Undertaleの翻訳がちょっと…

[アラン・サイジョー]

人物の名前やアイテム名が違ったりしてるから困る

[Honey]

what

[lightning mcqueer]

Well darn.


At least Toby tried, right? I think you might be better off playing in English if the translations aren’t decent.

[ditt_25]

Don't know Japanese, but is OP seriously suggesting that the localization is bad purely because it isn't transliteration? Especially with the inclusion of lines that are that are pop culture references, or a single letter/word away from transliteration without considering the differenc ein natural speakign patterns over there or that said references themselves may have been not accurately transliterated in their original, non-UT format?

I'm too lazy to do the OP's job and toss the alleged 'no good' ones they chose to not provide a translation on into a google translate or whatever. Let alone actually look up if any of the 'no good' choices are actually based on Japan-specific eccentricities of history, folklore, gaming conventions/mechanics, etc.

Again, no knowledge of Japanese or experience with the Japan release of the game, so if there is a Japanese native who is also fuent in English who played the JP version and is on here, they could probably provide a far better answer than either of us.

[(Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr]

Originally posted by ニブ:

Well darn.


At least Toby tried, right? I think you might be better off playing in English if the translations aren’t decent.

Toby didn't translate it, his friends that are professional localizers did. I'm just gonna assume the translation is actually good (since no one has said that it's bad), and OP is assuming Google Translate is correct about everything.

[lightning mcqueer]

Originally posted by (Edgy) Asriel Dreemurr:

Originally posted by ニブ:

Well darn.


At least Toby tried, right? I think you might be better off playing in English if the translations aren’t decent.

Toby didn't translate it, his friends that are professional localizers did. I'm just gonna assume the translation is actually good (since no one has said that it's bad), and OP is assuming Google Translate is correct about everything.

Which it isn’t lmao.

Like, copy paste えぐ over and over in Google Translate and you’ll get some pretty “good” results.

[lightning mcqueer]

Originally posted by alan:

Oh my god!!!
PC Undertale update…
Japanese version It does not make any sense at all.!!
Can not read!

no! no! NOOOO!

日本からきましたか？

[lightning mcqueer]

Originally posted by alan:

yes

Oh cool. I get it then. I don’t know much Japanese, I am in my second year of learning so... oh well? XD

[Pure Ideology]

You're completely off base, OP. I don't say this to be mean, but both your English and Japanese are full of very basic errors, which suggests you're probably not in a very good position to judge the quality of an English to Japanese transition. Your suggestion of 犬の残滓, for example, would mean dog remnants [corpse], and 萌 is the wrong kanji for burn. It means sprouting or moe (as in moe anime).

You also seem to have some fundamental misunderstandings about the translation process. There can be any number of "correct" translations; just because Japanese fans translated "beautiful day" one way, that doesn't mean that other translations somehow automatically bad.

Especially after seeing OP's comment, I want to congratulate the translators on a job well done. Their text is colloquial, entertaining, and it respects the original English text.

I'm just going to kindly suggest to OP that you meditate on why you're so eager to bash the translators who clearly poured a lot of love into this work. If you were just trolling then, well, you got me. But since people were actually listening to you, I wanted to step in.

tl;dr No, the translation is very good, and the translators should be congratulated.