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31. Beat a game with a child lead

Illusion of Gaia

I've never played a game that needed a retranslation more. It's just a mess. First of all the tone is all over the place. Half the time the story seem like something from a book for toddlers, and then it's like "how about some scenes about child slave trafficking and the source of human suffering". I mean, having played Soul Blazer before, I'm pretty sure I understand the tone they're going for, it's just not working with this translation.
The scenes are also never developed enough. All the more serious themes are introduced out of the blue and later dropped just as quickly. There's very little in the way of resolution and any resolution we do get is glossed over very briefly.
And dialogue is even worse. It's sometimes completely incoherent with characters saying sentences taken out of thin air relating to absolutely nothing. Sometimes they refer to themselves as "you" and at other times they have intense arguments with themselves. It really feels like whoever translated this had no idea what they were translating, the context of what was being translated, who said what and how anything fit together. If I didn't know better I'd say it was google translated... Except it was released in 1994 so ehum... What? Besides, Google Translate has been more coherent than this for many years now.

The gameplay is fine though...