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The SNES Final Fantasy games famously had some translation adventures. FF4 has "You spoony bard!". FF6 had a lot of mature edges smoothed off in translation (
by icegreentea2 4y ago
The SNES Final Fantasy games famously had some translation adventures.
FF4 has "You spoony bard!".
FF6 had a lot of mature edges smoothed off in translation (as well as more typical translation nuances). Here's an article/interview with the original translator for FF6 (https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ted-woolsey-localization-translator-profile-nintendo-final-fantasy-6 https://www.usgamer.net/articles/ted-woolsey-localization-tr...), and here's a piece (in fact a whole website about game localization...) going through different translations of FF6 (https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-vi/ https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-vi/)
- fenomas 4y agoBesides "spoony Bard" I think the other most famous one is probably the "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets" line from one of the Castlevanias. Personally I like it, but I guess it's pretty notorious. TFA discusses it here: https://legendsoflocalization.com/lets-investigate-a-miserable-pile-of-secrets/ https://legendsoflocalization.com/lets-investigate-a-miserab...