Is the localisation here going to pretend that the protagonist isn't a high school girl?

[Shylaar]

Every instance of text / voice calling her one has been changed in the English trailer and game description. This is pretty silly, guys.

[toughnails]

Maybe they'll explain that she's a college girl cosplaying in sailor fuku?

- If you don't like it, learn Japanese and play in Japanese. It'll take 2-3 years but you'll be set for life.
- I'd rather it releases like this than no Western release at all.
- Blue Reflection Second Light had to pull the same trick too, the times are changing.

[Chaika Trabant]

Blame the West for that, even steam is pretty trigger happy on that point.

[FriendyS]

Censorship sucks

[cl0ak_0]

Originally posted by Shylaar:

Every instance of text / voice calling her one has been changed in the English trailer and game description. This is pretty silly, guys.

+1

Originally posted by toughnails:

- Blue Reflection Second Light had to pull the same trick too, the times are changing.

No they're not. These changes aren't organic, they're forced.

[Weizi]

Can't be helped with American law.

[Chaika Trabant]

Originally posted by Weizi:

Can't be helped with American law.

It's not illegal, publisher are doing this because of the current zeitgeist in the west: they don't want people on social media and game """journalists""" doing bad press against them.

[TotemMX]

Do we really need those warning in videogames? We no longer can tell what's real and what is not?

※All characters involved in sexual content are over the age of 18.
※This game is a work of fiction.
※It has nothing to do with any real person, group, or incident.
※This game is not intended to incite or encourage crime. Do not imitate.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1947940/beat_refle/

[Sugoi]

Originally posted by TotemMX:

Do we really need those warning in videogames? We no longer can tell what's real and what is not?

※All characters involved in sexual content are over the age of 18.
※This game is a work of fiction.
※It has nothing to do with any real person, group, or incident.
※This game is not intended to incite or encourage crime. Do not imitate.

Two things are at play here. The 18+ requirement is more or less a hard check for the ability to sell the game in many countries, and the other stuff is just CYA to make any potential legal action harder.

It's less that most people don't have a solid separation of fantasy and reality (the #1 thing that we should be looking for when trying to identify people who are dangerous to society, IMO), but that the ones who do are always quick to scapegoat media they consumed in the hope of reducing their punishment when they inevitably do something crazy.

[WhiteLezard]

Eh, it's not even something new.
Did you forget how 90's hentai that got localized always changed dialog to pretend that the schoolgirls were college students? I remember how La Blue Girl had deleted scenes because they depicted minors that couldn't be b*llshited away with "they're totally adults, legit".

[Dovah]

Localizers can never seem to do their jobs right...

Even if you know Japanese, you still end up supporting them and their bs, unless you import a Japanese copy of the game.

[B Unit]

Its dumb. Makes me wonder if Persona 5 could even be released in current year.

[Silfie]

changing "high school girl" for "gen Z girl" is not only wrong, it's incredibly cringe and bad localization.

[B Unit]

Originally posted by Silfie:

changing "high school girl" for "gen Z girl" is not only wrong, it's incredibly cringe and bad localization.

Same with translating onee-sama to "Miss". Like do they realise who their audience is?

[CommanderZx2]

I don't mind if they don't specifically refer to her as a high school girl, but changing the lines to gen Z girl or 21st century woman sound like really terrible dialogue changes that don't sound natural in the slightest.

[Silfie]

Originally posted by CommanderZx2:

I don't mind if they don't specifically refer to her as a high school girl, but changing the lines to gen Z girl or 21st century woman sound like really terrible dialogue changes that don't sound natural in the slightest.

Yeah, I don't particularly care about the potentially fanservicey aspect, even if I do believe it shouldn't be censored.
It's just that after decades of playing japanese games, as someone who feels strongly about translation, I'm a bit tired of all the mindless liberties localizators take with scripts and characters.