Yakuza: Like a Dragon battle menu spells out ‘SEGA’ because of tweet

Marcin Gulik August 6, 2020

It’s always heartwarming to see when the developers heed the good advice of fans and other people to make something just a little bit better. In this funny story, John Ricciardi, co-founder of Tokyo-based localization company 8-4, tweeted out a missed opportunity from SEGA on Yakuza: Like a Dragon‘s battle menu.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon was awesome. Excited to see it in English for the first time! BTW, not too late to change “More” to “Etc” or “Extra” to make the menu options basically spell out SEGA pic.twitter.com/kcUoim06hC
— John Ricciardi (@johntv) June 11, 2020

Sega localization producer Scott Strichart took notice of this missed opportunity, and actually changed it! Kotaku journalists reached out to SEGA and admitted his tweet led to the change.

Mission complete – awesome job, @RGGStudio @SEGA @TriggerRedd #SEGA #Yakuza https://t.co/8sfqK036Dm pic.twitter.com/tjJuAPq2ZS
— John Ricciardi (@johntv) July 31, 2020

Yakuza: Like a Dragon comes out this year for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.

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