Yomi 2 Reviews

In order to appreciate Yomi 2, you need to have at least a PHD. You see, Yomi is a game made up of layers. In a fictional universe there is a fighting tournament. This exists only on a narrative level. The fictional tournament games exist within an arcade-style videogame in the vein of Street Fighter. However, this videogame is also a fiction. The real game, is actually a card game, representing the videogame, of the fictional martial arts tournament games. This is a real world card tabletop card game which exists independently of steam. However, we're not playing that here on steam, we're playing a videogame representation of that tabletop card game. Within the videogame representation of the tabletop card game, we have a fictional world, where Yomi 2 is a worldwide phenomenon and an esport played by all strata of society, from local card shops to televised matches. So there is a fictional Yomi 2 tabletop card game representing the real Yomi 2 card game, within the Yomi 2 videogame. This fictional yomi 2 tabletop game also has tournament games, wherein the fictional yomi 2 tabletop game representing the real yomi 2 tabletop game is competed in. So to summarize: we have a fictional fighting tournament game inside a fictional arcade game inside a real tabletop card game inside a fictional tabletop card game inside a fictional tournament inside a real videogame. And there are real world yomi 2 tournaments where real players play the videogame competitively. And we have all this in steam, which, as a platform, gameifies game ownership. So essentially, Yomi 2 is the single most abstracted representation of the concept of martial arts, which ever existed, layering reality upon fiction like a cake. Also it's pretty good, so check it out.

had my eye on this game for a while and was waiting for it to exit early access. Shouldn't of waited. This game rocks.