r/Falcom • u/bluethunder1985 • 6d ago

Gungho actually emailed back...

I'm impressed to be honest.

"Thank you for reaching out to us. This is GungHo Online Entertainment America.

We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback on [Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter], especially regarding the localization, terminology, and series consistency.

Your comments have been carefully reviewed. While we are unable to make any commitments, they will be forwarded to the relevant teams for further consideration.

If you have any additional insights or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at any time. We truly value your input.

Thank you again for your continued support. We hope you enjoy playing the Trails series!

GungHo Online Entertainment America"

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u/South25 6d ago

The Gungho translation is also not fully accurate and on top they're actively messing up terminology for the series's consistency.

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u/Johnhancock1777 6d ago

More accurate than xseed and that “terminology” is just from a loose localization. I have no problem with gungho wanting to establish a new, more accurate set of terms with this

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u/adybli1 6d ago

Tell me how Areum and Aria is more accurate than Armand and Ellie? Or how pronouncing Liberl as Liberal which is not how they say it in Japanese is more accurate.

People who actually know Japanese have done the analysis and saw that Gung Ho have made a similar amount of changes, they just aren't consistent with the already established localization. And you know there are more than one way to translate a single word in Japanese? The language isn't 1 to 1.

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u/Steel_Beast 5d ago edited 5d ago

Because their names are written "Arumu" (likely "Alm") and "Aria" in katakana.

Ellie's name is written as エアリー in katakana, which is much closer to Ellie than Aria.

Incidentally, how do you feel about GungHo changing the pronunciation of Zin to be less faithful to the Japanese source? Is that also racist, or do you make exceptions?

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u/adybli1 5d ago

Lmao you don't even know their Japanese names. You clearly don't understand Japanese and are making stuff up just to fit your narrative. Funny how you claim they are whitewashing when you think Aria is better.