The extremely slow opening with endless cutscenes and slow walking segments did almost lose me but I strapped in for a game ripe with a really fun beat em up fighting sections and a really engaging crime drama with memorable characters. There's so much to do outside of the story and while every minigame didn't really grab me, it's insane how well polished they made them with the amount of variety on display. This game's presentation is crazy good with timeless visuals and riffing with such a stylistic.

I did feel the combat could get a bit clunky at times especially with some of the later segments plus the awkward delay when switching between styles ruining the flow of combat and the downtime in certain sections like with excessive cutscenes and barely interactive dialogue quests did bore me. However I really overall dug this game and am excited to get into the rest of this seriesm