Man I really do hate to say this but this game…is one of the biggest disappointments for me in recent memory.

I love the Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku franchise, these games have so much heart & soul to them & every title I’ve played so far over the last three years has always had me so invested in the world & the characters. Yakuza 0 is literally in my top 10 favourite games of all time after all. So when I heard about Ishin finally coming west, I like many others was so excited to finally play what some consider as one of the best titles in the franchise that never came overseas.

It brings me no pleasure to say that Like A Dragon: Ishin! is my least favourite RGG title that I’ve played. I got to chapter 5 & I just…don’t care about anything that has happened. The story isn’t interesting. The combat is incredibly unbalanced in my opinion with only one of the four styles actually being useful. Hell not even the side stories are fun for me. This is just not the level of quality I expect from what is one of my favourite game franchises of all time. So ultimately I just do not see it as worth continuing when I simply put am not invested at all.

I’m not angry RGG Studio, I’m just incredibly disappointed.