I am defeated. Pushed for way too long but this is one of the most boring easy braindead games I've ever played. The story is yapping over utterly meaningless fluff gangster dialogue. The game is the most baby easy shit I've ever seen, and yes I'm playing on hard. I spam X and punch every single enemy and win just about every single encounter without getting hit once (often they don't even try to attack me once(yes this is on hard)). There are minigames that are pretty well polished so there's that I guess. The town is extraordinarily boring considering that this is like the 6th game in the series or something? Persona 5 came out a year later and the town in that is incredible... Yakuza 0 is the 6th iteration and is a million times more boring and soulless. Mash X, watch so many cutscenes that would make MGS4 blush, and go through 50 identical convenience stores and restaurants.

I wasn't expecting much and I was right. Boring and soulless. Nice facial models though!