It’s rare for SEGA to DRM-free their games, but at least they did it with the Yakuza pack (admittedly, it contains the older 0-6 series).

On GOG, you can find the Yakuza Complete Series bundle, which includes 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2 (new engine remake), 3 Remastered, 4 Remastered, 5 Remastered, and 6: The Song of Life. They don’t have Denuvo, so they run smoothly as butter on a not-so-old machine. Yes, but SEGA has made some incomprehensible changes to the cast list because the Japanese company hasn’t just shortened it by one or two names!

It has emerged on Reddit that several members of the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the games development team, are missing: for example, franchise director Toshihiro Nagoshi, who has since moved to Chinese tech giant NetEase, or Daisuke Sato, Yakuza 0 director Kazuki Hosokawa, art supervisor Saizo Nagai, and game design supervisor Koji Yoshida, but there are also missing names from several departments at RGGS. In addition, the support studios involved in porting are not there either! Nowhere to be seen is Lab42, who brought Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami to PC, and QLOC is not on the list, even though they ported the series from Yakuza Kiwami 2 to 6.

It’s a bit unfair to those who used to work under SEGA and have since left to work elsewhere, as without them, the games wouldn’t have been made, and it isn’t the first time this year as another Japanese company, Nintendo did the same thing earlier with their not-so-bad Metroid Prime Nintendo Switch remaster. The original developers from Retro Studios were omitted, as the credits only stated that it was “based on the work of Metroid Prime, original Nintendo Gamecube and Wii version development staff.”

They could learn something from Nightdive Studios, as while they port their games to their proprietary KEX engine (e.g., Shadow Man was modernized in the same way), they always try to name and credit the original developers. But it seems that Japanese companies don’t care about their former employees…

Source: PCGamer