Like a Dragon: Ishin will roar onto PS5 on 21st February, and by all indications, it's looking like it will satisfy fans' cravings for a new Ryu Ga Gotoku-developed adventure. With release right around the corner, we got a peek at some DLC coming to the game at launch, and players will be able to don the modern-day threads of the Dragon of Dojima himself, Kazuma Kiryu.
It all gets quite meta but stick with us here as we unwrap the layers on display. Kazuma Kiryu is the long-time protagonist of the Yakuza series. In Like a Dragon: Ishin, players wear the sandals of radical revolutionary Sakamoto Ryoma, who in-game shares a visual appearance and a voice actor with Kazuma Kiryu, a gimmick that extends to most of the rest of the main cast. Now, not only will you look and sound like Kiryu, but you will also be able to dress up like him, allowing for all kinds of anachronistic shenanigans.
Will you bring a sense of Kamurocho cool to the mean streets of Kyo? Or does the Yakuza sense of style clash too drastically with those iconic Shinsemgumi threads? Dress it up however you like in the comments section below.
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It’s all good fun. I just hope that they don’t have any story DLC like in Lost Judgement. Still waiting for that to go on sale, which means I’ve had to hold on to the disc, meaning the game has cost me significantly more than all the other Yakuza games even before buying the DLC (which I guess was their idea).
I might miss out on that part of the story, and those trophies unless the price improves, which is annoying as I’ve got the plat for every Yakuza game and spin of available to me, and so the existence of DLC I don’t have just makes my collection feel incomplete.
@thefourfoldroot1 So pretty much your entire comment was about a different game? You know Push Square has no control over the Playstation Store right? So your entire comment is pointless.
As for me, I'm extremely excited to play Like A Dragon : Ishin! Not sure about using the Kiryu DLC, maybe post story I might use it.
Still not sure if I'm going to be playing it on console or Pc though.
If it's free, I'll be all over it!
@thefourfoldroot1 How much are you wanting off the price? I think it's been on sale in Europe anyway, at least 3 times.
If he looks and sounds like Kiryu you might as well play as him right I might get the DLC for a future playthrough for fun. I'll start the game with the original skin though. Can't wait for friday.
@Acurisur
It was actually about the series. But if you want elaboration, then no game in the Yakuza series had ever had story based DLC until the LJ game. So naturally I was wondering whether this would be a new trend. The next game to come out is this one, and we are now getting news about its DLC, so it’s perfectly on topic as far as I’m concerned to wonder about the full nature of that DLC. Sorry for anyone bored by this elaboration, I didn’t think it necessary either.
@RainbowGazelle
It hasn’t been below £17, for a small amount of side content. That’s more than I commonly spend on most pancake games given my backlog. Id want it down to about £7 before I hit buy. Especially as I’ve already lost about £15 in trade in value through waiting before I could trade in the main game.
This is a departure in policy for them I hope doesn’t follow into Ishin was my only point.
The Dragon of Dojima rises again! It's a fun little addition but I generally always stick to the default character design with games so I'll probably do the same here.
Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise (a.k.a. Hokuto ga Gotoku) which was pretty much Yakuza characters cosplaying as Hokuto no Ken characters, had a similar free DLC at launch which let you swap out Kenshiro's character model for Kiryu.
I'd be surprised if they DIDN'T include this lol. They did the same for Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Got this on pre order - roll on Friday!
I won't be using this skin, but that's cool for fans!
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