Reposted by CrouchingMouse
#InternationalTranslationDay Thread on video game localization articles / re-discovered interviews from the past year. Starting with this fantastic piece by Anna Cairistiona (with more on her blog):
annacairistiona.wordpress.com
Final Fantasy Tactics Translation Comparison (OG vs WotL) – Chapter 1: Gariland to Dorter Slums
The following is the second part in my series comparing the original and WotL translations of Final Fantasy Tactics. In this section, I cover the beginning of chapter 1 through to the post-battle c…
![Zelda Direct Bingus Bongus
Row 1: Zelda Movie baffling casting decision | Zelda Movie "you know what actually I see it" casting decision | a port with no extra bells and/or whistles (whistles??) [with a skewed Spirit Tracks logo] | Dead Hand in 4K [background says "no no no" over and over] | Zelda Alarmo shaped like a Cucco
Row 2: where is Kass? is he safe? [image of Kass the accordion-playing bird man from Breath of the Wild] | Link's Crossbow Training 2 | Eiji Aonuma says the word "pants" | Malo Mart Management Sim [drawing I made of Malo from Twilight Princess and the word OBEY like the Andre the Giant Has a Posse OBEY] | Surprise! Ocarina of Time Remake has SpaceWorld 2000 graphics [image from that graphics demo in the background]
Row 3: Obligatory Mother 3 Bingo Square for some reason [with sad Lucas] | The Great Deku Tree lookin' sexy as hell | Internet is Mad (FREE SPACE) [with Triforce background] | something Link Between Worlds god please | drawing of a screaming Goron Link going "AAAAA"
Row 4: weird Zelda crossover that makes everyone go "huh" | Young Link is chopped | Adult Link is unc | they tease the next major Zelda wayyy too early [Coming 202- 8 crossed out, 9 scribbled out, 2030] | they say how many years ago OoT released and I wish they didn't
Row 5: Link says a full sentence ("well excuuuuu-") | "You thought we said Ocarina? No, we said Ooccoorina." [Link playing the Ocarina but it's been replaced with a Ooccoo Jr. head] | dampé | we all pretend we don't know who Sheik is [yellow emoji head with closed eyes saying "who is that he seems cool"] | stream is hijacked by someone yelling about how Zelda II is underrated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ku7wb5czg5i2tq2briux4wad/bafkreiarqebdc6c3gk4nctfd2ahnotwhvszuvar5cmhufdo6w6dxxq6ksq)
![Nintendo Direct Bingus Bongus
Row 1: Luigi falls over [image of Luigi on his side] | A character with a name like "Gumbo" | Edutainment is BACK [Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Brain Age for the DS, and the muncher from Number Munchers] | something Zelda-related they forgot to add to the Zelda Direct | Switch 2 Welcome Tour price increase to help you feel more welcome
Row 2: holding hands (scandalous) | Air Riders DLC [Kirby holding an NES Zapper with "we gave him a gun"] | lizard | can we have music in the eshop again i miss it so | BY GOD IT'S SHU TAKUMI WITH A STEEL CHAIR
Row 3: Obligatory Mother 3 Bingo Square [with sad Lucas] | The Nintendo Direct voiceover guy uses his serious voice to say you can level up your stats | Internet is Mad (FREE SPACE) [with Mario star in the background] | a creature shaped like this: [silhouette of a blob with two big bulbous bits on top and a kinda blobby/wavy underside] | Nintendo sends assassins to everyone who streamed the Duskbloods network test
Row 4: me :) they put me in the Direct bc I've been good | Balloon Fight 99 [with a bunch of little Balloon Fight NES sprites and the fish that eats you and also two of them are kissing] | CHRONO TRIGGER, BABY [with a drawing of Frog from Chrono Trigger] | a new Punch-Out (preferably by Next Level) and I will never ask for anything again | the number 22
Row 5: front-facing Waluigi [with an uncomfortably close Waluigi staring into your soul] | a narrative RPG where you play as a Boo | GameCube/GBA link cable support added to NSO aka PAC-MAN VS. LET'S GO | ANIMAL CROSSING! [in the bottom really small it adds: ... Amiibo Festival 2] | Samus adopts a cat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ku7wb5czg5i2tq2briux4wad/bafkreicisg7cp7uqeckteexswzbtrv4a74gdudlo2eexeov336vwphi6pu)
