Probably the worst mainline so far, ichiban’s mom is so uninteresting it’s actually insane, yamai was cool until he joined us and the story is such a slog Yokoyama hit a one hit wonder with 7’s story. Kiryu’s sections are easily the highlight of this game everytime i went back to ichiban it sucked and hawaii kinda sucks it’s not as fun and kinda disappointing compared to yokohama, plus kiryu easily has the most fun party members but joongi han and zhao were so disappointing in this game. I love what they did with seonhee tho, Jobs were better in 7 imo and the gameplay is alright i guess but oh my god grinding is such a slow boring slog in this game i don’t think il ever come back to it cause i still need like 6 more levels for the final boss lol and hanawa’s death was such a waste i also wish he confirmed with kiryu that he was morinaga even tho kiryu probably knew