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"Marathon is gonna be Game of the Year," actor Ben Starr says, because it has Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 award magnet Jennifer English
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Final Fantasy 16 lead Ben Starr says Marathon has a special trick up its sleeve…
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii: English translations of Japanese games lose ‘flavour’ because it’s ‘a simple language’
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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has said that Japanese games typically lose some “flavour” when they’re translated to English, because…
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English is "a simple language," so "the flavor tends to get lost in many ways" when translating games from Japanese
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Localization is a tricky process. You’ve got humor, tone, and social dynamics to contend with amid the surface translation. JRPG…
Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 star Jennifer English, because "humanness" is what makes these RPGs "so beloved"
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Actors across film, television, and video games have been among the many creative voices loudly pushing back against AI, and…
Dragon Quest 8 translator's decision to make the JRPG British English didn't go down well with Square Enix's American office: "They couldn't understand it, and they really hated it"
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Ask any writer who’s used both British English and American English, and we can list a multitude of differences between…
Before Final Fantasy 7 blew up globally, a lot of Square Enix leadership thought there wasn't "real money" in English translations, and the localization team had to beg them for overseas releases
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Final Fantasy 7 is widely considered one of the best JRPGs of all time for many reasons: its beautifully written…
After 20 years stuck in Japan, the unlikely PS2 remake of the most divisive JRPG in the beloved Ys series is finally playable in English thanks to a fan translation
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After years of niche standing even among JPRG fanatics, the long-running Ys series seems to have found its global fanbase,…