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ellis123 posted...

Just because you can confuse translation and localization doesn't matter to my argument. Even Giblet's example isn't a translation issue: it's a localization one. On the left you have a exclamation acting as a battle cry, on the right you have an exclamation acting as a battle cry. Neither of which actually have any meaning. And similarly how all the whining about how "the west is making the women ugly" always brings up the same three pictures it's the same for crappy localizations: Fates is about as famous as it gets for messed up localizations. No one has ever said that crappy localizations don't exist, just that they are vastly overblown in number. For every crappy localization you have a hundred ones that are perfectly fine. And, if anything, the fact that people keep on whining about Japanese games is telling seeing as the overwhelming number of poor localization/translation jobs aren't from Japan.

Arguing semantics whether it's bad translation or bad localization, is missing the point.
There's no reason for such simplistic dialogue to be this different from the Japanese script.