![]() Ishin is also jam-packed with Easter eggs designed to make previous players roar with delight. ![]() The karaoke parlor becomes a singing hall, baseball becomes cannonball/katana training, and mahjong becomes, well… mahjong. Everything long-time fans love about the series is still here, just reinterpreted to fit its new setting. But don’t make the mistake that this experience is anything but pure Yakuza/Like a Dragon. With no long-established canon weighing it down, Ishin lets players simply enjoy the gameplay, minigames, and story without having to worry about events that happened two or three games before. Ishin is a wonderful entry point for newcomers to the series. Finding himself surrounded by potential enemies in the city of Kyo, Ryoma must uncover the truth to clear his name, bring equality to the people, and change the future of Japan forever! But after Ryoma is framed for Toyo’s murder, he is forced to go into hiding, adopting the new identity of Saitō Hajime to undercover the real killer. The shogunate is in crisis! Following the end of Japan’s isolationist policies in the late 19th century, Sakamoto Ryoma and his mentor Toshiba Toyo fight to reform Japan’s rigid class system and restore the Emperor to power. That is, unreleased until the Yakuza series finally broke out of its cult status and became a mainstream hit! Finally, after a decade, we are getting a modern remake of 2013’s Like a Dragon: Ishin! And believe me: it was worth the wait. ![]() ![]() And rather than come up with an entirely new cast for this departure of setting, RGG Studio had an inspired idea: What if they “cast” the characters in their historical epic as the already established characters in the Yakuza series? The result was two epic games, Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! and Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! But unfortunately, RGG Studio judged that two games about samurai-era Japan held no western appeal, so they remained unreleased. Suddenly, yakuza clans became samurai clans, modern codes of honor were replaced with ancient codes of honor, and fists were supplanted by swords. One can’t help but wonder whether the team at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio was inspired by this philosophy when they came up with the idea of setting an entry of their epic modern crime-drama series, Yakuza, in ancient Japan. If you want to win an Oscar, it’s always a good bet to produce a big, flashy historical epic! Casting some beloved big-name actors in a costume-piece extravaganza is like catnip to the academy and is often a guaranteed audience pleaser at the box office. ![]()
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