Like a Dragon: Ishin! - A fascinating period piece

Ryu Ga Gotoku , also known as Yakuza and Like a Dragon in the west, is currently one of SEGA ’s main franchises. Created by Toshihiro Nagoshi in 2005, the series had tons of hardships establishing itself in the west: for 10 long years there were desperate attempts by SEGA to make it appealing to an audience that was either unaware of its existence, or completely uninterested because they saw it as just another Grand Theft Auto clone. I had that same wrong conviction myself. It was at the dawn of the series’s tenth anniversary that Yakuza 0 came out on a Playstation 4, still in its infancy, that the series got a sudden spike in interest and to this day is still going incredibly strong , and all the games are all easily available on every console, and even Nintendo is starting to move their first steps to feature this series on their systems. Despite the huge success, there were still two titles missing from the western market: Ryu Ga Gotoku: Kenzan and Ryu Ga Gotoku: Ishin . These ...