Video Games Ryu Ga Gotoku

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Ryu ga gotoku

Toshihiro Nagoshi's seminal yakuza action-adventure Ryu ga gotoku scores a 10, 10, 9, 8, for a total of 37, and making it the game of the week. The game is splendid. It is, essentially, like Yu Suzuki's Shenmue, only set in a grimier town full of bars and prostitutes and gangsters, and starring a delicious fighting system that focuses on banging your enemies into the environment -- walls, vending machines, parking meters, other enemies.

The hero is a tough guy, thrown in jail after he's framed for a murder, and released ten years later, to find that bad things are going down between the yakuza factions he had just barely escaped alive from. In epic news, actor Masayoshi Funaki will play the lead character, Kazuma Kiryuu, in director Takashi Miike's two-part drama based on the game. You can download the first part on Famitsu.com starting December 2nd, and the second part on Tsutaya.com starting December 9th. This is exciting because Takashi Miike is a famous director of ultra-violent yakuza movies that don't make any sense; he has a lot of fans as far as Europe (though I'm no fan myself).

The story for the game and the drama was written by Seishu Hase, a prominent yakuza crime novelist. Like a Japanese Elmore Leonard, minus about thirty years of age and half the sense of humor. He does, however, write great dialogue. That the drama will be distributed free, over the internet, in two twenty-minute instalments rather reminds me of Sega's theatrical release of "Shenmue: The Movie," which consisted of game footage with misplaced English voice-overs. Yet -- this is most certainly a step up.

Videos
http://sb.tsutaya.co.jp/WM/game/ryugagotoku/adventure_sp_500k.asx
http://sb.tsutaya.co.jp/WM/game/ryugagotoku/battle_sp_500k.asx

 

No one has ever heard of this game? Its a shame.

 

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I saw a trailer of it on x-play.it looks cool to beatdown on people.