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Localisation Checking the Localization of NEO: The World Ends with You

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Comparing the Original Japanese version to the Localization.

Ene

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Update: Retranslated some screenshots since I saw a lot of people complain about them being stiff and google translaty.
edited screenshot, she doesn't say 'localization' .jpg

[Seems like the new TWEWY game is getting the worst type of localization]
[Click the image to expand]

Rudeness ++

NeoLo (6).jpg
NeoLo (1).jpg
NEOEm (1).jpg

Note: Its not that she never insults you in the JP version, she's just much worse in the localization. If I remember correctly, she calls you "Baka" once in the demo
In the 3rd screenshot, the localization uses the first bubble to write their own line and the second to translate both line from the JP

Names/Nicknames
NeoLo (3).jpg
NEORi (3).jpg
NEOEm (3).jpg
NEOEm (4).jpg
NEODi (3).jpg
NEOGi (8).jpg
NEOybo (1).jpg
NEOTab (1).jpg
NEOTab (2).jpg
NEOClea (6).jpg
NEOClea (5).jpg
NEOClea (4).jpg

Tabooty Context: Minamimoto
Note: Not sure how to translate [禁断ヤロー / Kindan Yarou], so I'll just leave it. Localization seem to have went with "Taboo + Booty"

Amugus
NeoLo (2).jpg
NEOSu.jpg


Capitalism
10 (1).png
10 (1).jpg

10 (2).jpg


Promotion?

NeoLo (4).jpg
NeoLo (7).jpg


Commission "Untranslated"
NEOAc (3).jpg
<-Context
NEOAc (4).jpg

Note:
I'm a bit unsure how to translate this one, but the localization is once again adding "money related lines"
[S: 着こなすには時間がかかるだろうがジョリべの扉は開いた]
[F: あの人のシュミ公私混同じゃん] - [R: ほんとだな]

Sued
NEOGau (2).jpg

Context:
Slipped on stairs

Pay Grade (3rd is untranslated)
NEOKiw (2).jpg
NEOKiw (5).jpg
NEOKiw (4).jpg

Opinion: Localizers put in this type of language in the game, and then people on twitter claim that TWEWY is making a statement about capitalism

Do you even lift, bro? You mad bro? Little girlbro
NeoLo (9).jpg
NEORi (4).jpg
NEORi (5).jpg

Opinion: Localization seem to decide on a quirk for a character and then go all out with it.

Galaxy Brain
NeoLo (8).jpg
NEOBee (2).jpg


Fake Catchphrase
NEOAc (2).jpg


Unnecessary nonsense
NEOSh (2).jpg
<-for context
NEOSh (3).jpg
NEOSh (4).jpg

Opinion:
"grade A astronaut" "space case" what is up with these lines !?

Sheeple
NeoLo (5).jpg

Note: He is more polite in the JP, and doesn't use insulting words like Sheeple

Swag
NEOAc (1).jpg


:(
NEOEm (2).jpg

Context:
This guy speaks to you through phone text
Note: Localization added emojis to his dialogue, also "chums" makes me think of the farting gnome video.

Edgy EdgeLord (1st one is untranslated)
NEOEd (4).jpg
NEOEd (2).jpg

Note:
I'm unsure how to accurately translate the first image, but she of course does not say "edgelord"
JP txt: [史上最低評価をつけてしまうワイカッコエ~~!!]

Think Mark, Think
NEOEd (3).jpg


Plebeian wretch
NEOEd (1).jpg


Cultural Appropriation
NEOCu.jpg

Note:
本物 = [Authentic, the real deal] type of meaning
He's not talking about offending Indians

MiddIe SchooIer, High SchooIer
NEODi (1).jpg
NEODi (4).jpg

Context:
Nagi is in college

Like a Boss (Nagi-senpai)
NEODi (2).jpg
NEORi (1).jpg

Note:
I don't know what's being referenced in the 2nd JP screenshot, but the localization replaced it with a continuation of their dead meme joke.

Crazy Taxi (game reference)
NEOTa (1).jpg


Results vs Commentary
NEOGi (4).jpg
NEOGi (1).jpg

Note: Localization replaced the short game results notification with their "funny" commentary. (not just here of course)

This Guy
NEOGi (7).jpg

JP:
Japanese & English
Loc: English & (Italian, French, Spanish) <-one of, or all of these, I dont know.

GameMaster
NEOGi (5).jpg
NEOGi (2).jpg


Grab some Popcorn
NEOGi (6).jpg


Fairy Princess
NEOGi (3).jpg

Opinion: I have my thoughts on these type of changes, so I included it.

Changed line
NEOybo (5).jpg

JP: I was hit on by a guy 3 times ! 「3回男にナンパされた!」
ENG: Three different people called me "miss" today-three !

