i saw on twitter a screenshot (i forgot to save it, sorry) of an interview by localizers admitting that they've completely scraped the Japanese dialogue of entire scenes and completely changed entire story scenes before.
That's how bad it is. We need to look at Japanese games over the last decade or so and retranslate all of them i think
That's why Fansubs were great. Back in the day that demonoid was still active, you could get accurate fansubs for so much manga, anime and even playstation games. (Assuming you had a chipped)
Got my first taste of Yakuza looooong before any version of it hit the west thanks to them.