Thanks for giving this odd video a shot. Translation in general is a topic I feel strongly about so I ended up going on a bit too much about non-AK stuff even after cutting a ton out.

got you to the 1k Middag ;') also this vid was very amusing. listening to it was the right outlet for all the frustration the text ingame caused. and yeah the aqua dragon queen dungeon haha it's been there since the beginning

Thanks for the video. I fully agree with your perspective. Although not perfect, they seemed to care a lot more about the localisation when the game was still in the hands of Aeria / Gamigo. You are correct in regards to the translation process done by X-Legend. They use AI translation, you can even find parts of the prompt ingame: "Note: The guidelines for this translation are as follows: 1. Maintain at least 80% similarity with previous translations, especially for the verbs and nouns. 2. Ignore formatting tags such as $7$ $12$ $13$ $35$, but don't remove them. 3. Retain special characters and formatting from the original text in the translation. 4. Keep quotation marks from the original text in the translation, but don't add any new ones. 5. Avoid repeating the instructions or the original text. 6. Substitute specific symbols: "¡i" to "[", "¡j" to "]", "¡°" to "*", "¡¯" to "*", "¡u" to '"', "¡v" to '"', "¡·" to "@", "¡D" to "-", "¡B" to ",", "¡G" to ":", "¡C" to "." only for target languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese." Yes, this entire text appears in the game at multiple places, including the note! This makes it look like there is not a single person proofreading at all. In the german version, there are even funny translations that tell the player that there is no chinese text to translate: "Entschuldigung, aber es gibt keinen Text in Chinesisch (Traditionell) zum Übersetzen. Bitte geben Sie den Text in Chinesisch (Traditionell) ein, den Sie übersetzen möchten." I think it's very nice of you to offer (free) help to X-Legend, let's hope that they hire you! If they don't want your help then there is still the option of a community translation mod. You might remember the AK Voices mod and I can confirm that you can switch out translations in a similar way.

Very agree and relatable. I too enjoyed the different language's take on the story when playing genshin xD were fun. Am also very glad to help anyone with translation problem!:3 AK's lore might be cliche or too predictable sometimes but it's actually not bad =v= if only they're translated properly

I completely agree with those mentioned in the video, it is a problem that seems "simple" to repair but, it causes too many problems, especially for newer players who do not understand anything of what they are reading. I'm from the ES server and there we have even more problems with translations, because there are skills with the description of other skills, routes with descriptions of other routes of other classes and translations in French. Thanks for your video, I love your content

if two languages have a very similar structure like for example french and spanish then it is pretty easy to "just translate", but when going between languages that are as different as chinese and english then it simply falls apart and a lot more manual work is needed to fix things up.

Hi, translator here (not for Aura Kingdom, I just saw your video recommended to be. Algorithm be praised). We have issues with the Chinese translation scene (both from China and Taiwan) where companies are picking the cheapest option available. As MTL is getting cheaper than hiring translators/editors, you're going to see more of those, quality be damned. If you see a nosedive in quality all of a sudden, it's usually because the editors are getting sacked first, and then the translators once they have the glossary up. They are then replaced by MTLs. As for localization, I'm not sure how it works with Japanese games. Because in the companies I worked for, ALL localization terms and whatnot needed to be approved by the client's team even before finalization. Let's just say that there are changes that are deliberately made despite our protests.

Translating it from chinese its "Savit". I have translated it to Savitar, because he is the main boss inside the "Abandoned Gods Gate" dungeon. So Savitar is a name of a god in some mithology. Most of the characters of Aura Kingdom are "mithologic" beings.But the main problem is that different teams have localized the game. So some translated as Saviet, other Savit, other Savior... But his title ia "The Redeemer". And moa of the dialogues dont make sense in newest updates.

So nostalgic, I used to play this game before aeria handed it over to x legend whole localisation, I lost my id in process, sad to see it now

The issue that people had with localizers is that they were ideologically driven to put their spin on the medium they were localizing. If I find out that a localizer decide to push their ideology onto the thing I watched/played/read I feel deceived.

Is this game still updated, is it worth hopping back? 😂

Gender pronouns are another complicated one, take Muramasa, they use her, and then Festival Muramasa uses his. It's supposed to be the same Eidolon just one is seasonal and the other isn't. I know the reason is that some languages don't use gender-specific pronouns leading to confusion in the localization

Its really immersion breaking, its obvious that its done with a translator program and that there is no one proof reading and or trying to make everything make sense. Sure the story "sucks" but the sloppy delivery shows how little interest the people responsible for the games quality have for it, which also makes me care less about it...