First Yakuza spin-off I've played but loved the change in tone and approach to story telling with this game as opposed to mainline Yakuza. Yamagi rivals Kiryu as an MC and supasses him in some ways too.

The combat features the return of the style switching (even if only 2 styles) and is very enjoyable with each style offering diffrent gameplay styles and the heat actions are better than ever.

The story is one of the better constructed of franchise with very few forgetable characters or irrelavent plot points.

Only issues I had were the 'wounding' mechanic as I hate mechanics that lower Max HP along with the price for items that recover this being extremly epensive.

Reviewed on Feb 12, 2022


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