The story was definitely one of the best ones in the series, and is also the best first game for a new main character in the series. I honestly have very few problems with the game overall. The biggest issue really is that while there are two fighting styles (tiger and crane), crane style is pretty bad compared to tiger. It was intended to be used for crowd control, while tiger was meant for 1-on-1 fights, but honestly I just used tiger for pretty much the whole game. Crane style has the problem of getting blocked too easily, and often the wide sweeping attacks it has fail to land on enemies as a result of being blocked by just one enemy. Tiger can break through enemy guards, so this isn't a problem for that style, and it also is the only style of the two to have exclusive skills for it, meaning you just don't get some skills during crane style. Outside of that issue, chase battles have been brought back, and are kinda boring compared to how they were in Yakuza 4 and 5, since you just need to follow them until they reach a certain point, which is ridiculously easy and almost impossible to fail unless you're trying to. This game also chooses to not reuse any of the previous characters from the Yakuza series, bringing in an all-new cast. Pretty much every new character is well-developed, and almost every event in the story has some plot relevance, which is really cool to see and makes each scene have more weight behind it. Takayuki Yagami is a very interesting protagonist, and while it sucks not getting to see any fan-favorite characters in this game, Tak is able to be a great fit for the new hero of these spin-offs, and the other side protagonists are all cool as well. There's quite a lot to do in this game, like most games in the Yakuza series. I was a bit disappointed to see they didn't have Karaoke like most of the previous games did, but there's still more than enough things to do besides it. The detective theme fits quite well in the Yakuza series, giving a different take on the Japanese underworld that isn't really something we can see through the eyes of a character like Kiryu or Ichiban. Overall, I think this is one of the best entries in the series.