Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan KIWAMI is on the way!?

[Májkrémes kenyér]

Daisuke Sato:
Personally, I would like for these titles to be localized and enjoyed by our Western fans. We were prioritizing regaining our ground with the series in the West from Yakuza 0, so time just flew by without an ideal time to release these games. In my opinion, the action is one of the best in the series, so I’d like to localize them if we get the chance. However, the game is also close to 7 years old, so we may need to put in additional work to remake it instead of a simple port, so the decision is a bit more complicated.

[Voland]

we even didnt have simple port on next gen, like 3-4-5. same for Ishin and Dead Souls

but, why not? those have cool settings. lets wait and see

[SA]

Originally posted by Voland:

we even didnt have simple port on next gen, like 3-4-5. same for Ishin and Dead Souls

but, why not? those have cool settings. lets wait and see

Not sure what ya mean about Ishin? It was a PS3/PS4 release, a launch title for PS4 in Japan.

[LArc7thHeaven]

the hard part is the naming, it's not appropriate to name it Yakuza because you're not playing as yakuza lol but as a samurai

[SA]

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

the hard part is the naming, it's not appropriate to name it Yakuza because you're not playing as yakuza lol but as a samurai

Something Samurai! XD

[jojosmojojo]

That's really exciting if it really happens.

Some things are antiquated though, and I hope they are better. Such as location/chapter specific heat actions and boss specific heat actions. If I miss those I have to replay the game up to that point to activate it. Doing all heat actions were required for 100% completion and to get the very last heat action. Heat actions are style specific, so if I didn't know what the correct style was, it didn't activate even if other conditions were met. (Hand-to-hand against an armed enemy while grabbing at a specific place in a once per playthrough area? Really?)

Subsequent playthroughs will keep all weapons, armor and items but not upgrades such as heat actions, heat bar upgrades, or style specific moves so that was annoying. It doesn't help that training were split apart for each styles and the 2 sword style training starts half way through the game.

[Tyler Zeta]

Originally posted by Májkrémes kenyér:

the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and SEGA, they might be planning a Kiwami style remake of the samurai spin-off Yakuza Kenzan.


My reaction would be:
https://youtu.be/jQOQ3RBKvbE

Cool I always wanted to play that one.

[Nens]

I love how PC folks discovered Yakuza recently and they think everything will not only be released in the West and on PC but also totally remade on new engine

[Jack Wiltshire]

Originally posted by Nens:

I love how PC folks discovered Yakuza recently and they think everything will not only be released in the West and on PC but also totally remade on new engine

https://www.siliconera.com/2019/06/24/yakuza-producer-says-that-yakuza-kenzan-could-get-a-kiwami-version/
Here since OP didn't bother providing the source, i know this series since the beginning of time and now with Sega's current stand on PC Gaming and them having officially considered Yakuza a "Multi platform franchise"

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/06/e3_2019_sega_no_longer_considers_yakuza_a_playstation_exclusive_series

I think yes, we'll most likely get some remakes and/or most of the ports on PC.

[Nens]

Originally posted by Jackson Blackwater:

Originally posted by Nens:

I love how PC folks discovered Yakuza recently and they think everything will not only be released in the West and on PC but also totally remade on new engine

https://www.siliconera.com/2019/06/24/yakuza-producer-says-that-yakuza-kenzan-could-get-a-kiwami-version/

Thanks for the source. That's interesting, last year Nagoshi said they have no plans to remaster/localize any spin-off games. Kenzan would be pretty weird choice too, there is some stuff that most likely would be removed and while it's a really good game I'm not sure how well would it sell.

Anyway, my hope for Ishin is even stronger now.

[dancingstar93]

Impression I got from the interview was it was more a case of "this is something I'd like to do one day" rather than "this is something I'm actively pestering Nagoshi / Sega management to allocate time / money / staff to actually do." It might happen, I suppose.

[SA]

Originally posted by dancingstar93:

Impression I got from the interview was it was more a case of "this is something I'd like to do one day" rather than "this is something I'm actively pestering Nagoshi / Sega management to allocate time / money / staff to actually do." It might happen, I suppose.

Yup! We need not get our hopes up.

[dancingstar93]

Proto-Yakuza organisations exist at the time Ishin! takes place, likely they turn up in the game (I've not played past the prologue) running gambling dens and the like, but the usual etymology of "Yakuza" is, it originates in Edo-era gambling slang meaning "loser" or "worthless," as a phonetic reading of the kanji for 8-9-3, a losing hand in Oichi-Kabu.

There are some minor NPCs called ヤクザ (or possibly ヤクザ者, I don't remember exactly) in Kenzan! but the main story of both games has nothing to do with conflicts of organised crime groups.

In any case, a very similar issue occurred with the recent RGG Studio Fist of the North Star game. The Japanese title, 北斗が如く (Hokuto ga Gotoku) is literally formed by combining the titles of the two franchises, and the title logo similarly, down to the styling of the kanji, with the characters for "no Ken" and "Ryû" blurred & faded; so it got renamed for the Western release.

[LArc7thHeaven]

The naming cases is i think somewhat why the rest of historical Japan based Ryu ga Gotoku games were not go to the west because the entire theme of Ryu ga Gotoku is about the characterization of the main character (in here Kiryu Kazuma/Kiryu Kazamanosuke in Kenzan/Sakamoto Ryoma in ishin) that is symbolize by a dragon (Toshiro Nagoshi said he choose the name Ryu ga Gotoku to show the power (but defeated by Etsuko, and he acknowledge he can't defeat her strength lol) and manliness of the main character) not about the Yakuza organization or gokudo itself so naming it Yakuza Kenzan or Ishin is somewhat problematic since you're playing a samurai not some up and coming gokudo or chinpira.

I don't even get why SEGA Europe and America even decided to change Judge Eyes to Judgement because it's already in english why bother changing the name again, or is it because of the tag : Shinigami no Yuegon?

[SA]

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

The naming cases is i think somewhat why the rest of historical Japan based Ryu ga Gotoku games were not go to the west because the entire theme of Ryu ga Gotoku is about the characterization of the main character (in here Kiryu Kazuma/Kiryu Kazamanosuke in Kenzan/Sakamoto Ryoma in ishin) that is symbolize by a dragon (Toshiro Nagoshi said he choose the name Ryu ga Gotoku to show the power and manliness of the main character, sorry for any SJW) not about the Yakuza organization or gokudo itself so naming it Yakuza Kenzan or Ishin is somewhat problematic since you're playing a (honorable) samurai not some honorable thug.

I don't even get why SEGA Europe and America decided to change Judge Eyes to Judgement because it's already in english why bother changing the name again, or is it because of the tag : Shinigami no Yuegon?

The theme of RgG Kenzan is prologue to boshin war, story about Shinsengumi and Ishin-sishi, where you play as somewhat historical Sakamoto Ryoma (Somewhat ancestor of Kazuma Kiryu) :D

Fun fact: Ishin and Kenzan were literally not even localized into Chinese either. Sony published Kenzan in South Korea with a subtitled script book.

Yakuza 0 was the very first one to get localized into Chinese, as were the PS4 remasters of 3-5.

[jojosmojojo]

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

The theme of RgG Kenzan is prologue to boshin war, story about Shinsengumi and Ishin-sishi, where you play as somewhat historical Sakamoto Ryoma (Somewhat ancestor of Kazuma Kiryu) :D

That's RGG Ishin, not Kenzan. Kenzan takes place about 200 years prior to Ishin and the main character is Musashi, not Ryoma.