They would have a super cushy job if they just TRANLATED and not inserted their own ideas into it. It is as usual the commies trying to be dumb about it. Ever since I saw what they did with one of the fire emblem games(I think it was awakening or the one after) and noticed it in anime subs I've tried to learn Japanese so I am no longer reliant in those fuckers. Hopefully AI will improve upon this so everyone can enjoy games, anime or manga in a way that doesn't change it into some woke nonsense.
Awakening was the last one they didn't fuck with. Apparently the series was in a rough spot, but Awakening was an unexpected success, reinvigorating it.
Unfortunately, part of that was due to the shipping mechanics which irreversibly altered the target demographic of the series.
This was followed up by Fates which had a weaker script even in Japanese, and was fucked with heavily by localizes. No game In the franchise has made it to the west unmolested since.
Then it was fates I remember them destroying with their woke shit. What about the latest? Was that one also fucked with? I wanted to get back into the series a bit.
As I said all game since Fates, which came out in 2016, have been heavily altered in localization, and even in the Japanese versions, much of the core identity of the series has changed to be more centered on character relationships and shipping, with the strategy game taking more of a back seat.
Shadows of Valentina probably was the least adulterated, as it was a remake of an older game, but even it had a lot of easy mode mechanics added. Honestly, your best bet is to go play the old GBA games and fan hacks.
As for the latest entry, Fire Emblem Engage, I haven't played it, but from what I've heard the strategy game part is pretty good, but the writing is the least interesting it's been in a very long time, and many of the S Rank supports were altered in localization so that everyone is just really good friends, a guy who ships girls had his personality watered down to being a "people watcher", and many references to feminity were stripped out.
So again, it's a Fates situation, where a weak Japanese script is damaged further by a meddling translation, as opposed to Awakening where changes to the script are almost all in service of giving the characters distinct "voices", building a tone for the game, and giving flavor to the game.
You might say this is hypocritical to forgive the changes to Awakening, but not Fates or Engage, but the difference is that Awakening was done in good faith as far as I can tell, and far more gently. There's a difference between giving Chrom's Mercenaries the name " The Shepards" in English, and changing a character's whole personality to being obsessed with pickles, or removing entire conversations for a joke, or removing anything hinting at a relationship because heaven forbid seventeen year olds have any sort of sex drive.
They would have a super cushy job if they just TRANLATED and not inserted their own ideas into it. It is as usual the commies trying to be dumb about it. Ever since I saw what they did with one of the fire emblem games(I think it was awakening or the one after) and noticed it in anime subs I've tried to learn Japanese so I am no longer reliant in those fuckers. Hopefully AI will improve upon this so everyone can enjoy games, anime or manga in a way that doesn't change it into some woke nonsense.
Awakening was the last one they didn't fuck with. Apparently the series was in a rough spot, but Awakening was an unexpected success, reinvigorating it.
Unfortunately, part of that was due to the shipping mechanics which irreversibly altered the target demographic of the series.
This was followed up by Fates which had a weaker script even in Japanese, and was fucked with heavily by localizes. No game In the franchise has made it to the west unmolested since.
Then it was fates I remember them destroying with their woke shit. What about the latest? Was that one also fucked with? I wanted to get back into the series a bit.
As I said all game since Fates, which came out in 2016, have been heavily altered in localization, and even in the Japanese versions, much of the core identity of the series has changed to be more centered on character relationships and shipping, with the strategy game taking more of a back seat.
Shadows of Valentina probably was the least adulterated, as it was a remake of an older game, but even it had a lot of easy mode mechanics added. Honestly, your best bet is to go play the old GBA games and fan hacks.
As for the latest entry, Fire Emblem Engage, I haven't played it, but from what I've heard the strategy game part is pretty good, but the writing is the least interesting it's been in a very long time, and many of the S Rank supports were altered in localization so that everyone is just really good friends, a guy who ships girls had his personality watered down to being a "people watcher", and many references to feminity were stripped out.
So again, it's a Fates situation, where a weak Japanese script is damaged further by a meddling translation, as opposed to Awakening where changes to the script are almost all in service of giving the characters distinct "voices", building a tone for the game, and giving flavor to the game.
You might say this is hypocritical to forgive the changes to Awakening, but not Fates or Engage, but the difference is that Awakening was done in good faith as far as I can tell, and far more gently. There's a difference between giving Chrom's Mercenaries the name " The Shepards" in English, and changing a character's whole personality to being obsessed with pickles, or removing entire conversations for a joke, or removing anything hinting at a relationship because heaven forbid seventeen year olds have any sort of sex drive.
Was the writing for Three Houses really affected? I got the impression that it was mostly loyal to the base material.