14th January 2005, 1:07 AM
If anything I think Japan should be STRICTER on NOA! NOA makes some very boneheaded moves, like saying "Oh... never mind, let's NOT release Mother 1 in the US..." or "Let's force the US translations of AWESOME games to SUCK.". Granted, they seem to be shaping up, but then they do stuff like NOT release certain games and I hate them all over again. I think it's best if the people currently running NOA don't get any more power.
Let's not forget that they actually TOOK OUT AN ENTIRE GAME from Four Swords Adventures, and the growing review I seem to be reading is that, contrary to what NOA claims is the reason they scrapped it, it was actually very fun! Also, they totally changed Donkey Konga with the idea that "it should be tailored to American audiences". I want purity of essence and form in my translations :D, give us what they actually sent, and don't be stubborn about it and decide to only translate voice actors but not the text or something (This means YOU recent anime translators... I can't read that!).
But seriously, I think as far as advertising NOA has actually been given free reign recently, and considering that's pretty much all they are good for aside from translating that's really all they need, right?
Let's not forget that they actually TOOK OUT AN ENTIRE GAME from Four Swords Adventures, and the growing review I seem to be reading is that, contrary to what NOA claims is the reason they scrapped it, it was actually very fun! Also, they totally changed Donkey Konga with the idea that "it should be tailored to American audiences". I want purity of essence and form in my translations :D, give us what they actually sent, and don't be stubborn about it and decide to only translate voice actors but not the text or something (This means YOU recent anime translators... I can't read that!).
But seriously, I think as far as advertising NOA has actually been given free reign recently, and considering that's pretty much all they are good for aside from translating that's really all they need, right?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)