Comments on: Nintendo and subtitles: Confirms Dragon Quest V, teases with Shiren 3

By: See Shirenâ€™s (3rd) opening movie : wow gold

See Shirenâ€™s (3rd) opening movie : wow gold — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:33:32 +0000

[...] Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer: The Sleeping Princess in the Clockwork Palace, as its called on Nintendo’s financial report, is about to come out in Japan. That means its time for Sega to start promoting it and they are [...]

By: See Shirenâ€™s (3rd) opening movie : Phper Home

See Shirenâ€™s (3rd) opening movie : Phper Home — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:42:10 +0000

By: Lakupo

Lakupo — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:25:18 +0000

Oh man, oh man, oh man!!!! :O :O :O

Karakuri is in katakana, so it might be a proper name, but karakuri can also mean mechanism and device (just look at the gear or chainsaw looking sword on the Shiren 3 website). “The clockwork palace” is a perfectly fine localization for it. I think this means we might get it.

By: Lord Gek

Lord Gek — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:31:59 +0000

Okay, I got you, I just so hope it really does mean something. I hate how in this day and age game companies can’t say the MIGHT PORT a game or that it SHOULD BE RELEASED AROUND MONTH X. Unless they’ve cleared it with the legal department as done deals they can only talk about the game’s port status once it is ALREADY a done deal. So even if, I can dream dammit, Shiren 3 is a likely possibility Sega won’t say shit until it is already well into production with at least a rough release date projected.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:56:59 +0000

@Lord Gek – I’m not saying get your hopes up, but you pointed out why the Shiren 3 subtitle could be significant while the Tecmo translation isn’t. Look how natural each of them sounds to say in English.

The Shiren 3 subtitle feels “localized” by someone. That someone might be an employee at Nintendo who translated this or Sega. We don’t know, but the subtitle is also different from the literal Japanese translation. If the person translating the list used rough translations why wouldn’t they call it Shiren the Wanderer 3: The Sleeping Princess in Karakuri Mansion?

Anyways, it’s just something interesting to note… and look out for.

By: Lord Gek

Lord Gek — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:33:07 +0000

I want so hard to believe this means something significant regarding Shiren 3, but, by this logic, we also should expect to see Tecmo’s “Misa Yamamura Suspense: Three Flowers Whirling Around the Old Capital – Kyoto Murder Case Files”, right? This is clearly a completely English version of a title (although, sure, it is far beyond awkwardly retarded sounding) but I’m assuming that is just because this is the English version of that report and IF they could whip out a rough English translation of a title in this report they did so.

By: Dr. Slump

Dr. Slump — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:04:58 +0000

Yay for DQ5. I don’t have a Wii so I probably won’t get to play Shiren 3.

By: jeffx

jeffx — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:04:35 +0000

I love those Shiren odds.