It alternates between versions in which Japanese is implemented and versions in which it is not.
I've created my save data in Japanese, so I can't read the data in the non-implemented version.
I wish the developers would make it clear whether they are going to implement Japanese or not.
If they are not going to implement Japanese, then I have wasted 14 hours and $50 that I spent on this game.
I've been playing video games for 20 years. As far as I can remember at the moment of writing this review, Pathfinder: Kingmaker is the only game that actually disappointed me. All other games for which I wrote negative reviews had objective faults that ruined those games. This is the only one for which I leave a negative review because it's not what it should have been, or at the very least what I expected it to be.
I expected Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance. What I got instead is Baldur's Gate.
I'm a fan of grand strategy games. As such, when I first heard about Kingmaker, I was very interested. A fantasy RPG in which you also have to take care of your own kingdom? I knew I had to take a look. What I expected was an RPG that requires that you spend a lot of time managing your kingdom. Economy, diplomacy, building infrastructure, passing laws, stuff like that. What I got instead is a generic CRPG in which you also make a handful of decisions about your kingdom.
For just five minutes.
Every two or so hours.
95% of time you're out in the field adventuring, as if you were playing Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. I'm sorry, but if I wanted to play those games, I'd actually play those games instead, not a game that claims to be all about building your own kingdom. And then the devs have the audacity to give you an option to turn even that off by making it automatic. This is the only game I know of, besides patched Daikatana, that allows you to turn its most important gameplay feature off. That's never a good sign.
And this is not even touching upon some of the questionable design choices.
This may be the first time I label a video game as a waste of potential. It could have been a fantasy kingdom sim (reference intended), with equal emphasis on adventuring and kingdom management, but ended up being the same as any other CRPG that's been released in the last 7 years. 95% adventuring, 5% kingdom management, the entire point of the game completely wasted.
I like to take my time playing and enjoy a rerun from time to time. Although the game interests me I will only buy my own copy as soon as the full game is available without season passes.