Played with the menu translation mod, and by following egomaniac's Let's Play and ThePatrick's guide. Sometimes more trouble than it was worth to do the side stuff (gave up on substories in the middle of Chapter 9) but a great set of locations just to spend time wandering around in. Coming straight from Yakuza 3 to this, I think the fact I couldn't say that about the Okinawa areas was my issue with that part of that game more than anything. This actually make me appreciate 3 less as this came out the year before but seems ahead of it in some QoL ways. Combat feels much better too but could be because of how the Remaster supposedly broke the combat in 3. Though despite the character's whole deal being his two sword style, I always found it more fun to fight with just the one.