I’m Kinglink and it’s past the first week of May, so it’s time for a Humble Choice May 2024 Review.
This month we have two headliners, and the first game is from my favorite series, so I’m ready to go. I’ve played all the games for an hour on stream, and one of them with the viewers as well. Now I can tell you what the games are like, how they play, and if you might enjoy them.
There’s a lot to get through but I can’t wait to talk about the game already on the screen. Let’s get started!
Hello all, it’s just after July Fourth, which means it’s time for the Humble Choice July 2023 Review
First, thank you very much for all your well wishes last month, I am better and now I’m here to tell you about the new bundle.
I did an eight-hour stream on Independence Day, and now I’m ready to talk about what I think of each game, how they are, and which games are worth your time in checking out.
There are a lot of games so I’m going to just jump to the one already on screen.
Like A Dragon: Ishin is either the first Like a Dragon game in the West or the latest in a long line of a major franchises, depending on your view of the naming convention. This was created by RGG Studio and they are well known for their “Yakuza” series, though that series is now named “Like a Dragon” which is a direct translation of the original series title, Ryu Ga Gotoku.
However, Like A Dragon: Ishin, or Ishin as I’ll call it for brevity’s sake, is a stand-alone title, for the most part. However, the connection to the entire Like A Dragon Franchise is important. While this is a fresh new story in a new time period with new characters, every major character in Like A Dragon: Ishin uses a similar face to the rest of the Like A Dragon Series.
This might be the most important part of the game because for some it’s a little too on the nose, and for others, this is pure fan service, which is what fans of the series might enjoy. Many characters who no longer are part of the larger franchise, appear once more in Ishin, and in many ways, this works.
I’m Kinglink and it’s time for a look back at 2022, which is a bit of a disappointing year for me. No, not because of any specific release, though there were a lack of major titles, but I feel like I failed as a gamer.
2022 for me was a year that I played over 300 games, which is an insane amount, I covered both Game Pass for the PC and Humble Choice so there’s a massive amount of variety in the games I covered… and yet I only completed about 25 of those titles, almost all of them short affairs like Pupperazzi or games I finished without realizing it, like Peppa freaking Pig…
Normally I like to talk about the best game I played over the previous year or the game I most recommend, but with most of these games already in videos, I’ve talked about that. There’s a bigger issue for me. I struggle to call games I haven’t finished this year the best. Can I call a game the best of the year if I only played a quarter of it?
I’ve played everything that has been released in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series from RGG Studio and enjoyed each one of them. There were amazing games like Yakuza 0, weaker games like Yakuza 3, and different games like Yakuza: Like A Dragon (the most confusingly named one).
Judgment isn’t technically part of that franchise, but it is from RGG Studio and is counted as a “Yakuza game” by most fans. It’s the same universe, same city, and has similar interactions with the same Tojo Clan, even if only a side story character crosses over between the two games. The engine the games run on and the style of the games is very similar.
In Judgment, you control Yagami, a former lawyer who is now a private investigator. A simple early case, which involves you trying to assist in the defense of a Tojo Yakuza Captain named Hamura, pulls Yagami into a series of events at the core of the story. Judgment’s main focus is telling a complex and intricate narrative that evolves throughout the story, though since unraveling is such a central part of the game, I’ll avoid mentioning much more about it.
Read More »I’m Kinglink And it’s time for the Game Pass July 2022 Review.
There are 19 titles this month to talk about, and I’ll cover most of them, you’ll understand when we get there. However, this is a month that has some titles in unique categories, and some titles for the younger gamers. Yeah, there’s Peppa Pig that the internet is making jokes about.
At the same time, I actually found some unique games, including the one on the screen, and this is absolutely a month for people who want something different than the typical big-budget shooter that is laden with microtransactions, though don’t worry though, we have one of those as well.
Like always, I played each game for a night and now I’m here to tell you what worked, and what you can skip. Let’s get started with…
I’m Kinglink and it’s time for the Humble Choice July 2021 Review.
Once again I’m back after playing each game for an hour, and I should be able to tell you who is going to enjoy each title, and who might want to skip them. It’s a strange month so let’s just get to the games and talk about them. Starting with a major franchise…
Yakuza 3 Remastered. If you’ve been a Humble Choice member for a while, you’ve probably already seen Yakuza 0, Kiwami, and Kiwami 2, which was the first trilogy of Yakuza games for the PC. It appears that trend is continuing, with Yakuza 3 Remastered this time.
I’m Kinglink and let’s talk about the Yakuza Franchise, particularly the Kiryu games, which I lovingly call the Kiryu Saga.
Though I’d like to explain this concept of this series quickly. The quick backstory is after finishing both Yakuza 3 and 4 I wanted to make a video but hadn’t finished the entire series, there was a lot to talk about such as the Tojo Clan’s place in the series, or Kamurocho’s evolution, but I couldn’t talk about the entire franchise.
I also often get questions about where to start the series on any of my Yakuza videos so I figured this might be a good topic.
So my time with Yakuza finally ends. After 8 games on PC, I’m caught up and ready for wherever the series will take the player in the future. While Judgement and now Lost Judgement is hopefully coming to PC, for the moment I’ve arrived at the temporary end of the journey.
And Yakuza 6 ends what I consider the main arc of the franchise, ending the games that star Kiryu Kazuma in one final epic tale, at least that was the hope.
Yakuza 6 is probably not what fans expected, and unfortunately may not be what fans want, but many issues with Yakuza 6 come from this potentially being the final time players take on the role of Kiryu Kazuma in the franchise.
Read More »Yakuza 5 takes what Yakuza 4 accomplished and amplifies everything in it to create a brand new experience that is bigger and better than before. It is the most jam-packed Yakuza title yet, the longest-running in the Kiryu saga, and contains the most playable characters.
But it also is a case where it becomes too much of a good thing that finally reaches the series’ breaking point, and causes some issues for the franchise.
Yakuza 5 has returning characters from the previous game with Kiryu, Saejima, and Akiyama, but adds in two new playable characters, an ex-baseball player, Tatsuo Shinada, and for the first time in the series, Haruka Sawamura, Kiryu’s adopted daughter. Each of these characters gets their own section of the story, with Haruka and Akiyama sharing their portion, giving players four distinct parts of the game, with a rather large finale at the end.
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