As a doctor, every time there's a Keeps sponsorship, I feel obligated to tell men to not overpay for their services. Just ask your physician for Finasteride 5mg (one quarter of a pill daily). It's what Keeps would prescribe you, but you're going to pay cents per pill instead of the ridiculous price of the 1mg pill plus their consultation fee.
@@I_couldnt_use_ram_as_my_handle No, just ask your physician to prescribe you the pill. This way you don't have to pay Keeps' outrageous fees. They advertise their services as if they can offer something special, whereas any general practitioner can do the same. (Not sure if it was sarcasm, preferred to err on the side of caution.)
Fuck that. Embrace the inevitable and shave your head the moment it starts thinning. Use that time to get used to having a bald head and learn how to own it.
@@PsychOsmosis Yeah but I am not particularly interested in those side effects. Fuck getting man boobs, I'd rather accept the inevitable, shave it off as soon as it begins and grow a chopper moustache and get a Harley.
As a professional translator, thank you for this acknowledgement. So many people think that merely speaking two langages is qualification enough to be a translator....
I can see that being a stigma. Translation would require intimate knowledge of both languages in terms of grammar as well as vocabulary. I can barely keep up acceptable grammar with my one language: translators are talented!
@@hellfrozenphoenix13In my province, you are required to do at least a Major (so 2 years of full time universality) to he allowed to call yourself a translator. And although I don't work in localization, I did take a localization class and believe me, it's hardcore!
@@hellfrozenphoenix13 And it's not just grammar and vocabulary. You need to have a good grasp of idioms and speech patterns and other such proclivities of each language. I've seen some translations that were all technically correct, but extremely stilted because all the character got sucked out by being a literal translation.
I'm personally bilingual, but I never got how some people can translate between languages so easily. I have a hard time doing it because my thinking "switches" depending on the language I'm talking in, which leads me to knowing words, but just not being able to translate them well. I have a lot of respect for translators out there, and really impressed by their abilities. Good work out there!
Within a fan translation of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, the villain Kempf sets a trap for the main hero by locking him in a fort and shooting at him with Ballistae. He needed a filler text line to talk about him locking the gate, so the translators put "In America!" This was a reference to Yu Gi Oh abridged where Bandit Keith would add "In America" after all of his lines. The meme stuck, and now this random villian has been stained with the American flag for as long as he lives, even after we've gotten a better fan translation.
@@loftwingheropon2743 Did he actually say "temee" or just "kisama" then? Not that it really matters; "bitch" sounds over the top for a classical-styled medieval fantasy series like Fire Emblem.
should've included all localizations of metal gear solid save for the english one. they were all so bad that hideo kojima decided to just stick with japanese and english from then on, the german one for example has plenty of grammatical errors and cases of "nobody talks like that" (as if someone just dumped the script into google translate except that didn't exist yet) as well voice acting that sounds like they just had random employees reading the lines instead of hiring actual voice actors.
At very least the German dub was hilarious funny-bad so it turned into a cult classic in the German MGS fandom and not awful-bad like the German Grandia dub lol
@@meganinten0078 May I remind you that the Deleter's identity had to be revealed in an Other M strategy guide, because they killed him off and never resolved that plotline in the game. And that the Varia suit sequence still has the same problem of completely undermining Samus as a character. And that Samus having any reaction beyond "god dammit, how" to Ridley appearing makes little to no sense. Just because Other M got a botched localization doesn't make the base story any better
@@Druid-T I recomend you watching Lexicon Lookout video about the differences between the japanese script and the english script. Samus was actually well written.
@@meganinten0078 A. Did you intentionally ignore my point about the Deleter, or? B. Saying Samus was "well-written" (she wasn't, but not the main point), doesn't do anything to dismiss the fact that she willingly entered a hostile environment without the proper protection. Or the fact that the entire visual metaphor (which are Lexicon's words, by the way) sequence using Ridley only works if you discard the fact that this is the third time he's been resurrected, his return isn't an issue of Samus being weak it's an issue of Ridley not knowing when to stay dead. Again, even if Other M didn't get a botched localization, it still would not have been a good story
Important knowledge: For a competent translation, one always translates TO their native language. Even if you are great at it, a little bit of Zero Wing may always happen if you do it the other way around.
to be fair there are people out there whose second/third/etc languages are at a near-native level, which i think would be good for translation too. english is my second language, and i dont think i would have too much trouble translating something from my first language to english, and have it sound reasonable
@@Alias_Anybody Depends of the languages, I have done some translation work about scientific texts, from My native language to English, and that is simpler than the other way around, English is kinda dumb but simple, spanish is much better for many, many things but so damn complicated. I could translate an entire novel with no Big issues from spanish to English, the opposite would not be that different but I would have to take much longer for the proof reading.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist is also a sight to behold in German. The game's text was obviously translated from English and it reads like a machine translation that has no idea about idioms or where to put commas. Sentences also tend to not make a whole lot of sense or just end abruptly, but there are no spelling errors, leading to the conclusion that is feels like a bad machine-translation.
Topic Idea: Top 5 Silent Protagonists I'd like to nominate Madotsuki from Yume Nikki. She doesn't say anything in-game, but there's so much backstory you can get from her character based on her dreams.
Doom Slayer from Doom, he very rarely speaks, but instead he shows his personality through actions. Take for example the first time he has to remove a cell from a facility, Hayden is telling him how important they are and why he shouldnt mess with them while the Slayer is looking for a button, switch or something to disconnect the cell, but when he realizes theres none he just decides to rip it off.
I've recently played three games where the spanish translation drove me up a wall. The most recent was SMT Nocturne, which is generally fine except for certain in universe terms translated with the wrong definition of the english word, such as Hell Exhaust now referring to someone who is tired instead (despite the fact that it is Hell Biker's signature move and spits out exhaust). Next there's Ys Origins, where they mistakenly translate Boost as pushing and the names of the extra modes are incomprehensible: the Arena mode now has a name that tells me nothing about it despite most games translating it as "Coliseo" or leaving it untranslated; Speedrun mode is now just Speed mode; and Time Attack (which is made even more confusing by the existence of Speedrun mode, but it actually refers to beating bosses as fast as possible as opposed to the whole game) is translated as if Time refered to an actual entity that is literally attacking. Finally there's Shantae and the Seven Sirens, which botched menus so bad that the first thing I did was go to the options menu to switch to english and never change it back.
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment was released on the PS1 in the US, and thankfully, that translation is much better. P2 characters keep their names, but P1 characters have their Revelations names. It’s not perfect, but the story and locations are intact.
The opening montage reminded me of Ys 8's terrible first translation, which was shocking because it was handled by people that usually do a great job of translating (NIS America), though they did go the extra mile and completely fix all the text in the game in a later update, as well as redubbing most lines. Still a mystery to me as to how that first translation happened...
NISA is usually great, but they seem to have problems with plurals. Like they don't have the corresponding scene with the dialogue and just go with the singular because that and the plural are identical in Japanese.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Even that wouldn't have made much sense, given her backstory. She was trained to fight solo on purpose, after all, on top of it not making sense for the styling in general. Her depiction in the Prime series makes a lot more practical sense.
@@Llortnerof I heard Sakamoto was a latecomer into the original FamiDisc Metroid's development. Would make sense for someone who doesn't actually "get" Metroid.
Oh gosh, that Persona 1 Music was like a brick to the face, I wasn't expecting it... Yeah, I was one of the people who actually played the PSP Persona 1! I actually like it a lot! Not enough to recommend people *play it* though, unless you like clunky dungeon crawler rpgs with weird mechanics but interesting stories.
Loved playing it once, but there are only so many times a man can stand random encounters and the first few notes of Lone Prayer before losing their mind. One playthrough did it for me.
@@Chocolatepicklesauce God, RIGHT? And then you get to the final boss and it turns out OUT OF ALL YOUR HIGHLEVEL PERSONA/CHARACTERS ONLY MARK CAN MAKE A DENT IN THE BOSS. Mark, who due to a quirk of the EXP system, is a lower level than everyone else. I also managed to get through the first part of the Snow Queen quest- I beat Tartarus first in that 2 hour time deadline. It was hell, but I did it.
For "translations that changed the original material fundamentally", I'm going to throw a darkhorse vote to Fire Emblem: Three Houses for a death of a thousand cuts. The Treehouse team, for whatever reason they deemed fit, minimised much of the symbolism around Crimson Flower, flattened Claude's characterisation, and polished Dimitri up a tad. This isn't one *big* thing, just a lot of little notes.
Yeah I've heard about a few things here and there through fan fiction of all places. Annette being threatened with being married off to someone who'd mistreat her if she didn't behave and perform well, Ionius wanting to end Adrestia's consort practice which lead up to the Insurrection of the Seven....always shocked when I hear about that, because 3H isn't egregiously bad like Fates was.
There are two games from the same studio I remember not necessarily having a bad localization, but some slightly iffy word choices. Beyond Good And Evil and Rayman Raving Rabbids, both games developed and released by Ubisoft Montpellier, were on the whole, translated pretty well into English. The one thing that sticks out in my mind, though, is that in some cases the games were tripped up by synonyms. In the menus of both games, for instance, the X button (going off of the PS2 releases in both instances) was not the 'confirm' button, it was the 'validate' button. Additionally, if spotted by the Alpha Section troops in Beyond Good And Evil, when they deployed the gatling laser onto your last known location, such a request was 'accorded' rather than 'granted' or 'acknowledged' (my guess is the original French was d'accord, meaning OK). You can still glean the intended meaning, but it does make for some mild head-scratching the first time you see or hear them.
gotta shoutout Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn because for some reason the localisation team decided to translate ONLY the super barebones "easy mode" script meant for people new to story driven games meaning we missed out on the actual script which had a lot more interesting character stuff.
