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karohemd-26726's rating
It was clear from the trailers that this wasn't going to be in any way related to the plot and characters of the games so I tried to watch it as a yakuza (lower case) series. It still didn't work. A main aspect of any film or TV show is that that the characters need to be engaging. I didn't care for any of them, one way or another.
The timeline jumps are confusing and there are far too many characters to keep track of.
There isn't even much going on or a plot to follow, it's just random scenes, one after another, which isn't helped by the flat characters. Nor is there much insight into Yakuza traditions, culture and procedures and of those there are, some of them are wrong.
Even Tokyo Vice does a much better job of portraying the Yakuza lifestyle.
I was hoping for something similar to the Fallout series which was brilliant: take the background/history/world from the games and tell a new story with it so you don't need to have played the games to understand what's going on. Everything looked like it did in the games.
In LaD:Y, all that atmosphere is missing. There isn't enough of Kamurocho (the real life Kabukicho). It just feels empty, nothing has character.
The timeline jumps are confusing and there are far too many characters to keep track of.
There isn't even much going on or a plot to follow, it's just random scenes, one after another, which isn't helped by the flat characters. Nor is there much insight into Yakuza traditions, culture and procedures and of those there are, some of them are wrong.
Even Tokyo Vice does a much better job of portraying the Yakuza lifestyle.
I was hoping for something similar to the Fallout series which was brilliant: take the background/history/world from the games and tell a new story with it so you don't need to have played the games to understand what's going on. Everything looked like it did in the games.
In LaD:Y, all that atmosphere is missing. There isn't enough of Kamurocho (the real life Kabukicho). It just feels empty, nothing has character.