HERO IS BACK - Is the developer afraid of "A" or "THE" ??

[droaan]

Wondering if the developers have an aversion to A hero is back or THE hero is back as opposed to just "HERO IS BACK" ... which reads like a really haphazard translation from Chinese to English.

I even feel that MONKEY KING is quite perplexing in its abrupt disjointedness... almost as if the entirety of the title is some pseudo fragment sentence, where no one thought is truly completed.

I dunno. Probably can say the same for the entire product. Just a rush job.

[droaan]

MOSTLY NEGATIVE REVIEWS.

Believe me guys, I know a thing or two about bad names.
I once played a game called Killer is Dead... I mean that name feels off too... but except that game was very good tbh and this game (monkeyKING) is really not.

[ODLI]

If it feels like a haphazard translation, then it is.
The title of the original movie and the game is 大圣归来, which textually means "the hero is back", however it would sound A LOT BETTER if they called it "Monkey King: Return of the hero" or something similar. it means the same thing after all....

[☥ Docdra ☥]

Unfortunately, when the movie came out internationally, it was titled the exact same way from what I remember. Seems they just stuck with it.

[droaan]

Originally posted by ODLI:

If it feels like a haphazard translation, then it is.
The title of the original movie and the game is 大圣归来, which textually means "the hero is back", however it would sound A LOT BETTER if they called it "Monkey King: Return of the hero" or something similar. it means the same thing after all....

Imagine if they had a good translation team tho.