Many sub-stories will appear across the Leaf Village and if you planned on a 100 % completion including
said sub stories, you are looking at a 10 Hour completion.
The overall game play experience and story line and
sub stories flow together well.
I read that Carver has his
own sub story which extends from the graphic novels into the game.
Another sub story has a teacher (Angelina Jolie) and a firefighter (Nicolas Cage), and maybe a librarian, hook up accidently and start a protest across the street at the event.
The relationship has quite the arc and while it's only
a sub story, it's done in such a beautifully subtle way that it makes for a nice little bonus payoff.
This short story has nothing much to offer except that it introduces the main characters and acts as a prologue or
a sub story of her upcoming novel.
Completing the triad of game elements are the mini-games that are a compelling distraction from the main story and
the sub stories, but some have such depth that they could be considered a game all by themselves.
Yakuza demonstrates that open world games can have a great story whilst allowing the open world and
sub stories to bring humour and acknowledge that a game can be a game without taking itself too seriously all the time.
The volume of the game is also comparable to that of main entry Final Fantasy games, with fully fleshed out
sub stories and events in the game.