The recent interview shines some light Animal crossroadsInitially, it shows that the English version has received almost a different title. Alive Animal crossroads The series is now considered the favorite of the record configuration fan, and in the early days of working in the English version, there were some unique complications.
Animal crossroads It was originally a title Dobutsu no moreIn Japan, I had the title. Literally translated Animal forestThis is quite different from the title of the end of the audience who speak English. Now, for the game, discussions with the members of the localization team have talked about almost different titles.
Former Nintendo Localization Manager talks with Animal Crossing
Dobutsu no more at last Animal crossroads It was almost called in the west Animal. Leslie Swan, a former Nintendo localization manager, includes work in relation to her time expansion in her time in an industry working with work firms. Animal crossroads. According to SWAN, a lot of names have been made about the translated version of the title, and her favorite being Animal It reminds you of the aker because of the town grid of the original game. SWAN also wanted the team to maintain “animals” and “forest” as part of the title, but it was not effective.
The title is interesting enough in itself, but SWAN explained in detail the difficulties in the localization of the game. Animal crossroads The content of the game has been a much bigger challenge than many games that have been done before, “because it depends on Japan.” She mentioned that the team should change the names of all characters and reinstate the catchphrase, game events and items. Obviously, the challenge of localization was well known by Nintendo Higher-ups. When Nintendo Dev Takashi Tezuka was published to SWAN, he warned that it would be difficult to localize the game. A few months later, when the localization project was released to SATORU IWATA, he said he didn't know what the team could do and didn't know what he could do.
Obviously, the work the team put in the original Animal crossroads result. The initial game did not achieve much success in the West, but the following results were followed, and afterwards, more releases continued to grow as they reached the player. Final release Animal Intersection: New Horizon I saw this series a hit worldwide. New horizon During the sales record, it became a popular way to gamers during the epidemic period. The series has been a long way, but the foundation set in the original English release of the Gamecube title has been on this day.
Animal crossroads

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September 16, 2002
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Nintendo
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Nintendo
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