This review contains spoilers
This game is AMAZING; it has a good story and it doesn't rush you at all because the game offers a wide variety of enjoyable minigames and sidestories. Even after enjoying yourself at karaoke and disco, you come back to the depressed and messed up story of a yakuza. One of Y0's charms is how ridiculously goofy it is. The gameplay is fun and amazing, some playstyles are just so enjoyable and broken, its funny!
Majima's story left a huge impact on me and I still think about it till this day. Yakuza 0 gave him so much incredible emotional depth and complexity. This game turned him into an actual character with personality, his character growth throughout the game is some of the most engaging storytelling I've ever seen in gaming. There's a lot of people who mischaracterize him for only being batshit insane after Y0 but if you took more consideration to his story, Majima was so torn between wanting to do the right thing and wanting to be a seen as a legitimate Yakuza who had to follow orders from people, and after dealing with it for so long PLUS having to run a cabaret club 24/7 to be in the Tojo Clan again, it broke him. Especially with what happened to his oath brother Saejima and loss of the woman he loved dearly, of course his persona did a 180 and became a completely different person not only to cope from everything but to finally break free after being chained down in a corrupt city he couldn't even leave for so long. I'd say he's more unhinged than insane if anything. Many of his scenes left me very emotional, especially towards the end of the game. He truly is one of the best characters in the series. I wouldn't mind playing this game so many times because the story would still make me emotional just like the first time.
At the end of the game, the story leaves an absolute big impact, and it left me empty for WEEKS! I would definitely recommend this game to everyone, especially if they're new to beat-em-up games!
Majima's story left a huge impact on me and I still think about it till this day. Yakuza 0 gave him so much incredible emotional depth and complexity. This game turned him into an actual character with personality, his character growth throughout the game is some of the most engaging storytelling I've ever seen in gaming. There's a lot of people who mischaracterize him for only being batshit insane after Y0 but if you took more consideration to his story, Majima was so torn between wanting to do the right thing and wanting to be a seen as a legitimate Yakuza who had to follow orders from people, and after dealing with it for so long PLUS having to run a cabaret club 24/7 to be in the Tojo Clan again, it broke him. Especially with what happened to his oath brother Saejima and loss of the woman he loved dearly, of course his persona did a 180 and became a completely different person not only to cope from everything but to finally break free after being chained down in a corrupt city he couldn't even leave for so long. I'd say he's more unhinged than insane if anything. Many of his scenes left me very emotional, especially towards the end of the game. He truly is one of the best characters in the series. I wouldn't mind playing this game so many times because the story would still make me emotional just like the first time.
At the end of the game, the story leaves an absolute big impact, and it left me empty for WEEKS! I would definitely recommend this game to everyone, especially if they're new to beat-em-up games!