A beautiful collage of art, culture, and legend; bound together by mythos and painted into existence with grace and serenity. It's also 1 of 2 (two) games where you can piss on enemies.
MGR:R replaces "reason" and "subtlety" with an electric katana wielding one-eyed secret agent ninja cyborg that drinks spinal fluid for electrolytes and picks fights with a US presidential candidate, who's also a super-soldier.
Is this actually a 5 star game? Not really, it's more like a 4 star game. However, it is the first game I ever played, and the one that started my obsession with video games, so fuck it we ball.
What makes Yakuza 0 special is that you can go from your best friend wishing to mercy kill you so you're spared from Yakuza torture, to bowling for a chicken that manages your real estate monopoly, in less than 10 minutes.
SS2 is so detailed and demanding in where you can allocate your upgrade points, that when I'd finally unlocked the privilege of firing the shotgun I'd found half-a-game ago, it sounded like the moans of God.