This is my entry to the Yakuza series and this game got me so excited to continue my journey. I absolutely loved it from start to finish. I initially bought this game because my friend sent a Han Joon Gi gif in the chat and I needed to know more about the man and here I am now.

The characters were all so amazing and I was especially surprised to find out about Zhao! He's definitely my favourite with Joongi, I love how insane he is and I love his design and I love both his ENG and JP voices actors, they were both perfect casting. (robbie daymond supremacy!!!). Kasuga is such a good protagonist and I also love how they portrayed the women in this game, like RGG is absolutely eating this up damn!

From chapter 1-11 I was playing in Japanese, until I switched in chapter 11 to finish with the eng dub because of Robbie Daymond and let me tell you how much I loved both of them so much. Kasuga's english voice actor surprised me so much he was excellent. I absolutely loved Matt Mercer as Majima too and only realized it was him after the credits! His laugh was awesome. Everyone did so well I got really emotional at times! Also Joongi's english voice really grew on me over time, he sounds so cute in the dub I love him so much. And then in JP you have... gojo satoru and it's as awesome.

The music is really fantastic, the karaoke too (my personal favourite being Hell Stew because Robbie obviously ate that one up). War maker, Yokohama crackhouse, Answer from Geomijul.... I could name so many of these battle themes, honestly this game is definitely on top of my list of games with the best battle music along with FFX.

I loved the bond stuff, I loved the substories, the comedy, the minigames, everything was so fun!

Some of my icks were the repetitiveness of the business management, pretty boring to farm for money, sadly. Also I don't remember which chapter it was but the one you go through the whole underground was so unnecessary! And lastly is the Tendo fight, super long, boring and badly made but I'll forgive RGG cause they usually don't do turn-based combat.

The story just got better and better the more you went on in the game. From the moment you met Han Joon Gi, I got really hooked it and then even more later on with all those awesome characters and plot twists and such.

I'm insanely excited to continue my adventure and I will be playing Yakuza 0 right after. I'm already excited to reach Infinite Wealth once it comes up so I can see more of my dear pookie bears I love so much. But I will definitely enjoy 0 to 6 and Gaiden and then enjoy Infinite Wealth even more!

Edit after playing more to get the platinum. I fucking love this game to death. Upping my rating to 5 stars.

Reviewed on Nov 12, 2023


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