Improves upon 7 mechanically to an insane degree, and is great for tying up loose ends to Kiryu's story... but it's by far the weakest Yakuza since 4 besides that. The game is very strangely paced, story is unbelievably messy in part because of how sidelined Ichiban gets, and I kinda felt that the side content was generally less memorable than every other Yakuza in recent memory save for Judgment. It's a Yakuza game and therefore a lot of fun, but I genuinely cannot believe how this is the one that scored a 90 on Open Critic for how messy and undercooked a lot of it is.