Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

Tsuki

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Xenoblade 1


キズナトーク - フィオルンの身体 | Heart-to-Heart - Fiora's Body

Name changes:
カルナ (Karuna, Carna) was changed to Sharla
フィオルン (Fiorun, Fiorung) was changed to Fiora
Romanization taken from the credits
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Japanese
カルナ:私ね リナーダさんのもとで マシーナの身体構造について勉強してるの
フィオルン:どうして?
カルナ:この戦いが終わったら 衛生兵を退役して 医師を目指そうかなって思っているんだ コロニー6には たくさんの人種が集まるわ そのために勉強をしているのよ
Translated
Carna: You know, I'm studying Machina body structure under Linada.
Fiorung: Why?
Carna: After this battle is over, I'm thinking of retiring as a medic and becoming a doctor. Many different races will be gathering in Colony 6, that's why I'm studying it.
Localization
Sharla: I didn't mention before, but Linada is teaching me Machina anatomy.
Fiora: Why do you need to know that?
Sharla: Because when this is all over... I'm going to quit the Defence Force and become a doctor. People are returning to Colony 6. They'll need a doctor.

Similar to one of my previous posts, they left out any mention of race again. The English also talks about people "returning" to Colony 6, and while that is true, the more important part here is the fact that new people are moving there, including Machina, who have had their home world destroyed. That is why she is learning about Machina anatomy.

Following a different dialogue choice, the conversation stays mostly identical in the Japanese, only slightly different in wording. In the English, they decided to add a random detail.


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Japanese
カルナ:私ね リナーダさんのもとで マシーナの身体構造について勉強してるの
フィオルン:どうして?
カルナ:この戦いが終わったら 衛生兵を退役して 医師を目指そうと思ってるの コロニーは たくさんの人種が集まるでしょう? そのために勉強をしているのよ
Translated
Carna: You know, I'm studying Machina body structure under Linada.
Fiorung: Why?
Carna: After this battle is over, I want to retire as a medic and become a doctor. There are lots of different races gathering in the Colony, right? That's why I'm studying.
Localization
Sharla: Linada gave me a great book on Machina anatomical circuitry.
Fiora: Why would you need that?
Sharla: I'm studying to become a doctor. I’ll have to leave the Defence Force, but it’s what I want to do. More and more people are returning to Colony 6. They’ll need a doctor.

I'm aware that this is an incredibly minor detail, but I think I've proven with my last post how these random additions of details can come back to bite the localizer in the ass later. And of course, no mention of different races here either.

I've always wanted to play Xenoblade but it's too much of a localized mess. I need to keep practicing my Japanese.
 

JX475

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I've always wanted to play Xenoblade but it's too much of a localized mess. I need to keep practicing my Japanese.
Yeah, it's a great game. If it's the Japanese version, I can only recommend it. The English version, only reluctantly. It would defintely be a far inferior experience.
As someone who played through all 3 games including X. I can say the storyline is solid, but there is dialogue that always seemed weird to me as well. The best thing is to learn Japanese, but ultimately it is to hopefully provide a lite retranslation mod for the game to retranslate it back to what it should be as the authentic experience.
 

Tsuki

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Needless to say, Trunks doesn't say "No Cap" in Japanese. He says ほんとう, or, "Really?!"
You can never hate localizers enough.
 

JX475

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Needless to say, Trunks doesn't say "No Cap" in Japanese. He says ほんとう, or, "Really?!"
You can never hate localizers enough.
Is this the Sub Version? Can you show a trailer? I would like to see this myself in a video, because i would be kind of shocked to know that the translators allowed this to get through for Subs. I think it's just that shocking because how do you mess up a franchise like Dragon Ball Z?
 

Tsuki

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Is this the Sub Version? Can you show a trailer? I would like to see this myself in a video, because i would be kind of shocked to know that the translators allowed this to get through for Subs.
Here's the video of it.

I think it's just that shocking because how do you mess up a franchise like Dragon Ball Z?
You'd be surprised. This has been an issue for awhile, such as Gotenks going "Peanut Butter Jelly Time!" in dub, among many other issues. Not surprised to see it happening in the subtitles.
 

JX475

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Here's the video of it.
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You'd be surprised. This has been an issue for awhile, such as Gotenks going "Peanut Butter Jelly Time!" in dub, among many other issues. Not surprised to see it happening in the subtitles.
Yes but usually the Subs hardly and I mean hardly mix with the Dubs in terms of writing. But then again this one most likely is one localizer saying "Hahaha see i managed to see how much i could get away with". If people start highlighting it, it's definitely going to start slowing down sales for Bandai Namco.

