Mal

I play this mainly for the mechanics. I'm not usually one to complain about English translations, but this game is so Japanese that I feel adding an English dub would just take away from the experience.

I just want to beat up thugs in the streets of Tokyo again.

Weren't all the localized Yakuza games since Y2 in Japanese with english subs, though? I assume this will be the same. Especially considering it being digital-only. That kinda tells me they're trying to minimize the costs on this one as much as possible.

Yes they were. I thought by localization you meant including language, since 3 and 4 were localized anyway.