>In an interview with Masayoshi Yokoyama, the RGG Studio chief and Executive Producer told Fanbyte that there were a number of factors involved with finally bringing the game to the west. One surprising key, however, was the 2020 open-world samurai title Ghost of Tsushima from PlayStation studio Sucker Punch.
>"We saw how well Ghost of Tsushima did, and how it was about this very Japanese setting made by Americans, so that gave us confidence Ishin could do well in America too," Yokoyama said.
It's incredible how out of touch japs are with what westerners like. They'll fill their games with FUCKSHITBITCH dialogue because FUCKSHITBITCH is how westerners talk and they'll refuse to localize a game because it's set in 1700's japan.
We really are just stereotype cartoons to most of them.
I'm kind of okay with that honestly, at least they're not being malicious about it. There's downside of that obviously, but their interpretation of western stuff are charming in its own way.
Julian Collins
Very nice. Hope to play Hiroshima one day as well.
Still waiting for an open world realistic (as in, no magic and monsters) samurai/ronin simulator. But I'd like it to be less dark and more about adventuring.
Gabriel Wood
Ishin is the sequel. But that stuff was in Kenzan, the first game.
Josiah Ramirez
Does it still have the action combat or did they make it an RPG instead? The gameplay trailer was confusing.
Matthew Wright
I'm glad they realize that people care about their history now. Thank you Sucker Punch for opening the JP devs eyes
Dominic Allen
Samurais are popular in the west? Stop the fucking presses, we got a scoop on our hands here.
Ishin isn't really a sequel. Both Kenzan and Ishin are totally separate games set 200 years apart, loosely following the lives of two real life, historically relevant Japanese samurai.
Leo Ramirez
If you defend them replacing iconic 5 characters with less relevant gooks from 7 then you deserve worse than Kaoru
Juan Smith
>worst girl is still in the game You didn't really think they'd replace Haruka did you? Who would they put instead?
Kayden Adams
What's more hilarious is Sakamoto Ryoma was a huge westaboo who tried push Japan to open up with western world back then.
Benjamin Gutierrez
so what's the context of Isshin to the mainline of the Yakuza games? is it just a spinoff or canon?
Spin-off with zero relation to Yakuza events, both games that happens in past times in Japan have self-contained stories and were made as a testing ground for a new engine for a new gen of the PlayStation
Leo Martinez
>were made as a testing ground for a new engine for a new gen of the PlayStation And now, the Ishin remake/remaster is made partly as a testing ground for Unreal Engine.
Joshua Price
Why do they look like Kiryu? Are they his ancestors or is just because it's a yakuza game and they had to make Kiryu the protag?