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Review: Yakuza Kiwami is a Majima-mad mashup
Yakuza Kiwami is an amalgamation of disparate pieces for disparate audiences. It’s a project of convenience as much as it is one of veneration, of recycling as much as innovation. It tries to be a lot of things to a lot of people in ways that pull it in different directions, but ultimately, none of those motivations pull it away from being a solid Yakuza game.
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Interview: Localizing Yakuza with Scott Strichart
Scott Strichart has worked on localizing and marketing fan-favorite franchises like Persona, Ni no Kuni and Final Fantasy. These days he’s heading localization efforts for the Yakuza series. We talked with him about the process of bringing Yakuza 0 to the West!
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Review: Yakuza 0 will fight for your free time
Yakuza 0 serves as a fitting reintroduction of the series to the West, an origin story for a new generation that may not have checked out the earlier releases. It refines and focuses on what Yakuza is all about, taking this opportunity to make a statement about what’s important: the combat and the storytelling.
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Yakuza 0 video preview: A day in the life of Goro Majima
Let’s head back to 1988! In this video preview, we show you a slice of life in Yakuza 0, following Goro Majima as he heads to the arcade, swings a bat around really hard and tries desperately to get back into the family.
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Review: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone is all the Vocaloid rhythm action you’ll ever need
We’re finally getting used to regular Project Diva releases in the West, after years of being envious of the series’ import-only fun. We get new games like clockwork, filling our need for Vocaloid rhythm action like it was Call of Duty or Madden. Now, as soon as we’re used to it, it’s over.
Or it should be, anyway, because Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone is such an avalanche of gameplay that it couldn’t reasonably be followed.
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Preview: There’s a lot for Sega fans to enjoy in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone is a heaping helping of songs, bringing the robust lineup of the arcade version of the game to Western PS4s next week. As part of that, it’s a deep repository of the series’ crossovers with other Sega franchises! We’ve seen a bit of this stuff here and there in the games that made it here, but gathered like this? It’s really cool.
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Review: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X has rhythm, but it’s also got game
Hatsune Miku’s games, once an import-only experience, have now become a known quantity in the West. What a world we live in, huh? Four localized releases and no sign of stopping. It has an interesting side effect, though: the conversation changes. Being what it’s always been isn’t quite enough when you start hitting this level of saturation, and each new game needs to bring with it its own merits.
Thankfully, it doesn’t seem like Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X has any problem with that.
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Review: Save all times in 7th Dragon III Code: VFD
A title like 7th Dragon III Code: VFD doesn’t sound like an inviting entry point into a franchise, but names can be deceiving. Oh, and Westerners don’t really have a choice in the matter. Still, this game’s merits lie not in its franchise ties, but in just how carefully it crafts its story, systems and style.
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