Hey everybody, my name is Weeblonz (lol)
and we are starting "Judgement" today
A number of you have asked me over the past few months if I'm interested in playing the "Yakuza" series
And I've always been interested
It's just that it's really hard to find time because those games are so dang long and while we're not playing Yakuza today
I feel like this is basically the next best thing. 
This is Judgment, the newest game by RGG studio
It's basically set in the same setting as the Yakuza series
But it's a crime thriller drama thing starring this man right here; if you're familiar with Japanese entertainment
Then you might already know who he is. It's Kimura Takuya (木村拓哉) or I guess it would be--
Takuya Kimura, if we go by first name, 
last name; he's basically Japanese Brad Pitt
Extraordinarily well-known especially back in the 90s 
not even just within Japan but all over Asia
Anyway, I'm pretty sure we'll have more time to talk about this later on but I bring this up because I want to say that
I am familiar with him and that's part of the reason why I'm gonna be choosing the Japanese dub for today
I know in the Yakuza games, you could only pick Japanese voices, but in Judgement we have Japanese and English
I had a listen to both of them and I actually liked 
both of them pretty much equally, but again,
I do know this guy already and the other factor 
that really pushed me over the edge was uhm--
I saw some game play trailer 
where the player was at the arcade
So the people in the game ended up speaking English, but then the arcade machines were speaking Japanese
Which I thought was kind of weird. 
So, figured we'll just go all out Japanese
Okay, let's just start.
Oh, by the way, I have played the demo for this game before, there was one on the Japanese PSN last year
And I think it's gonna be the very beginning part of the game here
Mm, yeah, this is from the demo
(Welonz reading the on screen name)
Our boy here, Takayuki Yagami
Another lawyer, Saori Shirosaki
Another lawyer, Masamichi Shintani
(Welonz chuckles)
This is true, by the way.
This guy committing a new crime pretty much implies that the first time we got him acquitted, it was a mistake, huh?
Means oxygen
Kamurocho shouldn't be unfamiliar to 
anybody who's played the Yakuza series huh?
Which I haven't, by the way, so this is all new to me
Coccidia, honey
Kratos and so Cheadle
Holiday Oh EEMA donkey Agra
Salt Gino got a euro and musica
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
So this is the kind of thing that you 
would never do as a lawyer
He's going back to his thug ways
All right
(Welonz laughs/scoffs)
Here we go
Clearly these last three years, has really changed us, huh. We're not really...we're kind of scruffy now
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Oh, wow, that's--(laughs) Thanks for letting me know that
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Oh, doesn't help if he gets me from behind though
Here we go
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Get him
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
You gonna get me?
This guy's still alive no matter how much we hit him
Ooh!
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Okay. Ohjj
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
And we'll press Triangle whenever we wanna do that
Ooohhh
Nice
I probably forgot all the commands already 
right after you taught me pretty much (laughs)
Oh
It's a little bit fantastical 'cause then you 
get these like glowy colors coming out
(Welonz laughs)
Perfect
Have reducing or ll be gorgeous. Also his charisma
Look at how cool this guy is with his 
ankle socks  and runners
Okay, we are currently on...
Nakamichi Street, and we're trying to get to pink Street
So we should make a...
Oh, well, time to get over there
Okay sprint, can we turn a corner here?
(Welonz scoffs)
We're right here
(Welonz scoffs at passerby's tweet)
That guy's text said something 
about buying a porno magazine
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Well, this guy looks like a good match
No mole, (laughs) why does he look so dang similar?
Oh, yeah, we got him
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
How do I--? 
(Laughs) That guy's not moving at all
Do you want to move or something
or are you just gonna--?
Ohh.
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Well, he saw me that time so yeah
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
But we can hide
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Alrighty.
we gotta act all inconspicuous and all...
We don't really know why we're doing this right now
like this guy has to do with
Something we're investigating; 
one of our cases probably
But obviously, usually it wouldn't be the lawyer's 
job to be doing this kind of thing, huh?
So we're getting things down on the ground level here 
so to say and really putting in the work
Mm, when I played the demo, I didn't remember it being this choppy whenever we enter the cutscene, but there was like this pause here
Anyway, this guy seems of some money troubles, huh?
Don't worry, we're not gonna lose him
We'll be fine
(Welonz laughs)
Let's hang around this bunch of people here
Yeah?
All righty
Uh-ooh, no spot for me to hide here, huh?
Maybe next to the people?
Oh, God, he's like
(Welonz chuckles) Hold on. Ohh, wow. I'm sorry
Just knocked something over--he's right here. 
I just don't want to get near him, that's all
Whoa, this is pretty dang suspicious. (Welonz laughs)
 I can't find a spot
Yeeahh...I think we were supposed to get behind him
Hold on
(Welonz chuckles)
So inconspicuous
Ohh, we got these advanced technological tools, too
Yeah, this spot frees up now but it wasn't free earlier because he was gonna walk back this way
We should be fine
Mm-hm. Get in there
All right
no worries, he's just around the corner
Tailing complete, even though it 
was kind of poorly done (Welonz chuckles)
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
All right
We look around here
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Debt collection
All right, let's get straight in there
That's what they all say
This is basically the tutorial section 
so we get to do a little bit of everything
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Okay!
Don't need to tell me twice
Oh, goodness
QTEs
(Welonz laughs)
Oh!! Shoot.
Come on, I've got to be more athletic 
than that old guy, right?
Whoa-ho ho!!
What'd he just throw at me?
(Welonz grunts/exclaims)
We're fine, we're fine
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
Now we're gonna get into a boss fight sorta thing, huh?
(Welonz reads the on screen description)
So we should be using the Red Tiger right now, alright.
Okay, finish the battle let's go let's go
Oh!
Do I have to be near a certain environmental thing 
to do the EX move maybe? I'll back up a little bit
Gonna get me?!
Ooh. Oh, my god
(Welonz laughs) I pretty much completely forgot all the moves already.
I'm just throwing random things around now
Ohh!
Boom
well, we can reference it on the side
He's not working at the law firm anymore
Pissed off the wrong guy
Yeah, so this is where the demo stopped at
Definitely don't mess with this guy: 
Both a detective and a lawyer
Seems like he's not currently 
practicing as a lawyer anymore,
but he still has a badge and the license 
and the qualifications, I guess
We don't know exactly what happened 
in these past three years
but he's moved from the law office, 
the law firm to his own detective agency and...
I feel like you can see how that happened 
if you extrapolate a little bit
Like he was able to do something pretty much considered impossible, right?
He got somebody accused of murder acquitted
That's something that shows how good he is, 
but then it turns out: "Oh, shoot"
The guy that you got acquitted actually IS a murderer.
So it's like, this isn't something that 
he can feel happy about at all
and if you caught it back in the 
cutscene in the very beginning
When he talked about the serial killer and his girlfriend,
He called them "Okubo-kun" and "Emi-chan" 
so you weebs out there should know that this implies
that they're not just a strictly lawyer-client relationship
It sounds like Yagami knows these people personally, 
which would make it sting even more, huh?
All of these factors compounding on each other.
I feel like you can see why he would stop being a lawyer
But it seems like he's still interested in justice in general though 'cause being a lawyer is like being the guy who...
we talk a lot at the courts to make sure that your client is 
defended but being the detective is like
Being out there in the field to collect evidence firsthand to determine the truth for yourself and what the case really is
Like we all want to believe that lawyers defend the innocent and they are the Paragons of justice
But that's not true at all, is it? Their job is to defend their clients and I think Yagami learned this firsthand very painfully
