Pirate Yakuza has a lot of great things going for it, for one, this is some of the most fun action combat I've experienced in the series, it's so fun. Majima is my favourite Yakuza character and I'm really happy he has his own game dedicated to him - but I'll be honest, this story did hardly anything for me. I felt it was fairly barebones, especially in comparison to the rest of the franchise, even other spin-offs like Gaiden (which I felt had one of the better stories). The boat combat was also something I really really did not like, it was neat at first but by the end I was completely over how repetitive it was. The soundtrack is a masterpiece like always! Despite some negativity, overall I really did enjoy Pirate Yakuza, because even the worst Yakuza is still going to be at least an above average video game, that's no different here. It's my first ever Yakuza I've 100%'d and defeated an Amon, so I'm really happy with that. Sadly, it's also a very miss-able one that I really don't think like is a vital plot game to the overall Yakuza story. You can safely skip this if you're just playing Yakuza games for the full picture story, at least for now? That might change if the characters from it return and become integrated with the story of future games, but I would be really surprised if this is the case.

Tomb Raider 1 has aged about as well as I thought it would, it helps that I could disable the tank controls, but this didn't fix the combat which was just "run in circles while holding the shoot button". I also felt like the jumping was kind of inconsistent and tricky to pull off due to the pixel perfect level design. Despite this, it was satisfying to platform around and explore levels, I really did enjoy that aspect. I also loved that you could switch the graphics to the old style with the press of a button to compare the old with the new, really nice! still love the soundtrack don't ask me what the story was about