Edited on: September 18, 2025
Posted on: January 11, 2025
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Very entertaining, maybe too repetitive
Yakuza Kiwami is an open(ish)-world brawler, set in a fictional district in Tokyo in the year 2005. The game features an incredible variety of minigames, side quests and more, despite the relatively small size. Outside of the mini-games, however, the main gameplay is a 3D brawler, where you fight enemies in limited arenas (while you can free roam, once an encounter starts you are limited to a small section of the map). The combat gives you a lot of levers to pull, providing great variety early on, although later the enemy AI will push you away from certain skills/strategies (certain enemies can be very annoying, continuously dodging your attacks and forcing you into more reactive gameplay). The combat is actually very fun, it's just that it's also very uneven in the strength of the various abilities (some are almost completely useless, a good chunk are interchangeable with one another, and some turn the game into a cakewalk) and enemies (some barely qualify as cannon fodder, others are a true menace). The other negative aspect of the combat (and actually a good chunk of the side-content as well) is that it's kind of grindy/repetitive. Leveling up isn't necessarily slow, but the good stuff is kept from you for long. The side quests are fairly repetitive, gameplay-wise (if you like their quirky humour, which is a departure from the main storyline, you can have a lot of fun with those anyway). Speaking of the story, I must say it's not the greatest: while it has some solid ideas for the kind of game it is, a lot of elements feel contrived, and some of the pathos feels unwarranted (Yakuza 0, which is the only other game of the series I played so far, has a much better main plot). The story provides several twists and turns, but honestly the gameplay carries the experience. The presentation isn't astonishing, but it's not shabby and the world is very detailed. The music is very appropriate and will get you pumped for the action when necessary. Recommended.
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