{"id":119920,"date":"2025-04-24T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=119920"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:56:16","slug":"road59-a-yakuzas-last-stand-visual-novel-hits-steam-and-switch-on-september-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/road59-a-yakuzas-last-stand-visual-novel-hits-steam-and-switch-on-september-25\/","title":{"rendered":"ROAD59 A Yakuza&#8217;s Last Stand Visual Novel Hits Steam and Switch on September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Bushiroad<\/strong> has announced that the<em> ROAD59 A Yakuza\u2019s Last Stand<\/em> visual novel will arrive on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3595800\/ROAD59\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a> and Switch globally on September 25. The Switch version will only be available as a digital title for global audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The game&#8217;s opening movie was also released.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010OP\u6620\u50cf\u3011ROAD59 -\u65b0\u6642\u4ee3\u4efb\u4fa0\u7279\u533a- \u6469\u5929\u697c\u30e2\u30ce\u30af\u30ed\u6297\u4e89\u3010Nintendo Switch\/Steam\u3011\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dc6UtONpVNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>ROAD59 A Yakuza\u2019s Last Stand\u00a0<\/em>was announced last December. The visual novel is developed by<b> ROCKET STUDIO<\/b> and has character designs from illustrator <strong>Gidora<\/strong>, who is also the lead graphic artist. Bushiroad describes it as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">ROAD59 is a character-driven crime drama set in Tenkai Ward, a sleepless city floating in the Tokyo Bay of the near future.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The story follows modern-day yakuza who possess a supernatural power known as JINGI, passed down through the Grail of Blood ritual. Within this dark world of betrayal, desire, and turf wars, a reluctant young successor, Shou Himuro, is forced to take on the role of boss of the Hakurou Family. While burdened by a title he never asked for, Shou races through the dangerous underworld of Tenkai in order to protect the people he holds dear.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">With its fusion of mythical elements like the Grail of Blood and JINGI, and the intense factional conflicts rooted in classic yakuza narratives, ROAD59 offers a gripping tale of honor, legacy, and survival.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to <em>ROAD59 A Yakuza\u2019s Last Stand<\/em>&#8216;s description, the story&#8217;s second half will see the protagonist becoming a bartender at the titular ROAD59, &#8220;working to save Hakurougumi while interacting with various characters and gathering intel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Press release<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bushiroad has announced that the ROAD59 A Yakuza\u2019s Last Stand visual novel will arrive on Steam and Switch globally on September 25. The Switch version will only be available as a digital title for global audiences. The game&#8217;s opening movie was also released. ROAD59 A Yakuza\u2019s Last Stand\u00a0was announced last December. The visual novel is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":119923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[656,553,11241,11243],"class_list":["post-119920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-bushiroad","tag-games","tag-road59-a-yakuzas-last-stand","tag-rocket-studio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ROAD59-A-Yakuzas-Last-Stand-Steam-screenshot-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-vcc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119925,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119920\/revisions\/119925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}