Reviews, such as a dragon: Yakuza pirate in Hawaii – damn entertainment

If you played the legendary Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag twelve years ago, you are quite old. But you probably remember that it was fun to maneuver around enemy ships at sea and burn them from guns on both sides of your ship. Unfortunately, last year’s skull and bones could not properly benefit from this potential, so now the beloved Japanese series will appear on the Yakuz, which will offer as boat battles, or fist fights in Borsky ships. Unfortunately, this is somewhat due to history, although fans should not skip it.

• Platform: PS5 (review) PS4, X1, XSX |
• Date of issue: 20.2. 2025
• Manufacturer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio (Japan)
• Genre: RPG Momanhip Machine
• Czech Republic Localization: No
• Multi -user: Yes (only mini -games, for two)
• Download Data: 39 GB
• Game time: 20+ hours
• Price: 1499 czk

Pirates or mafia?

The special former mafia, the “evil dog” of the city of Majima, wakes up on the beach of the Tropical Island near Hawaii and discovers that he had suffered a loss of memory. Despite the fact that we are currently (a few months after the events of the last episode of the series “Endless Wealth”), pirates suddenly appear, including costumes and guns planted. Everything occupies a slope, and the city became the captain of the ship, gains the first crew members and decided to dominate the local waters to find, possibly, lost memory.

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

Source: Martin Zavheel / Zing.cz

The Yakuza series usually contains crazy ideas and missions, but they are more likely a party in additional tasks and mini -games. In this game, however, on the contrary, the central “mini -“ military -grades ”play a dominant role from the point of view of the gameplay and history, while a realistic drama about modern gangsters is pushed into the background. Thus, the whole game carries in a right crazy spirit, which is ideal for the chosen protagonist. However, there are also serious and strong stories. There are only much less than some fans may be needed.

There are serious and strong stories.

One of the things, which, unfortunately, repeatedly knocks the story towards the bag is the presence of a rather disgusting little boy, whom the pirates decide to pull all the time almost everywhere, which to some extent perceives the seriousness of many AK conflicts similar to the story. On the other hand, the presence of pirates and their ships in the modern world will explain quite well. In any case, you will have long hours of plot sequences with excellent facial animation, which give characters in life and depth – as you probably expect, there will also be other favorite characters (even in history, and not just as DLC skins).

A sea of ​​compromises

Although the creators managed to implement a mechanic in which the players in the skull and bones were most lacking (the transition from a military battle to manual battle on board), this game contains compromises in other places. For example, the ship has only one game and the same game. Although you gradually improve her resistance or weapons and change her appearance, it is not as fun as getting new stronger ships. But I was even more concerned about the simplification of the cruise itself, when the game world is divided into small areas with several islands, and you will have to go more or less on the predecessive “rails”, which also look like meaningless arcade. The ships are also too similar, there are no unusual unique “boss” with additional mechanics. You can also be disappointed that complete unlocking access to your ship and all its functions are hidden in about seven hours of prologue.

A little better – a dueling system in which you can smoothly switch between two styles of battle – traditional threshing is more effective for combating one strong enemy, while a new fencing style with two sabers is more suitable for a battle with large groups of weaker enemies. Of course, you gradually unlock new harsh and combo. But I did not come up with some animations of special attacks to miss what is upset if you see them for the tenth time. Of course, you can again establish the complexity of the game so that you can concentrate only on history or encounter a proper task. The game uses technologies and location (the whole city of Honolulu) from the last game, so it looks and works almost as well.