Princess Family-Size and the Night of a Thousand Spankings: A study in localization

As you may remember, I've been playing the Super Robot Wars spinoff RPG OG Saga: Endless Frontier. Its main draw-- the action-game battle system-- is alright, but the RPG that surrounds it is rather poor: between boring, uninspired dungeon design, a high encounter rate, and amateurish graphics outside of battle, the whole business feels like an afterthought. On top of that, the game drags on for at least twice as long as it should by endlessly recycling material: almost every boss in this game is fought at least three times in the story.

If not for Atlus USA's localization, I never would have had a motivation to finish the game. See, the game makes clear early on that it's not taking itself too seriously. The script is goofy: the characters can't stop talking about each other's breasts, and the hero is fond of pet names. You can imagine where this goes. Over on the Twitter (which you should follow, because I talk about a lot of things that aren't even noteworthy enough for this blog) I kept myself busy by putting down every single notable pet name or sexual innuendo I came across in the game. The tag was #ogsboobs. People on the Twits were entertained by this, so it's time for you to be too. Following is a full list of every single entry I made under #ogsboobs. This will take a while. For the record, I aim to use "Siren of the Love Ambulance" at some point in my life.

Wander Twins, Missy Mew Mew
Princess Barebelly, Princess Bounciful, Party Girl Mode
Honeydews, Princess Kaboobya, Greedy Puss
Foxy Lady and Foxy Part II for foxgirls
Blow-Up Android Girl, Princess Training Bra
"Orchestral Army" mispronounced "Whore-Chest-Real Army"
Melon-Smuggler
Bimbo-Bot, Old N' Busty Karakuri, Flotation Device
Princess Family Size, Miss Executrix, Mechakuri
Robo-Beauty, Robo-Babe, Juggmonkey
Princess Booty-Shaker, Princess Knockers, the pun "Sensei-tional"
Captain Bonanza-Brains, Splashdunce, "my busty pirate wench"
Short n' Sassy, boob-headed
"apocalyptic spanking", "I'm not a tomb raider, I don't have the figure for it."
Hot Coffee Bot, said to the dark-skinned android T-Elos
Red Hairing, Torpedo Girl
Siren of the Love Ambulance, "My little depth charge"
Surfboard Princess, Kitty in Pink, The Dark Beauty (T-Elos again)
Juicy Princess, "stupid, badly-dressed, over-boobed, fake, two-toned, fox-eared bastards"
Miss Bounciful Boobage, H-Game Dropout
"I can't help what I am, any more than the Princess here can help being so round and juicy," "lovely bunch of coconuts"
A father forgets his daughter's face, recognizes her on her curves instead
Breast Extreme Princesses, Coffee Kitty, Fake Breasts (in reference to a clone)
The technical fairy of Shinra, Princess Zipper-Lips
"don't get whatever you've got on under your dress in a bunch."
Secret Agent Man, "that princess with the ridiculous chest"
Mr. Romantic, the Night of A Thousand Spankings
"I thought the power switch for the elevator was here... but it looks like I'm the one getting turned on."
"It's a wall of boobs!", "Stop waving your asses at each other."

Finally, in the very last scene: heroine Kaguya, alone for the first time with protagonist Haken, asks him, blushing, to "turn off the lights?" He complies, of course.

Comments

[twitter.com/mawy]

Your wave of twitter OG Saga posts over these past few weeks actually made me check out the game (can't resist a well-localized title... or boob jokes). But at first I thought your twitter account had been hacked by some weird hentai site spouting ecchi fetish keywords.

[David Cabrera]

If you hadn't already gotten to it I'd say "DON'T DO IT!", but since you have, I guess you can stop at about 15-20 hours in when you've seen absolutely everything the game has to offer, and yet another 20 hours of play remain. Normally even my love for SRW wouldn't have kept me going, but I did commit to getting all those nicknames down on paper. That list is quite complete, I'm proud to say.

[Cpt Crotchspike]

Awww. I was all over this game (I was in love with the battle system, to the point that I didn't mind the reuse of bosses), but your problems with it aren't exactly unjustified. I guess they're just things that didn't bother me. Of course, I should note that I am usually allergic to RPGs in general (I feel like I more or less got my fill of the genre forever between Earthbound and Chrono Trigger), so take that as you will.

I didn't get the feeling that the random encounter rate was all that high, but then again, I did start running from most every grunt battle about halfway through the game (I liked how you could do that with no repercussions so I could go at my own pace), so perhaps I'm not one to talk.