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Spade said:

shikamaru317 said:

It would be cool to see Kenzan get the remake treatment like Ishin did, it is actually the only one not localized, but I don't know if Ishin remake had the sales to justify it, sales seemed tepid to me, with only like 90k first week in Japan and an unknown number of western sales.

Dead Souls was released outside of Japan 9 months later, it just flopped with the lowest reviews in the series by far (64 meta when the rest are high 70's or above) and fairly tepid sales, so I doubt they will give it a modern remaster or remake.

I would love to see Kiwami 3 because 3 badly needs the Kiwami treatment, it's really showing it's age. Papa Kiryu deserves a proper remake treatment. 

Judgment 3 seems like a no-brainer to currently be the next game in development at RGG Studio (they supposedly have one more game releasing in 2024 with no games currently announced). Before, back in 2021 or early 2022 we had heard they were considering cancelling Judgment 3 due to a conflict with Yagami's actor's talent agency over PC releases for the franchise, the agency was worried that PC modders would ruin the actor's image with nude mods and such, but Sega and the talent agency resolved that dispute and Judgment 1 and 2 both released on PC in September 2022, so Judgment 3 should be coming since Lost Judgment sold well.

Oh ok, nice to hear. Didn't know that about the other non localized game. Would love Kiwami 3,4, and 5. Hope they re-do the hostess minigame, as 3 and 4 (can't remember if it was in 5 were awful). Bring back the hostess MANAGEMENT minigame.

Crazy to think they really have another game releasing this year if that's true... Wow. Very excited for this studio. 

Looking into it more, they only confirmed the announcement of their next game will be in 2024, not the release. But it definitely seems possible they could release a 2nd game this year, afterall RGG studio has released as many as 4 games in one year in the past, and since 2018 they have released more than 1 game each year except for 2020, where Covid likely delayed their 2nd game for the year into 2021. Lost Judgment was 2021, so I would assume that Judgment 3 by that team can make 2024 with 3 years of development, considering Lost Judgment itself was made in 3 years, and during Covid for much of that time.

And yeah, Hostess management definitely needs to come back, I enjoyed it in 0, Kiwami 2, and 4. Best minigame in the series, and I love the Hostess Management song in Yakuza 0, the song by Japanese Mariah Carey as the fans call her. Even with her poor English, it's such a good song because her singing is just so damn good and full of passion.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 11 February 2024