As the Yakuza 6's biggest fan. My biggest fear going in was them to mess up it's ending. Suffice to say I was wrong. And I am glad I am wrong. (this part written before INFINITE F##### WEALTH)

Because They continued the Kiryu's story in the best way they could after all.

This is a story about a broken man getting tortured both physically and mentally 10 hours straight. He goes unbelievable amounts of pain more than any previous yakuza game just to keep his promise he gave at the end of 6 and he just does that with pain and all.

And when Kiryu started crying after all he sacrificed my tears started flowing like a river as well..........

Gameplay wise it felt unfortunately unbalanced. Felt like they put every crowd combat moveset in this one that feels damn amazing to clear millions of goons, especially more in this one because physics doesn't suck like k2 or 6(if you don't collide with objects that is), but unfortunately that resulted with one-on-one feel really unsatisfying in my opinion.

Because of every move we have is a wide slow attack, fighting with boss fights feels like uncontrollable chaos in a not so good way. It felt like your only options without getting damaged are using quickstep attacks or agent's rush combo with drones. They have a band-aid solution and that is heat actions do 10x more damage for some damn reason so I felt it was unsatisfying to fight with bosses compared to the lost judgment's careful strategic combo system.

But still I have to say I really enjoyed crowd combat and even the "new recycled" coliseum but with "clan creator" activity gave me immense fun to the point I finished almost every one of them just in chapter two and maxed Kiryu. Because new crowd control skills that comes with gadgets simply that much fun.

But still... like I said it's not perfect and couple of things bothered me a lot and those are... Why Dragon's Finishing throws exclusive to extreme heat mod??? Or why Agent's heavy attacks slower then a grandma crossing the road??? And lastly why the f... There is no speed upgrade??? That actually can improve the one-on-one combat you know.

Also new amon felt like more annoying version of Juzo from lost judgment ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ . What was I expecting anyway at least there is still an amon in this side game maybe I should be grateful.

Btw before I forget I want to talk about how crowded the expanded sotenbori in this game feels. I don't know if it's a pc thing but there are more npcs on the street like the older games and some of them even have unique animations. After the lost judgment's and y:lad's disappointing low number of npc count in Yokohama, this felt good and gave more of that alive world feeling.

If we look at everything again, like I said combat unfortunately felt like limited as Kaito because of the issues I told but even with this I still left the game with lots of enjoyment. After all they said it's just a little bit bigger then Kaito Files and because of that I didn't have big expectations and get what I expected.

But one thing I really can't accept and that is the fact that there is no new game plus... And NO! Premium adventure doesn't equal new game plus, it equals free-roam why the heck people think like that I really don't get it. This game have more long battles than lost judgment(hellll yesss). I just want to replay them with all of my abilities unlocked dammit!!!

Even with all of my complaints I still felt satisfied immensely. Especially because of the emotions this game gave... So only thing I can hope now is Like a Dragon 8 to be this good after all.

Edit: it didn't. It didn't even come close. Disrespect is real.