This was a game I desperately wanted to love. The Like a Dragon from 2020 is one of my favorites from the last few years. The story, characters, and spirit were all, and still are, high points of the genre for me, especially Ichiban.

I never played any of the other Yakuza games that featured Kiryu and this is definitely what tripped me up on Infinite Wealth. Halfway through the game the party gets split, setting up alternating chapters where Ichiban and Kiryu are the main characters. Making you play through an extended introspective and recollective chapter for several hours as Kiryu kind of killed the flow of the game for me, and I was not really invested in his character or a re exploration of the previous games city.

The first 7 chapters in Hawaii are as wonderful as ever for this game, the spirit and characters are alive and well here.

Hoping to maybe come back to this down the road.