the biggest mistake was playing judgment before this game.
to be frank, this is the weakest yakuza game, in my opinion. the game looks beautful, the ost is memorable and i liked haruka's little family along with the onomichi yakuza guys, i liked what i saw of joon-gi han and that's...almost everything positive i can say about yakuza 6. the ending was really emotional though and would have a much bigger impact if they didn't like, put kiryu almost everywhere after 6, but i digress.
the combat sucks so bad. it's floaty and weird, with the power-ups not helping at all, combat is usually the most fun thing about these games but in 6 it falls so flat. it's tedious and buggy and the difficulty between mobs and bosses is uneven. some mobs felt harder to fight than the final boss lol. the side stories were okay, i liked the clan battles, they were fun.
the writing is the weakest in the whole rgg series. kiryu and the hiroshima gang were a nice sight to behold, though i think they had too much of an importance while the more important characters like majima or daigo got scuffed, not to mention how haruka lost all her agency she had in 5. the antagonists are evil for the sake of being evil, they felt pretty plastic and most of their aspirations were boring me, not to mention the final boss who is pretty much random and his fight felt so underwhelming compared to other rgg boss fights. the story is full of holes and nothing really feels genuine, some moments really did it for me but 90% of the story is just a big question mark.

if nothing this game gave me akiyama in a black suit and that's enough for a girl like me.