fuckkkk i love yakuza so much but it doesnt help that like a good 50% of this is pure sloggery, 3 gets a bad rep but that game has a massive cia conspiracy regarding the american occupation of okinawa, Mine, Rikiya, an emotional ass throughline w/ the orphanage, and a constant development of Kiryu, 4 starts with Akiyama and hes so lovable and fun to play as that when youre forced to drop all your progress, character development, etc to play as Taiga Saejima its just bluuuuuuuh who gaf, it helps that Saejima is likable but not when you have to play the dumbfuckery that is 2 whole chapters of prison breaking with the worst boss of all time, when u get back to kamoruocho the added areas and verticality feel so empty with the exception of when Saejima must use them for exploration but then they just feel like a slog, then after u do his shit u get stuck with maybe the worst protagonist in the series!? who care, then u get kiryu again who is quite literally just stuffed in as the fourth guy, theres no reason he should be here, but regardless his entrance picks shit up again so i cant complain, from there out it just returns to solidity, idk ! they shouldve just made an akiyama game ! the side stuff like the investigation for tanimura or that weird guy atop theater square get sidelined so hard when u stop awarding the full game length to them and instead limit it to a quarter, and empty rooftops never rly mattered! idk theres so much to change here least of all the absurdism which remains a series strength, worst game in the series, i still had fun, onto 5 then what ive been told is the best one (0)