...: Yakuza 3

On the biography of Kiryu Kazuma episode 3.

Genre: Brawler/adventure.

Developer/publisher: Sega.
Platform: PS4.
Official Site: N/A.

Release date: 20-8-2019.

Uh yea I decided to get started on the next entry in the yakuza series and it is an

experience alright, it was step down from 0 and the kiwami's in almost every way

but in terms of Kiryu's character and some parts of the plot its actually pretty decent still.

I do think the last bit of the game just wrecked itself like a train going off the rails.

**I feel like I need some permanent disclaimer that this is just a blog where I ramble

about games I play, a place to write some thoughts on the wall. If you don't like it

then close the tab, you can always play it yourself and form your own opinion.**

Pro's

- Kiryu's character in general.

- The stuff with the orphanage was pretty wholesome.

Con's

- The pacing, mostly in chapter 3/4/10.

- Massive infodump in ch9 of 40+ min in length.👎

- Combat is pretty basic, high encount rate for no reason.

- Substories be quantity over quality more stinkers than goldies.


Kiryu trying to catch a break mission impossible.

Graphics, okay here is where I am fairly chill as this was a PS3 game.

The scene direction is still good but... it can be a bit lacking coming from the kiwami's.

Movement doesn't feel too good either... its kinda janky now but grew on me.

The last scene of the game were poorly remastered or carried over

from the original, mostly everything else was pretty well done.

Like it was not HD at all, I could see the bitrate/jitter which is not good.

Do you love 40 minute+ infodumps? and a random fight for absolutely no reason?

You know its bad when you gotta step away from the game in the first chapter

to assess the situation and change your mindset to continue... but since I was bored

and was in the mood for late night yakuza drama I said sure why not? or more like

I had to set my expectations straight because we be back in ps3 era guys.

Y3 gets a pass(as in it okay) from me if you're here to see more of Kiryu's life, his character positively

improved in this game and to me he's no longer this deadpan grunt I thought he was in Y0.

As a game it has its fair share of faults and I could see some people dropping it esp in ch4. If you

can power through that it shouldn't be too bad, the game is about the same length as yakuza 1 or 2.

I think if they ever remake this game they should do away with the stupid golf minigame

or remake it so that its no longer clunky and its just some QTE stuff at that part in the story

while also fixing the cabaret stuff because hooboy its complicated here.

More ramblings after the jump, I try to be mostly spoiler free but I had to vent

so if you want to play this game and want no spoilers at all do not read further.

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