Honestly tied with yakuza 5 as my favourite RGG game and I have only finished the main story and some sidequests and haven't even started school stories yet.
though i do agree with one aspect of rakitox's review which is once sawa gets killed yagami does not shut the fuck up about it and acts like her murder is the only reason he cares about any of this anymore, even though she's some lady that he met like maybe three days prior. if she was like an old acquaintance of his and he had some actual connection to her beyond when he was constantly bothering her for information for like a week then it would be understandable, or even if he mentions the girl that got killed in the first game, but it feels like the game suddenly couldn't think of reasons for yagami to have strong feelings towards this case anymore. i do however love the moral dichotomy between yagami and kuwana, two judicial extremes beating the dogshit out of each other
One of the strongest main stories in the series
lol 0 is widely considered the best game in the series, c'mon.