So Yakuza 3 is the one where they clearly thought to just do substories. There are so gosh dang many of them! But it makes sense because the leveling system in this one is just grundy, arbitrary nonsense. But I am also halfway done with it so I will get through. The plot points are sparse and the cutscenes long do it's padded. I can't imagine it takes more than 20 hours to get through the game sans substories. But at least they're good

Also Shadow of War has all the pieces but it is missing something because it's kind of a bore. I don't know what it is. I like it but only in spurts.
Oh and I am buying God Eater 3 because I want to fight giant bosses with overly large weapons for about 20-30 hours.