Ryu ga gotoku: Ishin! is finally done after owning this for years. With the 'new version' coming out (I refuse to call it a remake) I wanted to finally finish this as I did with kenzan some time ago.

Ishin is alright overall and the plot of sakamoto ryoma seeking revenge for his foster father being killed was a good driving force for the story but it becomes background noise for what is to become the main plot, changing the face of japan. If you're into japanese history and how things changed back at that point in time you'll probably like this. But honestly the story became kinda boring overall- more so near the end.

The gameplay takes some cues from Yakuza 5 but turns it into this huge grinding mess. Unlike kenzan you really need o grind in order to get anywhere in the game because of how weak you are to start off. I spent 150 hours on this game when the story is probably at most 20 to 30 hours long due to grinding.

I think a number of people overhype this game because they never played it due to being japan only for the longest time and what other people have said. You can really tell this is one of the test games before zero came out.

Again it's alright but I don't think it's amazing or anything either.

Also don't worry as the game has fishing! Which is good because every game should have a fishing mini-game.