While I thought Judgment was a flawed but fun game, its sequel fixes most of its problems.
The gameplay here is possibly my favorite out of all RGG games. All 3 styles (not including the boxing style because I don't own it) are amazing and unlike the original judgment, crane is actually good, it's probably my favorite here. Juggling is so fun. The extracts are fun to play with. It's just perfect imo.
The detective mechanics are not so good tbh. While the returning mechanics like tailing are slightly better here, they're still not the greatest thing ever. The main problem comes with the 2 new ones. Stealth and Parkour. They're bad. Moreso stealth tbh it's so handholdy and it's so stupid that Yagami somehow can't hit these random grunts. Once you're caught it's immediately game over. I think I'd genuinely prefer if these were scrapped for the next game, or at least completely revamp them.
The school stories are great. I spent a lot of time in them. They're well written and most of the minigames are fun. It's obvious that the bottom 5 stories are weaker than the top 5 but still they're not bad at all. My favorites were the Dance Club and Boxing Gym.
The OST here is great. The street battles themes here are way better than Judgment imo. A lot of memorable tracks. Unwavering Belief. Very strong OST, one of the best in the series.
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The story here starts off strong. I really enjoyed the way this game tackled bullying. It continues to be quite interesting until a certain event. It just lost me after that. Every conversation between Yagami and Kuwana just became basically Kuwana explaining how the law doesn't grant everyone justice and that some people aren't punished for their crimes and then Yagami goes: "but what about Sawa-sensei?" Obviously the way Kuwana grants people justice isn't good. He blackmails the bullies and torments them and he's a killer, but I want Yagami to have a more powerful counter-argument than "but Sawa-sensei died because of you". Kuwana is very well-written. Probably one of my favorite RGG villians, but I think Yagami doesn't really do him justice. He acts as if Soma wasn't the one who killed Yoko Sawa.
Even with the flaws in the story, I do think Lost Judgment has basically perfect combat, so of course I liked it. If certain parts were written better it would definitely be my favorite in the series. It's still top 5 though.
The gameplay here is possibly my favorite out of all RGG games. All 3 styles (not including the boxing style because I don't own it) are amazing and unlike the original judgment, crane is actually good, it's probably my favorite here. Juggling is so fun. The extracts are fun to play with. It's just perfect imo.
The detective mechanics are not so good tbh. While the returning mechanics like tailing are slightly better here, they're still not the greatest thing ever. The main problem comes with the 2 new ones. Stealth and Parkour. They're bad. Moreso stealth tbh it's so handholdy and it's so stupid that Yagami somehow can't hit these random grunts. Once you're caught it's immediately game over. I think I'd genuinely prefer if these were scrapped for the next game, or at least completely revamp them.
The school stories are great. I spent a lot of time in them. They're well written and most of the minigames are fun. It's obvious that the bottom 5 stories are weaker than the top 5 but still they're not bad at all. My favorites were the Dance Club and Boxing Gym.
The OST here is great. The street battles themes here are way better than Judgment imo. A lot of memorable tracks. Unwavering Belief. Very strong OST, one of the best in the series.
SPOILER WARNING
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The story here starts off strong. I really enjoyed the way this game tackled bullying. It continues to be quite interesting until a certain event. It just lost me after that. Every conversation between Yagami and Kuwana just became basically Kuwana explaining how the law doesn't grant everyone justice and that some people aren't punished for their crimes and then Yagami goes: "but what about Sawa-sensei?" Obviously the way Kuwana grants people justice isn't good. He blackmails the bullies and torments them and he's a killer, but I want Yagami to have a more powerful counter-argument than "but Sawa-sensei died because of you". Kuwana is very well-written. Probably one of my favorite RGG villians, but I think Yagami doesn't really do him justice. He acts as if Soma wasn't the one who killed Yoko Sawa.
Even with the flaws in the story, I do think Lost Judgment has basically perfect combat, so of course I liked it. If certain parts were written better it would definitely be my favorite in the series. It's still top 5 though.