There's a full review up on the site based on the Japanese release here, but I can't see any first play threads for it bar the demo? ANYWAY, it's finally here - in English, no less.
Having come to this straight off the back of 3/4/Dead Souls, a lot of the improvements were very obvious to me; a new engine, new menus, smoother transitions into fights, and so on. Given it's now a three year old game it's still a little dated, but were you ever really playing for the technical achievement?
It still takes the approach from 4 of having a range of characters to play as, but on top of the usual subquests for each there's also whole other side stories, with main and sub missions within. You actually start off as Kiryu this time round, and his taxi driving ventures are so fleshed out and such competent segments of game that it almost feels bad to label them in with the usual 'tonnes of mini-games' praise. There's still plenty of that too though!
I'm now about 40 hours in, and onto part 4. The story is, in usual fashion, great - full of surprises, intrigue and crazy feats of machismo. I really can't think of any other game that's hooked me quite as much as this in recent memory, and right now it's in a very good spot for being my favourite thing played all year long.
Who else is in?
Having come to this straight off the back of 3/4/Dead Souls, a lot of the improvements were very obvious to me; a new engine, new menus, smoother transitions into fights, and so on. Given it's now a three year old game it's still a little dated, but were you ever really playing for the technical achievement?
It still takes the approach from 4 of having a range of characters to play as, but on top of the usual subquests for each there's also whole other side stories, with main and sub missions within. You actually start off as Kiryu this time round, and his taxi driving ventures are so fleshed out and such competent segments of game that it almost feels bad to label them in with the usual 'tonnes of mini-games' praise. There's still plenty of that too though!
I'm now about 40 hours in, and onto part 4. The story is, in usual fashion, great - full of surprises, intrigue and crazy feats of machismo. I really can't think of any other game that's hooked me quite as much as this in recent memory, and right now it's in a very good spot for being my favourite thing played all year long.
Who else is in?
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