Wow didn’t know that tidbit. Which makes the fact that we never even got easy mode to begin with, since our “easy” is the equivalent to Japan’s “normal,” even funnier.
Zero Wing's English localization is so famous it named at least two tropes on the site TV Tropes. Somebody Set Us Up The Bomb and of course All Your Base Are Belong To Us. Top 5 Games With Amazing Localization. Zero Wing is disqualified due to it being terrible no matter how entertaining it is.
Megaman Battle Network 4 is a standout miss on this list... that game is one of the best selling games on the GBA and has a localization that is just the absolute worst. Spelling errors, typos (Leg's go, Megaman) and poor word choices mar the game.. just as much as the poor choices made in developing the game do.
I always took Samus in Metroid Other M as an accurate portrayal of the ultimate badass brought to their knees by the one thing they thought they escaped. Their own past. Adam showed this off by having Samus be a lot more of a soldier than a bounty hunter, bringing her down to a more humble skillset in a believable way. The infamous Ridley freeze up? That was the FIRST time she had seen Ridley in that exact form since she was a child when he and the Space Pirates first attacked her home colony. So she was literally STARING into the very REASON she was the badass she is, in the form that utterly TERRIFIED her, and SCARRED her for LIFE. No, not temporarily. SHE NEVER GOT OVER IT.
"That was the FIRST time she had seen Ridley in that exact form since she was a child" not even close. The first time she saw Ridley after her childhood was the first time she went back to Zebes in Metroid 1/Zero Mission. Then she fought him several more times over the Prime Trilogy, and AGAIN on Zebes in Super. In terms of actual boss fights, this is like Ridley's 6th appearance. And Ridley showing up in Samus Returns retroactively makes Other M even worse. Even if we only count "that exact form", this is still the third time she's seen Ridley.
@@jedimasterpickle3 I think Sakamoto had a vendetta against the Prime games or some shit. Foreign-made? Even though Metroid before them was already deliberately Western-flavored? That could explain all the Japanesesque imagery. Maybe he was some xenophobe trying hard to market the series to Japan. Shiro Maekawa did similar shit when writing for 2000s Sonic. Then again, that "exact form" of Ridley could've been what was necessary to set off Samus's PTSD as it specifically was associated with the most terrifying moment of her life. Too bad MOM's story as a whole was done so pretentiously and implausibly even if the base elements are sound.
As a video game translator I admire the respect for the usually thankless craft in this video. If you see a bad localisation of a game, I can guarantee you it's because either: - There wasn't enough time - There wasn't enough money - There wasn't enough communication between the devs and the translators - All of the above
Not necessarily. Sometimes scriptwriters deliberately punch up the translation with slang and/or humor, and that has a lot of opportunity to go wrong. And, of course, there's localization that alters the script to "shield the natives" from "naughty" foreign references. In both cases, the original creators and/or marketers can agree with it or not.
Yep, I already knew that game on the thumbnail would land a spot on this list lol. It’s turning a game with an already pretty weak script into a terrible one due to piss-poor localization. And even if I still overall enjoyed it, FE Fates has a pretty weak localization overall due to changing plenty of the support dialogue or even the characters’s whole personalities. Of course, Fates already has plenty of writing issues even in the OG script, but I still believe it had some really great characters, so it’s a shame Nintendo Treehouse had to dumb them down for zero reasons.
They had their chance to make things right with the rerelease on switch, but since they used the western version as the base, it sold poorly in both Japan and the west. They even had to hand out refunds for those who preordered the game thinking that it was going to be uncensored.
honorary mention should go to the gba version of tales of phantasia which is already vastly inferior to the other versions of the game, but the english translation takes it up with such iconic lines as "it is known to us as kangaroo" where the original line is "it is known to us as the ragnarok war." we also have bad voice acting which is EVEN FUNNIER with the audio compression of the gba
The entire GBA port is a train wreck. I was a dumb, young kid who bought it and struggled through how dang slow it was. I still beat it somehow but never again. Never again.
the original FFVII english translation had a lot of issues. The plot was considered too complex and they believed that English speaking gamers would be that invested. A lot of plot points are altered/ simplified/ not thoroughly explained. I’ll hold back from details to avoid any spoilers for the new games, but the changes are rather significant and can be easily googled. Also there’s lots of fun goofs like the famous “This guy are sick”.
Suikoden 2 definitely deserves an honorable mention, what with it's very frequent spelling and grammar mistakes, mispelling of item names such as the Circlet being called the Circuret, and Stallion's unique rune being called True Holy, implying that he somehow got a true rune when that's definitely not the case.
At first I was confused when I saw Tales of Berseria in the opening montage but then I remembered how weirdly inconsistent that game's script could get, where what's being said doesn't at all match up with what's being written. Or just, you know, many typos.
@@MrSentinel07 Its a good game though! And FWIW, those issues, while noticeable when they pop up, arent really that common. In fact the first half of the game is basically devoid of them.
Thank you for at least keeping like a slight reference to Treehouse's butchering of Fire Emblem Fates with the music at the start. The Japanese version is like a 6/10 but Treehouse managed to turn it into a 4. Wonder if that's why the teams started working closer for Three Houses to avoid a repeat. (Even if 3H has its own problems, but it wasn't Fates levels of bad.) ... I notice how I keep mentioning Fates when I comment on your channel at times. Hm
I would say the Sonic adventure 1 and 2 are great examples of terrible localizations. I just recently watched the cutscenes for the games in english subtitles by a youtuber named Windii Gitlord. Long story short, the english localization butchered a lot of the dialogue and characterizations, especially in adventure 1.
To be fair, Sonic was characterized differently in Japan vs everywhere else pre Sonic Adventure. They way some of the shows and comics made Sonic were carried over to the translation. It's all entirely due to how Sega of Japan and Sega of America didn't communicate. It's more complicated than mis-characterization
I'd say SA1 got IMPROVED. The Japanese version had rather flat dialogue, and the English version largely either conveys the same ideas with different wording or replaces things that were already obvious from how the scene action plays out with new dialogue clarifying some bits. SA2 and Heroes, though, outright got plot points and even some jokes mangled to Hell. And Windii also translated the Japanese Sonic game manual stories for Sonic Retro, though they warn that such translations may be too literal to make sense in English.
@@absollum Japan had the right lore, but too mild an attitude. America conveyed a more sardonic attitude for Sonic and his friends, but had the worse lore, though it did come up with "The" and "Robotnik" that the games adopted. I'd say the SA1 localization is a good halfway meet of personalities: sassy but also knowing when to stop joking around.
Really teasing me with all those clips of the first Yakuza game - a localization so poor that for every future game for the next 15 years they simply didn't bother making an English dub until they decided to appeal to a new audience with a different protagonist and style of gameplay. That being said it was ballsy as hell to bring back Kiryu's original voice actor but actually give him some good voice direction this time that makes him a perfect fit for the role; a hell of a gamble that actually paid off.
I was confused too, so I looked up 'Berseria localization' - and got reminded of just how many typos there are in various side stuff late-game. Personally, I'm not certain that's a localization problem, but SOMETHING definitely went wrong.
@@iansynge7656 not just typos. A bunch of the skits even before postgame don't have the in-game text match up with the voiced lines. What makes this even more baffling is they never made a patch to change the text to match after the game launched either.
Sad Megaman Battle Network 4 wasn't on here, as it fits pretty squarely with some of the other entries here, with highlights such as: * "There's so many electrical store!" * "Leg's go!" * "What a polite young man she was." * "A giant figure of an elephant in a giant elephant figure" * What looks like a find and replace changing every use of the singular "virus" to the plural "viruses" (e.g. Look! It's a viruses!) * Missing action notation so a character smiling might look like they literally say "Grin" * A mechanic in the final dungeon that requires you to mash A rapidly to escape; the only thing the game tells you is "Careful, Megaman!" * The final boss scans Megaman for evil by saying "Boo!" The game has other structural issues, and it's hard to tell how much of this is actually the localization's fault, but what I can say is the localization did it absolutely no favors.
Have you ever done anything like "worst mandatory mini-games"? You know, when the game doesn't let you progress until completing some mini-game with bad controls, or one that just isn't fun? That could be interesting.
Black and White 2 have that “Pokémon studios” thing you have to do before progressing. I never found it interesting and it only served as a roadblock in my Pokémon game : /
Here is a little example of bad localization. At the end of the King of Fighters 97, it is very common that everyone who played that game knows the New Faces Team (Yashiro, Shermie and Chris) died when they sacrificed to bring back Orochi but that is only in the western version of the game because the dialogue in the Japanese version was different. The New Faces Team never died, instead their souls ended up sealed with Orochi at the end of the game. That was the canon in Japan for many years until the current SNK staff finally accepted the canon of the western version confirming now that Yashiro, Shermie and Chris have revived. In other words they made a retcon in the story. It wouldn't be the first time SNK makes retcons like these, for example the case with K9999, a character who was erased from the canon because the actual SNK hates the poor bastard.
Devil Kings/Sengoku Basara deserves a spot on here. I mean, aside from trying to tie it to Devil May Cry, making it significantly darker and more fantasy-based, screwing up the story/ies, changing EVERYBODY’S names, and removing almost everything related to Japanese history (because someone at Capcom was convinced that Western audiences either couldn’t appreciate Japanese history and lore, were too stupid to figure out that this was based on history, or wouldn’t like some over-the-top whacky hack-n-slash; sales numbers proved that person or persons EXTREMELY wrong and we’ve been denied most of SB ever since), the English script is just so incredibly stupid. I love this series, and I am still completely insulted that we got this condescending mess of a localization when games like Koei’s Dynasty Warriors (of which we had gotten 5 by the time DK released) and the original Samurai Warriors (which is literally the SAME time period and names!!!) had already proven that a decent number of American and European gamers had zero issues following the story or the history, kept track of the characters just fine, and weren’t bothered by the Chinese and Japanese settings and lore. Seriously, there was no excuse for that mess.
