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VR Paradise receives a facelift and upgrade, though it’s a bit of a mixed bag.
#LOST JUDGMENT ROBOTICS CLUB SERIES#
Several series staples return here, including Mahjong, VR Paradise, drone racing, golf, the batting cage, and the gambling halls and shogi. There is so much to talk about in Lost Judgment that I could spend days waxing poetic, but this review is already really long, so I’ll try to keep it short. The Skaters School Story also unlocks a skate park and race course where Yagami can compete to earn coins, which can be turned in to buy better skateboards, gear, and some recipe items. The Bar Talks reminded me of a mix of the photo sessions from Kiwami 2 and the old man chats from Yakuza 6. The Casino is what it says on the tin, and the Girls’ Bar introduces Bar Talks, as well as Yagami’s one base-game girlfriend. The Photography Club has Yagami going around taking photos and doing some stealth the Skaters have a skateboarding minigame that was fun but shallow eSports Club was literally just playing Virtua Fighter 5 and the last two, Casino and Girls’ Bar, aren’t actually school clubs but involve Seiryo students. The second group of School Stories were shorter and less involved. I did not particularly care for the Robotics Club. Of these five School Stories, the Boxing Gym was by far my favorite for story, while the Dance Club was my favorite for gameplay. The bike races are a modern day Road Rash, with upgradeable bikes for better performance. Like it says on the tin, Yagami has to infiltrate a bike gang to try and stop them from performing death races. (You can use the boxing style in street fights if you buy the DLC pack, but it won’t award extra SP points like the base three styles.) Finally there’s the Biker Gang, another non-club activity that involves Seiryo students.
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It’s a solid system, but I also wasn’t particularly enamored by it. Yagami can perform hooks, jabs and uppercuts, as well as special EX Actions. Of all the School Stories mini-games, this is the most robust, with a fully-functioning fighting style and roster of fighters. The Boxing Gym is not a school club but does involve a student.
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While the objective is ostensibly to own most of the board, in actuality it’s easier to just spec your robots to be fast enough to make it to the other team’s base to take it over and win. This mini-game involves building robots to compete against opposing teams in a turf war. The Robotics Club finds Yagami acting as an impromptu advisor while the club competes in the RE Robo Rally. Yagami can also break out his kung-fu knowledge for EX Solos to rack up massive combos and points. Inputs will scroll down from the top of the screen and you need to hit them in time to build up your score. For the Dance Club, Yagami gets roped into helping choreograph routines for the students, and its mini-game is a simple, but addictive, basic controller-based rhythm game with multiple difficulty levels (I played all songs on Hard). The story heavy ones consist of the Mystery Club, Dance Club, Robotics Club, Boxing Gym, and Biker Gang, with only the Mystery Club not having its own attached mini-game (it does get two special storylines, though).
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The School Stories are broken into two distinct groups: Story heavy and short but sweet.