I generally enjoy the vibe of this game. The serious tone of the main story spiced with some goofy characters and substories is generally up my alley... if it was a movie or tv show. The open world and general gameplay(including combat) really didn't impress me.
The sub stories are amusing at times but feel too inconsequential for me. I'd be much more willing to go out and complete all of them if they tied in with the main story or were long enough to span the whole game. Sub stories flowing into each other would also be effective. As it stands though I just did a sub story here and there.
The combat is fine but it can't carry a long open world game like Yakuza.
The many unlockable abilities do very little to change up how you approach combat, and neither do the new enemies. Heat actions also become old quite fast.
I think many people just settle into 1 or 2 favourite styles for both kiryu and majima and dont bother with the rest. The game doesnt do a lot to make you use all your styles, generally you get by perfectly fine if you find a style for crowd control and one for big damage one on one encounters like bosses. What I used for Kiryu and Majima is, respectively, brawler & beast and breaker & slugger. I havent bothered searching out the secret styles since ive heard they're tied to very tedious side content.
Other than that my problems mostly extend to open world design in general, I simply dont enjoy standard open worlds. Traversing huge game spaces is tedious for me, and these games tend to be filled with meaningless stuff to make them look more dense than they really are, most egregious example in Y0 is the random thug encounters.
The sub stories are amusing at times but feel too inconsequential for me. I'd be much more willing to go out and complete all of them if they tied in with the main story or were long enough to span the whole game. Sub stories flowing into each other would also be effective. As it stands though I just did a sub story here and there.
The combat is fine but it can't carry a long open world game like Yakuza.
The many unlockable abilities do very little to change up how you approach combat, and neither do the new enemies. Heat actions also become old quite fast.
I think many people just settle into 1 or 2 favourite styles for both kiryu and majima and dont bother with the rest. The game doesnt do a lot to make you use all your styles, generally you get by perfectly fine if you find a style for crowd control and one for big damage one on one encounters like bosses. What I used for Kiryu and Majima is, respectively, brawler & beast and breaker & slugger. I havent bothered searching out the secret styles since ive heard they're tied to very tedious side content.
Other than that my problems mostly extend to open world design in general, I simply dont enjoy standard open worlds. Traversing huge game spaces is tedious for me, and these games tend to be filled with meaningless stuff to make them look more dense than they really are, most egregious example in Y0 is the random thug encounters.