Yakuza + samurais = victory.
We finally got it in the west, while not my favorite its a fun game that really does a lot for longtime fans. Hopefully we get kenzan someday.
This game is fun. The story is yknow it’s a story I enjoyed some of it some of its peak but overall yknow it’s um ok but it’s a very fun idea yakuza historical drama with real historical figures cool idea well done rgg I enjoyed youre videogam
This spin-off is really great, so glad it came out to the west.
Good story with good message, but not very special one.
Combat feels great, but requires too much grind, I HATE CRAFTING, fighting with pistol is funny, only brawler is shit.
Side content is mixed, has really cool minigames, some good substories, great unique karaoke, but friendship stuff sucks.
I guess its a remake, but they barely add needed QOL like faster skipping dialogues or better inventory which frustrates me.
Banger OST.
Good story with good message, but not very special one.
Combat feels great, but requires too much grind, I HATE CRAFTING, fighting with pistol is funny, only brawler is shit.
Side content is mixed, has really cool minigames, some good substories, great unique karaoke, but friendship stuff sucks.
I guess its a remake, but they barely add needed QOL like faster skipping dialogues or better inventory which frustrates me.
Banger OST.
maybe it gets good but 6 hours in and it felt like a slog so like no thanks
benchmark dla serii
jesteś lepszy - zajebiście
jesteś gorszy - coś poszło nie tak
jesteś lepszy - zajebiście
jesteś gorszy - coś poszło nie tak
The Final boss is the most samurai of samurais
É muito diferente quando o mano kiryu não participa do time sem camisa no final, a história fica interessante da metade para frente. As lutas principais pecam um pouco na criatividade, mas o musou está interessante como sempre.
Pretty good mix of samurai story and yakuza style action
Like a Dragon: Ishin! could make a Japanese historian shoot himself if you explained the game's plot to him, but its bold reimagining of real life Japanese history puts it in a unique historical fictional setting that can educate if you are willing to put in effort on your end.
The gameplay is the sore-point of this entry in the franchise since it takes what was usually a very tightly done third person brawler and applies RPG elements to it that don't flow well together and make the game feel like a grind to play.
The story does numb the disappointment that is the gameplay, with a very interesting version around the events of the Great Fire of Meireki, fitting these iconic Like a Dragon characters into this historical piece while keeping their personalities intact.
“Your Country Should Be A Place That Makes You Happy To Be Alive!”
The gameplay is the sore-point of this entry in the franchise since it takes what was usually a very tightly done third person brawler and applies RPG elements to it that don't flow well together and make the game feel like a grind to play.
The story does numb the disappointment that is the gameplay, with a very interesting version around the events of the Great Fire of Meireki, fitting these iconic Like a Dragon characters into this historical piece while keeping their personalities intact.
“Your Country Should Be A Place That Makes You Happy To Be Alive!”
Le jeu fan-service ultime, mais qui marche très bien !
Je ne m’attendais à rien en lançant le jeu car ne m’attendant qu’à un spin-off pas canon, et je suis surpris qu’il soit si complet. Je suis tellement heureux de voir mes personnages préférés arborer d’autres rôles ! Les 4 styles de combat sont assez cool, même si j’ai beaucoup plus joué danseur et bretteur. Je ressens quelque chose de bizarre avec le jeu qui fait que je ne saurais pas le situer, car il est très bon sur tant d’aspects, mais beaucoup de choses me gênent sans que je ne puisse trop savoir quoi.
Si vous avez du temps, le jeu est à faire, et ne nécessite pas d’avoir joué aux précédents !
Je ne m’attendais à rien en lançant le jeu car ne m’attendant qu’à un spin-off pas canon, et je suis surpris qu’il soit si complet. Je suis tellement heureux de voir mes personnages préférés arborer d’autres rôles ! Les 4 styles de combat sont assez cool, même si j’ai beaucoup plus joué danseur et bretteur. Je ressens quelque chose de bizarre avec le jeu qui fait que je ne saurais pas le situer, car il est très bon sur tant d’aspects, mais beaucoup de choses me gênent sans que je ne puisse trop savoir quoi.
