Localization Feedback Request

In Spanish the silver knight should be "Caballero plateado"or" caballero de plata" not "caballero argenteo" and every other mob like silver Wolfman and others, they should change fom "argenteo" to "plateado"

Nobody's talked about the English subtitles (dubtitles) for the Japanese script. Do I really need to air out that laundry again?

In a nutshell: The "subtitles" are in fact a transcript of the English dub, which is a problem, because the dub is comically inaccurate and literally changes characters' personalities at times. The entire thing has to be redone by somebody who isn't prone to inventing speech from thin air or tweaking things to their own personal sense of perfection. It's not just one or two things. It's effectively the whole darn transcript.

I will now copy+paste my analysis of the first significant conversation that takes place in the game. Most have already seen this, but since my thread is buried and this is the official item, I am behooved.

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Japanese: ジーベル！ やっぱりあなたなの？ どうしてこんなこと？
Translation: Gebel! So it was you? How could you do this?
English script: Gebel! Tell me you didn't do this. It doesn't make any sense!

(Get used to this sort of "restructuring", because it is the literal majority of cases.)

Japanese: 「どうして」？ 人間達が俺達にしたことを考えるなら分かるだろう？
Translation: "How"? Considering what humans did to us, you should understand.
English script: How does it not? After all the sins humans wrought upon us?

Japanese: 十年前の出来事なら、ヨハネスから聞いた。
Translation: If you mean the incident from 10 years ago, Johannes told me about it.
English script: Johannes told me what they did to you.

Okay, fine, sure, leave out half of the dialogue. It was unneeded fluff anyway. I'm sure nobody playing the game in Japanese with subtitles will catch on to the fact that Miriam sure seems to be saying a lot more than what the given translation suggests. (Also: Everyone in the English cast pronounces Johannes with a "J", making them more or less unique among people who use that name. The Japanese cast gets this right.)

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Japanese: 「人間ではない」っか。あなたからその言葉を聞くとは思わなかったわ。
Translation: "Not human." I never thought I'd hear those words from you.
English script: What...? I never thought I'd hear those words from you.

Here the most tangible issue, beyond the routinely arbitrary decision to replace one sentence of dialogue outright, is the fact that Miriam is maintaining her stern expression during this moment, so the interjection "What...?", which is a raised-eyebrows-surprised sort of expression, is absolutely not a match for the given facial expression. And this disconnect in turn subtly redefines Miriam's personality.

Japanese: 覚えてる？ それは昔、私があなたに言った言葉よ。
Translation: Do you remember the words you spoke to me long ago?
English script: I was the one that came to you broken, convinced I was a monster. And you told me--

Japanese: そんなことは--
Translation: That matters not--
English script: This is nonsense.

Japanese: どうでも良くない！
Translation: It does matter!
English script: You TOLD ME!

Japanese: 生きる希望を失っていた私は、あなたの言葉に勇気付けられたの！
Translation: I had lost the will to live, and your words gave me courage!
English script: Our power doesn't make us good or bad. Our choices do.

Japanese: 「力そのものは善悪はない。力の使い方に善悪があるんだ」って。思い出して、ジーベル！
Translation: You said, "It's not power itself that's good or evil, it's how one uses that power." Please remember, Gebel!
English script: I'd given up on my humanity, but you restored my hope. Don't you remember!?

Let's break this down.

Japanese: Do you remember the words you spoke to me long ago? | That matters not-- | It does matter! I had lost the will to live, and your words gave me courage. You said, "It's not power itself that's good or evil, it's how one uses that power." Please remember, Gebel!

English script: I was the one that came to you broken, convinced I was a monster. And you told me-- | This is nonsense. | You TOLD ME! Our power doesn't make us good or bad. Our choices do. I'd given up on my humanity, but you restored my hope. Don't you remember!?

Here are the problems with this reordering and restructuring, beyond the basic lack of necessity of moving lines of dialogue around like this:

1: Gebel is now the one who interrupts Miriam, instead of the other way around. And Miriam's response to this interruption makes it look like she got snippy at being interrupted. Right off the bat, we've reordered personalities, changing which character is likely to interrupt someone talking in order to make a point.

2: There is nothing in the original dialogue at this moment that provides that Miriam had "given up on her humanity" or that she was "convinced she was a monster". She had "given up on living" -- nothing more elaborate than that. The extra details given in the English script were, at most, intended to be derived conclusions left up to the player to interpret, but here they are spelled out for us, which in turn signals a change in Miriam's personality where she is willing to belabor the specifics of her painful past.

3: The change made to the quoted words spoken by Gebel is an unneeded truncation which drastically steals from the importance of the given sentence.

4: The last line of dialogue has been changed from specifically Gebel's quoted words to the explanation of what those words meant to Miriam. This is an important distinction because the last sentence in this line is a plea for Gebel to remember. So in the Japanese, she's specifically asking Gebel to remember the words he spoke, and in the English, this specificity is thrown out the window and the plea to remember is either generalized or is asking Gebel to remember how his words gave her hope. Further, in the original Japanese, this section of the dialogue specifically begins with Miriam asking if Gebel remembers the words he spoke, but that introductory component is totally gone in the English script.

5: The final plea to remember has been changed to an accusation. Just another personality tweak to add to the pile.

Well, actually we have made a fixed Chinese L10N mod already

Sorry but the "improved" Chinese localization in Switch v1.02 is just as bad as v1.01. Though fixed some issues, it introduces a lot of new issues.

Honestly I think you should stop wasting money on whoever is doing the Chinese translation for the game. ricose7en has provided a much much better Chinese mod at bloodstained.forums.net/post/71207/thread.

I think it can save you a lot of trouble, time, and money to just contact ricose7en to see if you can use this mod on all platforms. I assume he/she is willing to grant you the usage of it at a much lower price than what you are paying to your translation partner right now.