It's not horrendous but I'm playing Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition right now & oh boy did somebody get lazy with text spacing, typos, text not matching spoken dialogue & some cultural bias
My personal honorable mention, and I mentioned this in your poll, is Spyro. The PS1 games were god damn classics. Not only do you get to play as a dragon, but the world the dragon inhabits has some of the most convenient level designs on the PS1. Bosses aside, of course. It got even better when it wasn't just remastered, but completely remade as well. And I hope that the remake we got was the same for Japan, because I truly do feel sorry for them considering their version of the PS1 games. And in this case, I'm not talking about the dialogue; that dialogue was pretty decent, as far as I can tell. Spyro did sound pretty cute. No, what they messed up was the controls. Japanese audiences were left with a fixed camera angle akin to Silent Hill probably because they couldn't handle the dynamic cameras we got. And Spyro was not made with a fixed camera in mind, let me tell you. I cannot tell how the fixed camera angles fixed the motion sickness problem considering it still swivels and gets stuck on walls. Charging around to get through levels faster just doesn't exist since your charging speed is almost the same as just walking. There seems to be more graphical errors, and they remove some of the aesthetics by not showing Spyro landing in the levels anymore. It got so bad that the third Spyro game never released on the Japanese PS1. Spyro 2 got a release, though. And it retains many of Spyro 1's issues, only there is a dynamic camera mode this time, and they added in a dragonfly virtual pet thing. So, it fared a bit better. But I only recommend looking at Japanese Spyro 1 if you're very curious. The sad thing is that Ripto, Spyro's rival, got his name from how Spyro in Japanese looks like the word Ripto. Damn shame that's the best thing it could offer.
Funny enough, Season of Ice actually had improvements in the Japanese version, such as the map system that would appear later in Season of Flame, and some sprite animation improvements and other graphical changes, mostly to stay consistent with the Japanese designs in Promotional material. The same can't be said for Spyro Orange, as it is the same as the American version details-wise, just translated to Japanese.
I don't mean to start a rumor, but maybe also because Spyro 3's subtitled "Year of the Dragon" and that pissed off some Japanese SJW who thought the devs were making too much light of a famous concept from a country that Japan owes a lot to? I dunno. And that dragonfly pet thing sounds like they were trying to compete with Sonic Adventure's Chao Garden.
I have to disagree on one case. One localization done exceptionally well with The Witcher 3. Despite being a game made in Polish, the riddle in blood and wine was translated to be wordplay in every single language. In english, you have to substitute letters. Apparently in Japanese it's a kanji pun. It's so rarely done that it highlights just how good the localization was
Undertale. They retained and adapted a lot of the wordplay to Japanese quite well and even IMPROVED Papyrus's text by writing it vertically, matching how ancient Egyptians typically wrote hieroglyphic text as a play on the actual papyrus material.
It was a kickstarted game, but Shenmue 3's localisation annoys the heck out of me as a long time fan. Plus, when I'm listening to Japanese dialogue, reading the English subtitles and saying "that's nothing like what was said!" its a pretty good sign of how bad the localisation/translation is. Aside from the diabolical English voice track, there are so many sentences that are mis translated that change the context of sentences to varying degrees - the end fight has a "humorous" exchange between Ryo and Ren (in English) that has a pretty different, more serious meaning in Japanese. Plus then you have an ending that has mistranslated dialogue and subtitles that literally makes no sense in places. Basically, the whole end of Shenmue 3 (what end wasn't cut at least) was really messy. Oh and shout out to Mega Man 7's USA translation that takes a pivatol ending scene (Mega Man pointing his buster at Wily, while saying NOTHING) to him pointing his buster at Wily straight up threatening to kill him. No wonder why fans are still asking for that dark "Zero kills everyone" game! Oh, and nice to see a couple of scenes from Yakuza 1 in the vid. I wouldn't quite say its the worst localised game out there (or even close), more of a bizarre missed opportunity with how much voice talent they had. A couple of lines actually landed better in English than the retranslation in Kiwami, to the games credit.
MM7 English had the infamous line come after Mega Man LOWERED his Buster. That's even WORSE. I suppose, considering Wily reminds Mega Man of Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics, they might've been trying to make a reason for Dr. Light to create Mega Man X-to fix personality flaws in the original Mega Man by giving him a more advanced "soul"-but FFS, let the original staff handle that. That said, either version does suggest that Mega Man is so frustrated with Wily that he ends up forgetting robotic ideals when making decisions. Perhaps Light needs to install more memory in him and teach him the Zeroth Law… Speaking of that number, that "Zero kills everyone" thing was inspired by Zero having flashbacks in MMX4 in which he appears to have done that. It wouldn't die even if everyone knew the truth behind "Die, Wily!" or the flashback; said flashback's imagery is still strong, and it seems to be genuinely and appropriately tied to Zero's past. And being able to understand the REAL dialogue as it was INTENDED to be witnessed is part of why I studied Japanese to start. I'm still not perfect at hearing it, never mind reading and understanding it, but I do know some bits and nuances such that I can be better at getting the meaning in occasional spots than some high-profile translators that focus far more on raw vocabulary than how the meaning's informed by cultural appropriation.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Agreed 100% The whole MM story for a while become unbearable as every question was simply "when's the game where they bridge the gap to X" or "when does Zero kill everyone". It got bad enough at one point that I seem to recall Inafune speaking out and saying that he was never planning for that to ever happen, with classic MM being a pretty bright and breezy series that wouldn't touch on darker topics. Then again he isn't at Capcom anymore...
@@ianbaggins5063 Didn't the same leak that outright said that Dr. Wily created Zero also say that the reason Dr. Light made X was to make a free-thinking robot uncorruptible even by airborne alien viruses? That sounds like a tie to MM8's Evil Energy. MM&B and onward could be interim games. Heck, MM10's Roboenza, goofy as the name sounds, could've been derived from leftover Evil Energy with the help of the donations that Wily got in MM9. I wonder if Legends 3 would've finally answered the question of where Duo and the Evil Energy robot came from. And if Inafune really said anything like that, it was probably knee-jerk.
It isn’t a worst localization video without Persona 1’s localization. Worst thing is, that was the version of the game that was on the PS1 Classic. It was so awful.
@@ci7210 I bet he chuckled when he found out that Dig Dug is Mr Driller's dad by looking at the comments after making a Dig Dug joke during the Mr Driller segment though.
There's a LOT that had to be done for the localization of Fire Emblem Fates, much of it was for the better (upping character ages & toning down petting, etc) but the overall handling of supports is something I STILL can't get over. Sure, some questionable supports with the child characters were removed, but the supports overall are just stuck on one singular topic instead of being about 3 different scenarios like Awakening handled it. Worst is how the supports feel like 1-2 conversations stretched across 3, which gets aggravating when that one topic is the ONLY thing they talk about. Some characters do still get good supports (Charlotte, Oboro, Felicia, Niles, Arthur, the Awakening trio) but the Saizo/Beruka C-support exists, & I can't overlook that.
@@BJGvideos I think it was either that or the B support. Also don't forget how we DIDN'T GET the DLC where the gen 1 cast interacts with their kids. Which to me is a CRIME SHAME!
Nice to see some love for Revelations Persona. I played on a live stream and it was real awkward when someone in the chat highlighted all the character changes. IF anyone's curious you can actually get it quite easily in the UK on the playstation classic mini, though it is a chore to play after Persona 4 or 5 lol
When I hear discussion on localisation, I always think of the logistics nightmare that went into localising the second Trails in the Sky game. I haven't played the game (yet, I intend to once I finish Let's Playing the first), but actually getting that game out was... quite, quite challenging, and not helped by the first translation was done in a text document, when it was needed in an excel spreadsheet. Also, as a very long-winded JRPG... there's an awful lot of text to translate.
HOLY TAR! I was about to comment that I had just recently replayed Breath of Fire 2 and wow the translation is pretty rough, but ultimately decided during the Persona segment that "nah, it isn't worth it to comment that".... ONLY TO HEAR THE BATTLE RIFF in the beginning of the next segment! Doesn't that just beat all? Special shoutout to BoF2's shamanizing system, where you fuse shamans to your characters for stat gain and transformations. The lady at the desk will ask you "You want me to explain how uniting works?" [Y/N].... and the 'Yes' and 'No' responses are actually reversed. So if she asks if you'd like an explanation and you say 'yes', it appears as if she ignores you and just says "Alright, lets get to work!" It's pretty great. Still an enjoyable game. Katt's adorable, Nina's adorable, and the game introduced both races and mechanics into the series that would become mainstays until the inevitable heat-death of Capcom's hatred for money resulting in "Breath of Fire 6" being a terrible Japan-only phone game. BoF1's translation wasn't amazing either, but nowhere near as bad as BoF2's. Still a major fan of BoF3, and hoping beyond hope Capcom will do more with the series beyond the mobile-game-hell they've thrown it into.
Leg's Go! ... Talking about the translation in Mega Man Battle Network 4! (Dammit Katrina! Stop trying to make Leg's Go a thing! Leg's Go will never be a thing!)
After watching the #4 all I have to say is Mind Blow 🤯 Looks like we were wrong about the story of Other M all thanks to the horrible English localization I respect Other M now. Thank you RabbidLuigi.
Honorary mention should go to Fire Emblem Fates. I mean, the story and character writing is already bad enough in Japanese, but good god, the English localization team somehow made it even worse.
@@eamonndeane587 The voice work was....okay at best in my opinion. Some were good, but there were a lot of shaky ones. Paula Tiso sounded too old as Camilla, EG Daily sounded super scratchy in every role she had, and Marisha Ray's voice for Effie is a disaster. It doesn't surprise me that they have not gone back to that same recording studio since Fates.