Si vous avez du temps, le jeu est à faire, et ne nécessite pas d’avoir joué aux précédents !
acho q o melhor jogo de samurai moderno
It was pretty fun, all things considered. It would have made it a lot more enjoyable if I knew anything about the Bakumatsu period that it's referencing, but I still somewhat enjoyed the story.
As cool as it was having the Yakuza actors be in this one in different roles, it made all the plot twists extremely obvious. Wow you're telling me the good guys from the previous games are good here? You're telling me the big bads are bad here? I don't think they should've necessarily switched it up, because then it wouldn't feel right either, but I suppose this problem is inherent to what this game was trying to do. On the one hand, it made me greatly appreciate what the more complex antagonists could have been in the main series, and how the protagonists would interact with each other in this new timeline.
The story has a really eerie Japanese ultranationalist position. It shows this especially hard in the ending. Considering the horrors that were committed by them in the next period following Sakamoto Ryouma's assassination, it's really tough to just stand there and watch Ryouma talking about the bright future of Japan and how great a country it is etc. when RGG seems to be doing the thing that's popular there: pretending the 1900s didn't happen.
The combat was... ok? I think I initially tried to play it like the mainline games and it felt really wrong. Brawler is basically useless. Only when I got to the barracks missions did I finally realize that it feels much more like Nioh than Yakuza. After putting myself in that mentality, I really started enjoying the combat.
This game probably hurt the most in terms of not having infinite sprinting like the newer games. My god does it suck to constantly run out of breath until you can afford enough virtue to sprint for longer.
OST had some cool callbacks to older games which I really appreciated. Substories were pretty decent. Platinum grind was very very painful.
Alright game if you're looking for some more Yakuza gameplay.
As cool as it was having the Yakuza actors be in this one in different roles, it made all the plot twists extremely obvious. Wow you're telling me the good guys from the previous games are good here? You're telling me the big bads are bad here? I don't think they should've necessarily switched it up, because then it wouldn't feel right either, but I suppose this problem is inherent to what this game was trying to do. On the one hand, it made me greatly appreciate what the more complex antagonists could have been in the main series, and how the protagonists would interact with each other in this new timeline.
The story has a really eerie Japanese ultranationalist position. It shows this especially hard in the ending. Considering the horrors that were committed by them in the next period following Sakamoto Ryouma's assassination, it's really tough to just stand there and watch Ryouma talking about the bright future of Japan and how great a country it is etc. when RGG seems to be doing the thing that's popular there: pretending the 1900s didn't happen.
The combat was... ok? I think I initially tried to play it like the mainline games and it felt really wrong. Brawler is basically useless. Only when I got to the barracks missions did I finally realize that it feels much more like Nioh than Yakuza. After putting myself in that mentality, I really started enjoying the combat.
This game probably hurt the most in terms of not having infinite sprinting like the newer games. My god does it suck to constantly run out of breath until you can afford enough virtue to sprint for longer.
OST had some cool callbacks to older games which I really appreciated. Substories were pretty decent. Platinum grind was very very painful.
Alright game if you're looking for some more Yakuza gameplay.
Played it on the PS4. There were definitely a few hiccups in the frame rate and such, but nothing to make it unplayable or even any less fun.
Overall I very much enjoyed this game. While it doesn't really have the best combat in the series, nor does it really have the best story in the series, I still very much enjoyed it, including the story.
Overall I very much enjoyed this game. While it doesn't really have the best combat in the series, nor does it really have the best story in the series, I still very much enjoyed it, including the story.
Technical mess across the board
Visual glitches and pop in left and right, random freezing during heat actions, unexplainable performance dips etc etc.
In one instance the boss music didn't stop playing after the boss was down and continued playing over cutscenes, only way to fix it was to reopen the game.
Some of the usual Dragon Engine combat jank is still somehow present even in an Unreal game, hitreg and hitbox/hurtbox issues etc. it's nothing new at this point.
