Between this and hiring known sexual harasser Teruyuki Kagawa, I think this is the first time I'm not even considering playing a Yakuza 
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3 was a flawed game but it had a lot of heart to it, particularly the remaster which added this substory and trashed a shitty transphobic one.
Everything about this remake screams "shitty cash grab" and completely undermines everything that made the franchise and Y3 in particular what they are.
The recasts are horribly out of place, don't fit their characters at all, and of course one's a sex pest.
Apparently the writing in the biker gang thing and most new substories are so bad and out of place that it's almost on par with the original Y1 English dub. Speaking of, the game cut out 3/4 of the original's substories. Murder at Cafe Alps is gone too, and the bounty hunting sidequest is now incredibly dull and generic.
Oh and can't forget
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how they completely retconned the ending so Mine lives, joins the Daidoji, and stops Hamazaki from stabbing Kiryu. It's like some sort of shitty fanfictionAnd on top of all that the combat is just absolute ass. Button mashing wins fights, instant lock-on with everything, disjointed kits with no combos, throw it in the trash.
Series completely felt apart after 7, but this is a new low.
I didn't know how they were going to excuse having Kagawa in the game, but "actually, we cast the sex pest on purpose" was not on my list of excuses for sure.
Both the director's cut of 0 (possibly one of the most inane uses of the term "director's cut" ever, Toshihiro Nagoshi was the director and he's not even at Sega anymore) and Kiwami 3 have plot changes to the extent that would make George Lucas blush, I don't get the obsession with the Daidoji tbh.
The Daidoji as a concept should've been introduced and ended with 6. It quickly became such a dogshit plot device in nearly every game since.
You can pinpoint the exact moment in this franchise that Nagoshi left lmao