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Oh man, memories... I had Goblins 3 packaged with the educational games I was given as a kid and could never get past the halfway point. It's cool to see what the earlier iterations were like. I can't wait 'til we get to 3 though..  Major_JF posted:Water on monster = wicked witch in the wizard of oz. It might be elsewhere but that is the only place I know of. Maybe it's a bad pun on the French idiom for "burst into tears" which is "fondre en larmes" (melt in(to) tears). It fits with the brand of humor I've seen in franco-belgian comics. Some of the more confusing items interactions did remind me of "classic jokes" I used to see in kid comics, so I guess the bottom line is... if something seems incredibly obtuse, it might just be a French humor thing. 
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This is where I ran out of jokers as a kid and spent a couple of months on these two screens, mostly because of that darned pedestal. Wynonna's little one-off screen was pretty good though, iirc. As a minor cultural note on knight Brayar, he's a reference to the Chevalier de Bayard, "the knight without fear and beyond reproach" who symbolized Middle-Ages French chivalry. Or course, knight Brayar (Braillard = Crybaby in French) isn't quite without fear. A few years before Goblins 3 came out, there was a somewhat popular comedy with that Bayard as the main protagonist, so I'm guessing that's what partially inspired the authors.
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Ooo boy, the game's translation took a bit of a dip there. Here come the cultural notes. Our common idiom is "un grain de sable s'est glissé dans l'engrenage" (a grain of sand slipped in the works). It's our spanner/monkey wrench equivalent: a minor element that makes even the best laid plans go awry. So when you hear about a grain of sand in a French adventure game, chances are it's gonna do exactly that. "Fatal" and "Fatidical" seemed like really poor choices to say "fateful". I think the whole idea is that, since it's a grain of sand, it's destined to end up in the machinery. ("Mettre son grain de sable" can also mean "putting one's oar in", too. It's good that Colossus had neither a wrench nor an oar in his eye...) The shadow clone exchange was overly literal, so here's a more English version of it: Ouya: "I'll show you what I'm made of!" Blount: "Wow, that blew my mind." Shadow Blount: "Darn, I'll tip my hat to that." Last few things: A while back, you noted the boucassier's lack of name. His name is Jeff. And "Bizoo" could be translated as Kissy. You dropped it on Colossus's face. 
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Chokies/Chokiels sound incredibly unsafe to eat. The French version had "Tchokos" which... doesn't mean anything either. Maybe they intended it to evoke "Chocos", a European cereal brand? It also occurs to me that the CD version has some... interesting voiced dialogue for some of the cutscenes. Like the interviews: This poo poo is hard to transcribe and translate posted:Xyna's got some low-effort Frenchy latin: It's about on par with what you'd expect a tired voice actor to say if only given the instruction "say random sounds into the microphone". Nier's Nouveau FR this is not. Miacis fucked around with this message at 16:12 on May 5, 2018 |
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