Fantastic remake that sadly has a few issues keeping it from being a 5/5. Presentation, combat, visuals and especially music are very good, but with the change of engine over to UE4 some issues have crept up. Some cutscenes have flickering issues (and run at 30fps no matter your framerate!), and somehow most of chapter 12 specifically runs below 30fps when this game runs at a capped 60 on PS5. Combat, while fun can get stale as it’s not as free flowing as you would think, which is a shame after what Lost Judgment showed us. However, the introduction of battle cards offset this as there are plenty of buffs, debuffs, healing and special moves that come with those, that help the game to feel fresh and exciting for the most part.

I’m hoping they iron out the issues that were present here as it looks like sadly Sega have binned the Dragon Engine and want to be lazy like most developers nowadays instead of using the great engine they had built over the last few years.

Overall Ishin is definitely a great game, not one I would recommend to newcomers to Yakuza, as this game is pure fan service and a lot of it will be lost on people who have not played the games that came beforehand.

Kenzan next you cowards