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View allAppeal: MAGES., please don’t fail Memories Off’s English localization
Visual novels, more than any other kind of video game, are made or broken by their stories. Their localizations are inextricable from this; a good story is diminished by a translation that fails to live up to its ambition. As a localization editor with prior experience in the field, it’s always disappointing to see a […]
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