its ok when japan mistranslates our games and builds an audience that likes them for the wrong reason
>don't scrub off muh marvel comedy!!!nah, get fucked
>>743251386Do you like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei?
>>743251579Yes. I need to talk to my grandparents to understand a third of that shit though.
>>743251386Yes? What made you think another region was equal to Japan?
>>743251706I'm just saying, it's a bit of a chud manga that Westoids even though they don't grok even a quarter of the actual subtext. Sometimes charm carries.
>>743251386The Return of Werdna is generally speaking kinda the black sheep of the series, because the devs made it bullshit difficult and cryptic out of spite because number cruncher autists kept sending them feedback about how everything needs to be harder.
>>743251386nigger the exact same shit happens to jap only games
what's new?
>>743251514>NOOOOOOOOOOO MUH HECKIN LOCALIZERS INSERTED MARVEL COMEDYWhich is it?
>>743251386yes because japan is good and amrika is bad
>>743255649Whichever side the westoids are on is the incorrect one.
>>743251386I legitimately don't get the Cuisinart reference. What's so funny? Is it just a reference for its own sake? That shit is gay.
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>>743251386How would they even translate that?
>>743262794a real knee slapper
>>743251386yea man. wizradry only became popular there because they didnt get a reference or two.
The difference is that Japan didn't do it out of maliciousness.
>>743251386>translate for american >it's shit>made in america>it's shitsuch poetry
>>743251386Where's the fucking joke, Greenberg
>>743260221Cuisinart makes blenders and food processors, things that are really good at chopping things up.
>>743252461>>743259617>muh westoidsthere you go being antiwhite anon
It's pretty funny that Japan took pic related, and somehow managed to turn it into this: https://youtu.be/7NV6PcZ5e4oIdeally a Wiz1 adaptation would be extremely cynical and tongue-in-cheek, nothing about the game was "heroic" and that was the point.
>>743270653There are no white people in the West
>>743251386The integrity of garbage does not concern me.
>>743251386>Translate literally>Audience misunderstands itThat's exactly what people want. That's the ideal translation.
>>743251386Is there a reverse Ghost Stories where the American side told the Japan side “Yeah this show is very mediocre so go ahead and take the piss”.
>>743272837beast wars
>>743272837No because that didn't even happen, it was a myth. I don't get how anyone with even a remote understanding of Japanese culture or Japanese corporations would think that the Japanese would EVER do something like that.
>>743272837You mean lie about how poorly a show did so you can make a dogshit abridged version when the actual show was outdoing prime Pokemon in terms of viewership and ratings?No
>>743272837Most Japanese dubs of the American-made Transformers cartoons.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8qjDbh8ao
>>743271973Sounds like they were just interested in western fantasy fiction in general and there wasn't really anything else out there scratching that itch. It's not like fantasy that took itself seriously didn't exist in the west at the time, Wizardry just didn't happen to be one of them.
>>743251386There is no wrong reason to like a thing and there is no wrong reason to hate a thing either. You don't need a reason at all.
>>743251386>game was taken seriously by players who overlooked the in-game jokesHmmmm I have reason to suspect that that's false. From what I've seen Japs did get the humor to some extent, just maybe not from that initial localization, whatever that was. However Wizardry has been rereleased over there an assload of times.
Americans don't understand Zanzibart is a hilarious Japanese reference. In Japan Zanzibart is the name of a really shitty knockoff brand of Ginsu knives, thus "forgive me Zanzibart I have failed you" has everyone claps their knee and laugh. It's a joke American autists think is some kind of DEEP GAME LORE.
>>743251386Anon, the actual appeal of Wizardry is universal>Make some mans>Draw some maps>Make your mans stronger>Lose some mans>make better mans to replace them>repeatThe humor in Wizardry is pretty light but it's also still in the games anyways. If anything look at the newest port of Wizardry 1 that changed the Cuisinart Sword to the Vorpal Sword, that's not a Japanese port either.
>>743277387that's bullshit but i believe it
The same thing happened to JRPGs in the west they had garbage translations until Ted Woolsey and even those weren't 1:1 accurate.