Kiry... I mean Hajim... I mean Ryoma's moveset is pretty interesting with the 4 unique styles. Unfortunately Wild Dancer was the only one that really felt great, brawler is just completely useless and swordsman/gunman feel too simplistic and somewhat stiff.
The bosses overall are probably the best in the series (minus some very cheap moves) but some of the other enemy designs aren't so great, specifically this one big ogre enemy they reuse as a miniboss like 30 times throughout the game which swings a massive boulder around, doesn't get startled by your attacks and throws projectiles at you when you're too far (he's also usually accompanied by 10 foot soldiers). Very not fun to fight!
The Bakumatsu era is a cool historical time period and the story itself is pretty entertaining for the most part but some of the creative decisions the writers took near the end REALLY sour the experience... We love random plot-twists!
While Ishin was irritating at times, the usual Yakuza charm is there with a cool new setting that was really well realized.
Visual glitches and pop in left and right, random freezing during heat actions, unexplainable performance dips etc etc.
In one instance the boss music didn't stop playing after the boss was down and continued playing over cutscenes, only way to fix it was to reopen the game.
Some of the usual Dragon Engine combat jank is still somehow present even in an Unreal game, hitreg and hitbox/hurtbox issues etc. it's nothing new at this point.
Kiry... I mean Hajim... I mean Ryoma's moveset is pretty interesting with the 4 unique styles. Unfortunately Wild Dancer was the only one that really felt great, brawler is just completely useless and swordsman/gunman feel too simplistic and somewhat stiff.
The bosses overall are probably the best in the series (minus some very cheap moves) but some of the other enemy designs aren't so great, specifically this one big ogre enemy they reuse as a miniboss like 30 times throughout the game which swings a massive boulder around, doesn't get startled by your attacks and throws projectiles at you when you're too far (he's also usually accompanied by 10 foot soldiers). Very not fun to fight!
The Bakumatsu era is a cool historical time period and the story itself is pretty entertaining for the most part but some of the creative decisions the writers took near the end REALLY sour the experience... We love random plot-twists!
While Ishin was irritating at times, the usual Yakuza charm is there with a cool new setting that was really well realized.
Bastante divertido aún tengo pendiente el platino porque tener 69 veces la misma conversación con el mismo npc me cansó un poquito
This game was fun, I just think the system of styles is done better in other games where you are not so reliant on crafting weapons. Fun game regardless, I think it was just too hyped up
I think this one has a lot of problems
They're mostly when it comes to how it goes about pacing and progression
The story itself is good, very tight pacing and good story beats, what you'd expect out of LAD and it has the same quality
My main problem comes in the form of design choices, everything is extremely grindy and, to add to that, very repetitive and boring to actually grind
Trying to 100% this game sounds like hell, just hours and hours of doing the same thing over and over again
Thankfully, you can just choose not to engage with any of this and you'll beat the game just fine, it's not a very difficult thing
Still, I usually enjoy maxing out some minigames or substories, but this entry just drained away all my will to do so, it made me a bit sad
Still, an enjoyable game, despite not being one of the strongest entries in the series
They're mostly when it comes to how it goes about pacing and progression
The story itself is good, very tight pacing and good story beats, what you'd expect out of LAD and it has the same quality
My main problem comes in the form of design choices, everything is extremely grindy and, to add to that, very repetitive and boring to actually grind
Trying to 100% this game sounds like hell, just hours and hours of doing the same thing over and over again
Thankfully, you can just choose not to engage with any of this and you'll beat the game just fine, it's not a very difficult thing
Still, I usually enjoy maxing out some minigames or substories, but this entry just drained away all my will to do so, it made me a bit sad
Still, an enjoyable game, despite not being one of the strongest entries in the series
I really wanted to like this game, but it's got a handful of critical issues for me.
Let's start off with the things I liked about this game:
The story and setting were pretty cool! I think both Tosa and all the different parts of Kyo look nice! The way they use iconic characters is fun, if a bit on the nose to how they are in the actual games. It feels almost like a play that everybody put together, which I find pretty enjoyable.
