i don't know, i'm just baffled. i kinda chuckled when it got to the credits and for english translation, besides translator it also credited editor, script assistance, quality assurance manager, and quality assurance. while playing i was thinking to myself there's no way anyone read this translation before the game was published, let alone the script being edited.
it can't be machine translation because a, honestly i think machine translation would do a much better job these days (the localization was first published on steam in 2022) and b, there's no way machine translation would add so many inconsistencies.
some examples: the names aren't consistent. sometimes it's pauleen, a minute later it's pauline. same with nellie and nelly. random capitalizations in the middle of sentences, random punctuations (occasionally there's no space after period, sometimes it's "...yeah", sometimes "yeah...", sometimes "...yeah..."), there's no consistency in translation, almost like it was a group project which is bizarre for a 3 hour game, and a lot of times it feels like the translator is not a native english speaker or even good at it.
hanada on several occasions has credited the quality of the english localization with making the game a cult hit outside of japan, it's just so well done which makes whatever happened here doubly sad. i don't want to sound too dramatic tho, it's still fully playable and you will understand what happened, but it definitely detracts from the experience.
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