As such, it has also been neglected in gaming, unless you love Otome games, a genre which is full to the brim of pretty boy-zations of the Shinsengumi. It’s a period that many in the west find rather obscure since it’s eclipsed in popular media by the Sengoku period. The story is set in the Bakumatsu period of Japanese history (just past the halfway point of the nineteenth century) when the samurai rule was fading, and Japan was starting to timidly and often begrudgingly embrace western-driven “modernity.” In fact, the Japanese title of this upcoming release does include the word “Kiwami,” even if that’s gone from the western title, which makes sense since we never got the original. Yet, Sega surprised us not only with a localization, but also with brand new platforms and the “Kiwami” treatment that we’ve seen for the first Yakuza games. Many fans of the Yakuza series (now renamed “Like a Dragon,” which is the literal translation of the original “Ryu Ga Gotoku” title) had lost hope of seeing its old-Japan spin-off Ishin localized for the west.
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