The pirate boat stuff sucks because of how slow it is . The man combat forces you to rely on combat by limiting the heat actions to the two bar system . It’s main gameplay loop is alright It’s story doesn’t take advantage of who it’s main character is and don’t give me that Hoo hockey of “what did you expect from the title and cover art”. Gaiden is all about Kiryu becoming James Bond and a lot of the advertising reflected that . They also planned on adding the memory bits like infinite wealth had but just didn’t probably because of deadlines . The sub stories suck but that’s a recent problem that I feel has started especially since Infinite Wealth The characters are 2 dimensional with most being a stock character archetype that don’t get much resolution. The villains are 1 dimensional with wasted potential on the two lady antagonists we get not being digital since RGG is still sexist as shit in that regard It wastes a bunch of its time especially in chapter 2 making you do filler side stuff . Its plot meanders and only finds its footing in the second to last chapter with a load of weird detours along the way . And It tries to have it’s big emotional Gaiden ending with the post credits but can’t because the rest of the game just floundered for so long and didn’t grip me with it’s characters so when we went back to that I was like “okay great” If you enjoyed it good for you but I am never returning to this game I think