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An Occasion for Christmas Caro-ls

By Kajitani-Eizan on December 25, 2018

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season! Last time, I previewed some work being done on Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2. In longstanding KAJITANI-EIZAN’s Patch Site: Reimagination tradition, I would now like to offer the current WIP partial translation patch for your amusement. Continue reading »

Posted in Narikiri Dungeon 2 | Tagged Boring, Narikiri Dungeon 2, Translation Patch Release | 4 Responses

Like a Rising Phoenix to the Flame

Like a Rising Phoenix to the Flame

By Kajitani-Eizan on March 31, 2018

By now, I’m sure you’re well aware of the news that Absolute Zero is hanging up their translation hats and deciding to move on. Certainly unfortunate for anyone who wanted to play unreleased Tales games such as Tales of Destiny Remake in English… or is it? Unbeknownst to most people–including throughhim413–is that the torch has been passed, and we here at KAJITANI-EIZAN’s Patch Site: Reimagination aren’t willing to see the best Tales game never to come to western shores stay that way. Continue reading »

Posted in General News | Tagged April Fools, Tales of Destiny | 12 Responses

Tales in 2021

By Kajitani-Eizan on March 31, 2016

Hello, fellow netizens! As it is customary for me to do some kind of update at the end of March, I figured I would do so just to say hello despite not much actually going on. Continue reading »

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged April Fools, Boring | 35 Responses

Zestiria: A Good (?) Release

Zestiria: A Good (?) Release

By Kajitani-Eizan on December 31, 2015

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, everyone! This post has been long delayed due to lack of time and lack of playing Zestiria enough, but I guess I might as well put it out there. Here are my impressions about and critique of the Zestiria release. Continue reading »

Posted in Localization Commentary | Tagged Tales of Zestiria | 5 Responses

Some Fan QA for Zestiria

Some Fan QA for Zestiria

By Kajitani-Eizan on June 20, 2015

Bandai Namco had a localized playable demo of Tales of Zestiria available for attendees at London’s Comic Con and this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and thanks to some fans that played it, we have some video (here: 1, 2, 3, 4) to get a sneak peek of the localized game. I’m going to be blunt here: when Hearts R videos surfaced 6 months before the game’s release, they revealed that the localization was in terrible shape. I and others called Bamco out on it and they fixed literally nothing in the following months leading up to the release. There are only 4 months left until the Zestiria release. As a longtime Tales fan with some perspective on the history of Tales localization and fantranslation, I feel I should perhaps aid their QA team with a post detailing what sorts of things are wrong with the Zestiria localization as shown in the demo.

Bamco, this post is directed at your Zestiria localization/QA team.

Continue reading »

Posted in Localization Commentary | Tagged Tales of Zestiria | 33 Responses

Tales in 2015

By Kajitani-Eizan on March 31, 2015

We here at KAJITANI-EIZAN’s Patch Site hope you have been doing well! Since it has been a while since my scathing quasi-review of The Tales That Must Not Be Named, I figured I should give an update on what’s been going on with Tales and what sorts of Tales things I’ve been helping out with over the past couple of months. Chances are you’ve heard of much of this already unless you’ve been living under a rock, but hey. Continue reading »

Posted in General News | Tagged April Fools, Boring, Tales of Hearts, Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Zestiria | 21 Responses

A Crash Korse in How Not to Localize

A Crash Korse in How Not to Localize

By Kajitani-Eizan on November 16, 2014

Due to popular demand, I will explain exactly what Namco should have done to make this localization not be terrible! It’s really simple:

When in doubt, If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It.

If you don’t know what you’re doing, leave it the hell alone until you do. If you take this one adage to Kor, you can get far in life. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Namco got the message. Continue reading »

Posted in Localization Commentary, Tales of Hearts | Tagged Seriously Namco?, Tales of Hearts | 55 Responses

Like Moths to a Flame

By Kajitani-Eizan on November 10, 2014

I don’t have the Heart to blog about how incredibly shitty a job they did despite having 6 months to fix it up and despite everyone telling them exactly what they did wrong. So instead, I’m going to focus on what they did right.

– They got Lithia right

– The Sleeping Beauty poem is cutely translated

– Some lines of dialogue (~40%+) aren’t a TOTAL trainwreck… 40%! That’s great, guys! That’s better than Sword Art Online!

That’s about it. You can spoil yourself if you want:

Buy it, or don’t. It barely matters. I won’t.

Posted in Localization Commentary, Tales of Hearts | Tagged Seriously Namco?, Tales of Hearts | 39 Responses

The Arte of Arte Naming

By Kajitani-Eizan on August 25, 2014

Pretty much just don’t be Namco and you’ll be fine. Continue reading »

Posted in General News, Localization Commentary | Tagged Boring, Seriously Namco?, Tales of Xillia 2 | 43 Responses

You Guys Need a Localization Director

By Kajitani-Eizan on June 12, 2014

I know I’m beating a dead horse at this point, in the forest, where no one that matters is likely to be listening, but it still has to be said. Continue reading »

Posted in Localization Commentary, Tales of Hearts | Tagged Seriously Namco?, Tales of Hearts | 47 Responses

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