#like compare the way Xseed handled everyone’s unique speech patterns and dialogue with the way natume did in awl…

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….

#queue tea pie #what’s the point of asking ‘hey are you uncomfortable with how much i touch you’ if you’re going to ignore my answer… #this event creeped me out when i was younger #as a side note rock (AWL) doesn’t use honorifics or even your name most of the time but romeo (DS) uses them properly #(good boy) #bokumono #harvest moon #harvest moon ds cute #hmds cute #hmds #ain #kai (ds) #localization stuff #having seen all the forget valley boys heart events in japanese…hmmmm…….. #gared (griffin’s) heart events are great… romeo’s are my favorite overall because of the Arc #i’m liking steiner more in JP (an annoying babygirl) #ash’s last heart event was great and i like his dialogue more in JP but i really didn’t like his blue heart event… #there’s certain Unfortunate Probably Unintentional Vibes that would probably be changed in a remake #i honestly play a lot more of the JP version than the english version so it’s hard for me to comment on anything i haven’t seen in english #but a lot of the time in general Tone and Feeling is ignored and thus the characters sound unnatural in EN #like compare the way Xseed handled everyone’s unique speech patterns and dialogue with the way natume did in awl…