your back in the yakuzaverse, your welcome back to a fresh new city of komurocho (note I only played yakuza 0 so far) It's really cool that you can just walk into buildings with actual interiors no loading screens this time.We start as yagami, a private detective and an ex-lawer. He has a ex-yakuza member as his parter, so these situations with these two are pretty entertaining. You pretty much have to solve the mystery of why are yakuza getting killed with missing eyes. That's all I'll spoil but this story has plenty of plot twists, engaging drama.... As expected from this studio the story is just as good as yakuza 0.Let me just say that the dub work for the english voices are fantasticly well done, of course for your yakuza purists there are japanese dubs and english subs as well as other language opinions for the subs. Sega really did good here compared to their last effort 12 years ago with dubing yakuza 1 was... Terrible to say the least.So you fight in your typical yakuza brawler action with yagami. You have two styles, a tiger style that is used for single opponents or a crane style for multiple opponents. You can see that yagami isn't a tank, instead his fighting is more controled like an actual martial artist. He has ex actions of course in your typical yakuza fasion, he can also run up walls for cool combos. He also has an ex burst which gives him reduced damage and increase attack. Unfourntly the thing that stucks is these mortal wounds that yagami can get make is heath bar permanently shorter... And the only way you can get it normal again is to go to a clinic or these VERY expensive medical packs.Of course it wouldn't be a yakuzaverse verse game if it didn't had mini games! So there are a bunch of new ones, raging from a VR Mario Party type game were you roll virtual dice in a virtual board to win prizes to drone racing.... Etc.. Just so much to do it's so much fun. Unfourntly no karaoke this time, but it's whatever.There are more game mechanics I havent really mentions such as the detective work, friendships... Etc. But I don't want this review to be overbearing... Plus amazon likes to mess my reviews up, so lets leave it at that.Verdict? 10/10 best yakuzaverse game since yakuza 0... Looks like I'll be wasting another 70 hours on this one too.For those who are unfamiliar, Judgment is a Yakuza series spinoff that could easily be considered the next installment. It builds off of the new engine from Yakuza 6 and Yauza Kiwami 2, adding in an additional fighting stance, and another new iteration of the famous Kamurocho.What makes these games truly great is the combination of humor and drama, with real actors playing the roles of each major character. It might as well be a long-running TV series turned into a game. The variety of gameplay is staggering as always, with everything from old Sega arcade games to a modern beat-em up to racing drones.The presentation this time is on par with the greatest AAA releases from the biggest budget studios, but the developers do it with a lot less funding. They reiterate on the same areas and concepts and gameplay designs to save on development costs. The downside could be that you may be bored of hanging around the same areas in every game, but somehow it works for them. Maybe it's the fact that it's a real city (Kabukichi) in Japan down to the last detail.The developers had perfected their game formula, in most people's minds, with Yakuza 0. That game was using a very old engine, though. With the new engine, the games took a small step back in some ways, but the potential was there to build into something even greater. Finally, in Judgment, we're seeing it begin to return to full glory.The game features variable difficulty, so there's something for you here even if you want to breeze through the combat.Downsides here are few. You may find some aspects tedious, or you may be sick of Kamurocho by now. But ultimately, even if you just play the game for the story, you're getting a good story that's well acted.Excelente juego sobre todo para los que somos fans de la saga yakuza y Enhorabuena por sega que ahora sí le puso subtítulos en español es para que mucha gente más interese por este tipo de juegosA brave attempt by RGG studios to go in a different direction from their mainline Yakuza games, but it's let down by serveral infuriating design choices. The combat is over-complicated and clunky. The bosses have too much health and Yagami takes far too much damage from their attacks. The Keihin gang mechanics ruin any enjoyment gained from exploring and enjoying the open world. The tailing missions and lock picking mini games are boring, tedious, and poorly designed, not to mention most other AAA video games realized that tailing and lock picking mechanics are completely pointless around the end of the PS3 era. Plus, where the heck is the karaoke mini game??In addition to these design issues, the fps is terrible (playing on a standard PS4), the DLC is pointless and overpriced, and the story is lacking compared to just about every other Yakuza game. Plus the lengths they go to in order to distance themselves from the mainline Yakuza games is laughable. I mean come on, all these games take place within about 4 square blocks of Tokyo, and yet there isn't a single character from the previous games that appear in Judgement.Shame, because I actually enjoyed the English dub. Was planning on replaying it a second time with Japanese audio but honestly I don't want to have to deal with this game again. Really hoping this just ends up being a failed experiment rather than a sign of things to come for future Yakuza games.El estudio del Dragon lo volvió a hacer, este spin-off de la franquicia Yakuza es el mejor hasta el momento, la historia increíble, muchas cosas por hacer en todo el barrio de Kamurocho ya que el protagonista al ser un detective se encuentra con todo tipo de casos y actividades secundarias, juegos de casino, carreras de drones, arcadias entre muchas otras actividades y lo mejor de todo es que por primera vez el juego viene subtitulado al español con la posibilidad de seleccionar las voces en ingles o japonés.Lets start off by saying,if you played the previous Yakuza games,you will enjoy thisCombat-Its Dragon engine from the previous two games,Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Yakuza 6..The hits are much more real than compared to the older version,you aren't some unstopable god man Kiryu anymore..Just a random dic trying to not be killedStory-I'm only about chapter 4 so far,as I've been doing nothing but the side missions the entire time,but I'm enjoying the work that I have to do to find clues,ask questions and the cast is fun aswellGameplay-Walk around,punch people,repeatSide Stuff-It seems like there isn't AS much side things to do as the other Yakuza games,this might be do to the fact they wanted to force you more to the main story than anything else..Still have Baseball,the arcades where you can play about 7 games from Puyo Puyo to a House of the Dead style game*based on the Yakuza Dead Souls Games*Graphics-Its pretty as hell,though you can see they are STILL using some of the old animations from the ps2 games,such as standing still,hand waves etcCharacters-The main man,Yagami is a down on his luck detective,who can barely make his rent,but still has time to help a small man child in college to get non-threatening men to help his highschool senpai with big tits earn some money..To taking pictures of your girlfriend..He is of course..No Kiryu,but still a likeable guyEs casi imposible jugarlo en una PS4 Slim, pareciera que el juego corre a 10 fps y es bastante molesto ver que corra con tan poca fluidez y a tirones. Ignorando este grave problema que afecta la experiencia, el juego es muy mediocre, es como un Yakuza al que le quitaron los elementos que lo hacen especial y en su lugar pusieron unas mecánicas muy detectivescas muy aburridas.