#localization errors

OTOME FANS ON TWITTER ARE MAD AT AKSYS GAMES.

Why, you ask?

BECAUSE PLAYERS HAVE COMPILED A LIST OF +600 ERRORS FOUND IN COLLAR X MALICE UNLIMITED AND TO THIS DAY AKSYS GAMES HAS STAYED SILENT ABOUT IT.

People have been bringing their attention to this list (you can find the excel listing all the errors with screenshots on Twitter) since day 1 and even sent it to their email for days until Aksys answered some of them saying that they will work on a patch.

That's it. No apology to the people who spent 50$ on the game, no public announcement, no tweets or posts talking about it. We are currently spamming them to announce the patch publicly so that they can't act as if it was never promised to us.

But they still promote the game. That, and the Piofiore preorders. And people comment on those preorder announcements saying they won't buy the game because of the CxMU issue.

CxMU was released in Europe after it was released in USA, and I left a comment in one of Aksys Europe Store's tweets saying that they had the nerve to promote the release of something with 0 quality. And they answered that all complains regarding that should go to Aksys Games USA, that they only sell the games in Europe.

And bear in mind that this has happened before. Many times. Just look for posts talking about the localisation of Norn9 from years ago.

And they even release ports with the same errors as the original release (CxM and C:R Switch ports of PSVita localisations).

CONCLUSION: IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON BUYING CXMU, PIOFIORE, CAFE ENCHANTE OR ANY FUTURE OTOME RELEASES FROM AKSYS GAMES, BEAR IN MIND YOU MIGHT SPEND 50$ ON THIS:

Screenshot of one of the errors listed in the Excel compilation, originally uploaded by @APPLEJUSTICE on Twitter. Yes, THAT WHOLE SENTENCE IN RED is written EXACTLY LIKE THAT IN THE GAME. A game that is 50$.

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Hello naughty children, I am going to talk about “psychotic breakdowns” in the P5 localization, and the fact that it’s a (very big) mistranslation that could mess up your perception of a fair amount of things in the game. (also, the fact that “psychotic breakdowns” and “mental shutdowns” are different things).

As usual, post is pretty long & screenshot heavy.

This is one of those Localization flubs I frequently come across where a Winquote is translated once and then they just leave it for subsequent games, not changing it when the quote DOES change.

The first two quotes are the same: English and Japanese.

The third quote was changed in Revelator, but never got translated and still has the same English text from the first quote.

Eventually I will translate this once I get it OCR'd.  But it's one of those pet peeves of mine that nags me to no end with stuff like this.

Once the GGXrd series is done, I intend to document all the changes between quotes and make sure everything is properly translated... 'cuz it drives me crazy otherwise.

Okay, here’s the Quote:

私の命を脅カす人間…。 何世紀ぶりだろうか、ゃっと終幕を降ろすことができそうだ。

(pt2) completely fake, probably at least in part because of that line, even though in the same scene morgana points out that it’s genuine (& that + calling him out on caring about joker sets his denial off). mistranslations like that + translating the 暴走 terms with “psychotic” did a lot of damage to his character in the localization, i think. （・∩・）

mhmm, thanks for pointing that out! it kind of sounds like the localization team thought “everything” was fake, too _(:3」∠)_ like 3 diff japanese speakers & i are working on compiling a post dissecting the original dialogue vs the localization in a bunch of varied scenes (like a tv scenes, justice rankup scene, sae’s palace stuff, shido scene, and the loki bossfight scene), mind if i include that point in there?

Thanks ovo !

And oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to bring that one up here! It’s the scene where Haru asks what justice means to him.

Here’s a rough translation of the scene by @redwhiteandgold

“The very worst adult. 

Yes. My spirit to rebel against this individual is the very root of my own justice. 

It’s not for society, or for idealism’s sake.The reason’s nothing lofty like that.

 It’s extremely personal… It’s just a worthless sense of resentment” *

* being the same word that was used after boss fight #2 when talking about the power he awakened. Also an important word that should’ve been translated consistently. 

The problem here is that he was talking about a singular person, which you later find out to be Shido. The localization might’ve given people the idea that he was talking about the people Shido was having him kill rather than Shido himself. Here’s the english dialogue:

“Because of sickening human beings… 

Yes. My contempt for such people drives my sense of justice. 

It isn’t for some grand reason like society’s sake or some lofty ideal. 

It’s simply an absurd grudge. And extremely personal.”

So, @vork---m shared a certain video on Bridget with me recently... and it only highlights all the political and social confusion going on with the not-Perfected American Localization (and social media promotional engine) for Guilty Gear Strive.

I’ll be honest... I’m getting too old for these debates and discussions... it tires me out to the point of stress (literal knots in my stomach).

What I will say is... just like with the confusion over Sin’s Gear Eye entry in the GG World Library article (which contradicts previous Lore information)... there’s still confusion over how to treat various characters.

Now, either they just didn’t want to step on a landmine, or they inadvertently created a Nuclear Bomb of discussion/arguments/abuse and whathaveyou... regardless, I think it’s still important to look at the interpretations as just what they are: Interpretations.

Please... Don’t assert your opinions, don’t enforce the idea that people are wrong or non-deserving of being ‘true fans’... it’s fine to like characters on your own terms.

But, the very fact this conversation is still going on proves to me that:

1. People don’t look at characters in earnest and just see what they want to see.

2. Arbitrarily Rewriting Fiction for the sake of Pandering is more important now than it was years prior (or at the very least, the standards for such have dropped).

3. People use Characters/Icons to enforce their own personal Agenda instead of letting the character be itself.

4. People still don’t have the maturity to discuss these things without resorting to personal and verbal attacks... Nobody deserves this on either side.  It needs to stop.

Yes, it’s fine to “stand up” for your takes... but stand up for them for the sake of enforcing the TRUTH.  Not your own spin of it.

But above all else... Respect people around you...