Posted on 01/02/2020 at 12:07 AM
| Filed Under Blogs
7 is its own thing, so no you don't really.
Let me also say, if you feel the need to play the entire series so you can understand the story, the games do a pretty good job of recapping things in subsequent entries and the themes and characters are consistent enough I doubt you'd be "lost" entirely.
Having said that, I'm playing through 4 now, 5 when it releases in the remastered collection and plan to go back through all of them to pick up any substories or minigame achievements I actually want to do and missed (Including that %$#@!^&*(ing Mahjong substory in Judgement I hope I can just find a damn item for cause I do not understand that game).
But yeah, to my knowledge 7 is a new thing. I don't think 1-6 are required for it.