This is an unofficial patch for Judgment, or Judge Eyes as it’s known in Japan, meant to restore Kyohei Hamura’s original appearance and Japanese voice to the likeness of the actor that portrayed him in the original, launch version of Judge Eyes in Japan, Pierre Taki.

To explain the reason for this patch existing you’ll need to understand the history of what happened with production of the game.

Originally, famous Japanese actor Pierre Taki portrayed Kyohei Hamura, who is a very important character in the game.

The game came out in December of 2018 in Japan, and mere 3 months after that in March of 2019, Pierre Taki was arrested for possession and use of cocaine.

This resulted in what is known as “cancel culture”, where all companies and employers of Taki started to erase his contributions out of existence, SEGA being no exception to this.

The game was immediately pulled from store shelves and digital storefronts, preventing anyone from being able to buy the game outside of second hand used copy market.

In July of 2019, the game was re-released in Japan as Judge Eyes: New Price Version, with the major change in that version being the replacement of Pierre Taki as Kyohei Hamura’s actor, whose model was changed to a generic thug not based on any actor and all his voice lines redubbed by the unfortunately less than stellar performance from a Japanese voice actor Miou Tanaka, known primarily for voicing generic “grunt” characters.

And, as expected, the western release of the game was based on the aforementioned New Price Version with Pierre Taki removed and replaced.

Because I stand against both censorship and “cancel culture”, I’ve decided to create a patch for the western version of the game that would restore Pierre Taki as Kyohei Hamura’s actor in the game.

Upon discussing the idea with Slow and Timo, we decided to pool money together and order the now rare and expensive original Japanese version of the game with Pierre Taki’s inclusion, upon which I took the necessary files from it and created this restoration patch for your enjoyment.

All appearances of Kyohei Hamura in the game, be it cutscene, gameplay, voice or even UI and credits related are now portrayed by Pierre Taki.

Patch is for the CUSA13197 release of the game, and confirmed working with DUPLEX release, running on a 6.72 jailbroken PS4.





Instructions:

Download it here

Make sure you have Judgment installed and then install the included PKG file.

Enjoy the game in all its restored glory





Special thanks to:

SlowpokeVG for providing the font SEGA used in the intro cutscene and covering part of the funds needed to purchase the original Japanese copy of the game

Timo654 for refreshing my memory on formats used in Yakuza and also covering part of the funds needed to purchase the original Japanese copy of the game

Kent for doing the necessary video editing involving the character of Kyohei Hamura in the game’s intro cutscene











PS. Kenzan is currently on hold due to lack of translators who quit after realizing the scope of the project as well as our lack of time due to our new jobs.

