Tales of phantasia full voice edition menu translation

Tales of phantasia full voice edition menu translation series#

Unfortunately, Japan simply doesnвЂ™t care about supporting overseas localizations. вЂ“ The programming team hands the localization team tools to help streamline their workflow and implements the programming changes needed for the localized versions of the game.

Unfortunately, they forgot to hire this guy. He also notes any spots where some programming work might be required. вЂ“ The quality assurance tester plays through the game and checks for weird or awkward translations and reports them to the translator/editor for review. ItвЂ™s possible that he didnвЂ™t even know that the game wouldnвЂ™t get a dub, and thus didnвЂ™t appropriately limit the extent of his rewriting. вЂ“ The editor doesnвЂ™t know what the Japanese text was originally saying, doesnвЂ™t have the context of the scene, and hasnвЂ™t listened to the voicework, so itвЂ™s his job to take sometimes confusingly written half-Japanese sentences and rewrite them into relatively decent English. The translator isnвЂ™t necessarily a good writer, but thatвЂ™s okay because the editor will clean it up for him, so many of the sentences may sound like awkward Japaneseisms. вЂ“ The subcontracted translator writes a script based solely on the Japanese text, without the context of the scene the text is in or the voicework that accompanies that text. IвЂ™m sure I will rant endlessly about this so let me summarize the point for those of you who donвЂ™t feel like reading reams of text: Every step of this localization looks like itвЂ™s done in a total vacuum. These trailers reveal profound issues with the gameвЂ™s localization that go beyond superficial matters like whether the main charactersвЂ™ names make any sense or not.

GameStop UKвЂ™s Youtube channel released a series of three trailers for Tales of Hearts R. I know IвЂ™m beating a dead horse at this point, in the forest, where no one that matters is likely to be listening, but it still has to be said.

Tales of phantasia full voice edition menu translation series#