Judgment
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From the minutiae of mechanics and the problem-solving flow, up to the grander plot about overambition paving the way to hell – am I the only one who can't escape the thought that this used to be a Shun Akiyama game, that somehow mid-production turned into a detective-lawyer thriller? Nonetheless, it's a Takayuki Yagami game, and it's almost brilliant. Wish it trusted players to figure out large mysteries by themselves and detective activities in general were better fleshed out, but this has to be the finest constructed crime stories in the medium, and the ways side activities turn into personal stories is just neat as usual. You just can rely on RGG to not miss.

Reviewed on Oct 31, 2021

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KB0

2 years ago

one thing ive been thinking about over the past year is that its kind of insane this was RGG studios first proper crack at detective fiction/private investigation? yakuza 1, 2, kenzan, and even just the rest of the series to varying degrees already had their protagonists more or less acting the part of a detective, certainly moreso than the part of a yakuza (given that its famously a series where you're only an actual yakuza for a paltry sum of one to two hours of the franchise, tops), and a PI role conveniently sidesteps the actual moral problems of being a yakuza which RGG studio has for their entire existence seemed entirely unwilling to dissect, even going so far as to destroy the premise entirely with 7. anyways great review, just something that's been on my mind while i wait to play lost judgment