A new record for me for the longest video I've ever made lol. This video is completely spoiler free unless you're one of those people who say shit like "oh my god I can't believe you'd show that Kiryu is in Yakuza 4 what a massive spoiler" on my videos. That being said, if you know of any changes from the original I didn't cover, let me know. DO NOT, however, mention any changes that are present in the main story 'cause I AIN'T INTERESTED >:(

The worst change that was done to Ishin was increasing the fog in the bathhouse fight so that we can no longer clearly see Ryoma slapping Saigo's ass with the force of one thousand suns.

The cutscenes being stuck at 30 FPS is such a crime for a game like this, I'm glad you mentioned that.

2:20 The worst part is that, were it not for Sony making a poll on which high requested Japanese only game to localize and taking the matter into their own hands. We would never have gotten a translation of Yakuza 5 for the PS3. Period.

since were talking about localization, id like to bring light to how from judgment onwards, all games have also been in spanish, italian, and i think french and german. that ROCKS. because it allows a lot of people, who dont speak english, to play this series without having to resort to mods like 0. i have a lot of friends who only speak spanish and this could potentially get them into the series. heck i got one into 0 but he voiced his frustrations of bearly understanting the game. so yeah im pumped to see where they go with this. maybe, some day, eventually, spanish dub.

I think it's not just that fans were begging and annoying Sega to bring Ishin to the west for the longest time (though that was assuredly a big factor) but I remember reading some interview with one of the people at RGG studio that said Ghost of Tsushima's success was a big reason they decided to translate Ishin as well

If you check the Japanese version of the Kaito Files, the ape/gorilla references are all there in the original dialogue/system text. And the three-line subtitle is a direct quote from the historical Sakamoto Ryoma, often interpreted as a haiku, meaning three lines of 5-7-5 syllables is a natural fit for the subtitle. Looks like another feather in the editing team's cap to me!

My only main issue of Ishin Kiwami is how you no longer do combos from behind since bosses will turn around after the 1st hit of the rush combo unless there's a southpaw bracelet in the game. (and yes it was there in the original I'm not joking)

Maybe there's hope for Kenzan getting a localization. It takes place a few hundred years before Ishin

I’m just happy Ishin finally got localized 9 years after the original came out in Japan.

Something people don't mention is when you get to the trooper cards, the UI is permanently changed. Even with the cards unequipped, the styles are still moved and when you change styles you sometimes still see the outlines of where a card would've been lol. Plus, you can't hold RT to stop heat actions without seeing the card UI pop up. I just want the old style UI back. Please RGG, just give me an option to permanently disable cards outside of dungeons

As you didn't mention it in the video, we apparently have Ghost of Tsushima to thank for RGG reconsidering a localization of Ishin. But this was a very informative and great video and I'll be picking up my PS4 copy at some point!

First time playing Ishin and 10 hours in, and I'm having a blast. I did have some worries about the localization quality after hearing that Scott stepped away but its a great and polished localization. Big thumbs up for the team for tackling such a hard game to translate. PC port for me wasn't that bad. The stutters were there, but they basically disappeared or were extremely minimal 2 hours in. The stutters are listed in the known issues so patch is coming soon (maybe around the actual non-early access launch?). Also interesting to hear the changes between the orignal and the remake. A lot of the problems you mention won't impact the average player, as you will only really see/feel it if you've played the original.

They removed the theme for the Saigo and Katsura and replaced it with Town Bully from 6, Which sucks, because I'm pretty sure it's the only theme they removed from the original. Rhapsody of Chivalry went so fucking hard as well aaaaaaaa

I dunno what it was about this era of development by the RGG team, but for whatever reason the trainer themes were way better than you'd ever expect. The trainer music in 5 was also way better than it probably should have been, especially Leo the Aristocrat's theme. Also, there's a pretty good chance at least *some* of the PC issues will get ironed out over time. I'm currently playing Judgement on PC since it released not too long ago and they kept updating that from release last year up until the present with various fixes.

