Concerned about Persona 5 after reading this

Sames goes for Drakengard 3. Pay extra for the Japanese audio.

I know I'm going to get bitched at for this but I can kind of understand the reasoning for them. I mean their VAs have very different contracts from what I understand and get more money if their performance is used in the western version so it makes sense they'd want to offset that cost.

But user, those are very legitimate concerns that localization teams face when bringing a game to a foreign audience.
It demonstrates that they want to keep the material intact and properly convey the meaning and feeling of the original script as best they can, and I'd be more concerned if they DIDN'T find it challenging to get just right.

Did you actually read the article? They were just saying that translating that that require cultural knowledge is hard, and it is. We're not talking changing onigiri to hot dogs or something, but things like… Youtou (妖刀). In Dark Souls 2 it was translated as Bewitched Sword or something, which doesn't quite get the nuance down. It's a sword that has attained sentience, and thirsts for blood of its own accord. Usually they possess wielders, driving them mad with its own bloodlust. Those that can control a youtou and remain their own masters are unbelievable badasses and become even stronger.

"Bewitched" can't convey all of that, and you can't change the title of a weapon into a mini-explanation like that. You just need to be familiar with Japanese culture to get it.

That's not the best of examples, but it should convey the right idea. Some shit just can't be translated, some would require translator notes. As the type of translator who avoids TL notes as much as I possibly can myself, I understand Persona 5's translator's desire to try to translate things in such a way as to make them understandable to the target audience. And with games which target large demographics, they don't really have a choice, they HAVE to keep the amount of things that will keep people running to Wikipedia low, their bosses demand it.

Sure, there's the possibility that they are trying to "Americanize" or censor things, but after Persona 3 and 4, there's very, very little reason to believe it though.

Hopefully this will be better than p4 though.
Found it boring to the point where I didn't bother playing past the bath houses.

"Jokes focused on tokyo will be altered"

OP why are you always the fag?

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That is a shit example. Its fiction make shit make sense make shit up its not real and doesn't need a real world explanation.

I'm guessing from what your post is implying is that stories don't need good writing or solid lore. Anyway fuck your illiterate ass.

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