It took me WAY too long to finish this game (like 6 months) compared to other ones and that alone should tell you how much I didn't care for this game. It wasn't like Yakuza 3, where it was so bad I just wanted to finish it to never play it again. It was just really mediocre and boring at time. To give it credit where credit is due, some of the story is really good. Uh some side stories are fun ig, game looks very pretty (sometimes face models look off), some decent tracks here and there. Uhhhh what else. SPOILER WARINING AHEAD I think parts of the ending are incredibly strong and made me emotional, but are just then completely ruined when you realize, wait kiryu is literally on the cover of the newest game. So I think it was pretty pointless. END OF SPOILERS The rest of the story I really could not care for. Most of the characters I just forgot about or couldnt get that attached to. I guess it really doesn't help that I stopped playing this game for like 4 months. Regardless it should be on the game to keep me hooked. But okay what about the combat maybe thats good? Not really. It doesn't feel as satisfying as it does in kiwami 2 because this was the very first game on the brand new dragon engine. So in turn they didn't really know what to do with the combat yet so it just kinda feels a little flat. They added this new "extreme heat mode" that just made the game a lot easier. I was playing on hard yet the second I press RT, the game would essentially go into easy mode. There are really funny ragdolls and random engine things that can happen as a result, and those are always fun. Overall this game is a good conclusion to Kiryu's story that is kinda ruined by later games with new engine nonsense that makes it a slog to get through.