‘The Ones Who Lived’ Episode 2 Review — One Of The Best ‘Walking Dead’ Episodes In Years, With One Glaring Problemalready covered the excellent demoPut simply, it seems that the localization changes a lot of the intent from the various characters and consequently the game’s story. This is a real shame but by no means the first instance of this happening in gaming.
Localization is a complex and difficult process at the best of times, having people misunderstand their role and try to inject their own creative take on a translation far exceeds their remit and negatively impacts the games they are work on. In that, localization is an important but entirely separate discipline from game development, and if localizers want to make games so badly then they should just apply for actual game development jobs instead.
In the meantime, it seems that arguably one of Vanillaware’s best games is already plagued with interference from people who should have been just translating the game properly.