I would have loved to play the definitive version, but I'm not in the habit of paying kikes for kike practices
Thoughts on Dragon Quest XI?
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boring except for the mermaid storylone
How was Square-Enix never sued for that shit anyway? I feel as though if one developer actually deserves to get sued for something, it should be that. Just blatantly anti-consumer
-Mermaid script had to be drastically altered to make the rhyming work. A Mermaid will say just one word in the Japanese but the translation stretches it out to four sentences, because of how the rhyming needs to be done. This means they're adding 15-30 extra words into a scene that had only 1 word in the Japanese. No matter how you slice it, both the context and tone of the scene has been altered.
-Same happens in most examples when an accent is added. Especially the Japanese village. In the Japanese, they speak in an "olde" style of Japanese. It would be equivalent to an English character who speaks stereotypical Elizabethan (Shakespearean) English. But they didn't translate them like that. Instead they gave everyone a Haiku dialect, which the Japanese didn't do at all. This again drastically changes the tone of the characters, making them silly in English when that's one of the more serious parts of the game in the original Japanese. But it also means they have to significantly add or subtract words from some characters dialogue, to reach the necessary haiku requirements. Some characters sound like neanderthal idiots while others sound like they're padding their dialogue for no reason.
-Even some characters who have no added accent, they'll add a bunch of crap for no reason. Like some scenes with Vernonica, she'll just make a grunt of anger. But the English translation writes out two sentences of her lecturing a character. Or in pic related, in Japanese she just says "Why are you smiling? Whatever." But the translation team just had to be cute and add some superfluous "British" sounding words and pad the dialogue. You know, gotta cover up the Shounen anime influences as much as possible. No one playing an Akira Toriyama JRPG would want that.