Fart Joke
NEOybo (2).jpg


Beat talks like a retard
NEOybo (6).jpg
NEOybo (3).jpg
NEOBee (1).jpg


The Pigs
NEOGau (1).jpg

Note:
Localization adds a police insult

It's ya boy
NEOybo (4).jpg


Spill the Tea
NEOKiw (1).jpg


Don't fear the Reaper
NEOKiw (6).jpg

Context:
Someone is collapsed/dead(?) after fighting a reaper
JP: Shocked
ENG: Sarcastic sounding song reference

Top-Tier Troll
NEOKiw (3).jpg


Kween [Variabeauties]
NEOKwe.jpg

Note:
Localization made the Variabeauties a bunch of sassy gays

GodTier (untranslated)
NEOSusu.jpg

Note:
Not sure if "神の遣い" means the same thing as 神の使い(messenger of a god), so I'll just leave it untranslated.
Localization choose to translate it as "God Tier"
Also, Shoka calls him "スス兄 / Susu-Nii" in the JP

Reaper Creeper
NEOClea (1).jpg


Smack him on the head if I want
NEOClea (2).jpg


Like a Janitor?
NEOClea (3).jpg

JP:
Confused
ENG: Adds a joke to inner dialogue

A little different
NeoFai.jpg

Note:
3rd TL is not literally what she said, I added Romaji to clarify
The tone the localization is going for with this character is fine, but the words are a little different, so I added it.


The End
The localization's shit writing is all over this game, but I think this is enough examples to show what kind of localization this is.
 
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NretsewThePerv

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"yea man I'm gonna add a funny haha refrance to a fucken internet meme from 2002~04, cuz dat shits hip with da kiddies yo"

remember these people think they are creating fine art with this bullshit cuz "ma localization theory" or whatever the fuck
 

Mandrake

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So basically, localization in this game means :
- people are more rude overall, especially the girl who suddenly got a Tourette Syndrome.
- adding meme speak I guess.

I've seen the "ruder" (American) English often before, so the meme speak is the actual new thing in localization works.
 

Fennec_fox

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"yea man I'm gonna add a funny haha refrance to a fucken internet meme from 2002~04, cuz dat shits hip with da kiddies yo"

remember these people think they are creating fine art with this bullshit cuz "ma localization theory" or whatever the fuck
Reading the comparisons really made me exhausted. The last three examples were the worst especially the guy in a red hoodie. How the fuck do you end up doing so many little and big fuck ups like that??? Also, the galaxy brain is used as a negative thing to criticize someone, it's not a complement. And can these fucking alphabet localizers just stop making everyone in these games soooooo insufferable and rude to other people in general????????:hana-disgust:
And Lord, I hate that localization theory bitch.
 

versvlees

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Once again I'm not surprised by this trash localization or more like rewrites judging by some screenshots. If these people aren't inserting their inter-sectional trash or censorship they are taking the seat of the writers. These morons probably could not help themselves inserting trash even under gunpoint.

Are there even "normal" translators working at all in these localization/(US) based branch offices? Probably not because most of these offices are located in California and therefore have a very polluted recruitment pool filled with snowflake graduates. Graduates who are butthurt they could not get "real" translator or teaching job or/combination of normie or Big Bang Theory tier anime "fan" who thinks the medium is problematic.

With the popularization of the anime/manga in the West. I wonder how long it will take for even the normies to see how much trash localizers are inserting. Though, I fear the vast majority of normies will defend it out of ignorance or parrot the lies of localizers.
 

Brazio

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I'm too tired to refute anymore. And then there's people like, "if you don't like it, just play japanese one smh". BITCH, if I have to play the original game just to get full experience, doesn't that means, you know, the localization failed to do their fucking job?!?!
 

NLDX

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Most liked comments I saw from other sites.

“Keep hiring alphabet subhumans and we get s**t like this. Fxxk you, Square-Enix.”
 
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Hellhammer

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Fuck Twitter defending this abysmal translation. TBH, Twitter used to be a great place where you can engage with people who has a same interests as you without any worries. Now that place has become a shithole where it's now full of pretentious people ready to defend, and attack you by throwing ad hominem, and strawman arguments for breathing incorrectly.
 
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Ene

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Fuck Twitter defending this abysmal translation
Our side is using actual (JP-ENG) examples, so they can argue and defend the localization all they want.
All that matters is that more people see it and make their own mind if they want to play a game with this type of localization.
 

CUPCAKE

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Old tweet, but I want to say this.
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If this is true, then why the wokealizers who's responsible for translating this game, and the other wokealizers who are defending it on Twitter are lying? What are they trying to hide?
Honestly that seems like ok translation, it basically means the same thing for the curry line and these game sales don’t seem to be all that positive either but this game really isn’t made with the best quality so you can’t blame the bad localizations alone.

And by what I’ve been told these translations aren’t actually that far off.
 

Ene

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Honestly that seems like ok translation, it basically means the same thing for the curry line and these game sales don’t seem to be all that positive either but this game really isn’t made with the best quality so you can’t blame the bad localizations alone.

And by what I’ve been told these translations aren’t actually that far off.
I think the game sold badly mostly because it isn't a good game, but I'm sure that this type of localization also turned a lot of people off.

If you like this type of "translation" and think it doesn't change much, then good for you I guess.
 

CUPCAKE

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I think the game sold badly mostly because it isn't a good game, but I'm sure that this type of localization also turned a lot of people off.

If you like this type of "translation" and think it doesn't change much, then good for you I guess.
I don’t think it turned many people off considering how unknown this game was already was.

What do you mean by good for you?
 

Ene

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I don’t think it turned many people off considering how unknown this game was already was.
TWEWY is kinda niche, but it isn't unknown.
It'll be unknown now because this game was a failure.
What do you mean by good for you?
If you like it, then you are the type of person they were targeting with that type of localization.
 
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