Same here, it just wasn't intuitive for me the first couple of hours.
Maybe the minimap rotated with the camera in the Yakuza's?
I love the dive kick Yagami does when you sprint and press triangle in Crane stance. The animation of him jumping and not caring how he's gonna land never gets old.
As expected this is gonna be a top 10 game for me this year. And I'm only just past the halfway point. Although it's my least favorite "Yakuzaverse" game so far.