I think it's one of the greatest game i've ever played.

It faces our inner self, faces the taboo of it in a very frontal way and express an explosion of feelings toward it. Sometimes it's unfair, sometimes it's absurd, it's horrendous, dark, but it's there. Now what are you going to do about it ? the game asks.
And that's the game, really. Every emotions a human can feel is being felt here, and everytime you think the game cannot be bolder than it is, it impresse.
The gameplay is a reflection of that, the JRPG turn based side of things, superposed on top of the harsh and cold world the game present to us, make for something almost cynical but very fun, and representative of our character.
The game expand on it's character with every little moment it can, how this group of friend face the world and fight against it's darkest part. And by darkest part, the game shows that it's not "the bottom of the society" but the authority trying to erase it.
Graphically, it's great, not incredibly so but i prefer when it's not full of details because if so the developers spend hours upon hours on not useful things.
Minigames are here to be a fun time waster, and something to release the pressure, and it does so mildly. It can be glitched and hard (even if justified at times). But all of this makes for an absolute incredible game.

Does a review about a gameboy game even matter in this day and age ?

I want to talk about it : this game is creative, it has more creativity in it's world building than most mario game, even recent ones, it's refreshing and funny, it helps incorporate good gameplay mechanics and it's just a genuinely good surprise on this part.
The game is short, doesn't have the best power up, but stand out with a pretty cool art direction for a gameboy game, and no limit on the level u can choose. The game is not based on a slow ramping up of the difficulty, but a showcase of ideas, and it's flying, illuminating even. The game is great.

Problems ? yeah, not every ideas are good, the progression in levels can be inequal and, as said before, the power ups doesn't change much, except adding a bit of resistance to your character. There's also a problem that is inherent to the "showcase of idea" side of the game, which is : the game never really expand on those ideas. Not every idea need to be worked much on, of course, but keeping every idea short and not doing much with it made them feel superfluous and not that important, when some ideas show promise and even would have made the game better, but you cannot expand on those ideas without changing the pacing of the game, in some way it would make the game worse.

this game feels like they gave it every idea they had in reserve from the past games, the kind of idea you can include only once without being too much.

Between the fun outfit change, some minigames coming back from the dead and a brand new style of fighting, an absurd style that doesn't always feels good but some of those moves u can pull in it are just so fun, the game feel like a love letter to the brawler combat of yakuza, with some things fans always wanted.

Incredible beginning, incredible ending, the rest is actually more than decent with characters whose presence is really felt across the game, even some that did become new favorites of mine. Crazily enough, writing this review helps me realize how much i do love this game.

There are some interesting sidequest, and some really really good one, some are boring though but that's the usual mix, just less good than Y7.

The colloseum have a lot of unusefull characters, some that are so dumb they wouldn't fly in most other game franchise, but here, as bad as they control, they fit in and are always incredibly fun ot try to use, as bad as they are.

Yeah, if i had a word for this game it would be fun. I cried, i laughed, and i had so much fun. I love these games.