PaperSplash

He/they. Striving to be the most sane Paper Mario and Pokémon fan. Also a general Mario enjoyer. I enjoy talking about localization, dubs and voice actors too.

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

"How come Americans write the month first?"
"That's how you say it, month first"
"What's the date today?"
"It's the fourth of July"

[PaperSplash @PaperSplash]

@saving_ohara @GamingXperience There's also the question of how this version ended up on a Japanese release as well: @saving_ohara had originally found it on a rental VHS of "Can You Say All the Pokémon-neo?" of all things. Maybe it's an earlier demo that found its way onto those releases? I'm not sure though.

[PaperSplash @PaperSplash]

@saving_ohara @GamingXperience A friend of mine raised the possibility that the rapper here might actually be Russell Velázquez rather than a UK-based singer. I'm not too sure about that myself – it doesn't quite sound like him to me – but the rapper also doesn't sound particularly British to me.

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

Lakitu's Japanese name, Jugemu, is taken from a folk tale about a boy with an extremely long name. However, the name is so absurdly long that several other Lakitu-related names were also taken from different parts of it, and it still has space for more references in the future.

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

Something in this room needs addressing.

[Neil Broadley, SaGa Localization Director @SaGa_NeilB]

One fun aspect of localization is the adoption of “wasei ego” (non-nativeEnglish terms made in Japan) into common English parlance. The biggest one is “level up.” In the 70s/80s everyone use “gained/advanced a level,” but the JP term was so punchy it was immediately adopted!

[ポテト Skeb募集中！ @animekki]

#StarFox

[PaperSplash @PaperSplash]

@KirbyCheatFurby I'm guessing this is to avoid alienating more casual players especially with the FOMO of them being limited-time?

[Sunny @KoopTroopBeach]

This might be the first time Nintendo has aknowledged the Super Mario All Stars version of the song in a long time wow.

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

In a 2010 interview, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the reason so many Mario enemies have repetitive names in Japanese (and by extension in English, e.g. Koopa Troopa, Cheep Cheep) is in honor of Takashi Tezuka, who calls himself "Ten Ten".

[VizorFlarf @ViVaVizor]

I lamented the frail body I was dealt

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, an unused room takes Mario and Luigi through a time portal into a white void. This inadvertently highly resembles the classic SpongeBob SquarePants episode "SB-129", where the same exact scenario happens to Squidward.

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

Scott Burns voiced Bowser in his famous voiced appearance in Super Mario Sunshine. Upon request by @GamingReinvent, he voice acted the intro to the final boss battle from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, providing a glimpse into a world where he had remained Bowser's voice.

[ヤマトコアラ @KoaraYmt]

ちょっと描いた
DK &ポリーン。

大人ポリーンとの絡み、もっと見たい。
#ドンキーコング #DonkeyKong
#ポリーン #Pauline

[HalKozy Video Updates and More! @HalKozyYT]

This is my second copyright strike this year over a video protected by Fair Use and Free Speech in the United States, and it's a video I posted FIVE YEARS AGO. Why Fuji TV waited that long is beyond me.

@TeamYouTube Please have a human review this. This is protected by Fair Use.

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

Super Mario Odyssey and Donkey Kong Bananza (without paid DLC) have almost exactly the same structure in terms of distribution of major, medium and minor areas. In addition, both have 17 areas total, out of which 7 are of particular significance.

[heavy team fortres 2 @heavyfortres]

valve has so much power they're getting people to violently drop their high demand sold out controller

[Michael Julius @juliusaurus]

I figured it out

[PauLNooB @PauLNooB_20]

Social Anxiety…