Ishin Kiwami is a really weird one for me, and that’s all because of the “Kiwami”

I played through the original RGG Ishin last year and whilst it wasn’t as easy since I had to use a guide, I loved it. Like a Dragon Ishin was announced later on in the year and I was hyped because of how much of a good time I had with the original. Then released this February, and I held off on buying it since it felt too soon to pay full price. It wasn’t until now when I sped through it on Game Pass and this just wasn’t it. The biggest problem I had was the trooper card system. This was a huge concern to me throughout the buildup to its release, and it ended up being… much more of a problem than I expected. It doesn’t help that the balancing in this is already a lot worse than in the original but not using the cards managed to make it EVEN worse

At the end of the day though, it’s still Ishin with the story that I loved. The cast replacement is a shame (original Takechi, you’ll always live on), but isn’t as much of a killer for me unlike what I’ve mentioned. I would recommend the original over this version which is much better but it’s also hard to recommend it since it’s in Japanese only (which isn’t a problem if either you can read Japanese or don’t mind using a guide but it’s also worth mentioning that it’s been taken off the PSN store so importing a physical copy is the only way to buy it now 🙃 thanks Sega), so… maybe it isn’t as bad if this is your first time playing Ishin… idk. This is the first Yakuza game to ever disappoint me, but at least that’s from looking at it as a remake and not a completely new game by them