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When a police officer discloses the murder of the student teacher who bullied his son to suicide, the twisted secrets of a Yokohama, high school bleed out. Nothing, in this case, is black and white.
Lost Judgment is a action, adventure and beat 'em up game
developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
and published by SEGA.
Released on September 14th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 7,666 reviews of which 7,238 were positive and 428 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam with a 70% discount, but you can find it for 13.76€ on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Window 10 1903 (OS Build 18362) or Later
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 3.1 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 2 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 2 GB
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 60 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 1080p Low @ 30 FPS w/ Balanced FSR 1.0, requires a CPU which supports the AVX and SSE4.2 instruction set
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Lost Judgment is the second game of a Yakuza spinoff starring detective Takayuki Yagami, who uses his (rather simplistic) detective gadgets and sharp wits to solve cases. In Lost Judgment we are tasked with going undercover at a prestigious high school to solve a string of twisted bullying cases and, solve a mystery that goes deep within the government. Who is pulling the stings? Why are the bullies going missing? It's up to Yagami to find out! The Story Before I get into my pro's and con's list I just want to share my thought's on the story. After putting over 85 hours into playing Lost Judgment for the first time... I felt rather let down. Playing the game at the start was a thrill - what's going on? Who's that? Why is this happening? but by the time I hit.. chapter 3? or 4? practically everyone (and everything) was revealed to me already. I have another... 9 or 10 chapters to go through... really?!?! It lost all sense of mystery by this point sadly. The "main story" was a rather let down with repeating plot points, repetitive conversations with the same point being brought up over and over... it just got stale and I found myself skipping cutscenes because of it. Con's ⚫The main story... it hurts me to say this as an RGG fan, is rather... bad. Everything is revealed to you EARLY in the game leaving no real mystery to solve. Characters that do talk to you just go round and round in circles revealing nothing new all while repeating or showing evidence that YOU already know and then they do it again. ⚫Some mechanics are just downright stupid or repetitive. Take the chase sequences for example. I found myself running laps around the exact same location just to catch a dude. These dragged out and got overly repetitive over the course of the game. ⚫The "gadgets" were so underused. It was the side quests and side content that used the gadgets the most. Take squirrel hunt for example... I used the noise amp, detective dog and detector over 10 times each during this.... why not make Yagami use them for the ACTUAL story? ⚫You can do parkour in this game. Climb up pipes to scale a wall. Good luck getting OFF the pipe at times as it gets stupidly clunky at times. ⚫During the "school stories" I noticed a lot of non-voice acted cutscenes. Just text to read on the screen. Why? I spent most of my time working on the School Stories rather than paying attention to the ACTUAL story of the game. I wasn't to happy with this and felt rather disappointed as this, to me, was the meat of the game. ⚫Compare this to Yakuza Like a Dragon the fights are rather bland and repetitive. It's the same enemies over and over, just they get more of them tossed in and a few of them bring weapons... that's it. ⚫To use the skateboard you need to use the same button to sprint. At times I accidentally found myself pulling my skateboard out and hitting a car, falling over, or hitting people and falling over. ⚫Some mini-games are not implemented well or thought about. Take the Robotics club from the School Stories for example. The enemy AI scales so quickly it's just insane to beat. They turn quickly, move quickly, attack you so relentlessly... I was pulling what was left of my hair out. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3491896539 Pro's ⚫I loved the detective gadgets. Using stuff like that as a proper detective made the game much more "detective" like, but again... it was used MAINLY in side content. ⚫Speaking of side content, it was an absolute blast doing all the side content in Lost Judgment. I LOVED the school stories (all but that damn robotics club!!). Take the dance club for example - you infiltrate this club you get to play an AWESOME mini-game which is very reminiscent of karaoke (in a way). You also get other clubs, like boxing, motorcycle club and E-Sports club. All of which have their own unique mini-game, story, side content and so much more. This was the meat of the game. ⚫I loved the fighting styles. Tiger and Crane fighting styles are back in the game and now you also get Snake stlye, which was arguably my favourite because you can parry almost everything. You also get Boxing style, not sure how I got this but I think it was the DLC. Boxing style was more of a "get in your face" type which works really good on boss's. ⚫Some of the mechanics are REALLY good, like the ability to listen to conversations between random people on the street to get "keywords" to start searching for a side case using the Buzz Researcher app. This was a really fun and unique was to get Yagami to investigate locations. ⚫The detail in Kamarucho and Yokohama are just drop dead gorgeous. The amount of detail poured onto the streets of these, brightly lit and densely populated locations are phenomenal. I found myself just looking around at times at all the little details. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3492700767 ⚫You get a little skateboard you can use to ride around on the streets. This was a really fun way of getting around and it mitigated a lot of legwork for the whole "go here, then go here, THEN go here, THEN GO HERE" which we all know RGG are famous for doing in their games haha! ⚫The boxing mini-game was my pride and joy. This is how you do a unique mini-game. Every opponent was different. They attacked different and scaled as I progressed through the school story. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3492483425 ⚫Right, last point about mini-games, haha - there are so many to play. 12 collectable game cartridges to find to play on a Sega Master System in Yagami's office. Club Sega offering games such as Kuma of the dead, Virtua fighter 5 and so much more. ⚫The voice acting is amazing, yet once again! ⚫The soundtrack is fantastic! ⚫I had no performance issues at all while playing. No crashing, freezing, FPS drops e.t.c. The game is very well optimised! Mt Verdict/TL;DR After all of that is said and done - Lost Judgment didn't quite hit the mark with it's main story. Revealing almost everything to early, repeating the same "clues" over and over and characters talking in circles at times, I just wanted it to be over. On the other hand - it hit the mark tenfold with the side content and School Stories content. If it wasn't for these amazing stories, the surprises during them, the PROPER detective work during these cases in Seiryo High School... I don't think I would have kept playing. 7/10 - A Yakuza spin-off that has an acquired taste and a little "Lost Judgment"
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Loved it as all other Yakuza games. incredible amount of side content, lots of time was lost in casino, mahjong and school dancing ;). p.s. now waiting to get my hands on Majima in Hawaii.