Love the video, thanks for the background….enjoyed it! Love your work SnowiestAngeman 😉

Pretty much the main reason why ishin got localized was because of Ghost Of Tsushimas success worldwide, by that reason im one happy fella.

Scott and his team really are the MVPs of making this game so enjoyable to gamers outside Japan. I still love that SEGA added some animation to address the meta humor of Ichiban and the American tourist.

If you told me I could be playing a remake of Ishin on a handheld (like the steam deck) at 60fps a few years back, I would have called you crazy. It’s insane how far we’ve come

I'm a simple man. I saw Kana Momonogi making a return in Ishin, I preorder the game in a heartbeat

4:30 "i don't know how well a 2014 game ported to the next gen would do" GTA V...

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation and review. I was surprised by the borders around the screen too originally. I hope that they fix the issues on the PC port.

Great video, I appreciate you explaining the history behind the publishing of these games as well

The reason the last names are first in the credits is because in Japan you say people's family name first and their personal name last.

I've played both the original and the remake of Ishin for quite a long time now, and probably my most noticeable observations are: Introducing RNG to the seal and crafting system, and providing you with no consistent way of finding or acquiring seals without investing even more money into the already-massively increased cost of the crafting system means you not only have to spend a ridiculous amount of time digging in the already-sluggish Battle Dungeon for crafting materials, but also grinding money to spend on the raw cost, which is exorbitant even with the crafting cost reductions of Level 20; only to then have to roll a 67% Enhance chance that might fail and waste the seal you have no way of finding consistently again anyway. The "Exclusive Seal" being on every unique weapon rather than just Enchanted (blue) and Style (green) feels quite nasty, considering part of the 100% Completion list is to synthesize every seal in the game. Crafting costing more money doesn't really achieve anything but making the mid-game more grindy, (though the end-game suffers a bit too) which is not the time you want to be interrupting the flow of the game. Typically (and this is how I felt in the original) RGG has more respect for the player's time unless you are actively seeking completion or optimization. Enemy health bars feel much, much longer, even on just Hard difficulty, I'm finding myself with Best Oni-maru at 1352 attack, with one-sword style buffed by Shinada's card attack/defense, in the overworld, having to slash one random goon for an entire, full combo with the double finisher before he dies, whereas in the original he'd probably drop after three or four slashes from a well-made Mikazuki Munechika, with no Shinsengumi buffs at all. That's to say nothing for the Brawler style, which can't be EASILY buffed anymore thanks to the aforementioned seals being ruined, and the gauntlet that specialized with the Brawler buffs on it doesn't have that seal anymore. The Brawler parry also inexplicably doesn't work against certain attacks (such as the odachi stab), or has a mysteriously-shortened window where you'll get your guard broken instead. Enemies feel as though they ignore knockdown or stun effects far more commonly. The Battle Dungeon replaces several of the boss enemies with gigantic, hulking monstrosities, three times the size of Ryoma, who take absolutely no hitstun, continually throw flaming darts at the player (which is about as fun as mashing X to get off the ground repeatedly) PRESUMABLY in an effort to get you to use the more unique Shinsengumi heat actions - which would be great, if it followed the same pattern of charging all of your trooper abilities at the start of every mission, WHICH IT DOESN'T. Each trooper remembers its charge through each battle, and the idle charge times are so incredibly long (also changed from the original) that if you do accidentally die against a boss and all your good card abilities are on cooldown, you get to stand around for minutes before a fight, in each style waiting for them to re-charge, or go off and do something else before coming back to try again. (Looking at you, Five Tiger Generals.) The big enemies can be cheesed by any "Kamehameha"-style Shinsengumi heat action, I know, but I despise 'enemy that's really fucking annoying unless you use one specific technique that just completely invalidates them' because that's boring as hell. There's a reason my Gun style is the least used despite how broken it is. There are also strange signs of laziness in various changes - the Promotion system for cards doesn't seem to work, despite the game telling me I have the option to. There's empty ? slots in the Materials tab of your inventory for the now-removed powders that you would refine your weapons with in the original, which obviously have no use now. The bug where the Scarecrow Mansion clear rewards reset still exists for some reason. The cool animations that used to play when you finished a fight with an Extreme Heat action now appear to be either modified, broken or missing half the time. This, on top of everything that you've pointed out, does leave me wondering what could've been in a perfect world. I say pretty much all of this out of love for the original and, despite all that, I still enjoyed the re-make and a lot of the QoL changes that were made. Hopes are high for a patch or two to iron out some of this nonsense.

