Really good Yakuza game.

Mostly criticized for its greatest virtue, the fights. If something can be upgraded in yakuza games (at least the ones I've played 0, 1 and 2) is the fighting system, really good but without any challenge, you can just smash the same combo non stop and kill everyone, stacking health items and weapons that you almost don't even need, etc.

Yakuza 3 has not an extreme technical fight system, it's just that it makes you try to perform different actions, look for enemies back, try to break their guard, counterattack, etc. For me it's the one with the most entertaining fights, not a challenge by themselves because this is not a saga for that but at least you can't fight with just a mental macro (with the exception of some ultimate battles and some enemies like the Amon bros or some bosses).

Apart from that that is the most discussed side of Y3 (wrongly) the story is as always really engaging and moving, as the substories and with the addition of Okinawa and its relaxing summercoast vibe, taking care of the kids and so.

Amazing game at the level of the saga.