Worst Translations that Aren't in English.

[Crössγ44]

Everyone knows about that in the past, translating a game into english was mediocre at best, and hilarious at its lowest ( the first Zelda, the entirety of Capcom and Konami game, etc.). But now I've been thinking about other languages, what are some of the worst translations in your native languages? It can be a phrase, dub, even something that became a meme in your country, it just has to be official.

 

[Felipe]

Unfortunately i can think only about an english one. Like the one in your pic above. (it wasnt to avoid english? :P)

Onimusha 3: Jacques Blanc (the character of Jean Reno) says "Adieu" (goodbye in english) twice to Phillip, his friend that died (it happens in the beginning of the game).

The first "Adieu" was translated as "Rest in Peace".

The second "Adieu" was translated as "My Friend".

I wonder how many bad translations were done in the game. This is surely a game that deserves a re-translation.

 

[Frickinfrik]

Probably, the original Spanish translation of Silent Hill. I heard it wasn’t very good.

 

[Yousef's iconYousef]

Some Arabic translations are really mediocre and feel like victim of inexperience. It’s fine though, the passion is clearly there.

 

[Takeuchi]

Not a translation error but in the portuguese translated ROM of Aladdin (SNES) by Capcom there was a bug that just made the first boss undefeatable. In the game, he starts attacking the player fiercely once a hit is landed on him and he's invincible while attacking on that state but is supposed to stop after a few seconds or after being hit by an apple. Not in the portuguese ROM, where he just attacks non-stop keeping the invincible state forever and the player can't do anything but watch, which made finishing the game an impossible task to brazilians kids back then

 

[Lee__Kanker]

In the italian translation of bayonetta they just Dont sub the line "I better have gotten frequent flyier miles off that one" (or something like that")

And they translate The Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude saying "My apologies then" to "Oh well, sorry"

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Also because Pokemon's critical hit is foerever translated as "Bad hit!" (bad as in Rough) while every other rpg says "critical"
They were translated by I think One woman whom had no context for anything

 

[TentaclesMod]

Thing is, although english translations in the past could be rather suboptimal, other languages often didn't get translations at all. I think spanish translations only became common around the playstation era, but it was far from applying to all games. Point is, other languages had less bad translations because other languages had less translations, period.

With that said, the original FF7 spanish translation is infamous.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Thing is, although english translations in the past could be rather suboptimal, other languages often didn't get translations at all. I think spanish translations only became common around the playstation era, but it was far from applying to all games. Point is, other languages had less bad translations because other languages had less translations, period.

With that said, the original FF7 spanish translation is infamous.

FF7 didnt get translated into italian AT ALL, people just importesd the pal uk version; and very few italians know english at a level above elementary\middle school let alone in 1996

I could make a frustrated laundry list of rpgs that didn't come out in italy

• Shadow Hearts
• Valkyrye Profile
• Popolocrois psp
• Beyond the beyond
• Brave Fencer Musashi
• Chrono Cross
• Dragon Quest 7
• Dragon Seeds
• The Atelier Iris trilogy
• Grandia 3 and Xtreme
• The .hack games
• Deception 3
• Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
• Vanguard Bandits
• All the tail games (I think, or most of em)
• Xenogears...
• I CAN GO ON AND ON AND ON