I’ve never played a Yakuza game before zero, and... it’s pretty sweet. The game does take a while to get going, and has a weird stylistic choice in the opening segment, where the first cutscene is basically a motion comic that makes you think the whole game is going to be this ultra low budget affair.
For whatever reason, only this cutscene is handled this way, and I’m not sure why. The rest of the game has more mid-tier level production values. My only recommendation is that the story takes a couple of hours to really get cooking. There’s some good plot twists and foreshadowing involved, but the beginning is relatively slow.