Pirate Yakuza has a lot of great things going for it, for one, this is some of the most fun action combat I've experienced in the series, it's so fun. Majima is my favourite Yakuza character and I'm really happy he has his own game dedicated to him - but I'll be honest, this story did hardly anything for me. I felt it was fairly barebones, especially in comparison to the rest of the franchise, even other spin-offs like Gaiden (which I felt had one of the better stories). The boat combat was also something I really really did not like, it was neat at first but by the end I was completely over how repetitive it was. The soundtrack is a masterpiece like always! Despite some negativity, overall I really did enjoy Pirate Yakuza, because even the worst Yakuza is still going to be at least an above average video game, that's no different here. It's my first ever Yakuza I've 100%'d and defeated an Amon, so I'm really happy with that. Sadly, it's also a very miss-able one that I really don't think like is a vital plot game to the overall Yakuza story. You can safely skip this if you're just playing Yakuza games for the full picture story, at least for now? That might change if the characters from it return and become integrated with the story of future games, but I would be really surprised if this is the case.