Last year, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I wrote about how I hate bloated open worlds that offer little in the way of world-building. Ubisoft has always been a big culprit of this, offering fetch quests and icons on a checklist to tick off so that you had any reason at all to explore the areas its developers h💜ad so painstakingly crafted.
I much preferred Like A Dragon’s Kamurocho, a small but astoundingly dense recreation of an area within Tokyo’s Shinjuku, to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Ancient Greece. A small open world with no shortage of secrets to discover is infinitely more interesting than a massive world you can run amok in where there’s nothing to do but run errands for NPCs and kill boss-level animals. Oh, and 💧climb lots and lots of really pretty but really pointless structures. Assassin stuff.
Like A Dragon: Infinite We꧂alth Review - Can’t Help Falling In Love
Like a Dr🍷agon: Infinite Wealth raises the bar in every way to take its rightful place as the new peak of the serie💟s.
When I started playing Yakuza: Like A Dragon later in 2023, I was immediately stressed out by the size of Yokohama’s Isezaki Ijincho district. Ijincho was much bigger than K💫amurocho – it felt like it took forever to navigate from one area of the map to another, and I couldn’t quite remember what the map looked like or where Kasuga’s regular haunts were. This feeling abated when I realised there were roughly the same amount of shops and things to do in Yokohama, so it was just Kamurocho with more overall landmass.
Not so in Infinite Wealth. The game’s world is very big – – inspired byꦅ the actual layout of Hawaii’s capital Honolulu. And yet, despite being multiple times bigger than Kamurocho, the city is extraordinarily dense with things to do. There 𝄹are stores everywhere that you can enter and shop at, restaurants to eat at, substories to pursue, and party chats to initiate.
I am never wandering through the streets bored and disoriented like I did in Ijincho. Infinite Wealth’s Honolulu ne🌟ver stops throwing things at you, and even more impressively, it never feels like it’s giving you things to do for the sake of it. Everything builds out a character or the world more comprehensively, and it sucks you into being fully emotionally invested in the game. This is no Ubisoft open world, it’s incredibly handcrafted and well-written.
And that, in a way, is more overw🦋helming. You can choose to give yourself a break from everything by just ignoring when things pop up so you can come back to them later, but if you’re like me and you get option paralysis, your introduction to Infinite Wealth’s Honolulu can be a bit of a shock. The first time I opened the map, I was staggered to find out that despite the area I’d alrea﷽dy covered, there was so much more of the map I hadn’t even unlocked yet. And there are icons peppered across every neighbourhood of this huge island, each of which expands the lore of the game a little more in significant and meaningful ways.
I want to do everything the game offers me because so much of it has story value and feels great to do. Speeding to specific spots on my segway just to chat with a party member about comic books is fun! But there is ju🍷st so much to do that it made my head hurt at first glance. I acclimated quickly, and you will too, but be warned – it’ll take you a long time to run out of things to do.
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth continues the story of Ichiban Kasuga, i🔴n the ninth mainline entry in the series formerly known as Yakuza. It will once again feature turn-based combat, and takes our protagonist outside of Japan for the first time.
- Developer(s)
- ♌ Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
- Platform(s)
- PS5, PS4, Xbox One, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, PC
