yakuza 0 gives you too much
I'm not going to go on for too long about this, just gonna kinda bitch for a second. I'm playing The Best Yakuza™ and I'm finding I'm not really enjoying my time with it as much as I have prior titles, and it's just because the game feels bloated from the get go.
You can levy similar claims at 5, but that game spread itself out much better. Meanwhile 0 tosses so much stuff at you so early that, if you have a compulsive mindset (such as myself) you'll find it really difficult to move on and come back later. I think in large part the biggest contributor to this is the economy of the game.
To put it simply: there comes a point in 0 where you suddenly have access to the types of money streams needed to really flesh out the combat system, but you have to turn the nob on the faucet a lot to really get the money flowing. So if you're me, once you get access to the real estate business in chapter 5, the game effective grinds to a screeching halt. Not fun. I know I can "just ignore it" but I can't. Especially not when the best way to advance in said real estate minigame is to specifically seek out certain substories, making the grind even longer.
Thankfully, I just hit a cliff in the sort of money expected of you to finish the real estate minigame that I'm finally going to move on after work.
...and then walk face first into Majima's equivalent. 😖