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9.5

Yakuza: Like a Dragon makes a naturally beautiful transition from Beat em'up to Turn Based JRPG and of course its drama, over the top action and incredible character interaction, familiar to past games of the series, doesnt miss a single beat. I would say, especially the beginning and end game took me on an emotional roller coaster ride like few video game stories have and also absolutely managed to stick its landing.

The somewhat mid game lull is the only reason I docked half a point but Yakuza mid game lulls are nothing of the sort of how Tales game mid game lulls usually are, so it should be made clear that it isnt anything like that. Like a Dragon personally for me has higher highs than even the series' pinnacle Yakuza 0 but it isnt quite as tightly paced as that game unfortunately because of certain fluff that are there to simply make the game longer (which are present in most JRPGs to be fair). Overall though it is a fantastic package that I recommend to series fan, JRPG fans and people sinply looking for an emotional and engaging story in video game.

Also, Ichiban Kasuga despite his scruffy hobo gangster looks on the exterior has this infectious kindess and compassion to him that makes him my personal breakout main character of the last generation of video games and is the perfect example of dont judge a book by its cover.