While everyone is thinking about Grand Theft Auto V right now, there’s another prominent game series that portrays the world of crime in a completely different setting, and that’s the Yakuza franchise. The next chapter of the series, Yakuza Ishin, will have a large cast, but only a lot of big burly dudes have been shown so far, which is pretty uncharacteristic considering how much the promotion of Yakuza games is normally focused on their beautiful ladies.
The game's Producer Masayoshi Yokoyama explains what changed.
Western releases of Yakuza Ishin and Kenzan could finally be happening thanks to the overwhelming success of Ghost of Tsushima.
"Sato: Even long before Ghost of Tsushima, I did want to release “samurai” games like Kenzan and Ishin in the West. Unfortunately, after Yakuza 0, we were very busy with remastering the numbering Yakuza titles for the PS4, so we missed the opportunity to work on some of these other games."
The remasters strike again. Easy cash is like a brick wall to new releases.
I don't know that said logic is applicable here... Kenzan and Ishin would not be "new releases" in a meaningful way imo. They released in 2008 and 2014 respectively. Yeah, they never released in the west, but they would effectively be remasters themselves. Additionally, while remastering the numbered games instead of remastering ishin and kenzan, they put out yakuza 6, fist of the north star, judgement, and yakuza like a dragon (all new).
I don't think any of the mentioned games have such mainstream appeal like GoT. GoT worked, because it was made by a western developer.
Perhaps not, but GoT as a new IP killed it - and bringing that era of Japan to the west in an already successful franchise should work now. Yakuza has a drastically larger following compared to 8 years ago when these games originally released.
There's gonna be a lot of fans who wanna get into this spin on the combat and minigames.
For some reason, Sega doesn't think games about ancient Japan would sell in America.
five actually
>Yakuza Online
>Yakuza black panther 1 and 2
>Yakuza Kenzen and Ishin
Black Panther 1 and Kenzan are being translated but i havent heard anything from the fanpatches since last september i guess.
Yakuza Black Panther and Ishin were in my wishlist for a long time. Sega should have had more faith in those games
You might want to work on them investigative journalism skills, bub!
Yakuza Ishin and Kenzan are two spin-offs in the Yakuza franchise that haven't been localized yet. Sega Europe has now confirmed that they don't have any plans to bring them to West.
no plans for these two games, yakuza destroyed with turn based combat. WTF? too much success for Yakuza?
I've always found boobs to be uplifting, especially when they're uplifted.