Yakuza Kiwami 2 Review "Buy, Wait for Sale, Rent, Never Touch?"

every Tom, Dick, and Harry in this game wants to fight me and sure that's a staple of these games but after like the fourth fight where I walk in to make human paste of 7 gang members, 3 with guns, 2 withs swords and 2 others with tasers and all I haveis a frickin safety cone... you'd think they would send out a fuckin' state-wide emergency alert: "WARNING!: Dude dressed in white business suit is apparently NOT to be Fucked With! Stand Aside". ....but they don't.

This is an honest question, what's the problem with English dubs when 99% of the time it's optional? I personally prefer dubs most of the time, but if it doesn't work for me I have no problem switching to subs. I appreciate them both, but the way people say dubs would "ruin" the game seems ridiculous to me.

Is the gameplay different

It's a simple BUY

But for me, having played almost all yakuza series, the one cringy thing for me is how easy kiryu stumbles into other pedestrians' paths, even when he walks very slowly..or when he has to walk accompanied by someone else, look how easy he unintentionally hit people, especially when he walks with the little haruka

Ka-zooma Kiryu

HEY ACG ... your awesome

30 hours in and this game is fantastic. If you care at all about storytelling and characters go and play Yakuza 0 first, then Kiwami, then Kiwami 2, 3, 4, 5, and then 6. You'll appreciate everything way more than if you just jump in randomly. This is an amazing series that'll take you on quite the wild ride. I haven't regretted a single second in any of the games (except maybe the one spin off we got in the west lol, it had a lot of cool story and character moments but the gameplay was pretty meh)

I still prefer the combat system of 0 than this one. It made Kiryu/Majima feel like a legendary brawler that they are. The new combat system, however, feels slowed down, especially in early game.

I plan on picking this game up right around Black Friday because for me in the games that I’m buying this month I’m pretty stacked was good games Spiderman shadow of the tomb raider Valkyrie chronicles for the end of the month.

No English dub?! Perfect we don't need that bullshit.

Reminds me of sleeping dog

I cannot stress how brilliant these games are. I was an Xbox gamer since the first console and only got my first ever Sony console back in 2017 Jan. So for me you’re talking Uncharted 1 , the lot. Everything was new as I had never ever had a PlayStation.

I always avoided Yakuza as it just didn’t appeal to me then Kiwami come out and I thought I’d check it out. Since that moment I have done Kiwami , Kiwami 2, 0 and 6. Gonna do 4-5 on PSNOW after.

Probably one of the best gaming franchises I have ever played and I’m in my 30s. I can’t actually grasp in my head that Goro Majima isn’t a real person. Like he isn’t really alive. This is the first game in my life where I feel a real attachment as they feel like they ain’t just made up. It’s hard to explain.

For those that have played this, you know that one scene when certain somebodies turn up in town? And Majima is just standing there and charges ? That gave me god damn goosebumps. He is like the best anti hero of all games.

Anyway sorry to waffle on. I think in terms of story this is defo on of the best. Every single game has absolutely tragic moments cos the cut scenes have gotta be hours when added up. I have only two gripes with the Yakuza games but it’s just me:

1; I wish the camera where to zoom out. Just a little during fights. Like Shadow Of Mordor does. You can just see all around you

2: Id have an option for the camera to always face ahead , obviously you can turn but it to auto centre

3: Clothes should be available from the get go. Just would make Keryu more exciting from the get go.

4: Even if it took years to make I would rather they had all those talk scenes with text be actual voice actors. I don’t mind it but there’s all the side missions where it’s text and sometimes it takes me out of the moment.

5: more variety of music. Love the music but just wish they had more. Even if they added Japanese HipHop or loads of tradition Japanese chart music for the decade or years the game is set in.

They are all small things really and just what I think would add a little more to it. I’ll never ever play them in English cos it really just don’t feel right at all to me. I’m gutted cos I’d order all the Jap versions but no English subs are available which is gutting.

Surely there is loads of English speaking people over there though so I’m shocked it don’t have other languages? Like we get over here ?

"That's Rad" ;]

Is it coming to PC? Yakuza 0 was excellent!

