Mobile Games: Fun With Translations
Pocketgamer (via GameSetWatch) has a look at bad translations in mobile gaming. While bad localization in console titles is pretty much a thing of the past, the same isn't true for cell phone ones thanks to low budgets. Take this line from Magnetic Joe:
Take Joe to the exit while avoid spikes! While you are magnetised, the neighbour magnetic cells attract you!
Okay! We will! And thanks for the tip! But this kinda stuff is not just in-game. The odd sounding lingo even pops up in the marketing material. Check out the blurb for Death Trap:
Death Trap is a horror action game that the terrifying graphics will make you enticed with surreal illusion.
Awesome. I am so there.
Mobile Translations Funny [GameSetWatch]
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