Recent reviews by Simply Niko

a very short and very touching artpiece

Hi Kira,
I know today's not your birthday (would be hella sick if it was tho) but I want to surprise you with this cake I made - my friends got a little taste of it and they really liked it, so I hope you will too.
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Life is Strange has a good story with well written characters AND a great soundtrack.
Negativity only sparks from the cringe-culture crowd, who - for some reason - hate anything that's slightly quirky or out of time. I liked it.

The devs wanted this game to be a onetime thing and move on; the world is a cruel place though...
So now hundreds of thousands of players expect new content- the crowd demands NEW CONTENT! AND MORE NEW CONTENT! AND MORE NEW CONTENT NEXT YEAR, AND THE YEAR AFTER, AND THE YEAR AFTER AND FOREVER AND EVER!
Modding tools would sort of fix that problem, ngl.

Ooof... This is a good game- it has an interesting story, fun... fun combat, and... sometimes fun side stories.
But honestly, I'm struggling to recommend this game. It just didn't stick with me. I don't know if it's the plot, or combat, or the character... I was bored playing the game most of the time, which really sucks knowing it's my second entry in the franchise - the first one being yakuza 0. As far as I heard, the sequel's supposed to be better, and I mean, eventually I'll give it a chance but I'm just exhausted of "Judgement". It took me a whole year to finish this and it will take me a lot more years to play the next entry in the sub-franchise.
.... I wanna play Yakuza again....

The best one out of the tree, without a doubt. A nice farewell to the whole cast and the game itself. Yeah, want a funny and absurd three hour movie? This one's the right call.

Brilliant. Some really fun "bits" (ha) and cool ideas. They really went all in with the different paths you can take. I laughed, a lot.

The opinion overall pretty much sums it up:
It's the the most underwhelming of the three DLCs. A really cool premise but with poor execution lacking any real fun idea for the characters. I personally didn't care for any other endings after I got the first one.

Just buy it bundled with the game, or on sale

"Okay, so, hear me out, k?"
"Ok..."
"So, ok, but you've got to hear me out, k?"
"Oh my god just tell me-"
"𝚄 𝙼 𝚄 𝚁 𝙰 𝙽 𝙶 𝙸 - 𝙶.𝙴.𝙽.𝙴.𝚁.𝙰.𝚃.𝙸.𝙾.𝙽."
"Wh- Wha-"
"𝚄 𝙼 𝚄 𝚁 𝙰 𝙽 𝙶 𝙸 - 𝙶.𝙴.𝙽.𝙴.𝚁.𝙰.𝚃.𝙸.𝙾.𝙽."
"Oh, so you're telling me it's a good ga-"
You- Yes, you! Play! Play!