Over 20 gb of space for cabaret and no new game plus wtf rgg? This game pissed me off before even starting it.
It saved itself with the story which, being more relevant to Kiryu's journey, managed to be what Yakuza 6 should have been while also being a great sequel to it, with the ending being just perfect.
The combat is fluid when dealing with thugs and there's some cool setpieces, especially the final one, unfortunately i don't really like their new boss design which started with the Dragon Engine, just tanking and stacking damage upgrades and gear is not very fun gameplay, and yet it seems the intended way to fight bosses considering they all have hyper armor and your combos costantly get interrupted. It's telling that they tried to recreate bosses from Yakuza 2 but they're not as good and infinetely more jank than in that game(2006 btw). Heat actions are also still lacking in both quantity and quality.
The sidecontent ranges from fun stuff like the coliseum and a few standout substories, to fetch quests and mindless goons beating. Unfortunately this bleeds in the very expensive upgrade system which requires you to actually do all those filler quests, combine that with the lack of new game plus and it completely killed the replayability this game could have had.
It saved itself with the story which, being more relevant to Kiryu's journey, managed to be what Yakuza 6 should have been while also being a great sequel to it, with the ending being just perfect.
The combat is fluid when dealing with thugs and there's some cool setpieces, especially the final one, unfortunately i don't really like their new boss design which started with the Dragon Engine, just tanking and stacking damage upgrades and gear is not very fun gameplay, and yet it seems the intended way to fight bosses considering they all have hyper armor and your combos costantly get interrupted. It's telling that they tried to recreate bosses from Yakuza 2 but they're not as good and infinetely more jank than in that game(2006 btw). Heat actions are also still lacking in both quantity and quality.
The sidecontent ranges from fun stuff like the coliseum and a few standout substories, to fetch quests and mindless goons beating. Unfortunately this bleeds in the very expensive upgrade system which requires you to actually do all those filler quests, combine that with the lack of new game plus and it completely killed the replayability this game could have had.