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Less Content-Cuts for Western Version of Yakuza 4, Says Sega

By james_fudge

Some good news from Kotaku about the state of Yakuza 4: The Western version of the game will face a minimum number of changes compared to its Japanese counterpart. According to that report, Sega plans to include most of the content of the original game including the hostess dress-up mini-games, most of the side-missions, and the Mah-Jong mini-game.

Many of these features were included in the Japanese version of Yakuza 3, but were omitted from the Western version of the game. The only mini-game that won't make it into Yakuza 4 in the U.S. is a trivia game called Answer X Answer. Besides being a little too obscure for Westerners, translating the text in the game to English would prove to be a time-consuming process.

At the end of the day, Yakuza fans will get a full game experience without omissions and self-censoring on the part of Sega.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).