I’m starting to remember why I didn’t finish Yakuza 5 when it first came to the west on PS3. I just started Saejima’s chapter and it’s really fucking boring. It’s nothing but “Baba, Baba, Baba”. These semi-cut scenes are really out of control. I appreciate that they’re fully voiced instead of being text only, but Jesus they hardly move anything along. I’m all for character development, but it REALLY feels like a whole ton of this nonsense could’ve been trimmed down. Hell, the beginning of the game is like 30 minutes of Kiryu listening to his taxi driver boss tell him what kind of man he is. It’s gotten to the point where unless it’s an actual cinematic playing where the story actually moves, I just get up and go do something else until the semi- cut scene is done.