In a similar vein to Lethal Company, you and up to three friends journey into a washed-out, dark facility. The gimmick here though is instead of scrounging for loot while avoiding monsters, you have a camera and have to record up to 90 seconds of footage of things you see or do down there, and then haul ass back to the pod. If you manage to bring back the footage, you will upload it to Spooktube to try and reach viewer milestones every 3 days. Views lead to cash to buy items, and better items lead to better views.

You also can save the footage to your desktop if you like what you've recorded. It's a decent gameplay loop and makes for some good laughs, just a bit lacking in environment variety as it is not randomly generated like Lethal Company. Still, it was good fun for a few hours so I would recommend trying it at least once if you can grab it for cheap (or did when it was free!).

Yakuza 0 was my entry point in this series. After the first slow-paced chapters, things got suddenly better. The gripping story escalates more and more — for more than 20 hours. Even the substories, despite their enormous absurdity, are perfectly entangled with the tonality of the overall narrative. Yakuza 0’s great story is topped off by the authentic designs of the Japanese city districts you can freely explore. The exorbitantly exaggerated fight scenes, reminiscent of classics like Streets of Rage, wonderfully sync with the rest of this masterpiece.

I don’t even know where to begin. Prequels are often hard to write because you must account for a lot of details to get the story to fit in with pre-established material just right. This game has done everything right. I still think about how they introduce Majima at least once a week. Both Kiryu’s and Majima’s stories and the characters involved in them are nothing short of incredible, and the game does an excellent job of showing how these characters become who they are in the rest of the series. Yakuza 0 also really nails substories, with numerous ones for each character standing out as hilariously memorable, whereas in previous games they were often just goofy or fun diversions. New features and diversions like Mr. Shakedown, the Disco, and the Cabaret Club really add to the list of things you want to run off and go do, and the game really does a good job of pointing you in the direction of these things. The gameplay in this one is as great as ever, and they really do Majima justice by giving him the fight styles that character deserves. One thing I would recommend to newcomers is to play the game on hard, because you are going to breeze through the boss fights otherwise. For anyone with an interest in this series but doesn’t know where to start, I have no doubt that this is the game you should jump in with.

9/10

Yakuza 0 brings a wonderful and exciting storytelling at the same time as an absurdly large and fun extra content
almost everything works perfectly in the game, whether it's the combat system that is one of the best I've ever experienced in a game, character development, plot, player skill development and so on.
all wrapped up in an emotional and well-crafted story, with drama in the right dose for a story that tackles mafia themes.

I have some very small caveats, but overall Yakuza 0 is a wonderful game.