Board 8 > Platinum #245: Song of Memories

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/8609-song-of-memories/ArcticCress
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Song-of-Memories/trophies?gamerid=5963

It's sad how a bad localization can ruin what is a pretty good story in this visual novel.

Before I get into that part, the story in the game is good. It tends to be on the long side, though, and has a number of routes that seem unnecessary to the main plot of the game. Still, it was enjoyable for a good portion of the game length. The platinum requires you to make every choice at every opportunity, so there's a lot of dialogue to go through.

The localization does its best to ruin the story, though. There are typos present all over the place, especially in the later chapters. Contractions in the later chapters are all written which huge blocks of space in between letters, for no apparent reason. Every movement on the world map has the directions in the wrong word order, and one of the areas is mislabeled as the 'ROTOM HQ', so I guess they're now Pokemon fans. Several places lines are attributed to the wrong character, and it's obvious as all lines are voiced. Plus, a line is completely skipped as the trigger for the line actually came up in the text box. The album also uses completely nonsensical button explanations - no, I don't want to view the screenshot, I want to 'revive' it, apparently. It's clear the localizers never tested the game to see if their translation worked because a lot of the problems would easily have been found and fixed if they took some time to do so. Considering I just played Raging Loop, another visual novel that PQube localized the same year, and it had none of these problems, it's strange that this game has this many problems in it.

At least the (second) opening is very good, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2WKNurgNe8

Hopefully the next game I get a platinum in I don't have a full paragraph worth of complaints about it..

A true Melody of Memories