It's a decent game, let down by some wack combat that makes the crowd fights a drag. Out of the four RGG games I've played so far this easily has the worst combat, and that's including the original Yakuza. The game also has extremely long exposition dumps even for a Yakuza game which are doubly annoying if you're following a translated guide. I was a little tired of it towards the end for those reasons, so I would only recommend it to people who are planning on playing the series from start to finish. Getting to a new story beat was always interesting and the game has great characters, bosses, and music, so overall I liked it but wish the combat wasn't so stilted.