The music is also pretty nice! Well, at least the songs that are unique to this game are pretty nice. There are a handful of songs that come from other games without any remixes or anything to help them feel at home with the rest of the OST. Not the end of the world, but it does kinda take me out of it a bit.
This takes me onto the big things I didn't like about this game:
The combat is... pretty weirdly balanced. Brawler is so weak and stiff that it's borderline useless. The only reasons you'd use it are for the busted parry you can unlock or the handful of times where you're basically forced to use it. Gunman is just kind of boring. Outside of the handful of times where they force you to use it, i only really used gunman for ONE really annoying ultimate challenge. Swordsman feels pretty smooth but it's pretty slow. It's pretty difficult to use especially in boss fights, but it can be satisfying. And that just leaves Wild Dancer... which is the most BROKEN fighting style in the whole game. You get insane agility with basically infinite dashes and some really easy slash combos. Not to mention you get to use a gun at long range, which just kinda makes Gunman borderline obsolete.
Not only that, but I also had this strange issue where the game would mysteriously start dropping inputs for me. No amount of research or messing around on my end caused this issue to go away for me. I also never really found anybody else with the same issue, so it could just be the game not liking the hardware I had at the time.
It's also worth noting this game is SUPER grind-heavy. It is easily the one of grindiest RGG game I've played, which is absurd when you consider there are two main-line JRPG games. The sheer amount of money you're expected to get in order to get some decent gear could easily take you an eternity. What makes it worse is that a lot of the upgrades you do get feel like they make very minimal difference in the grand scheme of things. I always felt weak no matter what I did. Heck, the only reason I got super high level gear was cause of a bug with the chicken racing minigame that basically let you get money for free.
Finally, there was the forced inclusion of trooper cards in the main combat. To my understanding, the original Japanese-exclusive version of this game had trooper cards as a mechanic exclusive to the dungeons. BUUUUUT this remake just kinda shoved it into the main combat. One minute you'd be in a tense sword fight. The next you (or the boss) would randomly start shooting out massive lightning bolts as if you both were wizards. It really ruins the vibe they were going for. Sure you could just... not use the cards. BUT this game is also on the harder side for an RGG game. You get very little health and bosses can do a lot of damage. The solution: get some trooper cards that give you a lot of HP. So you're heavily encouraged to at least have those cards equipped.
Again, I really wanted to like this game. I was hyped when I saw they were remaking Ishin. It was a game I always wanted to play but couldn't cause of the lack of a proper localization. The combat looked super fluid and the locations looked super interesting. Maybe I'll replay this game some day and feel a bit more fond of it. But right now, I just can't help but feel left down.
Let's start off with the things I liked about this game:
The story and setting were pretty cool! I think both Tosa and all the different parts of Kyo look nice! The way they use iconic characters is fun, if a bit on the nose to how they are in the actual games. It feels almost like a play that everybody put together, which I find pretty enjoyable.
The music is also pretty nice! Well, at least the songs that are unique to this game are pretty nice. There are a handful of songs that come from other games without any remixes or anything to help them feel at home with the rest of the OST. Not the end of the world, but it does kinda take me out of it a bit.
This takes me onto the big things I didn't like about this game:
The combat is... pretty weirdly balanced. Brawler is so weak and stiff that it's borderline useless. The only reasons you'd use it are for the busted parry you can unlock or the handful of times where you're basically forced to use it. Gunman is just kind of boring. Outside of the handful of times where they force you to use it, i only really used gunman for ONE really annoying ultimate challenge. Swordsman feels pretty smooth but it's pretty slow. It's pretty difficult to use especially in boss fights, but it can be satisfying. And that just leaves Wild Dancer... which is the most BROKEN fighting style in the whole game. You get insane agility with basically infinite dashes and some really easy slash combos. Not to mention you get to use a gun at long range, which just kinda makes Gunman borderline obsolete.
Not only that, but I also had this strange issue where the game would mysteriously start dropping inputs for me. No amount of research or messing around on my end caused this issue to go away for me. I also never really found anybody else with the same issue, so it could just be the game not liking the hardware I had at the time.
