Played and finished the game. Highly enjoyable, really reminiscent of the best parts of Mario Galaxy and Sunshine. Adorable visual style and cute characters. The art team knocked it out of the park!
I can see why they didn't bother addressing the JT "controversy" - he voices a grand total of two sentences as a side character that is easy to miss. Not notable enough to be addressed.
My thoughts are similar in most respects, although I really disliked the combat gating. Although truth be told I'm partly to blame as I forgot about Majima's initial "hide and go seek" text from his friend and spent the majority of the game completely devoid of Dragon abilities. Leaving that aside, however, it still felt like Beast and Rush felt pretty good late game but incredibly weak and unsatisfying to use until the final tier of upgrades were applied to each set. This may have something to do with the original game's skill system but as this was my first Yakuza game since playing a few hours of 3 I can't say for sure.
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