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NEWS: Like a Dragon: Ishin! Game's New Trailer Highlights Combat




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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:19 pm Reply with quote
I had honestly never heard of this series until the remake was announced.
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Yeah, a lot of people aren't aware of the Kenzan/Ishin games because they never came out in the west. Glad that we will now have a localized way to play Ishin. Combat looks as fun as I recall watching from the original game.
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Megiddo wrote:
Yeah, a lot of people aren't aware of the Kenzan/Ishin games because they never came out in the west. Glad that we will now have a localized way to play Ishin. Combat looks as fun as I recall watching from the original game.


Same here. I've been waiting nearly a decade to play Ishin! and now we're (hopefully) getting an improved version of it. I remember a time when even getting a mainline Yakuza game in the west was a pipe dream so this is great news.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 2:00 am Reply with quote
Philville wrote:
Megiddo wrote:
Yeah, a lot of people aren't aware of the Kenzan/Ishin games because they never came out in the west. Glad that we will now have a localized way to play Ishin. Combat looks as fun as I recall watching from the original game.


Same here. I've been waiting nearly a decade to play Ishin! and now we're (hopefully) getting an improved version of it. I remember a time when even getting a mainline Yakuza game in the west was a pipe dream so this is great news.


We were never hard up for getting the main games it was the spin-offs we in the west had a hard time getting.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:14 pm Reply with quote
BadNewsBlues wrote:
Philville wrote:
Megiddo wrote:
Yeah, a lot of people aren't aware of the Kenzan/Ishin games because they never came out in the west. Glad that we will now have a localized way to play Ishin. Combat looks as fun as I recall watching from the original game.


Same here. I've been waiting nearly a decade to play Ishin! and now we're (hopefully) getting an improved version of it. I remember a time when even getting a mainline Yakuza game in the west was a pipe dream so this is great news.


We were never hard up for getting the main games it was the spin-offs we in the west had a hard time getting.


You clearly don't remember Playstation's #BuildingTheList campagne. They had to go out of their way to bring the games to the west if there was enough demand. We were lucky if the western releases were announced at the Playstation Experience.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 5:14 pm Reply with quote
Matros wrote:
BadNewsBlues wrote:
Philville wrote:
Megiddo wrote:
Yeah, a lot of people aren't aware of the Kenzan/Ishin games because they never came out in the west. Glad that we will now have a localized way to play Ishin. Combat looks as fun as I recall watching from the original game.


Same here. I've been waiting nearly a decade to play Ishin! and now we're (hopefully) getting an improved version of it. I remember a time when even getting a mainline Yakuza game in the west was a pipe dream so this is great news.


We were never hard up for getting the main games it was the spin-offs we in the west had a hard time getting.


You clearly don't remember Playstation's #BuildingTheList campagne. They had to go out of their way to bring the games to the west if there was enough demand. We were lucky if the western releases were announced at the Playstation Experience.


Thank you. And that was mostly for the remasters; I bought Yakuza 3 for the PS3 the day it came out here and let me tell you, there was a stretch of time back in 2009-2010 (which felt like an eternity) when western fans weren't even sure they were getting a localized release of that title.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:12 am Reply with quote
Matros wrote:


You clearly don't remember Playstation's #BuildingTheList campagne.


Much like you don’t remember that uptil Yakuza 5 which took 3 years to be localized, Yakuza games were brought west within 1-2 years. Meaning we were getting them with little issue outside of waiting a substantial amount of time now compare that to Kenzan, Ishin and both Kurohyo games only one of which is getting released outside of Japan after the original wasn’t.

Again the issue with non Asian markets getting the main games was never a matter of if we’d get it but when. Whereas with the spin-offs bar Dead Souls & FoTNS Paradise was a matter of if we’d get it.
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Plenty of Youtube videos showcasing boss fights and the like since the games are so old; but interested viewers will need to search for them by their Japanese names to get accurate hits.

Watching the really skilled players strut their stuff for Ishin is very different compared to the base game because the gameplay isn't quite the same. Kenzan is older and doesn't age as well, but non-Japanese players will have to play the localizations to confirm this for themselves.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:18 am Reply with quote
BadNewsBlues wrote:
Matros wrote:


You clearly don't remember Playstation's #BuildingTheList campagne.


Much like you don’t remember that uptil Yakuza 5 which took 3 years to be localized, Yakuza games were brought west within 1-2 years. Meaning we were getting them with little issue outside of waiting a substantial amount of time now compare that to Kenzan, Ishin and both Kurohyo games only one of which is getting released outside of Japan after the original wasn’t.

Again the issue with non Asian markets getting the main games was never a matter of if we’d get it but when. Whereas with the spin-offs bar Dead Souls & FoTNS Paradise was a matter of if we’d get it.


You make it sound like 1-2 years is a short amount of time. And we would wait even more if it wasn't for Playstation's efforts at the time.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:37 pm Reply with quote
Matros wrote:
You make it sound like 1-2 years is a short amount of time.


Because 1-2 years is a short amount of time. If it wasn’t you wouldn’t be having people complaining about annualized sequels eventhough many of these same people forget how some of their favorite series like Mario & Sonic were released on the same schedules originally instead of the the long cycles they now have.


Matros wrote:
And we would wait even more if it wasn't for Playstation's efforts at the time.


Yakuza 7 dropped 10 months after its Japanese release where by comparison 6 came out 4 months behind its Japanese release. So that so called campaign you keep touting didn’t do much to alleviate the waiting period the main games had at the time.

Ishin is the first time that any of the games main or spin-off will have a simultaneous release.
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