This game is like quicksand. Some of the things you like at the beginning do not continue, like leaving your hole of an apartment and getting offers on home improvements from street vendors. This seals the openess of the environment. Next, some game aspects become repetitive to boring at the end.
Play this game like you binge watch your favorite TV show. You sit down for 2 hours on the weekend & you wind up on it all day. Play every day & you'll want to rush through and get bored.
Japan is great. The cinematic cut scenes and writing are great. Great story and morbidly funny. Some of you fight club fanatics may get stuck on the docs, there is a story mode and street war going on.