I've been playing this game on my Xbox Series S and playing Lost Judgement for quite a bit and last night while playing it hit me like a ton of bricks...
This game is about a guy running around Japan in a leather jacket, white T-shirt, spiky hair and jeans trying to solve a murder. A game that doesn't rush itself either in story. The studio that made this game was spun off from the same team that made Shenmue I and II. Folks, this game is Shenmue reincarnated 20 years later. Even some of the music sounds similar. This is a new, edgier concept of what Shenmue was and is.
Then looking at my Series S, the white controller which looks similar to the Dreamcast controller and the machine that looks similar as well, this console is Dreamcast reincarnated 20 years later.
It all lives here and that realization made me extremely happy. Perhaps this was already realized here but I haven't been active here like I was in the past and just wanted to share that personal realization. :)
It is NOT 'mue reincarnated.
Not. even. *******. close.
EDIT* To elaborate:
1. Yagami does NOT have spiky hair.
2. The team is NOT spun off from AM2, the team is basically the modern day AM4/Amusement Vision and outside of Nagoshi, has nothing to do with AM2 or 'mue's production.
3. 'mue is an Action-Adventure title, centered on exploration and fact-finding. Judge Eyes is an actual DETECTIVE game, placed over a Beat-'em-Up and has multiple fighting systems that make use of the game's engine, where you gather evidence, take photographs, interview witnesses/victims and put together a case, in the game's interface. 'mue has you doing none of that, not to mention that the fighting styles are on a separate engine, that is not seamless and fluid with the in-game engine itself.
4. The game came out on the PS4 first, not Box.
5. No console, Box, PS or otherwise, is the DC reincarnated.
It's nice to FEEL that way towards the game and all, but no, this completely plays into the hands of the, "Yakuza is Shenmue but newer/better," crowd and outside of some conceptual/visual-style similarities and Nagoshi's involvement, the two franchises have nothing to do with each other.