Nintendo employee talks about ‘exciting’ mystery game

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vdoesntforgive said:

“Umm, I’ll say it was exciting but I can’t tell you what it was,” he said. “Because I looked around and basically, I said to my boss, ‘Really? Are you serious?!’ and he said ‘Yeah, I’m not kidding.’ So, I’m like ‘oooookay!’ [laughs] So I started doing…something. Something exciting and something unexpected — something completely unexpected.”

 

Sounds to me like something other than translation.

1. If he works in the translation section, he would expect to do translation. This is something completely unexpected. Being assigned to the translation of Mother 3 or a Zelda game on one's first day would certainly rank as being thrown in the "deep end" ... but completely unexpected?
2. If it were a translation, he would have said, "So I started translating ... something.", instead of "So I started doing ... something."

*shrug* This is something we may never have a clear answer to.