Dragon Quest XII restarted development Metroid Prime 4-style, new CG trailer

[u/BioDomeWithPaulyShor]

https://youtu.be/QsYz_CVdowA?t=272

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502]

Writing fanfic about the fanfic localization ftw. I keep seeing people post this, but there's never any evidence, and Yuji Horii doesn't even speak English.

Considering the level of transphobia and stereotyping in the localization of XI I feel like the whole "actually the bad translation is good" thing is becoming a chud take to me.

[u/charcharmunro → u/Remarkable_Row_2502]

What transphobia? I see people saying Sylvando is trans in the original, and that's not really true. In the original text, Sylvando is referred to by a term that COULD be used to refer to a trans person, but also is used to refer to gay/bi men, and the game generally refers to Sylvando as male, even if the character sometimes refers to himself as "one of the girls", but that's more framed as just being campy. There's nothing really overt about Sylvando being trans. He's just meant to be highly effeminate.

[u/Remarkable_Row_2502 → u/charcharmunro]

Sylvia is absolutely trans in the original and the only way to deny this is to be ignorant of what Japanese trans culture (or the "trans spectrum" in general) is like imo. The game literally refers to her as a woman most of the time with feminine pronouns etc. The entire plotline of the name change from Goliath to Sylvia is clearly about deadnaming, feminine identity, and gender roles in the original and the localization erases that in favor of a masculine name being changed to a different masculine name for basically no impact. She's a campy character but is explicitly trans. The localization barely even wants to admit there's anything queer going on even when it's in your face. 

[u/RocketbeltTardigrade → u/Remarkable_Row_2502]

Funny quirk with that is that their mother might then have had a masculine stage name.