"Vagina Bones" And Other Weird Ways Games Have Been Changed For America

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week we're exploring the weird ways we've changed foreign video games for American audiences (Kirby's eyebrows, for instance?), as well as the reverse: the weird ways we've altered American video games for foreign gamers. Then, after talking through these weird Americanizations, we create our own Americanized version of Yakuza. And yes, you'll wish our game actually existed when we're through.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Kotaku Split Screen, the podcast where we tackle video games, one excruciatingly specific topic at a time.
0:17.2	I am one of your hosts, Bataku Senior Reporter Nathan Grayson, and I'm joined, as always, by Ash Parrish.
0:24.2	Hi, everybody.
0:26.0	And Kotaku's resident pink-haired anime girl, Michael Fahey.
0:32.9	Konigua.
0:34.3	Yata!
0:35.4	Oh, boy.
0:37.2	We'll have to a very problematic start already.
0:39.2	Yeah.
0:41.5	I say this only because right now,
0:43.4	Fahey's image on Zoom is an anime girl from Fahey.
0:47.1	What are you, what is this that I'm seeing?
0:50.4	I am playing dokey dokey literature club.
0:53.3	Oh, gotcha.
0:54.7	A fun video game about friends supporting friends, falling in love.
1:00.8	Yeah.
1:01.1	And reading books and writing poetry.
1:03.5	Yes.
1:04.0	I mean, that all sounds really nice.
1:05.8	I am surprised the game is so popular if it's that chill and just wholesome.
1:09.7	I think it's like a mile little pony thing.
1:11.9	I don't know.
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