The assassin's leader reaches the room where 'Sakamoto' is staying, but does not find his target. On December 10, 1867, assassins raid the Omi Inn in Kyoto to kill 'Sakamoto Ryoma'. When referring to the imposter character pretending to be Sakamoto, the summary will refer to him in quotation marks as 'Sakamoto Ryoma'. Throughout this summary, the names Sakamoto Ryoma and Saito Hajime will be used interchangeably to refer to the same character, as he goes by both. He leaves his home and his brother behind and flees to Kyoto, where he joins the Shinsengumi with the false identity Saito Hajime, in order to track down and kill the Tennen Rishin-ryū user that murdered Toyo and prompted the Tosa coup d'état. Set during the chaotic Bakumatsu period, Sakamoto Ryoma goes into hiding after taking the fall for the death of his mentor Yoshida Toyo. The list below concerns the original game. See here to view the list of updated or added counterparts for the 2023 remake. Below is a list of all counterparts in the game. For example, the main protagonist, Sakamoto Ryoma, is the counterpart of mainline series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, as Ryoma is modeled after Kiryu and has the same voice actor as him. The vast majority of characters in the story are counterparts of an existing character from the mainline series, in the sense that they share their appearance and voice actor. 3.3 Chapter 2: A Man Called Saito Hajime.This explains the different look the two games have in comparison to the Yakuza the West is familiar with. Like Ishin, Kenzan is set during the time of Feudal Japan in the Edo period, however the game takes place in 1605 with players playing the character of Miyamoto Musashi.īoth Yakuza Kenzan and Yakuza Ishin are classed as being ‘ jidaigeki‘ games, which mean ‘period dramas’. Yakuza Kenzan, also known as Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan in Japan, is also a spin-off game of the Yakuza series. While it wasn’t released worldwide, it did well in Japan and scored favorably with website Famitsu. Unlike the self-assured Kiryu, players will play the character of Sakamoto Ryōma, a low-ranked samurai. The game is set in the Bakamatsu period, which refers to the final few last years of the Edo period. Yakuza Ishin is a spin-off game from the Yakuza series that was released only in Japan, 2014 for the PS3 and PS4.

It’s a fair question, but an even fairer one would be: What are Yakuza Ishin and Yakuza Kenzan in the first place? What are Yakuza Ishin and Yakuza Kenzan? It has earned so loyal of a fan-base that some gamers are wondering when Yakuza Ishin and Yakuza Kenzan in English will be coming to the West to join games like Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2. To say that the Yakuza games have done well in the West is a huge understatement.

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