I didn’t have an answer, but I did know that if I was going to be subjected to this mannequin-on-mannequin action for the rest of the game, Lost Judgment and I were going to have a falling out. How could anyone at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio actually think that was a step forward? Was it a cost-cutting measure, maybe? Or was it done just to show how on-point Lost Judgment’s lip-syncing was? Lost Judgment did, at least, let me out of the Van of Nightmares™ to follow the scammer around the streets of Kamurocho, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Talking Head Tak. Sometimes you’ll get some brief upper-body animation, but their faces are just devoid of emotion. For the most part, these talking heads are utterly emotionless, sporting the kind of dead-eyed look you’d find at Madame Tussauds. Lost Judgment’s bizarre talking head dialogue system alternates between individuals, something that, if it were its only crime, would be pretty off-putting. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and its ilk at least had characters making eye contact. It was as if I’d stepped back in time and was wrestling with some ’90s point-and-click adventure.Īctually, no, that’s not entirely fair. Instead of watching their in-van banter, the left-hand side of the now out-of-focus screen was occupied by Tak’s upper body, speaking to… someone? It took me a minute to figure out that he was talking to his client, because the right-hand side was just a void. The interplay between them was as glorious as it ever was, Kaito itching to bust some heads while Tak, a man still capable of kicking serious bottom, advocated a more cautious approach. Lost Judgment dove right into the intrigue, with Tak and best bud Kaito huddled in a van, staking out a potential internet scammer. I’d loved the first Judgment, so eagerly anticipating the crime-solving, baddie-punching adventure that awaited me, I shoved it into my Xbox. While I’d not gotten my hands on a review copy of Lost Judgment, it still plopped through my door a day early. If you’ve not witnessed this horror firsthand, I’ll let you in on my own eye-bleeding experience. There’s so much to love about this Yakuza spin-off, but my initial encounter with its bafflingly ill-judged talking heads dialogue system made me want to smash a bicycle into my TV. Alice Cooper sang, “It’s the little things that drive me wild,” and having played Lost Judgment, I can definitely see his point.
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