JoeTheDestroyer's Breath of Fire II review

That translation really is a mess. I've played a fan-localized version once that was far superior simply by virtue of cleaning up that mess. Never owned a SNES though and I'm through emulating games I don't have.

I believe the game is available on 3DS VC, but that's going to be this localization, leaving me very ambivalent.

Oh, this goes to the Submissions Feedback forum doesn't it. Better give you some: thanks for the piece. Think you got the localization issue down pretty well with some potent examples.

Thanks! I'd heard the localization was bad, but I wasn't prepared for this. I'd say give the fan sub a try, because it couldn't be any worse than the original sub.

When I originally played it, it was on the SNES, so yeah, the translation was dodgy as hell. I fairly recently played it with the fan localization and that was a lot better.

Although, as I wildly guessed in my review, that crappy translation may have worked in its favor. Nintendo wasn't fond of death and religion in their games and this game had an evil religion and a lot of death. But, hey, if half of it is really hard to decipher, does it matter?!?

But still, better than Robotech's translation.

^You're probably right about that. Were it not for the crummy translation, it's possible the game would've either been bowdlerized or not released here. Then Breath of Fire III either would've been renamed "Breath of FIre II" or "Breath of Fire: Some Unnecessary Subtitle."