“This feels unnecessary and disrespectful to the people who worked on these games”
Therecent release of the Yakuza series on GOGhas been tempered by the notable removal of several developers and even entire studios from the games’ credits.
As Reddit user Timo653first noted, theYakuzaComplete Series - which includes all seven numbered entriesfrom prequel Yakuza 0 through Yakuza 6, but not spin-offs such asLike a Dragon- available via GOG misses out a number of individual developers and support studios from the credits at the end of each instalment.
Among the biggest names to be absent are series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi,Yakuza 0director Kazuki Hosokawa and series producer Daisuke Sato, along with other key staff such asYakuza 5art supervisor Saizo Nagai and Yakuza 0 game design supervisor Koji Yoshida.
Timo653 pointed out that the severity of the changes means that the GOG credits end up being notably shorter than the credits for theYakuza releases on Steam, despite using a bigger font and wider spacing. The Steam versions - on which the GOG versions are based - remain unchanged, with the credits listed in full.
One commenter claiming to be a Lab42 dev responded to the post, saying: “Well that’s not ideal. We put a LOT of blood, sweat and tears into those games, I tell you what!”
“A bunch of names are missing from almost every section of the credits,” Timo653 added. “This feels unnecessary and disrespectful to the people who worked on these games.”
