One of the questions raised by the announcement Suikoden I & II HD Remaster whether the remastered version can also continue the controversial adaptation of the western original, translation It’s not exactly perfect from the Japanese, and one script is, as a result, quite simplified and worsened compared to the Japanese: It seems that aspect also has its destiny. developed.
Based on information that Konami reported to IGN during TGS 2022, the remastered versions of both games appear to include improvements in this important aspect. Project producers Yasuo Daikai and Takahiro Sakiyama announced what went wrong how they tried to fix this in original western version and with Suikoden I & II HD Remaster.
In practice, the problem was more technical than one might think: “In the beginning, in the original games, box dedicated to dialogs and the narrative was too small and it was impossible to fit so many characters into it,” the developers explained.
“Japanese is a language that can say a lot in a very small space, but it takes more characters to say the same things in English and other languages.”
The small space available in chart terms is therefore reflected in a remarkable area. simplification of original textsIn fact, the western version seems to be lacking in many aspects and is rather convoluted, obscure, and also lacking many of the colors found in the Japanese.
“As for the Suikoden I & II HD Remaster, we have expanded the size dialog boxes, and this also allowed us to rearrange the localization and work on the texts to bring the texts closer to the original Japanese script,” explained Daikai. To learn more, we head to the special section that contains everything we know about the return. Famous Konami series Suikoden I & II HD While taking part in the remaster, we remember that Konami wanted to develop new episodes of the series after the remasters.
Source: Multiplayer
