After only a five month lag since its U.S. and Japanese releases, Nintendo announced today that Super Paper Mario for the Wii will be released across the continent of Europe on September 14, 2007.
In case you haven't had a chance to pick the game up, it's quite delectable and well worth checking out. One of its strongest points in the American version was its witty, tongue-in-cheek localization courtesy of head translator Nate Bihldorff. Given that Final Fantasy and other relatively text-heavy games often take far longer than this to translate into one language (English), it's rather impressive that NOE can ready this game for release in at least five (UK English, French, German, Spanish and Italian) in as many months. If their work can stand up to the quality of the U.S. localization, Europeans should be in for a tasty treat, indeed.
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7-31-2007 @ 12:05PM
danny. said...
Prepare to find yourself having fun until slowly realizing how tedious and unfun the title actually is...
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7-31-2007 @ 12:07PM
Dan said...
It would be great though if they could just make more copies of the English translation and ship them to the UK and Ireland. I think we could get over the American/UK English language barrier...
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7-31-2007 @ 12:17PM
vidGuy said...
Fun game with almost no replay value. Anyone want to buy my copy for $30?
Actually, I'm selling it to Gamestop next week, soon as I finish chapter 8.
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7-31-2007 @ 12:28PM
seetrapp said...
Sell it to Gamestop if you want to get ripped off. Find a smaller used game trader. Get mo moolah.
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7-31-2007 @ 12:36PM
Rocketman said...
You are correct, sir.
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7-31-2007 @ 12:39PM
Espen said...
Oh Nintendo, why must you try so hard to make me hate you? I want this game no matter what the comments here say, but NoE really know how to fuck their customers over.
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7-31-2007 @ 1:32PM
Archibold said...
@dan
That's pretty much how I felt. I realised how after a ilttle bit, I was playing the game just to play the game (i.e. not having all too much fun). However, I only rented it from gamefly. Perhaps I'll give it another try sometime in the future, but not while it is still full price.
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7-31-2007 @ 2:09PM
scfruity said...
old news - this was announced at e3
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7-31-2007 @ 6:42PM
Nate Mallory said...
@Dan, I can't imagine they'll alter the American version TOO much for the UK, but you'd be in a better place to tell me if they do that.
But after the whole Mario Party 8 debacle, you can bet your sweet spastic @$$ they'll be triple checking its contents!
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7-31-2007 @ 9:02PM
truespin said...
I do localisation for a living and saying that 5 months is quick is an absolute lie!
Maybe it is a relatively fast turn around compared to other video games but it is by no means fast...
And it doesn't matter whether you're localising into one language or 10 for timescale - it takes the same amount of time as you'll do all languages at once and just have 10 localisers (or more than one per language depending on budget/time constraints) - the QA *might* take a bit longer but probably not
An entire computer operating system can get localised 5 months and that is *much* more text heavy!
And the reason we *have* to wait for the 5 euro languages to be ready before games are sold in the UK is because of EU law... Quite often the Americanised spellings (colour z's instead of s's etc.) aren't even changed for a UK release...
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7-31-2007 @ 9:28PM
Nate Mallory said...
@truespin,
Yes, I was speaking for localization time periods relative to other text-heavy games... But I'm curious, what is it about EU law that causes such a large delay?
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7-31-2007 @ 9:48PM
Mr Khan said...
@ Espen
Maybe in the past, but the Euros have little to complain about now. Y'all got Strikers Charged (which is surprisingly different from its prequel, yet still excellent), and the Tingle game ahead of us
Of course y'all still have the big 3 dated as TBA as far as i know, which does have to suck
I enjoyed the game, and if you want replay value, try beating the pit of 100 trials, the first one's fun, the second one is just irritatingly tough
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8-02-2007 @ 7:58AM
Tim said...
I hate the sheer stupidity of all this. Australia gets lumped into the same region as Europe, so we have to wait 5 damn months just to get some extra languages that only about 3% of the population is going to use.
Not to mention all those pointless changes they see fit to make to the most obscure things. Eledees? What was so freaking wrong with Elebits?!
Why is localization such a tedious and painful process?!
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