kontextmaschine:

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

It gets a bit more serious but major minigame chains are “you have to rebuild the local adult league baseball team” and “you have to hang out in the local bar until you hear all the stories & in-jokes”