the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

did the zelda 1 hints make any more sense in the original japanese?
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Kaito / Katie Sinclaire

@Felthry most hints are direct translations IIRC

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:
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@KS it feels like they're poor translations or rely on some context that's missing in english though

i mean, "10th enemy has the bomb" is leaving out a ton of information about what on earth it's talking about, even if we all know what it means now
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Kaito / Katie Sinclaire

@Felthry funny enough, that hint does not exist in the FDS version, that line references the skeleton key instead

so there's no real mistranslation because there's no translation in the first place, it's just a really bad hint

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Kaito / Katie Sinclaire

@Felthry here's a page that goes into detail about every line of text during the game: legendsoflocalization.com/the-

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the Dodecalope

@KS @Felthry

The author of the Legends of Localization pages also wrote a whole book on it - it's a pretty fascinating tour of everything they did (also, the Fangamer price is far more reasonable than what Amazon is charging):
fangamer.com/products/legends-

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@dodec @KS i don't expect time travel, fangamer!
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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@dodec @KS seriously though someone linked the legends of localization website earlier in this same context and now i'm seriously considering buying both of the legends of localization books >.>
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the Dodecalope

@Felthry @KS

Go for it. They're great resources, and fascinating to read. And if you want to see the author and his wife do live translation stuff, they used to stream on Twitch - they haven't in a long time, but there's a whole archive of videos here:
twitch.tv/clydemandelin/videos

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@dodec oh actually that was @KS who linked it
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