It's also worth noting this game is SUPER grind-heavy. It is easily the one of grindiest RGG game I've played, which is absurd when you consider there are two main-line JRPG games. The sheer amount of money you're expected to get in order to get some decent gear could easily take you an eternity. What makes it worse is that a lot of the upgrades you do get feel like they make very minimal difference in the grand scheme of things. I always felt weak no matter what I did. Heck, the only reason I got super high level gear was cause of a bug with the chicken racing minigame that basically let you get money for free.
Finally, there was the forced inclusion of trooper cards in the main combat. To my understanding, the original Japanese-exclusive version of this game had trooper cards as a mechanic exclusive to the dungeons. BUUUUUT this remake just kinda shoved it into the main combat. One minute you'd be in a tense sword fight. The next you (or the boss) would randomly start shooting out massive lightning bolts as if you both were wizards. It really ruins the vibe they were going for. Sure you could just... not use the cards. BUT this game is also on the harder side for an RGG game. You get very little health and bosses can do a lot of damage. The solution: get some trooper cards that give you a lot of HP. So you're heavily encouraged to at least have those cards equipped.
Again, I really wanted to like this game. I was hyped when I saw they were remaking Ishin. It was a game I always wanted to play but couldn't cause of the lack of a proper localization. The combat looked super fluid and the locations looked super interesting. Maybe I'll replay this game some day and feel a bit more fond of it. But right now, I just can't help but feel left down.
Had a great time with it, really enjoyed the setting, characters and main story especially. The side content was pretty good as well, pretty fun sub stories as usual, I didn't really get gripped by any mini games like I usually do in these games though. Really though, the main story and characters was the best part of the game, and the combat was pretty enjoyable as well especially after a certain point. Probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite RGG game, around there with yakuza 0 and like a dragon, i'd need more time to think on it.
like a dragon: ishin.. man was this reveal something. for a while i knew about the existence of ishin and thought it was intriguing! unfortunately it was japanese only and never got a localized release, however at the playstation states of play, i was NOT expecting an announcement like this! which made me really happy to finally experience the game!
the story is pretty good! while im not familiar with japanese history, i still really enjoyed the story of this game! sakamoto ryoma was an interesting character here but tbh all i could hear and see was kiryu lol. while i don't remember the names of the other characters just know that i found them really enjoyable too! the main antagonist was good too!
the gameplay is definitely interestingas it has 4 fighting styles:
- Brawler is your typical like a dragon combat
- Swordsman i didn't really use much at all
- Gunman is quite literally just gun
-Wild Dancer i really liked! it's very precise and has a gun which functions like the gunman so really you get 2 for 1 in here!
the bosses are quite decent in this game too! don't got much to say
while the minigames were pretty fun, side content surprisingly i didn't really enjoy as much, there wasn't much to them and i didn't bother completing most of them. the soundtrack however is EPIC! lots of bangers in here!
overall yeah i enjoyed my time with ishin, it's not required to understand the mainline games but pick it up if you want
the story is pretty good! while im not familiar with japanese history, i still really enjoyed the story of this game! sakamoto ryoma was an interesting character here but tbh all i could hear and see was kiryu lol. while i don't remember the names of the other characters just know that i found them really enjoyable too! the main antagonist was good too!
the gameplay is definitely interestingas it has 4 fighting styles:
- Brawler is your typical like a dragon combat
- Swordsman i didn't really use much at all
- Gunman is quite literally just gun
-Wild Dancer i really liked! it's very precise and has a gun which functions like the gunman so really you get 2 for 1 in here!
the bosses are quite decent in this game too! don't got much to say
while the minigames were pretty fun, side content surprisingly i didn't really enjoy as much, there wasn't much to them and i didn't bother completing most of them. the soundtrack however is EPIC! lots of bangers in here!
overall yeah i enjoyed my time with ishin, it's not required to understand the mainline games but pick it up if you want
Okita Sōji (Goro Majima)
Up yours Tosa Loyalists....we'll see who cancels who!
