I am fascinated by Genshin Impact’s approach to localization, the Chinese is (to put it in the appropriate register of English) “the sea born of ten thousand fountainheads” and rendering it as “pelagic primaevality” a) is not at all literal but is thematically connected b) sounds metal as hell c) is going to be the direct cause of American high schoolers getting higher SAT scores when they have to run off and look up “pelagic”. It is a much more polished, skillful level of localization than most video games get
if i didn't already have FFXIV (and its stupendous localization) to focus on/obsess over i would probably be all over Genshin
everything i've heard about the English loc is incredible
like there are games you can buy that don't have as good a localization as this