I will kind of mention one thing though as some tidbit of information, with Anime games and Bandai Namco. Bandai Namco usually profit shares with Shonen Jump for their licenses and for that they can not alter designs and must respect Anime designs unless Bandai Namco owns the full property like they do with Gundam because they own Sunrise and they also develop the games in-house. But this most likely means that they are not caring like usual with what the Western Branch is doing on the translation end and it's going to seep through soon and lose them tons of money sadly, because even if these games do not alter their designs, and they have a 3rd party developer work on it, they will try to mess with the translations and make them worse hoping nobody will see it, they do and they demand AI as a whole on social media because of how awful it is that something that has legacy is having slang written on it and hurting Toriyama's legacy. This most likely is going to start becoming a thing soon anyways because nobody likes it when you mess with their popular IP's.

Also Bandai Namco with DEI is not a good idea, because the reality is unlike Capcom, SEGA and Square Enix who make their own properties with Manga, Magazine and some Anime companies(SEGA) distribution including Video Games, they are wholly reliant on Anime properties and profit sharing, they do not have any real IP's in-house and make their own games hardly ever. One bad huge hit and they go under as a company because the hardly own anything themselves. Especially if Dragon Ball does as well will hurt their reputation.
 

Samken

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Except that the player is assumed to be male for pretty much most of the game. Example:
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Also, Ion is canonically straight:
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Some comments from the team:
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They got called out, and in public retracted themselves and said they are willing to revert the changes, at least in public that is:
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JX475

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Except that the player is assumed to be male for pretty much most of the game. Example:
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Also, Ion is canonically straight:
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Some comments from the team:
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They got called out, and in public retracted themselves and said they are willing to revert the changes, at least in public that is:
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"Wait until it calms down" well no it will never calm down, because censoring history and rewriting history under the disguise of changes, makes them lower than life itself. If they really would practice equality they would do that to Western Games and make their own games. Not insert it into Japanese games.
 

Ronnie21093

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Except that the player is assumed to be male for pretty much most of the game. Example:
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Also, Ion is canonically straight:
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Some comments from the team:
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They got called out, and in public retracted themselves and said they are willing to revert the changes, at least in public that is:
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Hasn't this series historically been targeted at a male demographic? So they shouldn't really be surprised when they remove that aspect from the game. I just hope these changes were the only thing wrong and that they keep the changes out. If not, someone out there is gonna have to repatch the translation, which may take a while
 

PhantomXero1x

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Except that the player is assumed to be male for pretty much most of the game. Example:
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Also, Ion is canonically straight:
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Some comments from the team:
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They got called out, and in public retracted themselves and said they are willing to revert the changes, at least in public that is:
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I recognize these people lol, im on the ar tonelico server but lol, i pretty much just lurk there and its funny theres quite a bit of niche anti woke fans who are apparently troonsphobic but then you have these odd specimens who think they run the place but its funny, they don't really do lol cause of how loud and obnoxious they are and astral espeically has huge beef with us here on varris cause of our threads on localization lol us extremists? lol i only am on niche jrpg and anime servers outside of the underground anti woke servers on discord and damn lol these ar tonelico fans like as all fandoms ofc are a bunch of spergs.
 

Narmy

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Except that the player is assumed to be male for pretty much most of the game. Example:
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Also, Ion is canonically straight:
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Some comments from the team:
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They got called out, and in public retracted themselves and said they are willing to revert the changes, at least in public that is:
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Why the fuck do trannies love to latch onto games like this? Is nothing sacred?
 

PhantomXero1x

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Why the fuck do trannies love to latch onto games like this? Is nothing sacred?
Yeah its a pattern i've seen alot around niche games and anime its never ever about the genuine enjoyment its always about the coruption and subversion into misery for their suicidal death cult.
 

PhantomXero1x

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man ya'll mfers here on varis really cooked this troon harder than fried chicken with peas and fried rice served with some hot gravy and cheese covering the fries.

This particular individual you can really tell is just 1 day away from unaliving good.
 

JX475

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man ya'll mfers here on varis really cooked this troon harder than fried chicken with peas and fried rice served with some hot gravy and cheese covering the fries.

This particular individual you can really tell is just 1 day away from unaliving good.
They are just mad that they lost and could not ruin another translation for the hardcore audience to "own the Chuds"
 

dreamEnd

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Except that the player is assumed to be male for pretty much most of the game. Example:
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Also, Ion is canonically straight:
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Some comments from the team:
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They got called out, and in public retracted themselves and said they are willing to revert the changes, at least in public that is:
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This is the type of changes I hate the most. Why everything have to omnipander and bisexual now? I'm male. I will always play as a straight male character. I don't want to be called they/them. I want to stay platonic with male NPCs
Like, God forbid me to play as a straight male character in 2024.
 

PhantomXero1x

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They are just mad that they lost and could not ruin another translation for the hardcore audience to "own the Chuds"
Jrpgs are weird i don't like the way they design women and are weeby like also them splurges money nonstop on genshit/fagkai cause the ccp takes a cut out of mihoyhoverse and apparently they even went private too on twitter lol.
 
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