
Originally Posted by
fedaykin
There should be a gaming award for best writing. Well The American Writers' Guild has one, but they chose a Mortal Kombat game for the shortlist, so I'm sure that was a credible and serious competition.
Presumably, apart from the minor but cool addition of chest dialogue, Xseed were just reflecting the snappy and amusing writing of the Japanese version.
Well done to Hisayoshi Takeiri, Yoshihiro Konda, Syuuji Nishitani and Homare Karusawa. Especially whoever was responsible for Olivier's lines.
John Sears, Jeff Nussbaum and Chris Cruz should probably also be applauded for keeping all the wit and charm in a translation to a fairly alien language, which I suspect required some tough decisions at times. I say probably because I don't speak Japanese, so judging the quality of Japanese writing is slightly out of my competence zone. And then obviously Tom and particularly Jess had a significant role in defining the final text in terms of cohesion and stylistic unity I would imagine.