This game is everything I imagined it to be! Played for a little over an hour. So perfect! The controls are exactly what I expected too. I honestly love the way this game controls. It's MEGA PS2 feeling. I feel right at home with these mechanics. L2 Headshot aims feel so satisfying too! The co-op snipe heat kills are such an awesome substitute for heat actions as well. The cutscenes/presentation so far too is everything you would expect from a mainline Yakuza title. And yeah, Quinn, total fan service shit right out of the gate! Komaki, you guys!
Seriously, I don't understand the control/camera complaints. The HUD even indicates off screen enemies with red arrows if the camera is facing a different direction. It even has auto aiming with strafing if you don't want to manually aim. Sure, it's not as modernized as Binary or practically every other third person shooter, but it has that PS2-era charm that, personally, is impossible for me to dislike.
And OMG the Directives list! They seem to have toned down on the Challenge list a bit and implemented a new "Completion" structure with the Directives. Total Binary Domain-like challenge shit going on here too (get 100 kills with each weapon type, etc.). EXTREMELY happy with everything I've played and seen so far! =)