Yeah, it's kinda just more Yakuza. But at this point, I don't think any of us really want more than that. My absolute favourite thing about this series is how Ryu Ga Gotoku are so unabashedly based. These dudes have retired Kiryu like 9 times at this point. They rebranded the whole franchise and centred it around a new protagonist. Hell, they even switched up the gameplay style so it was a turn-based RPG. Yakuza 6 was a whole-ass game about how Kiryu was retiring and moving away from his life as the big donny of the Yakuza world, with the team even going as far as to create the Judgement series as a means of continuing the legacy of his beat-em-up style gameplay.
And then three years later they're like, actually, no. Kiryu is too cool and sexy and awesome. How dare we retire this man. And instantly you're back to some scene where Kiryu's spouting shit like "I'd rather die standing on my feet than live cowering on my knees" and fighting some jacked shirtless man who wants to eviscerate all of Japan because of some wacky backstory that takes seven years to explain. And goddamn it, I'll be here for it every time.
Because it can have the same repetitive combat system, dialogue sections that are like seven minutes of one character repeating the same thing over and over, and convoluted lore that makes me want to cry whenever Kiryu spends 10 minutes trying to recap which disgruntled ex-genocidal Yakuza boss we're facing. At this point, I kinda just roll with it, because I'll still pop the fuck off every time I see that one scene where Kiryu rips his shirt off and drops a cold-ass one-liner about the nature of honour, and somehow punches another man's fist dead-on like he's in a sword fight.
And then three years later they're like, actually, no. Kiryu is too cool and sexy and awesome. How dare we retire this man. And instantly you're back to some scene where Kiryu's spouting shit like "I'd rather die standing on my feet than live cowering on my knees" and fighting some jacked shirtless man who wants to eviscerate all of Japan because of some wacky backstory that takes seven years to explain. And goddamn it, I'll be here for it every time.
Because it can have the same repetitive combat system, dialogue sections that are like seven minutes of one character repeating the same thing over and over, and convoluted lore that makes me want to cry whenever Kiryu spends 10 minutes trying to recap which disgruntled ex-genocidal Yakuza boss we're facing. At this point, I kinda just roll with it, because I'll still pop the fuck off every time I see that one scene where Kiryu rips his shirt off and drops a cold-ass one-liner about the nature of honour, and somehow punches another man's fist dead-on like he's in a sword fight.