#'MEMBAMI' IS NOT A JAPANESE NAME !!! IT JUST KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE ONE

[dullahandyke]

Re: aai2 localisation discourse ive been reminded that they renamed haori to rei membami and actually that deserved the outcry that eustace gets. Foul thing to do to her

[blueskittlesart]

MANNNN i have been a dgs fan since pre-localization and like. i kind of own a physical copy of it and yet i have not played it still just bc some of the differences no matter how small are just so. head in hands. dgs sherlock is the only sherlock adaptation that matters to me and therefore i am so confused when people Actually call him herlock sholmes in the fandom. the worst name localization choices though were absolutely the witnesses from cases 1-1 and 2-1 though with the whole “japanese sounding english puns” like ERGH. who the fuck is “rei membami” that’s murasame haori!!!! (this is also an issue with soj/aa6 but like the issues with racism in that game go even deeper than just the localization so)

It's a real genuine tragedy to me that the scarlet study patch was never finished because if it was then it would be so easy to definitively say that it's the best way to play the games. I have about a million gripes with the localization, most of which are summed up above (playing the first few cases in the japanese courtroom becomes physically painful at times especially as someone who UNDERSTOOD THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE PUNS) but even from just a gameplay standpoint i think a lot was lost by porting those games to the switch. the models were very obviously not meant to be viewed at such high resolution and it makes the 3d cutscenes in game 2 that were BREATHTAKING on the 3ds look cheap and ugly, not to mention the fact that it's one of the few games i've ever played that actually meaningfully integrated the 3d screen into its storyline. (if you have the means, playing case 1-5 on the 3ds is the absolute best way to experience it imo, because the stereoscope plot points were designed specifically with the 3d screen in mind. it makes that whole piece of the case a lot more fun to play.) But they just. never finished game 2. so it's impossible to play the whole story in english without the port. I don't know if anyone who worked on the scarlet study patch is still out there but if you are please god come back. people are tagging my art 'iris wilson.' we need you now more than ever