I love the yakuza series. I've played nearly every entry in the series to completion. This one is more of that same formula with a lot of quality of life improvements. So why the negative review? The main centerpiece aspect of this game is the pirate ship battles and the amount of times the game has crashed from the machine gun or simply charging into another ship is unacceptable. Trying to complete the competition battles in Madlantis is an absolute chore because constantly you will get to the 2nd or 3rd battle in a tournament and the game will crash mid battle forcing you to start all over again. Additionally, upon rebooting the game and pressing continue the game will load the most recent manual save instead of the most recent autosave forcing you to load the game twice or lose hours of progress unless you manual save often. It's really unfortunate because otherwise this has been my favorite entry in the franchise, but I just absolutely cannot recommend this to non hardcore fans in it's current state.

I love the yakuza series. I've played nearly every entry in the series to completion. This one is more of that same formula with a lot of quality of life improvements. So why the negative review? The main centerpiece aspect of this game is the pirate ship battles and the amount of times the game has crashed from the machine gun or simply charging into another ship is unacceptable. Trying to complete the competition battles in Madlantis is an absolute chore because constantly you will get to the 2nd or 3rd battle in a tournament and the game will crash mid battle forcing you to start all over again. Additionally, upon rebooting the game and pressing continue the game will load the most recent manual save instead of the most recent autosave forcing you to load the game twice or lose hours of progress unless you manual save often. It's really unfortunate because otherwise this has been my favorite entry in the franchise, but I just absolutely cannot recommend this to non hardcore fans in it's current state.