Havent played it does it have old men kissing

I don't know what you think about the villains but uh oh... they, the Villains sucked hard bad for me

i have been stunlocked by the ending and how bad the final villains are for over an hour and a half. Very conflicted on this game. There are a lot of highs but the lows are some of the worst. If they don't fix the pacing issues of trying to make a yakuza game but its a 50-100 hour jrpg i don't know if i want to keep playing this series.

I agree pacing is ATROCIOUS

If they try to convert long battles like they were in the old games like they did in this game (going from the docks/mall back to little japan) in 9 and beyond i am going to lose my mind

My main issue is that the game wants to be longer and bigger than it actually is, the pacing is slow in the 2nd half but than they realize they gotta wrap up a story so the pacing begins sprinting to the end.

another thing that kinda sucks is that the Life links feels very disconnected from the story

(edit from my comment) *i meant to say 1st half

Yeah the life links that are post the tv broadcast that can only be done in chapter 12 are a huge disconnect. Still like what they did with Kiryu (outside of the final chapter that shit is ASS). Game is too long for its own good because it constantly pulls you away from the main story for side content. There is nothing wrong with all that side content but be more like 5 where it wasn't sending you on multiple hour long side quests for sujimon or the dondickle island as part of the main story. If i wanted to do those things i would seek them out myself and not be roadblocked from the main plot and forced to do them first. IW does this at least 6 times