Congratulations for finishing this one!
It does sound like a treat that SEGA kept giving players the Judgement spinoffs and Gaiden to keep the beat-em-up style living on after the seventh main game changed to the RPG gameplay, and the way you describe the story on the surface sounds like it was quite worth getting to the end after all.
Hope you get to enjoy Lost Judgement soon 😄
Hahaha I just started Lost Judgment, and damnn, the gameplay there is even better.
Judgment was a real treat, RGG Studios has to have brought up all their guns to impress me with Lost Judgment but first impressions are great.
And yeah, whilst I totally loved the RPG format, it's great that we're still getting beat em up's, specially since they seem to have absolutely perfected the formula. The "flow like" combat is soooo satisfying.