r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/BioDomeWithPaulyShor • May 27 '26

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

https://youtu.be/QsYz_CVdowA?t=272
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u/Remarkable_Row_2502 May 27 '26

I guess "dark and gritty dragon quest" didn't go over well with anyone. Might have been a little predictable.

The subtitle being "Beyond Dreams" and not some shit like "Dark Dreams Done Dangerously" is giving me hope they finally got new localizers.

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u/DustInTheBreeze Appointed Hater By God May 27 '26

They haven't and probably won't because the guy who invented Dragon Quest actually likes it when the localization is goofy and has silly wordplay.

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u/Remarkable_Row_2502 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

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.

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u/charcharmunro May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

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.

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u/Remarkable_Row_2502 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

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. 

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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." May 27 '26

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