Sloppy Japanese in games

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  1. Lum

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    Since you don't often hear about it in the west... What games is the Japanese dialogue typo-ridden, awkward, or otherwise flawed (ugly font, too small to read, etc)? If intentional satire that's OK too.
     
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    Final Fantasy VIII. They butchered Squall's character and made Rinoa look like a floozy.
     
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    Are you saying the Japanese dialogue is worse than the translation? That's part of what I'm after here.
     
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    I think it's Final Fantasy VI, right? I think the game was rather bland, and the little girl cursed like a sailor for no good reason but to be edgy. Fred Woosley made that game pretty interesting. If they released V here, I wonder how it would be remembered, because it is often ignored.
    A good localizer knows how to make its game interesting to the audience they are trying to reach, while maintaining the spirit of the original.
     
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