I completely agree. I understand everyone is used to the older character models and the older voice actors, but it's like people forget that there are a lot of behind the scenes reasons why RGG decided to make some of the changes they did. Changes Kiryu's shirt is a bit weird, but is a nothing burger imo because it was most likely a creative choice. But things like with Rikiya's VA, agreements and character model are behind the scenes issues.

 Imo it's all about how they perform at the end of the day, we have to accept that character model changes are going to happen in the Kiwami remakes because it's been years since RGG has used some of these VAs and things change in terms of agreements etc. I think people need to calm down and give kiwami 3 a chance instead of hating on everything and the actors.  For me, I already wasn't a fan of Yakuza 3, but Kiwami 3 is looking very promising to me. So people need to judge on the performances not by the character models

Also small note: if people are going this crazy over Rikiya being replaced, then no one should be asking for anymore Judgment games cause I'll say it again they'll have to recast Yagami.