One of the things that made Yakuza series amazing is because there's no English dub, it wouldn't be genuine and original anymore.

Im thinking about buyong it. But Im afraid the free roam world will be really tiny. Anyone know what game t compare its mapscale to?

After 0 and 1 the constant running around back and forth to see Kiryu beat up another bad guy to prevent said bad guy from killing ppl followed by forgetting about that murderous bad guy entirely as soon as he falls down which seems to always end up with the bad guy taking his time to grab a weapon and murdering them anyway

Currently somewhere halfway or near the end of Kiwami 2, can someone tell me if this continues all the way to 6.. because at this point as soon as Kiryu has to protect someone i'm just assuming he's going to be a dumbfuck about it so they'll get killed either way and i'm getting kinda bored with it

Will he remain a dumbfuck till the end or does he at some point figure out how to tie people up atleast? Am i missing something and is this done on purpose to be funny or something..?

Plays like yakuza 0 which is a great thing.yakuza 6 fight engine stinks

I like that you are not an "angry" reviewer. There is no cynicism to be found in your content.

Why do people care about graphics so much?

Ya-koo-za! It irritated me every time you said it! 😂

Wait. Can we again play as Majima in Kiwami 2!

it's 35 on PSN right now..

This game was amazing I love all the Yakuza games. And I can't wait for them to remaster 5 on PS4 that game was the best one in my opinion

So how is Sleeping Dogs not better than this??

I love the Japanese voices, it adds to the immersion.

Please never add an English dub.

Can anyone possibly tell me what the combat functions are like, does it compare to Tekken for instance? or is it just one of those game which just have a single kick and a punch button and the game itself makes it more variable, it's not controllable by us?

So i will get 60 bucks in a couple of days, should I get it?
I have 0 and Kiwami and im enjoying it sooo much but my guts tell me to wait for a another great game to go on sale again eg Spiderman, Detroit etc
Im so confused

What’s the order should I play? Yakuza 0, kiwami, kiwami 2, the song of life

I goddamn love this game series. But I must say they really try to outdo themselves in all regards, even the creepy peeping mini-games. The "photo-shoots" in this were even worse than the video-tapes you could watch in 0. Like hotdamn. One would think a 37 year old Kiryu was a bit more mellowed out, but nope, he is horndog surpreme.

Is there any chance for you to do that walk in a walk for this game? or its forgotten now??:)

I have yakuza 3 in ps3 and kiwami 2 yakuza 6 in ps4.. now im planning to buy 0 and kiwami 1...

I'm gonna buy it just for the physics

This and Yakuza 6 are the only two Yakuza games that takes advantage of using PS4 hardware.....d fuck dude....d fuck?

When i had the money for this i immediately preordered it

Just been confirmed for PC :D!

Aight' bois we got Kiwami 2 on PC

English dub would be legendary. I think we need the full series on pc.

watching this cause yakuza 2 is coming on real platform 60 fps boi

English in ps2 only

The thing about English dub is that they need to make it right if they even bring dub to the main series and not just the spin off called Judgement / Judge Eyes, ofc if they do make a dub I hope they do give the option to choose between english and japanese voiced because if people are forced into english then it won't end well

Fetch quest games.

and its on steam

I like yakuza 6 better. Kiryu doesn’t need weapons he’s the dragon of dojima his fist are the only weapons he needs

Dragon engine should utilize temporal anti aliasing... It is very effective to eliminate jaggies on this current gen generation especially on ps4 pro... Temporal anti aliasing is not expensive to implement and it is not very demanding on hardware , I really dont know why SEGA don't want to use temporal anti aliasing, ... Red dead redemption 2 is using very aggressive temporal anti aliasing, the result is almost zero aliasing, especially on ps4 pro.. Im not a developer, but the only solution to remove the jaggies aliasing is the temporal anti aliasing it is already proven and tested on console...starting at ps2 era up to the current generation on ps4 they don't know how to fix the jaggies,.. Jaggies free game will help to increase sales..

I'm playing this now and still have watched this review like three times. Love your reviews.

I just come from time to time to hear my fav reviewer on random games. Always the best, probably 10x better than average joe I mean angry joe. 😂