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Trails is lib as hell with a focus on Good Monarchs, just like most JRPGs. There are also a bunch of anime tropes, although I think this has been exaggerated and people play Persona and Xenoblade, both of which have just as many if not more tropes. Barely anyone dies in the story even though there are multiple wars and one plot point muddles the anti-imperialist themes. Missable quests suck and the soundtracks used to be amazing, but are now mostly farmed to one composed who is mostly just okay.
Ys is usually either way too hard or way too easy with little middle ground. The same complaints I already had about the Trails soundtracks also apply.
Yakuza has too many nonsensical plot points, even though some of them have become memes because of how dumb they are.
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Kiryu faked his death, but sike, now he's back. Also just the entire plot of 3 is hot Cawadoody-tier garbage and I wouldn't be surprised if it was an effort to appeal to the Western market, as was the style at the time for Japanese developers.
The turn-based gameplay sucks because it makes every fight against a level 1 enemy a slog that lasts forever because you can't skip or speed up the animations. There's also nothing as satisfying as doing a heat action in that whole gameplay loop.