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It's also a little different with games than with other media. With other media, you can add translators' notes that explain weird idioms, cultural/historical references, or anything else that might not make sense to somebody who's unfamiliar with the original language. With games, though, there generally isn't really room to add such notes in, nor is there enough precedent for doing so that a game wouldn't be thought of as weird for slipping notes into a vacant bit of screen. That means translators have to make some calls about what will make sense staying faithful to the original text without additional information, versus changing it to something less faithful that won't be as confusing. And then there are cases where localizations actually improve the writing by changing it, but those aren't common.