
In a twist, Judgment allows players to dress Saori to the nines. The problem is, not just anyone can pass off as a hostess - it’s a specialized role where beautiful women entertain men. Saori takes some convincing, but in the end, she’s game. While much of the game is spent investigating crime scenes and punching baddies, there are also a bevy of offbeat moments that add texture to the whole experience.Īt one point roughly 15 hours into the main game, for instance, the protagonist is tasked with sneaking in a friend, Saori Shirosaki, to a hostess club in order to get information crucial for a mission.
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Judgment, a detective action game spun from the cult hit series Yakuza, places players on the streets of Tokyo. It’s not a light job, especially as video game audiences bring more scrutiny than ever before to how video games differ across markets. The wrong word choice can change the entire nature of a sentence, if not the game as a whole. It’s not enough to simply translate dialogue word for word: Strichart has to consider the meaning, spirit, and cultural context of a scene. Strichart’s job requires him to adapt Japanese video games for Western audiences. When he was watching it, Strichart had no idea that he’d later have to bring a similar scene to life in a video game. The men have no idea who the woman is, but they feel entitled to make comments on her appearance left and right.

While the clip is less than two minutes long, her trek across the city consists of nonstop, wall-to-wall verbal harassment.

Scott Strichart, senior localization producer at Sega of America, still remembers watching that viral YouTube video where a woman chronicles 10 hours of walking around in New York.
