Gonna start by saying this is still one of the best games we got in this year and I enjoyed a lot of my time with it, but man I feel like the hype of the trailers regarding the story and Kiryu's part set my expectations for it way too high, cause I found myself underwhelmed with the game around the endpoint.
Gameplay is an insane improvement from 7, proximity range my beloved, didn't feel like I had to grind a lot to be able to actually progress, only times I struggles the most were during the chapter with the two cranes and the millenium tower, the default jobs are great, but a little too great cause I didn't feel like actually trying out other jobs as a result outside of just how funny they look
Average Yakuza OST W as always not much to say about it, The Four my goat 🔥
Story had a nice start, character writing is great as always, and I loved Ichiban's relationship with Tomizawa and Chitose, but the story took an absolute dive around the last few chapters where it just started having too many antagonists and too many thread reveals and too many surprised, literally 5 but more bloated (and not as cool), half the time I literally forgot some characters cause they just disappeared never to be seen again until the game suddenly reminds you of them
Substories and Bucket List was honestly a dissapointment, outside of some of the well written ones like Ichiban's rivalry with the MMA streamer and the Bucket List with Date and reconciling with Akiyama and the taxi guy from Yakuza 5 , most of them felt too flat to me or too samey, Bucket List is literally just a fucking slideshow of Kiryu going to random areas and being greeted with a png from a past game, with SOME of them being designed like actual substories, albeit still falling flat in my opinion
Despite the flaws it's still a great game, I just wish the story didn't feel half baked around the last few chapters......
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