As a part of ongoing protection at Tokyo Game Show, RGG Studio has confirmed that freshly introduced remake Like a Dragon: Ishin! won’t have an English voiceover possibility — it will simply be sticking with subtitles. The developer has greenlit English dubs for its most up-to-date video games — Judgment, Lost Judgment, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon — so this information does come as a little bit of a shock.

It’s not simply RGG Studio being lazy, although. As reported by The Tojo Dojo, the developer says that an English dub can be significantly troublesome for Ishin!. “The specialised vocabulary and the best way folks talked in the course of the Bakumatsu period would make the traces extremely lengthy so it simply wouldn’t work. So this time we’re doing subtitles,” producer Yokoyama explains.

With the best way Yokoyama phrases this, it does sound as if future Like a Dragon video games will nonetheless be thought-about for English voiceovers — it is simply that Ishin! is a particular case. We can be shocked, for instance, if Like a Dragon 8 does not have a dub possibility.

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