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This was my first Yakuza game, and it completely hooked me into the series. I'm glad I was recommended this because I think I found one of my favorite series outside of Persona and Danganronpa.
To start off, I'll talk about the story. This was the main reason I kept playing. It has one of the most realistic and engaging stories I've seen in a while. It feels so genuine, maybe helped by the fact that there's no supernatural elements (unless you count Ichiban's schizophrenia, lol). Its characters are definitely its strong-suit. I think in the beginning, it was very slow, which is why it took me a bit to finish this, but once it picked up, it picked up. I can't compare it to any other Yakuza games yet, but I assume that's how it usually is.
Story: 9.5/10
Next is my second favorite part about this game: the music. I don't see it discussed a lot, but this is some of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while. It completely pumps you up during fights and 100% adds to the tone of the story.
Music: 11/10
Next is the gameplay, which is iffy for me. I love turn-based combat, but there's a lot about this one that is off to me. Not only are the moves terribly balanced (Joon-gi Han's head trauma, god) but pretty much 75% of the moves on each character are useless. Idk what was going on in Sega there, but yeah. I also hate how the auto mode doesn't fast-forward, because god are the animations long as hell. I kind of dreaded running into Sujimon... As for the boss fights, I had a hard time with a lot of them, but that was what made theme exciting for me. I absolutely LOVED the challenge of the boss fights. It always felt good to defeat them. For the RPG aspects of the gameplay, it felt like there was too much for you to do. Not only were the side quests like, way too much, but there were TONS of things you could do and it just felt overwhelming. I decided to ignore most of them and focus on the story. If I didn't. I probably wouldn't have finished this game.
Gameplay: 7/10
For the voice acting, I played the dub. I think the dub voice actors did an amazing job, as much as it's criticized. Kiryu and Majima's voices were... odd choices, though. I love Robbie Daymond, so of course I loved Zhao's preformance, but I also adored Joon-gi Han and Ichiban's. I love how Joon-gi Han actually has a Korean accent, and how low and chill it is. when I listened to his Japanese voice, I felt it didn't fit his sort of melancholy tone to his character. Ichiban was just perfect. He perfectly captures the goofy but also rough-tone of his character. Props to these dub voice actors; you do better than most English dubs.
Voice acting: 9/10
Overall, I fucking loved this game, and it'll probably go down as my favorite ever. Thanks for teaching me capitalism and family, Yakuza 7.
To start off, I'll talk about the story. This was the main reason I kept playing. It has one of the most realistic and engaging stories I've seen in a while. It feels so genuine, maybe helped by the fact that there's no supernatural elements (unless you count Ichiban's schizophrenia, lol). Its characters are definitely its strong-suit. I think in the beginning, it was very slow, which is why it took me a bit to finish this, but once it picked up, it picked up. I can't compare it to any other Yakuza games yet, but I assume that's how it usually is.
Story: 9.5/10
Next is my second favorite part about this game: the music. I don't see it discussed a lot, but this is some of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while. It completely pumps you up during fights and 100% adds to the tone of the story.
Music: 11/10
Next is the gameplay, which is iffy for me. I love turn-based combat, but there's a lot about this one that is off to me. Not only are the moves terribly balanced (Joon-gi Han's head trauma, god) but pretty much 75% of the moves on each character are useless. Idk what was going on in Sega there, but yeah. I also hate how the auto mode doesn't fast-forward, because god are the animations long as hell. I kind of dreaded running into Sujimon... As for the boss fights, I had a hard time with a lot of them, but that was what made theme exciting for me. I absolutely LOVED the challenge of the boss fights. It always felt good to defeat them. For the RPG aspects of the gameplay, it felt like there was too much for you to do. Not only were the side quests like, way too much, but there were TONS of things you could do and it just felt overwhelming. I decided to ignore most of them and focus on the story. If I didn't. I probably wouldn't have finished this game.
Gameplay: 7/10
For the voice acting, I played the dub. I think the dub voice actors did an amazing job, as much as it's criticized. Kiryu and Majima's voices were... odd choices, though. I love Robbie Daymond, so of course I loved Zhao's preformance, but I also adored Joon-gi Han and Ichiban's. I love how Joon-gi Han actually has a Korean accent, and how low and chill it is. when I listened to his Japanese voice, I felt it didn't fit his sort of melancholy tone to his character. Ichiban was just perfect. He perfectly captures the goofy but also rough-tone of his character. Props to these dub voice actors; you do better than most English dubs.
Voice acting: 9/10
Overall, I fucking loved this game, and it'll probably go down as my favorite ever. Thanks for teaching me capitalism and family, Yakuza 7.