To be honest, it's very hard to recommend anything these days, especially newer games. They all have basically some form of pushing a fake narrative, and going full on Westernization has become the norm.
Imo most older jrpgs are pretty alright in that aspect, obviously none of them are going to be 1 to 1 with the original japanese but, usually do not include cringy nonsense like modern loc. does.
Well as long as you avoid Working Designs. They were far worse than even modern localization.
Older 90s titles pretty much is terribly localized. But times were different. Hey i hate shitty localization as anyone else, but 90s were wild times, when one dude were suppose to translate gigantic JRPG withing like month of work. ALONE.
Atelier series is pretty safe. They are popular but still niche enough that I haven't seen far-left wing zealots bitching about it nor working as a localiser to fuck it up. Older Atelier series seemed to be typical save-the-world JRPG but from on PS3 generation, they switched to cutesy slice of life with moe characters. While this series has mild fanservices, it doesn't seem bad enough for westerners to complain about. But now with the latest game, I worry about it becoming more popular and bringing some bad actors.
lol no Atelier is not safe, it was NISA-ified. They changed the name of the character Esty Erhard to Esty Dee because "lol it sounds like STD"
I didn't even think of that but other than that, I don't think there were much controversy with more current titles.
At first I thought you were talking about Atelier Tia and I was confused. Does that have any relation to the PS3 game?
I don't think so. Do you know it by another name because it seems to be made by another company there's no game with a name Atelier Tia made by the Gust Corp.
