Judgment

Judgment

Released: December 13, 2018
Type: Main Game

Platforms:

PlayStation 4

Genres:

Role-playing (RPG) Adventure

Game Modes:

Single player

Themes:

Action Thriller Drama Mystery

Player Perspectives:

Third person

Ratings

User Rating

83.1
Based on 78 ratings

Critics Rating

82.7
Based on 14 ratings

Total Rating

82.9
Based on 92 ratings

Summary

Judgment is an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The game is a legal thriller set in the Yakuza world of Kamurocho and follows private detective Takayuki Yagami as he investigates a serial murder case. It stars Japanese actor Takuya Kimura and employs a fighting system similar to that of Yakuza 0 where players can change into different styles, namely crane-style which is more focused on fighting groups and tiger-style which is more focused on fighting individuals. Additionally, the game features an investigation mode where the player must find traces of the criminal.

Storyline

A lawyer pulls off a miracle, only to have the verdict cost him everything. Now, as a string of murders casts a shroud over the city and the law begins to fail, justice cannot afford to be blind.

The son of a murdered lawyer, Takayuki Yagami was raised on the streets of Kamurocho by a yakuza patriarch who paves the way for Yagami to follow in his real father's footsteps. Taking a job at the Genda Law Office, Yagami accepts a high-profile case: Proving Shinpei Okubo, a man suspected of murder, innocent.

Against all odds, Yagami succeeds and is hailed as a hero, but his prolific career is short-lived. Only months later, Okubo brutally murders his girlfriend, stabbing her over ten times with a kitchen knife before setting their apartment on fire.

Yagami becomes the lawyer who let a murderer walk - and everything he had worked for comes crashing down.

Three years later, Yagami has taken off his lawyer's badge to run a small detective agency in the red-light district of Kamurocho, scraping by on odd jobs and evidence collection.

But even a city as seedy as this is shaken by a string of serial murders, where the victims' bodies are discovered with their eyes gouged out. Yagami is drawn into the case by his old law firm, where he discovers that in order to bring this killer to light, he must seek the truth that slipped from his grasp three years ago. But can a man haunted by his failures prevail over his own past?

Involved Companies

Sega Games

Role:
Publisher

Sega

Role:
Publisher

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios

Role:
Developer

Game Engines

Dragon Engine

Keywords

martial arts detective dating mahjong murder mystery japan side quests

Alternative Names

Project Judge Judgement 審判之眼:死神的遺言

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