Yakuza: Like a Dragon

I heard this gets good later, but I am roughly over 1 hour into the "game" and this is just walking between cutscenes and online comments suggest this will keep on going for the next chapter(s). Maybe if you get invested in the story and sit through this it will be great at some point, but it seems there is 0 agency and actual playing in this RPG for the first couple of hours.

8/10 – Amazing story, lovable characters, and fun turn-based combat. Good: - Good story from start to finish - Fantastic main character - Great cast and lots of personality - Tons of side activities and minigames - Great soundtrack - Lots of content - Job system lets you try different builds Bad: - Grinding is needed before some bosses - Dungeons get repetitive - Strange difficulty spikes - Enemy variety could be better - Jobs are not balanced at all - Tooooo many cutscenes

용과 같이 시리즈를 이전에 플레이 하지 않았지만 게임을 즐기는 데 지장이 없었습니다. 주인공과 동료들에 대한 스토리 및 컷씬 연출이 아주 좋아서 게임에 깊게 몰입할 수 있었습니다. 메인 스토리의 중반 부분 이후부터 일부 구간마다 적들이 많이 강해지는데, 이 때마다 특정 레벨을 달성하거나 적합한 장비를 갖추지 않으면 적들을 처치할 수 없어 메인 스토리 진행을 할 수 없습니다. 즉, 일부 구간마다 주인공 및 동료 레벨링이나 아이템 파밍 노가다가 강제됩니다.

2026.5.21 主线强制刷级是真折磨啊，时长这么长是因为刷级刷睡着了😂打不过桐生也懒得刷了。基本上还是jrpg那一套，剧情也比较热血漫，中规中矩吧，只能说量大管饱。

Super amazing game. I could have played longer but I wanted to move on to something else so I rushed the last bit and didn't finish everything but did do the main quest. Amazing.

Golden experience

Every aspect of this game is cringeworthy. The story, the dialogue, the characters, and especially the main characters, who has to be one of the most unlikeable main characters in the genre. At least the game does not take itself seriously, but it ends up looking like the kind of self-deprecating humor that you use as a self-defense mechanism when you know you are embarrassing yourself. I actually find the turn-based combat to be a great idea and improvement, but it is poorly implemented, making the fights seem shallow and repetitive. This game certainly won't help turn-based combat rise from its ashes, unfortunately. The game is not absolutely terrible and I wish I could say something positive about it, but now matter how much I rack my brain, I can't find any specific aspect to praise.

shouldve never changed from being a brawler. this is as much of a yakuza game as assassins creed origins is an actual ac game

中评吧，剧情的镜头设计的不错，战斗后面打boss太墨迹了，就是慢慢磨血，打法上几乎千篇一律毫无乐趣，后期真的是在搬砖玩游戏，边听直播边玩了

This was my first entry for Yakuza series. Simply because this is turn based game. And I'm not regretting every moment of it. Great Story !! 10/10, you will be shocked and hooked even in the early time you play this game Good Graphics Good turn-based classed JRPG system So many minigames and Sidequest but I dont really finished all. I'm just here for the story. And it got me hooked to all previous yakuza series now.