A Conversation With Sega's Localization Team On Censorship, Consistency, And Comedy

The team behind localizations of games like the Yakuza series and Persona 5 sits down to talk.

[kalkano]

The only part of the translation that felt off to me, was the way they pronounced certain Japanese names, like Sakamoto (they say "suh-kaw-muh-toe", instead of "saw-kuh-moe-toe").

[DerekTweed]

It should really be more like Sa-ka-mo-to.

This one was particularly bad in persona 5.

[Kribwalker]

i hear the game is over 100 hours. of course the localization would be tough

[TheColbertinator]

That and the localization wasn't very good anyway.

[isarai]

When you have that piled on top of the HEAVILY stylized text everywhere that has to be translated while not ruining the style, yeah i could see the nightmare in that

[RedDevils]

They should do like Yakuza series on the PS4 Jap with Eng sub.

[DerekTweed]

I found out after playing for a while that the Japanese voice is free on the ps store.

I didn’t change because at that point I was already used to the voices.

[Shiken]

Playing a balanced game without grinding but exploring as much of the side content I could as a new player, I clocked 120 hours.

The game has replay value though, because it is impossible to fulfill all social arcs without NG+ due to having to raise your social stats the first time through.

[no_more_heroes]

The description of the final Devil Arcana confidant skill got a bit lost in translation

[starchild]

My 16 year old nephew only owns a Switch and he hopes Persona 5 comes to it. I would like to see that happen.

[pietro1212]

Don't say things like on this site. lol

[King_Noctis]

If he knows what’s good for his “nephew”.

[Nasdac]

We also like to have Bayonetta 2 and 3 on PS4 but this won't happen... So the scenario of the reason why is pretty much the same.

[King_Noctis]

Its not the same. Bayonetta 1&2 were published by Nintendo, so they are essentially Nintendo’s games. Persona 5 on the other hand was made by Atlus and published by Deep Silver in the west. They have nothing to do with Sony.