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RYU GA GOTOKU STUDIOS (YAKUZA, JUDGMENT)
If you were to just pass a casual glance at any cutscene from the Yakuza or Judgment games, you would be confused about RGG Studios’ placement on this list. It makes sense- on a surface level, the cutscenes look silly, overacted, and over-the-top. However, when you view them in context of the games, they become a lot more potent and effective. Matching the tone of the games, their characters, and their stories perfectly, the cutscenes manage to straddle the line between being serious and high stakes, and goofy and silly all at once. That they do it so well and so consistently without inducing any whiplash is ultimately what makes RGG Studios masters of the craft.
