Yakuza: Like A Dragon Review 

Legit, it’s amazing the extent they went through to make the dub/localization as good as it is. They brought in a stellar cast of voice actors who all do at bare minimum a pretty decent job and the across the board lip syncing is something to be applauded. So I wouldn’t fault anyone at all if they find the dub to be their cup of tea. I will be playing through it twice. First time like the old Yakuza games, in Japanese. Second time in English.

I love the dub...ive heard horrible dubs in anime and games and this aint one. Its not for everyone but its definitely not bad. Ill play it again in subs after my first playthrough!

They're dubbing it because the majority of people buying the game are English speaking so of course they're going to do it well it's not like they've done us a favour they've done themselves a favour by making it more marketable

@@robbieg9685 Majority of the people who buy this are Japanese people Although I'm glad they're finally dubbing this series

Weeb

@@stephenmandel3469 or maybe every Yakuza game for the past 15 years has been in Japanese, and some people don't want to suddenly switch to a weird-sounding dub

Final Fantasy XIII also changed the lip animations to fit the English voices. In 2010. But still, I fully respect this stuff. Also, while I am glad they have English voices in addition to the Japanese ones, I will keep playing my Yakuza games like I have been for at least 10 years. I don't think it really suits... Very much looking forward to Like A Dragon, by the way. Ordered the game on PlayStation 4 as well as Xbox Series X.

Steam doesnt have JP subtitles, at least now they're not confirmed in store . Which is a shame, I am having great time in Kiwami with JP voice+ JP subtitles. I don't know Japanese very well though , I've passed noryoku shiken N4 level ,but failed on N3

It's an option for both. ANN did an interview with the localization director. He said Judgment was a trial run with roughly 30% of past Yakuza players trying the dub (which was really impressive overall), and roughly 60% of non-Yakuza players trying the dub first. The option is there, but they always have the choice to switch the language from the title screen or replay key scenes in the other language. The main series is perfect in sub. I'm just glad more gamers are learning about the Yakuza series in general. Zero is still a masterpiece of storytelling and characterization.

this one seems pretty chill tho, but so was adachi early on

Didn’t see that coming

Man I really thought I was the only one who notices this. BTW I'm suspicious he's trouble 😂

Hmmmm... I wonder....

P4G is the stuff

COUGH COUGH COUGH!!!!ignCOUGH COUGH!!!

Ign

they kept bringing in the dude who is obviously not into yakuza to review it lmao.

@@sinistrality7883 emotional intelligence isn’t really IGN’s strong suite

@@noticemesenpai69 intelligence period isnt igns strong suite

Same here, LETS GOOOO!

Big Facts

Same. Also this review surprised me. Game looks great, but IGN gave it a 7, and Gamespot gave it a 9. I thought Gamespot is generally more critical. Anyone else seen something like this before?

@@unknown123455 seems like the reviewer for gamespot is someone who actually plays games like these.

@@robhiro True. Looks that way. I'm still working my way through Yakuza 3 and Judgement, but loved 0 and the two Kiwami remakes. Looking forward to trying Like a Dragon as a change of pace before I jump back in.

Yup Gamespot is literally real gamers

Nah bro, they called super mario bros wii "a tough game", and donkey kong country tropical freeze "one of the least exciting platformers I've played in some time"

@@ALIMALI-gb6gl if they said it that way then it's correct, gamespot is GOD, they're never wrong

Remember Ghost of Tsushima and Miles Morales ?? IGN gave a 9 and GameSpot gave a 7 and left so many ppl pissed. I follow both and if any one of them says it's good I buy it, simple !

@@ALIMALI-gb6gl honestly it depends on the reviewer. gamespot has shitty reviewers, and some good ones, so does IGN.

I agree. They mixed some of the best parts of Kiryu with some of the best parts of Majima.

Tak's somewhere in between the two. He can and does take on many people by himself, but he's nowhere near the powerhouse Kazuma is and doesn't object to fighting with others.

@@thesenate9562 Absolutely, and in making him a person that inspires and relies on others he is just immensely more likeable

I always wondering why i like Kiryu and Ichiban. I mean, they're Yakuza, bad guys, criminal, but yeah they're kind hearted. And i love Ichiban's hair

@@TebakGambarAI Funny part is that they're not actually Yakuza, both were abandoned by their clans

I'm guessing you beat the game by now. How did you like it?🤔🙂

Same length of time it took me when I did the mini game lol the sun went down when I completed it and lost track of time lol

@peter nguyen I liked it quite a bit. Theres a bit of grinding however. The story is really nice.

@peter nguyen buy it, it’s an instant classic. And I don’t say that about a lot of games

Definitely buy it. Also get the other yakuza games. They're all 10/10 games

And they seriously rated Watch Dogs Legion higher 😂

wtf... I don't follow IGN reviews. I checked it and it was a FUCKING 7.

Don't know about "honest score" just because you feel good. But it was a beautifully written review.

agreed, did the same thing!

@@RafaelLoki after they gave Fortnite a 10, IGN reviews mean nothing to me.

