Translation Misinformation: NISA, Aksys, and More

Haha Yeah, indeed. It's here to put an end to the "fanboy/hater" argument by putting up proven facts and reasonably believable statements/accounts of what these and other localization companies have done wrong and right. This way you can always refer back to this thread if you're looking into a game from a particular publisher or if you just need more info to back up your argument.

I only wish more of us could understand Japanese, especially audio. haha


Ugh...

I'll add that to the list of "Wrong" since that is a change that shouldn't have been made, but no, it's not that big a deal at all from what I see. It's not like they went around naming the townsfolk "Ser Poopylicker" or "Madam Buttsniffer".
However what is a big wrong is:


WHAT THE FUCK?! Look, I'm sorry you didn't get the job, but personally I'd say you're better off from the standpoint of integrity. I mean...what is this shit? Having the goal of preserving the original story and not just "doing your own thing" with someone else's work is a negative to NISA? I'm...
Blech! Fuckin' BLECH!!
It's not their story, dammit! It's their job to help us understand the story, not to rewrite it according to their idea of what's funny or cool or what have you. What a masturbatory way of operating. Fuck me...

Anyway, I'm glad you decided to post, Looky-tan and I'm grateful for your insight and opinion. This thread is about the wrongs and rights of localization companies in general. It's alright if some of us don't feel as outraged as others so long as we understand where their outrage comes from and why. Thankfully everyone who's posted has had legitimate reasons and wasn't just fanboi shitposting. You're all making this list a reliable one!

Thanks for the input, and you're welcome to give us any more insight on the rights and wrongs any of these companies have done and to what games. It's also great if you can find another company and what they've done right and/or wrong.

I am honestly not as "outraged" as the rest of you, its just I know for a fact that there is nothing I can do to make them keep everything 100% True, while I also know that localizing 100% is not possible either just based off the fact that language barrier makes perfect translation impossible, but that's not what I am complaining about entirely. For the most part I've just accepted that this is how it is and since I never have played an NISA with the Dub it doesn't hurt as much and yes, I do realize that accepting the faults is really, really bad, but again... not much I can do....

While I am not going to defend the company by saying this, I could see how if I were them and some one we were interviewing for a QA job was going to be this "annoying" about "little things" I wouldn't want to work with them either, regardless of the type of job, would you want to work with such a "nitpicker" like that? Honestly, I wouldn't want to.

Let me just say this: It's not about which localization company is "good". It's about which company "sucks the least". I like to hate on NISA a lot but they're still one of the better companies. They always retain the original Japanese voice acting and that really is a big deal. They could actually be a good company if they didn't give us such shitty scripts [size=10](and if they didn't censor things as well)[/h]. All I really want is the original game with English text. It's not a difficult concept to understand. I've said this a thousand times before but if you didn't make the game then you have no right to alter it. I'm grateful for games being brought over at all but I'm more grateful to the actual creators of the games. Without them, there would be no games to localize in the first place. I want to experience what they originally created. I want the characters to retain their voices and personalities as much as possible.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the P2:IS(PSP) "censorship" was also in the JP version. So it wouldn't be Atlus USA's fault.

Huh? I never heard that. Where'd you hear that? I mean, it would certainly change things.
If you can find me an article or something saying it was in the Japanese version first then I'll gladly delete the note about P2P. I'd appreciate it, mate.