I can’t bring myself to finish this game and I’ll just watch a recap before 8. Yakuza 7 felt like a total chore, which is disappointing because Ichiban is incredibly likeable and his team is one of the best supporting casts in Yakuza.

Y7’s combat suffers from the same repetitive issues that Yakuza’s beat-em-up gameplay supposedly had; exploiting enemy’s weaknesses, and dogpiling them until they stand up. The only difference is you have even less control of your characters and less options for variety in combat since characters only grab objects if they happen to meander over to them.

8 looks like it’ll improve on some of my gripes, so I look forward to trying it on sale.