Finally, Game Pass lets us experience Kazuma Kiryu’s version of hell – and it's absolutely essential
Renowned philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a play based around a version of hell that consists solely of a plain room which three sinners are set to be trapped within together for eternity. There’s no lava, no torture, and no Homer Simpson being fed more doughnuts than anyone could reasonably eat. There’s just the judgement of a group of faces who’re fated to look upon each other forever. There’s no exit.
For Yakuza series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, Like A Dragon: Ishin, one of the latest titles to rock up on Xbox Game Pass, is that room.
Despite the game taking place in 1860s Kyo, rather than 21st Century Kamurocho, it’s full of faces any veteran of RGG Studio’s games about beating up smartly dressed criminals will recognise. Everyone from Kiryu, to Goro Majima, and even everyone’s favourite underground motorcyclist Daisaku Kuze is there, having been designated a new name, station and costume befitting their fresh stations in the Bakumatsu era.
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