So going back to your question, do you take from Yakuza 1
not just Yakuza 1. We looked at from Yakuza 1 through 5 and how the series has evolved. Originally in Yakuza 1, Shintaro Kazama was incorrectly labeled as Fuma, and they were incorrectly addressing him as Kazama. Over time, you can watch
they corrected Kazamas name, and even though they continued to call him Kazama at times, we looked at that and said, no, were going to get this to be a little more authentic. When you dont dub the game, youre hearing these characters be like Kiryu, Kiryu, Kiryu and when the subtitle says Kazuma, Kazuma, Kazuma, its disconnecting you a bit from whats being said. So our approach to this was how far can we draw the English into what theyre actually saying without actually losing the player into a non-localization, a literal translation that would be so boring and dry that you wouldnt want to play it.
