Shoot Them Up: Raiden III Controls: Indecipherable!
Funny story. Postman over at SHMUP site Shoot the Core is telling a tale of when sloppy localisation, this time in the case of Raiden 3 on PS2, can give ignorant/unsuspecting gamers some drama. Seems that, like every single Japanese game, the "confirm" action on Raiden 3 is assigned to the "O" button. Normally, this is changed in the localisation process to the "X" button, so that our clumsy Western brains can make sense of it.
Not in Raiden 3. And it led to Postman's local GameStop having all three copies returned because "the game locked up on the memory card setup screen, and wouldn't progress any farther". Well, it hadn't - all they needed to do was hit the "O" button.
I wouldn't have let them return it. No, I would have kept the cash, as stupid tax. Everybody knows that when you get to a screen you can't progress, you mash. You mash every single button, repeatedly, and you mash them in every combination you can think of, and you do not stop until you get a result.
Raiden 3 humor [Shoot The Core, via GameSetWatch]
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