 As with Nine Hours , Nine Persons , Nine Doors , Aksys Games localized Virtue 's Last Reward for its North American release . Nobara Nakayama translated the game 's text from Japanese to English , which was then localized by editor Ben Bateman . Bateman later stated that overcoming various translation issues was one of the hardest aspects of editing Virtue 's Last Reward . Although Uchikoshi had written the game with the English language audience in mind , which avoided several plot @-@ related translation problems , a few jokes did not translate properly and had to be changed during localization . Additionally , there were two characters who " talked like animals " in the Japanese version of the game : Zero III , who added " <unk> " to the end of its sentences , which is the first half of <unk> ( the Japanese word for " rabbit " ) ; and Sigma , who added " <unk> " ( the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound cats make ) to the end of his sentences whenever he talked about cats . Bateman solved this by writing rabbit and cat themed puns . Another challenge for Bateman was keeping track of the story moments from each branching path . It was important to know whether information regarding each character had been revealed yet to the player , as this would ultimately affect the word choice and attitude of each line of dialogue . 
