Yakuza: Like a Dragon has a strong storyline, awesome cast of characters and the same Yakuza-fare chill and grind sidequest galore gameplay tweaked up with a Dragon Quest esque battlesystem, even with a fully fledged job system.
As far as sidequests goes there's a lot of great stuff from some of the BEST substories in the series, rich selection of Arcade games, a frikkin indepth Yakuza Kart minigame, amongst a list of other cool minigames.
Enemy variety is great and the job system adds so much different styles and flavours to your preffered playstyle. There's a lot of replay value here.
That's not to say there isn't a few bumps and rough spots with some slow middle chapters as well as some strong spike hit towards the final chapters.
Some of the late game bossfights can be pretty unfair and rough to deal with, so be prepared to potentially game over, lose a few hours and then grind up different jobs to get approriate skills to avoid sponge battles and to counterplay some enemy skills. The process around it can be pretty infuriating, but for me it was only one particular instance this was pretty jarring.
Enemies also respawns super fast in the city areas, so unless you nabbed a battle encounter negate accessory you will be forced to do a lot of battles.
Some jank and hinders aside, Everything great about the series is represented here with new fun twist and turns which for the majority of the game hits right at home.
As far as sidequests goes there's a lot of great stuff from some of the BEST substories in the series, rich selection of Arcade games, a frikkin indepth Yakuza Kart minigame, amongst a list of other cool minigames.
Enemy variety is great and the job system adds so much different styles and flavours to your preffered playstyle. There's a lot of replay value here.
That's not to say there isn't a few bumps and rough spots with some slow middle chapters as well as some strong spike hit towards the final chapters.
Some of the late game bossfights can be pretty unfair and rough to deal with, so be prepared to potentially game over, lose a few hours and then grind up different jobs to get approriate skills to avoid sponge battles and to counterplay some enemy skills. The process around it can be pretty infuriating, but for me it was only one particular instance this was pretty jarring.
Enemies also respawns super fast in the city areas, so unless you nabbed a battle encounter negate accessory you will be forced to do a lot of battles.
Some jank and hinders aside, Everything great about the series is represented here with new fun twist and turns which for the majority of the game hits right at home.