Pretty much your Yakuza 3, 4, 5 or 0 set in a 'historic' setting but can be very much enjoyed even if you don't know or dislike history since it's all anime bullshieet anyway where freshly cut or shot down foes get back up their feet like nothing ever happened after suffering fatal wounds. Don't get me wrong though there's quite a few people dieing within it's story as usual but just the overall combat is typical japanese like that. You'll spend a lot of time eating your pain away when hurt which I can't say is unrealistic but it's like those old River City Ransom beat em up games: fight, eat, repeat. A formula all the yakuza games had anyway, so that didn't bother me or anything but do know what you'll find here if you're not familiar with these games or was expecting something else like say a Ghost of Tsushima.
The main deal is it's humor and all the substories and minigames that can be done but you could decide to skip a few or even all of these and still have a grand time with a more fluent main story that way (just a harder time completing it on say a hard difficulty without some 'grind' or preparations in unlocked combat skills).

That being said I always thought of the Yakuza series as something familiar other then just 'River City Ransom but 3D' but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until now: it's essentially Gintama.
You're an oddjob self-exiled ronin instead of a robinhood yakuza this time around that's the main difference and you'll be helping or disrupting all kinds of exploits in and around town all the while having a main goal to figure out who's behind your father's murder. It is however to the player how fast or slow-phased this can be done.

The presence of Haruka gave me quite a jumpscare as she is literally what ruined the series for me but the good thing is that she is way more optional this time around and she and her manor can be largely if not completely ignored (A big difference from the dreaded Orphanage of Yakuza 3).
Another fellow I didn't quite miss was this Komaki the 'karate kid trainer' guy, he too is there but here's hoping he gets pancaked by a palanquin someday but other then that all the characters are amazing in their own right.

It's overall another great edition and perhaps one of my favourite yakuza games so far even but it's not without it's common quirks and shortcomings in both wacky combat or graphics department though considering it's a remake of an older game that finally saw a release and translation one could look past that stuff after giving it a good few hours.

There seems to be alot of folks complaining about it's graphics or combat mainly if not the mandatory xbox controller overlay when played with any controller, which I admit has been confusing for me as well especially with all the quick-timed-events in some of the cutscenes and minigames.
The only real downside for me personally was that some of the pre-order extras got bugged and cannot be retrieved to this day... because I've got this pre-order edition from a friend I went the extra mile and mailed Sega about it but they point towards Steam and Steam back to Sega in a long story short: I couldn't retrieve these because of playing the US or Canadian version on a EU based Steam account apparently. Now I realise even before this problem occurs that I should not be within the EU but well.. I do hope they might fix it one day but it's not something that prevents me from playing the main game either so it's no gamebreaker. In fact all the free downloadable content doesn't seem to be affected interestingly enough only the pre-order or paid ones are.

So there's a lesson in that :P

Pretty much your Yakuza 3, 4, 5 or 0 set in a 'historic' setting but can be very much enjoyed even if you don't know or dislike history since it's all anime bullshieet anyway where freshly cut or shot down foes get back up their feet like nothing ever happened after suffering fatal wounds. Don't get me wrong though there's quite a few people dieing within it's story as usual but just the overall combat is typical japanese like that. You'll spend a lot of time eating your pain away when hurt which I can't say is unrealistic but it's like those old River City Ransom beat em up games: fight, eat, repeat. A formula all the yakuza games had anyway, so that didn't bother me or anything but do know what you'll find here if you're not familiar with these games or was expecting something else like say a Ghost of Tsushima. The main deal is it's humor and all the substories and minigames that can be done but you could decide to skip a few or even all of these and still have a grand time with a more fluent main story that way (just a harder time completing it on say a hard difficulty without some 'grind' or preparations in unlocked combat skills). That being said I always thought of the Yakuza series as something familiar other then just 'River City Ransom but 3D' but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until now: it's essentially Gintama. You're an oddjob self-exiled ronin instead of a robinhood yakuza this time around that's the main difference and you'll be helping or disrupting all kinds of exploits in and around town all the while having a main goal to figure out who's behind your father's murder. It is however to the player how fast or slow-phased this can be done. The presence of Haruka gave me quite a jumpscare as she is literally what ruined the series for me but the good thing is that she is way more optional this time around and she and her manor can be largely if not completely ignored (A big difference from the dreaded Orphanage of Yakuza 3). Another fellow I didn't quite miss was this Komaki the 'karate kid trainer' guy, he too is there but here's hoping he gets pancaked by a palanquin someday but other then that all the characters are amazing in their own right. It's overall another great edition and perhaps one of my favourite yakuza games so far even but it's not without it's common quirks and shortcomings in both wacky combat or graphics department though considering it's a remake of an older game that finally saw a release and translation one could look past that stuff after giving it a good few hours. There seems to be alot of folks complaining about it's graphics or combat mainly if not the mandatory xbox controller overlay when played with any controller, which I admit has been confusing for me as well especially with all the quick-timed-events in some of the cutscenes and minigames. The only real downside for me personally was that some of the pre-order extras got bugged and cannot be retrieved to this day... because I've got this pre-order edition from a friend I went the extra mile and mailed Sega about it but they point towards Steam and Steam back to Sega in a long story short: I couldn't retrieve these because of playing the US or Canadian version on a EU based Steam account apparently. Now I realise even before this problem occurs that I should not be within the EU but well.. I do hope they might fix it one day but it's not something that prevents me from playing the main game either so it's no gamebreaker. In fact all the free downloadable content doesn't seem to be affected interestingly enough only the pre-order or paid ones are. So there's a lesson in that :P