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#sfmt2025 44. Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth More of the same excellence from the first Like a Dragon game! Which is very good, considering I happily threw myself into this one after 80 hours of the first one. Plus, they did the impossible...make Kiryu a compelling character to follow.
May 3, 2025, 7:31 AM
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"alt": "It's hard to say anything about this game that isn't patently obvious to anyone who's played this game, that I haven't said in my impressions of the first game. Everything that made the first game amazing is either here or improved. Better battle system. More well-considered jobs and skill inheritance. Adding Kiryu as a second protagonist, pairing him with very likable characters, to, you know, Be A Character with. And also giving Kiryu a compelling arc as he deals with the enormity of the life he's left behind and ask him if he's truly ready to leave it all behind. All the silliness of the first game is in this one, and the wide variety of activities. Hell, they even got an animal crossing-like in this game, somehow. And while the story is, on a whole, not as amazing as the first game...it's still better than a lot of JRPGs I've played. That's all the stuff anyone who's played the game could tell you are the good things. \nSomething I've come to appreciate when it comes to these games though, is the unrelenting positivity it has towards those on the fringes of society. Those who are there because they had no choice, those who got there because of an earnest mistake, even those who are there because they're actually evil. To be a hero is to save those most in need, and the game is brave enough to say: that includes former criminals whose hearts are in the right place. They deserve the chance to determine the next steps in their lives, to get back up again and live a more honest life. In fact, ",
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"alt": "it's those who deny people the chance to be better that need to step aside, by force if need be. Even if the people denying them have been wronged in the past. While personally I would advocate for drawing a line where murder is okay actually, for people too far into ideologies that don't make room for other groups of people...I would take radical forgiveness over punitive revenge seeking. Also, I liked the framing of Kiryu taking on the sins of the past, while Kasuga takes on kindling the hope for the future in the last chapter. Feels a little rushed, like it's a theme that ended up crystalizing after the fact than something being aimed for from the draft phase, but hey, if it works it works. Kiryu gets to try to atone for the legacy of the yakuza, trampling over the lives of those under them, while Kasuga gets to help someone else atone for their actions successfully, in contrast to how he was ultimately denied helping out his brother, Masumi Arakawa. It's poignant enough for me to be satisfied, even if much of the buildup in Kasuga's side of the story was a bit lackluster.\nAnother thing I do have to mention is that it sucks that the higher difficulties of these games are locked behind repeat playthroughs, and that in this game specifically, it's paid DLC. That's an incredibly scummy move. This game is even easier than the first game, and it's a shame because there are legit more tactical decisions to be made in this improved battle system, but you really don't need to play around get experimental and really learn the game if you have an average, ordinary playthough. I wish there was a harder difficulty for me to really sweat a bit but ah well, I'll take easy and fun over hard and boring or boring and boring. ",
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"alt": "Uhh that's about it. I loved this game quite a bit, for much and many of the same reasons as I loved the first LaD. Worth it!\nAlso, I think I had a glitch in my game that didn't spawn most of the substories in Hawaii until like the penultimate chapter? Which is when I'd clean up substories anyway, but it was definitely weird.",
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