Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima has been one of the most highly anticipated of this generation of consoles, and now that we're only a couple of weeks ago from the release, players can barely wait for the game to finally hit store shelves on Friday the 17th of July.
One of the features tht has a lot of players excited about is being able to play Ghost of Tsushima, from beginning to end, completely in Japanese. In fact, Sucker Punch has even added an option that allows players to add a black and white filter to the game; making it look like one of Akira Kurosawa's critically acclaiemd samurai films.
A recent screenshot of the main menu in Ghost of Tsushima, however, has some fans worried about this particular aspect of the game, as translation errors seem to be throwing some people off — including Sega Associate Localisation Producer Jon Riesenbach.
According to Riesenbach, while reacting to the Ghost of Tsushima main menu screen shared by Gemtasu, the game's Japanese "is a little... off," and he hopes that this is only an isolated issue that doesn't fully reflect the overall quality of the full game's translation.
This is only the game's main menu, but this could be way more problematic if the game's whole text in Japanese is also full of mistakes like those. While English speakers may not see anything wrong with Ghost of Tsushima when playing the game in English, this is quite an issue for Japanese audiences.
Sucker Punch isn't a Japanese developer, but they are making a game that is based on the first Mongol invasion in Japan, so some level of accuracy is expected, and language-related issues are not to be expected from a game as ambitious as Ghost of Tsushima.
In 1274, the fearsome Mongol Empire invades the Japanese island of Tsushima and slaughters its legendary samurai defenders. Jin Sakai is one of the last survivors of a noble samurai clan. To combat his overwhelming foes, he must pioneer deadly new fighting techniques--the way of The Ghost--and wage an unconventional war for the people of Japan.
Ghost of Tsushima is expected to release exclusively for the PlayStation 4 on Friday the 17th of July.