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Message: [QUOTE="qw90700, post: 256508, member: 660650"] I understand the mentality of "if the game were in English it would reach more people" argument but it would only make sense if the game's language was some rare language like some random African tribe language or something. They have no idea how much Japanese gamers are and how many non-Japanese people who learned Japanese just to play games. Until 2 decade ago official English translated games weren't a popular thing but when there was either the game had cut content like Ace Combat 3 and Shiritsu Justice Gakuen series or translation quality is so bad which this is still a great issue can make people want unofficial better English translations to games that even has official English translations lol. As a result it made people learn Japanese back then instead of English because of then Japanese versions of games are better one and actually gotta learn Japanese to play lots of games when English-only games tend to not have a text you have to even understand. No wonder it made people naturally learn Japanese as they play games way more than they learn English. As for Racing Lagoon specifically, there are no better street racing game exists and it's why the game was always popular. Street racing was so popular beyond video game, it was a popular life style starting from 50s and it had peak moment around 90s and early 2000s but only recently it lost its popularity. Because of it It's like number 1 Japanese-only game people literally cried for official translation and fan translation. When a person may have no idea of Japanese-only games they would hear about Racing Lagoon regardless, even people who don't play games much. The game turned into that legendary game that people who wished knew Japanese, some learned Japanese just play that game. It's the game people played in Japanese without understanding it when they ignored rest of Japanese games. It was always way more popular than any Japanese-only game in existence. Clearly this person has no idea, they believe Racing Lagoon is "hidden gem" as much as the Zero Champ series or way "so rare not many people know" titles like Fire Woman Matoigumi, Kenka Banchou series, Kowloon's Gate, Yuuyami Doori Tankentai, et cetera lol. [/QUOTE]

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