best story yet. actually made me, as they say, "feel things". combat feels better than the last two but still isn't great. so much mashing for grabs and crap. you can hardly hit the bosses they block everything and then also punish you for trying to hit them; it drives me nuts.

loved the variety of cities. definitely made playing each part exciting and allowed no city to outstay it's welcome like kamurocho did in 4. loved the haruka section too, felt very much in the spirit of yakuza games. think I might be a bit of a rythym game guy tbh. though maybe only liked that part because the music went nutso for this one, 5000 bonus points for introducing bakamitai.

I give saejima section 0/5. shit is the most boring 6 hours ever they could've summed up everything that happened in like 3 minutes. at least sapporo was cool. idk how you look at the game you've made and don't realise nothing about this slow ass section is even slightly fun.