Excited, really looking forward to not only a younger Kazuma but also we get to see Nishiki, Kazama, Shintoro, Sera, Kashiwagi, Yumi etc all over again. Exploring Kazuma's relationship with his first love is going to be an interesting one.
Also going to be great to see how they do Majima in the game, in Dead Souls he wasn't doing hand to hand combat.
*waits for someone to come in and explain that Sega made eleven jillion dollary-doos from Hatsune Miku Bikini Micro Transaction Adventure exclusively on iOS and Android, and made a net loss of twenty cents on Yakuza: Dead Souls, which was the best selling Yakuza game in the USA, with both copies being sold by accident to a short-sighted old lady trying to buy Dark Souls for her grandsons.*
No Luke, I won't tell you how much Miku sold, instead I'll tell you some games that sold better than any Yakuza title ever managed to in the US!*
gravity rush
tearaway
resistance: burning skies
the wonderful 101
zombi u
ghost recon shadow wars
any phoenix wright game for the ds
eternal sonata
dark sector
untold legends: dark kingdom
viva piñata trouble in paradise
ogre battle 64
earthworm jim 3d
bubsy 3d
resident evil 3 for dreamcast
*Information stolen from NeoGAF.
Either way, it's sad that even a new Yakuza doesn't pique my interest any more. Well it does a little bit. I might eventually get around to playing Yakuza 5, balancing a controller in one hand and my laptop with a translation FAQ in the other wondering why I can't unlock the final hostess club mission.
But the storyline is awesome and doesn't require a guide to complete except for one or two parts : (
You won't be able to enjoy most of the extra content from Haruka's idol management to Saejima's animal hunting segments though which is a shame since this is the stuff preventing the game from coming over here.
Kamurocho and Osaka again...?
Dissapointing...5 and Kenzan were the best till now, in terms of Expansion. 5 had 3 completly new cities, 1 old one in next-gen form. Kenzan had a completly new setting.
Other than a new story and fanservice there seems nothing new or innovative about this one so far.
Yakuza has been like a good crime drama. Same character and settings but its always awesome seeing where they can take the plotline from here.
But indeed it'll be hard to move forward from the greatest game ever made aka Yakuza 5.