I finished this yesterday, am i the only one who was utterly disappointed with it?

i finished this yesterday, am i the only one who was utterly disappointed with it?

the game just threw a bunch of references of the later games (chronologically of course) at you through substories, but it really failed to explain pretty much every detail that people could have an interest on. the minigames were definitive downgrades. Money was far too easy to get too, i know they used "money" as "experience" in this game, but they went way overboard, with the DLC items you practically start the game with 100 million yen, and if you play the real state royale right by the end you're walking around with 5+ billion in your pocket, not to mention you can keep making cash after that. in a couple of hours of this part of kiryus backstory you could make back enough money to pay the Tojo clan the money that was stolen in 2005 leading to the whole first game. that's going a bit overboard i think. besides Kiryu in this game is far stronger than the kiryu in 2005, you know, when the series start? things like this are why prequels are always a bad idea.

going through, the main story was incredibly short. every episode is just 3 rows of "go to X building, watch a cutscene, and beat up the bad guys who are easy even on hard mode", repeat twice and you jump to the other protagonist, total of 16 episodes + finale.
the main minigames (Real State Royale and Cabaret Club Czar) are just an annoying grind. you're supposed to play them over and over to farm billions of yen which you use to learn all the skills. was there some sort of economic explosion in 80's japan that im not aware of? because its common to beat up punks and get 200,000 yen in a single fight. where did all this cash even come from? also how come there's a mugging/harassment taking place every 20 steps and not a single policeman around?
Other than that, the game has all of the archetypes from previous games filled, there's the "girl that needs rescuing", which is usually haruka, in 4 it was Yasuko, and here its makoto

Shimano was a complete fucking asshole to majima and a traitor to the Tojo, not only that, but he plainly shots one of the big men from the Omi Alliance right in the face and faces no repercussions whatsoever.
Likewise, Dojima clearly attempts to seize total control of the Tojo through backhanded methods and employing a chinese assassin, and he also suffers no consequence whatsoever, not even a pinky finger like Kuze. the only one who paid the price in this whole situation was Hagawa, who is very clearly killed at the end by Omi assassins

it feels like every game after 4 is a step down, 5 had this huge conspiracy buildup that lead to a little disappointment at the ending and 0 was just plain disappointing in practically every aspect.

Your opinion is shit

Well what did you expect from a series that has become pretty much Japanese CoD? It should have died at 4.

I disagree, what 4 should have done though was be the last game with Kiryu. 5's plot was so fucking retarded by the end even though grumpy Taxi Kiryu was good in its own way.

5's plot was good until the ending, like i explained in my OP, the conspiracy-buildup was leading to something a lot bigger. the entire "ending" episode was just visibly rushed.

the omi alliance cancer guy makes majima fight saejima for no reason other than "saejima needs a final boss". he could have shot them both right there but nope, gotta make some time until the next plot device!
Shinada goes to the stadium and fights shigeki even after he had already given up on shooting haruka, again, solely because he needed something to fight as final boss.
Akiyama gets the spotlight -again- because he's yakuzas lightning, defeats 10000 yakuza and Kanai and gets his ego-penis collectively sucked by the 10000 yakuza from the other band at least akiyama is a cool dude, unlike the actual lightning
Haruka spills the beans and tells literally everyone in japan how can they easily find kiryu and the people that kiryu has an interest in protecting (namely, the children from Okinawa's Sunflower orphanage), because no one could possibly have a grudge against uncle kaz right?
Kiryu goes to fight the plot-twist final boss, this is practically the only fight that made some sort of sense within this rushed up poorly written ending. but it still comes out "unconfortable" because of how randomly they pulled it out of their ass.

other than the awful ending episode, Y5 is amazing, the mountain hunting, the taxi racing, the dance battles, the Amon battles this is probably the hardest Amon fight in the series, amon (Jo) is nigh impregnable to every form of damage except Tiger Counter in its last 4 or 5 healthbars its nearly a perfect game, and it was set to be greater than 4 except that instead of a cherry on top they put a writer's turd.

amen bruder
I played 5 and 0 both in moonspeak and I have no idea what it was about. I remember the hunting in 5 and Saejima had a nice jacket.
Zero was 80s style and I loved it.

Your also basically saying 4 was good when it had as much flaws as 5. I personally think 0 is the best one we've had in a while.

Why have people here hyped this game like its a fucking system seller?

Yakuza is great, but nowhere near that good

We should have gotten the Samurai spinoff titles. I played through Ishin in moon, the combat is pretty good. But of course, Sega knows that it wouldn't sell outside of Japan because Burgers don't care about any history besides their own and Euros only ever buy Football Manager.

That's where you're wrong, they also buy simulators.