Like a Dragon: Kenzan!
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| Like a Dragon: Kenzan! | |
| Developer | New Entertainment R&D Deptartment |
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| Publisher | Sega |
| Platforms | PlayStation 3 |
| Released | JP: March 8, 2008 |
| Added to Museum |
October 26, 2018 |
Like a Dragon: Kenzan! (龍が如く 見参！, "Like a Dragon Arrives!"), is a spin-off of the Like a Dragon series that is a prequel to Yakuza. It was released for PlayStation 3 in Japan on March 6, 2008.
Plot
In the 17th century, a rōnin named Musashi Miyamoto takes on the alias of Kazumanosuke Kiryu.
On October 21, 1600, a civil war took place between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and a coalition of Toyotomi loyalists led by Ishida Mitsunariin in Sekigahara, Japan at the end of the Sengoku period.
In the years following the battle, a period of peace and prosperity took place with money held largely by the influential in the neighborhood of Gion, the home of the Imperial capital. Because this neighborhood was now a red light district, it signified the end of the era of rule by the sword to one ruled by money. In Gion, men were being forced into Gion to be sold as slave labor while women and girls were being sold to work as sex slaves.
In 1605, a rōnin named Musashi Miyamoto is living at the House of the Dragon under the alias of Kazumanosuke Kiryu, earning a living for a man named Ittosai Itō who gives him work as a bodyguard for various business owners as well as a money collector. He spends most of his time sleeping, smoking opium, drinking, or spending time with a courtesan named Tayuu Yoshino at the biggest brothel in Gion, Tsuruya.
After a collection job, Kiryu is told that someone is at the front gate of Gion looking for him. He arrives at the gate but is surprised that the person looking for him is a beaten and bruised young girl named Haruka. He tries to ignore her but she hears him being called Kiryu. She tells him that she was saved by a man who she didn't know and that he told her to go to Gion, see Kiryu, and that then she'd be alright. He tries to leave as he thinks he won't get paid for his services, but Haruka tells him that she has money. Kiryu becomes surprised when he notices the crest on the katana she is carrying. Kiryu's slave tries to punish her for carrying a weapon that she could use to hurt his master. However, Kiryu lies and tells him she could be his illegitimate child from a courtesan and takes her back to his house.
At the House of the Dragon, Haruka tells Kiryu that she will pay him to kill the man who murdered her entire family and tells him the murderer went by the name Musashi Miyamoto. The only thing she can tell Kiryu about the man who told her to seek him out was that he had a huge wound on his chest.
She learned that the man who killed her family went by Miyamoto because she went to a small village in the Omi Province where someone told her that the katana belonged to Musashi Miyamoto. Kiryu refuses her request and tells her that he doesn't know Miyamoto and that he doesn't kill people indiscriminately. She asks him again if he will do it if she can pay him, and when Kiryu confirms that, Haruka tells the mama-san of Tsuruya to buy her as a courtesan.
