You may have heard that actual yakuza members reviewed Sega's Yakuza 3. How crazy is that?! In the BoingBoing story by Jake Adelstein, one of the yakuza members actually calls out Sega for the cuts to the US version of Yakuza 3.
Yakuza member Shirokawa liked Sega's PS3 game, and his favorite parts were the mahjong side gaming, sexual massage parlors and the hostess clubs. But when Adelstein explained that all of that was cut from the US version, he said:
I feel sorry for the people who bought the American version. SEGA USA sucks.
To be fair, Yakuza 3 was a great game, even with the cuts. And Sega is working hard to put all the good, horny stuff into the upcoming US release of Yakuza 4.
Still, Sega: watch your back.
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4:20 PM on 08.11.2010
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I'd say it was worth that.
I mean ofc some of those Japanese-history related would make some problems, but I think this would be a lot of fun...and we would learn some things. mh....hope Sega learns about this.
She might be pregnant.
I played the demo and had a fun romp but I couldn't pay retail for a gimped version.
Couldn't agree more.
This is literally the dumbest thing that has ever been said about Yakuza 3. I want everyone to read this sentence and understand that he just said that the actual extremely solid storytelling, the extended continuity between the games, attention to detail, great fighting, excellent character work and extremely good music are not the reason to ever play Yakuza 3. No, we should only want to play it because we can play Mahjong and go to hostess bars. Jesus Christ.
You know what? This reminds me of when someone brought up the fucking Gold Saucer as one of the reasons Final Fantasy 7 was "the best FF ever." Like some super terrible minigames were some godsend that made the game better than everything else.
If you aren't going to play the game for the main story/game, you have no reason to be playing the game at all.
Great game is great. Get it.