Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

Game is kinda meh. It was cool for the first half then it just became boring for me. I was finding it very hard to force myself to finish. And the tournament arena being forced onto you to complete before you can progress the final bits of the campaign really annoyed me. I hated the ship battles as well. RGG has kinda fallen off. I'll stick to main line games. The spins off are just not for me. Majima is still the goat tho.

Its a fun game thats the gist of it all ive seen people say this game ruined the series and that its makes no sense, you know what not supposed to make sense? a video game that takes place in a fantasy world opposite of reality, thats what video games are THEY ARE WORKS OF FICTION just enjoy the video game and have fun, this game has been hella fun its like black flag on acid

Between Windrose dropping and now this game going on sail for $15.. it's been a really good month for Sea Shanties. I definitely miss the more serious, gritty, true-crime Yakuza games back in the day, but it is what it is. The series still hits and its still fun with all the goofiness and family friendly degeneracy. Plus, Yakuza Pirates?! Cant say no to that.

black flag but actually good

如龙系列自从0登陆到steam版就开始追着玩了，此作本来想在PS4上玩的，由于本体8代结局剧情感觉有点烂，拖拉快两年，前阵看到steam版价格不错就入手了。本作以真岛吾朗为主角的一部外传，机制重新回归即时动作了，同屏内敌人数大幅增加，热血动作还能与几个伙伴合击，打起来挺爽的。剧情在初次对战BOSS时，配乐颇有《加勒比海盗》的风格，意外的好听，在系列作很喜欢的《恋爱的迪斯科女王》、《理想的自己》、《24小时的辛德瑞拉》、《AWAKE》、《绝望深渊Pride》歌曲都可以如8代一样随身听了。新曲《吾朗海盗团主题曲》很燃，唱卡拉OK小游戏喜欢点这首歌和辛德瑞拉玩玩。 分支剧情总体还行，最搞笑的是和小虎吾朗聊天那个支线，活生生变成玩galgame的感觉。还有港区女孩联谊的支线，做成游戏建模人物有点丑，把五个角色的支线完成后，可以看到真人演出的小剧场，视频质感不错，几个女角色挺漂亮，像在玩真人影游，里面就认识enako，剧情挺搞怪有趣的。然后这代可以做饭了，是个小游戏玩法，做出来的成品菜可以在战斗中拿来补充体力怒气值、请船员食宴提升士气，挺实用的。 海战系统玩起来一般，内容深度不足，不支持手柄震动，改造强化内容太少，战斗模式单一、过场动画千篇一律，尤其登船决战动画感觉可以直接做成无缝切换到战斗的，UI堆砌，挺拖沓，沉浸感拉低，但可以跳过还行。海域中基本不能避开敌人，遇到敌人就要打胜，逃跑就会士气降低，每次打完敌人，地图还会在同个位置再刷新，有点腻，节奏不爽快。 这代可以招募很多船员，前作大部分NPC角色可以收入麾下，有DLC还可以用桐生、大吾参战，同伴的AI攻击欲望挺强，全屏百人大团战玩起来还是很刺激，有些创新。本作共有五章内容，总体体量比7外传多些，真岛人格魅力属实拉满，还是有以前玩0和极2的感觉，很有如龙的味道。

TL;DR: This is a fun game, with a fun premise, that shoots itself in the foot at every single chance it has. If you don't care for the story of the series and just want dumb fun, it's great. but if you do, this will make you scream. This would've made a very fun movie, or an OK spinoff with new characters, but choosing to use majima for this was a horrendous mistake. This game manages to look worse than assassin's creed rouge but struggles on lower end and midrange hardware, the ocean water is undetailed and bland, the islands while at sea look like reused yakuza 5 assets, the graphics on land have nearly no improvement from YLAD, if they don't look worse. i could run the game at high settings 60 FPS, which would be acceptable if the game looked better than kiwami 2. but it doesn't, it might be technically interesting, but it's styleless. It's like RGG took a look at what made judgement look great and fired all of the designers who worked on it. The story is painfully short (Five chapters, as opposed to 12 or more in every mainline game), it regularly makes jokes out of characters who were taken very seriously in previous games (mostly saejima), and it entirely hinges on the premise that it's a good idea to realize a child's dream of seeing the world by taking them directly to "death island where you get killed and die"™. I understand the pivot to less grounded stories and ones that rely less on an understanding of japan, I understand that the lack of Yakuza in the real world makes it difficult to write stories about them. But this series cut it's teeth on somewhat grounded stories about the clashing dreams and convictions of people who are on the edges of society, with wacky side content that gave it whimsy and character. This isn't that, this is Wacky nonsense all the way through. Ain't nothin' to chew on. there's a couple tearjerker cutscenes, but the payoff is relatively minimal. Honest to gods truth, this series shaped a lot of who i am. It's embarrasing, but it seriously made me understand what i care about in this world and how i want to approach that. I care a LOT about this series and this game is a breaking point for me. It's been stripped down until there was nothing but what appeals to the biggest audience. It hurts to watch the fighters you loved, flawed as they were, become jesters. The characters who taught me to cling to my convictions, To live even in the face of despair, to show mercy to your rivals but still fight like a lion. The only characters who i could relate to enough for those to stick, reduced to funnymen who get their shoes peed on and summon giant monkeys with guitars... it's goofy as ♥♥♥♥, i know. but it means a lot to me. the combat is extremely simplistic and easy, I will concede that the final boss is a great fight, but everything outside of that is a joke. Majima has far less upgrades than any character since ishin!. there are also no weapon upgrade mechanics. you deal truckloads of damage, opponent AI is very simplistic, and most fights can be won with a few hits of X-X-X+Y-Y-Y. Difficulty only changes by making opponents hit harder. Ship combat is similarly stripped down. You cant aim your guns, you can't brace the ship, you can't use mortars (but enemies sure as hell can!), and your steering and dodging is highly dependent on a boost mechanic with very little in the way of variance or upgrades. you sail in a circle until you can get to the back of a ship, disable it's rudder, then pelt it with cannon fire until it sinks. That sound ok to you? Wrong. There are gratuitous amounts of ship street battles and required arena content. You WILL get bored of it. Quick. The brawler combat is fun, but it's fun in the same way blowing up a bunch of nukes in gary's mod is. Big number ouch flashy heat action make brain go good. if you do any amount of the devil flags substory, you will be far too strong to need to strategize. They massacred my boy. They made him into a dressup game with a kid's story attached. Marasu's love journey is AWESOME though, biggest laugh i got in a while.

Yakuza for people who said "You know, this story is too dramatic and complicated for me. I want this game to be like if I took a serious head injury." Decent title and fun. Goro is always fun.

海战系统作为核心做的相当烂，可投入资源的部分不少，最后发现在狂热兰蒂斯一样是三流战力（professional难度下）。 高难度下敌人的往水面撒爆炸桶、反舰导弹之类的东西你一个都没有，你只有两门射击角度并不宽的侧炮（且激光炮明显最优解，其他武器毫无存在必要）和刮痧的机枪，然后敌人是三五成群的围殴你，你却始终只有一条海盗船。 且不论高度重复也没什么特色海战总是重复出现，被诅咒的乐器流程整个就是纯粹的堆数值环节。 海盗游戏里面海战这个环节明明应该花大力气的，做得却是敷衍了事，或者说就是刻意堆高难度，逼你买鸡肋的dlc。

我对玛吉玛的喜欢甚至还在桐生之上，这代真的是满足我希望他是第一主角的愿望了

I am enjoying every bit of it. The game doesn't feel heavy at all. All aspects are light yet keep you engaged. I love the sea combat and pirate elements are nicely included. Definitely a good grab !