I realize it might be a bit too soon to make a thread like this, considering the game isn't even out and there's a CHANCE this could all be fixed eventually, but I reckon there's already a lot of evidence that fans should at least be worried about what was shown and, well, be vocal about it so that the final product may at least address some of the concerns.
Anyhow, there was a Playstation Underground recently showcasing what seems to be an english build of the game and many fans noticed quite a lot of things that were simply off and/or wrong. Given the nature of the mistakes, it seems likely that translators were given a script without actually being able to tell where said text was being applied to the game, which resulted in things like the examples below:
If you don't see it, check the bottom left, below the characters' names. Their description has been translated in a way that feels like the person who did it didn't know it was referring to a person, instead it got treated as a sort of item/weapon/whatever.
Same video also had other compromising bits, like the mini-boss of the 1st dungeon having its 'title' (that shows up above its name, Falcom fans will know, it's a bit of a 'description' of how the beast is known? lol) completely mistranslated into something that makes no sense.
Of course, these are 'minor' things, but it is enough to raise some eyebrows, especially as NISA lately has been somewhat known for not always stellar localization efforts. On the other hand, to maybe put some minds to rest, they DID fix some information on the character descriptions in their website that were just flat-out wrong originally. They were simple mistakes, but if you'd played the game they were also very easy to spot. The fact they went back and fixed it makes me hopeful that the game will receive the same care, buuut, yeah.
Also, I'm not even sure if this thread is fair game, but the intent here isn't to make some witch hunt against NISA or anything, just hopefully bring the issue to a bigger audience so that people can maybe make some noise and get the company's attention. XSEED has mostly done good to the series so far, and Ys VIII is, in my opinion, a fantastic game, Falcom's most ambitious title in ages, and it'd be a shame to see some of its quality be affected by stuff like this.
Anyhow, there was a Playstation Underground recently showcasing what seems to be an english build of the game and many fans noticed quite a lot of things that were simply off and/or wrong. Given the nature of the mistakes, it seems likely that translators were given a script without actually being able to tell where said text was being applied to the game, which resulted in things like the examples below:
If you don't see it, check the bottom left, below the characters' names. Their description has been translated in a way that feels like the person who did it didn't know it was referring to a person, instead it got treated as a sort of item/weapon/whatever.
Same video also had other compromising bits, like the mini-boss of the 1st dungeon having its 'title' (that shows up above its name, Falcom fans will know, it's a bit of a 'description' of how the beast is known? lol) completely mistranslated into something that makes no sense.
Of course, these are 'minor' things, but it is enough to raise some eyebrows, especially as NISA lately has been somewhat known for not always stellar localization efforts. On the other hand, to maybe put some minds to rest, they DID fix some information on the character descriptions in their website that were just flat-out wrong originally. They were simple mistakes, but if you'd played the game they were also very easy to spot. The fact they went back and fixed it makes me hopeful that the game will receive the same care, buuut, yeah.
Also, I'm not even sure if this thread is fair game, but the intent here isn't to make some witch hunt against NISA or anything, just hopefully bring the issue to a bigger audience so that people can maybe make some noise and get the company's attention. XSEED has mostly done good to the series so far, and Ys VIII is, in my opinion, a fantastic game, Falcom's most ambitious title in ages, and it'd be a shame to see some of its quality be affected by stuff like this.