There's so much good to this game, the story and characters are created with amazing care, the graphics are breathtaking, the performances, the music, basically everything is immaculate.

In an incredibly subjective way, I didn't like the road they took with the gameplay, it works but it just didn't feel right how the game is balanced around melee weapons combat instead of the old "solve problems with fists" style that yakuza has always had; in the other games the weapons always felt special, an extra to spice up the fight with new heat moves or just movesets, this game takes the opposite approach, the game wants you and demands you to use weapons if you wanna feel like you're playing the game correctly.