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Yakuza 3 remaster cut transphobic elements from original game
- Thread starter RPGamer92
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You'd be in for a good time, I'd promise you that!
Though...I'd definitely suggest getting Yakuza 0 to start you off!
'HOW SJW'S RUINED YAKUZA ' and other such nonsense. I can see the youtube clickbait already
Kiryu is an amazing protagonist, but an absolutely awful yakuza member. He's literally stopped more crimes than the police, and destroyed more of his own clan than rival clans.
I suspect once 5 gets a release in japan, a collection of sorts will arrive in the west. It would be dumb not too, consider the low cost and the fact that the translation is technically already done
It's not just transphobic content that was removed. I believe they also removed one of the gang insignias which was a Imperial Japanese flag. No doubt because the remaster is localized and sold in Asian countries too, and ain't no one wants to be reminded of those raping and murdering asswipes.
Yup, I touched on that earlier - its Tamashiro's family who got the insignia changed slightly to something less offensive.
Really happy the devs are doing this kinda thing. Makes Atlus' actions even worse considering its all a part of Zelda. Why does Sega not have control over Atlus like they should?
On mobile so I can't link, but they have talked about how they wrote problematic stuff in the past that they didn't want to bring forward.
Well, as long as they didn't erase her I think it is fine, as its understandable that they could not remake her part due to the budget.
I just did a mission in yakuza kiwami 2 that had a transgender person that owned a bar the ending was funny she was crushing hard on kazuma.
To be clear, the Yakuza 3 PS4 remaster came out in Japan in August last year, long before the Catherine bullshit went public. So this isn't a case of SEGA feeling the heat, it's a case of Ryu ga Gotoku Studio >>>> Atlus.
Good news. Yakuza's always had a very positive message but they'd still use some very negative stereotypes as "comedy", so it's great they recognised that and made some changes.
It's not a lesser work at all. The Michiru cutscenes are stupid, transphobic, and don't reflect who Kiryu is as a character. They should be cut and they're doing players a favor by getting rid of them.
There's absolutely no reason to keep a side story that has an optional ending where a transwoman rapes Kiryu in an alley in the game in 2019.
I think he just meant 'less work, hence they should finish the localization faster'
That would make sense. I've just seen a lot of people complaining about "censorship" and the remaster being an inferior product because the scenes were cut. It's all over Twitter and it just...woof. It gets to me.
Yeah, I've seen some vile shit too. That's why I'm not sure if I will get the game, maybe on a deep discount if the localization fixes most of the bad shit.
That's really the thing for me. I was still kind of a Yakuza baby when I played 3 (I owned 2, but never finished it), and even back THEN the Michiru story arc and the alleyway-rape ending just felt completely tonally inconsistent with what Yakuza, and who Kiryu, is. Kiryu doesn't judge people, it's kind of his core character trait.
Nagoshi owning up to the fact that gay panic is not funny and working to fix one of the biggest black marks on the series up to this point is only a good thing in my mind.
I find it really funny that a series about literal criminals has more respect for LGBT people than a series about teenagers rebelling against oppressive adults.Just gonna leave this here. More proof the Yakuza devs are legit. Persona Devs hold that L.
On topic - nice, this is going to move this game way up my favourite Yakuza rankings.
Oh, I missed the part where it was removed from the Japanese version! Based Nagoshi.
Oh, I meant that I dont know if I should buy Catherine FB haha. I'm totally getting Yakuza 3 day 1! I think I mixed the threads that I was posting too, sorry.
Yeah, I feel you there. I'm...I don't think I can play through Catherine again, especially with all the weird shit added to the new release.
I thought I was answering to the Catherine FB thread, sorry about the confusion.
And yeah, I don't know if I will ever play Catherine again now that they have doubled down on their bs.
But Yakuza, I love the series and changes like this makes me want to support Nagoshi even more.
Yakuza is one of those series where you can feel the creators 'mature' in certain ways as the games progress.
That's not to say they don't love dumb/gross humor or batshit insane scenarios, but more that they know to keep a good emotional core in its main characters, and always has them learning from others through experience.
That's not to say they don't love dumb/gross humor or batshit insane scenarios, but more that they know to keep a good emotional core in its main characters, and always has them learning from others through experience.
That's great to hear, especially now that I really want to get into the series.
I can relate.
Yeah, they haven't actually announced the western release yet, though I'm sure it's coming fairly soon.
It's gonna be so nice and so bizarre to own 7 different Yakuza games on PS4 without having to import anything.
Yakuza stays winning. GOAT franchiseJust gonna leave this here. More proof the Yakuza devs are legit. Persona Devs hold that L.
That's a good change. It was very un-Kiryu.
Looking forward to the Yakuza 3 remaster just so we can get the cut content in the Western release in it.
Looking forward to the Yakuza 3 remaster just so we can get the cut content in the Western release in it.
I've got 0 and Kiwami on the PS4 thus far. Just hard to find the time! I'll have to slot it in in the next couple of months though!
Little surprised people are finding out this change now, I remember hearing about it a few weeks after the release in Japan.
I'm glad they got rid of it, reflecting upon it, it wasn't anything worth keeping and how the translation was handled didn't help either. The team realized it was in bad taste so they axed it in the remaster, good on them.
There were also some other changes made including an Okinawan clan symbol that featured the Imperial Sun being altered to something else and the Quiz mini-game being removed altogether, the latter probably for easier localization (for the Chinese and Korean territories, no clue if and when an English version will come).
I'm glad they got rid of it, reflecting upon it, it wasn't anything worth keeping and how the translation was handled didn't help either. The team realized it was in bad taste so they axed it in the remaster, good on them.
There were also some other changes made including an Okinawan clan symbol that featured the Imperial Sun being altered to something else and the Quiz mini-game being removed altogether, the latter probably for easier localization (for the Chinese and Korean territories, no clue if and when an English version will come).
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Resetera supporting censorship. Who would've thought...
This isn't censorship. It's the creators of the series deciding to remove content they don't think fits the series.
