Saturday, October 7, 2023

FRESH (HELL) TRANSLATIONS #1:


Dialogue from the revised fan translation of Final Fantasy VII:


BARRET: The mall's dyin', Cloud!


It should be noted that this translation continually refers to the planet as "mall," "shopping mall," "dying mall," and/or "dead mall."


It struck me as a lot of fan labor to bring Final Fantasy VII into line with contemporary dead mall vibes/discourse-vibecourse-but I thought it worked pretty well.