I can't stand people who say that you should "just play Kiwami man!!!!" Yakuza Kiwami is the original but completely devoid of it's original style and character, entirely upending it with reused assets and a combat system that are lazily lifted from another game released a decade after. It's additions only serve to pad out an otherwise very well-paced game, and they sometimes just straight up take away from specific moments. The original's gritty look is replaced with the same generic look as Yakuza 0 without the late-80s aesthetic that contextualized that game and really held the visuals together. Yakuza Kiwami doesn't even recreate the original, it uses another game's systems and visuals in an attempt to replace it. It is straight up disrespectful to the integrity of the original and 0. People who support lousy games like this need to shut the fuck up. I hate them.

Sorry, not a review, I just needed a place to rant.