Posted on: October 14, 2023
wilkan
Verified ownerGames: 509 Reviews: 157
Plot Nonsense, Bad Game Design, No Buy
NEVER RECOMMENDED. DO NOT BUY THIS. Even the cutscenes are bad. Majima-chan and Daigo are complete OoC wusses in this one and do nothing. So many things wrong. Plot is mishmash trash with a long list of major plot holes. Possibly the worst game in the series. It is easier to say what is good in this game: they MOSTLY fixed the terrible perma-blocking AI of Y3 and the karaoke is has better stuff such as Machine Gun Kiss. In short, small fixes and breaking previously not broken things. Zero plot pay-off plot. It sucks. Activity segments that fall flat: Fighter Maker (watch CPU fail and waste your time), Hostess Maker (long and dull), Hostess Club (so tedious), Allies (useless). Tanimura's Police Scanner is fun. A lot like Majima Everywhere System except you do the chasing. Bad main story segments: boat chase - it is glitched and does not work. Again RGG put a minimum effort to porting the chase sequences. This is the worst sequence so far and alone bad enough to take 2 points from the game rating. It is so bad the garbage jail break sequence is much easier. Akiyama is a terrible, detached char. Saejima under-used. If you play the game, you will notice how false the things the characters say feel and how hastily-cobbled-together everything is plot-wise. Plot hole list: 1) Dojima-supplied guns containing police's top-secret tech i.e. rubber bullets, 2) the police supposedly having set up a hit even though the police got introduced to the conspirators AFTER it was already done, 3) Yasuko's unexplained hitman skills, 4) Hamazaki's bullet wounds suddenly re-opening for no reason, 5) the whole crime-as-police-controlled thing and the big stacks of money needed for it for not explained reasons, 6) people trusting Arai even though he's a serial side-changer, 7) various plot points involving Katsuragi and Munakata that go nowhere, 8) the Kamuro Hills site that was cleared out in Y3 is back to its Y2 half-constructed state and 9) stacked banknotes do not stop bullets.
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