![]() By day, Ryōma's forced to uphold the status quo. There, Ryōma changes his name to Saitō Hajime (another nod to a historical figure) and joins a new clan of samurai called the Shinsengumi, which acts as the city's police force and reinforces its rigid social order. Afterward, Ryōma vows to track his killer down and his investigation leads him to the capital city of Kyo. However, out of nowhere, his father figure, Yoshida Toyo, gets murdered in cold blood. As loose historical fiction, the game masterfully blends fictional flourishes with actual people like Ryōma.īristling against the deeply-entrenched hierarchies of the day, Ryōma begins the game by joining the Tosa Loyalist Party to fight for a more egalitarian Japan. Like a Dragon: Ishin! follows a young samurai named Sakamoto Ryōma, based on the real-life person who lived during Japan's Bakumatsu era - a pivotal time in the mid-1800s when the ruling shogunate crumbled ahead of the Meiji Restoration. This 1866 picture, taken in Nagasaki, depicts samurai Sakamoto Ryōma, on whose life Like a Dragon: Ishin! is based. However, its combat can't always escape its dated PlayStation 3 roots. It's a heart-wrenching story about brotherhood and found family, complete with the charismatic characters we've come to expect from the franchise. Now, after nearly a decade, samurai epic Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! comes to international audiences and modern consoles with the English title Like a Dragon: Ishin!. It also sparked a remastering renaissance, as older games got released on new hardware, such as Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 3 Remastered. That game's popularity paved the way for future games such as Yakuza: Like a Dragon to make their way overseas. But the franchise's fate improved with Yakuza 0's Western release in 2017. ![]() One of these titles, 2014's Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!, never made it out of Japan. With its mainline games floundering in the West, spinoffs didn't have a chance at localization for an international audience. It's easy to forget nowadays, but the Yakuza franchise actual struggled outside of Japan for many years. Sakamoto Ryōma, protagonist of Like a Dragon: Ishin!, and actual historical samurai.
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