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PhantomXero1x

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It is circling the Wagons and painting a false narrative by having some controlled opposition to make excuses for laziness as to why they can not have accurate or authentic translations, which does not happen in China, South Korea even in Mexico. This is just lowering the standard and being lazy, insulting the Japanese language itself and saying English is better when reality, it does not matter. Translating the script to what it says and being accurate and authentic is important. Then again this is why I tend to avoid Western Content creators because they always end up selling out and using false opposition arguments of what the person did not say.


I would say Re:Fantazio is accurate. I did hear they did patch out Dopey and the few other jarring words that I and others criticized as well. Which is a positive due to Atlus having higher standards than the industry itself that relies so heavily on memes, political insertions and "Flavor" that is is a breath of fresh air, much like Class Of Heroes was earlier this year by PQube. If I am wrong please let me know and show examples.
geez and they wonder why, they been complaining bout the lack of growth in subs and views lately
 

Narmy

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I would say Re:Fantazio is accurate. I did hear they did patch out Dopey and the few other jarring words that I and others criticized as well. Which is a positive due to Atlus having higher standards than the industry itself that relies so heavily on memes, political insertions and "Flavor" that is is a breath of fresh air, much like Class Of Heroes was earlier this year by PQube. If I am wrong please let me know and show examples.
No no no, Atlus is being highly affected by western activists. Remember that they removed the joke about the tranny in Persona 3 Reload and the joke about the fags in Persona 5 Royal, even in the Japanese versions. The western influence is not as advanced as it is in Marvelous etc. but it is definitely advancing.

I certainly don't recommend giving them any money unless this game is gone over with a fine toothed comb first. Though I did hear they removed the romance elements due to western pressure so that's already a red flag.
 

PhantomXero1x

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No no no, Atlus is being highly affected by western activists. Remember that they removed the joke about the tranny in Persona 3 Reload and the joke about the fags in Persona 5 Royal, even in the Japanese versions. The western influence is not as advanced as it is in Marvelous etc. but it is definitely advancing.

I certainly don't recommend giving them any money unless this game is gone over with a fine toothed comb first. Though I did hear they removed the romance elements due to western pressure so that's already a red flag.
Modern persona games are STILL keep in mind, lighting rods that are huge tourist magnets as are basically atlus games these days post mid 2010s.
 

Brazio

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Remember that they removed the joke about the tranny in Persona 3 Reload and the joke about the fags in Persona 5 Royal, even in the Japanese versions
Persona 5 case is on another level for me because they cited it as "bad" stereotypes, even though the event happened when MC and his friends were at Red Light District, a place where it's a matter of 'when' somebody would hit on you instead of 'if', and it just so happened to be Okama who done it.
what happened to "Inclusivity" and "be your true self"? And also "colonisation is bad"? because they supported americunt culture stomping over another culture if the latter doesn't fit with former's view.
 
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JX475

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No no no, Atlus is being highly affected by western activists. Remember that they removed the joke about the tranny in Persona 3 Reload and the joke about the fags in Persona 5 Royal, even in the Japanese versions. The western influence is not as advanced as it is in Marvelous etc. but it is definitely advancing.
This always has happened though. Persona 3 and Persona 5 had the Trans joke and they always take it out on the re-releases. I would not be surprised if Persona 6 does the same thing but i can be wrong because it is a different team this time. This will be a confirmation of the future of the company anyways.
I certainly don't recommend giving them any money unless this game is gone over with a fine toothed comb first. Though I did hear they removed the romance elements due to western pressure so that's already a red flag.
I do agree that people need to look at this game first and take a look at the comparisons before purchasing. As for romance elements I do not think this is the case. If I were to theorize what happened. It most likely was the case that they could not figure out what to do that would be different than Persona and SMT but instead went with the safer option of showing Persona mechanics and everything else from spin off titles especially Catherine with the online choices, because time was running out to make it not Persona because everyone was complaining about the sidegames being Persona. By the end of the day Metaphor is a tribute title of Atlus as a company it's not a franchise unless they announce it. But I guess this is what has happened to them over the past few years. Because of internal strife and reorganization.
 

