First of all - I will never understand the accusations that the translation is too literal. People don’t even know what “literal translation” means.

No - this translation is not a word-for-word translation. It simply sticks to the original Japanese text without unnecessary localization. It retains aspects of the source culture, and because of this, some people may feel uncomfortable with it for some reason. In my case, the situation is the opposite. I much prefer the preserved part of the aspects of the source culture and quirks, which strongly lose their meaning if translated. And this applies to any foreign work, not just Japanese.

I don’t understand this, especially since all those who are so fond of altering the original text, censorship or nonsense name substitutions have an official translation after all. Why does anyone like this even seek a re-translation? What would be the purpose of doing a re-translation based similarly on the assumptions of changes and culturalization?

I am very pleased to preserve the original honorifics. This is one of those untranslatable aspects that strongly helps to understand more closely the relationship between the characters. The Japanese honorific system is enormously extensive. You can address an older brother or sister in more than 10 ways. Each has different overtones and shows the attitude of a character to another character. And this is just a question of the relationship between siblings, but what about everything else?

I am very pleased that someone has taken the trouble to present the original vision of the creators in a much better way. Many games deserve such treatment, which I wish for myself and other people who are open to the world and other cultures.

I wholeheartedly thank the people involved in this project. Thanks to you, I played this title a lot better and had the opportunity to experience the whole thing the way the creators wanted me to, instead of reading a “creative” rewritten script because someone, somewhere decided I was too stupid to understand the original references or dialogue.