Final boss is peak
thanks rgg for seals and unreal engine very cool
Grande parte da experiencia se carrega na estética samurai, o que é bom, cumpre a proposta nesse quesito, e ver os personagens da saga em contextos diversos, qualquer interação fora do comum eu me divertia. Sua narrativa tem um bom pacing, e tem uns temas interessantes de identidade, patriotismo japonês, etc e tal.
O maior problema é disparadamente a gameplay, é muito repetitiva, apesar de ter 4 styles quase nunca é necessário o jogador alterar, o sistema de tropas é desnecessário, o ferreiro é ruim, muita mecânica falha. Eu me divertia especificamente com o roll da Wild Dancer, desviar no timing tem seu valor, mas claro, cansa e não é recompensador all time. Além disso, o port é bem preguiçoso, tem uns problemas que eu nunca vi na franquia, com carregamento de texturas, delay nos menus, coisas bem amadoras.
O maior problema é disparadamente a gameplay, é muito repetitiva, apesar de ter 4 styles quase nunca é necessário o jogador alterar, o sistema de tropas é desnecessário, o ferreiro é ruim, muita mecânica falha. Eu me divertia especificamente com o roll da Wild Dancer, desviar no timing tem seu valor, mas claro, cansa e não é recompensador all time. Além disso, o port é bem preguiçoso, tem uns problemas que eu nunca vi na franquia, com carregamento de texturas, delay nos menus, coisas bem amadoras.
How do you make a Samurai game Boring???
Bit too repetitive but I love the final lines of dialogue here, incredibly powerful words that a lotta people today should hear.
This remake of the Japan-exclusive spinoff brings the Yakuza series to feudal Japan. Instead of beating people up, you can now rip them to shreds with a katana or shoot them, or both at the same time! I really enjoyed my time with the story and characters, and as usual with Yakuza games, the side stuff is also great. I did not particularly like the heavy grind in this game, but I could ignore that part with the free sword DLC you get relatively well (otherwise this review would probably be a lot more negative). Also, the many bonding side activities were a bit too much for my taste. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed this entry, and I hope they bring Kenzan to the west too. Perfect game for the Steam Deck.
Esse é um jogo meio curioso, ele tem uma boa história principalmente se você se interessa pelo contexto histórico do japão dos anos 1800, além de ter um mapa 100% inédito e 4 estilos de batalha, sendo 3 deles totalmente novos, já que o estilo brawler foi mantido da série principal (esse estilo é totalmente mal aproveitado e sinceramente nem precisava estar no jogo, podia muito bem ter só os 3 novos).
Só que, de longe, o grande problema do jogo é o balanceamento: vai chegando na reta final e os inimigos e principalmente chefes vão ficando com uma barra de vida simplesmente imensa e você dá muito pouco dano, a sensação é de que o seu personagem não evolui junto com os inimigos (dá pra comprar equipamentos novos pra aumentar os stats mas eles são extremamente caros, então se você não grindar vai ter que ir se virando na maior parte do tempo com o que os inimigos droparem).
Dito isso, se você já tiver jogado a franquia principal e estiver querendo algo novo, recomendo muito dar uma chance, porque a história e ambientação são realmente muito bons e, na minha opinião, valem a pena o sufoco da reta final.
Só que, de longe, o grande problema do jogo é o balanceamento: vai chegando na reta final e os inimigos e principalmente chefes vão ficando com uma barra de vida simplesmente imensa e você dá muito pouco dano, a sensação é de que o seu personagem não evolui junto com os inimigos (dá pra comprar equipamentos novos pra aumentar os stats mas eles são extremamente caros, então se você não grindar vai ter que ir se virando na maior parte do tempo com o que os inimigos droparem).
Dito isso, se você já tiver jogado a franquia principal e estiver querendo algo novo, recomendo muito dar uma chance, porque a história e ambientação são realmente muito bons e, na minha opinião, valem a pena o sufoco da reta final.