Fun story. Story somehow makes sense... yeah the damn zombie story...? Unfortunately characters isn't that memorable tho. Including Ryuji, because he is here mostly because cleaning up his mens mess rather than for a interesting reason. Also he felt like sad depressing man to me. He turned into less talk, more work kind of person, but that's undestandable after the events in yakuza 2... actually in this game yakuza 2 ending events not entirely happened, so it's actually alternate universe story I think. But that's not a bad thing, at least with that it manages to suprise you in some places with the story. I can even go as far as to say if you like fanservice you will have fun with this game because this game references past events more than y3,y4 and y5.
But unfortunate thing is gameplay is soo repetitive and boring. Think about shooting in yakuza games, do you think it would be fun if you remove all the melee weapons and combos from the game and only left the shooty shoot weapons. Do you think it would be fun? No. It's not. For the whole game only thing you do is go into a corner, lock on and shoot. You do this to mindnumbing degree and the game ends. Also there is a bad side to this. Everytime new character becomes playable, a quarter of the map goes zombie mod, what this means is you can't fast travel to that point in the map anymore(so near the end of the game fast travel completely removed from the game), also this means is substories waste your time so much with forcing you to walk everywhere again and again and again. Actually substories is pretty fun because they are filled with fanservice but I don't know who would want to complete every one of them when you are required to walk the whole map again and again. Maybe it's not feels bad when you think about it but I didn't say one detail to you and that is, zombie kamurocho have a different design than regular kamurocho. What this means is, in zombie kamurocho half of the roads and streets are closed so game is filled with invisible barriers so you have to use same 3 alleys again and again and again to get somewhere in this game. I am not kidding. It's that bad. Like I said this game is so repetitive that it's mindnumbing. Just open youtube and watch the cutscenes I am not kidding.
But unfortunate thing is gameplay is soo repetitive and boring. Think about shooting in yakuza games, do you think it would be fun if you remove all the melee weapons and combos from the game and only left the shooty shoot weapons. Do you think it would be fun? No. It's not. For the whole game only thing you do is go into a corner, lock on and shoot. You do this to mindnumbing degree and the game ends. Also there is a bad side to this. Everytime new character becomes playable, a quarter of the map goes zombie mod, what this means is you can't fast travel to that point in the map anymore(so near the end of the game fast travel completely removed from the game), also this means is substories waste your time so much with forcing you to walk everywhere again and again and again. Actually substories is pretty fun because they are filled with fanservice but I don't know who would want to complete every one of them when you are required to walk the whole map again and again. Maybe it's not feels bad when you think about it but I didn't say one detail to you and that is, zombie kamurocho have a different design than regular kamurocho. What this means is, in zombie kamurocho half of the roads and streets are closed so game is filled with invisible barriers so you have to use same 3 alleys again and again and again to get somewhere in this game. I am not kidding. It's that bad. Like I said this game is so repetitive that it's mindnumbing. Just open youtube and watch the cutscenes I am not kidding.