A Thirty-Minute Roast of Lost Judgment
201The original Judgment was a flawed if earnest attempt at crossing legal drama with detective mystery. Sure, the mystery was as exciting as waiting in-line at the self check-out of your nearest discount grocery store, and the dialogue was pumped full of more fun facts than a bar owner hosting trivia night to keep the lights on, but it had promise. Takuya Kimura and Shinshu Fuji had great on-screen chemistry as Yagami and Kaito respectively. Scenes including the detective duo had a great balance of action, melodrama, and comedic timing. Though sporadic, chewing scenery as a detective in a classically long Ryu Ga Gotoku cutscene kept you invested in the Yagami character- even if what you were investing into was a detective who couldn’t deduce himself out of a cardboard box. And of course, the fighting and playspots in Judgment carried the whole experience on its back. Like a fire truck strapped to a sea turtle. Retaliating in self-defense by inflicting open head wounds had never felt so good, with the Dragon Engine finally delivering solid hit feedback, toning down the ragdoll effects, and making Yagami a technical fighter centered around precise combo attacks. Things weren’t looking great, but there was room to grow and reason to believe improvement was certain in the event of a sequel. And a sequel we got! Lost Judgment sees the detective arrive in Yokohama with a singular mission: end bullying forever.
If Judgment was a friend with the chance to grow from their mistakes then Lost Judgment is the friend who doubled down and made their mistakes their entire personality. Yakuza 6 was written by an angry man. Judgment was written by a man with his head in the clouds. Lost Judgment was written by a Nosferatu who hasn’t left its crypt in four hundred years. The plot twist to this cute joke I wrote is: all these entries have the same writer: Tsuyoshi Furuta, and at this point his writing, what I don’t like about it anyway, can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt. I’ve got nothing against the man personally, but his work is infuriatingly unsatisfactory. Lost Judgment is no exception, and a perfect microcosm of his weaknesses as a writer. Look, creating anything is hard. Writing is monumentally hard, and writing for games- especially games on tight deadlines- is excruciatingly difficult. But it’s not like we don’t have a point of reference for the quality standards we’ve come to expect from this studio. They’re not exactly the next Nobel Prize candidates, but there are standout entries with captivating plot lines and meaningful subtext in RGG Studios’s catalog. Tsuyoshi Furuta doesn’t need to suck me silly from the back with the world’s next piece of biblical storytelling; all he needs to do is deliver a satisfying, cohesive narrative on the level- or in the range of- a standard Ryu Ga Gotoku story. What he delivers with Lost Judgment is a confusing, convoluted tale that loses the strength of its messaging due to his over-reliance on bad writing techniques.
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