interesting translation note at charcter creation

[BardicDragoon]

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So while starting up the game, after selecting appearance along side the expected 'is this ok' style message in the confirmation prompt it also stated to choose Appearance A to play as a Hero or Appearance B to play as a Heroine, on a lark decided to switch the language to Japanese and see what i showed, and after selecting looks it just gives an 'is this ok' message.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Yep. Japan has nothing to do with identity politics. They have their own social issues, every nation does. But this isn’t one!

[Ignosius]

This stuff is almost always changed by the localizers themselves, and not the actual developers.

It's only the English versions of games that get butchered. The original is usually untouched. It's the case in most games that do this "body type A or B" nonsense. If you change the language to something other than English, it just says male/female.

[theclaw135]

Originally posted by Ignosius:

This stuff is almost always changed by the localizers themselves, and not the actual developers.

It's only the English versions of games that get butchered. The original is usually untouched. It's the case in most games that do this "body type A or B" nonsense. If you change the language to something other than English, it just says male/female.

Hmm. According to these pictures, it's the English version that added a notice describing the characters as "hero" and "heroine".

The Japanese text looks to me like just type A or type B.

[Ignosius]

Originally posted by theclaw135:

Originally posted by Ignosius:

This stuff is almost always changed by the localizers themselves, and not the actual developers.

It's only the English versions of games that get butchered. The original is usually untouched. It's the case in most games that do this "body type A or B" nonsense. If you change the language to something other than English, it just says male/female.

Hmm. According to these pictures, it's the English version that added a notice describing the characters as "hero" and "heroine".

The Japanese text looks to me like just type A or type B.

You're right, actually. I was focused on the bottom text and didn't notice the text directly under the character.

I guess that explains why the developer complained about having to change that for the western audience.

[BardicDragoon]

Originally posted by Ignosius:

Originally posted by theclaw135:

Hmm. According to these pictures, it's the English version that added a notice describing the characters as "hero" and "heroine".

The Japanese text looks to me like just type A or type B.

You're right, actually. I was focused on the bottom text and didn't notice the text directly under the character.

I guess that explains why the developer complained about having to change that for the western audience.

the text added in the English version is the bottom text

in the Japanese Version you enter your name, then select リックスィA or リックスィB (Look A or Look B) and after wards it shows you selections and asks is this ok

in the English Version you enter your name, then Select Appearance A or Appearance B, and afterwards it shows your selections and asks if your happy with them while adding "You would play as a hero with appearance A and a heroine with appearance B



also on a side note it seems the French, Italian, and Spanish translations are all based on the English one as they do the same thing. (they also use the same name restriction)

[theclaw135]

Originally posted by Ignosius:

Originally posted by theclaw135:

Hmm. According to these pictures, it's the English version that added a notice describing the characters as "hero" and "heroine".

The Japanese text looks to me like just type A or type B.

You're right, actually. I was focused on the bottom text and didn't notice the text directly under the character.

I guess that explains why the developer complained about having to change that for the western audience.

In this unusual instance, the English text is nearer in intent to the original Famicom game.

[Eck]

Can you switch languages on the fly? Also is there Furigana in the game?

[BardicDragoon]

Originally posted by Eck:

Can you switch languages on the fly? Also is there Furigana in the game?

haven't had much tie to play and have been spending it looking at the character creation screen in different languages, so can't say as far as during gameplay. but it can be changed at any point from the starting menu. also if said starting menu is any indication, no furigana

[Eck]

I found some screenshots just now with Furigana. Surely they didn't remove it.
I could always buy and refund if need be.

Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/UQKxsEZ.jpeg

[Melodia]

Kinda puts a damper in the whole "they did this to appease the west" meta...

[BardicDragoon]

Originally posted by Eck:

I found some screenshots just now with Furigana. Surely they didn't remove it.
I could always buy and refund if need be.

Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/UQKxsEZ.jpeg

so it seems like they might have removed Furigana; went as far as the start of the personality test and none came up.


However, after confirming your name and appearance the first thing it asks is if you want to enable 'Hiragana mode' which replaces any Kanjii in the text with Hirigana so maybe thats why i didn't come across any furigana in my (very very short) time playing in Japanese. thouhg if that is the case i feel like furigana would still have been better...

[Eck]

Originally posted by BardicDragoon:

Originally posted by Eck:

I found some screenshots just now with Furigana. Surely they didn't remove it.
I could always buy and refund if need be.

Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/UQKxsEZ.jpeg

so it seems like they might have removed Furigana; went as far as the start of the personality test and none came up.


However, after confirming your name and appearance the first thing it asks is if you want to enable 'Hiragana mode' which replaces any Kanjii in the text with Hirigana so maybe thats why i didn't come across any furigana in my (very very short) time playing in Japanese. thouhg if that is the case i feel like furigana would still have been better...

Yeah it'd be best if Kanji was left in. Thanks for confirming mate, appreciate it.

[Gallery]

The non-Japan ones make even less sense with the given context. If they are gonna label A and B as hero and heroine anyway, why even bother with A and B?

Seems like a suit just convinced them that they HAVE to add in type A and B no matter what.

[Haiballad]

This is a false political correctness measure by the Japanese.
My fellow Japanese people also have doubts about it.

[BoolXorElse]

Probably used some type of word replacement on the translation and simply switched out Type A for Man and Type B for Woman. Literal surface level of work for a 60 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dollar game. Can't even be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to change the dialogue to match the spurious inclusion. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amateur ♥♥♥♥. Its like buying a cake but take a Halloween cake with all the Tombstones and making it safe for a funeral. Just an odd ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is easy to not make.

To me, the price of these products only elevates my level of annoyance and anger for this stuff. Gaming is an expensive hobby, we should be acting like its one to care about.