To those who are fan of Yakuza series, thought want to give this a go, currently $79.00 on preorder includes delivery. Looks like Amazon price matched BigW https://www.bigw.com.au/product/like-a-dragon-ishin-ps5/p/24… but plus delivery, so I'd say getting from Amazon is better deal.
Also same price if you select other platform, as in Xbox series and PS4.
Game will be released on 21 Feb 2023, so even if you place preorder now, the price may go down in between then.
Given the Japanese versions of these games usually release in Japanese language only a year or more before the translated version comes out, has that been the case this time?
If so, is this game meant to be any good? I've played several Japanese editions of these Ryu ga Gotoku games and have found them initially immersive and interesting but the missions pretty samey and the combat tiresome after a while.
I played Kenzan! in Japanese but the Tokugawa-era language was too mystifying to follow. The period setting seemed cool, but a lot of the appeal of the modern games in this series is that Kamuro-cho is exactly like Kabuki-cho in Tokyo and there's product placement and all this stuff that's so Japanese it feels like you're there, so I can only assume there's less of that in the period setting.