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Zoids Saga II review

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Zoids Saga II: A Sequel with Terrible Localization Covers of the original Japanese and the localized version for international release      When it comes to foreign games, translation comes a bit too far behind. Especially when you consider the current trend of how localizers nowadays injected street slangs that are locally known only in the West that if you retranslate the translated JP->English, Kr-> English for example, you ended up getting the results in somewhat gibberish as each country has their own local slangs, culture, and so on. This one is one of the case of horribly translated localization case. When I say horrible, I didn't mean the plot, I'm talking about the case of a lot of typos, tendency to use the Americanized version for names or mistranslation for character's name. Let's get into this deep, shall we? What the Game is About      The game takes you in the role of a young man. You are Zeru or Zell Jupit, a 14 years old mercenary who...
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Zoids Saga review

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 Zoids Saga review: The First in Saga Trilogy The gaming era of 2000s in my country in Indonesia is wild. You could have games like Grand Theft Auto, Counter Strike, Doom or games like Sonic, Mario, Golden Sun, Lunar, Mana series and then...we have games like the one above. We also have games like Kao the Kangaroo, Tomato Adventures, Snap Kids, and so on but I'm getting ahead of myself here. Released in 30 November 2001, Zoids Saga was released exclusively in Japan. It was the first entry in the installment series that later on evolved into full trilogy series with Fuzor being the last entry of the trilogy following Zoids: Fuzor TV series timeline while the DS is a remake of the original with some change of plot from the original. This and Zoids VS became the only trilogies in the game franchise.  The game takes you in the perspective of a 12 years old prince named Atory (Athle) Arcadia. The Arcadia Kingdom has been known as one of the neutral kingdom supporting neither sides....
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