13:25 the song from the ryuji-akiyama fight was changed to town bully from yakuza 6

Love the videos! Keep it up

they really should have added the 7 in the west. "Yakuza 7 : Like a Dragon"

Still need to finish Lost Judgement, the school story activities are too much fun! But I'm sure as shit getting this right after I'm done! Love the videos man!

I think the Kaito Gorilla thing comes from the fact that his voice actor, Crispin Freeman voices Winston from Overwatch, who happens to be a gorilla, and he uses a very similar, albeit slightly softer version of Kaito's voice.

6:26 whenever I hear this kurohyou 2 track that pokemon cry always gets me💀

I’ve honestly been loving the remake, I never played the original so I’m glad that after years of waiting I can finally experience it. It’s very disappointing to me that they cut the Rhapsody of Chivalry for the fight with Saigo and Katsura and replaced it with Town Bully from 6. The original Ishin track for that fight is amazing and it’s one of my favorites in the franchise as a whole. Sad to see that it didn’t make it.

13:25 The song that plays when Ryoma fist-fights those two characters while drunk is changed from an original song to Town Bully

20:05 the wall splat attack only works in battle dungeons, couldn't tell you why

Im just so happy to understand the story and everything else, sucks that the opening got taken out and changed some heat colors but im pretty sure mods will bring that stuff back

I felt actual, physical cringe whenever bosses would use the card powers, and also when these unreasonably huge armored enemies would show up. Both of these have no real place in the main story imo, but other than that, it's definitely worth playing.

Honestly this is now my favorite Yakuza/Like a Dragon game. I’m happy they remade it

Awesome video. It was cool to get some background on the significance of this game being ported and localised. I’ve been enjoying the shit out of the game, it’s like a perfect combination between the modern Yakuza/Judgment games and the flex gameplay of things like 0. I’m keen to see how the story pans out - but I will say, the PC port is doggy doodoo. RGG, give us ultrawide and compile shaders in the menu BLOODY HELL

I don’t really have a problem with stuttering and I think like a lot of the bugs with the pc port of the judgment series it might be a pc part specific issue which sucks but I hope Ishin gets regular updates like those ports to fix some of those issues, I think they released an update for the stuttering issue

I beat this game last night and I loved it. I heard about this game after I beat Yakuza 5 in 2014, I have waited 9 years to play it and I think it was worth the wait. Something to note about the cutscenes, if you go to SEGA's channel, they've uploaded some of the cutscenes as part of trailers and they run at 60fps. I immediately noticed they were 30fps and just thought it was a console thing, but no, friends playing on PC have said the same. Apparently there's a day 1 patch due tomorrow, I do wonder if this is an issue with the pre-release "early access" copy of the game. Either way, wasn't a deal breaker, the PS5 version doesn't suffer from any performance issues other than a bug I experienced in one of the games final cutscenes where it kept randomly cutting to black, I watched the cutscene back via the replay feature and it was fine. I also had the music completely die in the final fight of the game after I paused, which really killed the mood lol. Overall I'd recommend this to ANY fan and I'd even recommend it to those who aren't. I found the combat to feel a bit stiff compared to modern RGG games but as you unlock more abilities it really starts to feel damn good.

Hopefully it sells well enough because I always wanted to try the musashi miyamoto game that came before ishin originally.

No offense, but the cutscenes are 100% intended to be 30fps. Most movies have and are intentionally shot on 24-30 fps.

