Oh we goin balls out with this one. This is ludicrously yakuzacore, it's just one of those games. If you boot up this entry with no prior context of its contents as I did, the first alarm set off is a missing core in the engine room. Where's Kiryu!! Well, he's doing what he ideally should, that is not getting lunch money by breaking noses in a land with free healthcare, but that was a good question raised tho.
Before we get to him, we have to explore the lives of more Kamurocho citizens appearing out of thin air. The first of those is Akiyama, he's that one uncle, it seems everything is wrong about him but factually there's actually nothing wrong he's just that G. The second is Saejima, I don't know why thugs even bother with this one, the third is Tanimura, the chinese government made him vanish for his controversial statements in 2010. These flawed men who can handle their liquor and cigs have their own story to tell, and stories told to, because this is where substories begin to have enough fuel in them to be enjoyable.
There's not a single good minigame shared globally, I make that distinction because I got Saejima to train a bum and it was fiiiiiye. That army guy's training was also fun. And that lady Tanimura is bruisin with after he said "donde esta el luego de la cagada" (his spanish sucks). Learning to fight is more enjoyable than actually fighting, that's not a foreign concept to the average behind the scenes fan, all catehories.
On another note, they did not miss with those final bosses. It felt so much like I was playing Yakuza 3's great combat again in an even smoother way. And yes, I beat the blowjob brothers AKA the Amon familia. First entry where I get to do so and boi did I die 15 times to the hammer guy and 0 times to the 2 others, i did lose like 3 times to Jo Mama but whateveeeeeer he had that hammer so it counts as a win for hammer guy. 7_7
Before we get to him, we have to explore the lives of more Kamurocho citizens appearing out of thin air. The first of those is Akiyama, he's that one uncle, it seems everything is wrong about him but factually there's actually nothing wrong he's just that G. The second is Saejima, I don't know why thugs even bother with this one, the third is Tanimura, the chinese government made him vanish for his controversial statements in 2010. These flawed men who can handle their liquor and cigs have their own story to tell, and stories told to, because this is where substories begin to have enough fuel in them to be enjoyable.
There's not a single good minigame shared globally, I make that distinction because I got Saejima to train a bum and it was fiiiiiye. That army guy's training was also fun. And that lady Tanimura is bruisin with after he said "donde esta el luego de la cagada" (his spanish sucks). Learning to fight is more enjoyable than actually fighting, that's not a foreign concept to the average behind the scenes fan, all catehories.
On another note, they did not miss with those final bosses. It felt so much like I was playing Yakuza 3's great combat again in an even smoother way. And yes, I beat the blowjob brothers AKA the Amon familia. First entry where I get to do so and boi did I die 15 times to the hammer guy and 0 times to the 2 others, i did lose like 3 times to Jo Mama but whateveeeeeer he had that hammer so it counts as a win for hammer guy. 7_7