![]() ![]() Escaping to the big city of Kyo, Ryoma becomes a ronin (masterless samurai), assumes a false identity and sets out to find the uniquely-skilled man who killed his father and bring him to justice. ![]() After his father figure is murdered by a mysterious masked assassin, Ryoma finds himself falsely accused of the murder. In the midst of this seachange, we find ourselves in the shoes (or rather, geta sandals) of one Sakamoto Ryoma, a samurai with a surprisingly Kazuma Kiryu-looking face. While some welcome these new arrivals as a way to help the country move forward into the future, there is a strong anti-foreigner sentiment among the common people who resent the changes happening to their culture. ![]() After the arrival of the Black Ships from the West, Japan is in a period of unrest as it adjusts to the influence of foreign peoples, technology and cultures. Unlike the rest of the mainline series’ ongoing continuity, Ishin takes us back in time to the 1860s, the end of Japan’s Edo period. Ishin is one of the early-series spin-offs that never made it outside of Japan the original version was a Japanese launch title for the PS4 back in 2014. Thanks to the warm welcome the series received, we’re about to be inundated with new titles over the next year or so, kicking off with Like A Dragon Ishin. Yakuza Like A Dragon was beloved by new players (and most returning ones) for uniting the series’ classic gang warfare storytelling with RPG mechanics, while the Judgment games carried the banner of the original brawling combat with a new detective protagonist. In the past few years, the Like A Dragon series (formerly known under the title Yakuza) has taken off in Western markets like nobody’s business. ![]()
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