Rob Zacny from Waypoint compared it to a procedural detective show, with the main plot being the plot-heavy episodes, and the side stories being one off episodes. That seems super apt to me, it's phenomenally paced. Sometimes the Yakuza games feel like they're trying to be everything at once, but this one is focused down on the detective proceduralness of it all (plus vr board games). Probably the best thing from that team