Judgment

游戏很好，就是里面太缺钱了

Overall, it's a good game. The only downside is the tailing missions.

너무 재미있게 한 게임. 원래 용과같이 시리즈 액션을 잘 못했는데, 이 게임은 왜캐 재미있지? 무조건 추천

After winning his first major criminal defense trial, Takayuki Yagami's career as a lawyer is abruptly derailed when the defendant is arrested and convicted for brutally murdering his girlfriend mere weeks after his acquittal. Driven by a strong sense of justice, Yagami blames himself for the girl's death and opens up a local detective agency. Years following the career-ending incident, Yagami is hired to investigate the circumstances of a string of serial killings. While initially only motivated to prove the innocence of the defendant, Yagami is about to stumble across a web of conspiracy deep in the heart of Kamurochō. Judgment's narrative is largely about stagnation, and the tribulations one faces to push past it. RGG Studio wrote a compelling detective noir which unfolds across 13 chapters and around 50 side-cases for Yagami and his friends to investigate. The main narrative is the best writing of the game, which introduces itself as a simple murder case and blossoms into a national conspiracy by the end. While one might assume there would be a fair amount of deduction, Judgment focuses on a more cinematic approach to its storytelling, often very explicitly laying out the mystery as it unfolds. While there's little left to the imagination, Judgment is well acted and feels like watching a two-season-long detective series. The nearly 50 side-cases are rather less impressive, with most feeling narratively and mechanically similar to each other. There were a few memorable cases, like the pervert trio; however, I felt they were rarely as interesting or fun to engage in as the main story. Judgment's gameplay is that of a cinematic beat 'em up, where Yagami flexes his own personalized martial arts style, which is somewhat similar to kung fu. As Yagami fights gang members around town, he accumulates skill points which are used to unlock new fighting abilities, as well as a variety of passive benefits. While combat is enjoyable, with a surprising variety of cinematic finishers, it does grow a bit repetitive. Even playing on Legendary, Judgment's overall difficulty is quite low, with the exception of one particular foe. Aside from combat, there are several other gameplay components to Judgment, including a wide variety of mini-games. If one has played recent RGG games, they will find a lot of familiar activities, such as darts, mahjong, poker, and arcades. Most of these activities are the exact same as other RGG Studio games; however, there are a few that were more unique, including drone racing, a rail shooter, and a sort of single-player Mario Party. Among these minigames, I thought the drone racing was entertaining, though I felt that progression was gated by parts rather than skill. I appreciated the rail shooter, though mostly because it's relatively respectful of the player's time. When Yagami is not fighting or playing minigames, he's typically solving cases or going on dates. For the most part, cases feel very mechanically similar, often culminating in either a chase, a fight, or a tailing mission. The chase sequences are basically just QTEs where the player times button presses to avoid obstacles. However, the tailing missions are perhaps one of the least fun gameplay systems I've experienced. Memorably, on one mission I put down the controller and just rested my eyes for over half a minute. The dating system is also pretty rudimentary as far as dating sims go, with affection being mostly tied to a gift system and correct dialogue choices. Overall, Judgment falls into the bucket of good games which I'm not likely to recommend to most. While the main narrative is well written, there's a lot of side content which serves little purpose beyond padding out the gameplay length. I wished the side content were more consistent in its writing quality, or perhaps the deduction mechanics more fleshed out. I'd like to say I resisted spending hours minigames again, but like fire tests iron, temptation tries the righteous.

GOOD

The story would have been really good for a series, but the pacing ruined it. There is so much filler and questionable design decisions that it failed to entertain as a game.