{"id":55540,"date":"2018-10-17T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/the_world_ends_with_you_final_remix_might_have_borrowed_an_italian_fans_translation"},"modified":"2018-10-17T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:55:00","slug":"the-world-ends-with-you-final-remix-might-have-borrowed-an-italian-fans-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/the-world-ends-with-you-final-remix-might-have-borrowed-an-italian-fans-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Ends With You: Final Remix Might Have Borrowed An Italian Fan&#8217;s Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca57a593bb4db\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca57a593bb4db\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"The World Ends With You\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca57a593bb4db\/the-world-ends-with-you.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ca57a593bb4db\/the-world-ends-with-you.900x.jpg\" alt=\"The World Ends With You\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s arrival of <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/world_ends_with_you_final_remix\"><strong>The World Ends With You: Final Remix<\/strong><\/a> on Nintendo Switch was welcomed with open arms by fans of the original 2007 cult hit on Nintendo DS. One long-time Italian fan known as &#8220;Mewster&#8221; online, loved Square Enix&#8217;s game so much, he began translating the original version to his local language back when he was 16-years old. When the game developer &#8211; now 25-years old &#8211; found out the re-release on Switch would have an official Italian translation, he was overjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Things took a bit of an odd turn, though, when he tuned into a stream to take a look at how the translation process was handled by Square Enix. It wasn&#8217;t long after this that he realised it all looked quite similar to his own work on the original game.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Kotaku, &#8220;Mewtwo&#8221; also known as Francesco said he realised the Switch port had gone as far as placing line breaks in the word balloons &#8211; just like his own translation. Although he hasn&#8217;t seen the entire game on the Switch, the 25-year old developer is confident 90 percent of it borrows from his own efforts. In saying this, he&#8217;s also aware that fan translations are a grey area and clarified he would not be seeking financial compensation from Square Enix:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now I\u2019m only amused to discover I worked (unknowingly) for the game I loved&#8230; This is something I probably will add to my CV, and I\u2019m not interested in making someone pay for something I made so many years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At most, he would like to see Square Enix acknowledge his work:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The best I could hope for is an official acknowledgement of what happened, but I\u2019m happy just in seeing my translation in the official game&#8230; I hope it will remain in the game after all. It means they liked 90% of my translation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>What do you think about this? Is it just a coincidence, or do you think it&#8217;s plausible scenario that the Italian translation in the Switch version has been derived from this fan&#8217;s work on the DS game? Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s arrival of The World Ends With You: Final Remix on Nintendo Switch was welcomed with open arms by fans of the original 2007 cult hit on Nintendo DS. One long-time Italian fan known as &#8220;Mewster&#8221; online, loved Square Enix&#8217;s game so much, he began translating the original version to his local language back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}