Sounds like the FE equivalent of a typical modern day Sonic game minus no one sharing any substantial abilities whatsoever for the sake of variety. God damn it, Japan: _tying everything to your culture with behaviors specially approved by that culture, pretentious imagery and Japanese wordplay does not a quality story make. Your culture is not The One Right Way. Stop impressing it where it doesn't fit._ And that goes for all weeaboos, too. -A Weeaboo
Number 1: Digimon World for the PS1. It's english only legible by people that used MSN in 2006 (becuz instead of because, etc), it actually looks like it was translated by a 13 year old blonde girl talking about her love for Justin Bieber
I actually just played it for the first time recently. II had its janky moments, but it was fun. I went to try it because of a series of videos online called “Creepy Bad Endings.”
I wish it continued. I played 2, and do want to try 4. Though I haven’t heard good things about 5 or 6. I don’t remember why 5 and 6 weren’t as good though...
Another problem is, as shown in entry #4, if translation mistakes are made by people whose native language is English, it's not immediately apparent, unless someone points them out, unlike with Engrish, which is a byproduct of people who do understand the original Japanese, but not English so much.
Last time I was this early Yahoo! Answers was still answering ... good times ... anyhoo: Can’t wait to see which games got the short end of the Translation Stick! Thanks for the new vid RabbidLuigi 💙🐱💙 P.S Would you consider a “Times Video Games rewarded you for being Good” video? Like if Leon saves the dog in RE4 said doggo will pop up to helo you in a boss fight. Or Okami, feeding all the little animals get you lots of Good Doggo Karma. Or Pokémon, Friendship and Affection are a big part of some Pokémon’s evolutions! Thanks for listening!
In the game Odin Sphere, they left the original Japanese audio intact, while using subtitles for English. You're playing as a princess and your father (the king) calls you "princess" when referring to you. There is a dramatic scene when instead of saying princess, he says "daughter", however, they still translated it as princess completely removing the emotional impact of the scene! Still a great game
I'm from Germany, and Breath of Fire 2 didn't even get a German translation. We were given the English translation instead. And back then, I was at the interesting point that I knew just enough English to understand most of the games plot and dialog, but not enough to understand that a lot of the text was a bit... weird. If my English skills back then were as good as they are now, I definitely would have noticed a lot sooner just how unpolished the translation was. Still doesn't change the fact that, apart from the translation, it's a spectacular game with awesome characters. And I wish it would get a remastered version, maybe in HD, with improved translation this time around please.
Not a translation, but one of the most nonsensical localization changes I've seen is that they replaced DBZ Trunks's sword with a stick in Dragon Ball Fusions. It's not that people who play that game have never seen the show or read the manga where Trunks uses a sword on numerous occasions..
I didn't know what localization was when I first played Breath of Fire 2, but when an NPC asks you if you have questions on how a process works, you pick Yes to know more and then their response is, "Great, let's start!" and your request is IGNORED, you know you're in for a treat.
I'm assuming what's meant is "Do you _not_ have questions?". Japanese treats negatives literally and Japanese people frequently use the negatives of verbs when asking yes-or-no questions so that "Yes" is negative and "No" is positive. Japanese frowns on direct rejection because it creates an impression of disharmony, which old-fashioned Japanese strive to avoid in literally every way. Yes, it's THAT nutty.
@@CarbonRollerCaco That's very interesting. I assumed that someone just messed it up and switched the two selections. So that's just an even bigger localization problem then switching two things around. They just did a literal translation without realizing they SHOULD switch the answers. Because if someone asks me if I have a question on something and I say YES and then I get ignored, then I'm just angry at you.
Breath of Fire 2 is still one of the best RPGs on the SNES. Depite the god awful translation, it joins the ranks of EarthBound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, and Mario RPG as a truly great. It just relies on its other aspects a little more.
One thing that people don't realize is that translation from Japanese to English also requires a decent programmer(s). The reason? You can say a lot more with fewer characters using Japanese than English. And, due to how text works in most games, a lot of the time, lines have to be added to the output in order to say everything as it was in Japanese, in English. It's normally not as simple as just a good translation.
If you can find the rom for Pokémon Diamond on GBC, then that’s super Hispaniola too. Idk what game it’s supposed to be actually but the dialogue is amazing
You know, there's a certain game that's known to crash during a certain boss in the English version that wasn't a problem in the Japanese version. I forget what game it was, exactly, though, I think Ars Technica or something? I knew either it would be in this video or the comments would go crazy about it. That, or Final Fantasy 8 making Squall seem way more edgy and somehow even more aloof instead of a kind of "standard teen apprehension to being a miitary leader"?. Mostly because I've seen basically this video before, although it may have been from another channel... So anyway it's really weird to see neither of these in the video *or* any of the top comments. The *pinnacle* of bad localization, or at least translation, to me, though is...not actually that bad in terms of "ruining the localization", but still the pinnacle in the sense that it's probably the most common "weird translation" I've seen? So you take the fairly common sentiment of "Be careful," whatever that happens to be in Japanese, and turn it into the somehow technically correct but never used phrasing of "Have a care." "Have a care", not "take care", not even like "have care" like you might say "have fun", but "Have a care" like a "care" is a physical thing that you can pick up and keep in your possession. There was a game I played a while back, where I didn't really notice any other translation issues, but that phrase kept turning up over and over again. I'd say minimum 5 times per chapter, and the game had 5 chapters. And while I kind of understood it by context, it wasn't until like the 7th or 8th time it was used that I finally understood "oh, they were translating 'be careful.'" And ever since then I've actually noticed it turn up again in like 3-4 other games or other media sources that otherwise had no real noticeable translation issues.
As a doctor, every time there's a Keeps sponsorship, I feel obligated to tell men to not overpay for their services. Just ask your physician for Finasteride 5mg (one quarter of a pill daily). It's what Keeps would prescribe you, but you're going to pay cents per pill instead of the ridiculous price of the 1mg pill plus their consultation fee.
So keeps is good?
@@I_couldnt_use_ram_as_my_handle No, just ask your physician to prescribe you the pill. This way you don't have to pay Keeps' outrageous fees. They advertise their services as if they can offer something special, whereas any general practitioner can do the same.
(Not sure if it was sarcasm, preferred to err on the side of caution.)
Fuck that. Embrace the inevitable and shave your head the moment it starts thinning. Use that time to get used to having a bald head and learn how to own it.
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor Except it's only inevitable if you do nothing about it. The pill stops the hair loss dead in its track.
@@PsychOsmosis Yeah but I am not particularly interested in those side effects. Fuck getting man boobs, I'd rather accept the inevitable, shave it off as soon as it begins and grow a chopper moustache and get a Harley.
As a professional translator, thank you for this acknowledgement. So many people think that merely speaking two langages is qualification enough to be a translator....
I can see that being a stigma. Translation would require intimate knowledge of both languages in terms of grammar as well as vocabulary. I can barely keep up acceptable grammar with my one language: translators are talented!
@@hellfrozenphoenix13In my province, you are required to do at least a Major (so 2 years of full time universality) to he allowed to call yourself a translator. And although I don't work in localization, I did take a localization class and believe me, it's hardcore!
@@hellfrozenphoenix13 And it's not just grammar and vocabulary. You need to have a good grasp of idioms and speech patterns and other such proclivities of each language. I've seen some translations that were all technically correct, but extremely stilted because all the character got sucked out by being a literal translation.
I'm personally bilingual, but I never got how some people can translate between languages so easily. I have a hard time doing it because my thinking "switches" depending on the language I'm talking in, which leads me to knowing words, but just not being able to translate them well. I have a lot of respect for translators out there, and really impressed by their abilities. Good work out there!
@@Rogeryoo So its like a child who can sing the alphabet, but doesn't know what the song means?
Here are some suggestions: Games Screwed by Executive Meddling and Worst RPG Party Members.
That first list would need to be like 500 entries long.
Xenosaga easily takes the top spot of that first list.
Why not games that have been screwed by both at the same time? Sure, you'd have to dig deeper to find that sort of combo, but it's worth it.
Porky from Earthbound?
@@Megamean09 At least half of the entries would be from Sega, EA and Bioware.
Within a fan translation of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, the villain Kempf sets a trap for the main hero by locking him in a fort and shooting at him with Ballistae. He needed a filler text line to talk about him locking the gate, so the translators put "In America!" This was a reference to Yu Gi Oh abridged where Bandit Keith would add "In America" after all of his lines. The meme stuck, and now this random villian has been stained with the American flag for as long as he lives, even after we've gotten a better fan translation.
I wonder if that means Kempf is actually Canadian...
He also calls a character a bitch from a clip I’ve seen which is certainly something of note.
@@loftwingheropon2743 Did he actually say "temee" or just "kisama" then? Not that it really matters; "bitch" sounds over the top for a classical-styled medieval fantasy series like Fire Emblem.
Theory...the translators misunderstood and DID some Vietnamese Crystal.
should've included all localizations of metal gear solid save for the english one.
they were all so bad that hideo kojima decided to just stick with japanese and english from then on, the german one for example has plenty of grammatical errors and cases of "nobody talks like that" (as if someone just dumped the script into google translate except that didn't exist yet) as well voice acting that sounds like they just had random employees reading the lines instead of hiring actual voice actors.
Don't you dare tell me Kermit Liquid wasn't iconic
Oh how I loved the German Solid Snake. He sounded like He was constantly pressing to get out a huuuuge dump 🤣
At very least the German dub was hilarious funny-bad so it turned into a cult classic in the German MGS fandom and not awful-bad like the German Grandia dub lol
@@Frog_24_ shit don't remind me.
In my day, we had Babelfish.
What makes Other M’s localization even worse is that Sakamoto, who doesn’t speak English, oversaw and directed the English voice dubbing.
To use a line from Star Wars Droid Tales "BIG RED FLAGS!"
