The player needs to visit this island once, and only once, to advance the plot.

A DeSmuME bug may occur when visiting the game’s central island (and surrounding small isles), crashing the game.

We already have some valuable contributions to the 1.1 version of the patch. Whatever I say won't be seen as objective, so I advice anyone having doubts to check the patch for themselves and to form their own opinion about it.Īnyway, if anyone spots some mistakes or weird sentences, I encourage you to report them in our discord server, so that we can fix them in the future patch releases. And sometimes we chose the first option and sometimes the second, because it's not an easy choice.Ībout the nuances: some are lost for sure, as in any translation, especially beween such different languages and cultures as English and Japanese.

When you check for example item descriptions in LA1&2, they are very short and sometimes they are completely different from the original Japanese innovative text display method helped to overcome this limit in our translation of LA3, but when translating the same items in LA3, we had to decide if we should keep the naming and descriptions the same as in prequels or be more faithful to the original, but lose the connection with the prequels.

You don't have to worry about the lore either, as I would never spend so much time on translating the 3rd game, if I wasn't a big fan of the prequels.Īctually, the official translations of the prequels made some questionable changes to the original material, mostly due to the space limit the translators were dealing with. There should be no plotholes except for those introduced by the original creators. I think I can say that through the last 2,5 years, I've analyzed Luminous Arc 3 source material quite thoroughly. You can check guide on 'how to translate Japanese games without speaking a word' as it perfectly addresses the usual scepticism towards machine translations and explains how to make them right: I think it's a great opportunity to learn, by the way.

The final outcome depends on how much the human translator/proofreader will delve into the original text/scene/world to be able to correct those mistakes. Of course, they aren't perfect and they will introduce plenty of mistakes too. If you feed them with enough context, they will produce decent outcomes even for such tricky languages like Japanese. The translation algorithms are getting better by the day. Click to expand.Machine translations are as good as you make them.

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