Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!

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Template:Game Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! (龍が如く見参!, lit. "Like a Dragon Arrives!") is a spin-off from the Yakuza series released for PlayStation 3 in Japan on March 6, 2008. This game is set in historical Kyoto, Japan during the Edo period in 1605. The story follows the parts of Miyamoto Musashi's life. It is the first Yakuza-series spin-off game, as well as the series's first PlayStation 3 title.

Development

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Kazuma Kiryu's appearance in the first two Yakuza titles

Miyamoto Musahi — Kiryu Kazumanosuke's appearance, which is markedly different.

Due to the PlayStation 3's greater capabilities and new filesystem, SEGA decided to have a completely clean break from the first two Yakuza games. A new game engine was developed for Kenzan! and future games, and all the game's assets were created from the ground up, with nothing being taken from Kenzan!'s predecessors.

Another series first for Kenzan! was SEGA's use of 3D-scanning technology for characters' faces, being based on scans of their respective voice actors' faces.^[1] This drastically changed the appearance of some main characters, whose likenesses in Kenzan! were then applied to their modern-day equivalents in Yakuza 3 and subsequent titles.
For example Kenzan! protagonist Kiryū Kazumanosuke's face was based on a 3D scan of his voice actor Takaya Kuroda's face. The raw scan was then cleaned up and modified to appear more like how the developers saw Kiryu, rather than simply a direct copy of Kuroda's face. This facial appearance then formed the basis for modern-day counterpart Kazuma Kiryu's face in every subsequent game that he has appeared in.

Plot

After being defeated by the Tokugawa clan at the historical Battle of Sekigahara, which took place on October 20, 1600. Miyamoto Musashi retired from his great swordsman life to become a modest bodyguard in Gion, Kyoto. Five years after the battle, a young girl named Haruka comes to Gion seeking a local hitman known as Kiryu Kazumanosuke, which is Miyamoto's new identity. After finding Kiryu, Haruka asks him to assassinate Miyamoto Musashi, unaware of who he is. Kiryu asks Haruka to give him one ryō to go on with the assassination. She does not, in which Kiryu refuses going on with the request. Desperate for money, Haruka becomes as servant in a brothel.