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Very good sequel to the first. The plot took a while to grow on me but it ended up being great. The writers have once again done a good job of coming up with another multitude of wild conspiracies and hostile entanglements as you progress through the story. Overall, I think it did a good job selling itself as a crime/drama/thriller. Better combat system than the last game, they made skill points less annoying and its soundtrack is very good. Looking forward to Like a Judge Man 3
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Lost judgement is one of the RGG goats. This game is more content dense than yakuza 5, which was one of the most best RGG experiences for me. The school stories and their mini-games are so engrossing and interesting in their own right, and honestly have enough content that school stories could have been a game itself. honestly i think i spent 3x the amount of time (enjoying) side content than i spent playing the main story. BTW the main story is great as well. I dont know how they keep managing to craft such amazing stories and fantastic and incredibly likable characters without missing. there is literally not a bad game in the franchise. The DLC is also very fire. Play kaito files. Its incredible, and feels like a condensed full game, yet another value add to the greatness that is lost judgement. I hope SEGA green lights a judgement 3 very soon. Grade a top quality stuff right here. I love you SEGA and RGG and i will simp for you for eternity, as long as you keep the hits coming. EVERY GAME is somehow better than the last.
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Where Judgement 1 is a proof of concept, Lost judgement is the ideas fully realized. Lost judgement is a lovely game for a variety of reasons that I dont even know where to start. Its such a vast improvement over the original, on top of being a phenomenal RGG game. I'll start with some basics, "Do I need to play judgement 1 in order to understand this one?" No. All returning character are treated as "just another day in life of yagami and friends! :)" you wont be feeling like theres spoonfuls of lore missing from the games core story, at most are a small number of side quests that have a returning character, whom are side quest characters themselves that don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Never mind, gameplay wise, judgement 1 isn't a good time if you play it solely for the story. You'd be better of jumping into Lost judgement blind with no prior knowledge. "Do I need to play any of the yakuza games or vice versa to understand anything?" No. While both series are in the same universe, familiar faces from yakuza do not appear in either game. Meanwhile, the plots of both games are irrelevant to the greater yakuza universe as of writing. Aside from a single side quest in yakuza gaiden/ the man who erased his name having 2 characters fight alongside kiryu for 10 minutes, anything else meerly boiled down to cameo's you wouldn't notice in the first place. "Is the kaito files necessary?" The kaito files, while enjoyable, aren't needed for the main game. its a single ~10 hour story of kaito that likely is to give the writers some breathing space, should they be unable to use Yagami, without completely altering his design due to some external factors of the game itself. Its fun, but you're not missing too much. Everything about lost judgements gameplay is a vast improvement over the original. The combat is much smoother and feels more in like with traditional yakuza while allowing it to do its own things, side content is much more focused and allows for players to access it at their own paced. Tedious features such as mortal damage, and the "police timer" are gone. The grocery list of improvements goes on. For guys who can't get enough of classic yakuza combat, this is notably one of the more difficult games the studio has put out for all the right reasons. Someone making this their first RGG game will likely struggle unless they spend ALOT of time doing side content and getting beefy through playing the game in large increments. Someone like myself whose more at home and finished majority of the franchise on the hardest difficulties, victory feels earned. the challenge is present, but it never felt genuinely unfair, or cheap. The only criticism I have is purely with a couple mini games, the main outlier. theres a "vr" game that returns from judgement 1 that works like an offshoot of mario party. beat your opponent, net yourself a surplus of cash. if you really like the minigame, its a great way to get money fast. problem is, the minigame itself eats a lot of time to play, and should you occasionally lose for any reason, you get nothing for your time and effort. More ridiculous still, is in order to play the game, you have to use a consumable currency exclusively for it that the game sprinkles out in very small portions. I played it on a couple times ever, and regardless of if i won or not, there were so many other things I liked doing in game more, that even when I did want to play it, half the time I couldn't so I ignored its existence for the bulk of the game. Final verdict: 9/10 TLDR: the bar between judgement games was raised so high, I can't wait for another one.
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Lost Judgment is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.
Lost Judgment is currently available at a 70% discount. You can purchase it for 17.99€ on Steam.
Lost Judgment received 7,238 positive votes out of a total of 7,666 achieving an impressive rating of 9.14.
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Lost Judgment was developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by SEGA.
Lost Judgment is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Lost Judgment is not playable on MacOS.
Lost Judgment is not playable on Linux.
Lost Judgment is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Lost Judgment. Explore additional content available for Lost Judgment on Steam.
Lost Judgment does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Lost Judgment does not support Steam Remote Play.
Lost Judgment is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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