I was waiting for this game to comeout. Now i can do my yakuza legendary run!

i think this needs to be mentioned , the throw at a wall bugging out made it so its possible to throw an enemy at an ally and do a cool looking team attack

Those cutscenes in the Ishin remake looking fire!

Lesgoo. Excited to play this tomorrow for the first time. LIKE A DRAGON ISHIN 2 KIWAMI WITH KENZAN KIWAMI 2

This is a very good video

thomas glover now has sounds storm as his theme instead of just the regular boss theme

I believe the gun fusiliade (?) sometimes knocks bosses down. Also one thing I hate about this game is that it has very slow menus like in the old games. The menus were much faster to navigate from Y6.

A few things I wanted to add or point out. Enemies have a bit more super armor than usual? Probably the reason why guns knock them down more and deal more damge even to bosses. Also you can style switch mid combo from any style like the recent games instead of just hand to hand style. Really wish they kept that wild dance evasion strike cancel tho

I really hope the pc issues get sorted soon, I tried the combat demo and the stutters and ultrawide issues were enough to put me off for now

15:10 You can change your costume mid game in Lost Paradise

porting the original game would have been so much better. Being localized is not an excuse to the new flaws that this new entry has. But at the end of the day, its still ishin, and ishin its an awesome game

I have to thank the super best friends for showing there glory is this series to us in the west.

Thank you for telling me who Scott was, it's nice to know who to thank

i love how ryuji is basically kiryu as a literal street samurai. he's changed very little, and thats perfect, cuz kiryu is always such a great guy to be around when you're not attacking him or if you're not bullying the weak in front of him.

The game ran mostly fine for me except for s few graphical issues like the last cutscene in chapter 13 messing up and having near epilespsy triggering flashes of white randomly. There was also the issue of everyone looking like a super saiyan when Kyoto was on fire.

The video started to buffer right after you spoke about the stuttering so I wasn't sure if it was a deliberate bit or not at first.

I didn’t knew the people who did Vandalize from Sonic Frontiers also did the intro in the original.

I think you can credited Atlus USA back then especially Scott as he is a Atlus USA employee SEGA sees the localization work of Atlus USA so it make sense why Yakuza/LAD series thrive now.

Loved the music tracks you featured at the end, but i'm curious if the US version of the game will have the same soundtrack or if some major ones will be missing like in other localizations. The outro sounds fantastic but i worry i'd buy the game for my country and never get to hear it at all.

I'm so happy I stumbled across this video. I originally wasn't gonna play the remake cause I was SO salty it was ported into the dragon engine. I really loved yakuza 0/kiwami's engine so I wanted to play ishin purely cause it'd be the last of its kind. It's real cool that they didn't change all too much after all tho! My only complaint now is that some of the old ui was overhauled and look more modern/less yakuza 0 looking but that's honestly a small nitpick. The new team did a really good job keeping everything faithful to the original im so excited to try!!

The three line subtitle at 7:42 is a haiku! I think that's really good!

Biggest problem with the remake for me at least, is the goddamn texture pop-in during cutscenes. It's so fucking distracting.

Worst part about the trooper cards is that they aren't optional, even if you don't use them the bosses will.

I wish the game had more dynamic intros, like you’re telling me the Daigo stand in doesn’t get one (and if you played the game, you’d know just how important he is), same with the 1v2 against the Ryuji and Akiyama stand ins

I saw the health bars, and particle effects and I got scared thinking they completely reworked the combat into something similar to Kiwami 2 or Yakuza 6, where your animations are unsatisfying as hell, and you feel like you're fighting in jello, and everyone just kinda flops around.

