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

Make friends,but remember to piss

When I was young, I wanted to escape TO the city

LOOK AT HOW HE CARRIES HIS LIL PLUG!!!!

There's a weird sense of melancholy that runs through this game. Time moves on, people change. No one is completely happy where they are, but they know it's a pretty good spot.

Oh my god the big flamethrower mech! Wall run into grenade throw into slide and shoot! The fucking level with a time travel button!!!!!!!!
I'm not a shooty person but every level in this game has a gimmick that fucking whips scrote

I played this game so often that I started having nightmares about it

I rented this so I stayed up all night to finish it and when I woke the next morn my wrist made literal crunching sounds when I moved it.

I played this for so long one weekend that my parents thought there might be something wrong with me

I decided to go back to university because I saw I spent ~300 hours on this game and decided my life needed to change