Further Yakuza 0 thoughts:

• Inspired me to learn the history of the actual yakuza and Kabukicho and Golden Gai. Interesting!
• This has been a nice tour of a wide variety of quite different but all distinctly Japanese styles and faces
• I wonder if I’d appreciate it more if I was more familiar with Yakuza-movie tropes, but I think it’s mostly just performing them straight and I’m all “nice tropes!”
• On the other hand I wonder if it’ll follow the (remade) original and build to a batshit SEGA arcade climax where you fight a helicopter on a rooftop
• Now that I think of it that explains RE, too - Capcom also grew from an arcade model of storytelling as disjointed, increasingly much setpieces strung together by “yeah now this is happening” cutscenes
• They totally filmed like 30 1-minute gravure shorts with 80s-ass music and color schemes
• In fact, the music team must have loved going back to this whole 1988 Japan synth fantasia in general.
• Fishing minigame!