The problem is I dont speak japanese so i cant translate the texts. Its not to hard to decrypt and modify the texts in Yakuza Zero, Yakuza 1&2 HD and Yakuza Ishin. Fumbling 5 May Have Boned Us But could Yakuza 5 have thrown a stumbling block in the way?Įvery Yakuza games has Encrypt CRI CPK file system. That’d be magical if localization happened within a month or three of the JP release, but I know that might be asking a bit much.
Nippon Ichi made Disgaea 5 a PS4 exclusive with the worldwide market in mind, and I suspect Sega is doing something similar with Yakuza 6. For Japanese console games, PS4 is where the money is to be made. Anyway, I don’t feel confident enough to predict Ishin or Yakuza 0, but I do think Yakuza 6 will go westward. But now that there are a lot more games available, its potential can’t be maximized. Give it a new name like Samurai Asskicker, slap some subtitles on that shit and call it a day. You walk into a game shop, see there’s admittedly not a whole lot in the PS4’s young and developing section, and boom there’s this badass open-world samurai game? Dude, Yakuza‘s fanbase in the west might be small, but that would have appeal outside the fan base. Let’s Do It Anyway But seriously, though, Ishin was a missed opportunity by Sony and Sega. But spending too much time analyzing Yakuza localization decisions is a recipe for a headache. This does raise the question of why neither Yakuza Ishin nor Yakuza 0 have arrived in the west, but I assume that’s because they don’t want to already be even more outdated than it already is, upon arrival. How can it do that? By keeping good games flowing, especially exclusives. After spending years playing catchup behind Microsoft in the console sales race, Sony has finally found itself in the lead, and it wants to stay there. Yakuza 6‘s move to PS4 only, combined with Sony’s strong desire to keep new content flowing to its one and only important gaming system, sends a good message to foreign fans of the seldom-localized series. Meanwhile, Yakuza 6 will go current-gen only when it hits it fall 2016 Japanese release window. True, this new version will include gameplay systems from the outstanding, but it’s still just the first Yakuza, re-re-released.
What you might not realize: That’s less than a year after Yakuza 0 just arrived on those same systems, and just a couple of years after Yakuza was already remastered on PS3, as part of the Yakuza 1&2 HD Collection.
The Seemingly Good But Maybe Bad What you already know: a remaster of the original Yakuza for PS3 and PS4, due out in January in Japan. September 16, 2015Written by Heath Hindman Me: “Know What Yakuza Needs?” The West: “English localizations.” Okay, now the go-to first thought it out of the way, here are some thoughts to go along with that Yakuza 6 PS4 announcement and Yakuza remaster.