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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > The Cynical Pop-Dungeon Fantasy: MEIKYUU KINGDOM, coming out in English!
 
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VacuumJockey
Jun 6, 2011

by R. Guyovich

Bitchtits McGee posted:

To summarize: this one card is not only a cultural reference to another cultural reference, it also end-runs around that reference to reference the reference that it was referencing, then goes the extra mile to reference the reference that THAT reference was first made in reference to! :psyboom:

tl;dr - "Payday" works, sure.
As someone cautiously interested in MK thanks to the F&F thread, this blows my mind. I applaud you for taking this effort instead of just googlating the text. But as I am not particularily well-versed in japanese language and culture, I can't help but hope that the translation tends toward being a playable game first and a showcase of japanese culture second. Perhaps the sidebars may be used for highlighting especially subtle cultural context as the above?

Or maybe a seperate booklet could provide all the really finicky and cool - but not all that useful for actual gaming - references; an extended translator's guide to why these things are unchanged while these things are completely changed around or excised. A kickstarter goal perhaps?

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VacuumJockey
Jun 6, 2011

by R. Guyovich

FH_Meta posted:

I think, but can't quite be sure between the awe at level of cultural reference and the FFL2/SaGa2 flashbacks, that the whole point of the post was basically why they felt that Payday worked as the translated name.

And why it was their initial idea for what was going to go into the text, as opposed to yamabuki-iro or Chocolate Coins, or Golden Chocolate, or Coin Silver, or Bananas.

Yes, I see that - now. I made the mistaken assumption that the referenced card was the translated one. :dumb:

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