If you play this game first you may like it, but playing it after Y0 its just not that fun. The story is okay, but the combat is garbage. Unless you like getting hit by enemies, knocked to the ground, and smashing the A button a million times every fight, i'd pass up on this one.


edit: Figured since I beat pretty much every other yakuza game I'd take a turn back. I started over, thought that this game really couldn't be as bad as I initially thought (it was the only one where I just quit midway through) and figured if I could beat Y3 I could beat this one.

I was wrong. Just skip this one or play it on normal/easy if you really are interested in the story. Bosses are way too tanky and don't feel fun to fight, you do no damage, heat is garbage against them, and the combat is really bad, Dragon style is the only good combat style and its only good when its actually completed. The RPG elements in this one are really bad too, I don't think there is a worse feeling progression system in any other yakuza game.

[strike]If you play this game first you may like it, but playing it after Y0 its just not that fun. The story is okay, but the combat is garbage. Unless you like getting hit by enemies, knocked to the ground, and smashing the A button a million times every fight, i'd pass up on this one.[/strike] edit: Figured since I beat pretty much every other yakuza game I'd take a turn back. I started over, thought that this game really couldn't be as bad as I initially thought (it was the only one where I just quit midway through) and figured if I could beat Y3 I could beat this one. I was wrong. Just skip this one or play it on normal/easy if you really are interested in the story. Bosses are way too tanky and don't feel fun to fight, you do no damage, heat is garbage against them, and the combat is really bad, Dragon style is the only good combat style and its only good when its actually completed. The RPG elements in this one are really bad too, I don't think there is a worse feeling progression system in any other yakuza game.