Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3392084-20130707145759/@comment-42.98.54.216-20130710120142

One thing about this Japanese VS English which I think should give a [like] to Kojima is their choice of Mei Ling's quotes. She quoted just the Chinese proverbs in the Japanese version but added Western quotes to the English version. There's just no way for any production to get around the translational issue without missing out something, so some minor twist to different versions like Mei Ling's is acceptable to me.

One point I forgot to mention earlier is the accent of a character. Despite we may loss some Japanese features when it was translated into English, we at the same time got closer to the game's actual Western setting. After gaining some knowledge to languages and paying more attention, I kept asking myself why had I not been able to tell Mr. X is Olga when the Russian accent had been so obvious.

Anyway, there's just no one perfect version after all...