Here's a fascinating piece on the lack of Cantonese language options in games - what's going on?
If you're not familiar with Chinese, have you ever wondered why game localisations tend to have two language options?
Obviously, there are a few factors to consider. Recording audio isn't cheap compared to just translating text, and even for big budget games you're likely to have fewer audio language options compared to text options.
I actually have a strange relationship with the two languages, due to a clerical error that occurred with my dad's passport, which resulted in the English phonetic translation of our family name being written as Wen, the romanisation of the Mandarin pronunciation, rather than Wan, as it's pronounced in Cantonese.
I'm personally not fluent with Mandarin, though I am aware it has many regional variances that differ from the Standard Mandarin that's based on the Beijing dialect . But if you were going to have two Chinese dubs, surely it would have made sense for one to be Cantonese instead? Publisher Microsoft didn't respond to my query on this localisation decision, but the oversight is ironic given that the company's own translation app does cater to Cantonese, unlike Google's.
It's been a nice surprise to learn that one of the popular anime shows I watched when I was younger, Crayon Shin-Chan, does feature a Cantonese dub in the licensed game Shin-Chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation - The Endless Seven-Day Journey, featuring the same local voice actors from the show. There's a catch to this, as this is only available in the game's Asian edition , whereas the Western release only contains the original Japanese audio.
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