Because Yakuza 7 is hilariously leaning into being a JRPG there’s a badass mysterious hitman from the exotic stylish faction with unnaturally-colored hair that fights you at first but then joins your party, and the faction is “Koreans”

Yakuza 7: What we need now more than ever is to come together in an organization that stands up for outcasts and the grey zones of life, defending them from exploitation and cruel, deadly plots

Yakuzas 0-6, also Yakuza 7: ::organization that legitimizes itself as guardian of outcasts and grey areas and mostly extracts resources from them by force turns out to be source of massive wave of cruelty and death::

The real load-bearing Yakuza minigame this time is a fully-featured kart racer, that’s great

playing the new Yakuza game and noticing as always they’re remixing elements of previous characters/plots together, not sure how much they were just Yakuza movie tropes all along

is striking how they mixed the “Japan still has backwaters, y'know” of 6 with the homeless stuff from earlier to make an episode in Yokohama, the Newark of Japan, about how being Japanese isn’t any protection anymore

The new Yakuza is… a JRPG? Like with parties and job classes and battles-by-menu.

I guess if you’re trying to make like, the most Japanese vidya that makes sense