>>718998785
Sour grapes. You're stuck with an inferior version because of your linguistic disability, and now you are mad that other people are able to enjoy a superior version of the slop you consumed. It's not just name changes, by the way, they also censored a lot of gender specific things.

>>718998819
First of all, any and all name changes are stupid, they're an insult to the original creator, see pic related. Second of all, they were all done by a complete idiot, who's seemingly so illiterate that he managed to somehow "translate" the game without even reading all of the story. Or maybe it was done by multiple idiots who didn't communicate with each other, who knows.
Martina became Jade because some wokalizer saw an oriental looking woman with a glaive and decided that she must have some Asian sounding name. Completely ignorant of the fact that she's actually royalty. Same goes for Kamyuu, the trannyslator looked at a kid who grew up with vikings and decided to give him a Scandinavian-sounding name, ignoring that Kamyuu's an orphan and was only adopted by the vikings. He's the rogue/ninja archetype and Kamyuu fits him perfectly. If Yuji Horii had wanted these two character to be called Jade and Erik respectively, he would've done so. Then there's other stupid things like people speaking with silly accents or talking in haikus. Stop it.

1956 tolkien v dutch translator

>>717770605
You should read what Tolkien wrote about a person attempting to localise his novels.

>>280710148
>This is why they change proverbs, references, common expressions, etc, from japanese culture to something an american would recognize
>9/10 times they replace the figure of speech with its literal meaning

>>280710618
Academia is itself as divided as general discussions, but it's the Overton window. The academic threshold for what qualifies as conveying the "intent" is a lot stricter, involving minute technical elements like etymology and syntax. Localizers took the general argument and butchered it into a Motte & Bailey while their changes would be unacceptable to most academics who have pushed for it in the first place.

Localization = bad

So says the greatest author of all time. If you want to prove him wrong, you have to write a better series than him.