Why I shouldn’t have: Because it’s a 60fps bloody Yakuza game set in the goddamn post-apocalypse and it has muthaf***ing Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, son!

Oh yeah, and TGS 2018 got in the way too. Why I missed it: September 2018 was chock-filled with a ton of games that needed my obligatory attention: Marvel’s Spider-Man, Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country, Valkyria Chronicles 4 (again, another game on our LTTP list), Dragon Quest XI, and a couple more. Once he manages to get in after a series of ass-kicking circumstances, he becomes the kingdom’s errand boy, doing missions while also learning North Star techniques to up his game.īasically, it’s a Yakuza game in Fist of the North Star post-apocalyptic dressing. Ass-kicker Kenshiro is out looking for his lost love after finding out she’s alive and in the city of Eden. The premise: It’s a retelling of the first half of Fist of the North Star. So let’s start off with one of last year’s criminally-underplayed hit game from Sega which involves a ton of fisticuffs and bartending… Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise Of course, that doesn’t excuse us at Kakuchopurei from missing out on some treasured gems of last year, which is why I’m crafting this one column to talk about the hits of yesteryear. Or they don’t take too much stock in their real lives and social obligations. And as much as some people will tell you that they have time to play & finish all the games in 2018 like it’s some badge of pride when covering games (it isn’t), they’re obviously lying. I’ve been at this games writing business for a lot of years.

Next gen fist of the north star game