This game is what yakuza 4 should've been can't rate it any higher unfortunately because RGG refuses to fix the core issues the series has had since its inspection mainly pertaining to how mediocre-good the combat is

The issues with it are as follows

The lock on 5 games in still refuses to function in large crowds is it detrimental only sometimes but you'd think it'd function by now but the lockon basically acts as bad as the first game

The difficulty every time I play one of these games (on normal) I go wow sure would be nice if the game actually challenged me so I could acquire some mastery of the combat but on normal the games are always too easy to gain this leaving me always unsatisfied at my play and the games reluctance to have a challenging normal mode (games should be challenging on normal these are the settings the dev is basically telling you to play on)

Healing Items these frankly shouldn't exist outside drops you get in the mission and allow you no matter how ridiculous the challenge to easily complete it as long is you don't run out which you shouldn't

Heat it frankly feels useless against anything that isn't a random encounter and the whole system needs a rework
Because of how mediocre-good the combat Is these games are primarily carried by the story and it frustrates me to no end since the story of these games has always been a mess and are only enjoyable when you turn your brain off

Fuck that final boss if it wasn't such a shitshow id give this game an 8/10