History VideoGame / LostJudgment

* StanceSystem: Like in the base game, Kaito has two fighting styles to pick from - Bruiser, which is an all-rounder that is Kaito's equivalent of [[Characters/YakuzaKazumaKiryu Kiryu's]] [[GoodOldFisticuffs Brawler]] style, and Tank, his version of [[MightyGlacier Beast]].

** The ministry of Health has gone under fire after the events of the first game and while Ichinose's replacement seems to be a good change to clear it up a lot of political enemies want to keep the corruption under another name.

*** Speaking of which, Tashiro recalls "The Golden Mouse" substory where he and Yagami fought Koga together along with Tamago (aka, "Mr. Try and Hit Me"), Ryan Acosta (who also returns in this game in another substory), and Ryo Suzaki quite fondly. Even going as far as adding their likenesses into Dice & Cube... albeit without getting their consent first.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:While the main story's ending is pretty bittersweet, the School Stories are unabashedly more optimistic. Yagami and Amasawa call upon all of the clubs that they've helped to seek out Itokura and free her from the clutches of the Neo Keihin Gang, and the CharacterDevelopment that got them to become far better people show in spades. In the end, the Neo Keihin fall (even though Soga comically swears revenge), and Itokura turns a new leaf after clearing the air with her former colleagues on the festival committee. The MRC resume their operations to see what other cases are left in store, and Yagami still intends to keep on his role at outside advisor after not just getting the chance to help out more people in need, but in finally getting a slice of high school life he wasn't able to as a teenager.]]

''Lost Judgment'' is the sequel to 2018's ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' SpinOff ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}''. It was released simultaneously worldwide on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX on September 24, 2021.[[note]]Those who preordered the Digital Ultimate Edition received it four days earlier on September 21st (Technically September 20th at 11:00 PM), 2021. [[/note]] A PC version was released on September 14, 2022, alongside the original game.

''Lost Judgment'' is the sequel to 2018's ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' SpinOff ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}''. It was released simultaneously worldwide on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX on September 24, 2021.[[note]]Those who preordered the Digital Ultimate Edition received it four days earlier on September 21st (Technically September 20th at 11:00 PM), 2021. [[/note]] A PC release was released on September 14, 2022, alongside the original game.

** During the moments you play as Saori, you can take out her phone to take selfies like in other games and even have goofy expressions. If Yagami is around, he'll start posing like other the party members in Like a Dragon will when they're in the shot.

* MarketBasedTitle: Subverted from the first game, which was called ''JUDGE EYES'' in Japan. ''Lost Judgment'' will be the game's title in all regions, albeit with a subtitle in Japanese.

* RevisitingTheRoots: As opposed to the mainline ''Yakuza'' series committing to the JRPG genre as of ''Like a Dragon'', ''Lost Judgment'' will carry on the series' patented action beat-'em-up gameplay, with all of the EX (Heat) Actions and ass-kicking that you'd expect.

* BattleStrip: The final battle features the first example of the Judgment games doing the Yakuza shirt rip, with [[spoiler:Shirakaba challenging Kaito for Mikiko and Kaito answering in response]].

* SadBattleMusic: {{Inverted}}. The theme for the final boss, [[https://youtu.be/8Yy6WY_c510 "決闘"]][[labelnote:English]] "Duel" [[/labelnote]], is actually a very uplifting and wistful track, which perfectly captures the feelings that Kaito and [[spoiler:Shirakaba]] have for Mikiko.

''Lost Judgment'' is the sequel to 2018's ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' SpinOff ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}''. It was released simultaneously worldwide on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX on September 24, 2021.[[note]]Those who preordered the Digital Ultimate Edition received it four days earlier on September 21st (Technically September 20th at 11:00 PM), 2021. [[/note]] A PC release was released on September 14, 2022, alongside with the original game.

** [[spoiler:In Chapter 7, Yagami ends up losing his phone after he's taken away by RK. Sure enough, during the third boss fight against Akutsu in the same chapter, pausing the game will instead do just that with the message, "You don't have a smartphone right now!", appearing on the screen.]]
** At the end of Chapter 8, [[spoiler: Kaito is put into the hospital after getting stabbed by Soma]]. Because of this, [[spoiler: Yagami will not be able to spar with him in the Boxing Club until he recovers a few chapters later]].

''Lost Judgment'' is the sequel to 2018's ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' SpinOff ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}''. It was released simultaneously worldwide on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX on September 24, 2021.[[note]]Those who preordered the Digital Ultimate Edition received it four days earlier on September 21st (Technically September 20th at 11:00 PM), 2021. [[/note]]

* CentralTheme: Actions and Consequences. A number of events in the game are a walking example of CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot due to people not taking their actions into account. It all started with Kaito running out on Mikiko to defend Matsugane honor, resulting in him being left single and her a mother married to another man. Shirakaba also grips onto this given that his [[spoiler:loveAtFirstSight with Mikiko caused him to hide the truth from her about her family for years.]] [[spoiler:But the worst offender is Kyoya Sadamoto, Mikiko's husband, who firmly believes MurderIsTheBestSolution, which ends with him killing dozens of people and him strangled to death by Kenmochi, a loyal friend he tricked into burning Mikiko's family alive that he poisoned.]]

*** The main villains of the game, RK, can be also compared to the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, both are crime organizations, which sprung from way more bigger and now-defunct organizations, which are the Tojo Clan and The Van respectively, and RK's leader, Soma, is basically Vicious and Mad Pierrot thrown into one highly-competent psychotic blade wielder who loves killing people.

** [[spoiler:During the "Curse of the Amasawa Family Heirloom" side case, Yagami is escorted by Amasawa while traversing the map between objectives. This acts as one of the only instances in the game where spoken dialogue is shared between Yagami and one of his allies, which is depicted with the same miniature dialogue boxes used during Party Chat segments from ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon''.]]

** [[spoiler:Soma is revealed to have been a former member of the [[VideoGame/Yakuza0 Nikkyo Consortium]]. "[[https://youtu.be/7NVanakpYXQ Money Makes Money]]" from the same game can be heard when Yagami and Kaito go see Consortium's former president.]]
* CuttingOffTheBranches: A minor example but Yagami mentions when talking to Tsukino (in the dlc) that the two of them became more than friends, implying she’s the canon girlfriend given there’s no mention of the other three. The reason they’re split is due to her moving and losing touch.

** The Seiryu Clan, the other major power barring the Liumang and Geomijul, are also a no-show aside from a few passing mentions. (You can't even access the immediate vicinity of their headquarters in this game like you could in ''Like a Dragon'', either.)
** Mafuyu also gets this treatment since she's only around for a few scenes as opposed to being more prominent in the previous game.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Yagami's still getting up to shenanigans judging by his text messages to Kaito. What little we hear of it indicates that he's chasing after a divorced father who kidnapped his son, that the search party somehow ran into a bear (which he implies he fought), and it ended with a chase on swan boats with Yagami peddling.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Kusumoto ultimately turns herself in for the murder of Kuwai at the cost of possibly never seeing her son again, but Mitsuru assures her he'll stand by her side. Kuwana goes into hiding so that Soma and Bando will face justice for their crimes, but Yagami seems to have given him a change of heart as he soon gives out an anonymous tip of the locations of the bodies he buried.]]

* SunglassesAtNight: Hoshino in the prologue, as part of an act. Senba mocks him for this and points out that wearing sunglasses at night makes him look even more suspicious.

** Compared to Yagami, if Kaito gets caught during [[StealthBasedMission stealth segments]], rather than leading to an instant GameOver, he can actually fight back and knock out the enemy who caught him, at the expense of some health (which can be easily restored) in doing so.