| t3mporary_126 said: Dang localization. It mays you grateful how serious GameFreak tries to get their game localized not only in the US, but in Europe and Korea and ready for an almost worldwide release. But I guess Pokemon games have a simple story and way less NPCs than X will have. |
Pokemon has loads of texts. I'm not sure it has less NPCs, in the cities and all over the map loads of NPCs are standing or walking around and everyone has text. That aren't only the ones that are needed for the story. Additional to that you have all the texts to the Pokemon, every entry in the Pokedex. More importantly many texts are indicating some hard statistics in the game, like the attack is 'very effective', that has to be consistent in all occurences. Even more, you will keep some translations consistent with earlier releases. It would be bad if a Pokemon gets a new name in a new release, because it had a different translator. Pokemon is probably among the worst regarding to localization. The only positive thing is no voice acting.
