Recent reviews by Bosh

I'd refer to this as a "Fear-and-Hunger-Like". Do yourself a huge favour and go in completely blind. So many questions. So many options. So many secrets.

Gameplay: Good.
Music: Fantastic.
Story: Nonsensical.
Ending: Abysmal.
Wishing there was a neutral review option, disliking for the sake of balance.

The more recent Yakuza/LaD games feel like they have all been lacking in some regard. Gaiden's combat was somehow very frustrating controlling KiryuJoryu felt like handling a fat sack of potatoes, Infinite Wealth was laughably easy and had a dumb story, and I never cared for the Judgement games because they completely lack the charisma, charm, and energy of any of the Yakuza games, so much so that I just rushed through Lost Judgement on PS4 just to get it over with, and it doesn't help that Yagami is such an uninteresting plank of wood with no personality.
With Pirate Yakuza In Yawaii, everything is back in full force. Majima is arguably the most fun character to play as in the entire series, even exceeding his combat in 0, with all of his attacks being ludicrously fast and satisfying but also easy to perform and chain together, and despite the plot of him loosing his memories his personality is not diminished one bit. The naval combat is also simple and quite easy to grasp, resembling a simplified version of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag.
Both the story and the entire world you're put into is refreshingly ridiculous; it really feels like Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio just went "♥♥♥♥ it" in all the best ways, and just made whatever the hell they wanted to be fitting for the tale of the Mad Dog.
While some people are complaining of constant crashing, I can only assume they must have a dusty old setup because in the 20 hours I've spent on it so far I have not had one single crash or major bug (aside from Majima occasionally saying things in English even though I put the spoken language to Japanese, but that turned out to be a very easy fix). I just slapped the game on a SSD without even bothering to update my drivers and it runs flawlessly.
My only concerns are that I don't see how RGG is going to top this - It's just brilliant - and since all the main Yakuza boys are old dogs now and I'm not the biggest fan of Ichiban, who himself is around 50, what's going to happen to them and the LaD series as a whole? As great as the characters are, we can't be stuck playing as raggedy old men forever. But right now, that's not a concern, because I'm having fun playing my funny Japanese pirate game with Mr. Mad Jeemer stabbing people in the face.

you can shoot a guy

It's good but I don't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ understand any of it.

It's... fine. A tad overpriced, but a completely inoffensive fully functional Devil May Cry for kids. Doesn't do anything really innovative or groundbreaking but also doesn't do anything terribly. It's just... fine. I'd probably give it a 6/10, which is above average, which is... fine.

u can shoot the bad guy

A remake that's actually... good? Unbelievable.

I want to enjoy it but the wheel of thanatos or whatever it's called takes too long and gives me a headache.

1.0 My ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hole.