I have not fully yet, and no I don't like any Yakuza games for basically every reason, but from a story telling stand point Lost Judgment looks interesting and very different from Yakuza, it actually looks like it takes itself seriously and has something to say in it's story telling, which I don't see in the Yakuza titles. I did notice the fighting mechanics seem to be the same from a little bit of the gameplay I saw on youtube, but that may be tolerable if the story is solid, deep and compelling and if the main character is likable. I'm not going to draw any other comparisons to Yakuza because unbeknownst to me my post asking people about their thoughts on the upcoming Lost Judgment game has been moved from its own thread in General Gaming to the Yakuza thread. I intentionally didn't post it here hoping to get a differentiating view of opinion from people who possibly don't come into the Yakuza thread because they don't care for it and not everything needs to be lumped in with the Yakuza franchise just because its from Sega or the same studio. Of course the response of opinions, thoughts and feelings here will be overwhelmingly one sided since I can't imagine non-Yakuza fans being on this thread. I'm also not a fan of coming into a thread or a forum and shitting all over the topic at hand if others are sharing in their love for something, but since I didn't share this in the Yakuza thread it is what it is.
@Your Boy Leroy how does the original Judgment compare to Yakuza outside of the graphics, fighting mechanics and studio behind it? Does it really feel like a clone of Yakuza or is there actually some character development and moral to the story with Judgment? From what I've seen the original Judgment doesn't look too bad, but Lost Judgment looks fairly good.