Tried getting back into this (I stopped back in February at Chapter 5) since a friend of mine gave me a copy of Kiwami (Amazon accidentally sent him two) and I figured I should finish 0 before starting Kiwami. But...I just don't think I like 0 all that much. And don't get me wrong, I'm a Yakuza fan. This isn't my first game in the series or anything. But the way I play these games, I like to do as much of the side stuff as possible. Substories, etc. I tend to get hung up on that stuff. But this time around, I'm just not enjoying it. The real estate minigame seems needlessly complex and I don't enjoy it. And the telephone club stuff is tedious and not fun either, and since substories are attached to that I feel like I have to do it. And just the fact that the substories aren't marked on the map anymore is awful (I know about the item you get that does that, but that's not until Chapter 13).
I hate that I'm not enjoying this one, I really do. And I'm sure I could just ignore all the side stuff and just do the story, but that's not how I play these games. It would feel...wrong, I dunno. I was really hoping that I was just burned out when I stopped back at the beginning of the year and I'd enjoy it now, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. Maybe I'll just put it on hold and start Kiwami anyway. Eh.