Yakuza: Ishin hardware announcement due before TGS (hint: 9) and will have JRPG elements

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http://gematsu.com/2013/08/yakuza-ishin-will-have-jrpg-elements

Dengeki PlayStation this week has new details on Yakuza: Ishin. The platform is still unannounced, but we’ll likely hear about that come Sony’s September 9 press conference. Find the full lot of new information below.

 

1. The answer to the famous question of how Sakamoto Ryoma dies will be revealed in this game.
2. You’ll play in Tosa during the prologue, but the majority of the game is set in Kyoto.
3. Kyoto is completely remade and not pulled from Yakuza: Kenzan.
4. Kyoto’s cityscape will appear similar to modern day Kyoto.
5. Some people will be wearing western clothes, and there will be actual foreigners, too.
6. The focus is on making the game more JRPG-fun than any other. Series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi wants to bring the type of RPG he finds personally enjoyable back to Japan, so this is a chance to take on that challenge. They’re putting in a lot of RPG elements, like strengthening yourself in town and upgrading your weapons.
7. You’ll use a gun and sword in combat. There are a variety of types.
8. The battle system aims to be the deepest and most exhilarating in the series.
9. The game will be balanced so you can’t proceed easily unless you level up both yourself and your weapons.
10. The genre is action adventure to the end.
11. It promises to be the most intense production in Yakuza series history.
12. You will never hear the name Kazuma Kiryu. There are no tattoos on the back of the two characters he plays.
13. The max level is 99. There are an unthinkable number of weapons.
14. Taiga Saejima will play Nagakura Shinpachi.