The predecessor to Ishin, Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! (2008), is unconnected and takes places two centuries earlier, imagining Kiryu as legendary swordsman-turned fable, Miyamoto Musashi. In Ishin!, longtime series protagonist Kazama Kiryu is projected onto Sakamoto Ryoma, an influential samurai who advocated for the end of feudalism and the industrialisation of Japan. Ishin! is the second feudal spinoff for the Yakuza/ Ryu Ga Gotoku series, released in 2014, and takes several of the characters from the mainline series, reimagining them as real-life historical figures. The original article follows below.įrameborder='0' allow='accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen> The Summit also saw the reveal of Yakuza 8 (now known as Like A Dragon 8), as well as the reveal of a side story starring Kazuma Kiryu: Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. At the Ryu Ga Gotoku Summit 2022, the Like A Dragon: Ishin! release date was revealed in a second trailer: 23 February 2023. The summit will be broadcast on Sega’s Twitch channel at 19:00 JST / 20:00 AEST / 10:00 UTC / 6:00 ET. The new version will transpose the game from its original game engine to the newer Dragon Engine the series adopted in 2017 with Yakuza 2: Kiwami.Ī reveal trailer shown during PlayStation’s presentation hinted at more information to come during the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Summit presentation on 14 September 2022, during Tokyo Game Show.

Announced at the Playstation State of Play in September 2022, Like A Dragon: Ishin! will be remastered from its original PS3 and PS4 iterations for PS5. If their intention of wanting to reboot the series for a new audience, then a Samurai game could go a long way.One of the feudal spin-off games in the ever-popular Yakuza series, known as Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!, is finally coming to the West for the first time. It's a crime, really, that we aren't gonna see it in the West any time soon because it's one of the best titles in the series. There is a lot of mini-games in this, almost as much as Yakuza 5. I also like how there is a crafting system in this, the swords look distinct from each other, and your sword appears in cutscenes, it's a neat little detail. It plays with your expectations in that way

The soundtrack is also great, the story is interesting, using the entire Yakuza villain roster to play most of the main cast works well for the revenge story that is goign on.

And I like how the sword combat requires a bit of tact with parrying, blocking, dodging, on top of the usual onslaught of heat moves you'd use in previous games.

It might be the most engrossing Yakuza title there is, I like how much nuance there is to the combat, I like that there are two different branches of heat actions to specific type of heat actions tied to each style.

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