Aw, I went to the arcade but I had wasted all my money (my OCD tells me to always buy at least 1 of every item in these games lol) so no Sega Bass Fishing yet.
Man, I adored 7 but I wasn't sure if they can pull it off again and yes they can, it's awesome and Ichiban is likable as ever and it starts off way better than either of the Gaiden demo bits too, with being at Isezaki Ijincho and messing around with the old cast. It's so good.
I wonder how they've optimized their cut scene making cos there's shit here that would be 100% skipped/glossed over in any other title I think. Like all the detail with the security job of a guy you help get hired in the beginning, you'll know when you play it, at first I was even ok this is too much exposition on something pointless, get on with it, but then it quickly reintroduced another member of the old cast so yeah, probably perfectly paced too.