It's worse than 2, which was worse than 1 imo. The combat is good, maybe the best in the series, but everything else feels half baked. Maybe it needed more development time, or maybe it was the switch limitations when working with unreal, either way it lacks several features past games had, like proper stages, different katanas, full clothes customization, etc. Open world returns and is bigger than ever, but there aren't that many side jobs and most areas are inaccessible, plus there are invisible walls everywhere. Side shops with iconic npcs like the gym are all gone.

Story is fun, but very shallow, all the cool stuff from TSA's visual novel sections is thrown away, sadly. Side characters barely get any attention at all. At times it feels like its hinting at things, but ends up going nowhere. Even compared to past games its too wacky for the sake of being wacky. And yet, it still entertains a lot.