He liked the game that I like, therefore he is better durrrrrrrrrr

That part freaked me out in Kiwami 2. Glad Kiryu destroyed that place. Hell, the grunts were thanking him afterwards, since they didn't have to listen to their boss anymore.

Thank God it was not bakamitai

Get that man a diaper!!!

Waah! Waah!

Yep that’s about right

No I'm just figuring out whether to buy it now or wait for sale

Only the previous games and Judgment. Yakuza 7 isn't worth the price.

@@TheREALHugo4 Judgment have one of the best Yakuza Series script.

@@Viiniciws Truly, i really enjoyed the story.

@@TheREALHugo4 yakuza 7 is good is just that you don't like turn based combat

@@poketcircuitfighter8288 Persona 5 Royal was good in that category but not Yakuza.

Please don’t remind me of IGN mate 🤦🏻‍♂️ and besides that Thanks for the overall scores

IGN's reviewer is a noob

I have to say I'm quite surprised with the scores. I thought it was going to hit the 7 range on average

Yakuza: Like A Dragon, because is inspired by Dragon Quest, you get it? hahaha Dragon.... the 9 deserves it imo

Why, so PC nerds can pirate it? They don’t buy $60 single player only games. It would have to be on game pass.

@@blastofo well, I've pre-ordered every single one of Yakuza games on Steam ( Y0, K1, K2, and Y LAD) . Don't summarize all PC players are the same. And most importantly if the sales for this game will be bad we wouldn't see anymore games on Steam, MS etc.

There all in games pass for pc now

@@blastofo This isn’t 2011 bro

@@megamanx1291 You’re right, I havent kept up with the state of PC gaming. It seems publishers are doing a lot more to fight piracy now. I tried to find a torrent for the new single player only PC game Kena, but it requires the publishers own specific launcher to play it. So I bought it.

this game has awesome chapter 1 last game i enjoyed that much in the beginning was gtav

All the yakuza’s on the gamepass! After like a dragon I reccomend jumping to 0

Yakuza 3, 5, 0, and Kiwami 2 and Judge Eyes isn't clunky at the slightest. The series didn't need to go to turn based at all

@@Dogking71 yakuza 3 had the worst fighting out of all the games no matter what you did the enemy would block like every attack. I just played every single yakuza game during the summer

@@EleCticCOokie Yakuza 6 had the worst combat of any of them. The move list was small, attacks were repetitive and enemies had very little variations and everything felt slow and sluggish. Plus the physics made you trip on everything stopping your momentum dead.

@@Dogking71 let me phrase what i first said differently the fighting in the yakuza games are inconsistent. Sometimes theyre fine and sometimes it doesnt feel great. Im happy with turn bases combat because it guarantees it will be a certain style

@@Dogking71 its judgement

Its hella good! To many people hating on it...hell i love the original subs to but these guys went above and beyond for this game! Lot of my favorite VAs are in it which makes it all the more pleasing to my ears haha.

@@randallmart92 to me its okay although i dont like how they didnt bring back mark hamil as goro majima

@Trophy Gamer nope

It's a review not an analysis

@@Ravenscannotfly But what's the point of reviewing if you're not trying to understand everything the game devs tried to deliver? Especially for someone who made money from reviewing them?

@@minhvo8009 yes in an analysis. But its a review not a review+analysis Reviews are literally there for the reviewer to say whether they like a game or not

Not a single game no matter how much i like them if they are turn based i simply can't stand them.

Seems like you people don't have patiance or don't like using tactics.

but Persona 5 tho

@@CrimRui it's not about patience, it's about the point of the gameplay... When I sneak around in shadows in stealth games I can wait around forever, but turn-based combat... Just not feeling it. I like feeling the impact, I like to control the action, you know... WIth your own hands! I mean... It's like managing a football team and enjoying their fictories, rather than kicking a ball by yourself.

I guess they felt the story could be better with the team fighting

Do it! Become a Hero! Lol jk but yea buy this game! You wont be disappointed!

Have you played it yet?

Play 3, 4 and 5 dude

He is alive they had this old gameplay where kiryu was a secret undercover body guard in yakuza 7 and we play as him a little bit

He is still in the game tho

let the damn man rest

C'mon man he has been the character since 7 games I like kiryu a lot but tbh I am glad that they are bringing a new character for a fresh change..

@@Zeddddy Even through I do prefer the beat em up combat more but it's nice to have a combat change after 7 games of continuous beat em up .

Also Persona series

Correct. Especially with Shenmue. "I See". But with yakuza, have to go with Japanese.

@@cityraintunes Because Yakuza Japanese voice was too good

Have you heard? They announced the series would remain a jrpg! I’m 180 hours in & loving it

Forever am Grateful

Epic

At the 11.15 qq

Thanks

@@digitalpirate2183 it's not a spin-off but okay...

FF7R, 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim, Demon's Souls and many many others

SEGA didn't pay for IGN that's why

@@leontartovsky8949 I'll doublecheck those reviews. And I'm going to be playing FF7Reamke and 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim when I get the chance. Thanks.

@@Sick_Pencil True. SEGA lets games speak for themselves. It's exactly why series like Sonic, Yakuza, Nights, and Super Monkey Ball can still get sequels years and years later. Because the fans keep the series alive.

