Immediately Sega launched one other video in regards to the upcoming motion sport Like a Dragon: Ishin!, which is lastly coming to North America and Europe fulfilling years of requests from the followers of the Yakuza collection.
As chances are you’ll already know, this isn’t precisely the identical sport titled Ryu Ga Gotoku: Ishin! that launched solely on the Japanese market in 2014 for PS3 and PS4. It is really a subtantial remake much like the Yakuza Kiwami video games. As a matter of truth, the Japanese model is titled “Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! Kiwami.”
One of many many issues that this remake modifications, is the recasting of some of the actors to present them the likeness and voice of widespread characters from Yakuza 0, which was launched after the unique Ishin. Considered one of these is Takechi Hanpeita, who’s performed by Hideo Nakano, changing Katsunori Takahashi. This creates a parallel with Nakano-san’s character in Yakuza 0, Keiji Shibusawa, who additionally performs a really related position within the story.
It is a related change to what we have now seen with Takeda Kanryusai and Ito Kashitaro.
In right now’s video, we get to see a dialog between Ryu Ga Gotoku studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama and Nakano-san who offers his impression on the extraordinarily in depth script of the sport and talks in regards to the response of the followers each in Japan and within the west.
Apparently, we additionally hear that Nakano-san and Katsunori Takahashi are pals who go means again, so there is no such thing as a feeling of competitors between them. Nakano-san believes his predecessor’ìs efficiency was wonderful and regardless of the remake, the unique continues to be out there and is not going wherever (not less than for Japanese followers):
You may watch the video beneath.
Like a Dragon: Ishin! releases on February 21, 2023 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, and PC.