Yakuza 2 is very obviously a game that tries a Icarus stunt and I don't think it reaches the sun how it should have done, the game is better than the first one on a macroscopic level but the devil is in the details and the microscopic level actually shows that the first one is more consistent game all across the game, the story is more complex but its execution is messier, the gameplay is better but some of its fight can be really a chore given some harder spikes, the side content is bloated and not really consistently interesting with some side content being a downright chore or simply not really interesting, I wanted to like this one more than the first one but simply I can't, which is a shame because it could have touched the sun but it still reached very far and it's a damn good achievement, the game has an amazing vibe a mostly (MOSTLY) good pacing, the story is great when it doesn't get messy and kamurocho is still a great place to bum around in, both Yakuza on PS2 are really amazing games damn easy to recommend.