What's worse than a port, LRG reselling you the same game already released on the console for an absurd price because they're using Xbox not getting a physical release as an excuse. Additionally, people are praising the Switch port of Kiwami, a game at one time that released on the PS3. What's sad is that yes, the PS3 ran at 30fps, but the Switch version has a 30fps cap which it struggles to maintain. Yet let's praise not only the Switch for a port, but a port that doesn't even run as well as a game that was released on hardware two generations ago.
I also find Kiwami to be worse than the original Yakuza. It's a poor implementation of the additional stances when they just throw extra enemies in many of the battles that the stances themselves aren't really designed around, so it just ends up like feeling like a poor man's Yakuza 0 rather than the game that started it all. Remaking the game and rebalancing the Dragon of Dojima combat system and allowing you to use the Yakuza 0 Dragon of Dojima from the start while having to gain all of the skills as you progress just like the original game would have been more enjoyable, because even on Yakuza Kiwami, the Dragon of Dojima stance is so weak that it's unusable most of the game until you are to build it up. Even Yakuza 0 Dragon of Dojima style was weak because you have to invest so much time and money into making it more powerful that when you finally get to actually use it you're done with most of the games content and have beaten the game 20 hours ago. So the fact that Kiwami's Dragon of Dojima still sucks, it's just a poor experience only made that much worse now that it struggles to even play on the Switch.
Or Sega going through LRG to sell the complete edition of Valkyria Chronicles 4, so instead of paying a reasonable price 37 years after release with all DLC, we can get f'd over and pay for the game and the fluff DLC for $40 more than the standard version of the game costs to buy brand new this very day.
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