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all the final fantasy games have really bad translations especially final fantasy 6 and final fantasy 7. the translators clearly dont know any japanese or they would have one it right. for one thing they got all the names wrong. its tina not terra and aerith not aeris for example. also they got a lot of the story parts wrong or they made it unclear. im lucky that i can read japanese otherwise i wouldnt have been able to figure out what was really going on in those games. other good examples are how in final fantasy 4 cecil and rosa have sex but they edit it out.

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Quote (chou @ 23rd October 2006 12:28)

other good examples are how in final fantasy 4 cecil and rosa have sex but they edit it out.

No. No, they didn't. It's implied they sleep together in the same room, but that's implied in FFII U.S., even.

I don't mean to step out of line here, chou, but you're making a lot of assertations that are just plain wrong. I guess I have to wonder if you really believe what you're saying, or if you're just throwing out random statements into the void, for kicks.

This post has been edited by L. Cully on 23rd October 2006 22:45

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Final Fantasy Tactics wins hands down. Poorly localizing an already complex story really ruins the experience, especially since the story was so pretty/thought-provoking.

Final Fantasy IV US gets second place, for obvious reasons. It's too bad the translators for later versions were so meek . Final Fantasy VII is third.

The rest were either not annoyingly-name-changed or colloquial enough to forgive (FFVI). I'll never understand these funky name changes, but oh well. Thankfully, video game translation has improved vastly since those 8 and 16-bit days.

Edit: It seems this is about general video games, and not just the FFs. Well, let me think of a few more...

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I think that FFIV has the worst translation. In fact, there is an entire story written about FFIV completely based on it's lousy translation. Here's the link: www.demented3d.com/ffiv

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Oh yeah, the Power of Cheese. Yeah, that should summarize why it (the translation) isn't very good. xD

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Wait...how have all of us forgotten so long?

A WINNER IS YOU!

Or, maybe not, since we all missed that one.

And then I'm not sure if this is from anywhere (it probably is), but I occasionally see "winnar".

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Whats funny is how incredibly common these errors were in the early 8-bit days. I had several NES titles that were ridiculously translated. Wonderful gems such as Air Fortress and Destiny of an Emperor.

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 23rd October 2006 23:29)

Wait...how have all of us forgotten so long?

A WINNER IS YOU!

Or, maybe not, since we all missed that one.

And then I'm not sure if this is from anywhere (it probably is), but I occasionally see "winnar".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wrestling...o_game)#Engrish

The people using "winnar" are using idiotspeak.

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This is from Harvest Moon 64, not much of a translation but they forgot 'Button.'

This post has been edited by Dragon King on 29th October 2006 15:56

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Quote (chou @ 23rd October 2006 17:28)

all the final fantasy games have really bad translations especially final fantasy 6 and final fantasy 7. the translators clearly dont know any japanese or they would have one it right. for one thing they got all the names wrong. its tina not terra and aerith not aeris for example. also they got a lot of the story parts wrong or they made it unclear. im lucky that i can read japanese otherwise i wouldnt have been able to figure out what was really going on in those games. other good examples are how in final fantasy 4 cecil and rosa have sex but they edit it out.

You know, if you did your research instead of complaining you'd know that almost all of your examples aren't translation problems. "Aeris" is just as valid of a translation of the Japanese word as "Aerith." They changed "Tina" to "Terra" because "Tina" is (was?) a common name in the US, they wanted it to sound exotic; "Tina" sounds exotic to Japanese speakers.

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Plus, the official name now IS Aerith IIRC. They messed up on a lot of stuff in translation, but when it comes to names, their's usually a reason, like in FFIV where Gilbert became Edward because Gilbert wouldn't fit in the name spaces.

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Dead Winter. A nice comic.

The Engrish in FF Tactic's tutorial is practically unreadable. "Equip many," huh? The world may never know how many players the tutorial turned away from the game. Too bad, the main game is more coherent. Well, aside from "Defeat Dycedarg's elder brother."

Some more examples:

Gradius 3 SNES: Complete on Arcade difficulty to see this gibberish:

I'm give up
Your appallations
Technical monkey

Megaman: "Fight Megaman for everlasting peace" It's been a long time since I've played this so I dno't remember if Capcom remembered to put a comma after "Fight". With a comma, it's still awkward but it's more ludicrous without.

Castlevania 2: Nothing specific off the top of my head. Plenty of clues that are so butchered in translation that they are useless.

