Yakuza 0

ENJOYABLE GAME

makes me wajnna love thge series

5/5

When I bought the Yakuza Collection, I was really hoping to relive what I had felt the first time playing this on Xbox. What I found here is that, while the game runs smoothly, it will randomly (but frequently) crash, which makes anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour's worth of progress lost. I've dialed down settings and brought an FPS counter on the screen to detect drops in frames, to no avail. I have no idea whats going on, but playing darts or going to the disco is less fun when the game crashes. It's making the 100% run much more difficult as well, due to the amount of time it takes to run through cutscenes, replaying specific long sections of the game, etc. Other than the incredible amounts of crashing, the game is phenomenal, and I highly recommend it.

NOT RECOMMENDED. It looks good, though is a drag to play. The fighting system makes you feel like you are on rails (read: more like on fails) with control directions that change with the wildly spinning camera, the main storyline is super short (multiple speedruns under 4 hours) and the side activities are painfully difficult for wrong reasons ON PURPOSE. The only good part about this game is Goro Majima's character, mostly outside the main plot where he is boringly serious. Do not get this game. It has the same problems as the old Shenmue games - lots of activities that are not fun. Boring, difficult, usually BOTH. Fighting gets old fast. There is really nothing to do in the static city than to fight thugs and Mr. Shakedown the primary source of money. No replay value. Flat content. I get the feeling the unofficial subtitle of the game is "A Game about Yakuza Crime Is Not Supposed to Be Fun." Maybe they do not want soft Western gamers to sign up for Yakuza. The game has two types of content: super easy main story content, somewhat easy substory content and mortally difficult minigame content at parts. The minigames look visual, though are actually purely about timing and extremely punitively so. There are ideal timing indication outside the super easy bowling one. Minigames are the reason do not want to 100 % this game, because it will make you its 100 % female dog in the process. I did do the 100 % activities thing - holy cheese it was painful. I spent a MONTH on it, a game you can rush through in a couple of hours. Learn from the mast... Baka Mitai. If you want the best part, the music. Look up the soundtrack. Koi wa Disco Queen and Heartbreak Mermaid are nice ones and the Goro Majima ones 24-Hour Cinderella and Baka Mitai are no less than memes. A PC Port without Mouse Aim: Chapter 13 has a light gun shooter style sequence with zero mouse support 3 Second Defenseless Penalty From Missing a Grab or Hitting Anything with a Bat = Kiryu Becomes Kill You