Old-school Yakuza for better or worse. Our review.
The Yakuza series has always had a flair for the dramatic, featuring digitized actors, expressive facial capture and stories befitting a good mid-budget TV thriller. With the release of Like A Dragon: Ishin!, the series doubles down on its inspirations with a period drama spinoff, recasting Kiryu and crew in a 1860s samurai story, delivering a fresh theme, but perhaps overly-familiar fun.
He might be called Ryoma Sakamoto here, but this is unmistakably best boy Kiryu with a new haircut and the same knack for conveying the full spectrum of human emotion with a manly grunt. It's intentional typecasting in the same way that Danny Trejo is nearly the same character in almost every role he's played.
There's a little tonal whiplash where these two halves meet, as a high-pressure dash across town to catch a fleeing villain can easily be interrupted by a visibly lower-budget sidequest , but it's a formula that has worked for ten games already, and will continue to do so. Even as I resolved to burn through the main story to hit my looming review deadline, I still frequently lost hours to idly bumbling around the city of Kyo, getting roped into minigames and side-stories.
Despite the inherent wackiness of blasting thirty men in as many seconds with a six-shooter, fighting here is gorier and more brutal than Yakuza's often-slapstick combat, with enemies getting impaled, sliced or shot point-blank. This goes double for the Heat Actions, the super-bar consuming special moves that defined the tone of the series. While there's some funny and weird ones, Ryoma mostly just straight-up stabs a dude. It does introduce some ludonarrative dissonance.
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