I already use DeepL when I have to. it's pretty good. I don't limit myself to just one program or source. if I really need to usse the machine to get a words meaning I like to get several opinions on what the word means. DeepL is just one of many sources i use.
I definitely concur. I prefer to do the translations myself as I actually speak the language but it can be slow and multiple machine translations can help speed things up pointing me in the right direction quicker than looking up a bunch of characters/words/pharses I am perhaps less familiar with (or if I was not following the context; remember often the text used during translation is not ordered the same as during game playback).
Really tried to play this game, but the machine translations are a bit too difficult to understand and takes me right out of the mood to even continue playing. Half the time I'm trying to make sense of what I'm reading given the context, the other half I'm trying not to laugh my ass off, quotes like "My mother is a sheep." for example had me nearly on the floor and killed my arousal lol.
It can be rather amusing how badly awry machine transitions can be. Without seeing the original text, I am guessing "My mother is a sheep." was meant to be something more along the lines of "My mother is a real beauty." or similar. This perhaps is related to a word like
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which includes the character for beauty
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which is in turn related to the character for sheep
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. That comes from Chinese but the Japanese use it. My understanding of he original etymology is that early Chinese thought nice fat sheep were good things and women with a little padding were great too and made a correlation. It is interesting how the sheep character is used in a number of confusing ways. Another example
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, a type of dessert. It is typically made with a seaweed based gelatin called agar but apparently when the Japanese originally got it from the Chinese they used animal, specially sheep gelatin and it was called "sheep soup/juice" and thus the name even today.
This is why it really helps to know something of the culture from the original language to help understand the original text and help apply good translation sense--something machine AI has trouble with.