Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has revealed that the studio decided not to remake Yakuza Kenzan due to the fact it would require a much bigger budget, and therefore instead plumped for a remake of Like A Dragon Ishin.
Speaking during an interview with OneMoreGame at the Tokyo Game Show 2022 last week, RGG Studio’s Masayoshi Yokoyama and Hiroyuki Sakamoto had the following to say on why Ishin was picked in favour of Kenzan.
In Like a Dragon: Ishin, there’s no Yakuza at all. It would be strange if we gave the name Yakuza Ishin because Yakuza wasn’t even a concept back then. By the time when we decided on the English name, we got a proposal from the US team that they would like to introduce Like a Dragon since it was already being used at that point, so it seemed like a good direction.
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Yakuza: Kenzan! was released for the PS3 in Japan back in 2008, and has never been released in the US and UK. Meanwhile, Like A Dragon Ishin is scheduled for release in February 2023 for PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One.
[Source – OneMoreGame]
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