Playing Yakuza 6 and… it’s interesting, it’s like they’re doing it as a slice-of-life episode, a way to finish off the Kiryu saga without trying to top previous plot stakes.

Like, the plot so far is seriously “Kiryu becomes a grandfather, retires to a small backwater town, and becomes involved in local civic life”.

Like previous games there’s a dual-threaded plot but the suspense plot is just like, trying to find someone and tell them something, and the rival clan plot is a very minor set of small-timers he drew petty anger from by wandering into a love triangle of 40-somethings (that’s kind of a callback to Yakuza 1)

Maybe it reels into something bigger later, but honestly I dig it