Pros:
Characters, cinematics, intros, fight style/ex, and the story which is pretty fuckin good. The new city reputation system needs a little more work but it made me go out of my way to increase the rep in a painless way because it was just so easy to do as they're all in restaurants so it felt very rewarding with some exceptions.

Cons:
Keihin gang, and the bosses. (and the fact that you can't recover from mortal wounds after a rest in the office or at least add it so that the landlady's meal recovers it to reward the player for investing time in the side content and building reputation in the city). Mortal Wound mechanic: the vfx/sfx cue that tells you when someone is going to inflict a mw on you is a good thing, other than that it needs a bit of work and not make it so punishing/annoying as fuck, for example the random msq fat man (not Matsugane fam), gun guy, and npc sword/shotgun guy, but especially gun guy please I don't wanna restart my game just because of a bullshit boss (a recurring theme in Yakuza that is old wow who could've guessed). The "boss" fights are a bit lackluster (except for the actual ones like Hamura and Kuroiwa) but I will forgive it because its the first game of the series; the dude is just a detective and the fight themselves arent actually that bad, just mid imo, but I like fighting with my boys (Kaito and Higashi). Also the fact that they killed such an interesting character off with so much potential which wasnt really necessary (Captain Shioya) I still think it's bullshit that they just killed him off like that when I was just starting to like him and after the fact that he still survived after one of his mates attempted to suicide bomb him gave me a bit of false hope.

But basically everything that Judgment does wrong, its sequel does right and more.