PLEASE just let this man run his orphanage in peace!!! Stop making him save his stupid fucking clan every six months!!! He's had enough!!!

By far my greatest complaint about the writing in the Yakuza games so far is that I do not give a single shit about the Tojo clan. In fact I am actively rooting for it to fail so Kiryu can have some fucking peace for five minutes. 90% of the members of this clan that we see are either scumbags or traitors, so why should I give a shit about saving it? I care more about the small time Yakuza family in Okinawa that is only introduced in this game than the Tojo clan.

I've never played a game that is so OBVIOUSLY a masterpiece. I cannot fathom someone playing this and just being like 'Yeah it was okay'.

There is so much to enjoy and unpack here. The art, music and beautiful painted looking environments. The writing, how it's both funny, sad, profound and emotionally complex. The unqiue skills you can invest in, how they are characterised as different parts of your body and psyche and how they can interrupt your internal monologue. The almost unnecessary amount of in depth and complicated worldbuilding, and how it is completely up to the player how deep they want to dive into it.

I also personally love how the game dives head first into complicated and controversial topics and doesn't beat the player over the head with any kind of obvious message. It kind of feels like a lot of media created today avoids taboo topics like race and class in order to avoid saying something wrong, like the writers feel like they aren't qualified to bring up about certain topics. And while this may be valid from a moral perspective, in my opinion the art can suffer as a result.

I could keep listing more incredible aspects to this game, as well as how well they are put together, but it feels almost redundant. If you've played this game, you know how good it is. And if you don't think so, you're either a spineless moralist, a parasitic ultra-liberal, a racist Revacholian fascist or a deluded naive communard.