Luca’s rhetorical repetition of a key phrase in this speech is completely lost in the official localization. I did my best to restore it. This text has spoilers for Cloche’s Cosmosphere.

Luca(0) :26:26: 
JP::貴方自身が『ルカ』や民衆を疑うのは、
貴方が自分に自信がないから。
EN::The reason why you doubt "Luca" and the 
civilians is because you have no self confidence.
NEW:You yourself mistrust "Luca" and the 
citizenry because you have no confidence.

Luca(0) :27:27: 
JP::貴方自身が、彼女に劣等感を抱いているから。
EN::It's because you don't believe in yourself.
NEW:You yourself harbor feelings of inferiority to her.

Luca(0) :28:28: 
JP::貴方自身が、御子じゃないと思っているから。
EN::It's because you think you're not the Maiden.
NEW:You yourself think you are not the Maiden.

I keep rereading this official localization to make sure it’s as confused as I think it is. It’s a miniature masterpiece of nonsense.

Luca(0) :24:24: 
JP::貴方が御子であることを、世界一否定しているのは、
貴方自身なのよ！
EN::You're the one who doesn't approve of you the
most out of anyone in this world is yourself!
NEW:In this world, the one who most vehemently 
denies that you are the Maiden... is you!

Croix(3) :1:1:
JP::ルカを探してるんだ。
アマリエ、見なかったか？
EN::I'm　looking　for　Cloche.
Have　you　seen　her?
NEW:I'm　looking　for　Luca.
Have　you　seen　her?

A defining idiosyncracy of the character Infel is that she tends to make abysmal puns, usually at the worst possible moments. As I translate Cloche’s Cosmosphere, I’ve been having a lot of fun coming up with English puns that are similar in meaning and in groan-inducement to the originals.

Of course, it’s disappointing that the official localization seems to miss that they’re jokes at all, or just gives up on trying to localize them as jokes. This drains a lot of Infel’s personality. It also creates strange situations, where Infel says something completely normal, and Croix responds with an awkward silence and then “this is not a time for joking around…”

I would like to post up my joke-alizations, but I don’t want to give away their awfulness before you get a chance to hear them in the game. 😀

Luca(0) :44:44: 
JP::クローシェ様は、私と一緒にいて御子の地位を得る代わりに、自らの自由を私に売り渡した。
EN::She promised to stay with me,
and gave me her position in exchange for her freedom.
NEW:She gave up her freedom to me,
in order to be with me and to take the role of Maiden.

Rumor has it (ugh, confirmed) that NISA is localizing Sakura Taisen V. I love Sakura Taisen profoundly. For the better part of a decade I’ve wished my non-Japanese-speaking friends could enjoy the ST series. But…

It’s taking quite a bit of self-control for me to state this calmly. Here goes.

Nippon Ichi Software America, you keep your filthy mitts off of Sakura Taisen.

This was discovered by one of our translators, Kensou.

Reish(151) :52:52:
JP::……さあ、どこからでもかかってらっしゃい。
EN::Bring it on, Mitsubiyotchi！
NEW:All right, show me what you've got!

We think this kind of clumsy, crass humor doesn’t fit the spirit of the game at all. Wouldn’t we have bought the heartfelt story that was there in the first place?

Leading off of the last post, ARM has a new forum due to…issues.

http://artonelico.isisview.org

Spread the good word, everyone.

I have just started installing a new forum in case weezy’s doesn’t come back. It should appear here shortly:

http://metafalica.metalbat.com/bb

I have to get to work, but I’ll check up on it as soon as I can. This is my own paid hosting space, so hopefully we should be at less of a risk that someone is going to dislike what we do there. Even so, let’s be careful about what we post for the time being, until I can secure a members-only area for the project.

Update: It turns out the whole thing was an ill-advised April Fool’s joke. Well, I’ve got this new forum anyway. It’s in Vanilla this time, because phpBB was perturbing my user-experience-designer side:

http://at2.metalbat.com/bb

aquagon from the translation team here!

And I’m pleased to announce that Phase 1 (the longest of the 5 phases the game has), has been translated completely!

Still, that doesn’t mean the translation is nearing its end, given that these translated scripts need to be checked and edited, and there is still a lot of material still to be translated (cosmospheres, menu texts, synthesis conversation, among others), but we hope to progress as quickly as we can.

And about the translation,I have found something curious in the later scenes of Phase 1:

More than once, the characters call the land created by Metafalica “Gaea” in the localized version, when in the original one, they called it simply “大陸” (land or continent), and the equivalent JP term for Gaea (魔大陸, which means “Demon/Magical/Mystical Continent”) doesn’t actually appear until much, much later. For example:

Croix(3) :49:49:
JP::俺が、大陸に上り、上で何が起こっているかを見てきます。
EN::Ｉ’ｌｌ　ｇｏ　ｕｐ　ｉｎｔｏ　Ｇａｅａ，　ａｎｄ　ｓｅｅ　ｗｈａｔ’
ｓ　ｇｏｉｎｇ　ｏｎ．
NEW:Ｉ’ｌｌ　ｇｏ　ｕｐ　ｉｎｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　ｃｏｎｔｉｎｅｎｔ，　ａｎｄ
ｓｅｅ　ｗｈａｔ’ｓ　ｇｏｉｎｇ　ｏｎ．

I would call it somewhat spoilerish…