Dance club, for example, isn’t just a rhythm game (replacing the karaoke of old) but has unlockable moves to equip and drop at tactical moments to squeeze higher scores from each track.
Even by Yakuza standards these minigames are hugely involved. So it is Yagami finds himself playing a QTE-heavy Tony Hawk’s clone to impress skatepark slackers, or mastering the robotics club’s hybrid of Robot Wars and Tetris where you race to place blocks on a grid while avoiding enemy drill attacks. Some of these brats make Kamurocho’s hoodlums look saintly by comparison. You partner with a spunky student sleuth to infiltrate rival clubs where you master their activities to get members to open up about torrid affairs or vigilante wrestlers operating in the student body. Yagami’s role as a consultant to the mystery club isn’t just a cute plot contrivance but almost a second campaign. There’s so much more detective DNA in Lost Judgment’s blood. Where the first game plodded towards an inevitable gangland showdown, the sequel is a far more curious journey. It’s a more unpredictable mystery as a result, asking you to draw ties from a classroom drama to a horrible corpse found nearby (honestly, the rendering on it is *grim*), before throwing in a juicy impossible crime for good measure. Shifting the focus from the gangster underworld also gives Lost Judgment a chance to find its own voice away from the main Yakuza series. Wrecking an entire basketball team seems less cruel this way. It also softens the blows with a new fighting stance that causes victims to faint with fear. God knows what Seiryo’s cafeteria is feeding these brutes. Okay, plenty of teenagers get decked on the way, but we’re not talking weedy dweebs. Is a man who regularly feeds traffic cones to punks a good advocate for compassion and care?Ī sigh of relief: Lost Judgment treads the line carefully, unpicking an earlier bullying case without resorting to a ‘punching fixes everything’ solution or slipping too far into mawkish messages of forgiveness. That setup might give you pause: the topic of bullying feels both too delicate for the series’ sledgehammer subtlety, and too serious to sit alongside the goofy hijinks that unfold in its margins.
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Seiryo High School is terrorized by a series of extreme bullying incidents, requiring Yagami to infiltrate its classrooms as an advisor to the afterschool mystery club.
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