discussion Do you play your VN's always in English or in your mother's language, if supported?

[Maggy]

Do you play your VN's always in English or in your mother's language, if supported?

 

[red.ruby]

In English, for some reason i dont like in my mother's language haha

 

[draspen]

I prefer English for most media I watch/read/listen to, I feel like some context may be lost in translation and I understand English well enough. It's a way to practice your language skill as well.

VNs are rarely translated to my language anyway.

 

[Zireaelehy]

English every time, let's say the vocabulary of my mother's language have a big, no a huge variety of words that can be used in the spice moments and the translations aways leave to desire using them, and I can say, the people how usually make the translations to my language are lazy, always with google translate copy paste, so many times the text doesn't even make any sense.

 

[Djehuty]

In English, for some reason i dont like in my mother's language haha

Same. I guess it's been so many years that it feels weird playing these games in any other language. And weirdly the same happens with voice acting but with japanese.

 

[Levius]

English all the time. Media translated in my language is mostly superficially translated or using machine translation, so I would not enjoy it very much.

 

[User_80256]

In English. The one exception is Bright Past. The developer is Russian-speaking, his Russian is very good and Russian remains our lingua franca in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and surprisingly, Ukraine.

 

[HZeroH]

In English, for some reason i dont like in my mother's language haha

Me too! i find the dialogue kinda cringe in my mother's language.

 

[Maggy]

I prefer English too, although it's not my mother's language.

 

[DSmith]

English, but that's because I'm monolingual. (Wait, is it monolingual or sololingual since speaking more than one language is multilingual instead of polylingual?)

 

[rteelv]

Reading VN's in my mother's language always feels kinda cringey. Not because of poor traslations, just the overall experience becomes really weird

 

[misaki002]

In english i like it more… It just “sounds” way cooler for some reason

 

[Dorya11]

english because i'm almost certain no one will ever translate a game for our language lol

 

[Landskrona84]

English, something just sound bad in my language

 

[tral]

In my mother's language and very rarely in English

 

[Whazzup]

Dutch is my mother language, and so far I haven't found any AVN that had a dutch option. Even if it had though, I'd probably go for English because I find it easier to read.

 

[zagreus]

English since most of them seem to be made in that language from the beginning and translations are usually not very reliable

 

[mikster]

In English, if that's the original language the game was made in. I try to avoid translations, so if I understand the original language, I'll always play that.

 

[48e1-920b-9a4ff0ce20]

And weirdly the same happens with voice acting but with japanese

Hearing voice acting in English for the first time was, not great. I was very used to some little Japanese woman narrating my meat beatings.

 

[Whazzup]

Hearing voice acting in English for the first time was, not great. I was very used to some little Japanese woman narrating my meat beatings.

I usually hate English voice acting in visual novels, since it's usually overly sexualized and over the top.

I did like the English voice acting in Corpse Factory, but that might be because those were done by professional voice actors.