That is probably the only thing he did wrong because the story of Other M was actually good.
He deserves an apology.
@@meganinten0078 May I remind you that the Deleter's identity had to be revealed in an Other M strategy guide, because they killed him off and never resolved that plotline in the game. And that the Varia suit sequence still has the same problem of completely undermining Samus as a character. And that Samus having any reaction beyond "god dammit, how" to Ridley appearing makes little to no sense. Just because Other M got a botched localization doesn't make the base story any better
@@Druid-T I recomend you watching Lexicon Lookout video about the differences between the japanese script and the english script.
Samus was actually well written.
@@meganinten0078 A. Did you intentionally ignore my point about the Deleter, or?
B. Saying Samus was "well-written" (she wasn't, but not the main point), doesn't do anything to dismiss the fact that she willingly entered a hostile environment without the proper protection. Or the fact that the entire visual metaphor (which are Lexicon's words, by the way) sequence using Ridley only works if you discard the fact that this is the third time he's been resurrected, his return isn't an issue of Samus being weak it's an issue of Ridley not knowing when to stay dead. Again, even if Other M didn't get a botched localization, it still would not have been a good story
Important knowledge: For a competent translation, one always translates TO their native language. Even if you are great at it, a little bit of Zero Wing may always happen if you do it the other way around.
to be fair there are people out there whose second/third/etc languages are at a near-native level, which i think would be good for translation too. english is my second language, and i dont think i would have too much trouble translating something from my first language to english, and have it sound reasonable
@@zelenpixel
Writing instructions for a 2D platformer? Sure. Translating an epic novel? Nope.
Even better, have at least two people, one a native speaker of each language involved and also at least competent in the other.
@@Alias_Anybody Depends of the languages, I have done some translation work about scientific texts, from My native language to English, and that is simpler than the other way around, English is kinda dumb but simple, spanish is much better for many, many things but so damn complicated. I could translate an entire novel with no Big issues from spanish to English, the opposite would not be that different but I would have to take much longer for the proof reading.
As a TF2 fan, all I can think of when seeing "Localization" is "Updated Localization files"
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist is also a sight to behold in German. The game's text was obviously translated from English and it reads like a machine translation that has no idea about idioms or where to put commas. Sentences also tend to not make a whole lot of sense or just end abruptly, but there are no spelling errors, leading to the conclusion that is feels like a bad machine-translation.
Fun fact about Breath of fire 2
Some text is flat out bugged. That's not an exaggeration
This is 100 percent spot on.
Yess brilliant. Good after the disappointing square enix show.
But are you going to kill Chaos?
@@SylentVoidkeeper I don't know if I will.
When Rabbid started talking about if you've watched his channel, I was like how the hell is Spec Ops The Line in this video?
Topic Idea: Top 5 Silent Protagonists
I'd like to nominate Madotsuki from Yume Nikki. She doesn't say anything in-game, but there's so much backstory you can get from her character based on her dreams.
Doom Slayer from Doom, he very rarely speaks, but instead he shows his personality through actions. Take for example the first time he has to remove a cell from a facility, Hayden is telling him how important they are and why he shouldnt mess with them while the Slayer is looking for a button, switch or something to disconnect the cell, but when he realizes theres none he just decides to rip it off.
Gordon Freeman is the poster child of voiceless protagonists, or even Chell, cause it is a reoccurring topic in game.
I've recently played three games where the spanish translation drove me up a wall. The most recent was SMT Nocturne, which is generally fine except for certain in universe terms translated with the wrong definition of the english word, such as Hell Exhaust now referring to someone who is tired instead (despite the fact that it is Hell Biker's signature move and spits out exhaust). Next there's Ys Origins, where they mistakenly translate Boost as pushing and the names of the extra modes are incomprehensible: the Arena mode now has a name that tells me nothing about it despite most games translating it as "Coliseo" or leaving it untranslated; Speedrun mode is now just Speed mode; and Time Attack (which is made even more confusing by the existence of Speedrun mode, but it actually refers to beating bosses as fast as possible as opposed to the whole game) is translated as if Time refered to an actual entity that is literally attacking. Finally there's Shantae and the Seven Sirens, which botched menus so bad that the first thing I did was go to the options menu to switch to english and never change it back.
Man I wonder if there is a Japanese YTer talking about badly localized western games.
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment was released on the PS1 in the US, and thankfully, that translation is much better. P2 characters keep their names, but P1 characters have their Revelations names. It’s not perfect, but the story and locations are intact.
All your base are belong to us!
Classic
One of the best classic memes right there
When I heard the music for number 5, I immediately started hearing "Move Zig Move Zig Move Zig Move Zig".
WHAT YOU SAY!!
Base
Base
Base
All your base
Are belong to us
The opening montage reminded me of Ys 8's terrible first translation, which was shocking because it was handled by people that usually do a great job of translating (NIS America), though they did go the extra mile and completely fix all the text in the game in a later update, as well as redubbing most lines. Still a mystery to me as to how that first translation happened...
I'm glad to have the physical copies, so I can play that broken translation any time I want to.
That's in my gaming backlog....ooooh can't wait!
@@OneTrueBelmont "the big hole." Will make you lol every time.
NISA is usually great, but they seem to have problems with plurals. Like they don't have the corresponding scene with the dialogue and just go with the singular because that and the plural are identical in Japanese.
Wait, so they were essentially trying to metaphorically make Samus as samurai but they screwed it up?
IKR!
I went to watch the video made by Lexicon Lookout and I was like 'Mind Blow'
Looks like we were wrong about the story of Other M all this time.
Which was kinda inevitable since it made no sense for her to be one, even metaphorically.
@@Llortnerof Unless she was supposed to be a ronin or something? But that imagery is out of place in such a Western-flavored franchise.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Even that wouldn't have made much sense, given her backstory. She was trained to fight solo on purpose, after all, on top of it not making sense for the styling in general. Her depiction in the Prime series makes a lot more practical sense.
@@Llortnerof I heard Sakamoto was a latecomer into the original FamiDisc Metroid's development. Would make sense for someone who doesn't actually "get" Metroid.
Oh gosh, that Persona 1 Music was like a brick to the face, I wasn't expecting it...
Yeah, I was one of the people who actually played the PSP Persona 1! I actually like it a lot!
Not enough to recommend people *play it* though, unless you like clunky dungeon crawler rpgs with weird mechanics but interesting stories.
Loved playing it once, but there are only so many times a man can stand random encounters and the first few notes of Lone Prayer before losing their mind. One playthrough did it for me.
@@Chocolatepicklesauce God, RIGHT? And then you get to the final boss and it turns out OUT OF ALL YOUR HIGHLEVEL PERSONA/CHARACTERS ONLY MARK CAN MAKE A DENT IN THE BOSS. Mark, who due to a quirk of the EXP system, is a lower level than everyone else.
I also managed to get through the first part of the Snow Queen quest- I beat Tartarus first in that 2 hour time deadline. It was hell, but I did it.
Hears those 3 notes*
Me: “oh he’s talking about breath of fire.”
Number 1: Mother 3, it’s localization is so terrible it doesn’t exist.
Not officially, that is...
@@InsomniacFlaaffy Black market localization.
@@justaduck3615 that makes since.
@@justaduck3615 Personally I think that Mother 3 has one of the Best Fan translations ever made.
@@eamonndeane587 It does, BUT I WANT SOMEONE *Glares at Nintendo* to put it on consoles.
For "translations that changed the original material fundamentally", I'm going to throw a darkhorse vote to Fire Emblem: Three Houses for a death of a thousand cuts. The Treehouse team, for whatever reason they deemed fit, minimised much of the symbolism around Crimson Flower, flattened Claude's characterisation, and polished Dimitri up a tad. This isn't one *big* thing, just a lot of little notes.
Yeah I've heard about a few things here and there through fan fiction of all places. Annette being threatened with being married off to someone who'd mistreat her if she didn't behave and perform well, Ionius wanting to end Adrestia's consort practice which lead up to the Insurrection of the Seven....always shocked when I hear about that, because 3H isn't egregiously bad like Fates was.
Drakhen for SNES.
Translation so off that the english version has an entirely different (though still coherent) plot.
"If you don't hurry I'm going to begin the Salad Toss Show!"
This is awesome COMEDY GOLD!😁
There are two games from the same studio I remember not necessarily having a bad localization, but some slightly iffy word choices. Beyond Good And Evil and Rayman Raving Rabbids, both games developed and released by Ubisoft Montpellier, were on the whole, translated pretty well into English. The one thing that sticks out in my mind, though, is that in some cases the games were tripped up by synonyms.
In the menus of both games, for instance, the X button (going off of the PS2 releases in both instances) was not the 'confirm' button, it was the 'validate' button. Additionally, if spotted by the Alpha Section troops in Beyond Good And Evil, when they deployed the gatling laser onto your last known location, such a request was 'accorded' rather than 'granted' or 'acknowledged' (my guess is the original French was d'accord, meaning OK). You can still glean the intended meaning, but it does make for some mild head-scratching the first time you see or hear them.
gotta shoutout Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn because for some reason the localisation team decided to translate ONLY the super barebones "easy mode" script meant for people new to story driven games meaning we missed out on the actual script which had a lot more interesting character stuff.
Wow didn’t know that tidbit. Which makes the fact that we never even got easy mode to begin with, since our “easy” is the equivalent to Japan’s “normal,” even funnier.
You'd think that a casual mode would allow the full story regardless.
I will turn this video into a convertible.
LESSSS GOOOO
Not into a camper?
Zero Wing's English localization is so famous it named at least two tropes on the site TV Tropes. Somebody Set Us Up The Bomb and of course All Your Base Are Belong To Us.
Top 5 Games With Amazing Localization. Zero Wing is disqualified due to it being terrible no matter how entertaining it is.
