Over the past couple years, I worried that I wasn’t ever gonna be able to relive the hype I had when I first played Yakuza 0 back in 2017. I thought that I could never ever feel that way again, until I played and finished this game.
This was my GOTY for 2021, truly a peak for RGG Studios. The game def has some stuff that may be iffy (some of those school mini games) but everything that works, and is good, is spectacular. The story I thought would not be as well done as it was, the gameplay is some of the best out of everything RGG has done, and the music is awesome as per the usual. Just if you can give this game a shot, you can prolly play this game without playing the first Judgment, but I recommend playing that one before going into this one, it does help.

I kept hearing that this game was either the worst thing ever, or better then Xenoblade 1, and I can confidently say that it's neither. I really enjoyed this game but a couple of it's systems were a bit odd and weird but the story was pretty good so it kept me playing. I appreciate that the gacha system in the game does not require you to buy core crystals if you run out since they tend to give you a steady supply of them but it sucks that you will mostly be getting common blades rather then rare ones even with using better crystals, or at the least that was what happened in my case. Overall, I thought it was worth playing especially in preparation for Xenoblade 3. Give it a try if you want to, and while you don't have to, I'd say play Xenoblade 1 before this one.