My brother downloaded "Magical Ninja Gohemon" a while back because it had a funny name. Before the start screen it says " use controler pack" and "not use controler pack"
It's not that badof a translation; the game is much worse.

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ADAEAFADAEAFAGAEAFAGAAAFAGAAABbAGAAAFAGAEAFADAEA
C#ADAAABbGAAAFAGAEAFADAEAC#AFADAEAC#ADAAABbAGAA
AEAFADAGAEAFADAEAC#AD

Its not a game but in the anime Princess Mononoke the monk (voiced by Billy Bob Thorton) says "Is this stew or moose piss?" In the japanese version the monk says "This soup tastes like hot water!" Quite a difference there.

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I don't think that intentional editing of a few details is the same thing as a translation error.

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Quote (ramza_beoulve @ 30th October 2006 20:40)

Its not a game but in the anime Princess Mononoke the monk (voiced by Billy Bob Thorton) says "Is this stew or moose piss?" In the japanese version the monk says "This soup tastes like hot water!"  Quite a difference there.

From what I've seen this might be intentional. The literal Japanese translation might be a little different but sometimes they change the English to match the dubbing.

By the way, since I just found this on Wikipedia,

Quote (chou)

its tina not terra and aerith not aeris for example.

While one can debate the relative merits of "Aeris" and "Aerith", I will personally argue that "Aeris" sounds like a much more believable English name than "Aerith", and I think localizations should be not just translations but localizations--translation work that takes into account particular cultures and their quirks.

Case in point here being Tina vs. Terra. See this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy..._and_censorship

Quote (Wikipedia)

Other changes were made simply due to cultural differences between Asian and North American audiences. For example, Terra's Japanese name, Tina, sounds exotic to Japanese speakers, but is a common Anglophone name.

Given the more "unusual" nature of the character, Woolsey (or whoever else did it) was aiming to replicate the effect that the name "Tina" had in the context of Japanese culture, which he realized would NOT have the same effect in the context of American culture if it stayed the same.

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In one of my favorite oldschool SNK/Neo-Geo games, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, there's a character whose Japanese name is Marco Rodriguez. He's actually a pretty solid character, and his moveset is based off of a bunch of characters from Art of Fighting. However, SNK-Playmore in the US decided to rename him Kushnood Butt.

Kushnood Butt.

Why do you ask? One of the guys working at SNK-Playmore was actually named Marco Rodriguez, and he didn't want to have his name attached to this character. I guess that's a decent reason to rename him, but Kushnood Butt? WTF!?

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PSX FFV: I prefered the ROM-version where Reina was Lenna, it sounds like the GBA FFV has a good translation.

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Also, sorry for the out-of the gaming world example, but:

"Princess Mononoke" instead of "Mononoke Princess" or "Princess of the Mononoke"

(Mononoke is something similiar to Youkai, magical creatures in the Japanese culture, usually associated with nature)

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Lufia 3: The Legend Returns was pretty bad. They destroyed the spelling of priphea and I never knew what town they were talking about because the names were always spelled differently. There are lots of others, but it's been so long since I played it I can't really remember.

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Quote (alphasmart @ 2nd September 2005 05:17)

in golden sun, you get an herb.  not a herb, an herb.

Sorry, man, the "h" is silent. That means it works off the vowel sound of the "e" and becomes, grammatically, "an herb."

:eng101:

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Bloody Britons and Aussies.

I've never heard anyone call a herb an 'erb

and I am a "bloody Briton" (which is american engrish )

"The Bloody Brittish and Aussies."

hehehe

Quote (john aiton @ 14th November 2006 14:45)

I've never heard anyone call a herb an 'erb

and I am a "bloody Briton"  (which is american engrish )

"The Bloody Brittish and Aussies."

hehehe

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H is silent depending on the word's derivation, especially if it came from French and English took over the original pronounciation.

But really, how often does someone say "an herb" in common conversation? It's difficult enough to make up a plausible sentence right now, I find myself saying "pass the herbs" at best, or "that's some good chicken and herbs", but generally the herb is named or directly referred to. It shouldn't be much of a surprise that you don't hear it often.

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Quote (King Eddy @ 14th November 2006 06:15)

Lufia 3: The Legend Returns was pretty bad. They destroyed the spelling of priphea and I never knew what town they were talking about because the names were always spelled differently. There are lots of others, but it's been so long since I played it I can't really remember.

Lufia 3 could've used some proofreading as well, if you ask me. But then again, we got 'frue destruction'! There's a spelling error for the ages.

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