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Scott Strichart, senior localization producer at Sega of America had an interview with Polygon where the localizer admits to changing a scene in Judgment to educate the Western audience, mainly males, on catcalling politics, because this video really moved him and he wanted to do something about it lol
The interview:
Oneangrygamer made a detailed article about this where he compared the altered and un-altered version of the scenario
As a Yakuza games fan i'm glad that i didn't buy this game, the last thing i need is a nobody localizer to educate me about western politics especially since i'm not even western or live in the west.
The interview:
Judgment localizers want catcalling scene to feel ‘gross’ for players…
archived 11 Jul 2019 06:26:08 UTC
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“Sensitive scenes are tricky to get right,” Strichart told Polygon. “I knew right away we had to be careful with it.”
“People talk about how Kamurocho feels real, lived in, and we get a lot of praise for the attention to detail in everything from the dirt on the windows to the reactions of NPCs when you point your camera at them, but with that realness comes the unfortunate reality there’s sometimes there’s an ugliness too, and not every character in this city is meant to be sympathetic.
[…] In a weird way, I saw something of an educational experience here, because our player base is primarily male — and I do kinda hope that being thrust into the first-person perspective of a woman being catcalled felt a little gross. I hope there’s some level of sympathy for Saori, and on the larger scale, empathy for women who deal with it on a regular basis.”
“In the English dub, though, this was changed to ‘smile for me.’ It’s admittedly a liberal change, and maybe I’m just still kind of haunted by the gall of that sentence [in the video], but I think that kind of codified it as catcalling a little more for an English speaking audience who would choose to play the dub.
I guess I couldn’t fathom the arrogance.”
Oneangrygamer made a detailed article about this where he compared the altered and un-altered version of the scenario
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As a Yakuza games fan i'm glad that i didn't buy this game, the last thing i need is a nobody localizer to educate me about western politics especially since i'm not even western or live in the west.