Reply To: no more heroes

[madamadam]

For the europeans:

The reason we get pissed all over for release dates is the massive amount of time translation takes. This is partly because of the 5 standard languages they release games in (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) but also because the translating itself requires many redoes. You have no idea how easy it is for a professional translator to mistranslate phrases that we take for granted as basic in our own languages, something I've learned from Flemish TV in Belgium (I haven't taken a single Flemish class and yet thanks to the numerous subbed English/American shows & films I can vaguely speak the language and pick out many translation errors when watching TV) – those of you who watch Japanese anime will have probably noticed this too and put it down to the complexity of Japanese (which only adds to the problem). For this reason (amongst many), games in Europe are play tested many times simply for some dude to go "wtf?" and send the game back into translation.

If you ever played Mario Sunshine you'll probably remember the bizarre "Shine get!" sequences, in which case I'm sure you now understand the importance of getting your shit right, no matter how long it takes.