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Why does it work so well?
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The localization of the games from Gyakuten Saiban to Ace Attorney is quite heavy with all the name changes, location changes and all the added pop culture references and jokes. The localization is really good and it just works but I'm surprised...
So far I haven't even seen one person who insists on using the original names. In all other fandoms I've seen there's usually a hoard of complainers about what have been changed for the english edition were fans will nitpick on even the slighest difference and so on and so on.
How come the PW community doesn't have this problem? What is it that makes the translation of the games just work? Please don't get me wrong, I don't even know most characters japanese names and I love the PW games to bits, It's just so refreshing (and surprising) to not see people squabble about it.
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For Phoenix Wright (and video games in general) it's a bit more difficult to get the Japanese game in English.
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Eleanore wrote:
So far I haven't even seen one person who insists on using the original names. In all other fandoms I've seen there's usually a hoard of complainers about what have been changed for the english edition were fans will nitpick on even the slighest difference and so on and so on.
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Also, some animes etc. which are localised, are edited/dumbed down for a younger audience or to reduce controversy. I'm glad they didn't try to make this a 6+ game or something [a bit hard, when there's at least one murder in every case...]
Still, I refuse to believe the game is set in Los Angeles. In my head, it's some Americanised part of Japan in the future.
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I think there's a lot of unhappiness with animes because the dubbers seem to water things down, but all of the games are still strong despite translations.
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icer wrote:
Didn't Capcom insist on making a quality translation?
Also, some animes etc. which are localised, are edited/dumbed down for a younger audience or to reduce controversy. I'm glad they didn't try to make this a 6+ game or something [a bit hard, when there's at least one murder in every case...]
Still, I refuse to believe the game is set in Los Angeles. In my head, it's some Americanised part of Japan in the future.
Also, some animes etc. which are localised, are edited/dumbed down for a younger audience or to reduce controversy. I'm glad they didn't try to make this a 6+ game or something [a bit hard, when there's at least one murder in every case...]
Still, I refuse to believe the game is set in Los Angeles. In my head, it's some Americanised part of Japan in the future.
Nah. It'd be easy to make it for 6+. In fact, you could make it 2+!
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And I didn't want to think of it as LA, but it actually kinda makes sense... cold mountains in the north, otherwise good weather, and movie/television studios. But I also think of it a bit more as just generally the west coast, not LA specifically. (I dun like thinking of Phoenix in LA for some reason
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PW:AA1 got only a 7+ rating in Europe.
I have no clue how could it happen tho...
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