The combat in this game is so frustrating. Ryuma always freezes at the start of fight and enemies just slash u right away. Hitbox is confusing and parrying only works half of the time (even though I’m damn sure I hit LB clearly before getting hit). Grab is better than LJ but still weird. Camera control is just pure gabbage (up and down, always blocked and come to a full stop)

Out of all the styles they should've speed up it should've been sword style

Only gripe is that most bosses have super thick armor that they'll start knocking you back after 3-4 light hits into the combo (swordman) - it's very hard to punish them and it results in a more slow and methodical approach in 1v1 boss fights I'm fine with it but sometimes it feels tiring

The shogun doing kamehameha wave is fucking ridiculous.

I don't really have an issue with Swordsman style, it seems to me it's more made for one on one fights than crowd clearing like Wild Dance. I'd just rather not only use a gun cuz that gets boring after awhile.

I’m learning about the naming convention for the first time in this video, wowww

This is how a review should be done. No spoilers and highlighting the stregnth and weakness of the game. Ill be trying Ishin tonight, thanks!

You can turn off the cards by placing in a blank slot when swapping cards

I remember reading up that it was the success of Ghost of Tsushima that basically got through to Sega that the fans might actually want this ported.

Just finished this game I loved it!!

One of the few songs that was in the original but not in the remake is the Don Quijote theme

I was doing so well on not getting this game until it was on some degree of sale until you posted this. Damn you.

i like the changes to the ui

There are mods on PC to remove the widescreen borders for cutscenes in 0-7 (I think), we'll probably get a mod for Ishin as well. Sucks for widescreen console players though, hope RGG patches it.

I've seen some comments think it's like the ancestor story like the great ace attorney, if anything it's more like yakuza hamilton.

if you want to cap the game at a specific frame rate go into your graphics drivers control panel and limit it from there. it works better than built games frame caps

I just got into Yakuza a month ago and I'm obsessed

sega is aware of the frame rate issues so i'm sure we will get a day one patch on the actual launch that fixes it.

rip ryuji booty smacking

Hard to believe we have almost every Like A Dragon games on 1 system right now.

19:45 as someone who did a hard difficulty brawler only run for my first playthrough, i can completely agree with this also don't do brawler only, as i am now completely incapable of feeling happiness as a result

I find it funny that RGG felt this game had too many cultural barriers for western countries like America, when this game just allows you to BE American, with the gunman style.

i wish it had the OG gameplay in like a dragon ishin

9:51 I will say that cutscenes are perfectly fine with 30 fps and the borders. Think about artist intent. The composition was made for 16 by 9. Having the extra space on the sides adds nothing and only makes the shots look worse. All the extra space does will do two things. Have empty space making composition worse, or shows things that were hidden. And 60fps is really only a good thing for gameplay. There is really no good reason why you want a high frame rate in cutscenes. You aren't interacting, it's just watching stuff. If it's a stable 30fps, it's fine

The comment about your accent early on made me chuckle.

"you should definetely play this" as if i wouldnt

Is it possible to outright just remove the Trooper Card system in the options or are we stuck having every story boss pulling out magic bullshit that should only be reserved for Amon battles?

I wonder why aizawa still uses the basic boss theme

Ultra wide cutscenes does not work if the cutscene was not made for ultra wide in the first place. Even if you were to extend the frame to ultra wide, you would see things you weren't supposed to see. As well as just ruining cinematography and camera work. Now no ultrawide in gameplay? Yeah, no excuse for that.

Instead of continuing to play Ishin rn I’m watching a video on Ishin. Well, I’m sold!

To fix the ultrawide issue, set the game to fullscreen and choose a 16:9 resolution - you'll get rid of the artwork, and UI assets won't go over the borders

Tbh, when I hear the music in LAD: Ishin, it gives off vibes of the Yakuza games mixed with the musical style of the modern Samurai Warriors games, which... makes sense I guess, lol

As someone who hasn't played the original Ishin or Lost Judgment (yet), I'll admit that it took some getting used to with the combat. In comparison to Judgment the combat gives me that Yakuza 5 clunkiness to it, which makes sense, given both games were originally made around the same time. Though I'm getting used to it all over again. Like a skill that you'll never unlearn almost. Still happy that it's finally been localized.