I dont like that it is main series, if it was a spinoff like dead souls no problem, i would have bought it at launch and had no problem with it like i did for dead souls.
I have faith in Nagoshi, the man has never made a bad game and is my favorite person at sega, so the product will be solid BUT!
i just dont like the direction for the game at all, it seems that it will have a way more "comedic" direction than the other games concidering what i have read and watched of gameplay and trailers.
Sure you can say that yakuza games always had comedic elemnts it did, but it was mostly contained to substories and random events, i just have the feeling this is much more applied to the main story in this game so i am fearing it will be a completly different tone and type of game from 1-6. (hope im wrong.)
Also to go from the beat em up combat system to turn based combat is such a radical fucking change that i cant see long terms fan suporting it for the mainline games, and i hope to christ they dont. It also looks slow as fuck, imagine all those random encounters you have to grind out to level up with those slow animations and five mobs taking a turn each, I just cant phantom it, i really cant. This game series was the only popular brawler with a good story on the market (yeah i know judgment exists) now turned into a 4 party turned based jrpg, it's my favorite video game series of all time, so yeah im fuming.
Also the 8 bit sfx what the fuck where they thinking it sounds like absolute ass and dosent fit the game at all. The only thing i like about it is that it's set in Yokohama, i am not vibing with anything else i have seen so far. I will reserve total judgment until TGS to say for sure tho.
So now the question is should i buy it or not, if it sells well we might never get another mainline Yakuza game with brawler combat and its turned into utter SHIT. If it dosent sell well sega might as well use it as an excuse to not localize the games anymore, as almost happened after Dead Souls, it was utter pain to wait for literally YEARS with no info at ALL if we where ever getting Yakuza 5 to the west. I was checking fan forums weekly just for some glimer of good news for years.
So the only thing i can really hope for is that it sells like shit in Japan and okay in the west, considering the piss poor reception it has gotten over in Japan i hope i am right. And they go back to the brawler combat for the future games.
Christ what a shit reveal!!!