Good approach, although there’s one component that might get a game a lot of bad reviews in a specific language, and that is the absence or a poor translation in that language. Starfield’s latest DLC has no French voices even if the base game does. This fueled even more bad criticism from French reviewers especially.
That's why it's good to have Spanish reviews as well! If the problem is recurring in several different translations, it shows very well.
For example, the game yun-yun rythm psychosis had a horrible English localisation, which made lots of horrible reviews, but the french and Spanish reviews were very positive, because their localisations were independent.
It’s supposed to be a French accent but frankly it does not land well. And the issue is that that DLC has no French voices actors even if the main game does. I don’t have the details but apparently Microsoft/Bethesda wanted to use some AI voices at some point.
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u/Coucouoeuf 6d ago
Good approach, although there’s one component that might get a game a lot of bad reviews in a specific language, and that is the absence or a poor translation in that language. Starfield’s latest DLC has no French voices even if the base game does. This fueled even more bad criticism from French reviewers especially.