quick questions: Where are you two getting this information about Sister travel getting a reboot/remake? And how does the explorer demo imply it's a sequel to Travel when the main MC and heroine looks to be completely different from Travel? How are you connecting these seemingly unconnected dots??
Translation necessarily has a creative component, as languages do not not map 1-1 to each other, and cultures all have their different ways of expressing things, let alone references to obscure things that audiences in another language have absolutely no hope of knowing about. But there are very much differences in attitudes towards how those challenges should be handled. I can't help but think of a little event in Persona 4 that really captures this for me (so much that I have this screenshot of it from forever ago).
I understand that some creative liberties need to be taken to make a translation read well, my issue is with translations that try to undermine the authorial intent, mess with characterization, make things more "palatable", etc. When a translator makes an alteration to a script because they personally didn't like the original message, that seems kinda shitty to me. I think the best translations are the ones that try to preserve the original message as much as possible, and let the viewer/reader/player decide for themselves how to feel about it.
If we're talking about obscure idioms, sure. If we're talking about puzzles that would otherwise be impossible to solve, also fair game. But don't touch the overall plot or characters. I wouldn't bother playing a plot-heavy game outside of MTL unless I gave a shit about what's going on. And I'd reason that the guy who wrote the characters/scenes/plot for the game dumped a shit ton of hours into making a long ass story because they give a shit about the plot and want you to give a shit about the plot. To have a half-assed localization that ignores the creator's intended experience feels insulting to the effort that went into the game.
It's all inferrence. I'm not saying Travel itself is getting remade or anything, but the plots from Travel and Fantasy are not consistent with each other despite the ending of Fantasy implying it's going to continue on into Travel (Although a big part of this could be a faulty localization from Kagura). Meanwhile, Explorer's demo implies pretty strongly that it's a direct sequel to Travel, with a neat story gimmick to excuse why it's you and a random girl to start with. Since Travel's story was probably made as a once off thing to excuse a plot that lets a character fuck a bunch of imouto stereotypes, but Fantasy is trying to tie it all into a single franchise universe, it's safer to let the newer games bring up what parts of Travel's plot still matter.
Heh, I quite like your edit point. It goes the other way, too: writing with a "global" audience in mind can impose a lot of restrictions on a Japanese writer. 9 years in, the only mobage I play still has no English version, and it's almost certainly better for it; the sensitivities can be quite different indeed.
That's unfortunate for Inusuku. Guess we should make an even more concerted effort to purchase the game directly when it drops.
Use winlator and for you question "who knows", i think is better stop waiting
They highly depend on Winlator version and your phone. Try defaults at first then try to tweak some stuff. I think i posted my settings and someone else theirs here before earlier. Try searching.
It's not that monochrome has "too much more nudity and h content", the problem with a steam release is that unlike fantasy which has the guild quests and combat system, monochrome only has the nudity and h content, there won't be any game left to play if you remove it, and if you don't remove it like they did with fantasy then they won't approve it.
Just set your winlator to this and you can run the game
