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· Games/Like a Dragon: Ishin!
LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! (2023): ALL FIVE SPEED CHALLENGES These stages test navigation, chasing, and hiding. Sprint in short bursts and ease off before Ryoma becomes exhausted. An involuntary stop is especially costly when something is pursui...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! (2023): ALL 10 SKILL CHALLENGES These are the rule-based battles in the post-story Ultimate Challenge menu. Before attacking, check what actually counts as damage. Several stages deliberately make your usual approach u...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! (2023): ALL 10 COMBAT CHALLENGES Ultimate Challenge opens on the title screen after you finish the story. There are 30 stages altogether: 10 Combat, 10 Skill, five Speed, and five Ultimate. Finish the first three categ...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Trooper Guide, Part 2: Useful Combinations and Legendary Recruits Once you've got a few cards, stop looking at rarity alone and start looking at what the squad actually does. A powerful attack is useful. A setup that l...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Trooper Guide: Recruiting, Building a Squad, and Upgrading Your Cards Troopers become available during Chapter 5 alongside the Battle Dungeons. In the 2023 remake, their abilities work in regular combat too. They aren'...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Battle Dungeon Guide, Part 5: Choosing a Sanada Farming Run When you need to repeat a dungeon, the route matters as much as the reward. A stage with several switches, compulsory boxes and long return trips can take muc...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Battle Dungeon Guide, Part 4: Sanada Stronghold Sanada Stronghold is the last dungeon area in the 2023 remake. There are twenty missions here. Clear the Mine first, then go back to the receptionist at the Shinsengumi B...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Battle Dungeon Guide, Part 3: All 10 Bandits' Mine Missions Bandits' Mine is the second dungeon area in the 2023 remake. Clear the Cave's ten missions to unlock it. This is where armor becomes a bigger problem, so chec...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Battle Dungeon Guide, Part 2: All 10 Bandits' Cave Missions Bandits' Cave is the first dungeon area in the 2023 remake. There are ten missions, finishing with a giant who needs a different approach from the ordinary en...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Battle Dungeon Guide, Part 1: Unlocking Missions and Preparing Your Squad The Battle Dungeons are where a lot of Ishin's equipment grind happens. They also give you a place to level troopers and earn money while workin...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Shogi Guide, Part 2: All 11 Challenge Video Chapters If you're playing beyond the three wins needed for the Completion List, this index takes you straight to each challenge in xSelphie1999xHDGaming's remake video. The...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Shogi Guide, Part 1: How to Play and Get the Three Wins Shogi is one of those activities where the game can put a whole board in front of you before you understand what any of the pieces do. You can learn it properly,...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Mahjong Guide, Part 3: Recognizing Winning Hands A hand can look finished and still be unable to win. Four groups and a pair give you the usual shape, but you also need a scoring condition, called a yaku. Dora adds val...
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! Mahjong Guide, Part 2: Completion, the Tournament, and Prizes This covers the 2023 remake. If you're playing for completion, the number you need is 35,000 points at the end of one game. That's your actual score before...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! EQUIPMENT WORTH BUILDING The full crafting list is for completion. For the story, pick a weapon you enjoy using and improve it when fights start taking too long. You can spend a lot of money chasing a final upgrade bef...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! ARMOR CRAFTING: EVERY GAUNTLET RECIPE All 11 gauntlet recipes for the 2023 remake are here. Leather Gauntlets start the tree. The Rakugai Arms Dealer sells them for 1,000 mon from Chapter 5. Battle Dungeons 1-1 and 1-5...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! ARMOR CRAFTING: EVERY BREASTPLATE RECIPE This is the complete 11-recipe breastplate tree in the 2023 remake. Leather Breastplate is the starting item. Buy one for 1,000 mon from the Rakugai Arms Dealer from Chapter 5,...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! ARMOR CRAFTING: EVERY HEADGEAR RECIPE Here are all 23 crafted headgear entries for the 2023 remake. Start with a White Headband. The Rakugai Arms Dealer sells it for 1,000 mon from Chapter 5; Battle Dungeon 1-2 is anot...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! ALL SEVEN MAGICAL WEAPONS If Kurogane refuses a magical recipe, take it to the Dead-Eyed Man sitting beside the Jizo statue on Mukurogai's eastern waterfront. He handles seven upgrades that the regular smithy cannot ma...
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LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! SPECIAL WEAPONS: EVERY SPEAR, ODACHI AND CANNON RECIPE Special weapons use their own equipment slot. You also need the matching Knowledge ability before you can wield them: Spear is on the Wild Dancer grid, Odachi on S...
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