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High concept game review from BoingBoing
Just brilliant: Tokyo Vice author Jake Adelstein got three real-life yakuza to review the Sega USA game Yakuza 3.
I enlist the aid of a teenager to show the yaks how to actually play a videogame. Even then, it’s tough going. Of the three reviewers, only Kuroishi manages to play it all the way to the end. Two of the three are missing their pinkies — in the old days, when a yakuza or his subordinates screwed up, they chopped off pinkies as an act of atonement — and this seems to affect their gameplay.
Hey, Mr. Adelstein: Mafia II is coming out soon. Do ya think . . . ?
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