2013-06-20, 08:17 PM
Spadow Wrote:Let me start to begin that the localization team of North America localizes content appropriately for Westerners.
All imported content from Korea are localized or adjusted or re-wroted for pop-culture reception.
There will always be a slight difference in translation in almost every version. I think the North American team is quite good.
경계에 서있는 자 means: The one who stands on the border. Even though it is not literally translated in the GMS, but Border Patrol is okay. I don't even understand what ''the one who is at a divide'' means... :f6:
Xenon uses an Energy Sword in KMS but uses a Beam Whip in GMS. That's why Blade Dancing is renamed to Beam Dancing.
I've looked into the Twilight Perion & Demon quests and they seem fine. On the other hand MSEA's localization team needs to improve. They translate Demons as Wicked Tribe.
My mistake, 경계 means "boundary" or "border" as you said (Not 'divide' as I was thinking at the time), but there is a difference between "One who stands on the border" and "Border Patrol."
Clearly, one is a lot less serious than the other - and childish as well. I'm not sure what meaning KMS development team was going for with "경계에 서있는 자" (Someone who pushes the border to the extreme?) but I am 100% sure they were not going for the police who make sure illegal immigrants do not enter the country. I just wish that American localization team put a little bit more thought into making a medal called "Border Patrol." I'm all for them trying to have humor in the game, as Maple Story is at the core a 'social game' but there is a time and place, as well as type of humor to put in content.
You do have a point with the renaming of the skill/weapon, but that was just a minor comment - I just think that "Beam Dancing" sounds terribly silly, whereas "Blade Dance(ing)" is already a skill name used in multiple games, almost expected of a skill that looks like Xenon's.
tldr; why the pineapple would you name a medal "Border Patrol?"
Thank you for the input though, Spadow. It's great that you've returned to your blog ^^