An alternate perspective on the K3 ending, and something being "off".

There's something off about the way Mine acts in the new ending scene of Kiwami 3. The whole "yeah i'm still evil haha" as well as psychoanalysing Kiryu on the spot and concluding the exact opposite of what even the most recent Kiryu games say about his character is strange.

I don't think Mine would know Kiryu that deeply anyway but the stuff he says is way too on the nose bullshit to be real right? I think he HAS to be playing Hamazaki or something along those lines. Even Dark Ties' take on Mine is closer to the original game than whatever the hell he's saying in that scene.

Though if K4 (or whatever its called) is indeed part of a new timeline, and Mine is present in the game then I guess they can do whatever the hell they want. At this point if they do Y4 again but slightly different (which I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to) I expect Mine to replace Arai or something. Maybe his return is the reason Daigo is acting so strange, rather than just wanting money for the Tojo.

I swear, at times it feels like K3 was made by entirely separate teams. The base story of K3 and the new scenes are genuinely great, as well as most of Dark Ties, but then the ending scenes of both are abysmal dogshit and actively try to undermine new scenes and Dark Ties especially. Probably the only thing they nailed in the new ending is that the new Hamazaki is consistently a slimeball, which was shown really well in the Children's Park scene with Rikiya.

I hope with Kiwami(?) 4 they make it clear that its a re-imagining and sell the original game with it in a bundle or something.