Megaman Battle Network 4 is a standout miss on this list... that game is one of the best selling games on the GBA and has a localization that is just the absolute worst. Spelling errors, typos (Leg's go, Megaman) and poor word choices mar the game.. just as much as the poor choices made in developing the game do.
"It's a viruses!"
“What a polite young man she was.”
I always took Samus in Metroid Other M as an accurate portrayal of the ultimate badass brought to their knees by the one thing they thought they escaped.
Their own past.
Adam showed this off by having Samus be a lot more of a soldier than a bounty hunter, bringing her down to a more humble skillset in a believable way.
The infamous Ridley freeze up?
That was the FIRST time she had seen Ridley in that exact form since she was a child when he and the Space Pirates first attacked her home colony. So she was literally STARING into the very REASON she was the badass she is, in the form that utterly TERRIFIED her, and SCARRED her for LIFE.
No, not temporarily.
SHE NEVER GOT OVER IT.
Good comment.
The localization really ruined the story of Other M
"That was the FIRST time she had seen Ridley in that exact form since she was a child" not even close. The first time she saw Ridley after her childhood was the first time she went back to Zebes in Metroid 1/Zero Mission. Then she fought him several more times over the Prime Trilogy, and AGAIN on Zebes in Super. In terms of actual boss fights, this is like Ridley's 6th appearance. And Ridley showing up in Samus Returns retroactively makes Other M even worse. Even if we only count "that exact form", this is still the third time she's seen Ridley.
@@jedimasterpickle3 I think Sakamoto had a vendetta against the Prime games or some shit. Foreign-made? Even though Metroid before them was already deliberately Western-flavored? That could explain all the Japanesesque imagery. Maybe he was some xenophobe trying hard to market the series to Japan. Shiro Maekawa did similar shit when writing for 2000s Sonic.
Then again, that "exact form" of Ridley could've been what was necessary to set off Samus's PTSD as it specifically was associated with the most terrifying moment of her life. Too bad MOM's story as a whole was done so pretentiously and implausibly even if the base elements are sound.
@@meganinten0078 "Ruined" implies the original story wasn't already a ruin.
Thankfully, Sakurai had her get over it in Ridley's Smash reveal; ZSS was PISSED there.
As a video game translator I admire the respect for the usually thankless craft in this video. If you see a bad localisation of a game, I can guarantee you it's because either:
- There wasn't enough time
- There wasn't enough money
- There wasn't enough communication between the devs and the translators
- All of the above
Not necessarily. Sometimes scriptwriters deliberately punch up the translation with slang and/or humor, and that has a lot of opportunity to go wrong. And, of course, there's localization that alters the script to "shield the natives" from "naughty" foreign references. In both cases, the original creators and/or marketers can agree with it or not.
Yep, I already knew that game on the thumbnail would land a spot on this list lol. It’s turning a game with an already pretty weak script into a terrible one due to piss-poor localization.
And even if I still overall enjoyed it, FE Fates has a pretty weak localization overall due to changing plenty of the support dialogue or even the characters’s whole personalities. Of course, Fates already has plenty of writing issues even in the OG script, but I still believe it had some really great characters, so it’s a shame Nintendo Treehouse had to dumb them down for zero reasons.
They had their chance to make things right with the rerelease on switch, but since they used the western version as the base, it sold poorly in both Japan and the west. They even had to hand out refunds for those who preordered the game thinking that it was going to be uncensored.
if I don't see zero wing on this list, I am going to have a huge disappoint.
You have no chance to survive make your time
All your base are belong to us.
HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN… !!
Main screen turn on and watch video.
I’m gonna see if Persona 1 makes it
Edit: ayy
honorary mention should go to the gba version of tales of phantasia which is already vastly inferior to the other versions of the game, but the english translation takes it up with such iconic lines as "it is known to us as kangaroo" where the original line is "it is known to us as the ragnarok war." we also have bad voice acting which is EVEN FUNNIER with the audio compression of the gba
The entire GBA port is a train wreck. I was a dumb, young kid who bought it and struggled through how dang slow it was. I still beat it somehow but never again. Never again.
the original FFVII english translation had a lot of issues. The plot was considered too complex and they believed that English speaking gamers would be that invested. A lot of plot points are altered/ simplified/ not thoroughly explained. I’ll hold back from details to avoid any spoilers for the new games, but the changes are rather significant and can be easily googled. Also there’s lots of fun goofs like the famous “This guy are sick”.
"Attack when its tail's up! It'll counter with its laser."
And that's a GOOD thing?
Suikoden 2 definitely deserves an honorable mention, what with it's very frequent spelling and grammar mistakes, mispelling of item names such as the Circlet being called the Circuret, and Stallion's unique rune being called True Holy, implying that he somehow got a true rune when that's definitely not the case.
At first I was confused when I saw Tales of Berseria in the opening montage but then I remembered how weirdly inconsistent that game's script could get, where what's being said doesn't at all match up with what's being written.
Or just, you know, many typos.
Sounds like I didn't miss much skipping out on that game.
@@MrSentinel07 Its a good game though!
And FWIW, those issues, while noticeable when they pop up, arent really that common. In fact the first half of the game is basically devoid of them.
@@MrSentinel07 it's a fantastic game! The subtitles are just wonky late in the game
Thank you for at least keeping like a slight reference to Treehouse's butchering of Fire Emblem Fates with the music at the start. The Japanese version is like a 6/10 but Treehouse managed to turn it into a 4. Wonder if that's why the teams started working closer for Three Houses to avoid a repeat. (Even if 3H has its own problems, but it wasn't Fates levels of bad.)
... I notice how I keep mentioning Fates when I comment on your channel at times. Hm
Top 10/5 games, where you are not the protagonist
I.e you are in a more supportive role rather than the main character
@@BJGvideos Yeah, something like that for example
Are you going to do a let's play of the next mario and rabbids game rabbidluigi?
I would say the Sonic adventure 1 and 2 are great examples of terrible localizations. I just recently watched the cutscenes for the games in english subtitles by a youtuber named Windii Gitlord. Long story short, the english localization butchered a lot of the dialogue and characterizations, especially in adventure 1.
To be fair, Sonic was characterized differently in Japan vs everywhere else pre Sonic Adventure. They way some of the shows and comics made Sonic were carried over to the translation. It's all entirely due to how Sega of Japan and Sega of America didn't communicate. It's more complicated than mis-characterization
I'd say SA1 got IMPROVED. The Japanese version had rather flat dialogue, and the English version largely either conveys the same ideas with different wording or replaces things that were already obvious from how the scene action plays out with new dialogue clarifying some bits. SA2 and Heroes, though, outright got plot points and even some jokes mangled to Hell.
And Windii also translated the Japanese Sonic game manual stories for Sonic Retro, though they warn that such translations may be too literal to make sense in English.
@@absollum Japan had the right lore, but too mild an attitude. America conveyed a more sardonic attitude for Sonic and his friends, but had the worse lore, though it did come up with "The" and "Robotnik" that the games adopted. I'd say the SA1 localization is a good halfway meet of personalities: sassy but also knowing when to stop joking around.
I am kinda glad you brought up stuff like how old translations were done by Japanese natives which explained it rather than just laughed and mocked
Really teasing me with all those clips of the first Yakuza game - a localization so poor that for every future game for the next 15 years they simply didn't bother making an English dub until they decided to appeal to a new audience with a different protagonist and style of gameplay. That being said it was ballsy as hell to bring back Kiryu's original voice actor but actually give him some good voice direction this time that makes him a perfect fit for the role; a hell of a gamble that actually paid off.
"Tales of Berseria"
Gonna need some context on that one buddy.
I was confused too, so I looked up 'Berseria localization' - and got reminded of just how many typos there are in various side stuff late-game. Personally, I'm not certain that's a localization problem, but SOMETHING definitely went wrong.
@@iansynge7656 not just typos. A bunch of the skits even before postgame don't have the in-game text match up with the voiced lines. What makes this even more baffling is they never made a patch to change the text to match after the game launched either.
Sad Megaman Battle Network 4 wasn't on here, as it fits pretty squarely with some of the other entries here, with highlights such as:
* "There's so many electrical store!"
* "Leg's go!"
* "What a polite young man she was."
* "A giant figure of an elephant in a giant elephant figure"
* What looks like a find and replace changing every use of the singular "virus" to the plural "viruses" (e.g. Look! It's a viruses!)
* Missing action notation so a character smiling might look like they literally say "Grin"
* A mechanic in the final dungeon that requires you to mash A rapidly to escape; the only thing the game tells you is "Careful, Megaman!"
* The final boss scans Megaman for evil by saying "Boo!"
The game has other structural issues, and it's hard to tell how much of this is actually the localization's fault, but what I can say is the localization did it absolutely no favors.
Have you ever done anything like "worst mandatory mini-games"? You know, when the game doesn't let you progress until completing some mini-game with bad controls, or one that just isn't fun? That could be interesting.
Black and White 2 have that “Pokémon studios” thing you have to do before progressing. I never found it interesting and it only served as a roadblock in my Pokémon game : /
Here is a little example of bad localization.
At the end of the King of Fighters 97, it is very common that everyone who played that game knows the New Faces Team (Yashiro, Shermie and Chris) died when they sacrificed to bring back Orochi but that is only in the western version of the game because the dialogue in the Japanese version was different.
The New Faces Team never died, instead their souls ended up sealed with Orochi at the end of the game.
That was the canon in Japan for many years until the current SNK staff finally accepted the canon of the western version confirming now that Yashiro, Shermie and Chris have revived.
In other words they made a retcon in the story.
It wouldn't be the first time SNK makes retcons like these, for example the case with K9999, a character who was erased from the canon because the actual SNK hates the poor bastard.
I guess the thought the West wasn't ready for wack occult shit like that.
Kind of hope Breath of Fire 2 is on here.
