I loved this game. It was goofy like Shenmue, but with more action. Good ol' Sega, inventors and masters of the "Mundane RPG." The second one is going to just be subtitled I think, so we don't have to suffer through the lousy voice overs. The one thing that *almost* killed Yakuza was the load times. The delay before fights was borderline unbearable after awhile.
I'm kind of bummed that Yakuza 3 takes place in feudal Japan....oh well.