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How to Read Yakuza Zero’s Perplexing Pager Codes (Part 2)

September 19, 2022 Matthew Articles, Lost in Localization Leave a comment

Return to 1980’s Japan for one final, optional battle with super-hard Japanese numeric wordplay (goroawase) to understand the last three pager codes in Yakuza 0!

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How to Read Yakuza Zero’s Perplexing Pager Codes

September 15, 2022 Matthew Articles, Lost in Localization Leave a comment

Find out how Kiryū and Majima look at a string of seemingly-random numbers on their pager and somehow extract meaning from them.

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