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This review contains spoilers
I honestly don't know how to rate this game. On one hand I really like how this game seriously grapples with Kiryu's loss of identity and the consequences of his bad decisions in previous games. Shishido as the final boss was amazing and the way that he represents the end of an era with the yakuza was very poignant. However, I thought the majority of the plot was boring and poorly paced. The story only picks up in the last chapter and I found myself waiting for the plot to catch up with Yakuza: Like a Dragon for most of the early chapters.
This was a breath of fresh air into the franchise. Replacing Kiryu as a main character is no simple feat and somehow Ichiban manages to be completely lovable. This game is so cosy and I really loved it.
Playing Yakuza 6 after 3-5 is a shock because the graphics are so much nicer. But the story? Eh.
I think this is the first Yakuza game where I've gotten kind of bored of the endless twists and complications of the plot. Also after playing two games (Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5) without Kiryu as the only protagonist, somehow he feels kind of boring here. Maybe it's because he's overly serious and stoic in this one, in a way that he wasn't even in Yakuza 5, but it didn't really work for me.
I think this is the first Yakuza game where I've gotten kind of bored of the endless twists and complications of the plot. Also after playing two games (Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5) without Kiryu as the only protagonist, somehow he feels kind of boring here. Maybe it's because he's overly serious and stoic in this one, in a way that he wasn't even in Yakuza 5, but it didn't really work for me.