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Hiku said:

I know enough Japanese to have played a fair share of them in their original language. But sadly due to Nintendo's archaic region locking policies, I'd have to buy a Japanese 3DS to play it. At least legally.
Though for people who don't know Japanese, there are some times fan translations of popular games that were never localized, that can be played through illegal means. But if they are localized, you'll never see anyone waste their time on making a fan translation no mater how much the game got botched up in the west. At this rate I would almost wish that Nintendo didn't get involved with some of my favorite games like this. If they don't localize it, then maybe someone else would, like XSEED. They're also changing the personality of some characters in Fire Emblem Fates (though Nintendo are not the only ones known to have done this). It comes to the point where I have to wonder if the character or story I'm learning about are straying too far from the source materia. And that's not something I want to get paranoid over to this degree.

You're looking at this the wrong way.  People should be thanking Nintendo for region locking games because it gives them a reason to learn a new language.