I’m guessing this must have been Bounding Into Comics trying to be too cautious, though this does sound optimistic. Not too many RPG games from yesteryear are that lucky to work with the original companies if they want reboots.
This isn't a remake/reboot (God, I wish). This is just talking about the original Dreamcast/GameCube game.
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It's the same difference though: you basically get a localized japanese game product that is different from what the japanese could play. What changes is that instead of still not taking the medium more professionally, the low-barrel translators and localizers also think it's often problematic to their "sensibilities" now. It wasn't much of a problem when most of us were kids back then, but now that I get to pay vidya with my own hard-working money or straight up download roms/isos for retro games, it does annoy me the situation hasn't still changed much for the best, even 20 years later. And like I said earlier in the thread, those kind of changes (to rewrite entirely the script or censor things visually) aren't respectful to the original team of people who worked on the game(s).
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If there is one thing that the whole coof vax & lockdowns taught me well, it's that there is a lot of people who refuse to admit they got bamboozled/deceived by thing A and will rationalize by defending it. I assume it's the same feeling when certain people purchase/consume japanese vidya they like, but they later find out it turned out to be different (to various degrees) than what the original JP release was.
Dubbing it 'localization' and not 'translation' has always been the worst possible thing to ever happen to game importing. It's a thin veneer of justification used by faggots to explain censorship, under the guise of making the content more 'palatable' to Westerners. At least it used to be universally agreed that changing ale to corn-syrup or removing a sex scene was stupid, nowadays you have faggot game journos espousing the virtues of censorship so that their soy-filled eyes aren't assaulted by a cartoon woman's cleavage. I put up with it if only because the game's industry has always done it this way, but I wish 'unfucked' localization patches or projects were more common.
Changing word puns is fine but it requires some level of creativity (to stick with the context at least) and a good understanding of both the foreign language and one's own native tongue, in order to pull that off correctly. I doubt that professional localizers/translators in video games often have the skills to do so, as far as it's been demonstrated.
Way of the House Husband has a pretty good example. The protagonist overhears a conversation about an animal and thinks they are talking about the police. In the original Japanese, it's dogs. In English, it's pigs. In French, it's chickens. No, I'm not going to make the obvious surrender monkey joke.
I saw just the text headline earlier today and initially thought it was Kotaku but no, it's the equally useless gobshite at TheGamer.
Do these same people also praise TLOU2's Abby, for being stunning and brave, when it comes to female "character design"?
Those filthy nips need to learn the white man's way of doing things. Do they think we nuked them twice just as a joke?
tbh I'm one of the small camp who actually likes translator notes. I don't need the same "effect" of a joke (as in "there was a joke in the original, we need a joke here too", I'm fine with the explanation why it's a joke in the first place and learn something along the way. some might see it as explaining the joke itself, but in the end you're dealing with a different language and culture, which usually means it has a different humor as well. it's a slippery slope because it's highly debatable where "you wouldn't understand otherwise" starts and ends - same way people will never agree to on honorifics in subtitles (imagine removing the mr. and address everyone with the forename in subtitles just because).
Gacha shit aside Xenoblade 2 was a fun as fuck game.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is still going to sell millions of copies due to that “weirdly horny anime nonsense”. In fact, I’m predicting it will have a big sales release the same way as Shin Megami Tensei V and Metroid Dread had (save for Kirby and The Forgotten Land)
