Yakuza Series Will Remain a Turn-Based RPG Series Going Forward
(nichegamer.com)
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Which makes it a bargain bin title for me instead of a pre-order one. As much as I like turn based games, there are already plenty available. Though it is kind of funny that people want Final Fantasy to have action combat because turn based is 'old and boring', but Yakuza goes from action beat 'em up to turn based JRPG and everyone loves it.
Though an argument for this I've seen a lot is that the previous style is boring because you spam the same 1-2 moves over and over. Failing to realize that selecting the same 1-2 moves over and over from a menu is even less exciting than having to time your Tiger Drop.
I don't think anyone but Square and games journos think that. We haven't had a proper turnbased FF since FFX in the mainline, and that was near 20 years ago.
I don't know Yakuza well enough to comment on the change, but Turn Based is basically a dead genre in the AAA sphere, and nearly every series that was founded on it went action based in the last decade. Which might be why people liked it here.
I think its a nice change of pace but it did get a bit repetetive near the end between how big the city was and how many enemies there were.