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Similarly strange and incorrect grammatical constructions are found in the English translations for Game Science’s hit game Black Myth Wukong. My expectations f
by 827a 1y ago
Similarly strange and incorrect grammatical constructions are found in the English translations for Game Science’s hit game Black Myth Wukong. My expectations for, for example, the construction manual for a bookshelf is pretty different than a game or AI model & service costing tens of millions of dollars in development (or more).
Heck, they could literally pay any native English speaker to take their English-ish translations and regionalize them; you don’t even need to know Chinese to fix those paragraphs. Why is this such a common problem with the English China exports? Is it cultural? Are they so disconnected from the west that they don’t realize?
A great counter-example is NetEase’s Marvel Rivals; their English translations are fantastic, and even their dev interviews with their Chinese development team is fantastically regionalized. They make a real effort to appeal to English audiences.