#game: fire emblem engage

[kaizokucujoh]

alcryst icons • like/reblog if you save or use

[blackfeatherdragon]

the amount of games made with unity though...

night in the woods, ori, cuphead, untitled goose game, hiveswap, hollow knight and silksong, pokemon bdsp, pokemon go, fate: grand order, fire emblem engage, genshin impact, doom (switch port only), ultrakill, among us, yugioh duel links, yugioh master duel...

so many games Will be impacted it's not even funny. Fuck Unity.

[kaviiinsky]

[nerineaart]

"My friends told me it doesn't matter where you're from. What's important is how you live. How you live and what you do shape your future. So... who do you want to become?"

Fire Emblem Engage as a trans allegory makes my heart full.

[krazieka2]

Fire Emblem Engage Outfit Swap! Yay

[moonybadger]

I’m not sure what I was expecting their dynamic to be, but it wasn’t this

[takawbird]

recent engage draws im having lots of fun with it :')

[zefirart]

Happy first anniversary Fire Emblem Engage!

[articianne]

this is literally what fe engage feels like

[yancadoodles]

fire emblem characters if they were popsicles ✨

part 2 here | get them as stickers here

[linderosse]

Local Divine Dragon found dead in a ditch; numerous small plantlike creatures pinned as suspects.

(Kidding! Congrats Pikmin4 on Best Sim/Strategy Game at the Game Awards!)

[kaizokucujoh]

alear icons • like/reblog if you save or use

[imustbenuts]

localization for media is one hell of a job.

do a quick exercise with me if you don't believe me. here are 5 JP words and phrases real quick

ヨハン = yohan = Johan

良い = ii (read as ee in reed) good, positive, nice

人 = hito = person

は = ha = is

ですよね = desuyone = an ending syntax to end a question. often used as "isn't that right?" to the prior topic.

now here's my challenge phrase. ヨハンは良い人ですよね? how would you translate this? your first pass will probably be:

Johan is a good person, isn't he?

which is... technically correct, but if this phrase is used in the presence of Johan himself, then this is a wrong translation. the speaker is also saying this in response to Johan helping them out with something. if thats the context, then this would be translated as

Johan, you're a good person, aren't you?

but... reading this phrase out loud, it sounds... wrong. clumsy. awkward. odd. if you put this in a 1st party nintendo video game, it just straight up doesn't work. a voice actor might look at this and raise an eyebrow and ask, "yo, is this a draft?"

so localization parses this, and probably looks at the bigger context of things. they may or may not be able to ask the original writer directly for any additional info like intention and hidden contexts, and may even have mandates passed down from the company to ensure that certain sensitive things are avoided. but either way, the end result is to always deliver something tonally accurate and smooth/engaging in english, since the audience is fluent in english.

and factoring that the speaker is a bit of a flirt, ヨハンは良い人ですよね? might become...

Well, aren't you just sweet, Johan?

and so, despite sounding nothing like the original first parse, this end result is actually correct and ultimately more serviceable. based on additional overall context, the line may end up extra flirty or be toned down depending. sometimes the original writers may even have a hand in localization. just because they may be say japanese doesn't mean they don't understand english enough to want things to be portrayed in a certain way

thanks for reading, peace

[septiseph]

after training at the somniel arena

[jaredxenoengage]

[swordarmsaxelegs]

The Fire Emblem series has come so far in the last eight years