Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files
Play as the muscle of the Yagami Detective Agency, Masaharu Kaito, and take on a new case that ties up loose ends of his past in The Kaito Files. Kaito brings his own Primal Focus detective techniques and two…
Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files is an adventure developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, released 28 March 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files is
Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2022. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Dragon Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as the muscle of the Yagami Detective Agency, Masaharu Kaito, and take on a new case that ties up loose ends of his past in The Kaito Files. Kaito brings his own Primal Focus detective techniques and two beastly fighting styles to challenge new foes and crack the case with a distinct Kaito swagger. Following the events of Lost Judgment, Kaito starts a lucrative case while Yagami is out of town that unexpectedly has him searching for his old flame, Mikiko. Along the way, Kaito encounters a teenager claiming to be their son and team up to uncover the truth behind Mikiko's disappearance. Now Kaito stands at the crossroads of past and present while up against a syndicate tied to…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery, open world and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files is the 57th of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Like a Dragon: Ishin! - Digital Deluxe Edition in 2023.
What it launched against
Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files launched on 28 March 2022, within three weeks of Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
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