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> I guess the goal of a game translation like that is not primarily to do a faithful translation, but one that fits the target market. An other issues especial
by masklinn 4y ago
> I guess the goal of a game translation like that is not primarily to do a faithful translation, but one that fits the target market.
An other issues especially for older games was technical limitations: the devs might have squeezed the game content to fit within e.g. cart limits, and the translation would be bound to that regardless of the langage’s “density”.
A similar issue occurs with comics / mangas: speech bubbles might be tight fit for the original and require significantly altering font and size for translations to fit. Not to mention sfx.