Rented it two weeks ago through Gamefly and after completely crashing my PS3, the savegame wouldn't load anymore. I'm hoping it was the nicked disc and not my PS3. In any case I was very impressed with what I played. So I've just ordered it. Thanks muchly OP.
It's always bizarre to me to witness consumers argue on the BEHALF of the company that's doing something either not in or against said consumers' own interests. There was a strange faction of people telling others NOT to be upset about the cuts from the Yakuza 3 localization too. Why tell people...
Hey, I don't want to get involved in any battles and I'm not taking sides. I just want to say that I second the statement about not trusting bribed reviewers, and I applaud anyone that can think for themselves.
Just cancelled the order I placed on the 16th at Amazon.com thanks to comments by Arkay and others like him. Principle offense? A NEW glitch (no blood? :P) at the debut of the 'revised', 'enhanced' edition? Wasn't ironing out the bugs actually a marketing point for this rerelease? :P I mean...