Edit: Good... good.
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Frank Giong forgives you, Rabbid.
Also, congrats on the new game!! Going to space now, it seems.
Devil Kings/Sengoku Basara deserves a spot on here. I mean, aside from trying to tie it to Devil May Cry, making it significantly darker and more fantasy-based, screwing up the story/ies, changing EVERYBODY’S names, and removing almost everything related to Japanese history (because someone at Capcom was convinced that Western audiences either couldn’t appreciate Japanese history and lore, were too stupid to figure out that this was based on history, or wouldn’t like some over-the-top whacky hack-n-slash; sales numbers proved that person or persons EXTREMELY wrong and we’ve been denied most of SB ever since), the English script is just so incredibly stupid. I love this series, and I am still completely insulted that we got this condescending mess of a localization when games like Koei’s Dynasty Warriors (of which we had gotten 5 by the time DK released) and the original Samurai Warriors (which is literally the SAME time period and names!!!) had already proven that a decent number of American and European gamers had zero issues following the story or the history, kept track of the characters just fine, and weren’t bothered by the Chinese and Japanese settings and lore. Seriously, there was no excuse for that mess.
It's not horrendous but I'm playing Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition right now & oh boy did somebody get lazy with text spacing, typos, text not matching spoken dialogue & some cultural bias
My personal honorable mention, and I mentioned this in your poll, is Spyro. The PS1 games were god damn classics. Not only do you get to play as a dragon, but the world the dragon inhabits has some of the most convenient level designs on the PS1. Bosses aside, of course. It got even better when it wasn't just remastered, but completely remade as well. And I hope that the remake we got was the same for Japan, because I truly do feel sorry for them considering their version of the PS1 games. And in this case, I'm not talking about the dialogue; that dialogue was pretty decent, as far as I can tell. Spyro did sound pretty cute. No, what they messed up was the controls. Japanese audiences were left with a fixed camera angle akin to Silent Hill probably because they couldn't handle the dynamic cameras we got. And Spyro was not made with a fixed camera in mind, let me tell you. I cannot tell how the fixed camera angles fixed the motion sickness problem considering it still swivels and gets stuck on walls. Charging around to get through levels faster just doesn't exist since your charging speed is almost the same as just walking. There seems to be more graphical errors, and they remove some of the aesthetics by not showing Spyro landing in the levels anymore. It got so bad that the third Spyro game never released on the Japanese PS1. Spyro 2 got a release, though. And it retains many of Spyro 1's issues, only there is a dynamic camera mode this time, and they added in a dragonfly virtual pet thing. So, it fared a bit better. But I only recommend looking at Japanese Spyro 1 if you're very curious. The sad thing is that Ripto, Spyro's rival, got his name from how Spyro in Japanese looks like the word Ripto. Damn shame that's the best thing it could offer.
Funny enough, Season of Ice actually had improvements in the Japanese version, such as the map system that would appear later in Season of Flame, and some sprite animation improvements and other graphical changes, mostly to stay consistent with the Japanese designs in Promotional material.
The same can't be said for Spyro Orange, as it is the same as the American version details-wise, just translated to Japanese.
@@X2011racer Well that Spyro Orange game was objectively bad across the board, so I don't think there's much you can do to make it worse. Heh
I don't mean to start a rumor, but maybe also because Spyro 3's subtitled "Year of the Dragon" and that pissed off some Japanese SJW who thought the devs were making too much light of a famous concept from a country that Japan owes a lot to? I dunno.
And that dragonfly pet thing sounds like they were trying to compete with Sonic Adventure's Chao Garden.
I have to disagree on one case. One localization done exceptionally well with The Witcher 3. Despite being a game made in Polish, the riddle in blood and wine was translated to be wordplay in every single language. In english, you have to substitute letters. Apparently in Japanese it's a kanji pun. It's so rarely done that it highlights just how good the localization was
Undertale. They retained and adapted a lot of the wordplay to Japanese quite well and even IMPROVED Papyrus's text by writing it vertically, matching how ancient Egyptians typically wrote hieroglyphic text as a play on the actual papyrus material.
It was a kickstarted game, but Shenmue 3's localisation annoys the heck out of me as a long time fan. Plus, when I'm listening to Japanese dialogue, reading the English subtitles and saying "that's nothing like what was said!" its a pretty good sign of how bad the localisation/translation is. Aside from the diabolical English voice track, there are so many sentences that are mis translated that change the context of sentences to varying degrees - the end fight has a "humorous" exchange between Ryo and Ren (in English) that has a pretty different, more serious meaning in Japanese.
Plus then you have an ending that has mistranslated dialogue and subtitles that literally makes no sense in places. Basically, the whole end of Shenmue 3 (what end wasn't cut at least) was really messy.
Oh and shout out to Mega Man 7's USA translation that takes a pivatol ending scene (Mega Man pointing his buster at Wily, while saying NOTHING) to him pointing his buster at Wily straight up threatening to kill him. No wonder why fans are still asking for that dark "Zero kills everyone" game!
Oh, and nice to see a couple of scenes from Yakuza 1 in the vid. I wouldn't quite say its the worst localised game out there (or even close), more of a bizarre missed opportunity with how much voice talent they had. A couple of lines actually landed better in English than the retranslation in Kiwami, to the games credit.
MM7 English had the infamous line come after Mega Man LOWERED his Buster. That's even WORSE. I suppose, considering Wily reminds Mega Man of Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics, they might've been trying to make a reason for Dr. Light to create Mega Man X-to fix personality flaws in the original Mega Man by giving him a more advanced "soul"-but FFS, let the original staff handle that. That said, either version does suggest that Mega Man is so frustrated with Wily that he ends up forgetting robotic ideals when making decisions. Perhaps Light needs to install more memory in him and teach him the Zeroth Law…
Speaking of that number, that "Zero kills everyone" thing was inspired by Zero having flashbacks in MMX4 in which he appears to have done that. It wouldn't die even if everyone knew the truth behind "Die, Wily!" or the flashback; said flashback's imagery is still strong, and it seems to be genuinely and appropriately tied to Zero's past.
And being able to understand the REAL dialogue as it was INTENDED to be witnessed is part of why I studied Japanese to start. I'm still not perfect at hearing it, never mind reading and understanding it, but I do know some bits and nuances such that I can be better at getting the meaning in occasional spots than some high-profile translators that focus far more on raw vocabulary than how the meaning's informed by cultural appropriation.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Agreed 100% The whole MM story for a while become unbearable as every question was simply "when's the game where they bridge the gap to X" or "when does Zero kill everyone". It got bad enough at one point that I seem to recall Inafune speaking out and saying that he was never planning for that to ever happen, with classic MM being a pretty bright and breezy series that wouldn't touch on darker topics. Then again he isn't at Capcom anymore...
@@ianbaggins5063 Didn't the same leak that outright said that Dr. Wily created Zero also say that the reason Dr. Light made X was to make a free-thinking robot uncorruptible even by airborne alien viruses? That sounds like a tie to MM8's Evil Energy. MM&B and onward could be interim games. Heck, MM10's Roboenza, goofy as the name sounds, could've been derived from leftover Evil Energy with the help of the donations that Wily got in MM9. I wonder if Legends 3 would've finally answered the question of where Duo and the Evil Energy robot came from.
And if Inafune really said anything like that, it was probably knee-jerk.
It isn’t a worst localization video without Persona 1’s localization. Worst thing is, that was the version of the game that was on the PS1 Classic. It was so awful.
Damn the version Caddicarus played a little bit of for the PS1 Classic video
@@ci7210 I bet he chuckled when he found out that Dig Dug is Mr Driller's dad by looking at the comments after making a Dig Dug joke during the Mr Driller segment though.
There's a LOT that had to be done for the localization of Fire Emblem Fates, much of it was for the better (upping character ages & toning down petting, etc) but the overall handling of supports is something I STILL can't get over. Sure, some questionable supports with the child characters were removed, but the supports overall are just stuck on one singular topic instead of being about 3 different scenarios like Awakening handled it. Worst is how the supports feel like 1-2 conversations stretched across 3, which gets aggravating when that one topic is the ONLY thing they talk about. Some characters do still get good supports (Charlotte, Oboro, Felicia, Niles, Arthur, the Awakening trio) but the Saizo/Beruka C-support exists, & I can't overlook that.
@@BJGvideos I think it was either that or the B support. Also don't forget how we DIDN'T GET the DLC where the gen 1 cast interacts with their kids. Which to me is a CRIME SHAME!
I love that little clip of Yakuza 1 where Majima is beating a guy, the dub was bad but charming
Exactly. How can you not love Mark Hamill as Majima?
That Vietnamese crystal translation gives me the same vibe as the Duwang translation of jjba part 4
Nice to see some love for Revelations Persona. I played on a live stream and it was real awkward when someone in the chat highlighted all the character changes. IF anyone's curious you can actually get it quite easily in the UK on the playstation classic mini, though it is a chore to play after Persona 4 or 5 lol
This video having many great of the good. The entry of the 1 having amount of laughable word phrases of fuck weird. Job is good ass, Rabbit Lounge!
When I hear discussion on localisation, I always think of the logistics nightmare that went into localising the second Trails in the Sky game.
I haven't played the game (yet, I intend to once I finish Let's Playing the first), but actually getting that game out was... quite, quite challenging, and not helped by the first translation was done in a text document, when it was needed in an excel spreadsheet.
Also, as a very long-winded JRPG... there's an awful lot of text to translate.
It got so bad the main localizer even attempted suicide...... he was saved, thankfully, but yeah........
