You would think that this being a machine translation, the whole thing would read terribly. It’s quite the opposite in fact! The script definitely feels like the first TCG in writing and is pretty well done. There are just a couple of minor quibbles with the translation, but on the whole it’s been a very fun playthrough.

1. Here and there you’ll see some cards with moves not named how their originally localized physical counterparts list them. For example, the typical Marowak card lists “Bone Boomerang” as opposed to it’s signature move “Bonemerang.” These are fairly minor from what I’ve seen, and since there are a lot of cards it’s perfectly understandable that a couple would be missed by accident.

2. I’m not quite sure why, but in battle some messages have a Pokemon’s name with an empty space or two after it. This doesn’t effect gameplay, but it can be weird to read because punctuation happens after the empty spaces.

Everything else I could argue about isn’t about the translation and is instead the fault of the game itself (mismatched palettes in the card art for example).

TCG2 is a good sequel and improves on the original in about every way, give this game a look if you’ve played the original and want some more!