Legends of (Weird) Localization - Vidjagame Apocalypse 569

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.7 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Localizing games from Japanese to English (or vice versa) can be a delicate process, and sometimes yields results that are strange enough to become cultural phenomena on their own. This week, Greg Moore joins us to look at five famously weird localization decisions, after which we'll get into Freedom Planet 2's console release, (still more) Dragon's Dogma 2, a report that older games are taking up the bulk of everyone's game time, and the home console repairs or hacks you're proudest of. Question of the Week: Inspired by Matt's shameless Sonic IHOP plug, what's your favorite videogame/other brand cross-promotional tie-in of all time? Break song is Invasion of the Gabber Robots by The Laziest Men on Mars. Vidjagame Apocalypse theme by Matthew Joseph Payne.

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0:00.0	Oh, Hey everybody and welcome to episode 569 of Vicha Game Apocalypse.
0:33.5	I'm your host Michael Repares coming to you from the Vinny Garcia Memorial Studio of the
0:38.3	Airwaves.
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0:51.3	Who's joining me now? Zip Mcichors link Chris antista and my name is Matthew Allen and I had to have the
0:58.5	Bill and Ted 69 joke explained to me as a child.
1:01.6	uh... congratulations and special guests explain to me as a child. Congratulations.
1:04.0	And special guest.
1:05.0	Star MLB shortstop, Dwiggett Rortugal.
1:10.0	You guys have awesome names.
1:14.4	What the hell?
1:15.4	Someone pick a good name for me.
1:17.4	Yeah, they also look.
1:18.4	How about Todd Bonsales?
1:20.3	You know what about? Oh, Bonsalas? Famous surname, Bonzales.
1:26.0	Yeah, let's know with that.
1:28.0	You have a simple baseball name right in front of you.
1:31.0	Batty Allen.
1:32.0	Yeah, okay. Fair enough. Yeah, okay.
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