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To clarify: I don't think all of these are bad translations - I actually think most of them are quite impressive. Nor do I know how much contact the english translation team had with From Software. I wish I did. I'm just doing my best to point out some discrepancies. Getting this video out of the way is important, because now we can be more confident in the english we're reading. If anyone is calling out Frognation for doing a bad job translating, then they're being vacuous.
And yes, I remember Rom is apparently female.
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[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Considering Myazaki made the Souls games to try and capture the feeling he got when reading English fantasy stories when he didn't have good English comprehension, it's actually really appropriate that things in his games get

[@tipoomaster]

I find Micolash's final words cruelly funny. He's worried about forgetting when he wakes up, but when he wakes up, he'll find...Nothing, as he's a long dead corpse in the real world.

[@MrGeremyTibbles]

The Japanese name of Rom could be a reference to Azatoth from Lovecraft's works, as he's referred to as an "Idiot God", who has more power than he knows, and possibly isn't even thinking.

[@futuramarox789]

3:33

[@TheShadowCookie]

"Laurence and the Moon Monsters" sounds like a pretty sweet album cover.

[@JordanSmith-yi3ji]

So, Moon Presence's full name is Flora, the Moon Presence. A sweet sounding name for one of the most terrifying things in Bloodborne.

[@kevinwu1999]

when Vaati mentioned that "The One Reborn" in Japanese means "The Ones Reborn". It made me think that the boss is actually the School of Mensis scholars who tried to commute with Mergo. Not only did they contact Mergo and lose their sanity, but they were also able to elevate themselves to a higher being.

[@AshyGr33n]

Some insight from a trained translator:

[@lionblaze99]

what if the old hunter's bone was Gehrman's amputated leg. It would explain how it gives the quickening ability to those who use it as the quickening was a technique of Gehrman's. It would also explain why the technique was used only by Gehrman's disciples. As eventually the bone and the technique with it, must have been lost when Gehrman's workshop was shut down. Plus the bone looks quite like a human femur, a severed one at that.

[@Shinoyami65]

"The Ones Reborn" makes much more sense, implying that it was an attempt to resurrect all the corpses that make up the creature rather than an attempt to resurrect a nebulous singular entity.

[@BlazingAzureCrow]

Translations aside, I do so enjoy the English voice-overs over the Japanese.

[@CharmS354]

Why can't the betrayed scholar be the Queen herself? That would explain why her blood is so pure and different to not only become immortal but also to make use of the strange blood dregs. Historically it was pretty common for royalty to be educated by colleges, which had largely become exclusionary institutions to justify political power through "education". You couldn't get a government job without a degree, but you couldn't get a degree without a powerful family.

[@TheDirtbaggrif]

So it's the "Tomb Raider" set?

[@alfreid8650]

I think it is admirable that you are digging deeper into the lore by interpreting the original Japanese language Vaati, however as a native Japanese speaker who follows the lore forum down there, I need to tell you that they will prefer the English text and subtext to ascertain most details and sometimes, to even disregard the Japanese. Because of how ambiguous the language can be to describe things it is generally considered better practice to look into the English translations (much like how the Lost Sinner was found a female in DS2). If things are ambiguous in Japanese it is checked in the English version for clarification, not the other way around. The general notion is that Souls series has its roots in English, and whilst other localisations may lose meaning in translation, the English version is considered superior in terms of reference.

[@SuperDrDVD]

Hello,

[@Rhionafarley]

Why couldn't Annalise have been the betrayer? She's the only one we see with regenerative qualities, and as the first of the Vileblood line, the one with the purest of the Vileblood, (being that she would have been the first of them) it makes sense that she would have abilities no other Vileblood had. Such as the ability to regenerate from even a pile of flesh. She is the last of the Vilebloods as well, indicating that the others didn't have that regeneration. And considering the gender neutral change, it's possible the scholar that betrayed Bergenwerth was a woman who realized what kind of power she could gain from the 'forbidden' blood. What better way to become queen of the Vilebloods than become the first and strongest?

[@JVarley9001]

Technically, vacuous also means stupid. It's just a more flowery way of saying it.

[@Arexion5293]

Flora... plantation, the plants of a specific area... Lumenflowers. o.o

[@JPgreekgaming]

Maria's voice in Japanese is incredibly haunting, mesmerizing and captivating. I wish Japanese studios allowed western audiences to choose to keep the original Japanese audio with English subs along with the option for full English dubbing. Beautiful video and thanks for giving us a chance to know Loremaster , he is an amazing guy!

[@HypothermicBacklash]

So a proper translation of Tomb Prospector should make it sound more sinister and/or disrespectful to the tombs themselves? I know, how about Tomb Raider!