HOLY TAR! I was about to comment that I had just recently replayed Breath of Fire 2 and wow the translation is pretty rough, but ultimately decided during the Persona segment that "nah, it isn't worth it to comment that".... ONLY TO HEAR THE BATTLE RIFF in the beginning of the next segment! Doesn't that just beat all? Special shoutout to BoF2's shamanizing system, where you fuse shamans to your characters for stat gain and transformations. The lady at the desk will ask you "You want me to explain how uniting works?" [Y/N].... and the 'Yes' and 'No' responses are actually reversed. So if she asks if you'd like an explanation and you say 'yes', it appears as if she ignores you and just says "Alright, lets get to work!" It's pretty great. Still an enjoyable game. Katt's adorable, Nina's adorable, and the game introduced both races and mechanics into the series that would become mainstays until the inevitable heat-death of Capcom's hatred for money resulting in "Breath of Fire 6" being a terrible Japan-only phone game.
BoF1's translation wasn't amazing either, but nowhere near as bad as BoF2's. Still a major fan of BoF3, and hoping beyond hope Capcom will do more with the series beyond the mobile-game-hell they've thrown it into.
15:25 Did anybody catch that freeze frame? Lol
15:26
I saw that picture, man. What the hell.
15:26 best part of pokemon right tgere
Leg's Go!
... Talking about the translation in Mega Man Battle Network 4!
(Dammit Katrina! Stop trying to make Leg's Go a thing! Leg's Go will never be a thing!)
Yo rabid that transition to the ad was smooth
You didn't mention the Hyperdimension Neptunia series. There are entire paragraphs of spoken dialog with no translations at all
Now I just feel kind of sad that Other M has this train wreck of a legacy.
After watching the #4 all I have to say is
Mind Blow 🤯
Looks like we were wrong about the story of Other M all thanks to the horrible English localization
I respect Other M now.
Thank you RabbidLuigi.
I kind of feel sorry for it. But I don't know if I should hate it less or more
"Why the drug bag fuck not." - Rabbidluigi 2021
Honorary mention should go to Fire Emblem Fates. I mean, the story and character writing is already bad enough in Japanese, but good god, the English localization team somehow made it even worse.
The Voice work is solid though. I especially love Rena Strober's enchanting singing voice for Azura.
@@eamonndeane587 The voice work was....okay at best in my opinion.
Some were good, but there were a lot of shaky ones. Paula Tiso sounded too old as Camilla, EG Daily sounded super scratchy in every role she had, and Marisha Ray's voice for Effie is a disaster.
It doesn't surprise me that they have not gone back to that same recording studio since Fates.
@@MrSentinel07 EG Daily ALWAYS sounds scratchy.
Sounds like the FE equivalent of a typical modern day Sonic game minus no one sharing any substantial abilities whatsoever for the sake of variety. God damn it, Japan: _tying everything to your culture with behaviors specially approved by that culture, pretentious imagery and Japanese wordplay does not a quality story make. Your culture is not The One Right Way. Stop impressing it where it doesn't fit._ And that goes for all weeaboos, too.
-A Weeaboo
@@MrSentinel07 Peri's voice in Japanese is more childish than EG Daily.
Number 1: Digimon World for the PS1. It's english only legible by people that used MSN in 2006 (becuz instead of because, etc), it actually looks like it was translated by a 13 year old blonde girl talking about her love for Justin Bieber
I was somehow suprised about p1 being on where
At least there still people who knows that Breath of Fire exist xD
I actually just played it for the first time recently. II had its janky moments, but it was fun. I went to try it because of a series of videos online called “Creepy Bad Endings.”
Those games were so fun, even for someone who didn't have much experience with RPGs. Such a shame they killed the series.
I wish it continued. I played 2, and do want to try 4. Though I haven’t heard good things about 5 or 6. I don’t remember why 5 and 6 weren’t as good though...
Whoisthisgit’s BoF2 videos still hold special places in my heart.
Top 5 Worst Character Redesigns
Another problem is, as shown in entry #4, if translation mistakes are made by people whose native language is English, it's not immediately apparent, unless someone points them out, unlike with Engrish, which is a byproduct of people who do understand the original Japanese, but not English so much.
RABBID LUIGI IS BACK!!!!
I've been waiting for somebody to make a video like this.
Last time I was this early Yahoo! Answers was still answering ... good times ... anyhoo:
Can’t wait to see which games got the short end of the Translation Stick!
Thanks for the new vid RabbidLuigi 💙🐱💙
P.S Would you consider a “Times Video Games rewarded you for being Good” video? Like if Leon saves the dog in RE4 said doggo will pop up to helo you in a boss fight. Or Okami, feeding all the little animals get you lots of Good Doggo Karma. Or Pokémon, Friendship and Affection are a big part of some Pokémon’s evolutions! Thanks for listening!
Anything not involving dogs?
Carbon Roller Caco none spring to mind (also Amaterasu is a Wolf, just thought I’d mention it) 😂😂😂
@@LadyLeomon Yeah, I know.
RabbidLuigi turned into a convertible
CONCEPT: Other M, but Samus pronounces "baby" like Moira Rose.
It's probably a bit niche, but EYE Divine Cybermancy is confusing enough without having only french vocals and a translation that's super rough.
In the game Odin Sphere, they left the original Japanese audio intact, while using subtitles for English.
You're playing as a princess and your father (the king) calls you "princess" when referring to you. There is a dramatic scene when instead of saying princess, he says "daughter", however, they still translated it as princess completely removing the emotional impact of the scene! Still a great game
PSO Ep3, some of the card ability descriptions were straight up WRONG.
6:17 “Surprisingly, a PRIME candidate for this would be Metroid: Other M.” Was that an intentional pun on Metroid Prime? XD
Other M would have been a little bit better with better translations, but it still wouldn't be good.
As a viewer of Chinese Cartoons the fansubs are a little odd at times but its adorable
praise the champs who sub a show cause a simple wish
King of Fighters
The Spanish dialogue was a hazard for YOUR SIDES
XD
I'm from Germany, and Breath of Fire 2 didn't even get a German translation. We were given the English translation instead. And back then, I was at the interesting point that I knew just enough English to understand most of the games plot and dialog, but not enough to understand that a lot of the text was a bit... weird. If my English skills back then were as good as they are now, I definitely would have noticed a lot sooner just how unpolished the translation was.
Still doesn't change the fact that, apart from the translation, it's a spectacular game with awesome characters. And I wish it would get a remastered version, maybe in HD, with improved translation this time around please.
Not a translation, but one of the most nonsensical localization changes I've seen is that they replaced DBZ Trunks's sword with a stick in Dragon Ball Fusions. It's not that people who play that game have never seen the show or read the manga where Trunks uses a sword on numerous occasions..
Oh, that is censorship rearing its ugly head. They didn't just remove Trunks's sword, they removed ALL of the swords from everyone who wielded them.
I didn't know what localization was when I first played Breath of Fire 2, but when an NPC asks you if you have questions on how a process works, you pick Yes to know more and then their response is, "Great, let's start!" and your request is IGNORED, you know you're in for a treat.
I'm assuming what's meant is "Do you _not_ have questions?". Japanese treats negatives literally and Japanese people frequently use the negatives of verbs when asking yes-or-no questions so that "Yes" is negative and "No" is positive. Japanese frowns on direct rejection because it creates an impression of disharmony, which old-fashioned Japanese strive to avoid in literally every way. Yes, it's THAT nutty.
@@CarbonRollerCaco That's very interesting. I assumed that someone just messed it up and switched the two selections. So that's just an even bigger localization problem then switching two things around. They just did a literal translation without realizing they SHOULD switch the answers. Because if someone asks me if I have a question on something and I say YES and then I get ignored, then I'm just angry at you.
Breath of Fire 2 is still one of the best RPGs on the SNES. Depite the god awful translation, it joins the ranks of EarthBound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, and Mario RPG as a truly great. It just relies on its other aspects a little more.
I enjoy JRPGs to an extent...a part of it is how absolutely screwed up the localization sometimes can be. *cough* Rebirth 3 *cough*
One thing that people don't realize is that translation from Japanese to English also requires a decent programmer(s).
The reason?
You can say a lot more with fewer characters using Japanese than English. And, due to how text works in most games, a lot of the time, lines have to be added to the output in order to say everything as it was in Japanese, in English.
It's normally not as simple as just a good translation.
If you can find the rom for Pokémon Diamond on GBC, then that’s super Hispaniola too. Idk what game it’s supposed to be actually but the dialogue is amazing
Man, Zero Wing was in the pack of first games I ever played, I still love it to this day, the soundtrack is an absolute banger x3
You know, there's a certain game that's known to crash during a certain boss in the English version that wasn't a problem in the Japanese version. I forget what game it was, exactly, though, I think Ars Technica or something?
I knew either it would be in this video or the comments would go crazy about it.
That, or Final Fantasy 8 making Squall seem way more edgy and somehow even more aloof instead of a kind of "standard teen apprehension to being a miitary leader"?.
Mostly because I've seen basically this video before, although it may have been from another channel...
So anyway it's really weird to see neither of these in the video *or* any of the top comments.
The *pinnacle* of bad localization, or at least translation, to me, though is...not actually that bad in terms of "ruining the localization", but still the pinnacle in the sense that it's probably the most common "weird translation" I've seen?
So you take the fairly common sentiment of "Be careful," whatever that happens to be in Japanese, and turn it into the somehow technically correct but never used phrasing of "Have a care."
"Have a care", not "take care", not even like "have care" like you might say "have fun", but "Have a care" like a "care" is a physical thing that you can pick up and keep in your possession.
There was a game I played a while back, where I didn't really notice any other translation issues, but that phrase kept turning up over and over again. I'd say minimum 5 times per chapter, and the game had 5 chapters. And while I kind of understood it by context, it wasn't until like the 7th or 8th time it was used that I finally understood "oh, they were translating 'be careful.'" And ever since then I've actually noticed it turn up again in like 3-4 other games or other media sources that otherwise had no real noticeable translation issues.
Clearly, they needed to abunai more and not just not have a care in the world.