Very good baton pass from the kiryu saga (even if we now know that is gonna happen for real in Y8), both in story and gameplay. The forced grind section made me drop the game on my first playthrough, and sadly random difficulty spikes still return (the boss before the actual final boss has insanely high hp and an inevitable one hit K.O. move that he can use on ichiban). But i still find it worth to go through it all for the insanely gripping narrative.