I mean 7 isn't that bad,it should be 8 but i respect every review,i almost gave this game a 7 if the ng+ premium adventure aren't free but thank god is free

@Cal Devans The Cadre exactly, I clocked in 90 hours, and I didn’t attempt to complete the true final millennium tower lol I got enough of what I wanted out the game and already seen the end of the main story

Eh well don't fix it if isn't broken though.

@Fully Dead The second wave of pre-orders I went to my local EB Games 7 hours before they opened and just hung out playing my PlayStation Vita. Others didn't start lining up until 2 hours later. There was a line up closer to 60 people and when they opened the worker came out and explained that they were waiting for a call from head office of how many PlayStation 5 pre-orders they were getting and 5 minutes later I said to the first few people what is the chance of them getting that call before Toronto or any other big city and I think one guy overheard that and seeing he was in the middle of the line he decided to leave likely thinking that there wouldn't be enough consoles. Well about 5 minutes after that the worker came out and counted everyone in line and said if they counted correctly everyone in line will get a pre-order. After getting my pre-order and going home I seen that the guy that left the line was in a four vehicle accident and he was talking to a police officer on the sidewalk. So he went from waiting in the line for about 3 hours and missing out on his PlayStation 5 into getting into an accident.

You need to play yakuza 4 and 5 Yakuza 0 is the best but 4 and 5 are eighth behind yakuza 0 in quality Excluding Kiwami 2 that game was good a lot better than kiwami 1

@@Man_in_a_Gucci_Suit i’ll play em next year. i do wanna see all of kiryu’s story ;)

WHICH KILLS THE SPIRIT OF YAKUZA! This game should be named CLOWNKUZA, Kamurocho's best comedian and entertainer.

@@awakenedsoul2638 hahaha, yeah the game can be very funny. But to my suprise the story is also one of the most emotional for me. It was so good man. Especially the last chapter just had me in tears it was amazing.

@@minisnee So this is drama comedy. SEGA GIVE US BACK THE REAL YAKUZA! Make this onea spin-off and continue the story of Kazuma!

@@awakenedsoul2638 tbh i like ichi even more then kazuma😅

@@minisnee That is you. The rest of these people who likes RPG does not care as long as they play an RPG.

There is a lot of voice acting but also non-dialogue text parts.

Thats the Japanese for ya

Technically yakuza has never been realistic and this doesn't have more fantasy than the other games

@Jo Ka Here in Spain it was published far into the fall of 2006. Worth the wait tho. Amazing game.

Didn't like the combat either, fairly repetitive and lacked depth. Also some moves in the game are so O.P. lol

btw, I meant not ONLY refreshing to the genre, some people liked my comment when it looked like I was criticizing the game's JRPG freshness :P

@@arsnakehert you two have no idea what a yakuza game is. please, for the love of god, stick to the games that you could understand,

@@saeidnikbakht3886 calm down the yakuza games are about the story not the combat

@@poketcircuitfighter8288 it's both about story and combat son, you have no idea how people were mad for the changes in the combat. eventhough i was one of them, but i cant stop myself to play another yakuza game, even if the combat is not what the series is known for

You can still choose a Japanese voice actor. They don't force you to have dubbed on. This was shown in one of the trailers. And I'm glad they added English dub. Nothing wrong with extra options.

If you play it a 4K with raytracing it probably will run at a solid 30 which isn’t a big deal since this game is going to be turn based any ways but If you turn off raytracing you will get up to 60-120 fps

@@ryancadek there's no raytracing for this game

@@bluevolt2014 I didn’t know that but it still looks pretty good

You should play Fist of the north Star and Judgment, both games in English are freaking outrageous

Who’s gonna tell him...

Cyberpunk was delayed again homie

@Fully Dead It was supposed to get released in November when the guy up top first commented you dumb 12 year old nazii wannabe

Sorry but no

No. Start with yakuza 0 then kiwami 1 and 2 then forget about the series.

Yes it is

*DAME DA NE DAME YO DAME NANO YO*

There are summons of previous characters including Kiryu and Majima. Search a Summons video compilation when the game releases to see if they got English dubs for their lines. Probably not though.

Also i got some interesting info,frank wood VA,sonic VA and solid snake VA are in this game

@@adistefano_ His PS2 actor came back to voice him in this game

@@adistefano_ I’m talking about the English dub, the Japanese dub uses the same actor as ever

Yes, you dont need to know a whole lot other than who Majima and Kiryu are and even then its only a little bit to know. Its easy to get into and can help bridge you into the Yakuza series as a whole. I highly recommend it

YES

Couldn't believe you had to apply literal Pokemon logic in that fight.

@Foaad Hisham Thanks Mate ☺️✌🏼 I wish if they comes out earlier, because i’m kinda worried about AC Valhalla after watching several gameplay’s (The so called Work In Progress)

@@TLOUDay For how bad Watch Dogs Legion is optimized for PS4 and Xbox One I'd definitely wait for AC Valhalla

@@stefanhatcher6486 As if you are in my mind ✌🏼☺️

Review? Dunno, maybe november 8th or 9th, release date is november 10th

@@ekopermana7150 Hope so mate