As someone who adored DSR, I hated this game. It's not a bad game at all. The combat is slightly more fluid and the customisation options offer much more variety. In addition, some bosses are pretty cool. However, x3 more enemies in each area, the excessive amount of ambushes and traps, at least half of the chests being mimics and so on make this game easily overwhelming and even, annoying at some point. It feels like this game is solely made for people to rage on Twitch. When it comes to the original fanbase in the era, the game provides tons of fan service mainly from the first game even though according to the lore, it takes place many years later. However, even this fails to save the day.

Thanks to its great story, story telling and quality of life improvements over the previous 2 games, it has become one of my favourite FPS-es alongside Bioshock Infinite. Some people don't like it due to the new crafting system and its semi-open-world and say that it's nothing like previous games. But believe me, the Novossibirsk chapter feels a lot like the first game. So I believe they decided to go this way just to remain loyal to the book instead of getting into a research for marjinal ideas out of the blue. Last but not least, the finale was very emotional and heartbreaking.

I can absolutely recommend.

Although it's apparently the shortest Yakuza game to date, the game is absolutely fantastic. The story basically tells what happened to Kiryu around the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. While it feels quite good most of the time, the ending was so sentimental and heartbreaking. Poor Kiryu...

When it comes to combat, the new Agent style brings marvels against huge groups while the Yakuza style (like several other features I'll mention) mostly brings you back to Yakuza 0 or Kiwami again which I've truly missed. In addition, they also kept the heat mode from Yakuza 6 which, gives a great advantage against bosses in this game. On the other hand, bringing back many things such as Pocket Circuit, skill upgrade through money etc. makes you relive Yakuza 0 and Kiwamis in a very good way. If this is a fan service, then Square Enix should play it and see how it's done. cough Final Fantasy VII Remake cough

Lastly, the substories were also great. At least 3-4 of them contain big references to Yakuza Kiwami 2. While one of them hosts a sweet crossover, there is even a substory where ChatGPT is satirised just like how the same thing happened to Siri back in Yakuza 6.

The combat is one of the greatest in the series. But firstly, as someone who was subject to bullying in the past, I find the way the story handles the concept of bullying abysmal and naive. On the other hand, side activies are basically the same as the previous while the amount of side stories are much lower. Given that it also uses the same maps as Yakuza Like A Dragon, it is clear that there is not too much effort put in development. Therefore, I don't see the point of this game costing 60€ while its predecessor costs 40 and offers more content.

Overall, I felt like I played Yakuza 4 with much better combat and better graphics all over again given many similarities such as the snake style, constant blocking by enemies and the final chapter where a million guys are spawned at the same time and bosses are demi gods.