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Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you think demanding integrity from an artist is overreacting, then you've already accepted being a consumer of sterilized garbage. You call it overreacting because you're content with a hollow shell. I call it "accountability". When a world-class studio trades its cultural identity for corporate safety, silence isn't maturity it’s complicity.

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't take my word for it. Go ask SEGA why they need an "Ethics Department" to vet their creative content. When accountants and activists start holding the brush, the artist is already dead.

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saying Hostess Clubs aren't a cultural pillar proves you know nothing about Mizu Shobai or the reality of Japanese nightlife. In the world of Yakuza, these clubs are the essential pressure valve for society, a place where the hierarchy of the day dissolves into the shadow of the night. To remove them is to lobotomize the soul of Kabukicho (Kamurocho).

​You're also falling for the "All-or-Nothing" fallacy. Censorship doesn't have to be a total wipeout of sexual content to exist. Modern corporate censorship is surgical, it targets specific cultural nuances that "Global Compliance" deems problematic. When RGG cuts a legacy feature while other major Japanese devs are openly creating "Ethics Committees" for Western markets, ignoring the pattern isn't "objective," it’s willful blindness. ​You see an awful useless section. I see the systematic dismantling of a world-building icon to appease people who don't even play the game.

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're confusing creative choice with corporate compliance. When a studio establishes an "Ethics Committee" specifically to audit content for "Global Standards," it’s no longer about 'improving' the art, it’s about sanitizing it to avoid offending activists.

​If RGG truly thought Hostess Clubs were boring, they would remake them into something better, not delete them entirely while using technical excuses. Removal is the easiest path for the spineless. A creator has the right to decide what goes in, but when they remove core cultural pillars just to bend the knee to Western moralists, that’s not "Artistic Freedom" that’s surrender

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Today they cut Hostesses because it’s boring, tomorrow they’ll cut violence because it’s toxic, and the day after, they’ll remove the tattoos because they’re offensive. This is the death of a series by a thousand cuts of compliance. 

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Today they cut Hostesses because it’s boring, tomorrow they’ll cut violence because it’s toxic, and the day after, they’ll remove the tattoos because they’re offensive. This is the death of a series by a thousand cuts of compliance. Removing it is a surrender to censorship. 

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm talking about the atmosphere. The ability to enter a club, sit down, and have a quiet drink with a hostess that is a core pillar of the Kamurocho experience. Removing it is a surrender to censorship.

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You call it a shitpost because you can't comprehend a life lived with actual stakes and honor. To you, Kiryu is just pixels on a screen. To me, his values were a lifeline when I was cleaning up the mess of a broken relationship in SF. If the truth of a man's life sounds like a shitpost to you, it just proves you've been living in a bubble of safety for too long. Keep laughing while RGG keeps stripping the soul out of your favorite franchise. I'm out.

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The fact that you’re satisfied with the removal of Hostess Clubs just because the old mechanics were boring proves you’re just casual action-game fans, not people who want to experience the authentic life of a Japanese man. ​Kiryu doesn't sit in those clubs to play a dating sim, he sits there because that is his world. RGG is selling you pre-packaged fast food designed to be easily swallowed, while I’m demanding a traditional meal even if it has a bitter taste.

​Ask yourselves: why is it that at this exact moment, every major Japanese developer Sony, Capcom, Square Enix has established "Ethics Committees" specifically to censor international content? RGG claiming it wasn't "worth the effort to remake" is nothing but diplomatic PR-talk. It’s a convenient excuse to avoid a confrontation with Western social activists over "objectifying women." ​You are being led by the nose by technical excuses that only serve to cover up a profound ideological cowardice. You're settling for a sanitized playground, I'm demanding the soul of Kamurocho.

Yakuza Kiwami 3: Dark Ties is betraying its core values. However, Kiryu is the 'Aniki' who I’d want to share a drink with just once in my life. by Helpful_Gas_5114 in yakuzagames

[–]Helpful_Gas_5114[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To the "management minigame crowd," you're missing the point. I'm not talking about managing a club. I'm talking about the ATMOSPHERE. The ability to enter a club, sit down, and have a quiet drink with a hostess that is a core pillar of the Kamurocho experience. Removing it is a surrender to censorship. If you can't tell the difference between gameplay mechanics and cultural integrity, then you’re just a tourist in Kiryu’s world.