This week on Sega Addicts, @TJKitsune and @ProfSegaface join us as we talk EXTENSIVELY about Yakuza 5- how it measured up to our expectations, how it compared to previous games, and even discussing our favorite parts of the story and gameplay. No spoilers are spared, so if this is a…
I miss having good news to report about this series. The controversy surrounding Yakuza 5 in the west has been one of the most frustrating examples of localization, or lack thereof rather, this side of Final Fantasy Type-0, and this week, fans got yet another facepunch in the form of…
Well, at least Sega isn’t dragging out the bad news any longer. There are no plans to localize Yakuza 5. Series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi told Edge that the current focus is on the next Yakuza project, Yakuza Ishin. The Yakuza Studio team is a fixed size, and we have to choose…
It seems our constant pleas for a localized version of Yakuza 5 have become a new muse for Sega, as one avid Yakuza fan recently discovered when requesting news in a recent email correspondence. Instead of regurgitating the same old canned response, Sega took a more creative approach, offering up a hopeful haiku, Eugene,…
With more than 23,000 votes under its belt thus far, The Hatsune Miku Facebook Coalition of America (which I have just decided it is called) has proven to be quite the successful campaign thus far. It only makes sense, then, to try the same tactic with the other oft-requested and…
Ever since (or even before) the Japanese release of both Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition and Yakuza 5 last year, western fans of the series have been rabid for something, anything regarding a localization. Here at Sega Addicts, we’re no different. So naturally, when a post went up about Bayonetta’s PSN release on Sony’s Playstation Blog,…
The localization of Anarchy Reigns is a marked victory for western Sega fans, but as one battle fades into memory, another still rages strong. I’m talking of course about Yakuza 5, the latest and most ambitious iteration of one of Sega’s best ongoing IPs. While it looks less and less likely that the…