JX475

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I think you're being a bit rash here. One screenshot being accurate doesn't mean much, especially in a text-heavy game like this. I only checked that one journal entry since I could not find a screenshot of it in Japanese anywhere, but I'm sure I could find some actual inaccuracies if I booted the game back up. Remember, this is the creature responsible for the localization of this game:
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Fair point. It just needs to be looked into. This is something I can agree upon.
 

PhantomXero1x

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Persona 5 case is on another level for me because they cited it as "bad" stereotypes, even though the event happened when MC and his friends were at Red Light District, a place where it's a matter of 'when' somebody would hit on you instead of 'if', and it just so happened to be Okama who done it.
what happened to "Inclusivity" and "be your true self"? And also "colonisation is bad"? because they supported americunt culture stomping over another culture if the latter doesn't fit with former's view.
This always has happened though. Persona 3 and Persona 5 had the Trans joke and they always take it out on the re-releases. I would not be surprised if Persona 6 does the same thing but i can be wrong because it is a different team this time. This will be a confirmation of the future of the company anyways.

I do agree that people need to look at this game first and take a look at the comparisons before purchasing. As for romance elements I do not think this is the case. If I were to theorize what happened. It most likely was the case that they could not figure out what to do that would be different than Persona and SMT but instead went with the safer option of showing Persona mechanics and everything else from spin off titles especially Catherine with the online choices, because time was running out to make it not Persona because everyone was complaining about the sidegames being Persona. By the end of the day Metaphor is a tribute title of Atlus as a company it's not a franchise unless they announce it. But I guess this is what has happened to them over the past few years. Because of internal strife and reorganization.
1)That as well as resetera existing was the first time i became aware of the whole beyond stupid discourse that has been happening to atlus games over the years seriously if i was atlus i woulda put my foot down like rockstar games did back then b4 they got cucked by tourists and normies with gambling addictions and say fuck off and don't buy our games or merch at all and call them out as what they really are tourists who desrve to fucking die.

2)Yeah its inevitable honestly knowing atlus they're going to do something to piss off the atlus fans and create another cycle of discourse and literally every game they be doing lately since sega took them over has alot of the stuff thats borrowed off from the modern persona games these days. And at this point atlus doesnt even deserve any fucking money at all since they just love to cuck themselves.

Its all so beyond fucking tiresome and stupid and im just glad i noped out of fandoms especially the smt one when i did and every fucking fandom deserves to die a horrible death period.
 

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Is this a new low for localizers? Looks like he's only worked on two shitty games.
 

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*A They/Them Localizer Threatens you in Broken Japanese* :shinobu_kaka:
Sounds like every "Professional" Localizer ever. Who uses Deepl to save their career, decides to butcher the translation and tells everyone to learn Japanese in modern day. Why do they think that they deserve to live in Japan let alone be a Translator when they can not even speak the language correctly let alone translate anything worth of value. Just really makes me wonder.
 

Jegue

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"You don't know how plain Japanese can be."
"The original author was mid."

Maybe, just maybe, if the original dialogue was so mid, the translation should reflect that aspect so that the viewer gets the same experience even if it's a negative one.
It's not the translator's job to fix the mistakes of the original author or add style where there is none. This is exactly why I've been replaying every single game I love in japanese, because I can't trust anymore that the writing I liked was ACTUALLY the author's writing style.
 

あんらい

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I believe this hasn't been posted yet, so here is a blog post from Koji Fox, localizing supervisor and senior translator at Square Enix (most notably Final Fantasy XIV).

No wonder that game's translation is so dogshit

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The blog post is still up, but edited.

Here's the archived original:
 

Narmy

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I believe this hasn't been posted yet, so here is a blog post from Koji Fox, localizing supervisor and senior translator at Square Enix (most notably Final Fantasy XIV).

No wonder that game's translation is so dogshit

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The blog post is still up, but edited.

Here's the archived original:
This man is pure concentrated reddit.
 

JX475

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I believe this hasn't been posted yet, so here is a blog post from Koji Fox, localizing supervisor and senior translator at Square Enix (most notably Final Fantasy XIV).

No wonder that game's translation is so dogshit

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The blog post is still up, but edited.

Here's the archived original:
Why do people like Koji Fox again and the games he has translated? This is Fedora Tier.
 
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