As a samurai in the 1800s, you’d need a wide range of items and gear in order to survive the variety of threats that’d be coming your way at any time. This is certainly true for Sakamoto Ryoma, the protagonist of Like A Dragon: Ishin, the long awaited Western port/remaster of the franchise’s previously Japan-only samurai spin-off. With so many items out there to prevent you from being sliced to ribbons by bandits and other ne’er do wells, increasing your inventory will be a lifesaver for you.
Here’s everything you need to know about how to increase your inventory size in Like A Dragon: Ishin.
How Does The Inventory System Work?
Like A Dragon: Ishin’s inventory system is somewhat more complicated than you’d expect, as Sakamoto Ryoma has a seemingly endless supply of pockets for certain kinds of items, but limited space for others. You can carry hundreds of types of fish, produce, swords, guns and other weapons, along with key items that are required for the story or certain gameplay functions, but you can only carry a base amount of 20 healing items and other miscellaneous items. It’s this inventory space that can be increased.
How To Increase Inventory Storage Size
In order to increase your storage size in Like A Dragon: Ishin, you’ll need to trade Virtue at one of the various temples you can find in the open world. Spending Virtue to upgrade your inventory space can only be done from a certain point in Chapter 2 onwards, as the game’s first chapter is essentially a handheld prologue to set up the grand premise of Like A Dragon: Ishin. After you’ve spoken to the priest in Chapter 2, you’ll be able to earn and spend Virtue. Once you have enough Virtue, you can purchase the “Increase Inventory Size” bonuses. There are five levels, each increasing your inventory space by four slots from a base of 20.
How Do You Earn Virtue?
Earning Virtue comes as part of simply playing the game, as most of the activities and actions you can perform in Like A Dragon: Ishin reward the player with some Virtue. This includes spending money in shops or restaurants, selling items in a pawn shop, completing substories, praying at various shrines or temples or consuming certain items, such as Spirit Sake, which reward you with Virtue.
However, the main way to earn Virtue is by completing tasks in your Diligence Records, which are a set of tasks or challenges across the various features of Like A Dragon: Ishin that reward players with Virtue upon completion. Veterans of the Like A Dragon series will be familiar with that, as there’s been some kind of completion list or challenge set in most games, granting the player XP or other rewards when completed.
Finally, one additional way to help bolster the amount of Virtue you earn is by purchasing the Increase Virtue Gain bonus from the temples, the same place you can buy the inventory upgrade from. Like the inventory bonus, there are five levels to the Increase Virtue Gain bonus, and each one increases the amount of Virtue gained by 10%.
It might not sound like a lot, but you can have all five upgrades before you’ve finished Chapter 3, which means you’ll spend the rest of the game with 50% more Virtue gained than before. Considering that Like A Dragon: Ishin’s Another Life section of the game, which sees Ryoma setting up a farm outside of Kyo, requires Virtue in order to purchase upgrades, getting those Virtue bonuses purchased earlier will put you in good stead for the rest of the game.
Like A Dragon: Ishin is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X & S.
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