The Yakuza series' great localisation is an important factor in its success.
Localisation means making a game ready for a specific local market. This includes everything from creating a translation that stays faithful to the originally intended meaning, to cutting and amending content in line with different countries' laws. The Yakuza series' great localisation is an important factor in its success, and so I asked localisation producer Scott Strichart about the pitfalls of his job.
To finish everything on time, localisation now often begins before the original text is even finalised. In some cases Strichart and his team make educated guesses at who is talking to whom, how far away speakers are from each other and sometimes even their gender, the latter of which the form of address in Japanese can help with.
“Usually our more experienced translators and editors handle the main story, while the supporting translators and editors get assigned swaths of text where it makes sense to group up. For instance, all the substories, all the minigames, all the tutorials, with some natural crossovers when it makes sense to do so.
“The line was originally ‘Let’s crack this bitch’ in Yakuza 2, but Jon Riesenbach, my editor for Kiwami 2, really took it to the next level. See? Magic.”Localising also means finding a way to approximate local ways of speaking. Dialects use specific words and accents limited to one country.
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