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This is the private eye of Takayuki Yagami second adventure; a spin-off of Sega’s popular Yakuza saga. He lives in the same area as Kamurocho, the same yakuza gangs roam the streets, and there’s the very occasional crossing of side story characters and, well, weirdos. But instead of punching punks in the face in the name of justice or honor, that was the Yakuza style Protagonist Kazuya Kiryu, Yagami fights back with the power of his lawyer badge, drone evidence and… sometimes (read: often) kicking the bad guys in the face.

The sequel skates even closer to some sort of serialized TV drama, punctuated by fights, chases and melodrama. For those who have played the series before, it treads familiar ground, but with a more serious (realistic) story that focuses on the problems of bullying and suicide in Japanese high schools, which is linked in a myriad of plots that include the system legal, political and organized crime.

Yagami has several fighting styles to master, while there are love interests, batting cages, mahjong, skate parks and more activities to sink even more hours. On the PS5, Judgment lost sounds good. Combat is fluid and the recreated areas in Tokyo and Yokohama are usually filled with pedestrians, stores, and points of interest. While Yakuza: Like a Dragon took the franchise in a new direction (turn-based, more ridiculous), Judgment lost retains the fighting game style of the Yakuza series, with a new hero who eventually charmed us.