Like a Dragon: Ishin! - Review

Genre: Adventure/Action-RPG.

Developer/publisher: Sega.
Platform: PC/PS4/5.
Official Site: N/A.
Release date: 2023-02-21.

 

Okay since I did fell into the Ryu-Ga-Gotoku rabbit hole i've  decided

to play the game that interested me the most which ended up being Ishin!

as it is a spin off set in the bakumatsu era starring Ryoma Sakamoto.

There was no other game I wanted to play that badly anyway so it was an easy choice!

 

The fun thing about it is that while it is a historic fantasy they're reimaging

characters as historic figures! so you have Kiryu as Ryoma and Majima as Okita.

I already played Y0 So I recognized some of them but its story is still stand-alone

so it can be enjoyable to fans or newcomers! Some names you may recognize and that's cuz

they're of the shinsengumi! I did greatly enjoy spending time in old-timey japan! I guess

Hakuouki may be old and busted for me but that doesn't stop me from enjoying it in other forms.

Pro's

- Story is short but decent enough, nice to see yakuza chara's in a differend setting.

- All of the substories were fun, plenty of side content.

- Music fit the setting and there are some really great tracks.

Con's

- 100%ing is tedious, mostly bonds and dilligence records related.

- You can have all the Ryo in the world but you still gotta trade before you can pay of a debt.😩

- Why do weapons not count as 1 inventory entry??!! its not funny to donate 50 bundle blades

one by one to level up the blacksmith to 10 so I can make a good endgame weapon.😡😡😡

More rambles after the jump, i'm just gonna say already that I really enjoyed

my time with Ishin! despite not having played many Yakuza games.