VIP Translation Community Questionairre - Missing Boxes?

[peteyboo]

I would say to keep it as Stupid Horse with an explanation in a text box. raocow is a huge reason any part of the English-speaking world even knows about the VIPs and it's a lot easier for us English-speaking people to say Stupid Horse rather than detteiu.

Also, I always thought the sound was more like "bweem-boo" or something like that.

[AUS]

Oh hell yeah, keep it as Stupid Horse. Same reasoning on keeping the other thing as Dodge the Beefsteak.

It's funnier.

[pholtos]

Agreed on calling it stupid horse.

[AlchemistHohenheim]

I would say to keep it as Stupid Horse with an explanation in a text box. raocow is a huge reason any part of the English-speaking world even knows about the VIPs and it's a lot easier for us English-speaking people to say Stupid Horse rather than detteiu.

I agree with this.

Also, I always thought the sound was more like "bweem-boo" or something like that.

Japanese onomatopoeia tend to differ pretty wildly from how westerners perceive them, for whatever reason. For instance, the sound dogs make when they bark is written down as "wan wan" in Japanese, as opposed to "ruff ruff" or "arf".

[RobinLSL]

Never understood how those Japanese hear "detteiu", to me any onomatopeia for this sound would require two syllables and not three!

"stupid horse" is a good translation as far as people/level names talking about Yoshi, but when Yoshi actually says "detteiu" it sounds really strange (for me) to have Yoshi insult himself by saying anything involving stupid horses. And I don't have a good idea to compensate for that...

[vgboy]

In VIP5, I translated the nickname as "horse" and the sound as "Yo-shi!", so yeah.

[Octagon]

Judging from the explanation, these seem to be fairly analogous memes, so I think "stupid horse" would be a fitting translation...

Japanese onomatopoeia tend to differ pretty wildly from how westerners perceive them, for whatever reason. For instance, the sound dogs make when they bark is written down as "wan wan" in Japanese, as opposed to "ruff ruff" or "arf".

Even among related languages, onomatopoieia tend to differ a lot - in German, "Wau" (pronounced kinda like the English "Vow") is the most common onomatopoieia for a dog's bark, along with "Wuff" (quite similar to "Woof).

[swirlybomb]

I would personally see no reason not to include the message boxes, as long as they're not in the way or anything.

I'd also vote for "stupid horse", but I think that's already been definitively decided.

[Septentrion Pleiades]

I don't see the importance of translating messages not in the game. I think the best use of extra message boxes is to allow more room for the message already in the game.

[aterraformer]

It kind of bothered me when I had to open Lunar Magic to find out what the text box said. Please include in level just to make things easier!

[RobinLSL]

Add the message boxes! I don't see how it could do anything bad.

[Octagon]

To me, your explanations of memes and translation choices make the game feel like it was an "annotated version" already, so I think you might as well add the text boxes. In my opinion, such background information nearly always adds to the enjoyment...