Infinite Wealth is a huge improvement from Y7 in a lot of areas, but it's also a downgrade in some others.

Starting with some positives first, the combat in this game is 10 times better than Y7's, I've always loved the combat in 7 but it's only after playing this game I realized how much could still be improved upon. The side content is HUGE, just Dondoko Island alone offers hours and hours of content, but there's a ton more minigames that are all really fun, like Crazy Delivery and Sujimon battles. The music in the game is in my opinion as good as Y7's, every single song is such a banger that I spent nearly an entire month after playing the game almost solely listening to this OST and no other music.

However, this game is lacking in some areas, most notably the story. The story is an absolute snooze by the latter half, some characters with a lot of potential feel barely explored at all (looking at you Wong Tou). To add to that, the substories and side content are given to you so early that if it wasn't for Kiryu's Bucket List, you'd have nothing new to do but the main story. You can be finished with all side content by around chapter 7 on Ichiban's side, leaving you with 4 chapters with nothing but the story which, like I previously mentioned, is not great by (a bit later than) this point, making the latter half of Ichiban's section just a bore. This is avoidable if you still haven't done all of the side content, which is likely, but the same cannot be said about the substories, as there is but a single substory you can unlock only after chapter 7.

Overall, as much as I complained about the story, this game is still a very much worthwhile experience. It's just an extremely rare case where the beginning and middle sections of a Yakuza game exceed the ending one.

Final Rating: 8/10

This probably jumps half a star up if I wasn't playing the vita version. The framerate is pretty rough for the action combat. And I liked the action combat. It's pretty fun! And simple. Also some new content in other versions that I can't comment on too much.

I like premises like this, and in ys it's executed pretty nicely. Just some cliched anime cringe to detract from it. And a mixed bag of the character cast. At least they tried and I did like a handful of characters by the end.

Music is so epicccccccccccc damn

In spite of some frustrating aspects, and some really bad stages, I came to enjoy the interesting take on the strategic gameplay in Valkyria Chronicles. The ability of physical objects or character presences to affect the outcomes of encounters outside of their turns, damn. This makes the game feel less conventionally turn-based and more like a pseudo real-time game. Fascinating stuff... Even though it doesn't always work, I have to respect the commitment to refreshing the situations you find yourself dealing with throughout the story.

Story is no slouch either. I certainly didn't expect the narrative of anime but bootleg world war 2 to be nearly as graceful as this turned out to be. It tackles some subjects you wouldn't expect, and I don't have many issues with the way they were handled, just that some parts didn't seem to go anywhere far. I also liked the main cast of characters, Welkin is such a dork xD Shame most of the side-characters don't get anything for themselves beyond combat traits and battle lines, but those do work out for seeing their nature and how they relate to each other.

The picture book approach to ui elements and visuals in general fit VC like a glove

Where do you even start with this? On any given day it can be a completely different game. It's the sequel to a major part of my childhood and when it first game out it was a dream come true. It was a game that lacked the issues I had with League of Legends done by Valve with Icefrog it was a dream come true.

Over the course of the next decade the game underwent a variety of changes both small and large and while I didn't agree with or love them all it was still an excellent time particularly with friends. Over time it became more difficult to keep up with each change and meta permutation, a match became something I increasingly wished I could step away from in the middle of especially during 90+ minute grinders, the game took itself both more and less seriously and slowly I came to realize it wasn't the game I loved anymore. If you enjoy the moba genre and want to try a game with a long standing legacy and engaging mechanics that will reward skill improvement and knowledge significantly then sure give it a shot but if you've been sucked into the moba genre for years and years where the matches are less fun every day just remember you can stop playing it.

It's a bad game in almost every way, but you will have a lot of fun playing it anyway. It has a lot of weird, off-beat charm. The playable character in particular is incredibly charismatic, which makes it an easy game to like. You'll almost certainly be frustrated whenever you have to play a combat stage - but whenever anyone talks, you're in for a good time.

It's well worth playing, esecially with a friend, just so you have someone you can turn to and laugh with whenever York says something eccentric. And so that you can make them do the combat sections.