Fucking amazing game. I went into this game kind of unsure if this new gameplay style and Ichiban as a character would be good for the Yakuza series, but it worked out so well. Gameplay is really fun to learn and I'm very glad it has timed hits, where you press a button at a certain time to block and do more damage. That makes combat so much more interesting. I will say that I do think that once Kiryu and others come in, it does stray away from Ichiban a little bit, but it goes right back to him after. Overall, I love the new like a dragon engine, characters, and although I will miss the original combat in Yakuza, the new turn based combat is super fun and a welcome addition

Game visually is one of the best out there and it takes some of the best features from all Fromsoft games out there and puts them in. The problem I have is that they take some of the crappy features as well. There are WAY too many bosses in this game, most of them just being common enemies with ramped up health. Enemies delaying their attacks for so long is not a fun thing to play against, sure you can adapt to it just like all other souls games, but all other games just feel better with it. It's like they saw that most people really like Sekiro's and Bloodborne's bosses so they put some that behave like them in here, but those games are way too fast paced compared to normal dark souls games for those bosses to work well, biggest example being Malenia. She is super quick, heals with every attack she hits, even if it's against your shield, and has one specific move that if you don't look up how to dodge, you just die. It felt so awesome getting to her just to realize that it wasn't even a hard boss fight except for that one move. Overall, game is probably one of the weaker souls games out there for me, but it is still an amazing stepping stone for other open world souls games to come out