By far my least favourite Yakuza game and the only one I can confidently say I will never replay. A lot of the issues with Yakuza 4 are carried over and amplified in Yakuza 5 due to the bigger scale of the game. It's overly ambitious to its own detriment and tries to do too many things all at once only to end up being an unenjoyable mess. The story is overloaded with too many important side characters and so long that after a point I started to lose track of who's who. The game definitely overstays its welcome and I was so ready for it to be over before I even got to Shinada's part but they kept introducing new characters and conflicts and I lost interest. Some of the individual sections like Haruka/Akiyama and Kiryu's were good while others like Saejima's straight up sucked. Maybe the side content is alright; I wouldn't know since I was so bored and fed up with the game thanks to the main story that I barely did any of it.