Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

Another amazing Yakuza game. The whole setting and premise is superbly executed with a story as engaging as any other mainline Yakuza game, with some deeper toughts to chew on. The combat feels thrilling as does Yakuza 0 And ofc before you realise it, spending an hour playing a random mini game in the silliest setting imaginable Highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the thirlls of a grand adventure

I get into a ship battle while on the high seas. I fire bring pink lasers at the other ship, before activating my ship's jet boosters to drift around and fire my other set of bright pink lasers. I then board the enemy ship and battle their entire crew, calling upon the support of my surrogate son, his pet tiger cub, and a random girl that I met on the beach. Incredible game, no notes.

除了老是闪退其他都很对我胃口

属于粉丝向的作品，地图和风格延续8代正传，但除了地图外和8代没啥关系，只有结尾有少许联动。算是真岛吾郎的海战，主线剧情只有5章，很短，大概10小时左右可通，全部围绕一个海上宝藏展开；支线港区女孩稍微有意思一些，也比较长，就是看几个比较有趣的真人短篇；海战的话一开始很新颖，后续也就那样，因为太过单一和重复，有些宝藏跑海路都挺远的，支线全通的话需要耗时很多；作为粉丝特别是真岛的还是可入，打斗系统可圈可点，未来估计也就是吾郎和桐生一马俩是即时战斗了，还是期待9代春日为主角的正传

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Recommending it on the premise of it being on sale only. I wasn't going for 100% or anything, but I did the main story + major sidequests in 25.7 hours and a significant portion of that was kinda just faffing about without aim. It's a fun story, it's a little unhinged (as all Majima content should be), but it just felt small and incredibly repetitive in combat.

I love Majima. I want to be him when I am 60 years old.

so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mid

Is RGG washed? Gameplay is bootleg musou, ship combat is stiff and boring and ship traversal is so slow and cumbersome they put streets of boost rings over the world map. The lighting also has you squinting the entire game, either because everything is bright as ♥♥♥♥ or shadows are so dark you can't see ♥♥♥♥. First real RGG shovelware

good